After making his decision, Duanmu Huai also looked through the script for the show and familiarized himself with the process.
This variety show was mainly built around pairing veterans with newcomers—in other words, one veteran entertainer with one newcomer. But if that were all there was to it, the show would lack any buzz. It would be as boring as those formulaic essays, so the production team required the veterans to give the newcomers a hard time, while the newcomers had to deal with their veterans' harassment.
For example, during the show, the veteran entertainer in each pair might do something nonsensical, even taking actions that caused the pair to lose points and get eliminated. The newcomer would then have to find a way to stop the veteran or clean up after him. The show was essentially a prank show, a test for the entertainers. The difference was that prank shows tested an entertainer's ability to react on the spot and their professionalism, while this show primarily tested their spirit of cooperation.
Of course, that didn't mean the veterans could do whatever they wanted. They also had to show restraint. Giving the newcomers a hard time was allowed, but they couldn't go too far.
That was one of the reasons that idiot model had been kicked off the show. Another was that he had hit on people before the show even started. To put it bluntly, it wasn't a big deal if an entertainer hit on someone after the show, but the filming hadn't even begun and he was already hitting on women everywhere. That showed he had no professionalism whatsoever.
Moreover, the reason Kuroki Office had put that model on the show was to create a contrasting persona for him: someone whose behavior was frivolous but who deeply respected