Marriage And Love Again

Actually, Suny was discovered and invited by the talent scouts when she was sixteen. But she had never thought of starting her career in the entertainment circle, so she never gave them a positive answer. When she first went to college, some agents even contacted her instructor to ask her whether she agreed to sign the contract or not. As long as she agreed, they would invest ten million dollars to popularize her, but Suny wasn’t convinced. And Suny wouldn’t have come to the crew to record the show if Alicia hadn’t been pestering her unceasingly.

This variety show, named Run Forward, was a show in that participants had to fight their path through the difficulties both physically and mentally, and most of it would be filmed outdoor. Five teams were going to join Run Forward this season. Each team consisted of a star and an ordinary person, among which included the new actor Shawn Browns, the best supporting actor for the year and his friend Sam Winters, the popular young actress Shirley Summers and her bosom friend Maple Woods, the new generation singer Joseph Williams and his elder brother Matthew Williams, as well as the skilled actor Kelvin Smith who regained his popularity last year, and his friend Donald Ford.

After they finished doing makeup, the compere told the guests to gather outside and introduced them one by one, and then they were told to know each other in a few minutes.

Suny was so dead-gorgeous that very few of the stars in the entertainment circle today could out-compete her. Quite a few wondered whether Joan was helping Suny to make her first debut when they saw Suny’s face. But, anyone that could be able to take part in the show was smart enough to say the right things.

After the brief self-introduction, the compere began to show them how to play the game.

The introduction was brief enough. In a word, the guests would win the points based on their performance on the tasks every season. And, from the third season, the team with the least points would be weeded out of the show.Property of Nô)(velDr(a)ma.Org.

The play script given out by the show didn’t help at all, for they had only the names of the tasks on each season without details. And the task’s name for this season was “See the Forest through the Trees”. To ensure the feedback of the show, all the staff didn’t leak out any information during the filming and the guests had to figure it out all on their own.

This was the first season. As the investor’s friend, Alicia didn’t have any privileges. Usually, by no means would Alicia admit that she was not smart enough, but she was extremely confused when she read the verses on the card.

“The reflecting shadows of the mountains tiled on the water;

There are households living deep in the clouds;

Look into the distance, the water and mountains are green,

Look closely, the blossoms are so red to be enjoyed.”

But, Alicia wasn’t the only one to be confused. So were the others.

Shirley simply covered her face and screamed lightly, “Holy moly! What kind of clue card is it? Are they telling me to do the language test?”

Actually, Alicia couldn’t agree more with Shirley, but she had to keep her public persona as an aloof beauty, so she couldn’t say a word about it.

“Maybe!” Shawn laughed when he heard Shirley.

Suny stood by and didn’t say anything. She simply glanced at Alicia and then smiled, “I got it. Let’s go.”

Everyone was frozen when hearing what she said. Shirley’s friend Maple was an Internet celebrity, and she was jealous of Suny at the first sight of her stunning face. She couldn’t help to say something when she heard that Suny claim to have figured out the answer within a few minutes. “Really? Did you figure out something in it?”

In fact, Maple meant to tell Sunny not to play clever. But they were in front of the camera and she choked back with that sentence.

Alicia couldn’t stand any doubt against Suny and snorted, “Suny used to be the top scorer of the college entrance examination. Of course, she is much smarter than us.”

In the first place, Alicia didn’t mean to hurt anyone by saying that. Since she had been a veteran in this circle, she knew better than anyone else what she should say now.

What Alicia said flattered Suny but meanwhile classified her to be ordinary.

Maple wasn’t happy in her heart but she still smiled, “Oh, how impressive! But Shirley is pretty good enough! She was the top one in the grade.”

Shirley was so camp and said, “Oh, forget it! It was ages ago.”

Where there were people, there were competitions. Even the onlookers could smell the tension in the air.

“Are you coming or not?” Suny squinted at her while Alicia was about to talk back.

“You are the boss, Suny!” Alicia shut up immediately.

They turned and walked out of the park. Kelvin’s team and Shawn’s team were very clever. They followed up quietly though they couldn’t figure out the clues for the time being. Soon enough, only Shirley and Maple were left on the spot. Shirley had realized it and caught up with the others together with Maple.

As soon as she went out of the park, Suny tried to hail a cab on her phone. She saw the staff beside them were about to stop her. Then she raised her eyebrows and suddenly found several cabs across the road.

Suny got it immediately and smiled, “Let’s go. We’ll take a cab.”

“OK!” Alicia didn’t know what Suny was going to do, but she trusted Suny completely since she had known her for more than twenty years.

They got on one of the cabs quickly. Suny saw the camera as soon as she raised her head. Obviously, it was arranged by the crew.

“Please take us to the Water Cloud Mountain, sir.”

The cab driver showed the sign “occupied” and answered, “OK. Sit tight, ladies!”

The cab drove off slowly. Suny couldn’t help clicking her tongue when she saw the cabs following up in the rearview mirror. It seemed that the other guests were quick in action. They couldn’t guess it but they knew they could follow her.

Alicia saw it was only between the two of them, and asked her hastily, ” Tell me, dear Suny. How did you know that we have to go to Water Cloud Mountain?”

Suny squinted at her, took over the card, and pointed the characters in the quatrains.

“The reflecting shadows of the mountains tiled on the water;

There are households living deep in the cloud;

Look into the distance, the water and mountains are green,

Look closely, the blossoms are so red to be enjoyed.”

“Here! Take water from the first line, cloud from the second line, and mountain on the third line. Then you put them together and get Water Cloud Mountain.”

Alicia was brightened up all at once, ” You must bring me to the victory, Suny.”

Though she joined the crew with investing funds, Suny didn’t wish to see any shady deal in the show.

“Sure.” Suny laughed.

Alicia knew they were safe to win when hearing what Suny said.

But Alicia found the problem not long after that, “What’s the meaning of the last line?”

“I’ll tell you later.” Suny looked at her with a spurious smile.

After around forty minutes, the cab stopped at the foot of the mountain. Suny and Alicia were the first ones to arrive. The staff had been waiting for them there and gave them an envelope. Then they were told to pick one path among the three to go up the mountain.

Without any hesitation, Alicia picked the easiest way to go up the mountain – by cable car, but Suny turned it down. And she picked the tourist path instead of the winding mountain road.

“It’ll take at least two hours to go up to the top from here, right? Suny, I’ll lose my legs for it! Gosh!”

Alicia totally gave up keeping her image and tried to persuade Suny to change her mind by acting cute. Suny looked at her and said, “Don’t you want to win?”

In no time, Alicia took her hands off Suny and chanted briskly, “Here we go! It’s been a long since we went hiking last time. Summer is scorching and it is cool under the tree. So, this little path is extremely nice!”

Suny smiled and went up on the path with the hint.