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Good grief, every single one of them was enthusiastically hyping up a CP, yet they all had steady partners in private. If this got exposed, would their show even be able to air?

As for the possibility that this would not get exposed?

Hilarious. With Chu Xiyue sitting there like a ticking bomb, Director had never even considered that possibility.

Hyped-up CPs really were a bad idea!

So Director could only change his plans at the last minute and settle for inviting some CPs who were not especially well-known—some of whom were even complete outsiders.

That was why the upcoming guests did not match the online rumors. Some people had not even heard the other party's name and had no idea who the Season Two guests were.

Director was on the verge of tears. Season One had been a huge hit, so they could originally have invited more famous celebrity couples. But with their show's reputation, every celebrity couple they invited had turned them down. Now they could only invite couples with little name recognition. How was that not a downgrade in consumption?

The third couple to move into the cottage had been married for twenty years. They were industry insiders who had enjoyed a period of popularity in their youth. These days, they mostly played the parents of male and female leads in various TV dramas and were known as professional lead-parent actors.

The fourth pair was an engaged couple. Neither worked as an entertainer, but both were in entertainment-related industries, making them half-insiders. They had also been childhood sweethearts, going from school uniforms to wedding dresses. That kind of relationship—

The final pair was also married. They were the owner and owner's wife of a foreign trade company somewhere in the north. Both were over seventy, and