After Transmigrating into the Main Shou, I Topped the Paranoid Big Shot 38

Chapter 38

The drafty little cabin was truly cold, especially when the sun had just risen and the morning dew was heavy. Zong Mo was forced awake by the cold after only a few hours of sleep. He grabbed the quilt and buried most of his face in it.
While still groggy, his thigh was suddenly pressed down by Ruan Chi’s kneecap. He let out an uncomfortable grunt.
And the position of this pressure was a bit dangerous.
Zong Mo: ?
Did he anger CEO Ruan in his dream again?

Ruan Chi only said, “If you’re awake, move over. I’m going down to get my clothes.”
The bed was too narrow. For Ruan Chi to climb down the steep ladder, he had to climb over him first. Zong Mo sat up to clear the way to the ladder. Ruan Chi indeed went down to get his clothes, packing everything but his coat into a bag and carrying it back up.
When they were living in the Green Cabin, because the cameras were almost everywhere, including the bedroom, everyone took turns changing clothes in the bathroom while washing up.
But the open-air bathroom of the cabin in the woods was clearly a hygiene concern, and there was a curtain by the bed, so there was naturally no need to run out in pajamas.

Ruan Chi acted as if Zong Mo didn’t exist and prepared to take off his clothes.
“Wait,” Zong Mo quickly spoke up to stop him, lowering his voice, “CEO Ruan, do you still remember Article Two?”
Ruan Chi: …
“I need to change my clothes,” Ruan Chi said calmly. “You should also remember to change into the clothes Director Tu gave you last night.”
Zong Mo: …
Ruan Chi was indeed just changing clothes. It was his own mind that was dirty.
He felt a wave of dizziness.
It’s not like he hadn’t seen CEO Ruan change clothes before. What was he thinking!
During filming, no lewdness allowed!
He was the one who proposed it!!!
However, once the curtain was drawn at night and the camera was turned off, who would know?
But the one million yuan penalty for breach of contract…
Zong Mo calmed down. A real man should learn to endure.

After Ruan Chi had changed, he urged him to change into the dress.
The dress Tu Bu had given Zong Mo was a knee-length, fleece-lined cotton one, very rustic, the style quite similar to the two children’s, like a parent-child outfit.
Zong Mo added a pair of long pants under the dress to avoid the chilly drafts, so he no longer looked like a pervert with a special fetish, just like the silly fool from the village entrance.
The moment he lifted the curtain and stuck out a leg, the bullet comments were filled with waves of “hahahahaha.”
It’s fine. He couldn’t see himself anyway. It was others’ eyes that were being offended, Zong Mo comforted himself.

Returning to the Green Cabin, Qi Zhiyi was looking for him. “Little Mo, where did you go last night… ah, the clothes suit you very well.”
The praise was sincere, without a hint of mockery or falsehood.
Ling Han’s eyes were filled with a see-through disgust. He secretly turned his head away and sneered.
【Hahaha, Ling Han, what are you being so awkward about!】
【Stop acting, sister can see you care about Mo Mo to death (wicked smile)】
After all, it wasn’t his first time cross-dressing. Zong Mo was calm and turned a blind eye.

This morning’s task was not a set menu. After a two-day and two-night adaptation period, they were truly beginning their self-sufficient farming life.
“Planting rice seedlings…?” Zong Mo was dismissive. “Director Tu, we already have rice. Why do we still need to plant rice seedlings?”
Tu Bu said, “Because the rice you’re eating was all borrowed from the farmers, so you need to plant rice seedlings to pay back the debt.”
Zong Mo found the rice bag with the label torn off because it wasn’t sponsored and asked in Ruan Chi’s tone, “Director Tu, are you sure?”
【Hahahaha, I’m dying. Which brand of rice is this? They must be regretting not sponsoring in advance, right?】
【It’s not too late to add a sponsorship now, hh】
Tu Bu said with a straight face, “The rice bag was reused for environmental protection. The reason it’s only half a bag is because it’s farm rice that the villagers put in themselves, pure and natural, without pollution.”
Zong Mo: …
Forget it!
“But I have to cook, so the task of planting rice seedlings will be left to everyone,” Zong Mo said.
The bullet comments continued with “hahahaha”:

【In the end, he just doesn’t want to plant rice seedlings.】
【Mo Mo is wearing a dress, how can he farm, hahahaha】
【I didn’t expect that only Mo Mo realizes the seriousness of the rice planting task now [dog head]】
Tu Bu nodded. “As long as you complete the task of ten mu of fields in five days.”
Qi Nanfeng, who had been silent all along, suddenly spoke up, “Director Tu, I broke my lower leg before and had a pin put in. It’s not convenient for me to go into the fields. Can I stay behind and help Little Mo?”
【Ahhh I remember, so the injury from seven years ago left such a serious after-effect? Mama’s heart aches TT】
【Program team, be a human, don’t force Nan Nan to work…】
Tu Bu readily agreed. It was the same as before: as long as the task was completed on time and in quantity.

Ruan Chi followed suit, saying righteously, “I don’t want to go either.”
Qi Zhiyi then chimed in, “Ah, I don’t want to plant rice seedlings either! I want to cook with Little Mo…”
But Tu Bu, with a double standard, refused at once, saying, “Cooking doesn’t need so many people. The sooner you go, the easier it will be. If you don’t go now, you’ll have to go sooner or later.”
“Completing the rice planting task can be exchanged for various daily necessities and food. You can also exchange back the personal items you’ve mortgaged with the program team.”
Qi Zhiyi’s eyes lit up. Although he didn’t have much mortgaged with the program team, he had to make some sacrifices for his own brother. He steeled himself and said resolutely, “Okay! I’ll work hard!”

Zong Mo felt sorry for Ruan Chi’s watch. He turned his face away from the camera and mouthed silently, “Article one.”
Ruan Chi: …
Ruan Chi followed the program team’s arrangement and went to the fields. The main reason was not fear of breaching the contract, but that he simply didn’t think planting rice seedlings could be that difficult.
Ling Han’s attitude towards Ruan Chi was no better than towards Zong Mo. If he occasionally craved Zong Mo’s cooking, his attitude towards Ruan Chi was 100% dismissive.
To avoid showing any strangeness on the live stream, Ling Han took the initiative to go to the farthest field to start planting rice seedlings.
Qi Zhiyi nodded and said, “Mm, then I’ll go to the middle field. Ruan-ge, you can start from this field. We’ll act separately?”
Ruan Chi also agreed. The three of them, separated by dozens of meters, each took care of their own rice paddy.

Tu Bu hadn’t expected the atmosphere among the three of them to be like this, that they really intended to focus on farming and ignore the variety show. Just as he was about to intervene and make arrangements, he suddenly noticed that the two in the Green Cabin were actively chatting. He immediately switched the main live stream camera over.
Zong Mo learned that Qi Nanfeng had a leg injury and was embarrassed to really let him help.
Stir-frying at the small red brick stove and washing dishes and vegetables by the well both required squatting and bending over, which was a considerable burden on Qi Nanfeng’s leg.
Zong Mo thought for a moment and said, “Why don’t you pick through these greens? Just break off the withered and old leaves. You can sit in the living room and do it slowly.”

Qi Nanfeng was slightly stunned. He held the vegetable basin and pondered for a long time, probably rehearsing what he wanted to say in his mind, before saying slowly, “Although you are younger than us, you are very good at taking care of people.”
“Taking care of people?” Zong Mo was not surprised by this comment and subconsciously said, “Mm, I’m used to it.”
Qi Nanfeng was stunned again. “…Used to it? Why?”
Zong Mo: …
He couldn’t possibly say he was used to serving CEO Ruan, right?
However, before he transmigrated, taking care of his younger brothers and sisters had been a daily part of his life.

The novel never mentioned why the original Zong Mo grew up alone, but the current Zong Mo was different. As a healthy and good-looking child, he had been adopted once when he was very young.
Unfortunately, his adoptive parents died in an accident not long after, and he was sent back to the orphanage. Because of this unfortunate accident, no one was willing to adopt him for a long time.
Later, when Zong Mo got older, he no longer longed to join another family, to avoid struggling like an outsider. It was better to stay in the orphanage with his younger brothers and sisters. And those children with disabilities were almost impossible to be adopted and needed his company and care even more.
The director and the aunties had limited manpower and were too busy, so they could only let the older children help.
The orphanage raised children until they were eighteen. The university tuition had to be covered by social grants or by working part-time. Zong Mo had originally saved enough for his first year’s tuition, but in the end, he didn’t go to university.
When the director learned that he had actually used the tuition he had saved on the other children in the orphanage, he kicked him out. He told him to repeat a year and go to university, or to go to work, to have his own house and family as soon as possible.
His life had just gotten on the right track, and he no longer had to worry about rent, when he transmigrated!
It was true that going from luxury to frugality was hard. He actually didn’t really want to go back now.

Anyway, the main shou was also an orphan. Zong Mo had nothing to hide and said directly, “Mm, because when I was in the orphanage, there were many younger brothers and sisters.”
Being an orphan was not a glorious thing. Of course, it wouldn’t be specially marked in Zong Mo’s online profile. And in the novel, the main purpose of the main shou‘s orphan status was to arouse the main gong‘s sympathy, and it had not been widely publicized.
Zong Mo’s self-exposure was unexpected, and the bullet comments immediately went crazy.

【Mo Mo is an orphan?? Really?】
【So that’s how it is. My heart aches for my Mo Mo, wuwuwu】
【It’s clearly a very sad thing, but Mo Mo is already used to it…】
【But isn’t Zong Mo a resource celeb? I thought he was a hidden second-generation heir?】
【Is he really not just selling a sob story on purpose… so fake.】
Qi Nanfeng in front of him was still stunned, not knowing what he was holding back that made the tips of his ears red. After a long while, he said softly, “I’m sorry.”
The bullet comments of sympathy or doubt for Zong Mo were instantly washed away by the mother fans.
【Mama’s big goose son is really so polite and kind!!】
【Ah, did Nan Nan think his question hurt Mo Mo, so he apologized?】
【Wuwuwu, this is so good to ship!】
【No shipping Nan Nan with outsiders! Nan Nan belongs to Zhi Zhi!!】
【? Your idea is very dangerous.】

Zong Mo, however, was confused. He scratched his head, “Hmm? What’s there to be sorry about?”
Qi Nanfeng wanted to say more, but suddenly a faint roar drifted over. Zong Mo was startled, “Did someone call me?”
Qi Nanfeng frowned slightly. “…Did they?”
Zong Mo stood up and looked around from the higher ground of the courtyard, locking onto the three small figures in the distant fields.
It felt like the sound was coming from that direction. Zong Mo walked a little closer.
“Zong Mo!”
This time, the shout was louder, and Zong Mo heard it clearly.
Zong Mo was clueless, but the live stream audience, with their god’s-eye view, understood clearly and scrolled through the bullet comments:

【Hurry up and save CEO Ruan, hahahaha】
【CEO Ruan has to call Mo Mo from so far away, instead of his two teammates nearby. Wuwu, he loves him so much!】
【Is it really love and not calling a dog, hahaha】
Of course, Zong Mo didn’t dare to disobey Ruan Chi. But seeing him in the muddy field, and his voice sounding full of energy, he first changed into a pair of rain boots before rushing over.
By the time he arrived at the edge of the field, Ruan Chi was already so angry he couldn’t keep a straight face.
He was extremely angry but stood still, just glaring with his eyes, wanting to hit someone but unable to.
Zong Mo observed for a while and had a sudden realization.
His CEO Ruan was stuck in the mud.