Once the round began, Lai Bingxuan rubbed her hands together eagerly. Without caring whether Xiao Jingxi was ready, she went ahead and shoved him the moment she felt like it.
Xiao Jingxi was still adjusting the microphone on his collar. Caught completely off guard by the shove, he nearly smacked his head against the barrel.
But the real ordeal came next.
Lai Bingxuan had put a good amount of force into that push. Xiao Jingxi slid into the circle, passing Qiu Chengye.
Qiu Chengye seemed to have been watching him all along. The instant he slid past, Qiu Chengye stood up and kicked him.
Xiao Jingxi: "?"
He could have stopped safely inside the circle, but instead, he went shooting sideways out of it, nearly crashing into the group of crew members standing on the left.
"AH!!!"
That howl came from Lai Bingxuan. "I already pushed him in! Qiu Chengye, what the hell is wrong with you?!"
"Nobody said that wasn't allowed." Qiu Chengye sounded perfectly justified. "Don't blame the road just because you can't walk straight."
"You-" Lai Bingxuan was so angry that she was about to go beat him up, but Director Niu stopped her.
"Miss Lai, the rules really don't say that's prohibited."
Lai Bingxuan gritted her teeth in fury.
Xie Mi stepped forward and calmly patted Lai Bingxuan on the shoulder.
"God of Wealth, send me five hundred on WeChat and I'll avenge you."
Without a second thought, Lai Bingxuan said, "I'll send you fifty thousand. I want Qiu Chengye dead!"
[You're even more ruthless.]
[I haven't stopped laughing this whole time. I'm seriously running out of oxygen.]
Rotating her wrists, Xie Mi walked up behind Yu Jinche, who had already obediently seated himself in the barrel.
Pretending not to see the calculation in Yu Jinche's