Chapter 30.1 – Did you want to exhaust your husband to death?

Editor: SleepyMango123

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The camera was still rolling.

Xia Rong also didn’t know why he didn’t move.

Su Chi’s fingertips stayed on his eyelids for a while, and only right when Xia Rong could no longer help but lift his hand did Su Chi finally move them away.

Xia Rong heard him gently sigh and then say, “Nevermind.”

Xia Rong: “?”

He originally thought he understood what had just happened, but hearing this ‘Nevermind’ caused him to feel that he didn’t understand after all.

However, Su Chi didn’t give him the time to slowly come to a reaction. Instead, the other took two steps back and distanced himself from Xia Rong before saying, “Let’s leave, separately. We can’t be together. After all, to not attack even though we are obviously of hostile camps would easily arouse suspicion.”

In front of the camera, Xia Rong hugged his balloon again and answered with an ‘En’. “Okay, then I’ll go continue treading the water. You be careful not to get found out as well.”

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Being able to unrestrainedly tread the water in this round would be relaxing and satisfying. So as the others were still mentally tense preparing to sneak attack or guarding against being ambushed, Xia Rong had already completed his secret task with confirmation from the director. He self-proclaimed himself a super-assassin and stayed in front of the camera for a long period.

The now pressure-free Xia Rong then fought several encounters alongside his teammates. After Kang Yifan took the lead and heroically fell, Xia Rong and Gao Junming cooperated to break Zhang Xin’s balloon. However, they were then sneak attacked by Ye Mang, the old enemy who had been hiding in the dark. Although his balloon was broken in the midst of the intense struggle, it gave Gao Junming time to defeat the other so that he and Ye Mang were eliminated almost at the same time.

Finally, as expected, the person who had the last laugh was Gao Junming. He was the strongest in terms of physical strength. Moreover, “Team Romeo” had maintained an advantage from the beginning to the end with their considerable amount of secret manuals, so the other was the most promising candidate both objectively through the preconditions and subjectively considering all the various factors of the round.

In fact, according to the rules of the last round, the crux of the game was precisely whoever could have the last laugh, laughed best— After all, to keep one’s head would imply that one had won a point for the team. So to last until the end, this last person standing would have widened the points between the two teams by three points.

In the end, the scores between Team Romeo and Team Liang Shanbo was 5:2, an uncontestable complete victory for Team Romeo. However, at this time no one was in a hurry to celebrate yet as there was still the reveal of that time bomb that had been planted since they started the filming for this episode— Exactly who was the assassin?

The six people all looked at each other with faces full of perplexity and guiltlessness.

“Anyway, it’s not me.” Su Chi’s face appeared very calm.

Xia Rong said, “It has nothing to do with me.”

Ye Mang said, “I went with the flow the entire time, all of you should have seen that. I’m also not the assassin.”

“If I was the assassin, why would I have worked so hard the whole way? Wouldn’t it all have been in vain?” Gao Junming’s reasoning was also quite sufficient.

“Then who the h★ll was it?” Zhang Xin was at a complete loss.

“…”

Su Chi said, “I feel that Kang Yifan is a bit strange.”

Kang Yifan, ???

Xia Rong, with one hand wrapped into a fist landing on the palm of the other like an ‘A-ha!’, “I thought it was just a misconception on my part, but I also felt that was so!”

Kang Yifan, “…Wait-?”

Su Chi, without any change in his expression, “He was particularly active today and seemed to have circled everyone at least once. Perhaps that was precisely to complete his secret task.”

Xia Rong, “Once you put it like that, that does seem to be true! Gao Junming, do you have any clues? Do you think it’s him?”

Gao Junming quickly waved his hand in denial. “No clue… I’m also uncertain…”

Zhang Xin, “But hearing what you guys have said, it really does seem quite suspicious…”

Su Chi, “Moreover, his results in each round of this episode were rather ordinary. Then during the Huashan Sword Debate, in particular, his balloon was the first to break.”

“…”

Three pairs of eyes shot towards Kang Yifan.

Kang Yifan yelled, “It’s not me! I’m being framed! Su Chi’s the one who’s setting the rhythm, he’s the real assassin!”

Su Chi calmly gave a slight smile. “I was just analyzing my thoughts. If you disagree, feel free to vote for me.”

Xia Rong sighed in his heart, full of emotions. Look at the other person’s psychological quality! They were both assassins, but he didn’t dare to urge the others to vote for himself so calmly.

But while he was admiring the other on the side, he still didn’t forget to chime in, “Su Chi really went all out in the game today, I still think it’s Kang Yifan.”

Kang Yifan, “It’s really not me!!!”

Completely confused with absolutely no idea vs. clean and orderly with an intention to instigate,  then adding on the perfect harmony between the two assassins, the result was of no surprise.

Kang Yifan’s cries out of grievance were simply treated as background music, and when the votes came out, Kang Yifan received five votes while Su Chi received one, a rolling victory.

Then as the director began to announce, “In this second episode of 《Liang Shanbo and Romeo》with a theme of wuxia, did our young heroes really manage to find the true assassin? The results will now be announced…” Kang Yifan was still unusually indignant as he insistently uproared, “Why won’t you guys believe me!? The assassin is absolutely Su Chi! You guys really voted wrongly!”

“We will now announce, the assassin that all our young heroes reported—” The director dragged out his voice, “Failure!”

The rest of them were shocked, whereas at this time, Kang Yifan jumped three feet high. “You see, I’d already said that it was Su Chi! Su Chi, you’re too treacherous! Honestly, if it isn’t him, I’ll take my head off for you guys to kick as a ball! …”

The director continued, “Congratulations to Xia Rong getting the final victory of this episode!”

Kang Yifan, “…???”

Xia Rong, Hehehe.

Su Chi, “Where’s my ball? I want a rounder one.”

Kang Yifan, “…”

YinYue has something to say:

First of all, thank you for reading!

Second… Sorry for the partial chapter, everyone! Previously I wasn’t going to start breaking up the chapters until they reach 4k raw characters, but I’m getting really overwhelmed by the paragraphs of this novel. So until they do get to 4k, I might be updating some chapters in parts just so I have enough time to finish translating the next chapter, thus the current situation.

My plan, for now, is to update the parts as per the original schedule unless I finish the new chapter then I’ll post the next part earlier. Sorry about this! I’ll do my best!