Lick Him! Lick Him! Lick Him!

Zhang Zheng was mulling things over, while on the other side, Zhou Yiyi stared coldly at the curtain onstage, his face expressionless.

He knew he'd embarrassed himself this time.

He'd let some amateur nobody get the better of him.

Unacceptable!

Zhou Yiyi had already come up with ten thousand ways to deal with Dawei Tianlong.

As soon as this episode's recording ended, he'd go talk to his agent.

Even if the company couldn't do anything to the guy on Pure Voice, it had plenty of ways to handle him elsewhere.

Zhou Yiyi knew full well that he was the company's cash cow. Even the boss had to cater to him.

Did they know whose name ruled the Chinese music scene?!

Getting rid of some ugly amateur was easy!

Thinking of that cheered Zhou Yiyi up a little. He couldn't help glancing sideways at Feng Bingbing on the other end of the stage.

Tsk, tsk. That woman was gorgeous!

It'd be even better if he could get his hands on her.

"Mentors, shall we start voting?"

Seeing the atmosphere onstage growing increasingly out of control, Li Lan hurried to have the mentors vote.

"Wait."

Wang Xinzhe reminded them,

"I don't think contestant Xiao Qing has said anything yet."

In a PK round, both contestants got a chance to make their case after their performances.

Everyone had been so focused on Dawei Tianlong that they'd completely overlooked Xiao Qing.

Only then did Li Lan remember.

Right. This wasn't Brother Long's solo show. He still had an opponent beside him!

Li Lan immediately put on a casual smile. "Contestant Xiao Qing, is there anything you'd like to say?"

After a long silence behind the curtain, Xiao Qing's voice finally sounded.

"N-no, nothing."

Chi Yuting stood at one side of the stage, her face deathly pale. She looked like she was about to cry.

In her wildest dreams, she'd never imagined Lin Mu would be this talented.

He wrote songs brilliantly, sang with such power, and could play and perform all kinds of instruments.

And he had some nerve, too.

He was so handsome, yet he'd actually had the gall to call himself "plain-looking"?

That was shameless beyond belief!

Chi Yuting looked at Lin Mu in despair and anger, then lowered her head, her expression complicated.

On this stage, she was practically invisible now.

The mentors and audience had been going wild for ages, and not one of them had remembered she was there.

It was as if she wasn't even worthy of being Lin Mu's foil!

How tragic.

But...

I may be getting eliminated, but the good stuff is only just beginning.

Chi Yuting suddenly raised her head and looked at Lin Mu intently. The confusion on her face gave way to determination.

There was no doubt about it: with talent like Lin Mu's, he was destined to become a star.

So what I need to do now is...

Lick him! Lick him! Lick him!

Make him feel good, make him nice and wet. With talent as bottomless as his, if even a little of it spills out and I get to drink some, maybe I can become famous too!

Of course, she couldn't let Wu Tian go either.

It'd be best to keep both of these big fish in her pond.

As long as she managed her time well, she could have the best of both worlds and enjoy the pleasures of both!

The thought made Chi Yuting feel alive again.

She immediately forgot the gloom of her impending elimination and started focusing on how to lick Lin Mu properly.

Seeing that Xiao Qing had apparently given up, Li Lan didn't press her. The four mentors cast their votes.

First came the vote for Dawei Tianlong. The result was just as everyone expected: apart from Zhou Yiyi, the other three mentors pressed the blue buttons.

When it was Xiao Qing's turn, the result was the reverse: everyone except Zhou Yiyi pressed the red buttons.

In the end, Dawei Tianlong got three votes, and Xiao Qing got one.

"Congratulations to Brother Long for making it into the top sixty nationwide on Pure Voice!"

Li Lan announced the result with a delighted smile.

It was finally over. She really didn't want to share a stage with Dawei Tianlong again.

That guy never played by the rules. Every time, he put her improvisational skills to the test.

I'll have to ask Zisu later what the hell this guy's deal is!

The beautiful host fumed inwardly.

With the PK round over, Lin Mu walked offstage amid the audience's cheers of "Brother Long is awesome!" and "Long live ugly people!"

The backstage crew all stared at him with bemused expressions.

"He's unbelievable. He's so handsome, yet he calls himself ugly."

"That's infuriating! If someone who looks like that is ugly, what does that make me?"

The staff whispered among themselves, indignant.

The plain-looking deputy director walked over and tossed Lin Mu the contestant card confirming his place in the national top sixty.

"Come back the day after tomorrow to record the next episode."

Then he shot Lin Mu a cold glance and turned away.

Lin Mu was baffled. Hadn't the deputy director been quite friendly last time?

What was his problem?

"Hey! Ugly guy!"

A coquettish voice sounded behind him. Lin Mu turned around and saw Zisu standing right behind him, pretty as a picture.

"Now that the show's over, I'll take you out."

Lin Mu shook his head. "Thanks, but I know my way now. You're no use to me anymore."

With that, he walked straight out of the backstage area.

The staff nearby stared, stunned. Someone whispered,

"That idiot has to have no idea who Zisu is, right?"

"Heh. If he knew who Zisu was, he'd come crawling back to kiss up to her."

"Zisu's mad now. That idiot's in for a rough time next episode."

The ordinary-looking staff were all united in their hostility, hoping the fake "ugly guy" would get what was coming to him.

Zisu stared blankly at Lin Mu's retreating figure, then suddenly lifted her hands to her cheeks.

"Wow, so this is what it feels like to be rejected! I love it!"

The staff: "..."

Just then, Chi Yuting came down from the stage. She'd been about to go suck up to Lin Mu, but after searching for a while, she couldn't find him.

She pulled out her phone and called Lin Mu. They worked for the same company and crossed paths at work, so she already had his contact information.

But the call wouldn't go through.

Chi Yuting sent Lin Mu a message on WeChat, asking if he was free that evening.

Then she discovered...

Lin Mu had actually blocked her!

By then, the day's recording had ended, and the staff were busy packing up the equipment.

Chi Yuting hurried out of the recording hall to catch up with Lin Mu, only to find that he was long gone.

"He left so fast! Could he really have a date with another woman?"

As Chi Yuting wondered, she suddenly saw a familiar, pretty figure dart past up ahead, running in the direction Lin Mu had disappeared.

"Is that... Feng Bingbing?"

"Damn it, stop right there! I refuse to believe this!"

As soon as the recording onstage ended, Feng Bingbing rushed out of the hall. She asked a staff member and learned that Dawei Tianlong had left long ago.

Since the show kept contestants' information confidential, Feng Bingbing couldn't very well demand a photo of Dawei Tianlong from the staff.

So she went after him herself.

But even after chasing him outside Jiangrong Satellite TV's Underwear Building, she still couldn't spot any man who looked like Brother Long.

Suddenly,

Feng Bingbing's eyes widened.

Across the street, she saw a figure whose back looked extremely familiar.

"Is that... Senior?"