"You stay with her then, I'll leave her alone, I'm going to check if Qin Hao is ready."
The manager took out her phone, glanced at the time, and sent Qin Hao a message asking if he was ready.
"Aren't you going with Sister Qin Yun together?" Yuanyuan asked in surprise.
"She's not new to reality TV; does she still need me to watch over her personally? Wouldn't I be exhausted?" Sister Li was quite shocked by her words, as this was a consensus in the industry. Yuanyuan was also an experienced assistant yet asked such a basic question.
Yuanyuan was speechless and felt even more sympathy for Qin Yun's situation.
The manager's phone vibrated twice; she took a look and said, "No time to talk, he's up, I'm heading downstairs. Tell her not to dawdle and be late; it'll leave a bad impression of our Emperor Entertainment artists on the director and others."
"Got it." Yuanyuan responded sullenly.
Even though both are Emperor Entertainment artists, and under Sister Li, Qin Hao debuted with great resources, worried that he wouldn't know much about reality shows and lacked popularity. They immediately let Sister Qin Yun take him on, even arranged Pei Yan's schedule to have Sister Qin Yun deliberately fall, gain attention, and increase viewership for the show.
When Qin Yun finished getting ready and discovered the manager was not there, she didn't ask about it and ate all of the breakfast Yuanyuan brought.
It was already late, so the two quickly headed to the filming location of the reality show "On the Road." On the way, Qin Yun swiped Pei Yan's card to buy a lot of food, ensuring she wouldn't go hungry during filming.
When Qin Yun and Yuanyuan arrived, only she and another female artist were left.
The two arrived almost simultaneously.
But that female artist was accompanied by several people: a makeup artist, stylist, costume designer, driver, and four bodyguards. She even had a nutritionist because she had stomach issues, clearly being pampered.
In contrast, Qin Yun only had one assistant.
She usually did her own makeup and styling, waiting for makeup artists when on set or invited.
Other artists traveled with entourages, even newbies like Qin Hao had two or three people accompanying them.
One of them was the two's manager.
Everyone had different expressions when they saw Qin Yun.
All the participants in this reality show had heard of Qin Yun's fame and didn't dare approach her too much, known for her notorious tie-in performances.
Coincidentally, Qin Yun also didn't want much interaction; only until just before filming started, she was called aside by her manager and reminded multiple times to help increase Qin Hao's camera time.
Qin Yun casually agreed; she herself didn't know what to do, as it was her first time too.
"On the Road" is a travel reality show, the first filming location chosen in a beautifully serene village.
There were a total of five guests, three men and two women.
The production team gathered everyone to begin recording.
They first filmed a shot of everyone arriving with their luggage.
Then the director said:
"Welcome everyone to join 'On the Road,' please first put your wallets in the baskets provided by the crew, open your suitcases, and choose five items to last you two days and three nights."
"What?!" Everyone exclaimed in shock.
"Director, are you sure you didn't misspeak?" Wang Sirui immediately shouted in panic.
"Director, my clothes and skincare products exceed five items... plus sunglasses, hats, different outfits need matching accessories, agh... Director, five items really aren't enough, be lenient."
The speaker was the female star arriving last, named Yang Leqi.
"Right, we girls naturally have a lot of stuff, it's really not enough," Yang Leqi amiably hooked Qin Yun's arm, acting coy.
"I don't mind," Qin Yun replied plainly.
To her, as long as she had food, she could reluctantly forego other things.
"Sister Qin Yun means she'll follow the production team's arrangements," Qin Hao interjected with slight apologetic tone, supplementing.
Yang Leqi: "..."
Qin Hao's addition made it worse; it not only embarrassed Yang Leqi but appeared that Qin Yun was uncooperative.
Aren't they from the same company?
Isn't he helping to incite hostility against her?
"No exceptions, hurry up and hand over the wallets," the production team coldly rejected, urging.
Qin Yun was the first to hand over her wallet, mainly because hers had no money; only Pei Yan's card had money, so it was easy to hand over.
Seeing Qin Yun had handed in her wallet, the others also handed over their phones and other items.
When the luggage was opened, other stars had suitcases filled with clothes, skincare products, shoes, hats, and all sorts of matching items; when Qin Yun's was opened, snacks immediately spilled out, eager to escape due to insufficient space.
The scene fell silent for a moment.
Sister Li, observing this from off camera, was instantly furious, shouting at Yuanyuan, "She doesn't get it, and neither do you? Filming a reality show, you let her buy so many snacks?! "
"I didn't know when Sister Yun bought so many snacks, she just mentioned feeling a bit hungry and wanting to buy some food, I didn't think much of it."
Yuanyuan was quite anxious, feeling somewhat wronged.
There were still over 20 minutes left; when Qin Yun went to the supermarket, both went together, but since Qin Yun asked her to buy a coffee to relieve swelling and refresh, Qin Yun ended up alone, unable to resist buying a lot of tasty things.
The trunk contained even more, but it was blocked by the suitcase, so it went unnoticed.
This resulted in the current chaotic scene.
"Wow, you have so many snacks! This one and this one are both very delicious! Too bad my manager doesn't let me eat them," Yang Leqi's eyes lit up, her voice turning cheerful, ending with some grievance.
"I'll give you half a bag," Qin Yun generously offered.
"Really?"
The two squatted down, discussing back and forth.
Other people overheard their conversation and couldn't help but glance at the nearly full suitcase of snacks, then at Yang Leqi.
She seemed quite happy to receive just a small part out of so many?
Is it a misunderstanding or did they mishear?
Qin Yun took out the majority of the snacks from the suitcase, and also selected a change of clothes, facial cleanser, a jar of face cream, sunscreen, and a large pile of snacks, while swapping other items with Yang Leqi.
Yang Leqi chose change of clothes, cosmetics, skincare items, varying from Qin Yun's.
"You can only choose five items," the director reminded, twitching his eyes at the pile in front of Qin Yun.
"It's five items, clothes, facial cleanser, face cream, sunscreen, snacks," Qin Yun earnestly displayed her selected five items.
"It's one item, not a pile, you can only take one bag of snacks," said the director, speechless.
Qin Yun's expression cracked for a moment, stiffly turning her head, asking, "What did you say?"