Chapter 221: Knocked Out by a Bottle of Fake Booze

Without a doubt, "Divas Hit the Road 3" has delivered a wave of perfect copywriting.

Some photos don't need any copywriting to embellish them, because the information conveyed by the photo itself is already enough to get the audience hyped up.

For example, Bai Liang's earlier car accident photo and the jewelry-and-champagne photo.

Both of those had a very direct, positive impact — once you saw them, they were hard to forget.

But this time's photo has a bit more substance to it. Paired with the copywriting, it instantly elevated the photo's vibe by more than one notch.

One could even say that in this photo, the kitty is the real star!

At the very least, they complement each other.

Gaining fans, gaining them hard.

What this refers to is the cat — because Bai Liang's current popularity is already maxed out, he actually doesn't really need this thing to gain extra followers.

But kitties don't have Weibo accounts, so what do we do?

"Nazha! Get back to the company right now. I've already pushed tomorrow's schedule for you. I've got a photographer lined up here — we're shooting photos!"

Hearing Cai Yinong say this, Nazha was a bit puzzled. "Didn't I just shoot a bunch of photos for the stock library not long ago? Why do we need to shoot again?"

She's a female star — a beauty photo stockpile absolutely has to be plentiful, especially for a looks-based player like Nazha who makes her living off her face.

She often needs to post pretty photos.

But this time was different. While Cai Yinong was urging her urgently, she also didn't forget to emphasize the most important point: "This time is different. Don't forget to bring the cat — it's more important than you."

Nazha:???

How dare you!

The world has gone topsy-turvy!

After hanging up the phone, she scooped up the chubby little cat sleeping on her lap, kissed it, and said in a sweet, girlish voice: "Look at you being all impressive now, little thing~"

The kitty was very sleepy and used its tiny paw to push Nazha's face away, rejecting the kiss — it wanted to sleep.

The little pink paw pads on those paws made Nazha's girlish heart melt.

Fortunately, she was still kind-hearted and didn't say: "No sleeping, get up and party."

After putting the kitty back on her lap, she flipped through the situation online on her phone.

"Wow! It really blew up!"

"Sis, you first took off by riding on Bro Dou Xiao Bai's coattails, and now you can leech off the kitty's traffic too," the little assistant teased with a giggle.

"They're both mine — what's wrong with me leeching a little~"

Nazha was quite matter-of-fact about it, not the slightest bit embarrassed.

Leech away, leech away~

If she doesn't leech, those scheming vixens out there will — especially Dilireba, shamelessly leeching who knows how much of her family's Bai Liang's traffic.

As it happened, Reba's side was also talking about this matter.

"Sis Reba! What do we do?! That shameless woman is leeching Bro Dou Xiao Bai's traffic again — how does she even come up with this stuff, she's even using a cat now!"

Seeing her assistant Lingling hopping around anxiously, Dilireba herself remained quite calm.

"It's totally normal during the program broadcast period~"

"But that Guli Nazha — her momentum is getting bigger and bigger now. Bro Dou Xiao Bai is playing way too favorites," assistant Lingling muttered.

That remark instantly choked Reba up for a moment.

Playing favorites?

Sounds kinda weird~

Honestly, if it were a normal guy-girl dating situation, would there even be a need to discuss who's getting favored or not at this point?

You'd just go up and tear apart the scumbag and the homewrecker.

Of course, if things were really that normal... Reba felt she might actually be the one who came later.

Her little hometown girl seemed to have met Bai Liang back when he had just debuted and was filming his first drama.

But whenever Reba imagined Guli Nazha saying with a sour face "I clearly got here first," she couldn't help but feel amused inside.

Heh! Some things don't care about who came first.

Of course, that was before.

As for now—

"The kitty really is pretty cute," Reba said, propping her chin up.

"Sis, don't boost the enemy's morale!"

"But the kitty hasn't done anything wrong~" Reba pouted, looking more and more like she was growing fond of it.

Want one!

Too bad this cat belongs to Guli Nazha, not Bai Liang.

Assistant Lingling helplessly did a little teddy-bear shrug. "Should we get a kitty too?"

Reba's eyes dimmed. "I don't have that much time to keep a kitty company. Forget it, cloud-cat-parenting is pretty nice too."

"But Bro Dou Xiao Bai really is weird — animals just love him so much~"

Ah, this.

Reba's emotions were a bit all over the place. She looked at her assistant, speechless. "Right, besides the kitty there's also the big cat! Scared me half to death."

She hadn't been broken by the Nazha situation before, but after seeing the trending searches about the lion online and looking into what happened—

The familiar sixty-second voice-message barrage arrived — late, but it arrived.

This time Reba went all-out, her voice messages couldn't even fit on the phone screen.

And Bai Liang naturally apologized obediently, though he suggested Reba stop following the news.

Otherwise she'd have to scold him again later.

Hearing this, Reba almost had a cardiac event — there are times she truly can't understand these boys.

Is being alive not good enough?

Although Bai Liang is indeed bouncing around alive and well right now, hearing him say that, Reba knew this guy's outrageous antics in Africa definitely weren't limited to just this one.

The old lady is online~

Another several sixty-second voice messages.

In this respect, she made up for Bai Liang in spades with the nagging even his own mother never gave him.

Seriously, after his own mother watched the show, she immediately sent him a thumbs-up emoji.

And added: "Handsome boy, you're awesome~"

It's not that his mother doesn't love him — the family is simply used to it by now.

Actually, Reba wasn't the only one "bashing" Bai Liang.

When he pulls off this kind of dangerous stunt, way too many people want to bash him.

Different people have different personalities — some even came right out with: "Why don't you just die in Africa?"

It sounds like a pretty vicious curse, but actually that Miss was showing concern, afraid something would happen to him.

As for the male friends, each and every one of them was, well, a certain way — none of them cared whether Bai Liang lived or died, every single one saying things like: "Big shot, you f***ing really know how to play cool!"

Men, after all — even if they slip and fall while walking, as long as they end up standing at the end, that's a move, that's playing it cool.

Anyway, he's alive and well right now, not a single buddy worried about whether he'd die~ They'd just get all passive-aggressive and add "good for you."

Still, the young ladies are better~ they know how to care for people.

As for the older sisters.

"Every time that show airs, your phone blows up once." Sister Xiao Zhao murmured softly.

Hearing this, Bai Liang said he just had pretty good relationships with people, everyone cared about him a lot.

But he was actually a little puzzled — Sister Xiao Zhao actually didn't scold him.

Bai Liang had already prepared himself to get his ear twisted and get a thorough scolding, but the other party looked completely calm and composed, as if she didn't even know about his close encounter with the lion.

Didn't watch this episode, and didn't follow the trending searches either?

Last time he crashed the race car, Sister Xiao Zhao almost punched him outright, twisting his ear the moment she came at him.

But this time her reaction was completely different.

Weird.

"There are no night scenes tonight, do you have plans?" Sister Xiao Zhao suddenly asked.

Bai Liang thought for a moment, "I was planning to go work out."

"What time will you finish?"

"Before nine? Why?"

"Then after your workout, come to my room, have a little wine and chat."

"Sure."

Bai Liang didn't really think anything was off — he'd been hanging around Sister Xiao Zhao's room pretty often lately.

Her assistant was there anyway, and the door was always open.

Besides, maybe it was because the CP gossip with Nazha and Reba had gotten way too loud.

Even when he interacted with Sister Xiao Zhao on set, not a single nasty rumor got out.

Those gossipy young ladies all liked asking him: Nazha or Reba, which one do you actually like?

All in all, just go and that's that.

However, as if remembering something, Sister Xiao Zhao specifically reminded him: "Wash up properly after your workout before you come over, don't show up smelling like sweat, or I'll kick you out."

"How could I~" Bai Liang thought to himself that he was usually pretty hygienic, why would she need to specifically mention that?

Time quickly arrived at evening.

Bai Liang had long since learned his lesson from the previous audition — now he basically never arrives right on the dot for appointments.

So he got there at eight-thirty, and oh right, he even took a shower, even used body wash.

Made sure every trace of sweat from the workout was washed clean. However, this early arrival earned him "disdain" once again.

He had clearly seen Sister Xiao Zhao fiddling with the red wine when he went over, and Bai Liang was even about to go help, but ended up getting the cold shoulder from her.

"Why'd you come so early? Come back in half an hour."

"Does it make a difference?"

"Yes~ I don't want to see you right now."

"You need to shower too?"

"Get lost! I already washed up ages ago."

"Okay~"

Half an hour later, Bai Liang wandered over right on time, and the moment he walked in he noticed — during that half hour, the other party apparently hadn't done anything.

Just poured the wine.

He had originally thought Sister Xiao Zhao was going to put on some makeup, but she hadn't — just a base layer, the same as when she came earlier.

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Looks like nothing romantic is going to happen tonight — strictly a wine-and-chat session.

However, Sister Xiao Zhao's outfit tonight did somewhat resemble Xiaohua's look in "Sail On."

Looking again at the two glasses of red wine on the coffee table, one of them seemed to have already been sipped from, leaving a faint mark.

Obviously, the other glass was naturally his.

Bai Liang very considerately reached for the one that had been sipped from.

Then his hand got swatted.

"Dog paw, can't you see I've already drunk from this glass?" Sister Xiao Zhao shot him a look, but though her words were fierce, her tone was still fairly gentle.

"I was just thinkin'—"

"Don't you dare think, I can tell you're about to say something weird, you're such a rascal!"

Oh no, how did she preemptively read him like that?

Bai Liang, who had just been about to crack a flirty joke to liven up the mood, felt something was a bit off today.

This couldn't be some kind of trap to lure him over and "kill" him, could it?

Sister Xiao Zhao: Ready? Then let's begin!

Let the roasting commence!

"Letting you play with a lion?! Are you tired of living?! If you died in that place, your corpse wouldn't even be intact."

Completely caught off guard, Bai Liang was hit by a wave of "pear blossoms in a rainstorm"—don't be fooled by that baby face, her roasting skills were still pretty fierce!

After giving Bai Liang a thorough tongue-lashing, Sister Xiao Zhao picked up the red wine and took a big gulp—glug glug glug.

She drank a bit too fast and almost choked.

A faint blush rose on her cheeks.

Then she "fiercely" glanced at Bai Liang. "Why aren't you drinking? I'm only having one glass, the rest of this bottle today is all yours."

"Huh? Punishment?"

"Oh, that's not it, I just can't drink much, but this wine is pretty expensive, it'd be a shame to waste it," Sister Xiao Zhao said, sounding very pragmatic.

Then she watched as Bai Liang started glugging away, a faint smile creeping onto her face.

"How's the taste?"

"Not bad, but something seems a little off~" Bai Liang smacked his lips, puzzled.

Sister Xiao Zhao got a little flustered: "What's off?"

"Hard to say~"

The main thing was, Bai Liang actually felt his head getting a bit dizzy, which was very wrong.

His tolerance was so high he could drink Wu Jing, that total lush, under the table—one glass of red wine was just a mouth rinse.

This feeling was a bit like... the experience of being drugged by someone in the past.

Bai Liang really had been drugged before, more than once, he was extremely experienced in this area.

When out and about, boys have to protect themselves properly too.

But this time it probably wasn't that, after all Sister Xiao Zhao didn't really look like that kind of rogue woman.

"This wine of yours couldn't have gone bad, right? Let's not end up with alcohol poisoning."

"Impossible~"

Sister Xiao Zhao was just about to explain something when she saw Bai Liang drinking again.

She couldn't help but quip: "You think it's gone bad and you're still drinking? You lush~"

Bai Liang: I've already drunk it, so this wine absolutely cannot have gone bad! Believe in the gold content of good luck.

Except, when he woke up the next day, he felt he'd been a bit too confident.

He'd actually blacked out!

Super brain, hurry up and think—what exactly happened? What went down last night?

After thinking for a few seconds, Bai Liang decided not to bother thinking about it.

Too much trouble.

He could just go ask the person who'd been drinking with him.

But when he got to the crew, he learned Sister Xiao Zhao had taken the day off, citing feeling unwell.

Bai Liang gave her a call, first expressed concern, then started complaining: "The wine you bought yesterday was definitely off, you didn't secretly spike it with Spirytus, did you?"

"What's Spirytus?"

"Combustible oolong tea."

"You keep saying these weird things I don't understand, but the wine really was a bit off, I'm completely drained today, it might really have gone bad."

A perfectly reasonable explanation.

Bai Liang's body was tough, so he only blacked out; Sister Xiao Zhao's constitution was a bit weaker, so she got wrecked by that wine and had to recuperate at the hotel.

But there was actually a paradox here:

With Bai Liang's luck, how could he have ended up with expired wine or fake wine?

Good news never leaves the house, bad news travels a thousand miles.

Soon the story of Bai Liang and Zhao Liying getting poisoned by fake wine at the crew spread like wildfire.

Some marketing accounts even used the incident to mock the two of them.

"The man who couldn't be taken down by the African wilderness got floored by a bottle of fake wine? I'm dying laughing."

"These two were drinking together at night? Why does it feel kind of weird, could it be that..."

"Bullshit, Zhao Liying and Bai Liang have already co-starred in their third drama together, their relationship is great like an older sister and younger brother, no scandals have ever come out, stop making stuff up."

"The two of them walking hand in hand, I feel like it's an older sister leading her younger brother, there's really no ambiguous vibe, unlike Nazha and Reba, one giving bedroom eyes and the other making goo-goo eyes, way too obvious."

"Didn't they say there were assistants and others there too? But it seems like only the two of them drank that bottle of fake wine, so everyone else is fine, I'm dying laughing!"

"Tsk tsk, the great immortal has finally fallen, things that racing crashes and the African wilderness couldn't handle, fake wine managed—today's best laugh~"

"There's a really funny contrast to it, when I rewatch 'Divas Hit the Road 3' later I feel like I'll accidentally laugh out loud, fake wine hahaha"

"Why is the weekend coming so slowly! I really want to hurry up and see the next episode~"

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The fake alcohol incident didn't really affect Bai Liang—it was barely a joke.

But he still felt something was off.

Because the next morning, he didn't feel the urge to urinate at all—even after drinking so much alcohol and sleeping all night, he still didn't need to go. What did that mean?

He might have accidentally urinated somewhere!

That was a bit embarrassing, so Bai Liang secretly checked the hotel's surveillance footage.

But he found the cameras on their floor had been turned off—nothing was visible.

He casually asked Xiao Zhao's sister, probing gently, and discovered she had no idea about his "random urination."

But she casually remarked, "You've got a great body" or something like that.

Indeed, after drinking fake alcohol and sleeping it off, how could you not have a great body?

Bai Liang was finally reassured.

If no one saw it, then he didn't urinate anywhere.

That made perfect sense.

With his luck, it wasn't just that drinking too much and urinating anywhere wouldn't be seen—even if he ran to the rooftop and performed "Lunar Crescent Sky Thrust," no one would see.

The incident didn't spark much of a stir online.

If it hadn't coincided with the peak popularity of "Flowers for Youth 3," not so many people would have discussed it.

Everyone just laughed it off.

As for the gossip and the rivalry between Na Zha and Re Ba, their fanbases were locked in fierce combat.

Nowadays, Na Zha was growing stronger in this battle.

From the beginning, when she was completely outmatched and barely holding on, she had gradually turned the tide—though she still hadn't gained the upper hand, it was no longer comparable to how things were before.

If nothing unexpected happened, by the time "Flowers for Youth 3" ended, the two would likely be evenly matched.

Even possibly reversed in public perception.

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One more chapter coming, possibly after midnight.

(End of Chapter)