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

Chen Xixi’s ’Thoughtfulness’ and Zhou Jinyuan’s ’Arrangements’ worked well for Xu Mu.
He walked to a nearby rock to lean on, looking up at Chen Xixi and Zhou Jinyuan with a hint of a smile in his eyes: "Okay, thank you."
Chen Xixi’s mouth curled in a familiarly friendly way, speaking amicably: "Why be polite, we are all one..."
Before she could finish the word "one", the man beside her interrupted in a deep voice: "Let’s go, hurry and do the task."
Zhou Jinyuan raised his hand to lightly rest it on the other shoulder of hers, exerting a little force to turn her body around, signaling her to hurry on.
"Huh? I wasn’t finished speaking!"
Full of question marks, Chen Xixi was about to look back at Zhou Jinyuan, but as if anticipating her next move, his hand reached over from behind her shoulder, pinching the sides of her cheeks to prevent her from turning her head.
Then, she heard the man’s cool voice over her head: "You’re done talking, let’s go."
"????" Which part of that looked like she had finished talking?
Effortlessly, Chen Xixi was led away by Zhou Jinyuan.
After putting some distance between them and Xu Mu, Chen Xixi looked sideways at the man beside her, puzzled: "You seem really unwilling for me to talk to him?"
"Talk? What do you want to say? Say that we are all family?" Zhou Jinyuan glanced at her.
Lush branches and leaves adorned the trees next to the stone steps, and a branch from the lowest point of a wild jujube tree happened to reach the top of Chen Xixi’s head.
Just as Chen Xixi was about to duck, he reached out to lift the branch higher, his tone playful: "Your family does seem rather extensive, all under heaven are kin, aren’t they?"
With the obstruction above her head gone, Chen Xixi looked up and continued walking forward, blinking innocently: "We have a common mother, so of course, we are all family!"
"..."
[What?! This is explosive! Chen Xixi, Zhou Jinyuan, and Xu Mu have a common mother!!]
[Holy smokes! Did I just overhear some deep-seated secret of the rich and powerful? It’s my first time catching such high-society drama live, I’m so thrilled!]
[Lovers turned siblings? No, aren’t you three on a romance reality show to find partners? What a mess!]
[OMG! Going by that, doesn’t that make Chen Xixi... a secret daughter of a wealthy family?]
[Is it possible that by ’common mother’ Chen Xixi is referring to the Motherland, haha!]
[Why do I feel like President Zhou is jealous, haha!]
Zhou Jinyuan let go of the branch, dusting off his hands: "I don’t like having that many relatives."
Chen Xixi suddenly stopped walking, tilting her head to scrutinize the expression on Zhou Jinyuan’s face, half-jokingly asking: "You’re not jealous, are you?"
Zhou Jinyuan gave a casual laugh, also stopping in his tracks, his gaze landing on her face: "Xu Mu’s partner might get jealous, but yours certainly doesn’t."
"You’re lying."
Zhou Jinyuan’s eyebrows rose with interest.
Speaking with confidence, Chen Xixi said: "During the Stomach King competition, I saw you pour quite a lot of vinegar!"
"Don’t mention it."
Just the thought of that dumpling was too much for him.
That last Stomach King competition had left him with a pavlovian response to anything with a filling.
He hadn’t even glanced at this morning’s steamed buns.
Chen Xixi expressed her disbelief: "Have you not gotten over it?"
Zhou Jinyuan pinched the bridge of his nose, "Thanks to you, it may take a lifetime to heal."
"..." Chen Xixi promptly shut her mouth.
If she didn’t keep quiet, she suspected this man would try to pin something on her.
Even though she did need to take some responsibility, she felt that her capabilities might not be enough to bear Boss Zhou’s burdens.
So, she wisely chose to evade for a while.
Walking quietly for a while, she suddenly remembered something, "Why are you walking with me?"
"My direction is under maintenance. To get to that scenic area, I have to detour via your route."
Chen Xixi nodded in understanding.
She thought Zhou Jinyuan was so infatuated with his ’childhood friend’ that he couldn’t bear to be apart for a bit.
When passing by a natural waterfall scenic area, Chen Xixi found Han Qianyi’s task.
She took out her phone, snapped a photo of the waterfall from a distance, and sent it to the small group of four. Han Qianyi sent back an audio message, surprised by her speed and promising to help her complete the task before returning together!
Chen Xixi’s photo clue was a naturally formed rock, which posed quite a high difficulty level.
In such a place, rocks were everywhere, and to find one that was an exact match in this vast mountain was like finding a needle in a haystack.
But this was Chen Xixi we’re talking about!
"This way of searching isn’t working," Chen Xixi said as she sat down on what looked like a clean stair step to rest for a bit.
Zhou Jinyuan didn’t care whether the step was clean or not and sat down beside Chen Xixi.
With plain white shoes on the steps below, he casually propped his elbow on his knee, looking into the distance, "Indeed."
Suddenly, Chen Xixi had an idea; she took out her phone, opened a website, and clicked on the image recognition feature.
In about two or three seconds, a multitude of similar images appeared.
Even if the show crew had set this task, they probably wouldn’t send someone to climb the mountains to look for scenery, because that would mean the crew would have to expend too much manpower.
Moreover, in the era of the internet, anything you want to find can be found online.
So, she deduced that the photos prepared by the crew were all from the internet. They would pick a few photos with a high difficulty level, print them out, and crop them to create clues for the guests.
If she could find the original image of the clue in her hands, then she could use the information on the original to find the exact location to take the snapshot check-in.
Searching online was much easier than climbing all over the mountains!
Soon, Chen Xixi matched the original photo!
"Found it!" Chen Xixi’s lips curled into a triumphant smile.
"Pretty quick," Zhou Jinyuan complimented, then turned his phone around and handed it to Chen Xixi, "I found mine too."
Chen Xixi immediately stood up, and the two went first to Chen Xixi’s scenic spot to check in, and then to Zhou Jinyuan’s.
Zhou Jinyuan’s scenic spot was a characteristic guesthouse located halfway up the mountain.
The guesthouse’s overall design was a retro wooden structure, looking like cabins, which gave a real sense of vacationing in the wilderness.
However, Zhou Jinyuan’s photo required entering the guesthouse to take it.
But you can’t enter freely into the guesthouse’s interior without paying.
Strictly speaking, the accommodation fee for the guesthouse also included the cost of the man-made scenery inside.
For Chen Xixi, it was like a ticket fee.
Wanting to go in and enjoy the scenery or take pictures for free was definitely out of the question.
Chen Xixi glanced at the lowest room price... 238 yuan?
That’s a bit too uneconomical just to take a photo!
Chen Xixi shifted her gaze away from the price list, looking towards the cashier at the bar with a cunning smile, "Pretty sister, we’re not staying for a whole day, just ten minutes. Can we pay just for ten minutes..."
The cashier’s gaze lingered on Zhou Jinyuan and Chen Xixi, growing peculiar.
These two, dressed in couple’s outfits, were clearly a pair of young lovers.
A couple booking a room just for ten minutes was a first for her.
This guy is handsome but so cheap in reality?
Is he stingy with money, or is he not up to the task physically?