Chapter 92

Chapter 92

Director Qin looked at Fu Zhi as he spoke, scratching his head with a complicated expression.

“Now what?”

[What is it now, my princess?]

[Fu Zhi: Every day it’s either this isn’t fair or that isn’t right. He can’t stand this person, and he can’t stand that person either.]

[I’m dying, it’s Mr. Discontent.]

“Look at this photo. One of my feet was also on the platform. Why can’t I get a point?” Fu Zhi argued righteously.

Everyone looked and realized it was true.

Although Fu Zhi had just been pulled down by Shen Yibai, at the moment the photo was taken, his entire body was in the air with one foot resting on the circular platform.

“This…” Director Qin fell into a dilemma.

Jiang Sheshe’s photo at least showed her climbing onto the platform, but Fu Zhi’s photo clearly showed him about to fall off the next second.

Seeing Director Qin’s reluctant expression, Fu Zhi let out a cold laugh.

“Given that both Jiang Sheshe and I were suspended in the air with one foot on the platform, why does Jiang Sheshe get a point and I don’t? My heart is trembling with cold rage. When will gender discrimination finally end? When will men be able to stand up-”

“Fine, fine, fine! This photo counts for a point, alright?!” Director Qin hurriedly interrupted him.

If he let Fu Zhi keep running his mouth like that, he was afraid he’d actually be dragged onto the trending searches for being a bigot.

Fu Zhi snorted, lifting his chin with a smug, condescending look.

Jiang Sheshe muttered under her breath, “He’s sick.”

Fu Zhi’s ears were sharper than anyone’s. Hearing Jiang Sheshe insult him, he shot back without a second thought.

“Don’t go handing out medical diagnoses just because your own brain doesn’t work right. Back when we were in the same ward, you were way worse off than me.”

Jiang Sheshe was so angry she was speechless. “You…”

Fu Zhi felt like he was terrifyingly powerful right now.

[As expected of someone specially trained by Ning Xi.]

[And he really is a menace to everyone equally, regardless of gender or age.]

Fu Zhi walked over to Ning Xi’s side in a victor’s pose, squeezing out the two eyesores, Qin Se and Xie Lanchen, in the process.

Qin Se wasn’t expecting it and nearly stumbled from the shove.

Xie Lanchen, however, was unfazed. He simply stood his ground calmly.

Fu Zhi tried to push him but couldn’t budge him. Remembering the scene where Xie Lanchen had rescued him earlier, he eventually just gave him a resentful glare.

He then looked at Ning Xi and asked triumphantly, “How was that?”

Ning Xi gave him a thumbs up. “You’re such a badass queen.”

“…”

After that, they played another round of the mud pit photo game. This time, the platform the camera pointed at was closest to Shen Yibai and Wei Xuan.

In the end, the people who made it onto the platform were Shen Yibai, Wei Xuan, Jiang Sheshe, Ning Xi, and Xie Lanchen.

At the final moment of the photo, Ning Xi covered Jiang Sheshe’s face with her muddy hands, giving her a facial mud mask spa treatment.

Jiang Sheshe was so furious she let out a scream like a boiling kettle. “Ah-!”

After three rounds of competition, the team of Ning Xi, Qin Se, Fu Zhi, and Xie Lanchen had 9 points. The team of Ning Mingyue, Jiang Sheshe, Shen Yibai, and Wei Xuan had 4 points.

“The team with the most points can discuss and decide the room assignments for tonight’s guests together,” Director Qin announced.

Ning Xi was delighted. “Hehe.”

“Additionally, because of the new guests joining us, the Program Team has added House No. 4. So tonight, the eight male and female guests will be staying in pairs, each pair having their own independent space!”
Ning Xi: Not smiling.

Allocating only three houses had been enough of a battlefield already. With four houses to distribute tonight, wouldn’t things descend into absolute chaos in a moment?

But this didn’t pose a challenge to Fu Zhi at all.

Fu Zhi pointed directly at Shen Yibai and Ning Mingyue. “The two of you will share a house tonight.”

He hadn’t done much to play matchmaker for Shen Yibai and Ning Mingyue lately, and he felt like Shen Yibai’s ‘seal’ was loosening. He needed Ning Mingyue to go and reinforce it.

Then he pointed toward Wei Xuan and Jiang Sheshe, but paused mid-motion, shifting his finger toward Wei Xuan and Qin Se instead.

“These two in one house. One has high emotional intelligence, the other has low emotional intelligence-they’ll complement each other perfectly.”

The truth was, he found Jiang Sheshe incredibly annoying, so he was determined not to let her have her way and stay in the same house as her crush, Wei Xuan.

As for who Jiang Sheshe would annoy tonight?

Fu Zhi raised his hand, intending to push Xie Lanchen toward Jiang Sheshe’s side. However, it was as if Xie Lanchen had eyes in the back of his head; he reached back and swatted Fu Zhi’s hand away with significant force.

“Hiss!” Fu Zhi winced in pain.

Does this green tea boy have palms of iron?

Fu Zhi glared resentfully at Xie Lanchen, only to unexpectedly collide with Xie Lanchen’s cool, predatory gaze. He cleared his throat guiltily.

“Then… Xie Lanchen will stay in a house with Jiang Sheshe. Both your names have three syllables; you’re a good match.”

As for him, he would just have to reluctantly share a house with the remaining person, Ning Xi…

Before the grin could fully spread across Fu Zhi’s face, a heavy smack landed right on his head.

“Get lost!”

Ning Xi withdrew her hand and rolled her eyes.

During the two previous nights she’d spent in a house with Fu Zhi, she had either nearly been poisoned to death by cockroach bait or hadn’t slept a wink because she was at the hospital. She would have to have water in her brain to agree to stay with Fu Zhi again.

“I don’t want that either. I don’t like sleeping in the same house as people I’m not familiar with,” Qin Se said coldly.

Fu Zhi vented his frustration directly on Qin Se. “Then how am I supposed to know who you’re familiar with? Out of everyone here, the only person you know is Ning Xi…”

Qin Se gave a hum of affirmation. “That works.”

Fu Zhi: …

[Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.]

[Case closed. Qin Se really did come to this variety show for Ning Xi.]

Fu Zhi suddenly felt as if he had swallowed a fly. “These rooms must be split between one male and one female, got it?”

He then shot a glare at Qin Se.

“Oh. Well, I’m of the opposite sex, and I also don’t want to sleep in a house with someone I’m not familiar with,” Xie Lanchen spoke up calmly.

Fu Zhi was truly going crazy. What did this have to do with Xie Lanchen?! As a new guest who had only arrived a few days before Qin Se, who could Xie Lanchen possibly be familiar with?

But he didn’t dare say those words out loud, fearing that Xie Lanchen would say he was familiar with Ning Xi, just like Qin Se had.

In short, not a single person agreed with Fu Zhi’s rooming arrangements.

In the end, they chose the oldest but fairest method-drawing lots.

However, this time, Ning Xi put a black mark on both her and Fu Zhi’s paper slips.

“This is to avoid me being grouped with Fu Zhi. You guys can also make marks on your slips. That way, you can ensure you only stay in a house with guests you can actually tolerate.”