I'm Crushing on Gorgeous Faces in Variety Shows!-Chapter 406: Idiom Grouping

Mu Qiu totally agreed.

She was well acquainted with the shady tactics of the show’s crew. And wearing this kind of outfit right from the start surely had some hidden meaning.

Li Yang looked around at them and finally said, quite disappointedly, "So hitting on a familiar plot doesn’t help at all?"

Mu Qiu crossed her arms and glanced at him, "So young yet thinking about cheating and slacking off."

Li Yang: "Huh? Are you serious? Aren’t you the number one cheater in the show?"

"... Let’s focus on the matter, not the person."

Li Yang gave her a look as if saying, "Figure it out on your own."

Shu Ran shook her dainty lace fan and asked, "So how are we splitting into teams?"

The focus all along the way was on how to split into teams, clearly still traumatized by the method used in the last episode.

It’s just that linking it to the number of roasted garlic cloves she ate last time doesn’t hold much persuasion.

The director was just about to speak when a fellow director pulled him aside and whispered a couple of words.

Then the director’s eyes lit up and he immediately looked at a certain someone among the nine of them.

A sense of foreboding suddenly arose.

Raising a small megaphone, the director raised his voice a little and said, "I almost forgot, there’s another rule to announce. According to the overall rules of our show, after a guest becomes a floating NPC three times, they will be demoted to a fixed NPC.

Now, the guests who’ve already become floating NPCs twice and are at risk are—Guan Yu, Shu Ran. If you two end up last again this episode, you’ll be demoted to fixed NPCs in the next one, losing all mobility, with the only role being to provide clues for task NPCs through formal performances."

Guan Yu felt her skin tighten.

Shu Ran, on the other hand, couldn’t believe it.

"Me?!"

Director: "Yes, you."

"How can that be?! Shouldn’t it be Li Yang?"

Li Yang, eyes wide: "Hey, hey, hey, Sister Shu Ran, why drag me into this? Although I’ve had the last place experience, I haven’t been last multiple times!"

Shu Ran raised her delicate eyebrows: "Neither have I! I’ve even gotten top places!"

Cheng Zhirang’s gentle voice said, "Regardless of how many top places, if you’ve been last twice, you’ll enter the risk list. And you were once last in a team."

Hearing his recap, Shu Ran finally remembered, during that time in Little Paradise of Yun City, teamed up with Shi Yuhuai, they tearfully ended up last place.

Facts speak for themselves, whether you believe it or not. Shu Ran gritted her teeth and darkened her face, her nails almost tearing the lace fan apart.

Mu Qiu glanced at her twice and smacked her lips: "Some people can’t bear this result, while some accept it calmly. Sister Shu Ran, learn from Sister Guan Yu’s mindset, I feel like she’s so chill she might even change her name on the spot to not be called Guan Yu anymore."

So when she heard the news of "Guan Yu entering the danger list," there was no surprise or shock on her face.

Guan Yu raised her palace feather fan to cover her face, and said hoarsely, "Don’t pay attention to big sister, big sister is very noble."

"......" Shameless.

"Alright, now we’re going to form teams through a fun little game."

The director, wearing glasses, held a piece of paper far away and read off it, "The sky is blue, grass is green, flowers are red, and handsome men and beautiful women pass by, making one feel an urge to compose poetry, write lyrics, and sing a song..."

"Stop," Mu Qiu said expressionlessly, "Please don’t plagiarize lines from the original text. We’re not in the mood to compose poetry or lyrics right now."

The director pouted and tossed the paper away, directly shouting through the megaphone, "This fun little game is simple, called ’Make Sentences with Idioms’..."

Guan Yu raised her hand, "Director, you’re a paragon of grace and elegance, dashing and debonair."

Mu Qiu: "Brave and valiant, outstanding and distinguished!"

Li Yang: "Knowledgeable and erudite... generous and broad-minded!"

After speaking, he mimicked the previous two’s actions, tilting his head towards Cheng Zhirang next to him.

Cheng Zhirang pondered for two seconds: "Quick-witted and highly knowledgeable."

Then all four of them simultaneously turned to look at the others.

Guan Yu: "Your turn, Shu Ran, pass on this excellent tradition."

Shu Ran: "......You guys are so sycophantic."

"This precisely hits the mark, showing you our strong primary school skills; making sentences with idioms is a piece of cake."

Director: "I hope you’ll still be this confident later."

Three minutes later.

Guan Yu, holding her dress in one hand and supporting her hat with the other, spun around anxiously, sweat beading on her forehead.

"What idioms with fruit are there again?! Which one can be used to describe a handsome guy?!"

Director: Ha, ha, ha.

"Twenty-one seconds left."

"Ahhh, how is it so fast?! Help me think of some!"

Director: "Yellow card warning! No cheating!"

"I can’t think of any!!!!"

Guan Yu shouted upwards, "I can definitely come up with one! But once the countdown starts my mind just goes blank!"

The director, unfazed by her mental void, leisurely watched the timer, crossing his legs, and when it hit zero, shouted at her.

"Guan Yu, time’s up, you didn’t answer, and you are the first to be eliminated!"

Guan Yu snapped out of her tense state, as if becoming a dried salted fish: "... Can I say I remember it now?"

"The exam’s over, and you tell the teacher you haven’t started writing yet, do you think that’s acceptable?"

"I think it’s quite okay."

"Your thoughts don’t matter."

"......Hmph!"

She trudged over dragging her dress, plopping down on a chair, her dress obscuring the back and arms of the chair.

Li Yang watched the spectacle from the side: "Sister Guan Yu, don’t crush the chair, its legs are very slender."

"Mind your own business?! If it breaks, I’m not taking your seat, am I?! Don’t get too happy, I’m telling you, you’ll be the one standing there sweating and spinning soon enough!"

"Don’t underestimate me, while you fidgeted trying to remember, I’ve already thought of a wonderful answer."

"Friend," Mu Qiu patted him kindly, "everyone draws their own question, it’s their own draw, no inheriting."

Li Yang’s movement halted, looking towards the director, "Is that so?"

Shu Ran posed as an absolute beauty and said, "Were your ears just busy listening to Brother Cheng breathing? Can’t you listen to the question properly? Director, I recommend making him go next."

The moment she said that, the next two immediately raised their hands in seamless unison.

Shi Yuhuai: "I agree."

Mu Qiu: "I agree."

Two seconds later, Cheng Zhirang also raised his hand.

The newcomer Wei Yi looked around, and hesitantly raised his hand: "I, I agree too."

Qiu Shuang: "I think it’s a good idea."

Li Yang immediately tried to hide at the back: "I don’t think it’s good! You guys show me how it’s done first!"

"Isn’t Sister Guan Yu’s demonstration good enough? So moving and inspiring, right?! Hey Wei Yi, what’s in your hand?"

Suddenly being called out, Wei Yi looked confused and opened his hand: "What? There’s nothing?"

Mu Qiu made a peace sign with scissors fingers.

"Ok, I’ve won, director, let Wei Yi go next."

Wei Yi: "?!!!"