LIGHTNOVELONLINE
Chapter 48
After coaxing Shen Yue...no, after Shen Yue coaxed Shen Shuangyi and the director, the program team discussed and returned half of the money to Shen Yue after a unanimous decision.
Holding the money, Shen Yue felt happiness had come so suddenly. She just thought about it for a second before running back to bed with her hands on her chest and falling asleep peacefully.
Shen Yue's live stream room became a sleep stream room again, and no matter how many times the audience watched, they were still shocked by Shen Yue's ability to fall asleep so quickly.
This...her sleep quality is too good!
Only after making sure Shen Yue was asleep did Shen Shuangyi apologize to the program team, then obediently went out to earn money again by himself.
The program team was left with a pile of people and the 2 million in rewards. They didn't know whether to return it or not.
"Director, what should we do with this money..."
"Let it go for now." Who knows, the boat will straighten itself when it gets to the pier. He didn't believe Shen Yue's little friend would come back and not be curious at all about what had just happened. As long as they asked, the program team could take the opportunity to intervene.
2 million, it would be foolish not to take it when it was just handed over.
Unless Shen Yue's big brother also donated 2 million and told them not to do it, then he would take the easy route.
Unfortunately, after watching Shen Yue's livestream for a while, they didn't notice any movement, so they could only assume Shen Yue's big brother didn't object.
In fact, Shen Yichen really didn't object.
Moreover, the 2 million in rewards was given by him, although using his secretary's account.
The reason he used his secretary's account to reward 2 million was to prevent Shen Shuangyi from finding out it was his request.
Ever since sending Shen Yue to the show, Shen Yichen had been thinking about what to do if Shen Yue insisted on not trying her best. But today, he suddenly realized that Shen Yue possessed extremely strong observational skills and mental calculation abilities. That meant as long as her strengths were utilized well, there was hope Shen Yue could pass the family assessment in the future even if she didn't want to put in effort herself.
To confirm this, Shen Yichen made this request.
Of course, when he saw his secretary's screenname, Shen Yichen's mood was complicated.
"Yuebao is my treasure?"
"Of course! Yuebao is your treasure!"
Shen Yichen was silent.
The secretary was also silent.
Amidst the silence, Shen Yichen agonized over many things, but in the end didn't change the screenname. He directly smashed 2 million with the screenname "Yuebao is my treasure".
If not for the secretary stopping him at his side, Shen Yichen might have continued smashing money.
For Shen Yichen, could spending money on his sister even be called smashing money? It was an investment!
After smashing the money, the two of them also witnessed Shen Yue's heartbreaking crying together, and her peacefully sleeping face at the end.
The secretary didn't dare look at his boss's expression, and could only keep chanting in his heart, I can't see, I can't see.
...
Shen Yue dreamed of prison.
The prison's outer name was not prison, but Flightless Bird. The English translation was even more direct, also called Flightless Bird.
This was a world-class prison, and also a private prison. From its name, it could be understood that all who were sent to this prison would have their wings to escape clipped - forever.
It was jointly built by various countries on an island that didn't exist on world maps, surrounded on all sides by the endless Pacific Ocean. Whether coming in or out, or transporting supplies, it could only rely on planes.
In fact, not many people knew about this place, only some high level government officials.
Almost all the criminals detained here had certain backgrounds, whether powerful and influential or fabulously wealthy.
For a national regime, putting these people in ordinary prisons didn't provide enough security, and would also continuously cause trouble.
But directly sentencing them to death was also not feasible.
After all, in many countries, especially capitalist dominated countries, these people were the main source of economic income from spending money. Some politicians also had deep covert ties with them. If they were offended, the regime's sources of funding and the black money those politicians accepted bribes for would be cut off.
Unable to directly kill them, yet also unable to let them be, they could only find a way to throw them all into one place, isolated and centrally managed.
On one hand, they made this place into a paradise to serve them, on the other hand kept them under monitoring.
This place could not be conquered, nor escaped from.
In other words, extremely safe yet extremely unsafe.
Before being sent to this prison, the guard escorting Shen Yue told her that as long as she behaved herself, life inside the prison might be even better than her life outside.
After all, Shen Yue currently didn't have a penny to her name. No matter how she tried to live on her own, it would be a problem, so she might as well be in prison where at least food and shelter were provided.
Shen Yue believed it.
She thought it was a prison with strict discipline. As long as she obeyed, it would be no problem.
But the fact was she was wrong.
This was clearly a place that had lost all legal constraints and only primal instincts remained.
"The main feature of Flightless Bird is survival of the fittest. All the rules are also centered around this tenet. Don't want to be eaten? Then become one of the strong. As long as you don't beat someone to death, no matter what means you use to become strong, we guards won't intervene. Oh right, since you just got here, you're the weakest and can only stay in a 6 person cell. If you want better quarters, start climbing up. There's a total of 8 buildings, and the rules used to judge the strong in each building are a bit different. Take a look and see which building you want to go to."
"Newcomer protection period is 3 months. During these 3 months your roommates can still be the same sex, but after 3 months that may not necessarily be the case."
"Lastly, good luck to you~"
Shen Yue woke up.
She was woken up by hunger, of course.
She had climbed out of bed early in the morning without eating anything, started exercising and earning money. Just when she finally earned some money, she cried again, then fell into a deep sleep.
If she wasn't hungry who would be?
Shen Yue opened her eyes, slowly sat up, then slowly shuffled to the changing area to change her clothes. She had just opened the door, preparing to go out and buy some food for herself, when a very cleanly packaged lunchbox was already being handed to her.
The person handing her the lunchbox was precisely Shen Shuangyi.
Seeing Shen Yue who still seemed a bit muddled, he reached out and flicked her on the head, as if that could help someone sober up. "Here, it's time to eat. Just give me the money for the food later."
Shen Yue automatically looked towards the program team's location. She remembered that the rules this morning said everything had to be done independently, so being given food that she didn't buy herself was against the rules right?
However, the program team demonstrated immense unity in this moment, everyone turning their heads away.
As long as we turn away fast enough, we didn't see anyone breaking the rules.
Hey! You there, filming the livestream! Turn the camera away from my sister Yue! Really doesn't understand anything, does it? How'd it get in here? Is it using connections?
Shen Shuangyi noticed Shen Yue's gaze and lightly smiled. "Don't worry about anything else, just eat."
Shen Yue oh'd and was just about to reach out to take the food, when what she took was Shen Shuangyi's hand instead.
Shen Yue: ?
I don't eat human hands, thanks.
And so amidst Shen Yue's turmoil, Shen Shuangyi held the lunchbox in one hand and Shen Yue's hand in the other, and took her to the dining hall to eat.
Shen Yue took a look at the dishes in front of Jiang Shiwen and Zou Xuerong, not bad.
Looks like these two already possessed the ability to survive independently.
Unlike her, who only knew how to sleep.
She knew it was wrong of her to be like this, but she...was too lazy to change.