"I'm sorry, if you don't have an invitation letter, you can't go through the VIP channel. I suggest you go through the general audience channel at the east gate. You just need to scan a code."

Cui Su was embarrassed by the formulaic answer. His facial muscles trembled twice and he reiterated, "I am very familiar with your sponsor Mr. Song. Their golf course is my backyard—"

Wang Baobao rolled his eyes and said, "Brother, can't you just go out from the east gate? Can you please stop embarrassing yourself here?"

Tan Yu also shook his head helplessly, showed his work ID to the staff, and walked in swaggeringly.

Cui Su felt even more aggrieved. He looked at Chong Jianzhi behind him provocatively, thinking, if I can't get in, you definitely can't get in either!

Unexpectedly, the staff member in charge of sign-in immediately changed his expression after seeing Chong Jianzhi. Without asking for any credentials, he stood up and called "Mr. Chong" very respectfully.

"Boss Chong, Boss Song is waiting for you inside, please come in."

"Why? Why don't you let me in but let him in!"

The staff member turned around and returned to his usual formal expression: "Sorry, if you don't have an invitation letter, you can't go through the VIP channel. We recommend that you go through the general audience channel at the east gate. You just need to scan a code."

Chong Jianzhi had already entered the venue first. Nie Zheng felt sorry for Cui Su when he saw his pitiful look on his face. He tugged at his brother's sleeve and gave him a look.

Chong Jianzhi immediately understood and turned to the staff and said, "He is my friend, let him in."

Cui Su was seen following behind a few people with a frustrated look on his face. Although he was wearing big logos all over his clothes, he looked inexplicably embarrassed.

Baby Wang saw all of this. Under normal circumstances, she would definitely make a joke, but this time, she suddenly couldn't speak.

I even felt that Cui Su was a bit pitiful.

I am really crazy, Wang Baobao thought helplessly.

All VIP spectators invited by the organizers were placed in the first row of the spectator seats.

There were no spectators in the preliminary and semi-finals, but there were suddenly so many spectators in the finals that Nie Zheng was actually a little nervous.

What's more, her brother was sitting in the first row, and she was afraid that she wouldn't perform well and her brother would be disappointed.

"It's okay. You can think of those people as gorillas. There's nothing to be nervous about when a group of gorillas are looking at you."

Feeling her nervousness, Chong Jianzhi gently comforted her.

Just one sentence made her laugh. She looked up at him and suddenly leaned closer to ask, "Brother, so you are also a gorilla?"

Chong Jianzhi didn't expect that he would get himself into trouble. He raised his hand and pinched Nie Zheng's neck, smiling helplessly: "If thinking this way can make you relax, then I can also be a gorilla."

Nie Zheng took a deep breath and indeed, she was not as nervous as before.

Seeing Deng Jin approaching from a distance, she took the initiative to greet him. The other party's expression was still indifferent, and he nodded slightly as a response.

"He is such a weird guy." Tan Yu couldn't help but say from the side.

Nie Zheng didn't think so: "He's just a little introverted."

"I heard that the contestants in Bei'an don't like him very much. They say that he is very arrogant and doesn't take anyone seriously."

"Just jealousy." Wang Baobao snorted disdainfully, "You are not as skilled as others, so you spread rumors about their bad character behind their backs."

Nie Zheng nodded: "That's right."

The competition was about to begin. Tan Yu set up the live broadcast equipment and Chong Jianzhi also returned to the VIP audience seats.

All contestants line up and wait for the draw.

There are 20 kinds of raw materials for making incense in the box. Each contestant draws lots and makes incense based on the theme of the lot he draws.

Nie Zheng hadn't expected that just drawing lots could cause such a small stir.

Deng Jin finished drawing first and was about to go back when he was bumped hard by the male contestant next to him.

Nie Zheng saw all of this. The male contestant apologized hypocritically, but it was obvious that he did it on purpose.

The notes that the two had just grabbed were knocked to the ground, and the male contestant picked them up first, and the two notes had been switched.

Deng Jin flipped open the note and took a look at the contents inside. They were completely different from what he had just caught.

The theme I originally grabbed was lilac, but it was changed to another topic.

There was a word clearly written on the note: Snake.

Even a perfume maker with many years of experience in perfume making would be dumbfounded when seeing this word.

Who would have thought that snakes could also be used to make incense? The male contestant was stunned when he saw the question. His mind went blank and all the incense recipes were useless.

At this time, the only thing he could think of was to exchange the note he caught with other contestants.

So he set his sights on Deng Jin.

After discovering that his note had been swapped, Deng Jin still had no expression on his face. He just folded the note and put it in his pocket.

Nie Zheng had just drawn a topic, the theme was "Orange". The topic she drew was relatively conventional, which could actually be considered good luck.

Walking to Deng Jin's side, she whispered, "Are you okay? I just saw—"

Before she finished speaking, Deng Jin replied calmly, "It's okay."

"I can accompany you to find the teacher who organizes the event."

Nie Zheng had seen through everything long ago. She didn't understand why Deng Jin didn't say anything even though he was being bullied.

"No need." After saying that, Deng Jin followed the number and walked to his seat.

"Every contestant has now drawn the theme of their incense making for this competition." The staff clapped their hands to the side, and suddenly, a whole red cloth fell down behind them, revealing hundreds of spices. "We have provided 128 spices as an aid. Each contestant can choose the spices they need, but they only have ten minutes."

The minute hand was pointing to twelve at this moment, and the staff clapped their hands again: "Ten minute countdown, start!"

Nie Zheng looked at the dazzling array of spices in front of her and began to think about all the scents related to orange.

Recalling her childhood, not long after she was adopted by her adoptive parents, her mother brought her into the incense-making room for the first time. It was also the first time she came into contact with incense in her life.

That scent is related to orange.

Even Chong Jianzhi didn't know why she liked Cheng Xiang so much.

On the first day she was taken home by her adoptive parents, she met Chong Jianzhi for the first time. He had just returned from school, and his parents told him that they had adopted a sister. Perhaps because he had grown up alone, he had always been lonely, and he was very happy to learn that he was going to have a sister.

He had always disliked interacting with strangers and kept people at a distance, but when he saw Nie Zheng standing alone by the sofa in the living room looking so uneasy, he actually felt a subconscious pity for her.

Picked up a fresh fruit from the coffee table and handed it to her——

"This is what Auntie just bought this morning. It's very sweet. Try it."

This was the first conversation between the two. Nie Zheng took the orange, put it to the tip of her nose and smelled it. The faint fruity fragrance wafted into her nose. That was Nie Zheng's first vivid impression of this new home.

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