I'm Crushing on Gorgeous Faces in Variety Shows!-Chapter 238: Is This Date Poisoned?

Shi Yuhuai’s whole demeanor was filled with an adorable contrast.

Just moments ago, his face was expressionless, dressed in a dark red outfit, sitting like a boss. Now, he’s smiling with those crescent eyes, a tall catwalk king, yet his smile is oddly cute.

It’s hard not to smile along.

Of course, the only ones smiling along are the three female contestants; the others, Cheng Zhirang and Li Yang, don’t share this hobby.

Especially Li Yang, who has no sense of Shi Yuhuai’s cuteness, only finding Shi Yuhuai’s sudden smile surprising.

After the surprise, he asked, "So, Brother Huai, how did you do it? Even if we’re copying the answers here, we can’t be faster than you and Brother Cheng."

Shi Yuhuai tilted his head: "I have the answers."

"?!"

Everyone was shocked.

Li Yang slowly repeated, "Have, the, answers? How do you have the answers?!"

Shu Ran was so excited she dropped her fan: "We agreed there’d be a punishment together, so how come you have the answers?"

Mu Qiu, just recovering from the shock, said, "Wow, so this is what cheating means. What we just did with all the heat, that’s just open-book exams."

Key is that they still couldn’t find the correct answer in the open-book exam.

Shu Ran still couldn’t believe: "Brother Huai, did you take Brother Cheng’s perk?"

Guan Yu laughed incredulously, stepping forward: "You took my perk, didn’t you? I even got hit, didn’t feel any perk at all, Brother Huai, did you swap it for me secretly?"

Originally, she should have taken the answers to the pinnacle of life, right?? Instead, she ended up being beaten on the street by a bunch of thugs.

Shi Yuhuai glanced at her, emotionless: "You’re overthinking."

"So where did your answers come from? If this is punishment, the show should punish me too!"

Mu Qiu nearby promptly drew a treasured sword, "You want punishment? The show gave me authorization to execute it!"

Saying that, she prodded forward.

Guan Yu stood still, turning her head expressionlessly to look at her.

"Is it fun?"

Mu Qiu retracted the sword, with an innocent face: "It’s okay."

"...Mu Qiu, you’re going down at the hands of my Sailor Moon today!"

Mu Qiu immediately ran, circling around until she hid behind Cheng Zhirang, who naturally stretched his arms to block Guan Yu’s fierce chase.

Helpless yet amused: "Alright, listen to Brother Huai carefully."

Mu Qiu peeked out from under his arm, smiling at Guan Yu.

"Don’t be mad, Sister Guan Yu, I’m just fulfilling your dream, come on, have some dates."

She took out some dates she’d carried for a long time from her small bag, first giving Cheng Zhirang two, then distributed to the others.

Two per person, leaving her with just one.

Guan Yu picked up a date with a huff and took a big bite, "You give a sweet date after stabbing me, huh, Mu Qiu."

Li Yang ate with relish, "Pretty sweet, where’d you get them from?"

Mu Qiu took a bite of her remaining date and said, "Oh, my first storyline, my love rival gave it to me, wanted to poison me."

Li Yang and Guan Yu paused their date-eating action.

"...These dates, poisoned?"

Mu Qiu smiled brightly: "Yes."

"...Mu Qiu!!!"

They all started running around again, now with more people.

Cheng Zhirang silently put down the date near his mouth, Lian Yan’s eyes slightly curved, looking helpless no matter what.

Shi Yuhuai stood on the side as well, just like Cheng Zhirang, his eyes following the running figures, munching on dates.

He cared only about how sweet the dates were, not whether they were "poisoned."

When they all ran tired and stopped, Shi Yuhuai then began to explain specifically where his answers came from.

Turns out they all overlooked, or rather underestimated, one thing.

The bamboo filled with cards hanging on it.

"I came back halfway and tried once, but there were too many wrong questions, and that math problem was very hard."

When he said it was hard, his brow furrowed as if emphasized again: "Really hard."

So hard as if he was in a real college entrance exam, not fitting a variety show at all.

Li Yang listened like it was a story, getting into it, munching on a date, "And then?"

"Then I thought something’s not right. If the questions are so hard, we obviously won’t finish them, so it doesn’t matter who goes first. So, either there’s no need to complete the exam, or there are definitely clues."

The others’ eyes widened: "...Smart."

"How come I didn’t think of that!?"

"So being forced to try a difficult problem once does help after all."

"If I chose earlier, maybe I wouldn’t have landed on this postpartum care for sows."

"Hahaha, Sister Shu Ran, who’s more miserable, you or the book exam!"

Mu Qiu listened to their banter, annoyed internally.

She plotted so much, setting traps, forming alliances, making a ruckus, but the game had shortcuts right from the start.

All she focused on was figuring out how to solve the problems, not whether they even needed solving.

It’s enough to infuriate a fairy to spit blood.

And she was just a step away from the shortcut!

Shi Yuhuai continued to explain: "Since there might be clues, then we need to look for them. Where could they be? Could it be something we’ve already seen?"

Guan Yu: "So you checked the bamboo?"

"I first disassembled my identity card, tore it open to see if there’s a compartment."

"...Impressive."

Shi Yuhuai placed his already torn identity card in four pieces, "But found nothing unusual, so I walked around here a few times and checked out the bamboo."

The bamboo was filled with cards, but what they saw before were mostly useless, like the staff’s cryptic messages, fan fiction, even some censored ones.

Some cards were hung at the sharp tips of the bamboo, unreachable without four or five meters.

So they hadn’t paid much attention to it before.

Who would’ve thought the most important was hung there.

"I checked every card I could see, then borrowed the show’s scaffolding to check those reachable above. The last card I could reach had the answers."

Shu Ran: "So... the key to victory is height?"

Mu Qiu: "That summary is almost flawless."

The shortcut was indeed right there, but how could those of their short stature grab the answers?!

This is clearly a slight against short people by the show!!!

Was it their fault for being short?! Since the answers are meant to be found, why not put them a bit lower, considering us female contestants?!

Four female contestants... well, three female contestants and one male one slammed their palms on the table.

"Director!"

"Are you looking down on us short folks?!"

"Was this deliberately making us unable to get the answers?!"

"Director, don’t laugh! Come out and talk!"

When they were indignant, Shi Yuhuai came out with another line.

"There are taller scaffolds, I just didn’t need them."

The four slamming their palms on the table: "..."

They could only sulk back into their seats, whining at him.

"Brother Huai, you’ve changed! You’ve gone bad!"