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Chapter 477 - 476: Tyrannical CEO, No!: The Runaway Wife Escaped 99 Times

Li Yang was originally excited and wanted to clap along, but before he could raise his hand, Qiu Shuang quickly restrained him.

He could only cheer for his teammates pitifully in his heart.

Guan Yu didn’t expect she could actually answer, so she pouted and could only make exaggerated facial expressions to hint at Shi Yuhuai to quickly imitate and cheat.

Then she pretended to say, "Ah? What did you say? Can’t answer, right? I knew you couldn’t."

Mu Qiu: What a perfect act of playing dumb.

She glanced at the "spokesperson" of their group, Qiu Shuang, who immediately got the message and said to Wei Yi, "Hurry up and use some sign language; it’s quite pitiful to be out of touch with the times."

Suddenly being cued, Wei Yi was a bit confused, uttered an "Ah," and turned to Guan Yu, "Do you need me to show you the gesture?"

Guan Yu struggled to suppress the urge to dump something on him, closed her eyes to avoid the hassle in her mind.

"Although I can’t hear what you’re saying, there’s surely no good in involving our simple Wei Yi. Don’t bully our teammate."

As soon as she finished speaking, the unsettling electronic voice suddenly boomed again.

"Guan Yu has violated the pen name rule once, deducting one point!"

Guan Yu: "......" What’s this?!

Mu Qiu’s eyes twinkled, and she slapped her thigh as she stood up: "Alright Meng Lu’s Tears! You don’t need to keep asking questions, there’s only so much time, and we should allow others some time as well, right?

If you insist on asking, you can ask other authors too; after all, you’re generous with your attention, it’s not like you’re fixated on just me."

She even pretended to wipe tears at the end.

"Let’s move on, is there anyone else with a question? If not, I’ll just..."

Shu Ran raised her hand.

"Ahem, okay," she paused and called out: "This person... Have you used Shufu Jia today, what question do you want to raise?"

Shu Ran gracefully stood up and turned her tablet towards her to show.

[What folklore stories are in your book?]

Here comes another one trying to cheat.

Mu Qiu curved her lips with confidence and responded: "Answering have you used Shufu Jia today, my book doesn’t contain folklore stories, thank you."

Shu Ran: "?"

That’s not how you answer that! Shouldn’t you tell a story like with the twenty-eight constellations earlier?!

She was so furious, she grabbed her stylus and scribbled furiously on her tablet, each stroke filled with resentment, swishing wildly.

[Can you even answer like this?! Not allowed!]

Mu Qiu glanced: "Why not? The rules only state a declarative sentence is needed, didn’t specify how it should be answered."

Shu Ran furiously scribbled again, angrily turned it towards her.

[Then I’ll change my question!]

Mu Qiu calmly crossed her legs: "No, you, can’t."

Shu Ran: [Then I’ll ask another one!!!]

She waved her hand: "Go ahead."

Shu Ran scrolled through the comments and found one with marked colors: [During your years of writing, how many male protagonists have been hit for love?]

Mu Qiu paused for a moment.

This question was slightly challenging.

She unflinchingly did some quick mental math and quickly responded: "Probably two hundred and thirty-eight."

The screen filled with comments like [bluffing] [didn’t even think it through] [absolutely false] [so you have thirty protagonists in one book, how thrilling] rolling through.

Mu Qiu blocked the comment about [one book with thirty protagonists] from view, self-deceptively, and emphasized to Shu Ran:

"Classmate who may have used Shufu Jia today, you’ve read so many of my books, traveled long distances to interact with me in person, just to ask such questions? You don’t focus on inspirational quotes, only on how many times the male protagonists get hit for love!"

Read so many books · Traveled long distances to interact with her in person · Shu Ran: Nonsense.

She plopped back into her seat, snapped the cover on her tablet, deciding against more questions, dealing with someone who can make up nonsense on the spot is unbeatable, even normal questions get twisted into absurdity, it’s toxic.

Seeing her lose the will to ask questions, Mu Qiu snapped her fingers, glanced at the time on her lift wristband, and tilted her chin: "There’s still a minute and a half, does anyone else want to interact with me during this chance? We don’t have to discuss literature; life is a good topic too."

Who else would ask questions?

Under his teammates’ signals, Wei Yi stood up with a raised hand: "I’ll ask a question."

"This person..." she mimicked the posture of pushing glasses down to the tip of her nose for a better look, her voice dragged out as she tried to recall his name, "Victor Tolstoyevsky, someone with such a trendy name, are you really one of my readers?"

Wei Yi looked down at the encouragement from fans in the comments, contemplating as he stuttered a response to Mu Qiu: "I was drawn in by your book, ’Overbearing CEO, Don’t: Sweet Wife’s Ninety-Nine Escapes’..."

Mu Qiu: "......" What’s with the ninety-nine escapes?

"What did he ask, powder puff?"

The "secretary" Qiu Shuang was also dumbfounded, not knowing how to gesture an explanation.

Guan Yu surprisingly understood it all, though she shouldn’t have. So she could only endure it, but who could really hold it in?

She could only pout and try to control herself, unfortunately, her facial muscles and nerves weren’t cooperating, and her pouted lips quickly failed with a quick laugh.

"Hahahahahahahahahahahaha I can’t take it anymore! I can’t hold back! How many escapes for the sweet wife?"

Electronic voice: "Guan Yu violated the control lock once, deducting one point!"

"Hahahahahahahahahaha wait till I finish this laugh!"

Mu Qiu was speechless.

Wei Yi was also speechless, he had come to make things difficult for Mu Qiu, but inadvertently caused his team to lose a point.

And if it weren’t for the timely electronic voice, he would have joined Guan Yu in laughing out loud.

By the time Guan Yu finished her long hearty laugh, the area was filled with laughing cripples, blind people, and staff; even the mute wanted to join in the fun but could only laugh silently, excluded from the "privileged" vocal group.

Throughout, only Mu Qiu and Li Yang weren’t laughing because Mu Qiu had covered Li Yang’s ears, and her ears were covered by Qiu Shuang.

Except for Guan Yu’s genuinely outrageous laughter that could be faintly heard, the two of them couldn’t make out any other sounds.

Li Yang figured his ears were about to be pressed back into his brain, trying hard to pry Mu Qiu’s hands off.

But Mu Qiu wouldn’t let go.

How could she let go? Their team had already lost three points back-to-back, if they continue losing, they’ll be demoted to temporary NPCs on site, which would be too embarrassing, something that absolutely cannot happen.

And just a little strength is not enough to hold down a rebellious youngster, so she not only didn’t release but silently added a bit of force.

Li Yang’s face was getting pinched into a new shape.

Although challenging, this manual deafening was quite effective; the opposing side lost points while they hadn’t lost any, really not bad.

Kudos to Zi Lenghuan falling in love with me, Tantai Tieniu are you scared yet, double thumbs up.

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ps: [Good News]

Let me clarify this is not a word count filler, the count is actually sufficient, I’m just worried putting it in the author’s notes will get swallowed by the system, hmph.

The good news is, as per new editor notification, on February 6th we’re featured, with an over 30,000 word surge coming at midnight February 7th (tentatively, changes will be notified), guys! The huge update you’ve been waiting for is finally coming!!! (grabs you and shakes vigorously.gif)