Rise and Slay: From Scandal Queen to Academic Genius Chapter 377 - 354: Forget Analysis, Just Laugh!

"Escape Room" isn’t like "Life Experience" which requires celebrity guests to live stream while watching; the hype around Escape Room itself is already high.

As a guest star in this episode, Ji Xizhi just needs to snap a photo in front of the TV before the show airs, add a topic tag, and say she’s keeping up with Escape Room.

Promotion like this is extrely simple; a few casual snapshots will do, and later no one knows if you actually watched or not.

Ji Xizhi is different from the other guests. In her impression, the contract with Director Xu did include clauses for promotional cooperation.

So, her job had to be done properly.

Therefore, after she posted on Weibo, even without the need to live stream, she sat obediently in front of the TV and earnestly watched this episode of "Escape Room."

Over in Xiao Yuan’s corner, she was overjoyed. She regularly watched Zhi Zhi’s programs, and today she was watching alongside Zhi Zhi, cheerfully clutching a bowl of popcorn as she sat next to Ji Xizhi.

As the ti ca, the new episode of "Escape Room" officially began.

This episode’s format was slightly different from previous ones. In the past, episodes started with guests eting and greeting each other, then blindfolded on a bus to a location where they would explore unknown storylines, solve puzzles and decipher clues, with guests and the audience having the sa perspective, allowing for strong imrsion.

But this episode’s opening lacked the guests’ eting scene and directly cut to a dark room with a makeshift interview stage inside.

The interviewees each wore a badge—Escape Room’s current planner, writer, ghost-playing staff mber (randomly drawn)—sitting in a row of seven or eight people.

A microphone appeared from the bottom right corner of the screen.

"This episode of Escape Room is over. What’s everyone’s reaction? Let’s hear it!"

The planner wide-eyed retorted first: "This is called Escape Room?"

The writer was disillusioned: "When are you firing ? I’ll leave with an N 1!"

The ghost-playing staff went from sobbing to bawling: "Waaa it’s exhausting and painful, Director Xu give a raise waa waa waa~~"

...

After the row of interviews was done, the hand holding the microphone was trembling with laughter. Then, the screen suddenly went black and a line of large red text appeared.

"An utterly transford Escape Room, where writers and planners all lose their jobs and staff weep, an extraordinary experience, brand new Ji Xizhi-style Escape Room. Are you ready?"

Those Escape Room fans who didn’t catch the live broadcast quickly sensed sothing was off from the start.

[This... why does this episode feel odd? Different from before?]

[I can only describe it as a wild horse galloping in the prairie! Just keep watching and you’ll see, I won’t spoil it hhahahaha~]

[Pfft, this interview really makes laugh until I puke, it must have been the one after Ji Xizhi finished recording lolololol can’t hold it, absolutely can’t hold it~]

A segnt of interviews evoked much laughter among those who watched it live, also arousing curiosity among fans who missed the live stream.

Ji Xizhi and Xiao Yuan sat in front of the TV; after watching the beginning, Xiao Yuan was laughing hysterically.

Ji Xizhi, on the other hand, didn’t quite get the joke but nodded seriously to the writer’s N 1 statent.

"N 1 compensation aligns with the labor law!"

Xiao Yuan, munching gleefully: "...?" That’s your focus point?

So while the entire internet focused on how Ji Xizhi tornted the Escape Room crew, Ji Xizhi was focused on labor laws???

Even Xiao Yuan, the ultimate superfan of Ji Xizhi, wanted to tell her just one thing at this mont.

You have no heart!

But she didn’t need to say that to Ji Xizhi, because as the main show began, Director Xu accidentally woke up Ji Xizhi, who picked up a prop bundle of limbs in her room and scared the hell out of everyone, sparking explosive laughter in the live comnts.

[Ji Xizhi has no heart, she really has no heart, yet how can I love her so?]

[Director Xu can be scared by his own show’s props? Never seen such a thing, thank you Ji Xizhi~]

[@Production team, hello, I want to complain, why wasn’t Director Xu in the previous interview? Please quickly interview him, I’m curious about the size of his psychological shadow hahaha!]

"Escape Room" invites new guests each episode, but in terms of familiarity, it’s mainly the regulars like Qiu Lin and Le Qiqi.

When Ji Xizhi appears, the focus instantly shifts; familiarity doesn’t matter, what matters is ssing with Director Xu.

From not wanting to escape, to unlocking locks in a second, to catching ghosts in reverse, groundless legal explanations... the gags were endless.

Escape Room veterans watched stupefied.

Nobody ever envisioned such a hardcore way to escape!

In the early stage of the escape, so experts in the comntary attempted to analyze the plot, speculate on the stages, but later...

Whatever, the plot’s soaring, who can analyze Ji Xizhi’s explosive escape style!

Forget analyzing, just laugh!

By the ti most of the episode had aired, the live comnts were filled with hahaha laughter, nearly bursting out of the universe.

Ji Xizhi watched the screen full of laughing comnts, accompanied by the post-production’s quirky edits, her own laughter was hard to suppress.

Though still better than Xiao Yuan, who was clutching her stomach and swaying with laughter beside her.

As Ji Xizhi was laughing, suddenly there was a ringing of the doorbell outside.

She and Xiao Yuan both froze, and then Ji Xizhi got up first to answer the door.

By this ti, the TV was showing the scene where Ji Xizhi disguised herself as support staff delivering boxed als, and the comnts had all shifted from laughter to begging for tutorials on makeup and disguise.

[Please, please, Ji Xizhi do a makeup tutorial, it’s amazing!]

[How did Ji Xizhi manage to turn a stunning beauty into a common face? How could she do that to her own face? Even if you’re going to ss with my face, don’t ss with your own, hey!]

[I rember there’s a makeup process in the new episode of "Life Experience"? Rumor has it Ji Xizhi even mingled with extras in a web drama? (Sobs for those who missed the live stream~)]

[! ! I’m a disguised—oops, makeup artist, Teacher Ji is truly amazing, after a little exchange with Teacher Ji, I’ve had an epiphany these days!]

As Ji Xizhi opened the door, her mind was racing.

During the airing of "Life Experience," she did a live stream for promotion; now that "Escape Room" is airing, she hadn’t figured out how to cooperate with the promotion yet. Although Director Xu wasn’t making demands, she felt it wasn’t right to favor one over the other.

As she reached this thought, seeing the comnts, she finally figured out a related promotional thod.

As Ji Xizhi thought it through, she reached out to open the door, just in ti to lock eyes with the person ringing the doorbell outside.