Chapter 217: Chapter 217: An Emaciated Destined One

The first half of this broadcast was filmed live at a hotel within the Yuntuo Airport.

Since the location for the offline live broadcast was quite far, traveling by high-speed rail would be too cumbersome, and the airport was outside the city, the production team opted for this compromise. The hotel was located within the terminal, allowing them to depart directly for boarding after recording at noon.

This type of convenient hotel was considered quite user-friendly, the only issue, of course, being its cost. However, for the Gu family, this was the least of their concerns.

Yaoyao spent a comfortable night. The next day, an assistant brought over equipment to set up. These individuals were carefully selected by the production team, skilled in their craft, and had the workstation ready in less than ten minutes.

“Thank you, Big Brother!” Yaoyao politely thanked them.

Unexpectedly, this thank-you caused the latter’s fair, handsome face to flush crimson, and his voice became somewhat stammering.

“Master… you… you’re too kind. You… please proceed with your work. If you need anything, just call me; I’ll be right outside the door.”

With that, without waiting for Yaoyao’s reaction, he scurried out in a rush, almost tripping and falling headfirst midway due to his haste.

This left Yaoyao a little bewildered. She couldn’t help but murmur to herself, “Am I that scary?”

Gu Yu was close by and naturally heard everything clearly. He chuckled, “It has nothing to do with whether you’re scary or not.”

Most likely, the abilities his sister displayed last time had left too deep an impression on the latter, causing him to feel reverence. Therefore, he didn’t dare to accept such a courtesy.

Gu Yu smiled faintly. “Alright, let him be. The live broadcast is starting!”

There was no need to try and dissuade such people from their thoughts, let alone whether it would be easy to do so. The relationship simply wasn’t that close yet.

“Mm-hmm!” Yaoyao nodded upon hearing this, no longer overthinking, and sat down at the live broadcast workstation.

“Hello everyone, I’m your Yaoyao, and I’m very happy to meet you all again in the live stream!”

She softly greeted the screen, then quickly scanned it, finding that the number of viewers in the live stream had already surpassed nine hundred thousand. Following that, a dense barrage of colorful bullet comments flooded her vision.

[Ahhhhh, I’m here again to watch Master’s live broadcast. This variety show is just too perfect! The director knows what we want!]

[Strongly suggest to the director, two episodes per week! That way, my daily show for dinner will be settled!]

[Support! I raise both hands and feet in support! Ooh woof woof woof (monkey going wild.jpg).]

“Wow, so many people!” Yaoyao’s beautiful grape-like eyes filled with surprise upon seeing such a lively scene. It had been less than ten minutes since the broadcast pre-warming began.

“The number of viewers has met the target, so let’s begin. Let’s directly invite the first destined one arranged by the production team!”

Yaoyao also disliked dilly-dallying. Seeing that the broadcast was proceeding normally, she immediately cut to the chase. Since the destined ones were found by the production team in advance, it was more convenient than randomly selecting people during her own broadcast.

Yaoyao clicked to connect, and soon the live stream was linked, with the screen splitting into two. Then, the appearance of the first destined one was revealed in the live broadcast.

The moment the latter appeared, all the netizens gasped, not because the person looked extraordinarily shocking, but primarily because she was shockingly emaciated!

Her arms were like withered branches, her skin shriveled, and atop her wrist-thick neck, rested a “gigantic” head. At first glance, it was unsettling, making one fear that her neck might snap under the weight of her head.

The destined one’s body was so disproportionate that her facial features were even more striking. Her mouth almost took up half of her sharply pointed face, her eyeballs bulged, and her eyelids were deeply sunken. Looking directly at someone like that inexplicably sent shivers down one’s spine.

[Holy cow, I’d believe it if you told me this was a mummy.]

[Is this really how thin a normal person can get? I feel like this destined one could croak at any moment!]

[Quick, quick, Master, save her! This is definitely anorexia from dieting too much.]

Seeing the situation of the destined one, the netizens were horrified but also began to speculate about the cause. As for these speculations? They were quite reasonable.

However, the destined one did not respond. Instead, she stared straight at the little girl in front of her and spoke in a hoarse voice.

“Hello, Master. Can… can you tell what’s wrong with me?”

Clearly, the netizens’ speculations were completely wrong, otherwise, she wouldn’t have asked such a rhetorical question.

At this moment, Yaoyao was also observing her. Her gaze fell upon the shadowy aura between the latter’s eyebrows, and she began to calculate with her fingers. When she spoke again, her voice was indescribably heavy.

“Big sister, if I haven’t guessed wrong, not only did you not diet as the big brothers and sisters in the live stream suggested.”

“On the contrary, you eat a lot every meal, don’t you? But you just don’t gain weight, is that right?”

“You… you actually figured it out?”

Upon hearing this, the destined one trembled all over, and an incredulous look instantly appeared in her eyes. Because her situation was indeed just as the Master had said: not only had she not reduced her food intake or become anorexic, but she had actually been binge eating.

Yet, strangely, her weight had been dropping at an alarming rate every day, as if she were dehydrating. In just two months, she had lost over a hundred catties. If she continued to lose weight, she would truly die.

This was why she had no choice but to seek help from the production team. The production team originally wanted to find some unscientific cases. The destined one’s situation was completely unexplainable by medical students, so she was naturally selected at a glance.

Due to the urgency of her condition, the director was well aware of the capabilities of the guests. In his opinion, perhaps only the live stream of the Gu family siblings had the potential to truly save the destined one’s life, so he naturally arranged for her to come secretly.

“You… can you tell me what’s going on? I… I don’t want to die, boo-hoo-hoo!”

The destined one didn’t know about the director’s “good intentions” behind the scenes. Her eyes were currently red. Perhaps because her body was too weak, she couldn’t even shed tears. And she was so agitated because Yaoyao was the first person to actively guess that she wasn’t anorexic. This undoubtedly gave her immense hope, as she was still so young and didn’t want to die so quickly.

Facing the destined one’s fervent and earnest gaze, Yaoyao paused, then slowly said, “Little sister, before your body started acting up, did you take a period of ’medicine’?”

“The kind that advertised a hundred percent efficacy?”

Yaoyao was thoughtful, fearing the latter might not recall, so she added a detailed description.

With this description, memories instantly clicked in the destined one’s mind, and she nodded along.

“Yes, I did take it, but the dosage wasn’t large. After losing over ten catties, I didn’t dare to take it anymore.”

“But doctors also tested it, and there were no illegal or harmful substances in the medicine.”

The destined one replied. Actually, she had suspected before that she had taken fake medicine. But the test results from several top-tier hospitals dispelled that notion, as the results showed that the pills contained only conventional ingredients. Therefore, the destined one hadn’t immediately thought of this matter.

“Could it be that there’s some undetectable ingredient in that medicine?”

The destined one paused, her gaze shifting over. Clearly, it wasn’t just a casual remark for the Master to bring this up. Thus, her expression became somewhat incredulous. After all, she hadn’t just checked one top-tier hospital, but five or six. Surely all the machines couldn’t have malfunctioned!

Yaoyao saw her expression and knew that she still didn’t believe it, but the truth was, there was something in it. The reason it couldn’t be detected was because what was added wasn’t some kind of drug, but rather ashes.

The ashes of a starved ghost!

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