I'm Crushing on Gorgeous Faces in Variety Shows!-Chapter 186: Where Enchanting Beauties Gather
Mu Qiu was still unaware of the gossip being spread about her in the hallway.
She went back to lie down on the sofa, still savoring the recent hand-holding activity.
Just as she was reminiscing and elevating to a scenario she could only imagine, the door was knocked.
"Mu Qiu, please collect the task card from the production team."
"???."
Her splendid daydream was interrupted, and she turned over to open the door.
The door was opened just a crack, enough for her to peek through. Surprised, she asked the staff member, "Is there a task card tonight?"
The staff nodded and handed her a task card and a special phone used by the production team.
Mu Qiu took the task card and phone with one hand, while cautiously checking the sounds from other rooms.
"Doesn’t anyone else have this? Could this be a spy plot? Did they create a spy plot for me?!"
This is too much, isn’t it? She just came out of her pink bubble and now has to face such a cruel thing. Is it necessary to be so harsh just because of a cliffhanger?
The staff member smiled slightly, shook their head, imitating her lowered voice, "I only deliver the task card, take care of yourself."
"......" It’s over, it’s over. The phrase "take care of yourself" has arrived. There’s an inexplicable sense of sadness like in a spy movie, where the villain knows they’re doomed but works diligently regardless.
After sending off the staff, Mu Qiu locked the door, drew the curtains, sat on the sofa, and solemnly opened the task card.
This is so miserable, really too miserable, she just started a romance with her male idol and now has to act against him on the show...
[Please arrive at Room 202 on the second floor for makeup at 7 a.m. tomorrow morning where your exclusive makeup artist awaits you~]
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Just for makeup! Why does it feel like passing information to a villainous spy? What is this?!
It even made her nervous for a moment!
Mu Qiu felt speechless at the production crew’s little tricks, tossed the task card onto the sofa casually, and prepared to wash up.
After walking about two meters, she backtracked, snatched up the task card and reviewed it twice, examining every corner and even the illustrations on the cover meticulously.
She also opened the program’s phone to check each app one by one.
Great, indeed there’s no tiny text, hidden words, or the like. The phone only had WeChat apart from the pre-installed apps, and even the app store was inaccessible.
After double-checking, she finally let go of her worries and hummed a song on her way to the bathroom. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢
Meanwhile, around the same time, other people on the third floor received almost identical task cards, except for different room numbers.
Why go through the trouble of using a task card to notify about makeup?
Every episode before this required makeup, and there was never such a formal notification.
Surely there’s something fishy, everyone thought this way.
Mu Qiu finished washing up and applying skincare, then picked up the special phone, when Guan Yu had already enthusiastically created a group chat for the six of them titled [Place Where Beauties Lurk].
"......" The name is just too hard to accept.
The group chat already had over a dozen messages, mainly discussing what trap lies behind tonight’s task card.
From the information in the group, everyone’s task card had different makeup room numbers.
As for the reasoning, Guan Yu guessed all the way from different makeup looks to ideas of locking the rooms to make them escape like in a jailbreak.
Mu Qiu thought for a moment and sent a message as a literary meme.
[Mu Qiuqiu: Let me fetch my twelve-meter-long original novel.jpg]
[Guan Yu riding the internet waves: Your meme seems a bit hasty, why are there only words?]
[Guan Yu riding the internet waves: Now that you mention it, there are no memes here! I really miss my 999-valued memes]
[Shi Yuhuai: What meme is so awesome that it’s worth more than you?]
[Different Li Yang: Hahahahahaha]
[Guan Yu riding the internet waves: ...Brother Huai, you could have opted not to speak, wouldn’t silence be better?]
[Shu Danran: This implies he was lurking all along]
[Guan Yu riding the internet waves: Were it not known that Brother Huai is just a straightforward guy without ill intentions, I wouldn’t be able to stop myself from kicking him out.]
[Different Li Yang: So what does this mean? Mu Qiu, did you find anything?]
Mu Qiu seriously recalled the content of the original novel and replied to them.
[Mu Qiuqiu: I really did my best...]
[Guan Yu riding the internet waves: Ok, got it, you’re useless]
[Different Li Yang: Brother Huai looks at you with a ’disappointed in you’ expression.jpg]
[Shi Yuhuai: ???]
[Shu Danran: Li Yang, you’re quick to adapt. Let me do one too]
[Shu Danran: Brother Cheng swirling a wine glass chuckling as you guys speak foolishly.jpg]
[Mu Qiuqiu: ...Pfft]
[Different Li Yang: Hahaha, there’s a vivid image now!]
[Cheng Zhirang: ...]
[Cheng Zhirang: I think it’s to maintain secrecy. None of us will know each other’s roles tomorrow morning, leaving some suspense for the audience as well.]
[Shu Danran: In that case, we might not all appear at once but rather make our entrances into the camera one by one in order.]
Among them, Shu Ran is the only one who often participates in variety shows and is more familiar with these routines.
[Guan Yu riding the internet waves: So tomorrow morning, I’ll have palpitations five times.]
[Mu Qiuqiu: ...You’re having so many palpitations, why not just have a massive heart attack at once.]
[Guan Yu riding the internet waves: Sorry, sorry, wrong word, I meant ’flutter’! My heart will flutter five times!]
[Different Li Yang: I’ve already started dreading tomorrow morning’s arrival]
[Shi Yuhuai: No need to be scared, your female attire should also be quite acceptable]
[Different Li Yang: Crying face.jpg Thank you Brother Huai for your comfort]
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Second wave of answers: Regarding the fate of the sasaeng fan.
Some of you might feel like the punishment for that sasaeng was too cursory and simple, perhaps she should’ve been exposed and given a taste of her own medicine.
In fact, if everyone thinks rationally, in today’s society, a stain like being recorded in a school file for violating laws and regulations and being suspended is already destined to hinder many academic, employment, and even other types of screenings. She practically has to stop there.
And exposing her personal information, in a moment of urgency, some might think it’s nothing since she made a mistake, but everyone has to think: Brother Cheng has been in the entertainment industry for ten years; he knows what consequences this situation might lead to. If someone more extreme were to retaliate against that sasaeng, or even worse, if a fatal incident occurred, how severe would the impact be?
I also hope that through what I write, I can help everyone think more rationally about such issues, to be calmer, more rational, more detached, and to widen your perspective.
Of course, if you still feel unsatisfied, mention it in the comments, and I’ll create a short play about the ’Miserable Life of Cannon Fodder Sasaeng Fans’ in the reader’s group or on Weibo to show everyone her exact fate.
Additionally, the first mini-short has been completed, a small perk for the v-group to point out~
