Overprotected By My Tsundere CEO

Chapter 809 - 521: On the Road [11] Loulanel Project, A Corner Revealed

The two standard rooms prepared for the guests were both arranged on the second floor.

According to the show’s arrangement, naturally, Clement Winter and Nelson would share one room, and Nora Scott and Valeria Young would share the other.

But, they miscalculated with Oliver Scott and Marcus Shaw, those two overprotective brother types.

— To be precise, they were worried that Nora would lose her patience with Valeria’s constant chatter and end up doing something drastic, leading not only to the scrapping of the show but also a visit to the police station.

When the doors to the two standard rooms were opened, Oliver let them look around, dutifully playing the role of the helper, "Here are the two rooms, you can choose for yourselves."

Nelson glanced at Nora and Valeria, "Ladies first."

Valeria instantly surveyed the two rooms and chose the one with the best view. After placing her hiking bag down, she came out to Nora and said, "Nora, we’ll stay in this room."

She made the decision herself and merely informed Nora, without asking for Nora’s opinion.

Nora raised an eyebrow.

Marcus lightly tugged on Nora’s sleeve, and when her gaze swept over, he shook his head slightly.

"Then we’ll take this one."

Nelson didn’t say a word, quickly choosing the other room.

Clement greeted Nora and then followed Nelson into the room, starting to tidy up and prepare their gear.

Seeing everyone head to their rooms, Oliver edged closer to Nora and whispered, "Sis, over here."

Program crew: !!! This handsome little brother, dare you challenge their authority!

An assistant stepped forward, intending to explain that there were only two rooms available. But before he could speak, Marcus shot him a cold glance, and he immediately shut his mouth.

He looked toward the director behind the scenes for help.

The director waved a hand, indicating: let’s wait and see.

Given Nora’s status, they didn’t really want to offend her. Moreover, all along the journey, Nora hadn’t acted like a diva and was very easy to get along with. Compared to Valeria, who you could roughly consider to be fading into obscurity, Nora’s experience as a guest was immeasurably better.

Thus, the show’s team was actually not opposed to adjusting the rules and adding unexpected twists for Nora.

Marcus and Oliver took Nora to the third floor and chose a single room with the best environment.

Opening the door, Oliver scratched his nose and smiled at Nora, "Sis, this is where you’ll stay."

Nora glanced at the program crew.

Oliver then turned his head and said to the director and his crew, "We’ll pay for my sister’s single room, is that okay?"

The program crew deliberated for over ten seconds, and finally, the director spoke, "That’s fine."

After all, the selling point of the interaction among the three siblings was far better than the prospect of Nora and Valeria cohabitating.

As a travel show, their original intention wasn’t to generate topics by causing guest conflicts.

Nora raised her eyebrows, satisfied. When she saw Oliver reaching out, she casually took off her hiking bag and tossed it to Oliver.

However, the moment Oliver lifted the bag, he nearly strained his hand. Shocked, he looked up, "Sis, why is your bag so heavy?"

Nora walked inside, saying casually, "Your brother-in-law packed it."

"Spoiling-husband fanatic."

Oliver muttered, dragging the heavy backpack inside.

The requirements for the guests were to tidy the room, change the sheets, and do the cleaning. However, since Marcus and Oliver were there, these tasks didn’t fall to Nora. She just stood there quietly and beautifully, and the two brothers would help with everything.

Oh no, to be accurate — it was the diligent and capable Marcus.

After all, Oliver was a pampered young master, happy to do chores but not with hands suited for such work.

After fumbling with the sheets for quite a while, he shouted, "Bro, how do you put on the duvet?!"

"..."

Marcus walked over with a dark face.

After bumping into the furniture several times while dusting, he shouted, "Bro!"

Marcus threw him out of the room with a dark face.

To all this, Nora was used to it, while the program crew was thoroughly entertained, wishing they had installed cameras in the single room ahead of time to capture every scene.

The two brothers doted on Nora;

Brother Shaw doted on Oliver.

Tsk tsk tsk.

What a harmonious blended family...

When it airs, it’s bound to make the children of many blended families envious.

Oh, Nora also showed off her love, regularly feeding the audience a bit of romance. —The romance on "Escape Room" has sparked a wave of interest, with many curious about the man behind Nora.

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Marcus took care of the entire room’s cleaning and tidying, not taking long, at least by the time the three siblings headed to the second floor, Valeria, Clement, and Nelson hadn’t finished their work.

Valeria found out the two brothers changed Nora to a single room and was incredibly envious, seeing them and chatting for a while before calling Marcus and Oliver, "Hey, can one of you help me with my duvet cover?"

"Sorry, I can’t."

Oliver very sincerely refused.

Valeria looked at Marcus.

Marcus said expressionlessly: "Honestly, just throwing the cover over the duvet is no different."

Valeria: "..."

The crew: "..."

Please refuse a bit more sincerely!

Marcus and Nora are both blunt and aren’t afraid of offending people, if they don’t want to do something, no matter how nicely the other party asks, it won’t change their mind, so Marcus’ refusal was genuine, leaving no extra words for Valeria, and coldly heading downstairs first.

Nora and Oliver slowly followed behind, without any intention of comforting Valeria.

Valeria was absolutely infuriated by the three of them.

No wonder they’re siblings! They’re all birds of a feather!

...

Nora and her siblings were having tea on the first floor.

Since they wanted to talk about personal matters, they temporarily got the crew’s approval not to be filmed.

"Why’d you come here?"

Clearing out others, Nora directly asked.

Actually, the crew arranged a pretty good route, cycling and hiking to appreciate the unique local landscape. However, for Marcus and Oliver visiting the Northwest for the first time, it would make sense to check out popular landmarks instead; this remote route wouldn’t typically be considered.

Especially, they’re working as clerks at Eli Linfield’s guesthouse.

Everything seems odd.

Clearing his throat, Oliver started: "This story is a long one..."

Nora flashed him a look of mocking amusement.

Oliver immediately said: "I’ll keep it brief."

Nora, not hoping Marcus would say anything, nodded with an "Mm."

After pondering, Oliver finally began the tale, "During summer break, the brother wanted to renovate his house, right?"

Nora nodded.

Marcus wanted to renovate his house according to the redesign that Evelyn made.

Nora even recommended the carpenter, Shaw, whom she’s always collaborated with, to Marcus.

"Before renovating, we organized all the stuff inside and moved them out. But while organizing his dad’s study, we found a pile of letters." At this point, Oliver paused and bitterly added, "Uncle secretly collected precious paintings and antiquities, yet the brother thought they were fake. Such wastage of treasure."

Complaining about Marcus to his face, Oliver made Marcus frown.

He hadn’t confirmed they were all fake; rather, he couldn’t tell their authenticity, and just didn’t care about his father’s collection.

—After all, Evelyn wouldn’t sell Mr. Shaw’s paintings despite being in financial straits, Marcus just assumed those paintings were worthless and kept them as mementos.

—His thinking was quite normal: who wouldn’t sell paintings worth a fortune to improve their life instead of treating lifeless paintings as treasures?

No matter how Oliver explained the value of those paintings afterward, Marcus couldn’t understand due to his worldview.

Nora rested her head on one hand, contemplating her family’s study where real and fake were indistinguishable, providing no comment on Marcus’s mentality.

Oliver continued explaining:

"The letters uncle left were all correspondence with one person, we were curious, so we opened them up."

"The sender was someone named ’Clarence’, in the letters he frequently mentioned a ’Loulanel Plan’. Since we only had the replies, we guessed from the contents that uncle was inquiring about the ’Loulanel Plan’ from Clarence, and Clarence said he didn’t know much, some information was classified and couldn’t be disclosed."

"Piecing together all the information, roughly it goes like this — over forty years ago, near the ancient city of Loulanel there was a project called the ’Loulanel Plan’, generally it involved establishing a Mechanism City. We don’t know if the project was completed or its purpose. These were things uncle hoped to find out."

"Brother and I were intrigued by this, so we wanted to follow the address to find ’Clarence’. Actually it’s been years, we didn’t have much hope."

"This trip’s purpose is precisely this. But many things happened on the way, delaying us, we only arrived here last night. —Oh, Clarence’s address is right here."

"However, when we inquired, we learned he had moved back to his hometown. We spent all morning trying to find his hometown address, in the end the guesthouse owner, Neil, told us he knew. But the condition he gave for telling us was that we work at the guesthouse for two days."

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