He turned around and looked toward the backstage area.
"The rules as I understood them were..."
"Outside Sin City, people stand together and treat each other kindly."
"But now I think I was wrong. It turns out... you only stand together with the people around you."
"Mm, that's how it works."
"So..."
"Stop deliberately inflicting serious injuries on Zhao Zicheng. He's a good person, and also... my friend."
"When my friends get bullied, I get angry."
Yu Sheng's voice was quiet, without much ferocity, yet everyone inexplicably felt a chill.
Whether out of shame or something else, most people lowered their heads and said nothing.
Yu Sheng, meanwhile, removed the coarse cloth from Fan Yun's mouth.
He took out his smartwatch and searched through it.
"Is he starting again...?"
Xu Yuanqing stared blankly.
Hadn't that just worked perfectly well? If he left the stage now, it would have the maximum impact.
Don't perform crosstalk again. Please don't...
Xu Yuanqing desperately wanted to rush up and stop Yu Sheng.
Yu Sheng crouched down and looked earnestly at Fan Yun.
"Perform some one-man crosstalk for everyone."
"Singing works too."
The audience, who had already braced themselves for torment, collectively fell silent, unable to quite understand.
Especially Fan Yun.
At that moment, his emotional wounds had even surpassed his physical ones.
He simply stared at Yu Sheng in bewilderment.
Then...
"I sur..."
Before he could finish shouting, Fan Yun saw Yu Sheng raise the coarse cloth and instantly shut his mouth.
"I don't know how."
"I can't remember the lines!"
Fan Yun spoke in a muffled voice.
"I have them here." Yu Sheng took off his watch and held it out before Fan Yun.
Under everyone's gaze, Fan Yun began his humiliating performance while reading from the watch, all while enduring the