I’ve Gone Viral Because of a Money-Saving Variety Show

[Indeed, someone did help Chen Xixi with the work, and it’s already done hahaha!]
[Wait until Zheng He comes out of the warehouse, he’ll probably cry hahahahaha!]
[Chen Xixi really did no work at all, and yet she finished all the work hahahahahaha!]
Inside the warehouse, Zheng He quickly sorted out the parcels and rushed out of the warehouse the first chance he got.
He had just run to the warehouse entrance when he excitedly shouted to the host: “I’ve succeeded in the challenge!”
The host glanced at Zheng He, then walked over to the empty vehicle, picked up the megaphone and announced: “I hereby declare that the first guest to complete the challenge is—”
As the host’s voice rose, it instantly captured the attention of all guests; everyone stopped what they were doing and looked up towards the host, wondering who could have finished so quickly.
Zheng He wiped the sweat off his face with his hand, lifted his chin, and walked proudly towards the host, waiting for the moment his name would be announced.
The next second, the host excitedly announced the name of the guest: “Chen Xixi!”
Zheng He: “!!”
What the heck did he just hear?
Chen Xixi hadn’t lifted a finger from start to finish, she was even too lazy to move, just sitting by the vehicle side; how could she possibly win?!
Zheng He’s brain buzzed twice and, upon seeing Chen Xixi, who was standing obediently next to the host with an innocent and harmless smile, his brain buzzed four more times.
What is going on with this darn girl!
Zheng He quickly walked toward where the host stood; as he walked, he anxiously began: “Host! It was me who succeeded in the challenge! I just switched vehicles with Chen Xixi…”
He was about to point to the nameplate he had switched, but then he discovered… the nameplate next to the empty vehicle actually had Chen Xixi’s name on it!
Zheng He thought he was hallucinating from having worked so hard and blinked his eyes shut, then opened them wide again. The three characters that drove him mad were still there!
He looked at Chen Xixi and roared without regard to his image: “Didn’t you just agree to swap vehicles with me!”
“I never said the word ‘agree’ from beginning to end, and besides, didn’t you insist on doing the work for me? It just so happens that you did mine first, and now you should hurry up and do your own.
With that large vehicle full of parcels, it looks like it might take four or five hours to move them all, and if you don’t finish, you’re going to be hungry.”
Chen Xixi blinked her eyes, clear and bright, brimming with laughter. She lifted her hand, clenched a fist, and encouraged: “Hard work pays off, keep going～”
Encourage my ass! Keep going, Zheng He felt like he was going to lose his mind!
He had already been toiling away for nearly three hours with a growling stomach, unable to muster any strength due to the soreness from only eating two pieces of fruit at noon, and continuing like this wasn’t just a work challenge, it was a challenge to the very limits of his life!
Right now, he felt a profound regret!
He shouldn’t have gone to Chen Xixi to switch in the first place, he should have picked Han Qianyi, who was easier to bully!
As a result, not only did he work for nothing but also let Chen Xixi, this darn girl, take a huge advantage. He was not willing to accept that!
The more Zheng He thought about it, the more his mentality began to collapse. He changed his previously kind facade of burying the hatchet with Chen Xixi, frowned towards the host, and unwillingly said: “She didn’t do any work at all; she just switched a nameplate. Can you really count that as her winning?”
Chen Xixi calmly crossed her arms over her chest, “The production team did not say you can’t help, nor did they say the guest had to participate throughout the whole process. Besides, if I could switch the nameplate, that’s also a skill of mine.
Moreover, when you just said you wanted to help me, it wasn’t with the face you’re making now. Didn’t you say I was beautiful and kind-hearted, and you couldn’t bear to see me do the heavy work, and even said ‘we’re all in this together’? Now that you see I’ve actually won, why are you getting anxious? It seems you weren’t really sincere about helping me after all!”
[Oh my! Chen Xixi knew everything! I thought she was cursed just now!]
[If Zheng He really wanted to help Chen Xixi, why was he anxious just now? Obviously, he was pretending to be looking out for Chen Xixi, trying to take advantage of her and trick Chen Xixi! Pah! Despicable man! Shameless!]
[But it’s not necessarily so, anyone would be upset if they saw their hard work being snagged by someone else, right?]
“But Zheng He is no ordinary man, if he could just settle down, my ex-boyfriend and I would walk on our hands!”
His sly thoughts exposed, Zheng He was momentarily at a loss. However, thanks to his previous failed attempts to trick Chen Xixi, he quickly regained his composure.
Zheng He was so frustrated he almost laughed. Gritting his teeth, he shamelessly looked at Chen Xixi and said, “I helped you, so when we swap supplies later, you have to cut me in.”
After all, he couldn’t let his hard work go unpaid!
Even if Chen Xixi took the credit, she had to cough up some profit for him!
Chen Xixi’s gaze shifted past him, her lips curving slightly: “I can cut you in, but you’ll need the chance to use it, won’t you?”
No sooner had Chen Xixi finished speaking than a serious and familiar voice entered Zheng He’s ears: “Zheng He, please come with us.”
Zheng He stiffened immediately: “!!!”
Why “come with us” again!
Why do the police keep singling him out!
He turned around and looked at the two police officers behind him, frowning slightly: “Come on, with so many criminals out there, why are you always picking on me, a good citizen?”
Besides, he hadn’t broken the law in the last five hours!
He’d been honestly moving parcels in the program, not stealing them.
Could it be that there’s been new development in that morning’s alleged donation scam?
The police looked at him with very complicated expressions: “You alone are enough to keep us busy!”
The police couldn’t figure it out – how could one person be involved in so many cases?
Ever since Zheng He came to Hai City, the Hai City Police Department’s KPI had shot up a lot. Moreover, their leaders had given orders: under no circumstances let anything happen to Zheng He on their watch, otherwise it would become a huge joke for the Hai City Police Department. Not only would the Jiang City Police Station, who had just managed to tough it out, laugh at them, but the whole internet would mock them!
The consequences would be too severe!
Zheng He: “…” You don’t have to keep busy with me!
“Ah? Why is Zheng He being taken away again?”
“Hahaha, I’m dying! Zheng He is about to be a regular at the police station!”
“He just left the police station in the morning and is back in the afternoon. Zheng He really doesn’t give the cops a break!”
“It feels like Zheng He has some sort of secret mission, constantly delivering KPI to the cops hahaha!”
“Maybe it’s the fruit basket thing. After all, buying a fruit basket for two yuan and ninety-nine cents just seems so odd. I’m really curious, how did he pull it off?”
The police officer asked, “Where’s the fruit basket you bought at Bida Mall around noon?”
Zheng He’s liver trembled. How could he have forgotten about the fruit basket?
But surely this minor matter wasn’t enough to cause a police stir?
Plus, he’d been stealthy about it. He turned off the live stream when he paid. He was so clever!
Moreover, the supermarket sells so much each day, who would notice how much a fruit basket sold for?
So how on earth was he found out?
Faced with the police’s fierce and authoritative aura, Zheng He’s eyes drifted, and he spoke somewhat guiltily: “It’s with the program team.”
“Bring your fruit basket!”