"How are we simulating it? Spill the details!" Jiang Mingxi looked at the director, his eyes shining.
The director smiled.
"The four of you will draw lots to form teams of two and become temporary couples. Together with today's visiting couples, you'll complete the couples-only games arranged by the production team.
"Guests who successfully complete the games while accompanying the tourists will receive task funds from the production team. Each task earns each person ten yuan.
"A team that fails a task gets ten yuan deducted. Per person."
Zhao Jiayuan jumped up in protest. "Why should we?! Yesterday, you said yourself that on Survival Challenge, the production team wouldn't interfere after giving us our starting funds!"
The director was perfectly brazen. "Exactly. Like you said, that was yesterday. Did I interfere with you yesterday? I'm interfering today!"
Zhao Jiayuan was furious. "You have no shame!"
The director declared resoundingly, "Correct!"
Zhao Jiayuan: ...
He opened his mouth, but couldn't squeeze out a single word.
[Hahahahahahaha, fuck, the sheer comedic tension in this conversation!]
[Am I the only one focused on 'the four of you'? What about Jiang Mingle?]
[After embarrassing himself this badly, forget Jiang Mingle. If I were him, I'd definitely withdraw. What's he staying for? To be a laughingstock?!]
[Hurry up and pair them off. I want to watch them do it!!!!]
[??? Girl!]
Having finished, the director gave Zhao Jiayuan no further chance to speak. He waved a hand and had the props brought straight out.
"Come on, open your blind boxes! Guests who get the same color will be today's couples!"
Hehehe~
I'll definitely make an exciting, challenging, one-of-a-kind Survival Challenge!
Although the production team had indeed come here to film to promote local tourism.
But!
What kind of good production team doesn't make things harder for its guests?!
His eyes brimming with a weasel's smile, the director smiled at his four chickens.
The first chicken, Jiang Ming Chicken, happily reached for a little box, tore it open in a few quick motions, and took out a little green frog.
Jiang Mingxi thrust his little frog into the air. "Green!"
Grumbling and swearing, Zhao Jiayuan opened the second box, then turned to Jiang Mingxi. "I'm green too!"
Jiang Mingxi grinned at him.
Song Lan glanced at Jiang Mingxi.
Last night, when he was facing me, his gaze couldn't have been more heated, and the things he said couldn't have been more...
Now he's this happy to be paired up with someone else?
Ungrateful.
Who stood up for him today?!
A trace of displeasure in his eyes, Song Lan grabbed a cardboard box at random.
Riiip~
He tore it open violently.
Red.
[Why do I feel like Song Lan looks a little unhappy?]
[He probably doesn't want to be paired up with anyone. He's always hated this stuff. When people spread dating rumors before, he personally stepped in!]
Chen Chong glanced at the green frog in Zhao Jiayuan's hand. "Well, there's no suspense left..."
Before Chen Chong could finish.
Jiang Mingxi zipped over to his side.
He shoved his green frog into Chen Chong's hands, then picked up the only blind box left on the tray with a toothy grin. "No suspense at all! Brother Chong and Zhao Jiayuan are a team, and Teacher Song and I are a couple! Yay, yay, yay! Teacher Song and I are both red!"
As he spoke.
Jiang Mingxi swiftly unpacked the frog in that blind box.
He moved his red frog right up beside Song Lan's, pressing them close together.
[???]
[Is Jiang Mingxi sick in the head? Just forcing himself on Song Lan for clout? So annoying! Can he fuck off?!]
[He clearly drew green. This is so shameless.]
[Okay, but am I imagining things? I feel like Song Lan just smiled a little.]
"You get what you draw! No swapping among yourselves!" Seeing Jiang Mingxi swap with Chen Chong, the director immediately tried to stop him.
Clutching his little red frog, Jiang Mingxi argued his case. "But you never said we couldn't beforehand. Now that I've already swapped, you're adding rules. I suspect you're targeting me."
The director stamped his feet. "If you're swapping among yourselves like this, what's the point of drawing blind boxes?!"
Jiang Mingxi looked incredulous. "You're asking me? You're the one who decided we'd draw blind boxes! Besides, this doesn't count as swapping. I drew the first green one for Brother Chong. This is the one I actually drew for myself.
"You never asked who I was drawing for!"
The director: ...
"Hahahahaha, serves you right!" Seeing the director left speechless, Zhao Jiayuan jumped up and laughed, getting revenge for earlier. "So even you get stumped sometimes!"
[Fuck, has this idiot still not realized he's going to be paired with Chen Chong?!]
[Shit, he definitely hasn't. That's our guy, his IQ is as worrying as ever!]
[I really deserve this for becoming his fan!]
Zhao Jiayuan's fans filled the bullet comments with mockery.
At the scene.
After letting out that mocking burst of laughter, Zhao Jiayuan turned his head-
Whoa!
So, after Jiang Mingxi's swap, he had to pair up with Chen Chong?
In any case.
The teams were settled.
The group arrived at the foot of the mountain out back.
Unlike yesterday, when they had needed to pick the tourists up in town.
Today, the production team had brought the prearranged tourists to the foot of the mountain in advance.
The first group heading up the mountain consisted of two couples.
One couple were university students, while the other were working adults about to get married.
None of the four guests minded showing their faces on the livestream. At the production team's direction, they cheerfully greeted the livestream audience.
They had already watched the livestream while waiting here at the foot of the mountain.
The university girl was lively. After introducing herself, she called out to Zhao Jiayuan, "My stupid son, make Mommy proud!"
Her boyfriend looked torn between laughter and tears. He quickly covered her mouth, then spoke for her. "Zhao Jiayuan, good luck!"
[Hahahahaha!]
[This girl is definitely a real fan!]
Just after the university girl's mouth was covered, the working young woman beside her finished introducing herself, cupped her hands around her mouth, and shouted to Jiang Mingxi, "Jiang Mingxi, take a chance and turn that bicycle into a motorcycle!"
[Are you people nuts?!]
[Jiang Mingxi is forcing himself on Song Lan for clout, and people actually ship them? I'm speechless!]
Jiang Mingxi hadn't expected anyone to cheer him on!
Instantly excited, he interlaced his fingers with Song Lan's and waved at the young woman. "Okay, okay, okay!"
[???]
[Fingers interlaced?]
[Song Lan didn't shake him off?]
[Song Lan probably doesn't want to embarrass him. Everyone knows Song Lan hates this sort of forced association and CP publicity the most.]
[Since when has Song Lan spared anyone's feelings? Last year, that actress with two Best Actress awards wanted to promote a CP with him, and he personally called her out. He didn't spare her feelings at all.]
[Uh, well... I'm not sure. I'll keep watching. I'll hold off on the insults for now!]
[You guys keep watching. I'm starting to ship them.]
But the instant Jiang Mingxi waved, the young woman's boyfriend glared at her with displeasure on his face. "What's wrong with you? What are you yelling for?!"
His voice wasn't loud.
The livestream audience couldn't hear him.
But because Jiang Mingxi had been looking at them as he spoke, he saw it perfectly clearly.