Showbiz Scandal: The Official Announcement of My Ex and Myself-Chapter 121: Xie Qingci’s Handstand Push-Ups
The topic #Xie Qingci’s inverted push-ups# quickly went viral.
After several episodes, the reality show "Limited Youth" has garnered significant traffic, attracting a wide audience. Just looking at Xie Qingci’s personal follower growth, which increased by three million in twenty days, shows its popularity.
So there are many viewers watching "Dormitory Diary," and with the frenzied comments, Xie Qingci managed to go viral again, thanks to a GIF of him doing inverted push-ups outside the stage period.
Yu Xia watched the clipped GIF over and over for a dozen times, her ears slightly flushed as something came to her mind.
Those arms are indeed something.
Closing the tablet, she pulled out the script again, meticulously analyzing its content, striving for calmness and restraint.
The script now functions almost like the Diamond Sutra.
In the evening, Xie Qingci called again at the usual time.
Yu Xia hesitated for a moment between answering and not answering, but ended up picking up the call.
[Xie Qingci: I really miss you]
He says this every time, making Yu Xia feel inexplicably shy.
"How’s your training? Tired?"
[Xie Qingci: There’s no dance this time, not tired]
Lying, too tired to even speak after singing isn’t tired?
She didn’t expose him, just advised, "If you’re tired, take a rest. I’ve told you not to push yourself too hard. Losing your voice would impact the performance on the second public stage, and it’s not worth it."
[Xie Qingci: Okay]
[Xie Qingci: Can we meet individually tomorrow?]
"No," she thought he was too bold. Meeting privately on the show grounds isn’t very safe; frequent meetings would undoubtedly be photographed one day. "Practice well, don’t think about anything else."
[Xie Qingci: Hmm]
Seeing the cold one-word reply, she knew he was sulking again.
She didn’t speak immediately, so he slowly sent another line.
[Xie Qingci: Then can we have a call?]
Yu Xia thought for a while, "Thursday, okay? You’re always sleeping too late, which isn’t good."
[Xie Qingci: Oh]
[Xie Qingci: I’m young, staying up late doesn’t matter]
"..." She was speechless, "I told you not to stay up late, then don’t. What’s the point of being young? Plus, I have to stay up late with you!"
This time, he seriously agreed.
[Xie Qingci: Then I’ll message you these days, reply when you can]
[Xie Qingci: Is that okay?]
"That works, but my time is limited, don’t always think about using your phone sneakily."
Feeling drained, she somehow felt like she was talking to Yu Yue.
"Xie Baibai, you and my fourth-grade nephew probably have a lot of common topics." Equally troublesome.
[Xie Qingci: Hmm-hmm, give me his contact info so I can connect?]
"Why don’t you dream about it?" Trying to rope in family, thinking she’s naive or something, "And if my brother finds out, get ready for a check to get lost."
She figured she was quite the privileged girl. With an eccentric brother in the family, she might really experience the cliché of "Here’s five million, leave my sister."
[Xie Qingci: So cruel, quickly let your brother know]
Yu Xia rolled her eyes.
The time for communication wasn’t much; she focused on urging him to sleep soon, wrapping up the call in just half an hour.
Xie Qingci’s message seemed quite resentful, and she casually sent a sentence like she was coaxing Yu Yue.
[Be good, sleep tight, baby]
Who knows what he thought when he saw it; anyway, he didn’t continue to fuss.
The next day marked the last outdoor-derived program episode.
After this, there wouldn’t be any more derived programs, so everyone had been quite looking forward to this episode.
It rained last night, but the weather was exceptionally nice today. A brilliant blue sky with no clouds in sight, everything shone brightly, without a speck of dust.
Yu Xia was taken aback upon entering the base.
All remaining trainees were there, fifty people gathered in a noisy cluster, bargaining like a vegetable market.
"What’s the matter?" She walked over to ask Shu Ran, who arrived earlier.
Shu Ran was holding an unknown card to fan himself, and upon hearing her asked, "It’s the last episode; the production wants everyone left to make an appearance. Guess this episode will have them play some NPC roles."
She was confused, what kind of game needs that many people to play NPCs?
The production soon answered their question.
"This theme of the episode: Who’s the saddest person?. Forty-two brothers play roles from certain stories, while the remaining eight brothers and four mentors form four teams, eavesdropping on those stories to find who they believe is the saddest person, write his name at the identification site, and winning by successfully identifying.
The victors this round have an unlimited time but have only thirty minutes after the broadcast to identify successfully and earn nine points."
Points again? Winning points wouldn’t have any place for use after this, though.
But the production didn’t explain, likely it’ll come in handy later?
She let go of the thought, reaching out to take the team grouping selector handed by the staff.
It was like a compass; twisting the spring made the needle spin several rounds before stopping, whoever it pointed to would form a team with her.
The mentors spun the needle, Yu Xia randomly twisted it twice, getting two brothers.
Pei Lu and Chi Qiao.
Pei Lu was right next to Xie Qingci, and she caught sight of his expressionless face as she looked over, unconsciously forcing a laugh.
Sorry brother, it’s not that sister doesn’t pick you. This darn needle just had to twitch at the end, this twitch landed on Pei Lu.
Pei Lu cheerfully approached to stand beside her, despite the heavily made-up face still having impactful looks.
Smiling badly like that just dragged the face’s beauty score down.
Chi Qiao was the slightly dazed-looking brother, leaving an impression mostly because his acting was rather good.
Grouping done, Xie Qingci and Ning Yunchao were assigned to He Mingjie’s group.
Four groups didn’t gather, each heading to different areas leisurely.
Pei Lu took the initiative, starting to analyze right off the bat.
"Yu Xia, to find the saddest person, are they saying the stories they perform are very sad and let us pick the worst-off character?"
Chi Qiao shook his head, "I don’t think so. There are over forty people; if only performing sad stories wouldn’t there be a shortage of sad materials? It should be varied stories, and maybe a supposedly happy story has the saddest character in it. They say the essence of comedy is tragedy."
Yu Xia nodded, agreeing with this perspective.
But who could have guessed? The scriptwriting team indeed had the skills to find so many sad stories, all the performances they encountered were full of crying!
Even some cried themselves onto the ground!
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The online Yu Xia, coaxing her sweet pumpkin tender-hearted, offline feeding wolves and tigers, chewed to only bones, and still thought the younger guys were great.
Xie·Two-faced and good at acting·Qingci, a predator not pretending to be an obedient prey, isn’t a good brother. Soon finds being a sweet bean unsustainable.
