"Help, this is so miserable, but also so hilarious."
"Sure enough, variety shows are no fun if the guests aren't being tormented."
"So why is Yan Xianjue at the top of the food chain again?"
"Didn't you see the tags? The production company for this show is Random Entertainment, and the investor is Yan Xianjue himself. There's no additional funding and no advertising sponsors. Yan Ci personally confirmed that the streaming platform belongs to their family."
"I'm dying, so it's 'Director's team: I can still tell the difference between one fragrant meal and a lifetime of fragrant meals.'"
"It was a little strange, but also a little reasonable."
"Reasonable my ass! Isn't this complete nonsense? This is a travel variety show! If the boss gets special treatment just because he joins the show, what's the point of playing?!"
"It really makes sense. Think about it—Yan Xianjue's line was obviously prepared by the production team to assign tasks to the other guests."
"So Yan Xianjue is a quest NPC?"
"Not exactly. I just mean Yan Xianjue is kind of like the big cat I keep at home. Every day, it watches the stupid two-legged creature—meaning me—go out hunting and come back with offerings of cat food. If I come home empty-handed, it looks at me like I'm an idiot."
"I looked at my cat overlord yawning on my bed, then at Yan Xianjue sprawled on the sofa and yawning on-screen. For a moment, I couldn't tell which one was the substitute for the other."
"So this show is substitute... substitute fiction?"
"Now that I think about it, this episode is in a coastal city, so the guests' hunting means going to the shore to catch fish and bringing it back as an offering to the cat overlord. Why does that sound