This is the first time in the history of variety shows that a situation has arisen where guests end the game early and the director’s team allows them to arrange the program freely.
It strangely felt like the excitement in school days when the homeroom teacher announced free activities for the last class after the big afternoon cleanup.
Mu Qiu squeezed the turtle toy with excitement: "Turtle! We can arrange things ourselves! Friends, quickly come up with ideas on how to make good use of these two hours!"
Shi Yuhuai, who finally stood up, raised his hand and suggested: "How about everyone find a place to rest, like that guesthouse lobby."
Lin Lian: "Brother Huai, how did you know the lobby is cool and has fruits to eat?"
Shi Yuhuai: "Is that so? Did you guys go there to slack off?"
Lin Lian stopped talking, shifting her gaze to hide her embarrassment.
But there’s no need to say it, anyone could easily guess, considering Mu Qiu’s style, sneaking away to enjoy himself midway through a game isn’t entirely impossible.
He became more determined about his suggestion, repeating: "Just go rest in the lobby, it’s nice and cool there, two hours will pass quickly."
Shu Ran couldn’t help but jab at him: "Didn’t the director give us so many requirements? Just sitting there and resting, is that normal? Is there anything interesting, any dialogue, any meaning? You’re dreaming."
Shi Yuhuai wasn’t bothered at all and retorted: "Swear that you haven’t thought of this, and if you’re lying, then make pig noises."
Shu Ran was at a loss for words: "...I’m not going to waste my breath on you."
Guan Yu, acting as the peacemaker, laughed to ease the tension between them:
"Hey, Shu Ran has a point too, Brother Huai, if we spend all two hours resting, it might be a bit too much. Let’s think of another idea, Mu Qiu?"
Mu Qiu glanced at everyone present and soberly recognized the key point:
"In these two hours, shouldn’t we just show everyone what they want to see? Like maybe have Li Yang perform a piece, Brother Huai do a runway walk, Lin Lian sing a song, Bai Shu and Zhang Li can sing and dance too, each do a performance, and two hours will pass fast."
Guan Yu’s eyes twinkled: "Makes sense. Let’s have a selection event for tomorrow’s stage performance, and those who perform well can get... a kiss from me."
Shi Yuhuai: "Sorry, I’m dropping out immediately."
Shu Ran burst into a hearty laugh.
Guan Yu was a bit stuck: "...Brother Huai, can’t you hold your tongue for a bit?"
She rolled her eyes and continued: "Since everyone isn’t interested in my kiss, let’s change the reward. The top three performers can get an extra hour of private tutoring with a dance teacher, how about that?"
Li Yang: "That sounds like... is this something the show’s group would agree to?"
"Thanks to everyone, now the whole nation’s audiences know the director is my uncle," she said bluntly, not shying away from the gossip,
"If I act shamelessly, maybe he won’t be able to stand it and will agree."
Cheng Zhirang added with a slight smile: "When I came today, I seemed to see our dance teachers, four or five of them, including Teacher Sun Qiao and Teacher Qiao Zhuanyu."
Li Yang and the others instantly perked up.
Any dancer would know these two renowned teachers—Sun Qiao is a top-notch professional dance teacher in the country, even highly popular girl groups can’t hire her easily, she’s proficient in modern dance and old-style dance.
While Qiao Zhuanyu is one of the earliest legends of modern dance in the country, and has often collaborated with Su Yan before, including the dance for one of Li Yang’s singles, which was perfected under his guidance.
Their dance classes aren’t something you can buy.
Xu Cheng was overly excited, immediately raised his hand, and in a departure from his usual style of keeping a low profile, he raised his voice to the camera: "I can perform something!"
Li Yang and Bai Shu were not to be outdone, eagerly raising their hands, saying they could contribute to this artistic performance.
But with the proactive, there are also the passive. Shi Yuhuai rolled out the mattress on the ground and sat on it, asking: "Can I not perform? I don’t have any talents, can’t come up with a performance."
Mu Qiu glanced at him and, cautiously raising her hand, said: "I don’t have any talents either, better not embarrass myself? Maybe Brother Huai and I can sit in the audience and perform a comedy skit for everyone, how about that?"
Art Minister·Guan Yu immediately glared: "No way! The artistic performance is something the whole class has to work together to complete! How can you be lazy and push the responsibility onto us?! Watch out, I’ll dock your conduct points!"
The role-playing was quite deep; Shi Yuhuai still wanted to struggle a bit, but was met with another glare from her.
"I’m prepared to shamelessly beg the director, and you dare not want to participate?! That’s absolutely not allowed! Everyone has to participate, no matter what, even if you just go up there and perform mosquito-hitting for me, you have to go!"
Faced with these words, Shi Yuhuai and Mu Qiu had no choice but to swallow their words and nod in resignation.
Guan Yu, satisfied, stood up straight, removed the mattress, supported herself on a nearby tree branch, cleared her throat, and said a few simple rules.
In her performance, Mu Qiu could see the shadow of the director usually announcing the rules with a megaphone.
"There’s nothing special about this artistic performance, whether you want to perform solo or in a team is fine, but I think there are two key points—
One is that it must have something interesting, something that makes the audience in the stands scream, and the second is that the audience must give a warm response to the performers on stage. What do you all think?"
Li Yang: "Very good, excellent, let’s start quickly!"
Having held back his "little stage prince soul" for so many episodes, it was about to burst out.
"Alright then, our class performance stage is that piano stand in the middle of the lake, and the audience stands are in the shell house, get a feel for tonight’s song choice!"
After arranging everything, she ran off energetically to find the accompanying director, requesting a set of professional audio equipment from the show crew and a music-playing master.
Mu Qiu watched as she busily and shamelessly implored the accompanying director, and shifted her gaze to the others.
What should she perform? Who should she team up with?
Wondering if going up to perform a poetry recitation would work.
The onsite atmosphere was chaotic, everyone was finding partners on the spot, expressions generally pretending to be troubled but genuinely excited.
Only Shi Yuhuai lay down again, in the shadows of a few others, frowning tightly, and locking eyes with Mu Qiu.
Meanwhile, the director was directing the show’s publicity team to post on Weibo.
[Official Weibo of ’Different Variety Show’: Due to the premature end of the game in this episode, the next two hours will be arranged by guests themselves. We ask for your understanding if there’s any displeasure.
Additionally, tomorrow’s stage performance will be held at Hai City Performing Arts Center, with 5,000 audience seats open for reservation. Viewers can book online for free through the link before midnight tonight.
The show team advises against fans abandoning their family or work to rush to see the performance, and hopes everyone seriously considers and rationally books. We look forward to seeing everyone tomorrow.]