novelraw Chapter 450 - 449: This Dish Is Really Delicious
Chapter 450 - 449: This Dish Is Really Delicious
After finishing the meal, the nine of them leaned back in their chairs to rest for a moment.
Everyone experiences the post-meal drowsiness that is hard to escape. Li Yang leaned back with his head tilted, his eyes opening and closing intermittently, looking as if he was about to drift into sleep.
As his head rested on the top of the chair, his Adam’s apple protruded, his neck stretched, making it impossible to capture his face from the front, but his side profile was exceptionally sharp and defined.
A clean-cut jawline, a prominent nose bridge, closed eyes slightly sunken compared to his full forehead, his entire face was full of contour.
Used to fooling around with the production crew, everyone almost forgot that he was a hot idol, undeniably good-looking.
It’s just that compared to the ethereal looks of Cheng Zhirang, his looks don’t quite make the top place.
Cheng Zhirang is a delicate beauty, while he is a clean-cut sunny boy.
Mu Qiu matched a few words in her mind, carefully sketching out Li Yang’s lazy demeanor.
The campus novel hero is easiest to find a prototype for in the entertainment industry, as wave after wave of young, handsome boys keep emerging, with varied styles and personalities, perfectly catering to the richness of campus novel settings.
But merely relying on imagination is unreal; the campus novel heroes she writes about often adhere to one personality throughout, unlike the natural vibe in real life.
If the main character were like Li Yang, what tags should be attached to him?
Terrible grades but well-liked, good looks and family background, athletic, long-term holder of the title of the most handsome on the basketball court, drawing many girls during every PE class. Cheerful, sometimes a bit carefree, yet it doesn’t diminish his lethal attraction to ordinary girls at all...
As she pondered earnestly, a head suddenly leaned toward her ear, whispering softly.
"Caught you, you have Brother Cheng yet you’re still checking out Li Yang, I’m going to tell."
"......"
She turned back and quickly covered his mouth, keeping calm: "Okay, from now on, you can pretend to be mute."
Guan Yu whimpered in her palm.
Li Yang, lazily raising his head, looked at the two of them, asking: "What are you two up to?"
Mu Qiu still covering Guan Yu’s mouth, replied unfazed: "Sister Guan Yu said she’d like a couple more big bones to munch on until the show stops recording, you can’t just say things like that casually, so I’m just holding her free mouth."
Guan Yu: "???"
Li Yang: "Really? Sister Guan Yu, you’re still hungry?"
Guan Yu: Of course not!
Mu Qiu: "She says yes, but how could we not record this afternoon, I guess we’ll have to head out in a few minutes."
Li Yang now believed: "Sister Guan Yu, just bear with it for a bit, the second game is about to start, but didn’t you already have two? You can still eat?"
"......" What a grave injustice in this world.
After satisfying themselves with food and soup, the director hadn’t hurried them along nor mentioned the second game. The idle chit-chat ceased as people started eyeing the director.
The director was still sipping soup, sitting comfortably in his special seat, enjoying his meal with a small bowl of soup, looking exceedingly pleased.
The two female accompanying directors and other staff around them were also equipped with finished meal boxes, appearing as though there was no intention to start working in the afternoon.
Guan Yu raised her voice and asked: "Director! Are we just going to sit here and eat? Aren’t we recording?"
The key point was that no one had brought more food either.
The director raised a hand with a gesture of "just a moment", seemingly indicating—don’t rush, let me finish this soup first.
Guan Yu: "...... Director, could you be a bit more professional?"
The soup was finally finished, and the director sighed contentedly before fumbling to find the small loudspeaker, saying: "It seems all the guests have finished eating......"
Guan Yu: "The whole nation noticed it minutes ago, only you were the last to see."
The director ignored her and continued with the script.
"I wonder if you noticed, the dish in the middle......"
Perhaps due to eating too much, he was speaking slowly, leaving spaces as if deliberately letting the guests guess the rest of his words.
Having cooperated for six episodes, everyone was used to the director’s routine. Before he even finished his sentence, three hands had already moved to check the large platter in the middle of the table.
It was a large round wooden platter with a small round plate divided into three equal parts in the center for dipping sauces, surrounded by nine compartments containing four vegetables, slices of chicken, roasted duck, shrimp, sausages, and egg dumplings.
Before eating, the entire platter was arranged neatly, looking quite pleasing. It was also the dish cleaned out the most, leaving only two bits of vegetable leaf and some dipping sauces.
Now that the director so meaningful mentioned it, everyone stared at the wooden platter, and those with quick reflexes had already reached out to pick it up.
Guan Yu’s hands were the fastest, trying hard to reach the center, but the edge of the table bumped against her stomach, allowing her only barely to touch the edge of the platter.
Luckily, Li Yang and Qiu Shuang had long arms.
As they moved it, Guan Yu was still spitting at the director: "The show is getting shrewder and shrewder, copying other programs by setting up tricks on the dining table; is it easy for us to eat or not, constantly having to guard against your pranks... oh, there’s nothing here."
The wooden platter was lifted, showing nothing on the table, and flipping it over carefully revealed nothing either.
Guan Yu tilted her head looking from different angles and saw nothing but Li Yang’s and Qiu Shuang’s hands.
"So where exactly is it hidden? Is it hiding in the dishes, and someone accidentally ate it?"
Holding the platter, Li Yang: "......" Suddenly felt a little uneasy in his stomach.
Mu Qiu lay on the table with her hands, tilting her head also trying to find: "Nothing under the wooden platter, nor on the table."
Shu Ran: "Nothing on the sides either."
Wei Yi: "I didn’t see anything too."
Cheng Zhirang: "Maybe the director didn’t mean it was under the platter."
Jiang Lu: "Is this their usual routine? I didn’t see this in the previous episodes."
Shi Yuhuai shook his head: "No, it’s the first time."
Li Yang: "I knew it was too good to be true, letting us chat and eat for so long, turns out there’s a hidden task."
One person after another spoke, turning the dining hall into a crime scene investigation.
When the nine of them were scrutinizing the wooden platter, the director seemed to catch his breath and, finishing the interrupted words, continued:
"I was saying, I wonder if anyone noticed, the dish in the middle, was exceptionally delicious."
Everyone stopped flipping the platter.
"... Director, did you eat too much?"
So with nothing to do, he toyed with them!? Insane!
The director was smiling happily, "I merely wanted to say, that dish truly was delicious."
Guan Yu wanted to speak, but Mu Qiu suddenly voiced out curiously: "Really delicious?"
The director, picking out her voice from the crowd, affirmed: "Everyone said it was delicious."
"Understood," Mu Qiu turned back, "There’s definitely something fishy about this dish. Among the multiple dishes, I had the most of the bamboo shoots and shrimp, who ate the same?"