The villainous second male lead at the beginning? No! He's the white moonlight!

Thirty minutes earlier, after Wu Lei announced the task, all 14 guests in 7 groups, including Ye Linyuan, Ye Qingcheng, Luo Qingyue, and Luo Qingge, fell silent.

No one expected that Wu Lei would give them such an outrageous, bizarre, and abnormally impossible task!

"Ye Linyuan, do you know how to forge swords?"

Luo Qingyue couldn't help but look at Ye Linyuan; she had essentially surrendered.

Although she knew that the sword forging competition was very popular abroad, and even had a lot of viewers in China, she had occasionally heard some of the terms used, such as "a nest of Q", "long kill", and "powerful book".

But just because she'd heard of it doesn't mean she'd ever thought about forging a sword herself. So she was completely clueless about this aspect.

So now she can only pin her hopes on Ye Linyuan. If even Ye Linyuan doesn't know, then she'll really have to figure out a way to get through the mountain path tomorrow.

According to the production team's logic, since they need machetes to clear the way, it means that tomorrow's mountain road will be very difficult to travel, and it is very likely to be in a remote, dense forest outside Haicheng.

Although she had learned wilderness survival skills and even practiced them, that was with all the necessary tools. Without them, she would have had a hard time managing.

The next moment, under Luo Qingyue's delighted gaze, Ye Linyuan nodded steadily.

He actually knew a thing or two about forging knives.

It wasn't a skill bestowed by the system, but rather something he had studied for a while when he was bored abroad and watching a sword-forging competition. With his powerful comprehension from his transmigration, he had even forged some small items back then, though they weren't swords.

"A-Yuan, you mean you can forge swords? That's wonderful!"

Seeing Ye Linyuan nod, Ye Qingcheng couldn't help but hug him from behind, burying her face between his two large breasts and giving him a neck massage that would make all the men present envious.

However, the people present no longer had time to be envious. They all focused their attention on Ye Linyuan, their eyes filled with inquiry and curiosity.

"Ye Linyuan can actually forge? This doesn't seem like it at all."

Zhao Lili looked Ye Linyuan up and down, noting his somewhat thin frame, and couldn't help but mutter to herself.

Upon hearing this, Chen Guangjun nodded in agreement.

"Yeah, I also don't think Ye Linyuan seems like someone who knows forging. Xiaoyu, do you think he's just putting on a show?"

Upon hearing this, Chen Guangyu shook his head.

"I don't think so. Maybe Ye Linyuan really does know it. After all, you can't judge a book by its cover. It's normal for a young master like him to have some skills that ordinary people don't."

"The main problem is that forging is a very difficult craft. Even among the older generation, not many people know this craft, let alone young people like Ye Linyuan. Perhaps only my father's generation knew it to some extent. After all, back then, farm tools were all handmade, unlike now where they are all machine-made."

Yu Chao's father, Yu Ze, couldn't help but speak up as well.

As the oldest member of the guest group, Yu Ze has experienced a lot. In his era, blacksmiths were not uncommon. After all, although farm tools were also machine-made, many rural areas still relied on blacksmiths to handcraft them.

Coincidentally, there was a blacksmith in their Yu family village at that time, and his skills were so good that the sickles and hoes in the old house in the countryside are still in use to this day!

It's a pity I didn't learn even a single move from him back then; I might be able to help my son now.

Thinking of this, Yu Ze looked at his son with some apology, but Yu Chao didn't understand why his father's eyes suddenly became so strange.

On the other hand, Zhou Keke and her mother Li Rong completely disbelieved that Ye Linyuan could forge iron. In their view, this was simply Ye Linyuan putting on a brave face, not wanting to lose face in front of Luo Qingyue, and pretending that he could do it when he couldn't.

Since things had already turned sour, Zhou Keke didn't care if the relationship worsened further. Besides, her family lived in a small county in the southwest. With their limited assets, even if the Ye and Luo families wanted to suppress them, they couldn't do so without resorting to underhanded tactics.

Their family is a scholarly family; the grandfather is a retired professor of Chinese literature, and the father is a well-known master of Chinese studies in the area. The family owns two buildings that they rent out.

The Ye and Luo families can't just refuse to let others rent their houses, can they?

That's outrageous!

"Young Master Ye, are you sure you really know how to forge swords? Don't think forging swords is easy just because you watched a few sword-forging competition videos online. A delicate young master like you with such tender skin, I think you should just give up."

"Yes, Young Master Ye, you'd better not try to be brave. Be careful not to hurt yourself, or you'll lose more than you gain."

"My mom is right. Forging knives requires countless hammer blows. Young Master Ye, you really can't do it. I think, given the show's usual practices, even though they gave us this task tonight, they probably guessed that none of us know how to forge knives. So, I think the show will definitely find a solution for us tomorrow."

As Zhou Keke finished speaking, Zhao Shuang, who had originally wanted to speak up to help Ye Linyuan, suddenly paused.

He hadn't thought of this at all, and just assumed the production team was deliberately making things difficult for them. Now that he thinks about it, it's not impossible; on the contrary, it's quite likely.

"That makes sense. No matter what, the production team won't just abandon us. At most, they'll try to trick us tomorrow. So we don't really need to do anything. We just need to follow the script and wait to jump into the trap they've set for us tomorrow morning."

Upon hearing Zhao Shuang's words, everyone showed expressions of sudden realization, followed by increasingly strange looks from each person.

This sounds like they know there's a trap, but they still line up to jump in, and even pretend they're honored to have jumped in...

Just when everyone present thought Ye Linyuan was putting on a brave face and had all given up on tonight's task, preparing to wait for the production team's help tomorrow, Luo Qingge, under the astonished gazes of Ye Linyuan, Luo Qingyue, and Ye Qingcheng, broke free from Ye Linyuan's embrace, ran up to Zhou Keke and Zhao Rong, and shouted loudly to them.

"You're not allowed to talk about A-Yuan like that! If A-Yuan says he'll do it, he definitely will! Xiao-Ge-Zi believes in A-Yuan!"

Looking at Luo Qingge, who was cute and harmless, Zhou Keke's eyes flashed with intense jealousy.

If I looked like Luo Qingge, I'd probably already be hooking up with some rich white guy, instead of being played like a prostitute!

"Heh, Luo Qingge, is that it? Only a fool like you would believe everything Ye Linyuan says. You actually think Ye Linyuan can break a sword? A rich young master like him breaking a sword? That's absurd!"

Ye Linyuan was in a good mood because Luo Qingge rushed out to protect him, but when he heard Zhou Keke dare to call Xiao Gezi an idiot, he could no longer suppress his anger.