The assistant director had seen through everything.
But there was no way he was going to be kind enough to warn Director Dog-egg. After all, watching a colleague make a fool of himself was pretty entertaining, wasn’t it?
“Who knows? Anyway, I remember reminding you to go with them.”
“But someone said, ‘It’s so hot! There’s no way I’m going!’”
Two hours ago, Director Zhang had fired that shot. Now, the bullet had struck him right between the eyebrows, leaving him thoroughly exhausted.
“For the sake of the fact that we’ve been colleagues for more than ten years, can’t you at least comfort me a little?”
The assistant director shook his head, indicating that he absolutely could not.
Director Zhang could only turn away angrily and continue staring at the livestream, afraid that those little brats might get themselves into trouble.
He was completely blinded by his own situation!
Meanwhile, at the restaurant…
After Zhuang Zhiyao left, Liang Zhou edged closer to Xie Tangning. The two of them covered their microphones and began whispering to each other.
Xie Tangning: “How did we manage to finish ordering so smoothly? I have a really bad feeling about this!”
Liang Zhou: “Same here. Why did you have to torment that guy so badly?”
“I don’t know that dog of a man is incredibly vindictive? You can take all the punishment by yourself later!”
Xie Tangning: “As if you didn’t torment him just as much a moment ago. Once the food comes, you can eat my portion too!”
“I don’t really dare put anything that’s passed through their hands into my mouth!”
Liang Zhou: “Wow, am I some kind of masochist? It’s not like I’d dare eat it either!”
After their whispered exchange, the two of them nearly let out a collective wail. Their faces were already twisted into expressions of suffering.
They really couldn’t understand why they had made such a deranged decision two hours ago.
They had managed to hurt the enemy by eight hundred while injuring themselves by a thousand!
While they waited, three different “waiters” came over one after another to refill their tea and pour them water. The entire service was so attentive that the guests present kept exclaiming over how five-star service really was something else.
Everyone except Xie Tangning and Liang Zhou, that is. The only thing those two felt was a chill running down their spines.
They even took tiny, cautious sips of the tea, only daring to swallow after confirming it was safe.
The two of them knew their good friends’ evil streaks far too well.
After testing the tea twice and discovering that everything seemed normal, the two hapless victims finally let their raised hearts drop a tiny bit.
And by “tiny,” we mean about the size of a fingernail. They absolutely didn’t dare relax completely.
It felt as though a blade were constantly hanging over their heads. They were suffering terribly.
Meanwhile, in the kitchen, Qin Shuchun and the others were monitoring the situation of their two best friends through the livestream and the security cameras.
They were practically laughing themselves numb.
“Hahahaha! The way Xie Tangning has to worry that I might have slipped castor beans into her water every time she takes a sip is just too funny!”
Qin Shuchun was the sort of best friend who never hesitated to set up her bestie. She turned around and asked, “Is the cameraman ready? We have to properly record this historic moment when our good friends humiliate themselves!”
“Not a second can be missed. When we’re old, we can keep it as a record of our youthful days!”
Qin Zhe patted the video camera he had somehow produced from nowhere. “Don’t worry. I spent a fortune on this camera. The footage will be crystal clear!”
Shen Yunqiong held a plate of wasabi-coated shrimp balls, grinning like a villain. “Heh heh heh—the props are ready!”
These were the deluxe-version wasabi shrimp balls. One bite was enough to leave a person speechless, and they had been prepared especially for Monkey Bro.
Tan Xiao held a small chocolate cake that was obviously made with Xie Tangning in mind.
“Don’t worry. Half the filling is wasabi, and the other half is bitter melon sauce. I guarantee our dear Xie Xiaoning will remember the taste forever!”
“I even sprinkled matcha powder on top, so she won’t smell anything suspicious in advance!”
At that, Qin Shuchun bared her teeth and silently mourned for her bestie for three seconds. “Xie Tangning, good luck!”
Then she calmly took on the role of commander-in-chief.
“Excellent. My chefs, go out and serve the dishes!”
Shen Yunqiong placed the food in Tan Cen’s hands. “The rest is up to you, brother. I’ve already shown my face, so it wouldn’t be appropriate for me to appear in front of the audience again!”
“Go forth and complete the glorious mission assigned by your commanding officer!”
Tan Cen held the plate in one hand and brushed away the hand Shen Yunqiong had draped over his shoulder with the other. “Stop taking liberties. What makes you think you’re my commanding officer?”
“Useless idiot. Go stand over there!”
If he wanted to watch Monkey Bro’s misfortune, he would have to do it himself.
The actual head chef in the kitchen watched as this group of young men and women filed out with their carefully prepared dishes. He spared the guests eating outside three seconds of sympathy.
These people were truly ruthless!
Two or three of the dishes had been stir-fried by the head chef himself, but the ingredients added to them had been chosen by this shameless bunch.
The additions included, but were not limited to, concentrated bitter melon juice, concentrated lemon juice, wasabi sauce, and half a packet of salt.
The moment the head chef saw them adding those ingredients, it was as if several living Yamas of Hell had appeared before him.
It was like Satan waking up one morning to discover that he had dropped thousands of places on the rankings!
At the dining table, Xie Tangning and Liang Zhou watched as one familiar face after another approached them in a line. A chill began creeping up their backs.
That sensation reached its peak when they saw the bizarre smiles on everyone’s faces.
Xie Changyu noticed that his little sister had suddenly puffed up like an angry cat. Being the shameless person he was, how could he fail to guess that Xie Tangning was definitely in for a round of torment today?
His eyes rolled, and he immediately began speaking in an exaggeratedly sarcastic tone.
“Wow~ Thanks to our dear Xie Xiaoning, we get to enjoy such a wonderfully unusual feast today~”
“Be sure to eat plenty later, my beloved little sister~”
“Your brother can even feed you personally~ A brother as wonderful as me is hard to find, Xie Tangning, so you’d better cherish me. Got it?”
Xie Tangning: “…”
What a shameless idiot who loved watching other people suffer. She really wanted to elbow him and teach him how to behave.
The moment Tan Cen set down the plate of wasabi shrimp balls, Xie Tangning moved with lightning speed and shoved one into her brother’s mouth.
“The first bite of something delicious should always go to Big Brother~ I’ve never forgotten that, you know~”
“Is it good, Big Brother?”
As she spoke, she blinked her sparkling eyes at Xie Changyu, refusing to miss even the slightest change in his expression.
The sour, spicy, intensely stimulating flavor shot straight up into his skull. But for the sake of successfully pranking his beloved little sister, he forcibly suppressed the instinctive urge to spit it out.
He chewed with an expression of bliss. “It’s delicious. Hurry up and try one too!”
After saying that, he likewise moved with lightning speed, grabbed a shrimp ball, and shoved it straight into her mouth, giving the girl no chance to react.
Xie Tangning was left completely speechless, but with the principle that if you could trick one person, that was one person more than nothing, she kept her expression perfectly under control.
She displayed not the slightest hint of pain. In fact, she even looked as though she was enjoying it.
This made Monkey Bro briefly wonder whether his friends had been replaced by their better selves and had suddenly decided to start acting like decent human beings.
Driven by curiosity, he let down his guard completely and ate an entire shrimp ball.
The explosive flavor nearly sent him straight to the afterlife.
He truly admired those two siblings. To make sure someone else got caught in the trap, they had been willing to poison themselves first.
He was just about to change his expression and spit out the inedible lump in his mouth when Qin Zhe’s obnoxiously smug voice came from beside him.
“Sir, you’re our ninety-ninth customer today.”
“If you finish all the dishes on the table and find them absolutely delicious and completely satisfactory…”
“You can enjoy your meal on the house! It’s a limited-time opportunity—don’t miss it~”
“But if you try to skip out on the bill, just take a look at our security team.”
Everyone followed Qin Zhe’s pointing finger and looked in that direction.
