I'm Crushing on Gorgeous Faces in Variety Shows!-Chapter 304: Ye Mian: Why Are These Two Such Hypocrites?

Chapter 304: Chapter 304: Ye Mian: Why Are These Two Such Hypocrites?

The staff brought over some props.

A rectangular hollow cardboard box, with two holes at the upper sides.

Just like the new packaging cardboard used by courier companies when sending parcels, it’s brand new and flat, any slight bend would leave obvious creases.

Fu Ran kept looking back at Ye Mian, tightly pressing his thin lips together, seemingly displeased.

Ye Mian waved at him, Fu Ran slightly relaxed his brow and walked over to her.

"Senior..."

Mu Qiu couldn’t hear the rest, anyway, it was just the couple whispering sweet nothings.

She stood next to them, observing with her ears and mind, determined not to let her eyes wander.

A minute later, Fu Ran, having been appeased, moved to the front and put on the cardboard box costume with the help of the staff.

"Should have known better than to wear shoes with laces."

The staff squatting in front of him to untie his laces looked up and whispered, "Even if your shoes didn’t have laces, the director would make you change shoes. He prepared ten pairs of laced shoes, and one extra pair just in case you threw yours away."

Fu Ran: "..."

A pretty thorough preparation.

After putting on the cardboard costume, Fu Ran tried to bend over, Ye Mian kept staring, looking at the cardboard box around his waist and abdomen, and exclaimed.

Fu Ran immediately stopped.

Ye Mian: "The waist area is going to wrinkle, you can’t bend over."

"Hey hey hey," Guan Yu and Mu Qiu grabbed Ye Mian’s hands from either side, "which team are you on?"

"There are only teammates now, no couples!"

Ye Mian closed her mouth, helplessly looking at Fu Ran.

Dear junior, you can only rely on yourself now.

Fu Ran furrowed his brow, pulling his hands further into the holes in the cardboard box, then started rubbing his knees inside, pushing the whole box up a bit more, so his hands were entirely inside.

Finally clutching the two holes, he squatted down, disappearing entirely inside the box.

The bottom of the box protruded slightly, but it didn’t unlock, nor did it seem to wrinkle.

Then the camera only showed the bulky lower half of the cardboard box moving around, with just the shoe tips visible below, occasionally a bump in the middle, or a few fingers poking out of the holes.

Guan Yu remarked, "How thin must one be to use this method?"

Ye Mian: "He’s not that thin either, he still has... never mind, is this broadcast-friendly?"

Mu Qiu beside her: "... no need to broadcast, everyone can imagine it themselves now."

Ye Mian rubbed her nose, using her favorite trick to quickly change the topic.

"I wonder what food corresponds to this game, he’s a bit picky with food."

"No worries, being picky isn’t your concern now. You’re part of the ’Loves Roasted Garlic’ team, live or die, you’re one of us."

"Do we really have to split like this? We’re all part of the same faction..." Ye Mian rolled her eyes, "If he encounters a task he can’t complete or gets a food he doesn’t want to eat, can’t I help?"

Guan Yu: "Of course not!"

Mu Qiu: "Absolutely not!"

"Then if we encounter a task we can’t complete or get a food we don’t want to eat, can he help us?"

Guan Yu: "Of course he can!"

Mu Qiu: "That would be permissible."

Ye Mian: "......"

Are all of this show’s guests double standards?

[Ye Mian: What’s with these two people..jpg]

[The big guy first seeks his senior sister, only when she can’t help does he become a self-reliant man, I’m amazed, so this is what a big guy is.]

[This show is too cruel, actually splitting up the only married couple and not allowing any help hahahaha]

[I’m starting to reasonably suspect that setting this episode at the beach is so they can use sand instead of soft cushions, saving on prop costs (of course not)]

[The camera operator also knows where this show’s biggest highlights are; besides focusing on Brother Cheng and them, it’s on Mu Qiu and Guan Yu’s group.]

[Quick, let Mu Qiu and them choose a task!]

[This task doesn’t seem to have much of a point.]

[I used to play this cardboard game as a kid, nestling inside for a nap. But now even if I squat down a bit, the cardboard would split.]

[Big guy, it’s about to split.]

[No, it’s your cardboard box that’s going to split, not you!]

[Can’t imagine what kind of enchanting posture Fu Ran has inside the box.]

[...puhaha, I said there’s no point, now I can visualize it, there’s a handsome guy inside doing an enchanting pose tying shoelaces!]

[I usually squat in the public restroom in this kind of pose.]

[Fu Ran, I suggest a good method, lift the cardboard box to cover just your head, so your hands can freely tie the laces, though I can’t guarantee whether it’ll count as game failure/in all innocence]

[Almost there, I can already see the bowknot!]

[Looks like he’s about to fall forward at any moment.]

[I really want to reach a hand in to hold the box steady for him.]

[Brother Cheng went up to hold it!!!]

[Brother Cheng stabilized the box, Fu Ran is about to finish tying.]

[Brother Cheng: It’s an individual battle, didn’t say you can’t help. Shouldn’t teammates help each other?]

[Fu Ran: Did you see that, senior sister? When my wife can’t help, other men swoop in.]

[Some sisters use adjectives that are always kind of weird, how can one not overthink.]

[I feel like I’m back in the game / eyes growing green]

[Everyone’s dedicated to pairing Brother Cheng with all the impossible people.]

[Just want to interview the nearby blogger, what’s going through their mind now?]

[Ye Mian: What else, he’ll act spoiled later.]

[In fact, I think the blogger is pretty excited watching the big guy twist and turn alone there, though she talks about his picky eating, her feet haven’t moved an inch.]

[Can we have a more lively task? Pick something difficult so it might correspond to grilled seafood!]

[I just want to know what Fu Ran’s task corresponds to, it should be roughly similar in value.]

[Blind guess: grilled potato chips]

[I guess it’s grilled garlic hahahahahaha]

With Cheng Zhirang’s off-site support, Fu Ran barely managed to complete the first task of the venue.

Since it was a trial run, the director didn’t fuss much and announced it as completed.

On the big screen, blue spots of light continued to flicker around the enlarged option card, and with a click, the card started spinning wildly.

Then with a thud, amid the dramatic countdown sound effects, the card stopped, and the characters in the middle changed to the corresponding food ingredient.

Electronic voice announcement: "Congratulations to Fu Ran for successfully acquiring 5g of chili powder!"

The red dots of chili powder then flew onto the avatar icon.

Fu Ran halted his action of retying his shoelaces.

"...What is this?"

Guan Yu: "Pfft—busy for a while, Master Fu begins preparing dinner, with the main ingredient being 5g of chili powder."

"Eat the chili powder raw? Hahahahahahaha?!"

"It was said replacing food, didn’t say doing tasks for even the condiments! Has the production team become so stingy they won’t even provide a bit of free seasoning?!"