"Congratulations to all of you on completing the challenge. The following will be to punish the guests who have not completed their personal tasks."
As the director's voice sounded, the four people ended their chatting time and resumed their normal recording state.
The staff came up with a plate, and four cups were placed on it and they were neatly filled with green liquid.
"Jia Jie Mao, you held out your hand to the doctor, and you've completed your task"
"Sheng Xing Ze, you pushed the designated player to the female ghost, you also have completed your task."
"Zhang Shi Jing, you did not complete the task of writing a love letter to the doctor. Hui Si Yong, you did not get the hidden clues in the organs, so the two of you have to be punished by drinking the fairy water specially prepared by our production team for you."
"A mouthful of fairy water to leap into a fairy life."
"How can a girl like myself write a love letter to him." Zhang Shi Jing complained with dissatisfaction, "And there was no pen and paper."
"There are pens and papers in the doctor's office, but you didn't go." Liang Qing said without beating around the bush.
In every variety show of Liang Qing, girls seldom went for weak personalities, and all of them were females with strong personalities. Even if they were occasionally charming, they were definitely tougher than some male guests at key moments.
Therefore, Liang Qing's variety show was also dubbed "the Training of a Stronger Female", Liang Qing agreed with this title very much. He also said that girls are not without spoiling nature, but it is wrong to rely on others for everything.
Zhang Shi Jing's face was turning from red to pale, and like the other three, she only signed one episode contract. Liang Qing said that he wants to see their performance before deciding whether to sign them as permanents. As soon as Liang Qing said this, Zhang Shi Jing knew that she had no chance with "I have an Agreement with Ah Piao''.
Thinking of going back to the sanction of her manager after the show, she had to follow the agent's command to accompany those lustrous bosses. Zhang Shi Jing felt a chill in her heart.
Seeing that the variety show would be gone from her grasp, Zhang Shi Jing took the punishment by chucking down the shot in one go. Tears started to come down her cheeks, not sure if it was from the taste of the drink, or it was of weeping for her unknown future.
Sheng Xing Ze looked at her red eyes, and could not feel sympathy for her in his heart. This is the case with the entertainment industry. If she does not understand its rule well, she is destined to be eliminated.
Hui Si Yong naively thought that Zhang Shi Jing was crying because of the bad taste drink. He snuck up and smelled it, then his face was disgusted.
"Are you the devils? I'm afraid I will go directly to heaven as a fairy after this cup." He shouted distortedly.
"Then don't lose next time." Liang Qing replied to him indifferently. He did not feel the pain of his nephew's punishment.
Hui Si Yong swallowed a whole glass with a squeeze of his nose. Sheng Xing Ze hurriedly handed him a glass of water to rinse his mouth. Hui Si Yong almost finished drinking a whole glass of water before barely covering the mysterious taste of the punishing drink.
"I don't want to taste it again, I'm a fairy now." With a sugar in his mouth which was given by Jia Jie Mao, Hui Si Yong showed an indescribable face.
The punishment part was completed in a harmony, and nobody cared about the few tears that Zhang Shi Jing dropped.
At this point, the recording of the first episode officially ended.
Before leaving the site, Sheng Xing Ze whispered to Liang Qing, "Uncle Liang, will the next one be a horror theme as well?"
Liang Qing smiled mysteriously, "You know when you come."
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After leaving the recording site, Sheng Xing Ze did not rush home, but detoured to Yu Bai's filming site to look around.
When he arrived at the filming site, Yu Bai was having his shots. Mi He Qiu distributed the dim sum and tea they bought for everyone while Sheng Xing Ze coaxed the people around him with his sweet tongue.
When Yu Bai saw him coming, he was in a better mood, and he helped to bring out the right mood from other actors in the scene for the shot, and he soon completed the shooting.
The director saw that Yu Bai had no intention of continuing the next scene, so he just let Yu Bai go to chat with Sheng Xing Ze.
He jealously pulled Sheng Xing Ze out of the crowd, Yu Bai dragged Sheng Xing Ze into his own resting lounge and stuffed a cup of hot tea into Sheng Xing Ze's hands.
"How come you come here?"
Sheng Xing Ze took a sip of the hot milk tea, a warm feeling running down his throat and to his stomach.
"Would you believe it if I said I want to see you?" Sheng Xing Ze casted a wink at Yu Bai.
"We just saw each other in the morning," Yu Bai realized that when he said this, they were only being seperated for half a day, yet it seemed like several days.
He did not expect that his mood would be affected for not being able to see the other man for one day.
Sheng Xing Ze and Yu Bai joked with each other for a while, then they cleared their throat to return to the topic, "I recommended to Mr. Liang to have you participate in "I Have an Agreement with Ah Piao", which is the variety show I'm in right now."
"Huh? Why?" Yu Bai sat beside him, putting his hand behind Sheng Xing Ze's backrest, showing a gesture of holding him in his arms.
Sheng Xing Ze's attention was being attracted by the big white bunny that he had given to the man in Yu Bai's lounge, and he did not notice Yu Bai's excessive intimate posture.
"It was for sure that Zhang Shi Jing won't be coming back for future episodes. Now it is quite difficult to find someone who is also a newcomer like us on the show, who also has the same popularity and can quickly adapt to the show." Sheng Xing Ze moved his head and brushed his head on Yu Bai's arm in the back.
"Also, Zhang Shi Jing posted on Weibo before that she is the permanent guest on the show, and her fans won't be happy to see a newcomer to replace her; they might start to attack the newcomer. All newcomers who have just debuted would not want to get themselves into such a situation, it would affect their image in the people's eyes. However, it would be a different story if we were to have someone who has higher status and more popular than us. They all have seen Zhang Shi Jing's performance on the show, now with her being replaced by a more famous veteran, her fans won't be able to say anything but to suppress their opinions."
Sheng Xing Ze carefully analyzed the tactic, but his eyes were constantly being attracted by the bunny. He could not help but stand up and walk towards the bunny.
Yu Bai unconsciously reached out wanting to hold the corner of Sheng Xing Ze's clothes, but he quickly reacted that Sheng Xing Ze would not leave any time soon.
Sheng Xing Ze took the bunny into his arms and sat back in his place again. Yu Bai quietly withdrew his paw and continued to place it on the back of Sheng Xing Ze's backrest casually.
"What do you think? Film Emperor Yu, you must have never been on a variety show," Sheng Xing Ze tilted his head, and the hair on the back of his head was directly resting on Yu Bai's arm.
Yu Bai's tactile nerves all seemed to gather on his arm in an instant, and suddenly his body got stiff, "I...I'll think about it."
"If you agree, Mr. Liang will be more than happy to have you on the show if nothing unexpected happens. Film Emperor Yu's first variety show will get the best ratings of all time." Sheng Xing Ze turned his head to look at Yu Bai.
Yu Bai nodded blankly, and his face got all tense up.
"Your face is all red," Sheng Xing Ze stretched out his finger and poked Yu Bai's cheek. The hot touch on the fingertip made Sheng Xing Ze suspect Yu Bai was having a fever.
Yu Bai's face got even redder after being poked by Sheng Xing Ze, his whole body was like a cooked shrimp bouncing inside a saucepan, his whole body got all numbed.
Sheng Xing Ze touched Yu Bai's forehead, and then placed his own forehead onto the man's forehead.
"You seem to have hay fever, you should ask to take a day off," he said worriedly.
In Yu Bai's eyes, only Sheng Xing Ze's lips were getting closer, just a bit more closer.
I don't have a fever, it's just my instinctive response.
Yu Bai thought.
When Sheng Xing Ze arrived, Yu Bai had completely lost the motivation to do his scenes, and the director suggested that Yu Bai take Sheng Xing Ze back to the hotel.
"The two of us seem to enjoy coming to the hotel." Sheng Xing Ze said.
Yu Bai instantly misunderstood, "Huh?"
Sheng Xing Ze did not continue the topic. He took off the little koi hanging around his neck and placed it down into his palm.
"Film Emperor Yu still hasn't answered me yet, would you like to record a variety show with me?" He shook the little koi in front of Yu Bai's eyes.
"According to Mr. Liang's current logic, we all will be even more miserable in days to come. Your little koi can't protect me anymore." Sheng Xing Ze said with a heavy tone.
"I protect you," Yu Bai raised his hand and rubbed Sheng Xing Ze's head. It seemed that he should discuss with Tao Yi Ning about participating in the variety show.
After Yu Bai said that sentence, there was a long silence again in the room. The two people looked at each other like they were having a staring contest, no one spoke.
"So you agree?" Sheng Xing Ze asked with uncertainty.
"I agree, I can't refuse your request." Yu Bai said helplessly.
Sheng Xing Ze did not hear the underlying meaning behind Yu Bai's words, so he took out his phone and asked the man with a smile of what he wanted to have for supper.
"You aren't going home tonight?" Yu Bai said with a hint of expectation in his tone.
"No way, my parents must be sleeping by now, also it's not like we haven't slept in a room before."
But we have never slept in the same bedroom! On the same bed! [1]
Yu Bai shouted in his heart, but Sheng Xing Ze could not hear his voice, patting Yu Bai's bed to make his own space.
"Film Emperor Yu, do you have the habit of kicking the quilt at night?" he asked innocently. He really did not want Yu Bai to call the housekeeper to bring over a new set of bedding, with such a big bed and quilt, there was no problem to house two people on it.
Yu Bai shook his head with much difficulty. His mind was full of the mixed emotions that Sheng Xing Ze wants to sleep in a bed with him, excited but unendurable.
Sheng Xing Ze pointed to the suitcase he had brought with him. "I've got all the necessaries, can't wait to get free boarding from you."
It was so late and Yu Bai could not let Sheng Xing Ze go out to find a hotel, he could not bear it.
Yu Bai compromised to let Sheng Xing Ze use the shower first, he then sat down on the sofa listening to the loud running water in the bathroom. He could not help but have images of what was happening inside running through his head.
After Sheng Xing Ze came out, Yu Bai rushed into the bathroom in a flash, leaving Sheng Xing Ze with a puzzling face.
Is he in a hurry to wash up? If I knew that, I would let him use it first.
After a day of intense nervousness, when Yu Bai came out of the shower, Sheng Xing Ze had shrunk to one side of the bed and fell asleep.
Yu Bai climbed onto the bed gently, the first time he did not take the bunny to bed with him.
Looking at Sheng Xing Ze's face for a long time, Yu Bai could not help but poke Sheng Xing Ze's red cheeks due to sleeping, "Idiot, do you know that I like you or not."
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Notes:
[1] little explanation here -- During the filming of "Xing Lan", Yu Bai was staying at a suite, meaning there are two separate bedrooms and a living room. Even though Sheng Xing Ze did sleep over, he was sleeping in one room by himself, and Yu Bai was in the other bedroom. So to speak, they did not officially sleep in the same bedroom. Just in the same suite.