Chapter 521: Chapter 3: After Divorce, the Cannon Fodder Joins a Romance Variety Show (Part 3)

This little episode had no impact on Jiang Lai. She returned home to cook; having left the restaurant without a bite, she now felt as if her stomach was twisted with hunger.

In the original owner’s fridge, there was nothing but sugar-free soda water and multigrain bread, not a single thing with a homely touch. In the end, Jiang Lai found a box of nearly expired eggs and a handful of scallions at the bottom of the fridge.

She made herself a meal of scrambled eggs with multigrain bread. After eating, a strong feeling of satiety washed over her.

This sensation was something the original owner hadn’t experienced in a very long time. So after Jiang Lai was full, she felt a sense of happiness that was long overdue.

In the original storyline, Jiang Lai had already started fasting at this stage, eating only two meals a day, strictly controlling the calories of each. Breakfast was two cucumbers, lunch an apple and a slice of bread, dinner consisted of water.

She had maintained this lifestyle for nearly six months.

All because the Domineering President suddenly frowned one day and asked her a question.

“As an actress, don’t you manage your figure?”

After that, the original owner began to lose weight frantically.

Standing at 1.7 meters tall, now only weighing 88 pounds, just that exceptional face could still be looked at. But as soon as you looked below the neck, she was nothing more than a skeleton.

Her limbs, though slender, had no fleshiness. The previously proud chest now barely had a curve, and her legs were as thin as two chopsticks.

The price of being overly thin was low blood sugar, brittle bones that could fracture with the slightest slip, and her body was covered in bruises from minor bumps.

Even though she was this harsh on herself, a leading role in an art film that was already set was quickly replaced by another actress, the leading lady Shang Qingrao, after the dating show aired.

Of course, the reason behind this was the manipulation of the Domineering President, but standing the original owner and the leading lady together—one dry and thin, the other slender and graceful—the original owner’s replacement was unsurprising.

Considering this, Jiang Lai raised her hand to look at her weak little arm, feeling no strength at all, wasting such a rare face.

The next shoot of the dating show was in five days.

Each episode of the dating show is presented to everyone in both live and recorded formats. They shoot one episode per week, with different filming locations each time, but the guests remain the same.

With nothing else to do, Jiang Lai wouldn’t let her mind wander like the original owner did. So she went downstairs to buy a packet of snacks, then took out her computer to watch the previous episode of the show while snacking.

Unlike the live broadcast, the recorded version of Jiang Lai looked even more detestable and abhorrent.

Because of the editing, many of Jiang Lai’s actions appeared without logic. For instance, in the first episode’s game segment, the losing team had to have the male guest carry the female guest blindfolded along a straight line.

The male guest partner Zhou Luo, unhappy about losing the game, kept verbally attacking Jiang Lai during the punishment segment. Although his tone wasn’t very harsh, it was full of complaints.

“Why couldn’t you think straight at that moment?”

“Oh my god, you’re seriously dumb.”

“Oh my god, are these problems hard? Just skip the multiples of three, right? Your brain is really something else!”

The original owner endured silently.

Everyone else laughed it off as just a joke.

When the camera turned and the live broadcast started, Zhou Luo picked up the original owner and joked with a smile, “Oh my god, so heavy.”

With his previous words combined with the surrounding laughter that didn’t take it seriously and the subtle flirtation of the Domineering President and the leading lady, Jiang Lai collapsed instantly.

She cried right then and there, and everyone rushed to comfort her. Zhou Luo himself looked puzzled, as if he didn’t know why she was crying.

Everyone insisted it was just a joke.

But Zhou Luo’s earlier comments weren’t recorded in the live broadcast.

The recorded version also directly edited them out.

So to the audience, Jiang Lai seemed to have lost the game herself and couldn’t take the loss, taking a joke seriously, crying hypocritically, and making everyone coax her.

The screen was filled with insults.

[Hypocrite, get lost]

[Damn, this woman is really disgusting]

[Can you cut Jiang Lai out? I really don’t want to see her]

[Poor Brother Luo, why partner with someone like this]

[Really hate people who can’t take a joke and cry, I’d punch them to bits if I saw them in real life!!]

Even though the insults were directed toward her, Jiang Lai read them with a blank face.

With such editing, the original owner really did seem pretentious, but the love and hate on the internet are magnified, with people cursing her entire family as if Jiang Lai had actually harmed them.

But thinking about it, back then, Jiang Lai and the Domineering President were a family too, so he wouldn’t escape from it either.

With this thought, Jiang Lai felt better.

She insisted on finishing watching the recorded broadcast, and Jiang Lai didn’t skimp on herself for dinner, going shopping in the supermarket alone, buying fine fresh meat and vegetables, and even bought a grill pan, finally taking home a case of beer.

She prepared a delicate and ceremonial one-person dinner, allowing her appetite to increase significantly.

After eating and drinking to her fill, Little Buding finally issued her a task.

“The task contains two parts:

First, make all the scumbags regret.

Second, destroy the leading lady’s strategy system.”

“Destroy? What do you mean?”

“The leading lady’s strategy system is a world bug, an illegal system with no security verification, so it must be eliminated. Your task this time is not only saving the cannon fodder but also fixing the world bug. The difficulty is not low, good luck.”

Jiang Lai was thoughtful, then asked again.

“All scumbags? More than one?”

“Yes, you will also encounter scumbags in the dating show, handle them as you see fit.”

“And what about skills?”

Little Buding chose to remain silent.

Jiang Lai pressed on relentlessly.

“Don’t play dead, you didn’t give me anything in the last world, hurry up.”

Little Buding really had nothing worthwhile to give, so after searching from corner to corner, finally found something.

“Here, here, here, no need to draw lots, I’ll just give it to you.”

Previously, it used to have a little ceremony. Now, there was no need for ceremony, just directly giving it.

“Congratulations, you’ve acquired the Physique MAX skill!”

Jiang Lai glanced at it and nodded.

Well, one is better than none, given that it’s a freebie.

In five days, Jiang Lai didn’t log into any social media, didn’t chat with anyone. It wasn’t until the morning of the fifth day, an hour before filming began, that Jiang Lai turned on her phone.

Numerous messages flooded in, and the phone chimed endlessly.

Among them was a message from the Domineering President, the same old story, telling her to quit the show to avoid further negative attention.

Without hesitation, Jiang Lai deleted and blocked the entire set, making her phone instantly cleaner.

Most of the other messages were sent by her agent, Sister Fang.

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