Today, I Have Yet to Become a Doll

Four mattresses, both single and double, were brought out.

Bai Youwei declined. She didn't like sleeping on mattresses that were too soft, as they would further affect her balance. So, she only asked Tan Xiao for a cotton mattress pad, thick and substantial, which she spread out inside her tent.

"Your mattresses are too big. They won't fit inside the tents," Bai Youwei reminded Tan Xiao and Pan Xiaoxin.

Tan Xiao was unconcerned. "If they don't fit, we'll just sleep like this."

Bai Youwei rolled her eyes. "What if it rains?"

Tan Xiao looked up at the sky. "It won't…"

"Forget it, do what you want." Bai Youwei couldn't be bothered to argue and entered her tent.

She had chosen the hotel because she disliked sleeping in places without privacy. She would never sleep out in the open like Tan Xiao; she needed at least a tent.

Besides, being near the hotel made washing up and using the toilet more convenient. Moreover, the hotel offered more than just mattresses and pillows. Hotel rooms usually had complimentary food, tea bags, coffee, and other supplies that could be useful.

The others, watching Tan Xiao and Pan Xiaoxin moving things in and out, were tempted.

"Brother Yan, can we also take some sheets and mattresses?" Zhu Shu asked Yan Qingwen.

She was around 20 years old, wearing a pink summer athletic shirt. Due to days of travel, her clothes were a bit dusty, but her face was jade-white and delicate, her features refined, still making her a beautiful young woman.

Su Man, her face full of disgust, couldn't help but retort, "Do you think we're on vacation? If you want comfort, don't come along. Go take your nanny van!"

"Did you take the wrong medication, Su Man?" The bespectacled, fair-skinned man stood up and put his arm around Zhu Shu. "What's it to you if we take a few blankets? Zhu Shu, come on! I'll go with you."

Su Man bit her lip, her face cold, and said nothing.

Lü Ang was numb to the three's constant bickering. Hearing this, he casually added, "Li Li, bring me a mattress pad too. There are so many in the hotel; it's a waste not to take them…"

"I can't," Li Li refused without turning back. "If you want one, come get it yourself!"

"Don't be so stingy…" Lü Ang sighed softly but didn't get up.

Yan Qingwen glanced at him. "Why don't you go?"

Lü Ang waved his hand. "Let the girls be delicate. If I, a grown man, go hug a mattress pad, people will laugh at me. Forget it, I'll just make do."

Yan Qingwen smiled and lowered his head to continue looking at the map.

Suddenly, an exclamation came from the other side, causing Yan Qingwen, Lü Ang, and Su Man to look up.

Tan Xiao looked at Zhu Shu in front of him, exclaiming with exaggerated surprise, "Aren't you… aren't you that celebrity?! The actress who played the Sacred Mountain Goddess?! Wow, you're so beautiful in person! Much thinner than on TV!"

Lü Ang remarked, "Oh, he's met a fan."

Su Man snorted. "How boring."

Yan Qingwen silently curled his lips but didn't speak.

Zhu Shu smiled politely. "Thank you."

"You were so good in that role!" As Tan Xiao spoke, he couldn't help but start gesturing. "Especially that scene where the demonic realm attacked the Sacred Mountain! Wow, wow, wow! You fought against a hundred! You swept like this, kicked like this, and then like this, this, and that…"

Zhu Shu smiled and explained, "That was a stunt double."

"Ah?" Tan Xiao froze. "…A stunt double?"

Zhu Shu continued smiling. "Yes, all the dangerous actions were done by a stunt double."

Tan Xiao withdrew his gestures and scratched his head. "Then… that fight scene in the Ten Thousand Graves Bamboo Forest…"

"Also a stunt double," Zhu Shu said with a smile. "The stunt double was on wires in a studio, and it was added in post-production."

Tan Xiao was speechless, a look of disillusionment on his face.

Zhu Shu smiled again and asked, "Excuse me, can we go in and get some blankets?"

Tan Xiao came back to his senses. "…Oh, oh, oh, yes, of course."

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