The next morning, both Mu Zhengqing and Lu Yiwei were still asleep when they were rudely awakened by the doorbell.
Mu Zhengqing opened his eyes and saw Lu Yiwei getting out of bed, which startled him so much that he sat up straight. It was the first time he had woken up to find Lu Yiwei still in bed.
Perhaps influenced by too many TV dramas, his first reaction upon sitting up was to pull back the covers to check if his clothes were still on.
Once he confirmed that his clothes were still on, Mu Zhengqing let out a long sigh of relief, yawned, and lay back down to continue sleeping.
Lu Yiwei, who had been about to get out of bed, saw Mu Zhengqing's series of actions and quietly got out of bed.
Before the doorbell rang again, Lu Yiwei opened the door and invited the crew members in.
Director Liang Qi was also among them. With Liang Qi's arrival, it meant that Mu Zhengqing could no longer continue sleeping.
Unable to see Mu Zhengqing, Liang Qi was eager to rush into the bedroom to wake him up.
The top-stream idol Mu Zhengqing's wake-up process was being live-streamed. Although their variety show was already the hottest one at the moment, who wouldn’t want to rise even higher?
However, with Lu Yiwei around, Liang Qi’s ambitions could only remain just that—ambitions.
The way Lu Yiwei woke up Mu Zhengqing was quite unique. He first brought the cat, Mulu, over and then placed Mu Zhengqing’s hand on Mulu’s body.
Mu Zhengqing, feeling the fur on Mulu, subconsciously started petting the cat.
The unwillingly "working" Mulu could only glare resentfully at Lu Yiwei.
After two minutes of this, Mu Zhengqing finally opened his eyes.
Seeing the person and the cat in front of his bed, Mu Zhengqing looked at Lu Yiwei with a confused expression.
"The show crew has arrived. Once we finish eating, we need to pack up and leave," Lu Yiwei explained.
Mu Zhengqing picked up his phone and checked the time. It was 5:30 in the morning.
He had just figured out why he had seen Lu Yiwei in his bed earlier.
As Mu Zhengqing walked out of his bedroom after finishing his morning routine, he saw Liang Qi approach him with a smile and ask, "Can we take a look at your bedroom?"
Ah, this was the main reason Liang Qi had come with them today.
The netizens had already made it clear—if they didn’t get to see Mu Zhengqing’s bedroom today, each of them would pray for one of his hairs to fall out.
Considering his already fragile hairline, not only would he lose a hair for each person, but even if every ten thousand people had one hair fall out, he'd go bald in no time.
"Why do you want to see my bedroom?" Mu Zhengqing asked, his face showing wariness.
Although there was nothing shameful in his bedroom, Liang Qi’s expression made it feel like his bedroom hid some huge secret.
"It’s not that I want to see it. It’s because the netizens in the live stream room are throwing a fit and want to know what’s inside your bedroom," Liang Qi cleverly shifted the responsibility to the vast crowd of netizens.
Of course, he didn’t finish the sentence. The netizens’ original request was to see what was so attractive in his bedroom that Lu Yiwei would go so far as to offer up his own bedroom just to move in.
Since Liang Qi had already brought the netizens into the conversation, Mu Zhengqing had no choice but to agree to the production team’s request to film inside his bedroom.
During a break while Mu Zhengqing and Lu Yiwei were having breakfast, Liang Qi took the crew to tour every corner of Mu Zhengqing’s bedroom.
Well, it was decorated very warmly, and it looked quite comfortable, but this wouldn’t attract the aloof Lu Yiwei, the movie emperor.
Since it wasn’t the room, it could only be the person.
With this thought, both Mu Zhengqing and Lu Yiwei’s fans fell silent.
From the unusual behaviour of the two yesterday, they finally realised that they might have been looking in the wrong direction from the very beginning.
Mu Zhengqing’s fans: It seems like someone is eyeing our idol.
Lu Yiwei’s fans: Our idol seems to have been throwing us candy all along.
If Lu Yiwei knew that he had practically tried to feed them candy and they wouldn’t take it, and then when the two didn’t interact, the fans realised something was off, he wouldn’t know how to feel.
After breakfast, Mu Zhengqing and Lu Yiwei began packing their bags, preparing to head to the next filming location.
As Mu Zhengqing was packing his luggage, he realised that all the clothes he was wearing were actually bought by Lu Yiwei.
He searched for the clothes he had brought from his house, but it seemed like they had all disappeared.
If they were gone, then so be it. After wearing the clothes Lu Yiwei had bought for him, even if he found his old clothes, they would just end up being stored away and forgotten.
Mu Zhengqing and Lu Yiwei quickly finished packing their things. Just as they were about to pack Mulu’s belongings, Liang Qi informed them that the production team had already prepared everything Mulu needed.
Although not having to pack Mulu’s things saved them some trouble, after the cat litter incident last time, they weren’t entirely trusting of what the production team had prepared.
Under their skeptical gaze, Liang Qi added, "The items the production team bought this time have been recommended by a large group of cat-loving netizens. They're absolutely reliable and won't cause any problems."
While the two didn’t entirely trust Liang Qi, they did trust the cat-loving netizens.
At 8:00 AM, Mu Zhengqing was holding Mulu, and Lu Yiwei was pushing two suitcases as they left the house.
Mu Zhengqing had originally thought that they would be living in a shared house, with the production team renting a villa for everyone to stay in. However, after travelling by car, plane, and boat, they unexpectedly arrived at a small island.
For safety reasons, they turned off the live stream when leaving.
It wasn’t until they arrived on the island that their figures reappeared in the live stream room.
Although they had switched transportation several times along the way, they were still the first to arrive.
The second group to arrive were gymnastics champion Di Jiaxun and girl group idol Wu Pandan.
Di Jiaxun, 28 years old, was participating in a variety show for the first time, but the netizens in the live stream and Mu Zhengqing weren’t seeing him for the first time. He had participated in three Olympic Games and won a gold medal each time, so everyone remembered him.
Wu Pandan, 24 years old, debuted through a talent show. Mu Zhengqing had been a mentor on that show, so they were somewhat familiar with each other.
When Di Jiaxun and Wu Pandan officially announced their marriage, the shock among netizens was no less than when Mu Zhengqing and Lu Yiwei participated in a divorce variety show.
One was an Olympic champion who brought glory to the country, the other a female star who gained fame for her beauty—how did they meet?
How Di Jiaxun and Wu Pandan met has become one of the top unsolved mysteries in the entertainment industry.
Compared to their marriage, the revelation of their divorce barely caused a reaction among the netizens.
As soon as Di Jiaxun and Wu Pandan sat down, actors Shang Jingwei and Yong Xinyi arrived.
Shang Jingwei, 52 years old, was the oldest guest in this group. His face was familiar to almost every netizen, but very few could actually name him. Netizens always referred to him as Yong Xinyi’s husband.
Yong Xinyi, 50 years old, was a huge star in her youth, famous all over the country. Back then, you could see her on TV no matter where you turned it on. After marrying, she withdrew from the entertainment industry, and her participation in this variety show was considered her attempt to return to the industry.
They formed a "strong woman, weak man" pairing. When they married, very few people were optimistic about them, and now, as they appear together on a divorce variety show, the online reaction is overwhelmingly critical of Shang Jingwei for having "betrayed" their former goddess.
After Shang Jingwei and Yong Xinyi arrived, Liang Qi spent a long time on the phone, and finally, the two of them arrived a bit late.
Next came singer Long Cheng and the ordinary person Fu Kailue.
Long Cheng, 28 years old, a singer-songwriter. Netizens’ opinion of him can be summed up in four words: arrogant and conceited. His personality has always stirred controversy since his debut. However, he is indeed talented in songwriting, so netizens' attitude toward him is that they don’t like him as a person, but they still want to listen to his songs.
Fu Kailue, an ordinary person, age and occupation unknown. The only thing known is that he is divorced from Long Cheng.
When the two officially announced their participation in the variety show, it caused quite a stir, though of course, this was all before Mu Zhengqing and Lu Yiwei officially announced their participation.
Although in this show Long Cheng's popularity is second only to Mu Zhengqing and Lu Yiwei, in previous live streams, the live stream room of Long Cheng and Fu Kailue had the least number of viewers.
When Long Cheng arrived, he didn’t apologize for being late, nor did he greet the seniors first. Instead, he walked straight up to Lu Yiwei, stretched out his hands, and enthusiastically said, "Senior brother, long time no see."
Seeing his actions, Lu Yiwei took a step toward Mu Zhengqing, subtly distancing himself from Long Cheng.
Both the people at the scene and the netizens in the live stream were curious about how Lu Yiwei would react next, but to their surprise, Lu Yiwei completely ignored Long Cheng.
Fu Kailue, who was a step behind, greeted each of the guests in turn, and then apologized to the guests, the production team, and the netizens in the live stream for their lateness.
While Fu Kailue was apologizing to everyone, Long Cheng, indifferent as ever, took some dried fish out of his pocket and said to the cat Mulu in Mu Zhengqing’s arms, "I have some dried fish here. Uncle, can I have a hug?"
Seeing the dried fish, Mulu proudly buried its head into Mu Zhengqing’s arms.
Although Mulu liked eating dried fish, it only ate the dried fish that Mu Zhengqing and Lu Yiwei fed it. It didn’t care about the dried fish from anyone else.
As the young master of Mu Zhengqing and Lu Yiwei’s family, he wasn’t someone who would eat just anything someone handed him.
After being ignored by both Mu Zhengqing and the cat, Long Cheng, as if he had just noticed Mu Zhengqing, reluctantly greeted him, saying, "Teacher Mu, hello."
Mu Zhengqing politely nodded at Long Cheng but didn’t speak.
Fu Kailue, who was standing nearby, trembled slightly when he saw Long Cheng take out the dried fish to tease Mulu.
Once everyone had arrived, the guest introduction segment began.
Netizens felt that this segment could completely be skipped, since they were already so familiar with the guests from the production team. After all, these were the people who had been living under their noses for several days.
That’s right, although most of them were watching this show for Mu Zhengqing and Lu Yiwei, it was still necessary to understand the other guests.
For instance, if Mu Zhengqing and Lu Yiwei ended up last in some rankings based on the performance of the other guests, they would need to run back and forth between several live stream rooms.
After the production team gave a brief introduction of the guests, they directly announced that from this point on, the participants would no longer be a team, but individuals.
"Forget about the Yellow Team, Red Team, all that’s in the past."
Upon hearing this, Lu Yiwei immediately turned his gaze toward Liang Qi. Liang Qi looked left and right but wouldn’t look at him.
This couldn’t be blamed on him. After all, this was a divorce variety show, not a dating show. It’s not like the two of them being a pair was what it was about.
Although many segments later on would still require two people or multiple people to team up to complete tasks, how the teams were formed would depend entirely on everyone's fate.
Mu Zhengqing, on the other hand, was quite satisfied with the production team’s arrangement.
He had been worried about how to resolve Mulu’s habit of constantly calling out whenever it was night and he and Lu Yiwei were apart.
Some problems simply need to be dealt with swiftly - the longer they are delayed, the harder it becomes to let go.
After a whole day of travelling, everyone was exhausted. Now that it was dark, they just wanted to quickly find a place to rest for a while.
T/N: Sorry for the late updates. As I mentioned on NU, the area I live in is a remote mountainous region with very low connectivity and frequent powercuts. It’s an amazing tourist destination, but pretty crap for everyday living. Anyways…
Back to the story, this chapter marks the beginning of a new arc. New characters, new drama and more troubles for our poor ML who just wants people to eat his dog-food.
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