Chapter 85：Stay With Me by Sam Smith

The next day, the players gathered in the studio, nervously waiting for the judges' comments.

Bonnie was taller and more popular than Ariel, and also younger than her, she was one of the hottest supermodels in the fashion circle. The vast majority of the audience could only react with indifference to Ariel's departure after seeing that she was invited to replace her.

Bonnie's lively and cheerful personality was in tune with the atmosphere of the show. She gave the players a performance of her famous stunt – within one minute, she'd pose in sixty cool-looking poses. Miss Jeffrey waited for her to position, then counted down 'Ready, set, go!'

One minute later, the huge screen showed a collage of the 60 small photos the cameraman captured, and sure enough, each one had unparalleled sense of fashion.

The players cheered and applauded her.

"Well, today's protagonist is not me, but you guys, I won't show off too much." She snapped her fingers to interrupt everyone's cheers, then called the players one by one to the stage.

Soon, everyone found out that Bonnie's tongue was more poisonous than Jeffrey, Eureka, and Ariel's all added up together. She'd already called up eight players, and her scores only reached up to seven points. She also had a magnificently intimidating 'Are you kidding me?' expression, making the contestants cold sweat.

Hayden walked up the stage with a straight spine and slightly raised his chin, showing his most handsome side. Bonnie didn't even glance at his face, she pulled the shirt that was tied into his waistband out, so he looked more professional. Hayden blushed in embarrassment, and a few players chuckled.

After correcting Hayden's rustic fashion, she released Hayden's shots to the big screen.

Before Jeffery and Eureka could speak, Bonnie tore him a new one, "What's this? Seriously, what is this? All I see is a robot and a poor little monkey being strangled by the robot. The theme was to protect the wildlife, not slaughter wildlife. Hayden, what the hell were you thinking? I can actually see a murderous look in your eyes, it's that bad. I can't let the wildlife protection association see this animal abuse. Moreover, they told you that you look more handsome in profile, but you insisted on looking straight ahead. And you forgot to stretch your limbs. Look, you have no neck, and your arms look like short stout hams. You're a freak! I'll give you six points."

Hayden exposed an indignant expression, triggering Jeffrey and Eureka's discontent. They also couldn't stand looking at the photo, so one gave six points and the other seven points. This brought Hayden's score to the second to last position.

Hayden looked angrily at the big screen, thinking: These bitches think they can knock me down, but I have my fans' support. But to his surprise, his net votes was also very low, even lower than the previous eight players. How is that possible?

Even under the cameraman's focus, he still exposed a hideous expression. In the end, he was not a tough guy at all, but a flower in a greenhouse that had never experienced a storm's baptism. All the players, even the most delicate looking, Daphne, was tougher and more professional than he was.

He took in a few deep breaths, then calmly walked back to the lineup.

The next one called up was Emily. Her picture was very beautiful, with a primitive wildness, her eyes bright, deep and charming. Bonnie glanced at her photo a few times and admired, "Great, the best picture I've seen yet."

Emily started to smile, then heard Bonnie ask, "But where is our main subject? Where is our theme?"

Jeffery pointed to Emily's armpit in the picture, a vague flash of the small leopard's scalp and front paws could be distinguished, "It's right here. Honey, you need a pair of glasses."

"Wow, I didn't see it either. She wore a leopard print mini-skirt, so only the little leopard's scalp shows up. You're the strange one for noticing it." Eureka frowned, this was another contestant who didn't play by the theme.

Bonnie used a ballpoint pen to draw an X in the air, "Emily, I'll give you six points. As a model, you have to understand that you are never the protagonist of the photo, it's the fashion you wear or the products you need to promote. Your every move should make the fashion or product look appealing, rather than highlighting your own beauty. Beautiful models are innumerable, but how many of them can gain the title of supermodel? You haven't figured out the true meaning of the word 'model' yet."

Emily was speechless.

Jeffrey and Eureka were deeply touched by her words, and gave Emily the same score. Emily's net vote scores popped out on the screen, it was slightly lower than the previous episode's, which was not enough to ensure that Emily was not eliminated.

The players were more and more nervous, they deeply missed Ariel and her generous scoring habit.

Ivana was called up. Thankfully, she and the gold python had gotten along very harmoniously, and her modeling was also very fashionable, which made Bonnie finally give out a high score – eight points. Jeffrey and Eureka gave nine points and eight points. The combined challenge score and net vote made Ivana temporarily rank first.

The last one called to the stage was Zhou Yun Sheng, his heart was not nervous, but his face had a real flush, his watery blue eyes started unblinkingly at the judges.

Jeffrey couldn't stand his pitiful small creature stare and quickly picked up his notebook to block it a bit. Even the famously iron faced Queen Eureka gave the young man a gentle smile. Who could bear hurting this little beast?

"Before I score, we'll first play a video sent in from a guest audience member to the program team. He gave you a score in the video, and I agree with his point of view, so I'll be stealing his judgment." Bonnie snapped her finger and the staff immediately transferred the video clip to the big screen.

There was a very handsome young man, wearing an expensive business suit, he looked like an elite man. He adjusted the camera, pushed back his hair, then said in an exaggerated tone, "Ouch, my heart! Seeing Romeo's photo with the baby leopard, my heart broke!"

This sentence was neither explicitly good or bad, so Zhou Yun Sheng expressed a timely tensed expression, his eyes moistening, as if he was about to cry. The cameramen trembled and quickly gave him a close-up. The boy was the darling of the camera, in layman's terms – all the cameramen loved Romeo.

The elite man gripped his heart, making a sad weeping expression, then he picked up a document and showed it to the camera, "Before, I had little concept of the protection of wild animals. I always felt that this issue was far away from me. But when I saw the picture, I was taken in by the terrified expressions of the two small animals. I was able to imagine how they survived in the perilous jungle. How they wandered around, struggling to live, but the shameless poachers would never show them mercy, just so they can get their beautiful fur."

"The pursuit of beauty was a death sentence to nature, but we can correct this wrong with time. This is my donation to the Wildlife Conservation Association, 1000 dollars, I hope you can help me take good care of them." Then he put down the document, picked up a print of Romeo's photo, and kissed his big frightened eyes, his expression affectionate.

You didn't need to question it, the gentleman was completely fascinated by Romeo.

Zhou Yun Sheng blushed a timely deep red, when he saw the cameras closing in on him, he quickly covered his face, only revealing a slice of his wet blue eyes.

Don't cover up, you're so cute, it's a sin! The cameramen wailed in their hearts.

Bonnie slowly clapped, smiling a comforting smile, "This is an example of the advice I gave before, the most essential job of a model. I don't know how he persuaded the little leopard to pose and give the same expressions as him, but this undoubtedly fits our theme. Looking at this picture, the first idea that emerges from our minds is not how handsome the model looks, it's – No, don't hurt them! This is this photo's greatest effect!"

She paused for a moment, picked up a smaller version of the photo of the table, and pointed to the young man's toes, lumbar spine and cervical spine, then continued to explain, "Don't think that this crouching posture is very easy to pull off. Look at him, do you see his tension? His feet, buttocks, lumbar spine, cervical spine, his arms around the little leopard and even his fingertips are secretly exerting force. Not a little force, but just enough strength. The result is his body, even when curled up, looks amazingly slender. When ordinary people curl up, they look like this…."

"But a model's posture should be like this." After saying this, she began working every piece of muscle, exerting force, her neck stretched and she lean forward, her waist, back and toes tensed, her entire body curved and stretched to the limit. Miraculously, her sluggish posture changed into one full of momentum, as if in the next moment she would jump up and flee or join in a battle.

After her explanation, the players finally felt a bit of inspiration for the knack of posing, and also felt stunned by Romeo's perception. They thought the boy would be the eliminated in the first wave of people, but now it seemed that he was hiding his strength.

This was not the first time Zhou Yun Sheng modeled, once, his achievements in the fashion world went far beyond even Bonnie and Ariel. But he didn't act smug at Bonnie's comments, he just gave a shy smile.

This made the judges have a better impression of him.

"Whether it's the theme or your pose or your eyes, oh my gosh, those eyes made even my heart break." Bonnie clutched at her heart and shook her head, "So you can look at me with those eyes again, I give you 10 points."

Eureka smiled and said, "I couldn't agree more. I looked back on all the previous best photos, and this is the best photo I've seen so far. You've raised the bar."

"Because of this photo, in only one day, the Wildlife Conservation Association received a donation of $70,000. For the sake of that $70,000 and for the sake of the many lovely animals that will receive protection, I'll pass the benefits on to you." Miss Jeffrey winked.

The three full scores put the other players in an uproar, but they weren't optimistic about Romeo's net vote, they knew that Romeo's personality attracted a lot of hate. But soon, they were once again frightened- The boy's net vote score was higher than both Emily and Hayden's.

There was no doubt that this episode's TOP1 title was his!

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Author's note:

Tiny Theater:

Rooney squatted in front of the computer, his front paw pointing to the small leopard on the screen. He had a sorrowful expression: Owner, you kicked me out of bed for this little bitch?! Its bloodline is too noble for me to fight back ah! I need to eat a bowl of dried fish to calm down.

[T/N: This is the only time I've seen an author's note from this author. And I've read 3 of her novels. ABO's author has one every couple of chapters. Let's celebrate.]