I'm Crushing on Gorgeous Faces in Variety Shows!-Chapter 355: Your Show Moved Me to Tears

Brother Cheng thought of every aspect.

The only thing he didn’t expect was that Mu Qiu’s group would rise unexpectedly.

After listening to his explanation, everyone else wore expressions of "Brother Cheng, how could you do this too?"

Shu Ran leaned in to say, "I didn’t expect anyone to cooperate with me like this. After I gave the false report, I regretted it, thinking it might make this group exceed its limit."

Mu Qiu: "So what made you keep being a spy?"

Shu Ran: "A fluke mentality. Everyone was so against eating roasted garlic, so I thought maybe not even two people could eat five. Maybe when we said eating five, it was also a lie?"

For example, Shi Yuhuai, she really didn’t expect that someone who looked so averse to roasted garlic would end up eating five.

Mu Qiu gave her a thumbs up: "Sister Shu Ran, you’re getting better and better."

Previously, she just thought about getting more camera time, and now she’s learned to be a spy from the start.

Shu Ran flicked her hair, with a demeanor that expressed "I really don’t feel anything, but my body language shows my pride."

"But I find it strange," Mu Qiu habitually pinched his wrist twice, lightly turning his left hand, and said:

"They said the cameras would record, using it as evidence for each person’s grouping. But why didn’t they find out you were in the wrong group?"

Li Yang awkwardly dashed back: "I want to ask that too!"

Tang Zi: "I wanted to ask that as well, so did the director lie to us?"

"Why would he lie to us? There’s no benefit." Shu Ran instinctively retorted.

Tang Zi laughed sheepishly, her voice getting smaller: "I just thought, it’s a possibility."

She looked like she’d been wronged.

Shu Ran’s smile broadened as she grabbed her hand: "I know, why suddenly speak so quietly? It reminds me of how you looked being bullied in that costume drama, it makes me mad just talking about it. Haven’t you suffered enough in the show? I’ve cried multiple times."

Tang Zi: "...You even watched that period drama of mine?"

She couldn’t quite believe it.

Shu Ran was very sincere: "Of course, I watched it even on the plane when coming over yesterday, crying quietly so as not to disturb others, that male lead was just too cruel."

Mu Qiu on the side: ...she was clearly discussing bikinis the whole time on the plane.

But being able to make a lie sound so true and reasonable is also a skill.

The two "affectionately" discussed the plot a bit, conveniently promoting Tang Zi’s drama.

[Shu Ran is in charge of promotion and socializing, others take care of eating, drinking, and playing/head]

[Changtong: Do you really think we don’t promote? I directly found a guest willing to promote, isn’t that saving trouble?] 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

[Oddly feels like only Shu Ran is following variety show rules and doing her job]

[Shu Ran: I’m really putting heart and soul into this program]

[Shu Ran promoting Tang Zi’s drama hahahahaha, is it sincere?]

[People from the same outlandish sect can still spy on each other???]

[I really didn’t expect there to be spies in this program, what is this called? A spy operation sparked by eating garlic?]

[Shu Ran has improved, she’s learned to set traps from the start]

[Growing fast, already learned to deduce from one instance, last time was totally fooled]

[So Li Yang was right, anyone hanging with Mu Qiu and Guan Yu is not to be trusted/you’re all deceptive creatures.jpg]

[So originally was I supposed to see the male model team unite?]

[Luckily Brother Cheng and Shu Ran swapped, otherwise the male model team would’ve been invincible, right?]

[No wonder Shu Ran was so keen on grabbing Brother Huai, turned out she was a spy]

[So did Brother Cheng eat five roasted garlic?]

[The previous sister’s focus is quite unique]

[I also want to know, why did the director say it was correct after seeing the recorded real situation?]

[Something fishy, the director is hiding something]

[Three people, fifteen skewers, surely the big boss won’t go hungry]

[There’s even Fu Ran, a guy, and yet with fifteen skewers, who can feel full?]

[Shu Ran infiltrated the enemy and successfully helped the enemy rise to second place/head]

[Hahahahahahahaha Shu Ran’s stint as a spy was truly touching]

[Brother Cheng is a spy?!! And they were so serious during the first water balloon toss game?]

[Wake up, there’s a behavior called "looked very serious"]

[The two of them were spies, and then the third group won]

[Don’t worry, the big boss will definitely be full, his wife is there, no need for us poor sods to worry/tears of bitterness.jpg]

[Mu Qiu seems to exude an aura of having enough wealth to enjoy a peaceful retirement]

[So when it’s not purely a test of physical strength, female guests don’t necessarily lose to male guests]

[This variety show’s guest grouping is the most rudimentary and real I’ve ever seen/kneeling.jpg]

[It’s real we admit, but not rudimentary! Setting up a roasted garlic eating game for grouping, who else does this/head]

[Hurry and reveal everything so they can go rest, I urgently need to go to the toilet director!]

[Sister/brother, just go to the toilet, please, we’ll record it for you, holding it in isn’t good for your health]

[...]

Shu Ran truly lives up to being a scene stealer, a social butterfly, managing to charm even her archnemeses.

She does the promotion that the production team doesn’t, stepping in as the unofficed leader that Cheng Zhirang doesn’t accommodate. Determined to showcase her value to make the production team not regret inviting her.

After listening to her entire set of formal pleasantries, Mu Qiu felt sleepy, but then Brother Cheng’s voice suddenly flowed in like a refreshing stream.

"Actually, the director wasn’t wrong. The grouping was indeed just right, three groups, each with three people."

She immediately perked up, looking up at him.

Guan Yu: "What do you mean? The teacher said if you don’t understand, just ask."

Cheng Zhirang continued to explain: "Because what the director said was that the group numbers were correct, meaning they only considered the numbers, not specifically who. Our grouping was just evenly matched, perfectly avoiding all the punishments for eating garlic."

Having too many people would be punished, too few would also be punished, eating quickly would still be punished.

And they neither had too many people nor too few, so there was no issue of checking who ate faster or slower, perfectly avoiding the rule’s loopholes.

Upon hearing this, Mu Qiu raised an eyebrow: "So the director deliberately set a rule loophole for everyone to exploit?"

Guan Yu: "I think the director was just trying to stir things up and went along with it."

Director: You guessed it.

"Can’t believe there’s someone who’d voluntarily become a spy," Li Yang was impressed, staring more at Cheng Zhirang and Shu Ran, "Brother Cheng and Sister Shu Ran have both gone rogue."

"Even going rogue needs to look at the result," Mu Qiu snapped his fingers, "Sister Shu Ran being a spy even helped your group move up to second, this isn’t called going rogue, it’s called doing good in the wrong place."

Shu Ran was expressionless: "... Mu! Qiu!"