I'm Crushing on Gorgeous Faces in Variety Shows!-Chapter 315: The Painful Love of Tie Dan and Xiao Hua
Mu Qiu received the task card.
[Collaborate with the other party to create a story that can last for five minutes of explanation, meeting the requirement of 100% melodrama. Upon completion, if the term "melodrama" appears in the official bullet screen and gets more than 22,002 likes, you pass. The story begins: Tie Dan and Xiao Hua are childhood friends...]
Mu Qiu held the task card, and after reading it, hesitated to speak.
Qing Rong couldn’t help but ask her on the phone, "What’s wrong? Do you really have to study playing Mahjong? I’m not very good at it."
"Don’t worry, I’m not either," Mu Qiu coughed once, put away the task card, and continued, "It’s like this, I need your help to continue a story."
Continue a story?
While others had yet to understand, Qing Rong immediately caught on, "Any rules? The beginning?"
Mu Qiu nodded to the camera, as if nodding to him, "And it has to be sufficiently melodramatic."
The lazy voice stretched with a drawn-out "Hmm," agreeing, "Hmm—I’ll try to use all the melodramatic collections I’ve seen."
"So shall I begin?"
"Please."
Mu Qiu twisted a bit, feeling a bit tired standing in Mahjong attire, then sat back down.
A sudden burst of laughter erupted from both sides of the big screen.
"You look like a mushroom like that."
Mu Qiu: "A mushroom that makes people float and talk to elves when eaten?"
"Yes, the kind that can only be eaten at the hospital entrance."
Mu Qiu rolled her eyes with a smile and began to describe the beginning of this melodramatic story, "Tie Dan and Xiao Hua are childhood friends..."
Qing Rong instantly picked up, "They got together in sixth grade. Tie Dan really liked Xiao Hua and wanted her to change her name to Tie Dan Hua."
"....." Such a strong contender, Mu Qiu got excited and continued, "But early romance is ultimately wrong, so they broke up in the second half of sixth grade, and Tie Dan was very distressed."
Qing Rong: "Though Tie Dan was in pain, Xiao Hua was truly heartbroken. She knew Tie Dan played the piano by the streetlight under her house every night for her, but she really couldn’t take the neighbors’ noise complaints anymore, so she left the country in sadness."
Mu Qiu: "After Xiao Hua left the country, Tie Dan still missed her. He still often played the piano by the streetlight under Xiao Hua’s house, sometimes even adding the guzheng, pipa, erhu, and drums when inspiration struck."
Qing Rong stifled laughter, "... Even though they missed each other, the vast distance still separated them for ten years. In those ten years, Tie Dan had one car accident, two... three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine car accidents, and lost his memory just in time for New Year’s ten years later."
Guan Yu was still sitting next to them cracking sunflower seeds, listening and snacking while adding comments.
"This Tie Dan is impressive, mastered every instrument and is good at getting into car accidents."
Beside her, Shu Ran and Li Yang were speechless, "..."
Such a reasonable summary.
Mu Qiu continued without any pressure, "Meanwhile, Xiao Hua, who had been abroad for ten years, finally returned to her hometown. She planned to look for Tie Dan at this moment but saw Tie Dan kissing another girl at the corner of her house."
Qing Rong: "Xiao Hua wept bitterly as she watched them, not even noticing when her nails broke against the streetlight pole. It turns out, in the ten years she was gone, Tie Dan had found someone else." 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶
Mu Qiu: "Three days later, Xiao Hua couldn’t help but seek out news about Tie Dan, only to learn the woman she saw that day looked exactly like her, and they had been together for a very long time, and Tie Dan deeply loved that woman."
Qing Rong paused for a moment, understanding dawned, "You want to go the doppelgänger White Moonlight direction? Got it."
Then continued, "She was heartbroken, planning to pack up and leave again, but just as she was about to go, she encountered Tie Dan at the airport sending someone off. The moment they met, Tie Dan was stunned."
Mu Qiu: "Tie Dan forcibly took Xiao Hua back. Xiao Hua discovered he didn’t recognize her at all and thought it was his revenge for her leaving without saying goodbye, and that the other woman was her doppelgänger, meant to anger her."
Qing Rong: "But she was brought back to Tie Dan and the other woman’s... Let’s call her Xiao Cao. She was brought to Tie Dan and Xiao Cao’s home and saw the sickly Xiao Cao, learning that she was suffering from heart failure and urgently needed a transplant."
The nearby crowd collectively gasped.
Guan Yu: "I can already foresee the deep, painful love that follows."
Ye Mian: "It truly fits the term melodrama more than what I’ve seen."
Shu Ran: "Why do I feel a bit familiar with this?"
Li Yang: "This... this plot, Sister Shu Ran, have you acted in part of it?"
Shu Ran: "... Such melodrama just by changing names?"
Guan Yu: "I have to say, being an author is really a unique profession. They can create such plots at will, and my admiration for Mu Qiu has gone up another level."
Stopping for a moment, she added, "Tie Dan and Xiao Hua, can’t they just leave that streetlight alone?"
Shu Ran gave her a look, speechlessness evident.
The three of them plus Li Yang gathered to discuss, all expressing admiration for Mu Qiu’s creative mind.
But the three male guests beside them showed less consensus.
Fu Ran felt a familiarity with such melodramatic plots that made his head twitch, having no particular feeling.
Shi Yuhuai’s expressions were quite variable, frowning disdainfully at the name Tie Dan, then showing second-level disdain at the mention of erhu and pipa, and when the heart transplant was guessed, his expression was indescribable.
As for Cheng Zhirang, he still wore that gentle smile, only the semicircle at his lips remained slightly pressed, and the gentle look in his Lian Yan eyes was gone.
By this point, Mu Qiu was excitedly talking about the White Moonlight and doppelgänger party between Tie Dan, Xiao Hua, and Xiao Cao, the emotional entanglement messy yet heartbreaking, but she spoke happily and joyfully.
Mentioning, "Xiao Hua thought Xiao Cao was Tie Dan’s doppelgänger, and Xiao Cao thought Xiao Hua was the doppelgänger. After a successful operation, Tie Dan suddenly regained his memory.
Xiao Cao, in despair, realized that Xiao Hua was Tie Dan’s White Moonlight. In her heartbroken state, her heart had issues again, while Xiao Hua, already devastated, turned malign on the operating table, becoming Tie Dan’s Black Moonlight forever after..."
Cheng Zhirang suddenly spoke, asking the people next to him quietly, "Is this kind of plot popular recently? What do White Moonlight and Black Moonlight mean?"
A very serious question, as if learning new knowledge.
As someone with experience, along with Shu Ran and Tang Zi, Fu Ran began to explain to him.
"White Moonlight refers to someone he is infatuated with, leaving a deep impression on him. Most of the time, it’s someone he’s not with or who has passed away, that’s why they’re called that..."
Cheng Zhirang listened attentively, as if eager to take notes in a little notebook.
Guan Yu suddenly felt a wave of pathos.
An older man unable to keep up with young people’s ideas, earnestly learning new knowledge for the sake of love, while his beloved was on stage hitting it off with other young ones...
Such a heartbreaking plot.
She almost felt like shedding tears.
"Brother Cheng," she looked at him sympathetically, "I’ll prepare a handbook of topics contemporary young women are interested in for you when you get back, so study it well."
Cheng Zhirang: "???"
