Chapter 280: I opt out; none of the male guests here appeal to me

Throughout the variety show livestream, Lin Meng behaved as an inconspicuous person should, silently sitting in the corner.

The topic never turned to her, and most of the time she didn't appear on camera.

Moreover, she often wore a baseball cap, frequently lowering her head to play with her fingers, making her presence even fainter.

Even in the game interaction segment, Lin Meng was eliminated early in the lottery round, to the extent that many viewers in the livestream didn't even know she existed.

Everyone came for the Movie Emperor and the traffic star, their attention on their own idols; who would care how much screen time a random extra gets?

Halfway through the livestream, Lin Meng was already getting drowsy.

Meanwhile, Ye Chenjing, far away in another city, was so busy he didn't even have time to lift his head.

Sun Yao was in charge of handling some trivial matters for Ye Chenjing when he happened to see the quarterly report of his subsidiary entertainment company, discovering that today there was a variety show related to their artists.

Sun Yao wouldn't normally pay much attention, but he casually glanced at the show's situation and unexpectedly saw a familiar name.

"Qin Feng? Isn't that Lin Meng's former creditor? Or just someone with the same name?"

Ye Chenjing was intently looking at reports when he heard Sun Yao murmuring Lin Meng's name, and he immediately raised his head to ask.

"What's wrong?"

Sun Yao passed the tablet over; on it was exactly the dating show livestream he had just searched for, then he reported to Ye Chenjing:

"It's nothing much—just that this dating show livestream went live today, and we have two of our artists participating; worth noting is that the investor is actually named Qin Feng."

Ye Chenjing had originally wanted to close the tablet, but upon hearing Qin Feng's name, his hand paused.

This man, who has some connection with Lin Meng, really knows how to cause trouble.

Not long ago he came to him for land, and they hadn't settled it, yet now he's run off to invest in a variety show.

Ye Chenjing glanced at the livestream a few times, feeling the show was truly boring—forcing men and women to pair up in front of the camera for love, which to him was no different than publicly pulling down one's pants to defecate; he found it dull and childish.

But just then, the livestream camera jolted, unexpectedly giving a few amateur guests in the corner some screen time.

In just two or three seconds, Ye Chenjing sensed something was off.

How could he seem to have seen Lin Meng's silhouette?

Although that person hid in the farthest corner, wearing a cap and completely hiding their face, Ye Chenjing still sensed something odd from their build and feeling.

"Check the participant list for this variety show, quickly."

Sun Yao was doubtful; General Manager Ye never paid attention to entertainment industry matters, despite Ye Family having many related cultural entertainment enterprises, but he never involved himself.

Although Sun Yao harbored doubts, he still conducted the investigation as quickly as possible.

When he got the result, Sun Yao was so shocked he couldn't speak.

"How could Miss Lin be on the list?!"

"General Manager Ye, look quickly! Miss Lin is on the list!"

When Sun Yao hurriedly reported to Ye Chenjing, Ye Chenjing had already been staring at the screen for a full half hour.

And the screen froze on a frame that happened to be Lin Meng's side profile.

Sun Yao also saw the screen, astonished, eyes wide, muttering:

"It really is Miss Lin..."

"This isn't a dating show, is it? Miss Lin participating in a dating show could it be..."

Sun Yao cautiously glanced at Ye Chenjing, and indeed saw General Manager Ye with a gloomy face, his eyes black enough to drip ink.

"Book a ticket right away!"

Lin Meng waited left and right, finally enduring until the selection segment.

The games were done, the interactions had happened; this was originally a dating show with few episodes, the pace very fast, and now it had reached the first matching segment.

Lin Meng furtively lifted her head to look at the guests; the men stared like tigers eyeing prey, while the women either bashfully avoided or boldly declared their affection.

She curled the corner of her mouth; honestly, they were quite good-looking, with a few couples she even shipped, whether it was acting or genuine feeling—dating shows are just for fun.

But just then, a scorching gaze suddenly fell on Lin Meng, making her spine chill involuntarily and she unconsciously furrowed her brows.

Following that gaze, it was Chen Yuqi.

At that moment he was looking at her with a hunter's eye, lingering on her for a moment before nonchalantly shifting his gaze away.

Lin Meng couldn't help but her face sank, the hand hidden in her sleeve unconsciously clenched into a fist.

What the hell kind of look is that? He's got some gall!

"Next, please have the men and women mutually select; each write the other's name on their whiteboard, and if the names match, they are automatically paired successfully!"

"The rest, the men will pursue the women, expressing affection."

After the director's words, everyone began lowering their heads to write and draw on their whiteboards.

Lin Meng naturally handed in a blank sheet, as intended, and the script was written that way.

She just wanted to honestly be a bungee-jumping machine.

But when the director said to reveal the whiteboards, everyone exclaimed in surprise.

The Movie Emperor Chen Yuqi, the biggest star and highest attention of this dating show, actually didn't follow the set script, writing on the answer board a name that left the audience utterly unfamiliar.

For a moment, the livestream exploded.

"Lin Meng? Who is she?"

"I thought Brother Yu would pick Xie Zhiyun, after all they'd worked together before, playing a couple that matched perfectly—I'd call them the pair with the most CP feeling this year—but the result was a shocker?"

"Xie Zhiyun's face turned green, so obvious—this shura field is too stimulating, I love it hahaha..."

"The director is useless, why not give this female guest a close-up? I can't even match the number!"

As that comment floated by, the camera precisely cut to a close-up of Lin Meng.

Although she wore a baseball cap and blocked half her face with the whiteboard, the sole pair of eyes she revealed still stunned everyone.

Chen Yuqi gazed at Lin Meng with a smiling expression, his eyes full of deep affection, as if she were the only person in the world to him.

Lin Meng returned the gaze without yielding, that very face—smiling with a hidden knife, truly sinister.

The crew and director were stunned, scared out of their wits, yet they couldn't expose him on the spot.

No one expected that someone as experienced as Chen Yuqi would deviate from the script.

If a live‑broadcast accident occurred, he would not only have to pay compensation but also suffer damage to his reputation in the industry.

Among the guests, those who knew Chen Yuqi's true character exchanged glances in secret and instantly understood.

This player had taken a liking to Lin Meng's face.

Indeed, who doesn't like a beautiful woman? Especially one like Lin Meng, whose beauty is beyond compare and whose bearing is outstanding.

Lin Meng returned the other person with a smile, but spiritual energy was already stirring in the depths of her eyes.

If this were the cultivation world, Chen Yuqi would already have been beheaded.

Lin Meng glanced at the sulking Xie Zhiyun, then slowly turned the whiteboard over.

The whiteboard remained a whiteboard, with no male guest's name left on it.

Immediately afterward, Lin Meng spoke in a clear, icy tone:

"I forfeit; I don't fancy any of the male guests here!"