Chapter 170
Chapter 170
Two weeks had passed since the livestream of You Are My Blessing ended.
Because the variety show had become so wildly popular, and because countless netizens were hoping to see the guests reunite for a comeback, the Program Team went through several rounds of negotiations and finally managed to invite Ning Xi, Xie Lanchen, Jiang Sheshe, Wei Xuan, Fu Zhi, and Qin Se to record a watch-party segment.
As for the two guests who did not come…
Ever since the variety show ended, the Program Team had been unable to get in touch with Ning Mingyue.
Shen Yibai, meanwhile, had to go abroad to discuss some collaborations, and his schedule did not line up with the Program Team’s, so he could not attend.
Youai Villa.
Director Qin rubbed his little hands together, his face glowing with joy. “Long time no see! Life in the villa has come to an end, and now that everyone is back here again, I’d like to know how you all feel.”
The camera went to Ning Xi first.
Ning Xi: “The Program Team offered too much…”
She had already joined the crew of The Chess Game ahead of schedule. Who would have thought You Are My Blessing would still need to record a comeback episode?
Originally, she had wanted to turn them down, but the appearance fee from the Program Team was just too generous…
[What a refreshingly plain and honest reason]
[Our bestie really is that straightforward]
Jiang Sheshe looked Director Qin up and down. “Director, did you gain weight? Was your little belly always this big?”
Director Qin, who had been stabbed out of nowhere: “…”
The variety show had done so well after it aired. What was wrong with eating a little more these past two weeks because he was in a good mood?!
Director Qin said, “I am under no obligation to answer that!”
Jiang Sheshe mocked him. “Haha! Did I hit a nerve?”
[Sister Jiang’s mouth is as good at offending people as ever]
[Dumb in a reassuring way]
Still, returning to Youai Villa after two weeks, Jiang Sheshe did have something to say.
“During this time, I realized men are like the subway. If you miss this one, the next one arrives in five minutes.”
She had thought she would be sad for a very long time after completely giving up on Wei Xuan.
But once the variety show ended, she drove her several-million-yuan Maserati back to her several-thousand-square-meter villa and drank red wine worth hundreds of thousands per bottle. Jiang Sheshe really could not bring herself to be sad.
Especially since…
“Ning Xi recently recommended a boy group survival show to me. I’ve been watching it every day, and I don’t have the mental bandwidth to think about anything else at all.” When Jiang Sheshe mentioned the boy group, her eyes shone brighter than usual.
Ning Xi, who had felt something ominous the moment Jiang Sheshe opened her mouth, finally had her suspended heart die completely after hearing that sentence.
Beside her, Xie Lanchen gave an “oh,” as if he were extremely curious. “What show is so good?”
Jiang Sheshe spilled everything like beans from a bamboo tube. “It’s Debut! Boy Group, the show that’s super popular on Tomato TV lately. There are a hundred male trainees participating in it…”
As she grew more excited, Jiang Sheshe took out her phone and pulled up the official video account for Debut! Boy Group. The account’s latest video was one trainee’s “Lightsaber Transformation Challenge.”
Under purple mood lighting, the lightsaber swept past the smooth, sexy lines of his biceps.
Jiang Sheshe watched and swallowed. “Now this boy group hits different!”
After Xie Lanchen finished watching the entire video, he looked at Ning Xi, who was trying her hardest to pretend nothing had happened, and gave a soft laugh. His voice was gentle.
“So Teacher Ning has been so busy lately because you’ve been following this show.”
Anyone else hearing those words would only think Xie Lanchen was truly good-tempered and gentle.
But Ning Xi, who was coming to understand more and more just how jealous this man could be: “…”
She could explain!
She had debuted from this same series of survival shows back then, and the director wanted her to appear as a senior on the finale night of Debut! Boy Group as a guest performer, so that was why she had been following this show!
If you were going to do something, you had to do it to the best of your ability. Watching the entire show, and while she was at it watching all the trainee videos posted by the official video account, counted as professionalism!
As for that so-called Lightsaber Transformation Challenge video… Since it had already been posted on the video account, it wasn’t like she could deliberately skip it!
Otherwise, wouldn’t it make her seem like she thought that kind of video was somehow special?
The more Ning Xi thought about it, the more justified she felt!
Fu Zhi, who had been uncharacteristically quiet ever since arriving, watched this scene with a thoughtful expression.
On the other side…
Wei Xuan, who had not managed to strike up a conversation with Jiang Sheshe this whole time, saw the infatuated expression she wore while looking at the boy group in the video, and his face darkened slightly.
But very soon, he returned to his usual warm, spring-breeze smile.
Wei Xuan smiled faintly. “These past two weeks, I’ve been working hard to make up for the mistakes I made before. I want to win back someone very important…”
As he said this, Wei Xuan kept his gaze fixed firmly on Jiang Sheshe.
Anyone with eyes could tell who the “someone very important” in Wei Xuan’s words was.
But as the “subway that had already been missed,” Jiang Sheshe had completely lost interest.
After she stopped liking Wei Xuan, she realized there were still so many handsome men in the world!
And every single one of them was a male bodhisattva, posting all kinds of thirst traps online… No, videos showing off their physiques.
Jiang Sheshe finally realized what she had missed out on by insisting on hanging herself from one tree!
She was so young, so beautiful, and so rich. Men should be the ones chasing her!
Why should she keep pining after a man who strung her along?!
After two weeks, Jiang Sheshe had completely let go of Wei Xuan.
But a variety-show watch party was basically a public execution.
When Jiang Sheshe saw herself in the first episode, fawning over Wei Xuan the moment the guests first appeared and calling him “Brother Xuan” this and “Brother Xuan” that, she looked straight at Director Qin.
“How much will it cost to cut all these scenes of me out?!”
Director Qin had already taken in so, so, so, so much advertising money lately that he was getting tired of it. As for Jiang Sheshe’s “unreasonable” bratty idea, he did not take it seriously at all.
“Time for the intermission-we’re going to play a little game to liven up the mood.”
Director Qin took out ten paper balls of different colors.
“Each guest will choose one paper ball and complete the task written on it.”
Ning Xi’s fingers landed on a green paper ball.
Director Qin’s eyes lit up.
Ning Xi decisively switched to the purple paper ball beside it.
Disappointment showed on Director Qin’s face.
So Ning Xi confidently unfolded her paper ball. The moment she saw what was written on it, her smile froze.
“What did your slips say? Mine says to dance a popular routine-” Jiang Sheshe finished reading Qin Se’s slip, then looked toward Ning Xi.
After she saw what was on Ning Xi’s slip, the corner of her mouth couldn’t help twitching.
“Publicly show the chat history with the person you most recently messaged.”
Ning Xi held the paper ball up to the camera.
The Danmaku instantly came alive.
[Just look at Ning Xi’s troubled face, it’s definitely Xiao Xie!]
[Family, we’ve made it. We get to see a female celebrity’s chat history with her boyfriend!]
[I wonder what Ning Xi says to her boyfriend when she’s dating? Xiao Xie is such a flirt, it has to be super sweet!]
[Will there be parts unsuitable for minors? Hehehehehe]
Ever since Ning Xi had gone public with her relationship with Xie Lanchen, the topic had stayed high on the trending searches.
Almost every frame of the two of them appearing together on the variety show had been watched, rewatched, and polished to a shine by CP fans and netizens.
Right now, the whole internet was very invested in this young couple’s everyday dating life.
However, when the netizens saw the couple’s latest chat history, they all fell silent.
Ning Xi: “M’lord, dry morning! good monkey! Sory to borthur you, wood m’lord like to go craazy the streets with this humble scholar? We can get some Honey Snow Ice City, and when we craazy tired we can take a resty. This humble scholar feels m’lord is looking a bit HD. I neglected m’lord a while back, but I believe m’lord is not the kind of pearson to be flawesome and revengeful. Hope there isn’t any musturd in your heart anymore. See jewel, luv, love you one quilt, mwah mwah da.”
Xie Lanchen’s reply was no less impressive: “See you at middle cow. I’ll pick you up to drink one cup of office. I’ll pay monkey. Luv you.”
[………………]
[Can you two bears please read a book]
[Whose illiterate period-drama leads are these? Come collect them]
[I’m laughing so hard it hurts]
[I don’t dare play this meme. I’m scared people will really think I’m illiterate]
[What kind of mutually devoted illness is this]
[Who can confiscate these two people’s phones?]
[Everyone, that’s enough. Where you can scratch someone, scratch them, okay]
Once the chat history was revealed, everyone on set burst into laughter.
For this recorded broadcast, the Program Team had specially prepared a giant Danmaku screen so everyone could see the live Danmaku and interact with the audience in real time.
When Ning Xi saw the netizens’ Danmaku, her spine, which had stayed straight for over a decade, finally bent.
She looked at Director Qin. “Are you happy now? You cold, heartless man. I will never forgive you. Never!”
Xie Lanchen tried to salvage Ning Xi’s image. “Actually, we don’t usually talk like this…”
Unfortunately, the effect was negligible.
[Do you believe that? I don’t]
[Reading the comment section has me feeling tax-evasive]
[Netizens, I love you one quilt]
[I pull you one pants]
[Big Socks up ahead, you’re not being lovely]
The netizens had already sunk completely into illiterate literature and no longer knew heaven from earth.
The situation was utterly out of control.
The corner of Director Qin’s mouth twitched. Then he brought out another trump card. “Now it’s time for the second guest, Xie Lanchen, to open his paper slip.”
Xie Lanchen’s gaze flicked toward Ning Xi without leaving a trace.
Ning Xi instantly got Xie Lanchen’s hint.
No, seriously?
Was the Program Team determined to hunt them down today?
Yes.
The Xi-Lan Flower CP’s traffic was simply too high.
After the variety show ended, although the two had already made their relationship public, they had kept a low profile.
Unable to get any sugar, the netizens had turned the pressure onto the Program Team of You Are My Blessing, calling every day under Director Qin’s social media posts for the Xi-Lan Flower CP to reunite.
Now that he had finally managed to invite Ning Xi and Xie Lanchen, Director Qin naturally wanted, for the sake of popularity, to expose more details of the Xi-Lan Flower CP’s life as a couple.
Xie Lanchen held the slip up to the netizens. “Publicly show the three favorite photos in your phone album from the past two weeks.”
[Aaaaaah! Director Qin, you deserve a place in the ancestral temple!]
[This couple really got set up today. Chat history, photos-not one single thing was spared]
[Program Team: Expose yours after exposing yours, then expose yours after exposing yours. Ah yes yes yes, just you two]
When Ning Xi saw that slip, her originally crossed leg slowly lowered.
Jiang Sheshe noticed and couldn’t help leaning over to whisper in Ning Xi’s ear. “No way. Do you two have photos that can’t be shown in public?”
Ning Xi slowly crossed her other leg and smiled brightly. “Just changing positions.”
Then she looked at Xie Lanchen with great interest.
She also wanted to know which three photos Xie Lanchen liked the most.
After confirming that Ning Xi didn’t mind the photo issue, Xie Lanchen gave Director Qin a chilly look before opening his phone album.
A chill ran down Director Qin’s neck. But when he thought of the heaven-sent popularity that would come from revealing details of the couple’s relationship, he hardened his heart, shut his eyes, and decided to pretend he hadn’t seen Xie Lanchen’s “threat.”
Xie Lanchen swiped a finger across his phone screen. After thinking for a moment, he put up the first photo.
The guests and the netizens all fixed their eyes on it.
And discovered-
It was actually a solo photo of Xie Lanchen?
The photo seemed to have been taken in a Western restaurant with elegant decor. Xie Lanchen was wearing a coffee-colored jacket, casually holding a transparent glass in his hand, lazy yet refined.
[Just brutally handsome. Bro’s face is still too authoritative]
[I thought Xiao Xie’s favorite photo would have something to do with Ning Xi, but I didn’t expect it to be a selfie]
[Wait, from this angle, it’s obviously not a selfie. Someone else took it!!!]
Youai Villa.
When Ning Xi saw the photo Xie Lanchen had chosen, she was also stunned.
Xiao Xie actually liked this photo?
Director Qin had the same thought.
“May I ask Mr. Xie Lanchen what meaning there is behind choosing this photo?”
Xie Lanchen lazily propped up his chin. On that beautiful but cool face, a faint smile appeared.
“Because this is a photo taken of me by the person I like.”