Milk Orange Omega Becomes Popular Through Dating Variety Show [Entertainment Circle] - Chapter 12

Zhong Lin opened the envelope—

“You were pretty good today.”

“Keep it up.”

This seemed to be a “friend zone card,” and the note faintly carried a familiar scent.

Sweet and sour, with a subtle hint of alcohol, the smell of white grape sparkling wine.

She had no idea who gave it to Zhong Lin…

But Zhong Lin didn’t care about any of this. After a full day of playing at Happy Valley, her head felt hazy, drowsiness slowly spread, her limbs felt faintly weak, and her body temperature gradually rose.

Her long, curled eyelashes slowly began to blink, each blink gradually lasting longer.

Feeling very tired, Zhong Lin went into the bathroom to wash up.

Then she returned to the bed, kicked off her shoes, and climbed onto her small quilt. Her movements were very agile; she really wanted to lie down _(:з)∠)_

The mattress here was provided by a brand sponsor, very soft. Zhong Lin slowly rolled over once, her eyes completely closed, her small arms and hands still.

Bullet comments—

[Hahahahaha, the live stream isn’t over yet, but the cub is already sleepy~]

[Let her sleep, let her sleep~ The cub looks so cute when she’s dozing off!!]

[…Can someone tell me why I’m watching someone sleep in a dating variety show?? Where’s the director? Hurry and switch the camera!]

[Speechless, this is Zhong Lin’s channel. I suggest the person above see an ophthalmologist. If you don’t like it, please go to other guests’ channels. No need to walk you out.]

••••

“Ding-dong—”

“Ding-dong—”

The doorbell suddenly rang.

Waking her from a sweet dream.

“Who is it?” Zhong Lin slowly opened her eyes. Her small arms struggled twice before she resignedly climbed out of bed to open the door.

The small male Omega was wearing an oversized navy blue T-shirt and plaid shorts that didn’t go past his knees, looking slender and delicate.

Zhou Xiaoduo: “Zhong Lin, you’re not asleep already, are you?”

“I didn’t disturb you, did I?”

“Mm, you disturbed me…” Zhong Lin’s voice was soft and low, sounding lazy and languid.

Zhou Xiaoduo: “…”

The Bai Ze cub’s mind was still in an unclear state.

Seemingly instinctively, Zhong Lin pulled back the hand holding the doorknob, about to close the door again, “Go to bed early, for good skin.”

Zhong Lin wanted to go back to bed immediately.

But the person outside suddenly reached out to stop her: “Wait.”

“What are you doing?” Zhong Lin quickly stopped closing the door, her small head trembled, and she immediately sobered up, feeling a bit of lingering fear…

She almost pinched the little male Omega’s hand.

Zhou Xiaoduo poked his head in, his gaze seeming to search for something: “Don’t rush to rest. The director told me to call you. He said there’s still a late-night interaction that hasn’t been filmed.”

Zhong Lin nodded helplessly, casually closed the door, and followed Zhou Xiaoduo.

Zhou Xiaoduo only received one letter today. From the content of the letter—the phrase “Let’s shoot together when you have time”—it was clear that Chu Yunze wrote it to him,

Because only Chu Yunze and he were models.

And Zhou Xiaoduo himself had written his letter to Pei Yi.

He really wanted to know, since he hadn’t received a letter from Pei Yi, then who did Pei Yi write to?

“Did you receive a letter today?” Zhou Xiaoduo slightly turned his head, quietly observing Zhong Lin’s reaction.

Zhong Lin, still groggy with sleep, looked at him bewildered: “Yes~”

“What did it say to you…” Zhou Xiaoduo felt a bit anxious, “Who do you guess wrote it to you?”

Zhong Lin let out a soft “huh”: “Why should I tell you?”

“We’re good best friends… Didn’t you used to tell me everything?” Zhou Xiaoduo narrowed his eyes slightly, secretly sizing up Zhong Lin.

In the original plot, Zhou Xiaoduo successfully formed CPs with multiple Alpha guests, single-handedly occupying several trending hashtags.

Moreover, in the “Final Pick” of the dating variety show, Zhou Xiaoduo and Pei Yi made a mutual heart-flutter choice, then rode a wave of good resources and debuted successfully.

Meanwhile, the “Zhong Lin” in the original novel, serving as Zhou Xiaoduo’s stepping stone, was trampled into the mud. In the dating variety show’s “Final Pick,” she was left with no matches.

Not a single Alpha guest chose “Zhong Lin.” She was mocked across the internet, blacklisted by public opinion. The “Zhong Lin” with terrible resources was virtually shelved.

Finally, before leaping from the balcony, “Zhong Lin” called the Zhou Xiaoduo from the original novel, her former “good best friend.”

But no one answered. “Zhong Lin” had been blocked by Zhou Xiaoduo.

Earlier, in the nightmare on the way back, Zhong Lin relived the original plot, and she clearly understood… this little male Omega named Zhou Xiaoduo, he looked human, but he was actually a fallen angel~

And he still claimed to be “Zhong Lin’s” good best friend, even the Bai Ze cub didn’t like him very much!

“What, you found an Alpha you like? Too embarrassed to tell me?” Zhou Xiaoduo asked teasingly, smiling.

“Not really, the person who wrote the letter just said I was very good, good in all aspects,” Zhong Lin’s lips curled up slightly, smiling carelessly, “It made me a little embarrassed.”

Zhong Lin: …I’m not telling you the real content, you can guess~

Zhou Xiaoduo’s eyes darkened, very surprised in his heart. He didn’t expect that an Alpha actually wrote to Zhong Lin?

[Honestly, when Zhou Xiaoduo said “best friend,” I inexplicably felt a slight fear, it just felt strange.]

[Zhou Xiaoduo’s probing is too obvious, isn’t it? Didn’t he see that she clearly didn’t want to tell him?]

[…Speechless, dating variety shows are fun because of the guessing game, little brother Xiaoduo, come on, go go go!]

••••

Zhong Lin followed Zhou Xiaoduo, and the two of them arrived at the small courtyard together.

The trellis was decorated with a net of small lights, twinkling with warm yellow light like a starry sky.

Pei Yi sat in the swing chair. The faint warm light blurred her outline, yet she was still an undeniable presence in the crowd that one couldn’t look away from.

Her long, straight legs were crossed under a silver-grey satin nightgown, her calves hanging quietly, her fair feet resting in iridescent flat slippers.

She radiated light.

Zhong Lin tilted her head slightly, involuntarily dazed for a moment.

What was going on tonight? Why did she suddenly feel that Pei Yi, the female lead Alpha… was a bit beautiful?

“Aren’t you going to the restroom?” Zhong Lin’s thoughts were interrupted by a female voice.

Chu Yunze, sitting on a nearby rocking chair, suddenly straightened up, pointed to her own head, and softly signaled Zhong Lin: “Your hair’s messy.”

Zhong Lin followed her gesture, touching her forehead, and found a small, upward-curling cowlick.

It was probably from sleeping awkwardly during her nap.

It wouldn’t look good on camera.

[OMG, Chu Yunze is so gentle~]

[Chu Yunze’s emotional intelligence is really high, you could see it from how she smoothed things over for Zhou Xiaoduo and Liang Shan at the dinner table!]

[Thought she was a cool, tough girl, but didn’t expect supermodel Sister Yunze to be a super warm female Alpha!! [/Crush face]]

••••

Looking towards Chu Yunze, Zhong Lin gratefully nodded, then ran to the nearest restroom, wetting her hand to smooth down the cowlick on her head.

By the time Zhong Lin returned to the small courtyard, all the seats were taken.

Unexpectedly, Pei Yi suddenly rose from the swing chair, moved a small stool from nearby behind her, placed it beside her, and beckoned to Zhong Lin: “Come here,”

“There’s a small stool here.”

Pei Yi really didn’t dislike Zhong Lin as much anymore.

She even wanted to observe what made a drama queen suddenly become well-behaved?

Zhong Lin… what exactly did she want?

The doubts in her heart made Pei Yi feel uneasy; she felt inexplicably disturbed.

Zhong Lin seemed oblivious, obediently sitting on the small stool beside Pei Yi, softly thanking Pei Yi: “Thank you.”

Everyone sat around the small table, a card placed face down on the surface.

Seeing everyone present, Liang Shan proactively flipped the card over. “Tonight’s game is: ‘I Call Your Name, Do You Dare to Answer?’ The specific operation is that everyone rolls dice together. The person with the higher number wins, and the person with the lower number loses.”

“The person with the higher number can call out any loser’s name, as long as their number is smaller than theirs. The loser has two choices:”

“1. Respond to the other person’s call and answer their question; 2. Refuse to answer and accept a small penalty.”

“The corresponding small penalty is to drink half a glass of Real Summer Love Cocktail. In the scorching summer, is it the wine that intoxicates me, or your smiling face? Perhaps this is the tipsy taste of love?” Liang Shan recited the commercial advertisement seriously.

“Every guest must participate in the activity once.”

Everyone took turns rolling the dice.

Zhong Lin sat obediently on the small stool, imitating the others, rolled the dice, and after opening the lid, it was eleven.

This number was quite large, seemingly safe enough.

The Bai Ze cub was a divine beast that sought good fortune and avoided evil, and Zhong Lin’s luck had always been good.

Everyone was a bit surprised.

Liang Shan chuckled: “Xiao Lin, you’re safe.”

When Zhou Xiaoduo uncovered the lid, it was twelve.

As expected of the male lead Omega in the original novel… his luck was truly good.

Everyone couldn’t help but sigh, this was a 1/36 probability.

Chu Yunze shifted her long, crossed legs. She had always been quite interested in Zhou Xiaoduo and had written her anonymous letter to him tonight as well: “Mm, Xiaoduo is the biggest winner.”

Zhong Lin was completely indifferent to this. As a Bai Ze cub, the most important thing was to be happy. Winning or losing wasn’t important to her. What was important was that her body temperature was subtly rising.

A little sleepy, she really wanted to go back to sleep _(:з)∠)_

••••

After everyone had rolled their dice, the first round of questioning began with Zhou Xiaoduo.

Zhou Xiaoduo, with the highest authority, surveyed the group, his gaze lingering on Pei Yi for a moment.

Pei Yi’s eyes were half-closed, her languidness mixed with nonchalance, as she gently swayed in the swing chair.

Zhou Xiaoduo finally looked towards Zhong Lin.

It wasn’t the right time yet. He didn’t dare to directly question Pei Yi, he couldn’t appear too proactive in front of her, otherwise, he would end up like Zhong Lin, suffering the tragic fate of being disliked by Pei Yi.

“Zhong Lin, I call your name, do you dare to answer?” Zhou Xiaoduo called out Zhong Lin’s name. “I’m very curious, what kind of Alpha makes your heart flutter?”

These past few days, Zhou Xiaoduo had subtly felt that something was off. It seemed that Zhong Lin’s extremely straightforward affection for Pei Yi was actually sharply decreasing?!

Even her “Lin-style words” (Zhong Lin’s peculiar way of speaking), which disregarded other guests’ feelings, and her “drama queen” behaviors had been reined in?

This made Zhou Xiaoduo feel strange, and his heart began to feel uneasy.

And he had secretly seen the show’s edits before, and from the bullet comment spoilers, he saw comments that Zhong Lin’s first heart flutter pick was not Pei Yi, but the production team deliberately hid Zhong Lin’s final choice.

Zhou Xiaoduo had always wanted to know who Zhong Lin ultimately chose in her First Heart Flutter Pick.

Zhong Lin remained silent.

Seeing Zhong Lin not answer, Zhou Xiaoduo immediately tried to coax information out of her: “You don’t have to say a specific name, just say the type, I’m not forcing you~”

He wasn’t forcing Zhong Lin to say a name, but he was forcing her to say a type.

The Alpha guests present, each had their own distinct characteristics.

This way of asking was equivalent to directly forcing Zhong Lin to reveal who she chose for her First Heart Flutter Pick.

—The Bai Ze cub always had a bad feeling.