Chapter 153: Everyone Gets Full

Chapter 153: Everyone Gets Full

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Usually, it's the guests who get pranked, but seeing the guests turn the tables on the production team is something you don’t see every day!

No wonder Lin Miao picked such a large basket. If the director hadn’t been exposed, the entire production crew might have been tricked into eating those sour plums that could make your face pucker.

He’s such a little rascal, full of mischief, and the more you watch, the more you like him.

Many casual viewers turned into fans because of this segment, and even some antifans couldn’t resist, secretly deleting their previous hate posts about Lin Miao.

The director was so sour that his teeth were on edge. He never expected a guest to be so bold as to target him, the main director.

The main director decided he couldn’t be the only one pranked and made the rest of the crew try the plums.

"Hey!" Lin Miao immediately pulled the basket back, hoarding it like gold. "If you eat more, there won’t be any left. Unless you trade us some other fruit."

The director was amused by Lin Miao’s stingy act: "Having the production team trade good fruit for your sour plums doesn’t seem like a fair deal, does it?"

Lin Miao raised an eyebrow: "Sour plums have their own way of being eaten. Director, I request new seasonings to make sour preserves."

The main director, already worn down by Lin Miao’s constant scheming, gave up on trying to make things difficult for the guests and had the crew provide the seasonings as requested.

In the evening, Gu Zhao was in charge of cooking, while Lin Miao handled the snacks. The plums, along with some fruits and vegetables that could be eaten raw, were mixed with chili and sugar for pickling. Since the plums were quite sour, very little vinegar was added.

Lin Miao had picked so many plums that besides the sour preserves, he also made some sweet and tangy candied plums.

If the sour preserves looked like a weird food experiment to those who had never tried them, the candied plums were mouth-watering just to look at.

How does this guy know so many ways to prepare food?

None of the guests were from the Guangdong or Guangxi regions, so they were a bit skeptical about the sour preserves. But since Lin Miao raved about them, everyone bravely gave them a try.

The first bite was a bit of a shock, but after swallowing, the lingering flavor suddenly made it seem not so bad after all.

Unsure, they tried another bite.

Before they knew it, they were addicted. Once you get used to the taste, it’s actually quite delicious.

"Too bad there’s no mango," Lin Miao sighed.

Watching the guests enjoy the food so much, the crew were drooling.

This time, it really looked delicious!

How much longer is this filming going to last? I really want to go find a stall and try some.

However, since the plums were quite sour, even if they were tasty, eating too much could give you a stomachache. In the end, the crew also got to try some of the sour preserves.

Of course, Lin Miao took the opportunity to wangle another perk out of the production team, ensuring that the next day’s lunch would be fancier than the usual boxed meals.

Perhaps it was the appetite boost from the sour preserves, but the guests managed to finish the entire large table of food that evening!

Everyone ended up with round, full bellies, leaning back on the sofa in a food coma.

It was absolutely amazing.

Coming to this show was totally worth it.

After his evening shower, one of the blisters on Lin Miao's hand burst, showing a bit of blood, which looked pretty bad.

The crew got him a first aid kit and asked if he wanted to use a pimple needle to pop the other blisters.

"No need, just leave it be and keep it dry. It’ll heal up soon. Popping it could lead to an infection."

Remembering how Lin Miao had treated Zhong Yao’s wound, the staff didn’t insist. They probably didn’t know half as much as he did.

"Does it hurt much?" Gu Zhao, who finished showering first, came out and saw Lin Miao tending to his wound by himself. He naturally took the cotton swab and started helping with the medicine.

"It’s fine. It doesn’t hurt unless I touch it, but then it feels a bit swollen and sore."

The blister on Lin Miao’s hand was pretty swollen. His skin was so thin you could almost see the clear fluid underneath. The area around the blister was slightly pink, making it seem worse than it really was.

Gu Zhao stepped in to help with the wound, and Lin Miao gladly accepted the help. He obediently held out his hand, looking as meek as ever.

But Lin Miao still hadn’t kicked a bad habit from his past life—his fingers were restless, so he started fiddling with Gu Zhao’s palm.

He heard the other man chuckle softly: "Guess it doesn’t hurt anymore."

Lin Miao couldn’t help smiling: "It hurts, it hurts, ow."

Gu Zhao glanced up, seeing him fake pain.

The room wasn’t very well-lit, but that look gave Lin Miao a weird sense of déjà vu, as if he had seen it many times before.

It wasn’t that the world was looping infinitely like the last one, but he felt that every smile and frown from Gu Zhao felt familiar.

Maybe it was because he had accidentally slept with Number 1 before. Anyway, since the other person wouldn’t retain memories after leaving the book world, Lin Miao didn’t think much of it.

All the burst blisters were treated, and the unburst ones were wrapped with a thin layer of gauze by Gu Zhao to prevent Lin Miao from accidentally breaking them.

It was thoughtful, but Lin Miao had so many wounds on his hand that after being wrapped in gauze, he almost looked like a mummy. One might think he was seriously injured.

The director team, however, was quite pleased. After banning Lin Miao, the production team could finally regain some control!

It was so frustrating to always be led around by the guests!

As it turned out, the director team was overthinking it.

Lin Miao's hands were just too blistered to work, but that didn’t mean his brain was banned too.

With Lin Miao's brain and Gu Zhao's efficiency, except for some skill-based tasks like grass weaving, Lin Miao's physical strength was even worse than the female guests in the team. Whether he was there or not made little difference.

In the following days, Lin Miao's blisters didn’t completely disappear until the last day, but they still looked serious.

After a week of getting along, the guests in the show still liked Lin Miao very much and were determined not to let his hands suffer further harm. They basically took over all the hands-on tasks, leaving Lin Miao to just give instructions.

The guests felt that Lin Miao was like a walking encyclopedia, full of all sorts of strange and interesting knowledge. Not only did he save them a lot of effort, but they also got to eat delicious food every day. For seven days, every meal was different! He even brought fruits and snacks!

Suddenly, they felt that having a brainiac in the team wasn’t so bad. At least their quality of life was guaranteed.

The week flew by in the blink of an eye. Although the tasks were still a bit tiring, the guests didn’t find it too hard since they were well-fed every day.

Sharp-eyed viewers noticed that many guests who came to the show to work in the fields for a week actually gained some weight.

Especially Lin Miao, whose cheeks had rounded out a bit. Some netizens compared Lin Miao's photos from the first day and found that even his demeanor had changed significantly.

On the first day of the show, Lin Miao looked sickly and listless. Forget doing farm work, just getting out of the car made him nauseous, and picking vegetables in the field caused him to faint from low blood sugar. His pale complexion couldn’t even be covered by makeup, and he was as thin as a withered bamboo stick, looking like he could break with a gust of wind.

A week later, Lin Miao, saying goodbye to the other guests, was almost unrecognizable from when he first arrived.

Although he still had a slender, bamboo-like frame, his complexion looked much better, with a healthy flush on his cheeks. Over the week, the weather had become much hotter, and Lin Miao, who had to wear a long-sleeved jacket on his first day even when others were in single layers, now could comfortably wear a short-sleeved shirt.

He hadn’t gained much weight, but it was visibly noticeable, like a slightly inflated balloon, though he still looked thin, he no longer had that sickly vibe.

The most significant change was probably Lin Miao's demeanor.

Previously, Lin Miao was good-looking, but his looks had a factory-made, artificial quality—pale, thin, and listless, with a fragility that made him seem like he was on death’s door.

Now, his physique was much more balanced, and most of the time, Lin Miao stood tall and straight, like a sturdy pine, radiating a much more lively energy.

If it weren’t for the fact that Lin Miao had been recorded live by cameras throughout the week, netizens might have thought he’d been swapped out or had plastic surgery.

How could someone change so much in just a week, with everyone watching!

However, the fellow guests didn’t notice much change in Lin Miao. Perhaps only when they returned home and stepped on the scale, letting out a shriek, would they realize how much weight they had gained over the week.

Just as the show concluded, a set of before-and-after photos of the guests popped up online.

This was a tradition of the show. In the past, guests would enter the program looking presentable and left completely drained.

But for Lin Miao and his batch of guests, as netizens put it, their eyes looked brighter by the end.

More than half of them had visibly "gained weight."

The two female guests had carefully watched what they ate to avoid noticeable weight gain, while among the male guests, the teenager Zuo Qingyu, still at the tail end of adolescence, could eat as much as he wanted without gaining weight. In fact, with comprehensive nutrition, he seemed to have grown taller.

Another one who escaped the weight gain was Gu Zhao, perhaps because the chef’s appetite wasn’t as good after cooking, or because Gu Zhao had the most physically demanding tasks.

Unlike the mainstream entertainment stars, Gu Zhao didn’t follow the route of a delicate, youthful idol. Although his face was perfect for playing a soft, dependent character, Gu Zhao had a well-toned physique. As the main labor force, he took on the heaviest tasks every day, and with the increased activity, he didn’t gain weight. Instead, his muscles became more defined, making him look leaner.

Lin Miao was the guest who had changed the most. Considering that the filming of an episode only lasted a week, he seemed like a completely different person. When he returned to the company, his manager and assistant barely recognized him.

Was this really the young master they had sent out? After a week of transformation, it felt like he had been swapped.

Lin Miao came from a wealthy family, and because of his looks, he had almost reached the top tier in the entertainment industry, giving him considerable influence within the company. Even Lin Miao’s manager was more deferential than the assistants of other stars.

"Miao Miao, the script you wanted to take on, the company’s got it for you," the manager said politely, handing the bound script to Lin Miao.

Despite Lin Miao’s best efforts to hide it, his eyes lit up.

It’s here!

Wasn’t the purpose of coming to this world to experience the thrill of acting?

Finally, he could join the film crew!