61: Chapter 61 Let me sing you a song, a song that can help you get out of this predicament.

Shen Qingxue lowered her head, her gaze falling on the patterns of the stone table, not knowing what she was thinking.

Lu Li turned his head to glance at her.

The moonlight fell on Shen Qingxue's face, casting a softer glow over her cold and aloof silhouette.

"Actually, sometimes I always feel like you're not human."

As soon as the words left his mouth, Lu Li instantly felt something was wrong and quickly added another sentence.

"No, no, I'm not scolding you, it's just… I feel like your temperament and demeanor don't seem like a normal person's…"

Although he tried to remedy it, the more he spoke, the more absurd it sounded.

Lu Li scratched his head, feeling a bit lost on how to smooth things over.

But Shen Qingxue didn't mind at all; instead, the corners of her mouth ticked up slightly, revealing a very, very faint smile.

"I know what you mean. You want to say that I don't live like a normal person."

Lu Li opened his mouth, wanting to say that wasn't what he meant, but seeing Shen Qingxue's expression, he swallowed his words back down.

Perhaps what she said wasn't wrong either.

Shen Qingxue turned her head, gazing at the distant sea surface.

Under the moonlight, the waves rolled up layer by layer, then retreated, repeating endlessly and tirelessly.

"I used a hundred times more effort than ordinary people just to stand in this position today, but in truth, I don't want this position at all."

Lu Li raised an eyebrow, somewhat puzzled, but still patiently waited for her to continue.

"The so-called National Goddess is merely packaged by capital. If they want you to be popular, you become popular; if they want you to plunge to the bottom of the valley, they can—"

Lu Li leaned against the stone stool, suddenly falling into a brief trance.

His situation before crossing over was actually quite similar to Shen Qingxue's, although their statuses were different, and the degree of harm they suffered also varied.

But fundamentally, they were the same kind of people.

Both were people pushed forward by capital, both were people played in the palm of this circle's rules.

Both were people who desperately wanted to be themselves in the cracks between others' expectations and their personas, yet didn't dare to.

"Yeah, even the last safe haven is just like Pearl Harbor. Just as you're finally struggling to get back up, your family gives you another stab in the back."

Lu Li let out a haha laugh, but his laughter was filled with sarcasm.

"However, there's only me left in the world now, which is actually pretty good."

Lu Li added another sentence.

Shen Qingxue also chuckled softly along with him, because the situation Lu Li described was quite similar to hers as well.

It was just that Lu Li had ended up all alone, while her parents were still around, except her safe haven had turned into Pearl Harbor, and there was no telling when she would be backstabbed.

In the distance, the cameraman felt like he was about to itch to death.

Squatting in the bushes and getting bitten by mosquitoes was one thing, but he didn't know which bastard mosquito specialized in biting his backside.

Yet he had to steady the camera and couldn't spare a hand at all.

[Big brother cameraman is so dedicated, staying completely still; I can even hear the buzzing of the mosquitoes.]

[By the way, what are Lu Li and the Goddess jabbering on about over there?]

[Ah! I can't hear the sound, so annoying!]

[Director, come out and explain! Where is the sound??!]

On the other side, Director Zhou was also dying of anxiety. What the hell, where were the desert camouflage uniforms sent? Why hadn't they arrived yet?!

Deduct their pay! Their pay must be deducted!

The delivery guy bringing the camouflage uniforms: Oh, the evils of capital.

Finally, after a period of waiting, the desert camouflage uniforms arrived.

The big brother cameraman changed his clothes at an extremely fast speed, put camouflage on the camera as well, and then made an OK gesture.

[Oh my god, so thrilling, it feels kind of hehe.]

[This wave definitely deserves praise for the Program Team; they even got desert camouflage out.]

[Hurry up, if they stop chatting in a bit, I'm really going to explode.]

Finally, the big brother cameraman lowered his body, holding the camera in one hand and crawling forward in a steady posture with the other.

Even the cameraman didn't expect that after retiring from the military back then, this crawling technique would actually find a place of usefulness again!

Brilliant!

Soon, at the cameraman's steady pace, he finally approached the vicinity of the pavilion without leaving a trace and picked a spot with an extremely suitable camera position.

He could capture the entire image while completely recording the sound.

Brilliant!

At this time, Lu Li and Shen Qingxue had almost finished chatting.

"So, you should just lie flat like me. Eat when it's time to eat, drink when it's time to drink. Whoever makes me unhappy, I'll snap right back at them."

"For someone like Zhou Yichen, I definitely would have walked around him in the past. Now? Heh, I'm fucking riding right over him."

Lu Li's voice clearly entered the live broadcast room.

Let alone Director Zhou falling silent, the netizens also fell silent.

Good grief, after all this time, the first sentence we hear is that you punk want to ride on Zhou Yichen's head???

[Good lord, I find that this punk Lu Li is truly a Demon Pill.]

[Oh no, a Demon Pill paired with a spiritual pearl, wouldn't that mean…]

[What are you guys thinking! Impossible! Absolutely impossible!]

[Did no one notice that Lu Li is trying to corrupt the Goddess?]

[He actually wants the Goddess to lie flat with him. What a fucking beast, what a beast!!!]

[Rest assured, how could the Goddess possibly agree?]

But the next moment, Shen Qingxue's response instantly left everyone dumbfounded.

"Mm."

Although it was just a single "Mm", the sensory impact it brought to everyone was completely no less than a hundred thousand critical hits.

The sky has fallen.

However, what they saw was merely what they saw; the true truth was known only to the two of them, Shen Qingxue and Lu Li.

What Shen Qingxue agreed to wasn't giving up and lying flat; what she agreed to was that sort of resolution—at worst, losing everything and starting over again.

Of course, under the live broadcast, it was still misleading.

In the surveillance room.

Director Zhou sat in his chair in silence for a long time; the water in his thermos cup had already gone cold, and he didn't even have the heart to pour hot water.

The Deputy Director beside him looked at the screen and couldn't help speaking up.

"Director Zhou, should we continue broadcasting?"

He was somewhat worried about what mind-blowing words Lu Li and Shen Qingxue might say next; this probably wasn't favorable for the program's broadcast.

Director Zhou didn't answer immediately; he picked up his thermos cup, took a sip of cold water, and then slowly spoke.

"Broadcast it, why wouldn't we? Don't forget, this program of ours is a romance reality show."

The Deputy Director was slightly stunned.

"This kind of authentic interaction is what a romance reality show needs the most. I don't care about anyone else; I just want to fiercely push these two as a couple to death. Only then will it have authenticity."

Director Zhou paused for a moment and pointed at the two people on the screen.

"Audiences come to watch romance reality shows for this kind of authenticity. With interactions like this, you can never guess what will happen in the next second."

The Deputy Director nodded thoughtfully and didn't ask any further.

On the other side, the beach.

Shen Qingxue and Lu Li were still sitting in the pavilion, neither of them showing any intention of leaving, as the moonlight intertwined their two shadows together.

To be honest, Lu Li felt that tonight's conversation made him feel quite comfortable; he just wasn't sure if Shen Qingxue felt the same way.

Thinking for a moment, Lu Li called out to her.

"Hey."

Shen Qingxue turned her head to look at him, somewhat puzzled.

"What is it."

"Do you want me to sing a song for you?"

"What song."

"A song that can help you walk out of your predicament." Lu Li raised an eyebrow at her, smiling all over his face.

"Then sing it."

Shen Qingxue nodded with almost no hesitation, and didn't forget to hand her phone over to Lu Li.

"Hmm?"

"How can you do without an instrument? Although the one on the phone is a bit crude, it should barely be enough for you, right?" Shen Qingxue said.

Lu Li nodded. That was true; he really hadn't expected Shen Qingxue to consider so many things.

"Alright, then I'll make a fool of myself."

"A song called the ordinary road, dedicated to you."