Showbiz Scandal: The Official Announcement of My Ex and Myself-Chapter 71: Shu Ran’s Cleverness

"The carnival card use is over, game time is back on track!"

The electronic voice popped up unexpectedly again.

Yu Xia ignored it, waving a fan, took the tissue handed by Xie Qingci to wipe sweat.

A younger male looked at her fan cautiously and said, "Yu Xia, I heard your fan is the crime tool."

"...What crime tool, can’t it have a nicer name?"

She was about to give a good name to the fan when the cold electronic voice resumed again, this time announcing mass elimination.

"Bai Yu eliminated!"

Half a minute later.

"Qiao Guan eliminated!"

Another minute.

"He Mingjie eliminated!"

"Sui Lin eliminated!"

Two minutes later.

"Qi Baiyu eliminated!"

In the blink of an eye, five people were gone.

Yu Xia was stunned as she watched a group of staff dragging people away.

The younger male who spoke earlier looked at her in shock, "...Yu Xia, can the wind from your fan kill people too?!"

Yu Xia: "......"

This misunderstanding was becoming more and more absurd.

She watched as the people in front of her were dragged away, the remaining younger male looked at her and Xie Qingci cautiously, then turned and ran.

Xie Qingci was still thinking about how to get rid of them again, but unexpectedly it was resolved without a word.

Seeing Yu Xia still frowning and looking at the others in the square, he took the fan and naturally fanned her, saying:

"The elimination speed is picking up. Qiao Guan’s role was from the Tang Dynasty."

Yu Xia licked her dry lips and clicked her tongue.

"We need to speed up. Did you see clearly who the roles from the Song, Yuan, and Ming Dynasties belong to just now?"

"Roughly, from Song to Ming Dynasty’s history, we need to thoroughly sort through clues to find the most useful part," Xie Qingci said.

Having roughly figured out the main tasks ahead, Yu Xia thought it was necessary to recruit more people.

"This game isn’t about fighting for number one or two, as long as you guess correctly, you can pass. Helping each other is the fastest way."

Xie Qingci, seeing how sweaty she was, pursed his lips and said, "But it’s hard to determine if they’ll tell us the truth. They won’t believe us either. Let’s just proceed like this."

She was too hot to want to think too much, and since he said so, she had no objections, listening: "Alright, alright, let’s go, let’s follow those younger males from the Song dynasty."

After two steps, she added: "As long as we get some useful clues, we can encourage them to verify, eliminating one after another, which also serves as direction for us."

Xie Qingci had no objections and led her quickly to a cooler place.

He took on most of the task of finding clues later, running around carefully and quickly in each area.

Yu Xia, still waving the fan, hadn’t reacted before he had already found some useful clues.

"I saw the introduction of Shang Yang’s reform, the vernier caliper, and the statue of Lin Zexu destroying opium at Humen. The corresponding roles should be Shang Yang, Wang Mang, Lin Zexu."

All famous figures indeed.

Yu Xia only cared about those related to them: "What about others?"

"There’s also Li Qingzhao’s ’Summer’s Last Poem’," he hesitated for a moment, "but can’t be sure if it refers to Li Qingzhao or Xiang Yu in it."

Thinking of Xiang Yu who wouldn’t return to Jiangdong, it could also refer to Xiang Yu.

"Never mind, be bold and directly set it as Li Qingzhao, and choose accordingly."

She decisively interrupted his hesitation with an assertive approach, then asked: "I remember Li Qingzhao died of illness, so we should guess who extinguished the Song Dynasty in terms of dynastic changes?"

Xie Qingci recalled: "Kublai. The Yashan Sea Battle led to Southern Song’s failure, Lu Xiufu carried the Emperor of Song and jumped into the sea, marking the end of the Southern Song. Kublai was Genghis Khan’s grandson."

Luckily he remembered, Yu Xia glanced at the camera and breathed a sigh of relief.

"But I only saw Genghis Khan, haven’t seen anyone else in that attire."

Xie Qingci replied: "After entering China, Yuan Dynasty’s clothing differed from when on the grasslands. I have a suspect, let’s go find him."

Turning around the corner of a street, they coincidentally faced Shu Ran, running with skirts raised.

They ran inward, Shu Ran ran outward.

She had run for a while, slightly panting, her chest rising under the somewhat revealing attire of the Tang Dynasty.

Xie Qingci swiftly tilted his head, his gaze fell on the distance.

Shu Ran stopped them.

"Did you also guess it? Elimination candidates are directly chosen by the electronic voice, no one actually does anything."

Yu Xia nodded: "Yes, we discovered that too. Shu Ran, did you know it’s almost your turn for elimination?"

"I know, so I wanted to exchange clues with you, I’ve vaguely guessed who’s meant to kill me, but need to confirm."

This got Yu Xia genuinely interested, Shu Ran figured out the game’s logic alone which Yu Xia and Xie Qingci pieced together bit by bit?

Shu Ran quickly said seeing Yu Xia not speaking: "This game isn’t about rankings, as long as it’s cleared, it’s fine. We can help each other, right?"

Beside her still stood Xie Qingci but she instinctively talked with Yu Xia - probably due to being assimilated by a certain unscrupulous author as the decision-maker in the variety show before.

Yu Xia saw she was genuinely anxious, estimating it might be her next for elimination, decided not to beat around the bush and directly said:

"Boldly guessing, your role could either be Noble Consort Yang or Wu Zetian. Noble Consort Yang died in the Anshi Rebellion, Wu Zetian handed the throne to..."

Xie Qingci continued: "Emperor Zhongzong of Tang, Li Xian."

Yu Xia continued speaking to Shu Ran: "Did you see someone dressed as a prince of the Tang, or a rich person? The former is Li Xian, the latter is An Lushan."

Shu Ran: "I know who it is. I happened to draw that younger male’s costume, which has an amulet engraved with the word Xian."

Yu Xia paused and suddenly realized: "So Shu Ran, were you coming to us for a history review?"

She clearly had a guess but didn’t know Wu Zetian eventually handed the throne to Li Xian, probably hadn’t found clues hinting at Wu Zetian’s abdication, so she came to ask them.

Shu Ran smiled: "If it wasn’t for the elimination speed being too fast, I should’ve found that clue. But this time, I really appreciate it, as a token of reciprocity, I’ll tell you a well-known clue many might know."

"What?"

"Instead of analyzing alone, why not pull a couple more younger males apart for a closer look. The bow shooting the great eagle represents Genghis Khan, printed letters on apparel indicate Yue Fei, holding a shoebill refers to Zhu Yuanzhang, and the elimination order and costumes are very distinctive, easy to see the game’s main theme, which many of the younger males have probably guessed."

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ps: "The Transcender" Wang Mang, "Child of the World" Liu Xiu, "Starting with a Bowl Main Plot as the Emperor’s Refreshing Male Lead" Zhu Yuanzhang, "Sealing the Wolf Ji and Husha" Huo Qubing, "God of War" Bai Qi, "Civil and Military All-round Genius" Xin Qiji, there are many interesting characters in history, do explore if interested.