Chapter 128
Chapter 128
Ning Xi’s attention was instantly drawn away.
“What the hell was that noise?”
The time rewound to five minutes earlier.
Jiang Sheshe and Shen Yibai were taking photos in front of a small stream.
Shen Yibai looked at the sign standing by the water-“Slippery by the Water. Watch Your Step.”-and reminded her coolly, “It’s a little dangerous by the water. Let’s switch spots.”
As a Chinese woman whose lifelong mission was to get the shot, Jiang Sheshe’s answer was, of course, no.
“I’m not going into the water. I’m just standing by it for one photo. What’s so dangerous about that?”
The moment she finished speaking, she trotted straight to the edge of the stream without looking back and struck a pose.
Shen Yibai pressed his lips together and didn’t try to persuade her a second time.
After all, they were both adults.
“Yes, that’s the angle. Shoot from low to high, and make sure you turn on the wide-angle lens. It’ll make my legs look longer…” Jiang Sheshe directed Shen Yibai as he took the photos.
At that moment, she was only a few centimeters away from the stream behind her.
Jiang Sheshe remained completely unaware. “The most important thing in photos is vitality. The bigger the movements, the better the shot…”
As she spoke, she started spreading her arms, lifting one leg to the side, pacing back and forth, jogging in place…
Shen Yibai watched Jiang Sheshe move closer and closer to the water’s edge through the lens and frowned. “Careful. You’ll fall.”
“I’m fine…” Jiang Sheshe said while covering her mouth and posing.
The next second-
“Ah!”
Her foot missed the edge, and she plunged straight into the water.
With a splash, water flew everywhere.
Shen Yibai reached the water’s edge in a few steps. Looking at Jiang Sheshe flailing in the stream, he bent down and stretched out his hand.
“Grab my hand!”
Jiang Sheshe was still trapped in the panic of suddenly falling into the water. How could she hear what the person on shore was saying?
All she did was scream at the top of her lungs, “Aaaaaah! Help! Help me!”
She thrashed around in the water like a giant moth.
The cameraman saw the scene, hesitated as if he wanted to say something, but in the end, he said nothing and quietly kept filming from the side.
Shen Yibai tried to grab Jiang Sheshe’s wrist.
However, Jiang Sheshe just kept flailing in a panic, somehow miraculously dodging Shen Yibai’s outstretched hand from every possible angle.
There wasn’t a pole nearby that could be used to pull her up either.
At this point, the only option was to jump in and save her.
Shen Yibai paused, straightened up, then lowered his eyes expressionlessly and looked at Jiang Sheshe, who was still thrashing nonstop in the water below.
It was as if he were waiting for something.
[??? Bro, what are you doing? That’s a human life! Hurry up and go save her!]
[Is the staff not going to do anything either? Jiang Sheshe is on a variety show. She must have signed a contract with the Program Team guaranteeing her personal safety, right?]
[Are we about to watch someone refuse to save a life on a livestream?]
[If something happens to Jiang Sheshe, can this variety show even keep airing?]
[Shen Yibai has lost his mind! The Program Team has lost its mind too!]
The hashtag #JiangShesheDrowning# quickly began trending.
The number of viewers in the livestream also shot up rapidly.
But just as Jiang Sheshe’s thrashing grew weaker and weaker, and Shen Yibai lifted his foot to jump in-
Jiang Sheshe slowly stood up from the water like a giant.
It turned out the stream only reached the middle of her thighs.
A deathly silence fell.
[? The water is that shallow?]
[This is so awkward hahahahaha]
The cameraman quietly explained to Jiang Sheshe and the netizens watching on screen, “The Program Team scouted the area beforehand. The stream in Ling Village is less than one meter deep. As long as Teacher Sheshe calms down a little, she can stand up on her own.”
How could Jiang Sheshe possibly be someone who calmed down?
She couldn’t hear a word the cameraman was saying. Through the surface of the water, she watched her painstakingly styled makeup and hair dissolve into nothing. Her evening gown was ruined too. She completely lost it.
“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!”
Shen Yibai and the cameraman both instinctively covered their ears.
The viewers lost their minds even harder.
[Jiang Sheshe, keep it down, my ears are about to go deaf]
[Thanks a lot, seriously. The sound-activated lights in my entire apartment building just turned on]
[I played Jiang Sheshe’s scream from the livestream out loud, and my noisy neighbor finally turned off his speakers [heart hands]]
After venting her emotions, Jiang Sheshe climbed back onto shore and stuck out her hand at Shen Yibai with a pout. “I want to see the photos you just took.”
If the photos looked bad, she really was going to go insane.
Shen Yibai handed her the phone.
Jiang Sheshe flipped through the pictures. When she found that the first few shots were actually pretty good, the corners of her mouth finally began to lift.
She hadn’t expected Shen Yibai to be decent at taking photos. One look and she could tell he had experience. He must have often taken photos for people before.
However, Jiang Sheshe’s smile came to an abrupt stop when she saw the last photo.
…Why did the pose in this falling photo look so familiar?
[Why is it exactly the same pose as the person falling on the “Slippery Riverbank, Watch Your Step” warning sign?]
[Where do you think the picture on the sign came from?]
[For the first time, I feel like those icons are really true to life]
[Submit this falling photo for a vote. I guarantee it’ll go viral hahahaha]
Because Jiang Sheshe had fallen into the water, their group ended the shoot early and went back to rest.
After the other three groups finished taking their photos, they returned one after another as well.
Today was their last day in Ling Village, so the Program Team had thoughtfully prepared a feast in the courtyard of Room 4.
When Ning Xi saw the yard full of buffet dishes, desserts, fruit, and drinks, unambitious tears flowed from the corner of her mouth.
She murmured, “Damn it. I was planning to start a militarized weight-loss regimen today.”
Xie Lanchen raised a brow, looking somewhat skeptical. “Mm?”
Ning Xi put her hands on her hips. “You know, eating Veteran BBQ.”
After a moment of silence, Xie Lanchen understood. “…You mean the kind of militarized weight-loss regimen where you have a Soldier Americano in the morning, Colonel’s nuggets and pistol drumsticks for lunch, Veteran BBQ as a midnight snack, and your military rank comes from Dicos?”
Ning Xi nodded without the slightest guilt.
How did that not count?
[Then I do light fasting every day too: lightly biting through food]
[What a coincidence, I’m doing special forces training right now: going fifty kilometers away in search of good food]
[what my sales (I’m freaking dying of laughter)]
Fu Zhi and Ning Mingyue’s group was the last to return.
Both of them looked cold, clearly having had a very unpleasant time during the shoot.
Fu Zhi changed his clothes on his own, then went alone to Room 4 to eat.
At that moment, in Room 4, everyone was present except Ning Mingyue, who had just returned, and Shen Yibai, who was still changing.
“Did someone fall into the water during today’s shoot?”
Qin Se looked up and suddenly asked.
“What? Who fell in? Ning Xi, don’t tell me you went playing in the water?” After hearing that, Fu Zhi instinctively looked at Ning Xi.
“Bro, are playing in the water and falling into the water the same thing?” Ning Xi rolled her eyes.
Wei Xuan looked around the circle, and his gaze finally landed on Jiang Sheshe, who had changed into a different outfit. “Sheshe, was it you?”
The moment Jiang Sheshe heard the words “fell into the water,” she wanted to get angry. “Don’t even mention it. Today pissed me off so much…”
Xie Lanchen did not listen to Jiang Sheshe speak. Instead, he glanced at Qin Se again.
Qin Se was not the type to get curious and gossip about who had fallen into the water.
If she had brought up the topic on her own, then it could only mean-
Xie Lanchen opened his phone and immediately saw several explosive trending topics hanging on the hot search list.
#Jiang Sheshe Nearly Drowned#
#Shen Yibai Stood By and Did Nothing#
Under the topics was a video of Jiang Sheshe falling into the water that day and struggling desperately while Shen Yibai stood on the bank, looking down at her from above.
The comment section was almost entirely filled with questions and abuse directed at Shen Yibai.
The more extreme ones had already defined Shen Yibai’s “standing by and doing nothing” as intentional murder.