Showbiz Scandal: The Official Announcement of My Ex and Myself-Chapter 59: The Final Challenge

After Pei Lu was taken away, everyone couldn’t wait to ask for the password.

They were unwilling to let it go until they figured it out, and had no time for any feigned words of reluctance towards Pei Lu.

The electronic voice crisply analyzed: "The first line of the ’Happy Birthday’ song, six notes, 556521."

Song Xi entered the password, and sure enough, the door opened.

Those familiar with the notes gritted their teeth and rolled on the floor in frustration.

"I never thought of this at all!"

"It really is the ’Happy Birthday’ song?! So all the previous headgears and clothes were just diversions?"

"Ugh, I’m really furious. It’s okay if it’s especially difficult, but this was something that could have been thought of yet wasn’t, it’s infuriating!"

Yu Xia wasn’t angry.

After all, she could never have thought in that direction.

Everyone queued up to squeeze through the door, and Yu Xia was the third one in line.

Crawling inside, they discovered that the ninth challenge seemed to have very little space, with Song Xi and Shu Ran standing at the front, clearly cramped even while standing.

She squeezed in with difficulty and peeked forward.

The dirty swimming pool had a red spray paint of a snake on the side wall.

The water in the pool was turbid, and it seemed like something inside was moving around chaotically.

Shu Ran turned her head away with a frown, covering her nose as she felt like vomiting.

Yu Xia patted her and stepped forward to take a closer look.

Where they stood was a hollow iron frame, with no space on either side of the pool for anyone to walk, although on the left, the iron frame extended out several separate iron plates, each one higher than the last. They only reached the middle of the pool, suspended quite high like a diving board.

From the ceiling, a golden key hung, and the door was on the opposite side of the pool, with a countdown timer beside it, starting from thirty minutes.

It was clear that whether or not they retrieved the key, they needed to find a way to cross the pool.

By now, everyone had entered, standing cramped, staring at the pool with complex expressions.

Shu Ran’s voice was tense: "There won’t be any snakes in this water, right?"

Yu Kuang, who feared snakes the most, scrunched up his face like a ragged towel: "The production team wouldn’t be so heartless, right!?"

"Even if there aren’t any, I wouldn’t dare wade through it directly," Yu Xia frowned, "the water is so dirty and smelly, and who knows how deep it is, we can’t just walk through it."

"Then how do we get across?"

"Good question, I’d like to know too." She looked at the golden key again and asked them, "Should we get the key first?"

"Sure."

Considering the height and load-bearing capacity of the iron plates, they chose three people to go up.

Yu Xia, Song Xi, and Wei Yaoyao.

Layer by layer, they climbed, reaching about two meters high, with Song Xi at the front. After climbing to the highest iron plate, he shouted back to the others:

"I don’t think I can do it either! The key is too far unless I let half of my body hang in mid-air!"

But if half of his body hung in mid-air, someone would need to hold his legs tightly, allowing him to do a sit-up while suspended.

Song Xi, being a guy over six feet tall, couldn’t be held by Yu Xia and Wei Yaoyao. Perhaps several guys could do it together, though.

But these iron plates didn’t look like they could support the weight of several big guys.

Song Xi looked at Yu Xia.

She climbed forward and took his place: "Let me do it, you two hold on to me tightly."

Fortunately, she had been maintaining her figure recently for a role, and was diligent in keeping her abs toned, so she wouldn’t be mocked online even if exposed.

Others below cheered them on.

Sitting facing Song Xi and Wei Yaoyao, she moved back slowly and untimely thought of Xie Qingci again.

If he were here, he wouldn’t have let her do this. Many times he had said that her waist was so thin it might break, and that she shouldn’t lose more weight.

But men are all hypocritical, regardless of age. Despite his grumbling, he loved it the most when she leaned back or bent down, tightening her waist and abdomen.

If she were wearing his loose shirt, he’d love it even more, his affection evident in his eyes, always undisguised.

She snapped back to reality, already feeling the emptiness behind her, as Song Xi and Wei Yaoyao firmly pressed down on her legs, she slowly lay back while reaching her hand behind her head.

From below on the iron frame, the scene indeed looked dangerous.

Her slender figure was half suspended, the clothes clinging to her taut waist, her lower back suspended in the air, the exposed pale skin starkly contrasting with the old grayish pool. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

Her extended hand reached forward strenuously, her arm and body nearly forming a straight line.

If Song Xi and Wei Yaoyao weren’t strong enough, a slight slip could plunge her into the pool.

It’s no joke, so the two holding her legs were extra serious, Wei Yaoyao exerting all his strength, clenching his face as he strained.

Yu Xia’s whole body was tense, her jawline taut, stretching her fingertips towards the key hanging on the hook.

Not too difficult, as her hand was already very close.

Closer, almost there, her fingers touched the key!

"Hold tight, I’m going to bounce a little."

Upon hearing this, Song Xi and Wei Yaoyao pounced on her legs to hold her down, gripping her tightly.

Yu Xia slightly jerked upwards, swayed her hand, grasped the key, and then directly sat up in mid-air. Song Xi quickly grabbed her arm, pulling her back onto the iron plate.

She felt a bit scared afterward, her waist a bit painful, but first thing she held up the key to show everyone: "Got it! Now we can find a way to cross the pool!"

Shu Ran led the applause.

"Awesome!"

"Nice waist, your fitness really shows!"

The three of them slowly climbed down and handed the key to Shu Ran, then Wei Yaoyao took over Zuoshan Diao and said:

"I thought of a way to get across, I think there was a plastic tub back at the fifth challenge, and we can find something to use as a paddle and row across in batches!"

"Huh? We have to go back? Back to the fifth challenge?"

Having been scared all along the way, no one wanted to recall any part of it, let alone walk back and face the scares again.

Shu Ran handed the decision over to the younger ones, deliberately letting them speak more and show themselves.

Song Xi looked around and said, "There’s nothing else we can use here. If we don’t go back to get things, are we really going to just walk directly? Look, there’s something swimming in that water."

Moreover, the water was too dirty.

Yu Xia was the first to agree to go back.

The others all agreed too. The minority obeyed the majority, and they all went back to the fifth challenge together again.

Finding the things, they realized that the colorful plastic tub wasn’t big enough; it could hold at most two people.

It probably wasn’t stable, likely to topple with two people in it.

This plan was scrapped, and as they mulled it over, they didn’t rush back but continued to wander through the previous challenges, like a treasure hunt, looking for tools that could be used.

Wandering around, they eventually returned to the third challenge.

This was the place they feared the most. Now without the fluorescent tube, they had to feel their way in the dark.

The group tiptoed into the classroom, even holding their breath, but as soon as they stepped inside, Wei Yaoyao bumped into a desk, letting out a yelp, causing Zuoshan Diao to fall to the ground.

Diao, who had been mute for quite some time, inexplicably started singing "Catch the Loach" again.

And just like that, they didn’t have to go in, as the whole group screamed and fled the scene like a whirlwind.

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ps: The suspended sit-up motion can reference those who spin a hula hoop while suspended on a tall machine as seen online.