Showbiz Scandal: The Official Announcement of My Ex and Myself

The barrage of comments updated rapidly.

[Isn’t it a bit much to get hit with a sweet attack so early in the morning? My fragile body can’t handle this.]

[I’ve figured it out, Xie Qingci isn’t shy about acting cute, and Yu Xia totally falls for it! So any sign of an argument is nipped in the bud.]

[One second he’s tearing up someone’s letter with a cold face, the next he’s turning around looking pitiful asking for a hug, saying he feels awful. Who can resist—a brother like this?!]

[It seems Yu Xia can’t resist; she’s like a tough flower-arm muscle man who’s all mushy inside, cuddling her little cutie.]

[Hahahahahahaha I’m literally dying of laughter because of you guys!]

[Such scheming, truly scheming! Is this why he’s got a beautiful girlfriend and I’m still single?]

[Zhou Yu and Liu Yicheng really broke up! Damn, it’s the first time I’ve seen a breakup live on a variety show.]

[They should’ve parted ways sooner; Liu Yicheng has no patience nor affection for Zhou Yu anymore.]

[Isn’t it more like Zhou Yu is acting crazy or something?]

[I’ve discovered that Zheng Jinjin is actually a really likable girl! Did she write that letter to Yu Xia too? So cute.]

[Could we soon see Zhou Yu and Liu Yicheng split up and start new teams with other people to build romance?! Damn, that’s exciting!]

Yu Xia didn’t know what was being said in the comments, but she definitely didn’t manage to let Xie Qingci starve as she joked she would.

Ashamed, she just muddleheadedly brushed over the incident of Xie Qingci tearing up the letter.

Acting like a love-dazed head of the household.

After breakfast, with nothing much to do, Xie Qingci didn’t want to go out and insisted on dragging her into the kitchen to research new lunch recipes.

In reality, cooking was just an excuse; his real purpose was to sneak in some cuddles.

After unsuccessfully pushing his head away for the third time, Yu Xia went on strike.

"What’s there to research about these dishes? They’re all vegetarian, just stir-fry them together and it’s done."

It’s already been two days since they moved in, and on the third day, they still hadn’t cooked a proper meat meal for themselves!

Xie Qingci finally lifted his noble head, frowned, and asked the staff, "Can we buy meat in the village? I remember you only mentioned there’s a veggie stall, any lifestyle improvements have to be done outside in the town."

The staff: "Right now there’s a unified management for the meat industry here; there are no slaughterhouses in the village. Even if you buy meat, you can only purchase chicken, duck, or goose from villagers. For anything else, you’d have to go to the town."

Xie Qingci asked her, "What do you want to eat?"

"Buying chickens, ducks, and geese in the village means buying them alive, and we’ll have to prepare them ourselves, right?" She thought about it and said, "Let’s go to town, we can buy other stuff too."

"How do we get there? It’s a long walk—will you stay home while I go?" he asked again.

Yu Xia responded lightly, "Relying on manpower is the last resort. In times like these, one must rely on connections to escape poverty."

Then she picked up her phone and called her brother.

The moment the call connected, she said in a voice that could almost bring tears, "My dear brother—"

Yu Heng on the other end: "..."

Xie Qingci: "..."

The staff tried hard to keep from laughing, their faces turning red.

Yu Xia moved to a corner of the kitchen, continuing to describe her dire situation as if she were crying blood.

"Bro, I have no meat to eat on this show, I’ve lost weight from starvation. If I can’t eat meat soon, by the time the show’s over and I come back, you might not recognize me."

Yu Heng: "What, are you going to mutate?"

"... I meant I’d be skin and bones by then."

Yu Heng: "What kind of show are you on? If you’re the only one without meat, that’s mistreating a celebrity; if no one has meat, I’ll complain to the producers for you."

She opened her mouth, abandoning exaggeration and speaking more honestly, "Okay, actually there is meat, but it’s too far. I’m afraid I’ll faint from hunger on the way before I can even get to eat it."

Yu Heng: "So what do you want me to do? Airlift you two crates of meat?"

"No, no! I just miss my little scooter cow so much, the first scooter you bought me, especially when I can’t travel far. Its absence is deeply felt..."

There was a sound of papers being closed and a drawer opening, then Yu Heng took a breath and asked, "You called specifically about that scooter? I thought you were on your last leg from hunger. Isn’t your manager supposed to handle this? You have needs he doesn’t know about?"

Yu Xia paused, "Oh right, I have a manager."

Yu Heng: "..."

She quickly hung up and then called He Ci.

He Ci expressed a burst of annoyance at her request, then said it would be delivered in the afternoon.

With the matter perfectly settled, Yu Xia turned around and waved her phone at Xie Qingci.

"Once the scooter arrives, I’ll take you to town where we can eat and drink to our heart’s content!"

Xie Qingci stifled a laugh and nodded, "Then I thank you in advance."

But the scooter couldn’t possibly arrive before noon, so for the first meat meal, Xie Qingci went to buy half a chicken from an elder woman.

It was chicken she had bought but hadn’t used, and he managed to buy it at a high price, with the lady even giving him some mushrooms.

Although it was a bit pricey, after several meals of plain noodles, a dish of mushroom stewed chicken was just indescribably delicious.

The satisfaction from eating meat can’t be matched by vegetarian dishes; Yu Xia ate with great contentment. When the crew informed them to head to the big farmhouse for the room-switch challenge, she was still reminiscing about that delicious taste.

Especially upon entering the big farmhouse and seeing several people looking pale and listless from hunger, the sense of satisfaction reached its peak by comparison.

The atmosphere in the yard was as strange as ever, especially with Zhou Yu and Liu Yicheng standing at opposite ends, bringing the temperature down to freezing point.

The director came forward to explain the rules of this challenge.

"Boys and girls on opposite sides, boys must be blindfolded. We will ask six questions about your current teammate, both sides must answer. If the answers match, the boy can step forward.

If the answer matches another girl’s answer, he will take a step in a different direction. After six questions, if the girl across from a boy is his current teammate, they continue as a team and don’t have to switch rooms. If the girl across is someone else, they can choose to team up and have the right to pick a small villa. Choosing not to team up means staying in the big farmhouse.

If other situations arise, such as a boy’s answer matching none of the girls’, he will remain where he is and be placed in the big farmhouse to form a new team. Or, if several boys face the same girl, the girl decides who to team up with. In short, a successful team must be formed to stay in the small villa."

After hearing the rules, everyone frowned and whispered among themselves.

This game’s voluntary aspect is quite low; a single wrong answer could mean not reaching your girlfriend and ending up in a team with someone else.

This really tests a couple’s compatibility and understanding of each other.

Speaking of compatibility—

Yu Xia and Xie Qingci exchanged glances, their eyes expressing clarity—this was a free-pass game, wasn’t it?

They truly hadn’t expected that memorizing the "100 Questions for Testing Couple Compatibility" in advance would come in handy so soon.