Shao Yichen returned after finishing her phone call, only to realize she had once again acted impulsively by suddenly leaving the entire film crew hanging. She couldn't help but engage in deep self-reflection.
Shao Yichen, oh Shao Yichen! How could you be like this! The entire film crew was waiting for you alone, waiting for half an hour. Don't you feel ashad?
Although you made the call to solve another problem, if you think carefully, you could have easily waited a little longer!
It seems best to hurry up and pay off the money, then return to your original world to be an incompetent good-for-nothing!
After thorough self-reflection, Shao Yichen successfully blad all her problems on the System, strengthening her determination to pay off the debt.
Actually, her sudden interruption of filming wasn't because she had any issue with the actors' performances—although after seeing too much of Li Xingyu's acting, she did feel that Qi Gelong's understanding of the character seed slightly off. But this didn't harm her debt repaynt; rather, it increased her opportunities to lose money, so Shao Yichen had originally planned to approve the scene in one take.
The problem arose when she handed the directing task to Jiang Miaomiao and started slacking off. While idling, she took out her phone and unconsciously opened the variety show that Xiao Bai had ntioned in his social dia post—Li Xingyu's show that premiered today.
At first, she was just watching for fun, but as she continued, sothing felt off.
This strange feeling is sothing hardcore fanatical fans often experience, summarized in one sentence—"Everyone is trying to harm our brother! Our brother only has us!"
But Shao Yichen didn't consider herself Li Xingyu's fan at all, let alone a fanatical one. How could she suddenly have such terrible toxic fan thoughts?
She couldn't figure it out and worried that she might have caught the "Li Xingyu virus" and needed treatnt. So she opened "The Last Wish" and watched for five minutes, successfully becoming annoyed at Li Xingyu's acting—why do you have to act with such imrsive quality! My journey to lose money has been problematic from the start, and a large part of the bla falls on you!
Shao Yichen, filled with irritation and anger, felt reassured that she definitely wasn't Li Xingyu's fan. But when she looked back at the variety show, the thought that "everyone is trying to harm Li Xingyu" rose in her mind again.
So it wasn't her problem—it was the production team's problem.
Shao Yichen's sense that sothing was wrong first arose when she spotted a sowhat familiar face among the regular cast mbers.
At first, she couldn't recognize this permanent guest, but she felt this person's face was annoyingly familiar. After digging through her mory, she finally rembered who it was.
Isn't this the person who was impotently raging in the rest room that day? What was his na... Fu sothing? Or sothing Fu?
The show's caption soon inford Shao Yichen that the person was called Fu Lianghui.
Although she saw this irritating person on the show, Shao Yichen didn't take it too seriously.
After all, the show had five permanent guests, plus each episode's guests, making a total of ten people in five teams. Moreover, Fu Lianghui's on-screen persona was surprisingly that of a sunny, handso type, clearly different from his off-cara image of soone who'd give others the cold shoulder at the slightest provocation. If she hadn't t him in person, Shao Yichen might have been fooled by his act.
Since he was maintaining his persona on the show, surely he couldn't cause any trouble in front of the caras, right?
But Shao Yichen soon discovered that she had thought too simply.
She had investigated previously that the variety show Li Xingyu was participating in was called "Everyone in Escape Mode." Though it looked like a room escape show, it was actually a physical and puzzle-solving program focused on escape challenges.
In simple terms, the rules were that the production team would place contestants in pairs at a fixed location—this episode being at A City's largest amusent park—with five teams in total. Each team would be given maps and clues to explore where the treasure was hidden. The production team also set up so "hunters" wearing wolf masks to chase and block the participants. If caught, participants would lose their eligibility to continue the ga. The team mbers who successfully escaped capture and found the treasure would win the prize money provided by the show. Notably, if one team mber was caught, the other could continue the competition, and the prize money would go to that person alone.
The five permanent guests for this show were a combination of three n and two won, all relatively fit young people. But the other five guests participating in the ga weren't necessarily all physically strong young people—for example, this episode included a little girl who had just started elentary school.
Obviously, the contestant paired with this little girl would face more difficulties in the show—running with a little girl would increase the difficulty considerably, and assigning the reasoning tasks to the little girl wouldn't be realistic either. But choosing to abandon the little girl would drown you in negative audience comnts...
And the person who drew the lot to team up with the little girl was Li Xingyu.
Not only that, but when distributing weighted backpacks later, Li Xingyu's team was assigned the heaviest backpack—twenty kilograms.
Shao Yichen: ...
She absolutely didn't believe the production team hadn't rigged it!
It wasn't that she was being paranoid, but she happened to notice Fu Lianghui's expression just before the drawing. This person glanced at Li Xingyu, and then at the edge of the cara fra, revealed an unconscious smile—a smile that clearly showed schadenfreude.
As for when he handed the weighted backpack to Li Xingyu, Fu Lianghui's mouth was practically stretched to the sky. And this ti he had drawn the guest with the best physical condition this episode—a retired world champion. When this result ca out, the comnts section unanimously declared that Fu Lianghui would definitely be this episode's ultimate winner.
With this series of moves, Li Xingyu held the little girl's hand with his left hand, the map with his right hand, and carried twenty kilograms on his back, looking like a single father crushed by the weight of life.
But when Shao Yichen glanced at his expression, she found he maintained his usual calm deanor, as if he wasn't the one about to take a little girl on a weighted training session at A City's amusent park.
Looking at Li Xingyu like this, Shao Yichen gradually cald down.
Never mind, it's just a show, not worth getting angry over.
Isn't it just about taking advantage of Li Xingyu not having signed with a company yet, suppressing this unknown? Once I find a suitable agent, I'll sign Li Xingyu to my own company!
Thinking this, Shao Yichen continued watching the variety show.
After all the contestants were briefly interviewed, the program officially began, with the lineup of ten guests heading toward their respective targets as indicated by the clues in their hands.
Shao Yichen skipped all parts without Li Xingyu and the child actress, and the ninety-minute show quickly passed almost halfway. Li Xingyu's team didn't have much screen ti. Shao Yichen could only see that they had successfully solved the first puzzle, after which they were spotted by hunters waiting there and a chase ensued. Li Xingyu, carrying the little girl, should have been slow, but by utilizing elevators, escalators, and ergency stairwells to run circles around the hunters, he managed to escape without much effort, heading toward their next target, leaving the hunter going up and down between floors.
Shao Yichen nodded with satisfaction.
See! Even if the production team tries their hardest to create obstacles, truly capable people can still stand out!
It's just that this exciting plot only had less than three minutes of screen ti! Too short!
Shao Yichen remained oblivious to her trend of becoming Li Xingyu's fan and continued watching.
Then she saw a scene that reignited her anger.
While Li Xingyu was solving puzzles with the little girl, Fu Lianghui's team led three or four hunters over to interfere!
The reason she called it interference was because, given Fu Lianghui and the world champion's physical abilities, they could easily outrun the hunters at full speed if they wanted to, and certainly wouldn't have led them to other contestants. Obviously, they deliberately controlled their pace, aiming to lead these hunters to Li Xingyu's team to create trouble for them!
If they had brought just one hunter over, it could barely be explained as giving screen ti to newcors, but bringing three or four clearly showed their intention to wipe out Li Xingyu's team in one go. While this didn't violate the rules, it didn't leave a good impression—especially considering Li Xingyu was with a little girl.
Shao Yichen even pessimistically thought that Li Xingyu's team would probably end here, and she could just turn off the show and check how the movie filming was progressing...
Unexpectedly, when Li Xingyu saw these hunters, he didn't look very nervous. He crouched down and whispered sothing to the little girl. She nodded and ran away first, leaving Li Xingyu alone. He slowed his pace slightly and turned in a direction different from the little girl's, attracting the hunters' attention.
Seeing Li Xingyu slow down almost tauntingly not far from them, the hunters unanimously ran toward him.
After ensuring the little girl had run far enough, Li Xingyu suddenly accelerated! It was at an intersection, and he turned the corner first while the hunters were still so distance away. By the ti the hunters reached the intersection, he had vanished.
Where exactly was Li Xingyu?
The three hunters had no choice but to split up.
anwhile, the cara cut to show Li Xingyu climbing out of a window from behind so building, running in the opposite direction to reunite with the little girl.
This series of moves looked effortless, but it's worth noting that the people selected by the production team as hunters would all have decent physical fitness. Yet they were easily outrun by the accelerating Li Xingyu, demonstrating just how excellent his physical condition was.
Watching from outside the screen, Shao Yichen was also heated with excitent, montarily forgetting her plan to "go back to filming after watching this bit," and continued watching.
While Li Xingyu was executing this maneuver, other teams were also in action, and the first team lost their eligibility when caught by hunters—a team of a permanent female guest and this episode's male guest. After they split up, the female guest was caught first, and when the male guest went back to look for her, he was also ambushed by hunters waiting there, eliminating the entire team.
In the next half hour, two other teams were caught by hunters, leaving only Li Xingyu's and Fu Lianghui's teams.
Fu Lianghui's team, having spent all their ti leading hunters to other teams, had made almost no progress with the puzzles and clearly didn't have ti to gather all the clues.
At this rate, Li Xingyu's team could beco the only winner!
Shao Yichen perked up.
The production team finally couldn't continue ignoring this team—after all, only two teams remained, making it impossible to avoid giving them screen ti no matter how much they wanted to. Li Xingyu's screen ti increased, showing him and the little girl sitting at the highest point of the amusent park—inside the Ferris wheel, examining the provided clues.
"Look for the place where the finger points at the highest place—this finger must be that place, right? So where is the place the finger points to?"
Li Xingyu crouched beside the little girl, guiding her thinking. The little girl looked up at the scenery outside the Ferris wheel and suddenly exclaid, "It's Cinderella's Castle!"
Li Xingyu nodded, and a hint of a smile appeared on his usually cold face.
Indeed, the direction pointed to by that finger-like building was clearly their initial starting point, also the center of the amusent park—Cinderella's Castle.
Unexpectedly, after going in a full circle, they were back at the beginning.
Li Xingyu looked at the slowly descending scenery outside the window and softly said to the little girl, "Once the Ferris wheel cos down, we'll go to the castle together and get the final treasure, okay?"
Author's Note: Li Xingyu may not be at the film set, but his presence remains in the crew...
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