Chapter 639: There's No Place for Him in This House

Six hundred and fifty yuan per person—can you really get eggs for breakfast and milk to drink on that?

It's a question worth pondering.

But once Su Mang said this, not a single person picked up the thread, though a few hints had already shown themselves.

She herself didn't realize anything was off at first; only after sensing the atmosphere shift did she start to react—but not fully, as evidenced by her trying to find a few companions to back her up~

But no one was willing to take the bait from the look she cast.

Until her eyes landed on the Second Princess!

Su Mang was thrilled inside—the other girl was sure to understand her!

Most entertainers clawed their way up step by step, but the Second Princess was a contestant born at the finish line.

How could she not understand?

Yet the Second Princess's bewildered look left Su Mang successfully bewildered as well.

Isn't it because the Second Princess's life is particularly frugal? It can't be that, right?

"Xiao Yao, do you think I'm right?" Su Mang went straight to a roll call—after all, it was too awkward to say something and have no one respond.

The Second Princess, who had been playing a careful wallflower from the start of the meeting, was startled—Huh? Calling me?

She was actually quite pleased, a little shy but also very straightforward: "I don't really get it."

Su Mang: Pfft!

She nearly spat out a mouthful of old blood. So it wasn't that the Second Princess lived frugally—more likely, her life was even more "heavenly," and she simply didn't need to know about any of this stuff.

Would a real "princess" need to care about meal allowances?

Su Mang still wasn't giving up, and turned her gaze to Bai Liang!

This was her last hope—please, throw her a bone~

"I don't really care, honestly. A five-yuan breakfast or a fifty-thousand-yuan one brings me pretty much the same happiness." Bai Liang said very matter-of-factly.

He wasn't worried about being called "extravagant and wasteful" or having too high a spending level, then getting lectured by netizens or whatever.

After all, he was basically the person in the domestic entertainment industry who had donated the most to charity. The total over the past few years, apart from the truly astronomical sums like Fan Bingbing's, might equal the fines of several entertainers caught for tax evasion.

Though comparing against that kind of figure feels a bit odd, it just popped into mind so I went with it~

His spending generally depended on the circumstances and how much money he had in his pocket.

Put it this way—when he first debuted he barely had a few bucks, but his mindset wasn't any different from now.

The saying "money gives a hero courage" didn't really apply to him.

So Su Mang was destined to be casting flirtatious glances at a blind man this round. She went to two people she considered high-caliber in succession, and one didn't get it, the other was a capybara.

The production team was quite pleased—sure enough, awkwardness has its perks.

Without giving the guests any clear instructions or goals, they could cook up content on their own.

Never mind if it makes people's eyes twitch—as long as it stirs the audience's emotions and can trend on hot search, it's good content!

After all that fuss, the final result of this big meeting was just a round of self-introductions—oh right, they also decided to have dinner together in the evening, and that was it.

After all, the production team hadn't given them any goals, and with so many guests, they simply couldn't hash anything out—it's hard to reach agreement on every front.

Everyone has their own living habits; it's perfectly normal for this kind of thing to happen when you force people together.

A bit like the group trips on "Divas Hit the Road."

They say whether it's a couple or friends—if you go on a trip together and don't break up afterward, it proves the relationship can last.

Traveling or living together is the easiest way to expose mismatched paces and ideas.

Wasn't "Divas Hit the Road 2" the ultimate example of that?

Even in front of the cameras, the guests couldn't help revealing all sorts of weird stuff.

Saint or monster, you have to take them out for a walk.

Some people shine on these shows and gain even more fans; others have their personas collapse and lose all public goodwill.

So what this show offers the audience is the trivial everyday stuff—the guests' "true nature."

Clearly, not enough guests had realized this yet.

Just from one weird meeting, quite a few had already revealed plenty.

Song Dandan's seriousness, Zhang Han's stubborn posturing, Su Mang's being out of touch, and Meng Jie's... weirdness.

The other contestants hadn't revealed too much yet—some were more restrained, able to hold steady, able to perform.

Others were simply like that by nature and hadn't had the chance to show it yet—but if they were trying to fake a persona or personality, it would depend on whether they could avoid any NG moments under the cameras.

For an "actor," that's an enormous test.

This is reality TV!

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"Room assignments! Room assignments!"

Before dinner, the guests still needed to pick their rooms from the three houses at Peach Blossom Fort.

Among them were single rooms and double rooms; the production team once again gave no instructions, letting everyone choose freely and work it out among themselves.

This was when forming cliques early paid off—Meng Jie, Evil Little Kitty, and the others would unquestionably room together.

They hadn't even considered single rooms—pairing off two by two, handling it internally.

It also meant not giving others a chance to "join in"—their clique remained solid.

Bai Liang had originally planned to wander around and pick a style he liked from the three houses.

It was a slow-paced variety show, after all—no need to rush.

Living alone or finding a roommate didn't matter to him, as long as the roommate's feet didn't stink and they didn't grind their teeth or snore.

Obviously, among the male guests on the show, quite a few wanted to "cohabitate" with him.

Especially the more "ambitious" ones—who didn't know that sticking close to Bai Liang meant never lacking camera time!

In the end, though, only Guo Qilin took the initiative to come over. The others either had only just met him and weren't familiar enough to feel comfortable approaching, or didn't want to seem too eager and look like they were just tagging along, or were the aloof type.

However, just as Guo Qilin was about to move in and cling to that powerful back, he discovered that the back was being grabbed and dragged off by someone.

Logically speaking, with Bai Liang's rock-solid build and such great strength, an ordinary person wouldn't be able to budge him.

Even four burly men couldn't force him to do anything or go anywhere.

But four young women could.

"Come on, come on~"

"Come with us!"

"Stop wandering around, or we'll only be left picking from whatever rooms nobody else wanted."

"I brought snacks!"

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Faced with the young women's "sugar-coated bullets," Bai Liang, as always, had no resistance whatsoever.

He didn't even put up a token show of reluctance — he simply "let himself go," letting them arrange him however they pleased.

The young women: Easy as pie~

Guo Qilin saw this scene, the corner of his mouth twitching slightly, but he still silently chose to follow along.

Behind him, the Second Princess was at first a little lost, not knowing where she should go. Seeing him move, she silently chose to follow along.

This time Guo Qilin's mouth twitched even harder, wondering whether he was about to get "stuck with" them?

Fortunately, he wasn't.

Because this "home" simply had no place for him.

Meng Jie and the others had taken over a house with four rooms — two doubles and two singles.