I'm Crushing on Gorgeous Faces in Variety Shows!-Chapter 25: Guan Yu Eliminated!

Mu Qiu’s group, having barely gone through a round of the plot, exited the stage. Mu Qiu let out a sigh and used a tissue to wipe the sweat from her palms.

It was suffocating, just like being watched by the teacher while trying to think of the first paragraph of a composition during middle school, making her scalp tingle.

Li Yang’s group, who had been hiding on the side for a long time, eagerly watched them come over. Li Yang shuffled a few steps closer and asked, "How does it feel?"

Mu Qiu thought for a moment, "Tingling scalp."

Zhu Qi glanced at her twice and also joined the conversation with a cheeky smile, "I still feel my scalp tingling. I didn’t even know that people would be eliminated."

Mentioning elimination made everyone’s spirits tense up.

Shu Ran also furrowed her brows and quietly asked Cheng Zhirang, "Brother Cheng, since we weren’t stopped on the spot, does that mean we passed?"

Cheng Zhirang shook his head, "I don’t know either."

Shu Ran covered her face with a whimper, pouting her cheeks, looking innocent, "I’m so nervous, just like during the art exam."

Cheng Zhirang listened politely until she finished, then tore a tissue and handed it to Mu Qiu and Lin Banyan. After they recovered a bit, he first turned to Lin Banyan and asked, "What clue did Teacher Liu give you?"

Lin Banyan organized her thoughts and said, "The teacher said my identity is your sister and I should have some connection with Mu Qiu in terms of emotional relationships."

As she reached the last sentence, Lin Banyan hesitated a bit.

Mu Qiu, fully utilizing her role as an author, earnestly voiced her guess, "Is it possible that my ex-boyfriend is related to you? Or your ex-boyfriend is related to me?"

Li Yang on the side gaped.

Zhu Qi: "Wow, your group’s relationships are quite messy."

A soap opera where the sister-in-law and oneself fell in love with the same person?

Cheng Zhirang: "Isn’t your group messy too?"

Zhu Qi thought of his own identity as "lounging imperiously on the brother-in-law to leech off" and obediently shut his mouth.

Li Yang scratched his head—ever since he came to this show, he felt like he was losing a lot more hair. He nervously glanced at the third group currently undergoing "inspection" and quietly muttered, "So what exactly counts as an inadequate performance? Without an actual last-place example for reference, I’m nervous and uneasy."

Not just him, everyone felt the same. Since it’s an elimination system for the last place, there should be some scoring elimination criteria, right? How many points does quick response time account for? How many points does acting skill account for? Are there any other scoring standards?

An exam without standards can really make one go bald.

Mu Qiu also imitated Li Yang, squatting on the ground with her chin propped up, watching Guan Yu and Shi Yuhuai’s "estranged couple quarrel," while also sneaking a look at Su Yan’s stunning appearance.

Guan Yu seemed so angry that her "hands and feet trembled," grabbing the clothes with one hand and pulling him back, then pointing at Shi Yuhuai, loudly shouting, "Wang! Tiezhu! You heartless man! I want a divorce with my son! Don’t ever think your son will support you in the future!"

The onlookers: "!"

Asking how a 22-year-old woman could have a son over twenty—is it a distortion of human nature or a miracle of biology?

Shu Ran managed her expression best and held back her laughter as she said, "Su Yan’s identity is their son?"

The top star turning back to call "dad" and "mom," how surprising.

Zhu Qi: "Compared to this, I think my identity isn’t too bad, at least I’m not of a different generation."

Su Yan being the son is such a shocking and amusing thing that even Lin Banyan, who seldom spoke, couldn’t help but join in and laugh with everyone for two minutes.

Mu Qiu then realized that this elegant lady had a sweet smile after all.

This kind of contrast is indeed a major trend in shaping the heroine’s character in novels, so Mu Qiu couldn’t help but glance at her a few more times.

Then she pulled out a pen and a stack of colorful sticky notes from her pocket, using her knee as a makeshift desk to quickly jot down two lines of words.

This was her inspiration sticky note, in her writing environment it was full of these sticky notes with scribbles on them—the messier they were posted, the better her inspiration.

Li Yang stretched his neck to look, "What are you writin..."

Before finishing his sentence, a small loudspeaker suddenly sounded between the two of them.

"Guan Yu eliminated! Guan Yu eliminated! Turned into a floating NPC, losing half action power!"

The sudden sound startled them, making Li Yang jolt and fall backward, landing on the ground and hurriedly crawling back two steps using both hands and feet.

A panicked Li Yang: I’m finished, losing ten thousand followers.

But this thought only flashed for a moment. Realizing what happened, he ignored his embarrassment, quickly stood up, and joined the group of inquirers.

Shu Ran: "How could she be eliminated?"

Zhu Qi: "She just said one sentence, didn’t she? Shi Yuhuai and Su Yan didn’t even speak."

Lin Banyan: "It seems Teacher Liu pressed a red button."

Cheng Zhirang stood up, "Indeed, Teacher Liu pressed the button. It should be because the performance went wrong."

Saying that, he walked over there.

Mu Qiu, having been focused on watching Lin Banyan, hadn’t noticed what happened either. She followed the others and ran over.

Now having been turned into a floating NPC, Guan Yu was also quite confused. She had just gotten into character, pointed at Wang *Shi Yuhuai* Tiezhu, and shouted divorce when Teacher Liu lifted a sheet of paper beside the dessert stand and pressed the red button inside.

"What’s going on?"

"I don’t know, I hadn’t even waited for Shi Yuhuai to come up with retorts."

"Is it because I didn’t call him Wang Tiezhu?"

"...Shouldn’t be so hasty, right?"

Everyone was bewildered.

Meanwhile, the bullet screen was also filled with confusion, proceeding to a national guessing game after that.

{"Could it really be because she called him Wang Tiezhu? (Sorry Brother Huai, my mistake)"}

{"But Guan Yu had called him that before, it was fine then."}

{"I think it’s because of the divorce."}

{"Judging by Shi Yuhuai’s couple of lines, I think not saying the word divorce would be inappropriate."}

{"Shi Yuhuai’s character, like Shu Ran’s, is quite annoying."}

{"Wow! Let me tell you, one of my relatives is in the same situation! The guy cheated and was so self-righteous! Often beat his wife and son!"}

{"Oh no! Su Yan wouldn’t get beaten, right?!"}

{"The program team wouldn’t dare assign such roles to Cheng Zhirang and Su Yan, tut."}

{"Some people, don’t be so passive-aggressive; my Brother Cheng doesn’t choose roles, he only looks at the script! Don’t praise him to death!"}

{"I think it’s because of the divorce. Perhaps Teacher Liu thinks such situations shouldn’t end in divorce?"}

{"If that’s the case, then he’s certainly not a good person."}

{"Things are intriguing, there’s something worth watching."}

Everyone gathered around, and Liu Bing started asking Guan Yu.

"Do you think at this point, you should get divorced, right?"

Guan Yu nodded hesitantly, "Given the situation, if I don’t get divorced, am I supposed to continue enduring?"

Liu Bing handed her a task card, "You obviously don’t understand your character well enough, and—"

She turned to Su Yan and Shi Yuhuai, handing them task cards as well, "you two understand even less."

Su Yan took it, opened the task card, and inside was a clearer piece of identity information.

{"The child of the two is clever from a young age, topping the class in every exam. Currently attending the best high school in the province, preparing to represent the school in a national academic summer camp, with annual tuition and living expenses amounting to hundreds of thousands."}