Chapter 103 Moving In: "Rebuild Everything".

Chapter 103 Moving In: "Rebuild Everything".

The gold thread adorned with orchids was wrapped twice around her wrist, neither too loose nor too tight, making her wrist resemble a handful of fresh snow.

Amidst the golden threads and snow-white skin, the orchids bloom gracefully, clear and translucent.

So when Jin Shiyue saw Ye Hantao at the exit, before she could even say hello, Ye Hantao was already showing off her hand.

Ye Han's almond-shaped eyes crinkled into crescents. "This is a gift I just received!"

Jin Shiyue glanced at Cheng Zhao, who was helping Ye Hantao with her suitcase, and could guess the source of the gift without asking.

But this person's attire today...

Not only was she decked out in luxury brands, but her outfit was also exceptionally striking, making her look like a peacock spreading its tail feathers.

Jin Shiyue raised an eyebrow slightly. "Be careful, don't let anyone steal it."

This episode was filmed in a poor mountainous area of ​​Shanxi Province.

After arriving in the provincial capital by high-speed train and plane, they still need to take a bus along winding mountain roads to reach their destination, a journey that takes about two and a half hours.

With people coming and going in the station, it's hard to guarantee that someone won't steal from you.

Ye Hantao opened her mouth and lied, "I picked it out at a two-dollar store, it wasn't expensive."

Despite saying it, his tone was full of joy.

Cheng Zhao paused in his steps.

Jin Shiyue was curious to see what Cheng Zhao's expression would be, but to her surprise, she saw Cheng Zhao's slightly upturned lips and the pride between his brows.

"..."

Was this gift not given by him?

Cheng Zhao was actually quite proud.

Tao Tao used to say that the cheapest things were gifts from family members, but now he has become one of them.

Not to mention, he personally helped Tao Tao wrap the pendant around her wrist.

The two of them share a similar sense of boundaries in certain aspects.

Cheng Zhao chuckled lightly.

At least, he received a signal that he could continue straight ahead.

[Huh? I initially thought this was the icy violet jade that Cheng Zhao bought, but judging from Cheng Zhao's expression, could it not be?]

[You guys really believe Ye Hantao would accept items from a two-dollar store?]

[I only doubted Cheng Zhao because I didn't believe it, but when Cheng Zhao heard Ye Hantao belittling the two-dollar store, he didn't seem unhappy, but rather pleased? (scratching head.jpg)]

[Could it be a gift from a love rival?]

[No one has photographed any other men besides Oliver and Maze around Ye Hantao!]

[I bet this pendant was a gift from Cheng Zhao to Ye Hantao! Didn't you guys notice they both wear their pendants the same way?]

Soon, the others also gathered.

Ye Hantao paid a little more attention to Ren Lang and found that he seemed to have lost some weight after not seeing him for a while.

Ren Lang was also looking at Ye Hantao, pondering the plans he had made, a gentle smile appearing in his eyes.

The next second, Jin Shiyue pulled Ye Hantao away, as if being looked at by Ren Lang even a few times was an insult.

"It's better for you to keep some people at a distance." Jin Shiyue didn't care that the cameraman was nearby at all, and said succinctly, "so you won't get involved."

Gu Fanghao followed suit, hurriedly echoing, "Yes, yes!"

[Hahaha, is Jin Shiyue subtly alluding to Ren Langgao's unlucky streaks at the exhibition?]

Jin Shiyue can understand; the two of them didn't get along to begin with, so wasn't Gu Fanghao going too far? Ren Lang had been quite nice to her before.

Hearing Gu Fanghao's words, Ye Hantao felt relieved.

Although the electronic voice implies that Ren Lang is unlikely to be tied to someone else, it's safer for Fang Hao not to feel grateful to Ren Lang.

Seeing that Ye Hantao was distracted, Jin Shiyue gave her a nudge, "Did you hear me?"

"I heard it! I heard it!"

A hint of satisfaction flashed in Jin Shiyue's phoenix eyes.

Actually, Jin Shiyue told Ye Hantao to stay away from Ren Lang not only because of what happened at Gao Zhuzhan, but also because Ren Lang's repeated misfortunes reminded her of the six months of bad luck she had experienced.

Minor illnesses are frequent, while major accidents occur frequently.

Later, he encountered unexplained brake failure, which led to a car accident and hospitalization, causing him to miss a very important runway show and magazine cover.

Jin Shiyue lay in her hospital bed, watching the news report on TV about Ren Lang's appointment as creative director, and suddenly noticed some patterns.

She caused a major incident, embroiling her competitor in a plagiarism scandal.

She was hospitalized after a car accident, and her boss, who had been suppressing Ren Lang, was killed in a shipwreck.

Of course, this was just her wild imagination when she was bored. Later, she unexpectedly discovered that Ren Lang's methods were too ruthless, so she unilaterally broke off the relationship.

Ten minutes later, the group boarded the bus provided by the production team.

Ye Hantao took the lottery box out, and the small ball was shaking inside.

"The accommodations are divided into three courtyards. Let's draw lots to find the best spots."

Su Yi'ang thought for a moment, "So that means one group will live in a separate courtyard, and the remaining four groups will live in pairs in the same courtyard?"

"No wonder you've finished the competition!" Ye Hantao gave a thumbs up. "You're really smart."

Su Yi'ang scratched his head. "I can hear you praising me, but something feels off."

Ye Hantao just smiled.

At home, she and her older brother inquired about Angang's training progress.

In his older brother's words, Angang's operational awareness and physical fitness are both excellent, and he can play for several more years without any problem.

AngAng also said that he would continue to play as long as he could still compete, so what about his retirement in the story?

Ye Hantao stopped looking at him, raised the raffle box, and asked loudly, "Which group wants to draw first?"

Who would share a room with whom was decided before boarding the train.

Ye Hantao and Jin Shiyue, Gu Fanghao and He Qiang, Cheng Zhao and Chen Xiaofeng, Su Yiang and Wu Xia, Ren Lang and Yuan Kai.

Upon hearing this, Yuan Kai breathed a sigh of relief.

Given this probability, he might not be able to share a courtyard with Ye Hantao.

Since they weren't in the same place, Yang Tingyu could find an excuse to refuse whatever he asked him to do.

Su Yi'ang raised his hand high, "I'll do it, I'll do it."

Ye Hantao carried the lottery box to his seat.

As Su Yi'ang reached for the ball, Ye Hantao noticed that Wu Xia was looking down, scrolling through an electronic manuscript on his phone.

He thought it was a notice from the production team, but to his surprise, Wu Xia looked up and a faint blush appeared on his pale face. "This is a summary of Professor Zhou's notes."

"You're watching it too?"

"My sister said that reading these things will only do good and no harm."

Su Yi'ang had just finished hitting the ball and was handing it to Ye Hantao while peeking at Wu Xia's phone, seemingly joining in the fun.

It contains very detailed records, from the patient's facial features to the symptoms in the early and middle stages.

Some symptoms that he considered minor were actually classified as heart attacks.

Ye Hantao looked at the ball Su Yi'ang had drawn, in courtyard number three.

When it was Ren Lang's and Yuan Kai's turn to draw the ball, Yuan Kai looked at Ren Lang.

Ren Lang volunteered, "You draw it."

Yuan Kai reached into the box, feeling uneasy.

"Number 3." Ye Hantao glanced thoughtfully at Ren Lang, then smiled and said, "Sister Shiyue and I are also in number 3."

Ren Lang showed no surprise, his expression unchanged.

He and Ye Hantao are bound together; no matter who draws the lots, they will always end up in the same courtyard.

In the back row, Cheng Zhao looked over across the seat, a hint of doubt rising in his azure eyes.

The same thing happened in the last episode.

Ren Lang took the initiative to befriend Tao Tao, and they ended up drawing the same pair during the tie-dyeing activity. Later, when Ren Lang befriended Gu Fanghao, they were able to draw the same pair again during the jade gambling activity.

That's too much of a coincidence.

[Oh my god, is Ren Lang going to have more bad luck?]

What do you mean? You're talking like Ye Hantao is a jinx.

[In fact, Ren Lang had been quite unlucky before coming to the show; he almost got hit by a headlight while working.]

I'm worried he'll bring bad luck to Ye Hantao and Jin Shiyue.

However, when a group of people stood at the entrance of the residence, both the guests and the audience were completely blank in their minds.

The wooden door was rickety and dusty in the yard.

In the dim light of night, dozens of sheep were huddled together in a messy pen.

Ye Hantao blinked gently.

Although her family members always concealed her identity and said they had to take pay cuts or couldn't afford a house, compared to her current residence, her life had been very comfortable since childhood.

Off-screen, Ye Weizheng gripped Zhou Ti's hand tightly, filled with lingering fear, "If Tao Tao hadn't had this opportunity with the show, we might not even be living as well as we are here."

What he was afraid of wasn't the poor living conditions, but rather that if Tao Tao was really living in such poor conditions, it meant that her health at that time must have been quite poor.

Zhou Ti shook hands with him in return.

That day, Tao Tao suddenly had knee pain, and she even imagined the possibility that her whole family would have to live under a bridge someday.

“But…” Ye Weizheng’s face twisted slightly, “Did the production team really have to choose such a terrible courtyard?! We sponsored quite a bit of it!”

As they spoke, the group crossed the courtyard, passed the sheep pen, and pushed open the door to enter the house.

The door creaked open, looking so old it seemed it might fall down at any moment.

Fortunately, the house was relatively clean. There were two stoves in the main room in the middle, and earthen beds were built in the rooms on the left and right sides.

The floor was compacted with cement, and the brooms for cleaning were placed in the corner.

Su Yi'ang swallowed a few times and asked with difficulty, "Are all the rooms we live in like this?"

Before he started playing esports, his family wasn't particularly wealthy, but both his parents were civil servants, which ensured he had enough to eat and wear and lived in a comfortable apartment in the city center.

In the past twenty years, the hardest days for Su Yi'ang were when he shared a dormitory with three other people at the HT base youth training camp.

The guide sent by the local village scratched his head. "That's not it."

Su Yi'ang had just breathed a sigh of relief when the guide's next words made his face fall instantly.

“The other two courtyards aren’t as clean and tidy as this one,” the guide said. “The family in house number 3 is very hardworking in our village; they raise 150 sheep.”

Others: "..."

In half an hour, the group finished visiting the remaining two courtyards.

There were more than a dozen sheep in the No. 2 yard, and the walls inside the house were dark and grimy.

There were no sheep in courtyard number 1, but there were spider webs inside the house.

He Qiang almost tripped over a mouse.

The guide explained, "The whole family has gone out to work, and the child lives with his grandparents. They don't come back to live with them year after year."

The audience was completely numb from watching.

Did the production team deliberately choose a courtyard with a poor environment for them to stay in?

【Are there still rural areas like this now? Aren't villages supposed to have express delivery stations, two-story buildings?】

Have you forgotten that this is an impoverished mountainous area?

People in impoverished mountainous areas now have running water too.

My home is deep in the mountains, and the environment isn't much better than here. We only started living a good life thanks to a donation from Guangsheng Group more than ten years ago, and the village head leading everyone to sell honey and peaches.

We can't even stand looking at them, how can they possibly live there?

I thought Jin Shiyue would walk off the set, but I didn't expect her to hold back?

Jin Shiyue not only did not stop recording, but also washed rags and wiped the kang and table in the room with Ye Hantao.

However, Jin Shiyue's expression wasn't very pleasant either; her lips were downturned, and after making the bed, she didn't want to take the sheets back with her.

Aside from a slight dislike, the gloomy space always reminded her of her childhood.

Her hometown is deep in the mountains, and the animals she raises in her yard are cows, not sheep.

Kim Si-wol suspects that she will see news about her past online when she wakes up tomorrow morning.

After wiping the table and cabinet surfaces, Ye Hantao noticed that the rag had very little dust on it.

"The owner cleaned so thoroughly before leaving." Ye Hantao couldn't find a trash can in the house, so she put the used wet wipes and tissues into a plastic bag and tied it up. "I just wiped the stove and there wasn't much dust."

Jin Shiyue threw the used rags directly into a plastic bag. "They received rental fees from the production team, so of course they care."

In just a few days, the production team can easily give you two or three thousand.

Ye Hantao suddenly laughed.

"???" Jin Shiyue looked at her in confusion.

To be honest, Ye Hantao's ability to adapt so quickly already puzzled her.

Ye Hantao comes from a well-off family, and it was probably her first time living in such an environment, so she didn't complain at all.

Jin Shiyue: "What are you laughing at?"

Compared to the house in front of him, Ye Hantao's comments on Xiaowang about her pretending to be poor made his old neighborhood seem like paradise.

With the camera in front of her, Ye Hantao could only say enviously, "Sigh, I'm so jealous that they can live in such a vintage house. I've never seen anything like it before."

【？？？？？】

[It's one thing to flaunt your wealth, but isn't it going too far to use ordinary people from impoverished mountain areas to highlight your own status!]

[From side to side (smiling.jpg)]

[Disease progression: 9%]

Having received the feedback she wanted regarding her persona, Ye Hantao curled the corners of her lips before revealing the donation her uncle had promised before she left.

"In order to prevent them from living in these houses that I have never lived in, I will have my family pay to have their houses and dirt roads demolished."

Ye Hantao slightly raised her chin and said, enunciating each word clearly, "Completely rebuilt!"

Audience: [? ? ? ? ? ? ]

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Author's Note: Peach: [Sprinkling flowers]