Chapter 565: Chapter 564: Distance (2)
But unexpectedly, the show’s requirement for the winning team was to travel by train!
And it was a damn hard seat.
A second before the results were announced, Xia Siyu was still showing off to Wang Zisu, “You guys are screwed, you have to squeeze in with the passengers!”
Taking the train was no big deal—they often took high-speed trains. But this was no high-speed train; it was just a regular green-skinned train with hard seats, the kind that takes seven to eight hours overnight. The production team was ruthless; even regular train tickets are hard to come by these days, yet they managed to find such a route.
What they didn’t expect was that this train ride, which no one wanted, ended up being given to Xia Siyu, who came in first.
Xia Siyu wasn’t so easily fooled. She immediately expressed her refusal, “Why should we, the first-place winners, have to endure the train?”
Before the director team could respond, the other guests cheerfully replied, “It’s faster this way!”
“Right, you’ll have an advantage in the next round!”
“Do you even want this ‘advantage’?” Xia Siyu wasn’t going to fall for it; she was not so easily swayed.
The production team probably felt they had gone too far and immediately offered a remedy, “In addition to having an advantage in the next round, you’ll also get first pick of breakfast and lunch tomorrow.”
With good food on the line, Xia Siyu caved in immediately. She even nodded, “And the train tickets? When do we leave?” Just as she was about to turn around, she stopped and suspiciously asked, “You aren’t tricking me again, are you? What’s for breakfast tomorrow?”
She’d start a rebellion if the show tricked her onto the train and then served her only plain rice!
The director team, afraid she would change her mind, quickly coaxed her, “Of course there’s good food! In the morning, rice noodles, noodles, fried rice, we’ve got both Chinese and Western dishes! Lunch includes fragrant pork, Australian lobster, and steak! You can pick first.”
When it came to eating, she was wide awake. She couldn’t help but lick her lips. These past two days, all she could eat was salad, and she was fed up with the blandness. Her palate had become so picky after being spoiled by Bo Yan that she couldn’t bear to live the hard life again.
The other artists weren’t as interested in food, and even if someone wanted to set themselves up as a foodie, it was just for show.
But Xia Siyu, she’s the one who’s made it onto the trending searches multiple times for gaining weight due to her love for food. She had even had a fallout with Qin Baizhou over food. After two days of hunger, her eyes almost started to spark, and she hastily agreed.
So the matter was settled quickly. But to board the train, they needed to go in disguise. Being in a train carriage full of passengers, what if something happened?
Qin Baizhou said, “Taking the train is fine, but do we have any measures in place? What if we run into people?” The production team would definitely follow, but they wouldn’t provide the kind of seven to eight bodyguard entourage like they do when they pick them up.
Xia Siyu, however, was unfazed and even suggested, “No problem, just put on some makeup and tone it down. A good actor should be able to blend into the crowd without feeling out of place.”
If Bo Yan hadn’t taught her to experience life more, to start browsing her surroundings more attentively, she wouldn’t have been so eager to learn how to stay grounded.
Sitting for seven to eight hours wasn’t the hard part; the worst part was that it was an overnight train ride in a hard seat.
The other guests were all speechless. No one knew where Xia Siyu’s confidence came from, as she’s not usually known for her acting skills. Only Wang Zisu was very supportive and nodded, “Sister Siyu’s really awesome!”
Xia Siyu shamelessly patted his head, “Right?!”