After the True Heiress Travels Back
Chapter 564: Why Should She Be Pitied?

Chapter 564: Chapter 564: Why Should She Be Pitied?

When the guests sought out the director for an explanation, the live streaming chat was equally bustling.

Some viewers sided with the guests, critiquing the director alongside them.

Chat:

"Let’s be real, isn’t the director going too far?"

"Are the human guests stripped of their rights just because they’re on the same side?"

"Why does Shi Yiqing, the vampire, get to resurrect after dying? Don’t tell me she’s bribed the production team?"

Seeing the live chat, the director personally intervened to respond, "Bribing is out of the question, don’t even think about it."

"If there’s no bribe, then why does Shi Yaoguang get one more chance to resurrect than others? That’s just not fair!"

"The game isn’t over yet, how can you say it’s not fair? Drawing any conclusion before the final moment is premature."

The director’s words fell on deaf ears.

They sounded like excuses, the truth surely couldn’t be that simple.

He must have been corrupted by the sweet bullets of capitalism.

Whether or not the director was corrupted by capitalism soon became apparent.

As it turned out, allowing Shi Yiqing to resurrect wasn’t entirely for Shi Yiqing’s benefit.

Looking at the bigger picture, Shi Yiqing wiped out the human guests and seemed to have achieved a great victory.

But...

The situation before the final step was fundamentally uncertain.

After all...

The essence of this production was the challenge.

How to challenge, what to challenge...

Only after the director’s true purpose was revealed, could anyone understand.

Fortunately, on the seventh day of the program, the mystery was soon solved.

It turned out...

The two guests on the vampire team were Shi Yiqing, who had already been exposed, and Shi Yaoguang.

Yes.

It was Shi Yaoguang, whom almost no one had doubted.

According to conventional thinking, with Shi Yiqing already being a vampire, there couldn’t possibly be a second vampire.

However.

The harsh truth was just that.

The reason the director resurrected Shi Yiqing wasn’t that he had any personal agenda or had taken a bribe from Shi Yiqing, but rather...

It was all orchestrated by Shi Yaoguang.

As a vampire, Shi Yaoguang had the power to turn humans into vampires.

The fact that she wanted to keep Shi Yiqing from dying too easily and even afford her a chance to resurrect was within her capability.

Shi Yiqing didn’t even know her resurrection was linked to Shi Yaoguang.

When the director resurrected her, he only told her it was a vampire’s innate skill.

He didn’t mention that this skill wasn’t hers but belonged to Shi Yaoguang.

So, oblivious to the truth, she was resurrected, all the while thinking she could compete with Shi Yaoguang.

The dream was grand, but reality slapped her hard across the face.

Upon learning the truth, she couldn’t help but confront Shi Yaoguang, "Did you do this on purpose?"

Shi Yaoguang raised an eyebrow, "What?"

"Why didn’t you tell me you were the vampire?"

Shi Yiqing glared at Shi Yaoguang resentfully, as if she had been deceived in body, heart, and soul.

Shi Yaoguang shrugged her shoulders with an innocent look, "I don’t see why I had to tell you I was the vampire."

"Besides..."

She paused, her face showing scorn, "Why would I tell you that I’m the vampire?"

Shi Yiqing’s face stiffened, but she quickly regained her confidence and scoffed, "You deliberately kept it from me just to laugh at me, right?"

"If that’s what you think, then I can only say, yes."

Shi Yaoguang finished with an air of agreement, then asked with genuine curiosity, "So, did I move you?"

"Huh," Shi Yiqing snorted coldly.

Moved my ass.

How could she possibly be moved?

Seeing her so ungrateful, Shi Yaoguang simply shrugged her shoulders, "I’ve said what I needed to say, if you can’t accept it, there’s nothing I can do about it."

Shi Yiqing clenched her fists, feeling that Shi Yaoguang was deliberately trying to make a fool of her.

Deliberately making her feel like she was the most formidable one.

She had been proud for so long, only to be told that what she took pride in was not what she had thought.

Her perceived victory was but a deliberate charity from Shi Yaoguang.

"I don’t need your pity! I will fight for what I want myself!"

Hearing this, Shi Yaoguang’s face showed an appropriate expression of surprise, "Pity you?"

"You must be mistaken."

With a hint of helplessness on her face, she said, "I won’t pity you."

"Pitying you is out of the question."

"Aren’t you clear about our relationship? One should know oneself; don’t harbor unrealistic expectations, I would never pity you."

She stated bluntly, "If I had that kind of sympathy to spare, I’d rather buy a loaf of bread to feed a stray dog on the street; at least the dog would wag its tail at me, but you?"

She scoffed, her attitude saying it all.

Shi Yiqing felt even more humiliated, and she even thought that Shi Yaoguang was mocking her.

To this, Shi Yaoguang’s answer was,

Your feeling is not wrong.

She was indeed mocking her.

Shi Yiqing was furious but helpless.

During the first three days of this program’s recording, she had been receiving maid training.

In the following two days, she was targeted by the human guests.

After getting a chance at revival, she immediately turned the tables on the guests.

She thought she would be greeted with a pinnacle, with glory.

But in the end...

Shi Yaoguang told her that everything she had was a joke.

Then, she knocked her out, game over.

Throughout the process, Shi Yaoguang remained superior.

She didn’t even need to do much, just sit back and reel in the fish, playing people at her fingertips.

For the other guests, this might have just been a challenge.

After the game ended, they addressed Shi Yaoguang with resentment, "Are you a demon?"

But for Shi Yiqing, this was a matter of immense importance.

If you ask what she couldn’t accept,

Well...

The most unacceptable thing was that she had lost to Shi Yaoguang.

And even felt smug about it.

Especially after the recording ended, watching the playback of the live stream and reading the comments from the barrage, she felt even more dejected.

No.

Reality shouldn’t be like this.

She should be carrying the whole show, receiving everyone’s praise.

A radiant life, envied by all, was what she was meant to have.

...

Shi Yaoguang had no idea that she had almost shattered Shi Yiqing’s mentality.

After wrapping up the recording of "Challenge," she didn’t idle away her time.

She took on a new film and a TV drama.

The film was a period fantasy themed around a famous mentor-disciple love story IP adaptation.

In the film, Shi Yaoguang played a cold and aloof ice beauty, who was also the master in the mentor-disciple romance.

This was different from the usual master-disciple love stories, which typically portray a male master and female disciple.

The film Shi Yaoguang was in could be considered edgy.

No sooner had she exploded with news of taking on the film "Honoring the Master," did Shi Yiqing follow suit, interacting with the official microblog of another movie of the same genre.

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