What gets the people on top excited and the people below worked up?

Zhuang Luo immediately fell silent.

Seeing this, Li Weizhou did not dare speak up in his defense again either.

For one thing, he could not afford to offend Huo Yuchen; for another, what Zhuang Luo had said really was wrong.

Because this task was not just a matter of labor. It also involved their contracts.

-The contracts explicitly stated that any failure to cooperate in completing tasks that affected the quality of the show would be treated as a breach of contract!

In other words, once they were assigned a plot, they had to finish the required amount of work on time, or it would count as a breach.

And the consequences of a breach went beyond paying damages. It would also affect their popularity with viewers, and in more serious cases, even their other contracts and endorsements.

So it was not as though doing more or less made no difference. Rather, they should do as little as they could get away with.

And at a normal work rate, one person could plow at most half a mu a day. This meant that if they were unlucky enough to draw eight mu, they would have to work from dawn till dusk, day and night.

After all, the production team would also assign them other tasks every day, rather than just having them plow.

Everyone understood this perfectly well, which was why Xu Su had been so "aggressive" toward Zhuang Luo.

Bear in mind, Xu Su was being paid only three thousand for appearing on this variety show, while Zhuang Luo and the others were being paid millions.

Think about it: the same workload, but a world of difference in compensation. Who could feel good about that?

It was already a miracle that Xu Su had not blown up the planet, yet Zhuang Luo still had to put on an act in front of him. Was that not just asking to get chewed out?

But the viewers did not know the truth, so they argued endlessly-

Zhuang Luo's fans thought Xu Su was an ungrateful jerk:

[Talk about biting the hand that feeds you! Zhuang Luo shouldn't have comforted him!]

[That mouth of his, seriously. I want to charge in there and rip it apart!!!!!]

[If the domestic entertainment industry doesn't blacklist people who spend all day being obnoxious little shits, it's doomed sooner or later.]

Casual viewers thought Zhuang Luo said one thing and did another:

[People like Zhuang Luo are the ones I hate most at work. Fuck! He gets to say all the nice things, then when it's time to work, he's as delicate as a little white flower drifting in the wind. Useless at everything, and such a fucking bitch!]

[Zhuang Luo really was asking for trouble. Xu Su clearly wasn't nervous; he was just joking with Lu Jing. But no, he had to butt in with all that fake shit to make himself look so kind.]

[He knows perfectly well Xu Su doesn't like him, yet he insists on making a spectacle of himself in front of him. He totally deserved to get snapped at.]

The Huo Family Army, meanwhile, was curious about why Huo Yuchen had spoken up to stop Zhuang Luo:

[The crown prince was probably just tired of being stuck in the middle listening to them. I don't think he was helping Xu Su.]

[I also think the crown prince was just sick of listening. He wasn't targeting or siding with either of them.]

[But he's been looking at Xu Su the whole time.]

Other casual viewers questioned why Li Weizhou had not continued speaking up for Zhuang Luo:

[Why aren't you snapping at Xu Su anymore? Got something on your mind?]

[He treats people according to their status, obviously. Once Huo Yuchen speaks, who dares step out of line?]

[Looks like even the truest love has to yield to power.]

Everyone had their own opinion.

At the filming location.

"Tweet, tweet!"

The whistle blew, and the game began.

Director Yu: "First question: what gets the people on top excited and the people below worked up?"

Everyone: "???"

This was supposed to be a literature and history quiz???

The live comments: [?!?]

Was this a respectable show?!?

Xu Su: "?...!"

These were brainteasers?!

Xu Su's eyes lit up, and he quickly wrote down his answer without waiting for Huo Yuchen to give him a hint.

For no other reason than that he knew the answer!

Back when he had worked as a deliveryman for a mysterious organization in his original world, he had once received an errand order like this:

"I got together with my boyfriend's husband's lover behind my boyfriend's back. Now my boyfriend's husband's wife is feeling a bit sad and needs comforting. Go to Book City and buy a few books of brainteasers for me, then read them to her one by one. She loves listening to those. They're sure to cheer her up.

"PS: call me when you finish reading so I can ask her out to have some fun."

Seriously, who could understand what he had gone through? He had read fifteen whole books of brainteasers until his lips were practically bleeding, and still failed to cheer that sad woman up!

In the end, it had taken firefighters risking their lives to rescue her and bring her down from the roof of the 108th floor.

Sigh. What a sin. And to think he had shouted himself hoarse reading on the ground floor.

Still, thank goodness what goes around comes around, and good people get rewarded!

All the suffering he had endured back then had turned into today's blessing!

"Ding!"

The timer rang.

Xu Su quickly held up his whiteboard: "A concert."

Huo Yuchen calmly held up his whiteboard: "A concert."

Lu Jing shyly held up his whiteboard: "do i"

Shen Chuanzhu held up his whiteboard without batting an eye: "z-a"

Zhuang Luo bashfully held up his whiteboard: "❤❤"

Li Weizhou awkwardly held up his whiteboard: "love love"

[Holy shit! Six answers, and four of them are sexual!]

[Director, is this really something you can broadcast?]

[My grandpa is watching the livestream with me. He's asking if people in the city are already this open-minded. If so, he's going into town tomorrow to find me a step-grandma.]

[I clicked in by accident, couldn't believe my eyes and clicked out, then clicked back in because I wasn't sure. Honest question: are they going to demonstrate what they've written in a minute?]

After reading everyone's answers, Director Yu went completely numb.

"...What are you all doing??"

Because of the angle, Xu Su had not seen the others' answers yet. Seeing Director Yu's strange expression, he craned his neck to take a look.

"Holy shit!"

"Those answers are so yellow!"

He exclaimed in amazement.

Seeing this, Huo Yuchen also glanced curiously to the side.

"!"

He said nothing, but his abruptly widening eyes expressed his inner shock.

Xu Su sat back. "Director, this is a respectable show, right?"

Director Yu's peculiar gaze swept over the other four. "The show is respectable..."

But whether its celebrities were respectable was another matter.

The suspected unrespectable celebrities had now also finished reading everyone else's answers. Li Weizhou frowned and asked, "Director, are our answers wrong?"

Director Yu's expression was stern and serious. "Of course they're wrong!"

He loudly announced the correct answer: "-A concert!"

Everyone: "..."

Xu Su and Huo Yuchen earned one point.

[I already fucking called to report this, and now you're telling me that's the answer???]

[These answers indirectly reveal what's going on in their heads. [Chuckle][Chuckle][Chuckle]]

[Director, be even more twisted. I like watching this.]