CH 24.6

Chapter 24 Part 6 - Weibo (6/6)

As before, after the guests had gone back to their rooms and made themselves presentable, the director called everyone to come out and announced the reward for today’s mission.

“Because you all met the condition of “completing the mission before the sun sets”, the hidden reward is triggered. The reward this time is—”

Tao Tao: “A PASS card?”

“Nope,” Director Zhao said, “The hidden reward this time is a wish card. It can fulfil a mission-related wish of one of you guests, and it will become invalid in 10 minutes.”

Everyone did not really understand what was said and looked at each other. Director Zhao meticulously explained: “How about this, I’ll give an example. For example, if the wish card was given to Ziyu, Ziyu can then make a wish to withdraw from all future missions, without affecting the rewards. Understood?”

“……Understood.”

In that case, the wish card had much more rights than the PASS card, it can be used to achieve a once and for all effect!

To be honest, after arriving in Qianzhou, not one of the tasks given by the programme team did not require using a great amount of brainpower or physical strength. After working around the clock for a few days, other than the exuberant youngsters, the remaining people were already physically and emotionally exhausted.

If you get the wish card, you’ll be able to pass through the remaining rounds without needing to even lift a finger; who wouldn’t want that?

In reality, at this critical juncture, the programme team’s intention of setting up a wish card is very clear — they wanted to see people tearing each other up in a catfight1.

The team now was too harmonious, without any collision to result in sparks, there will be fewer and fewer climax points.

Originally, the conflict between Liu Ziyu and Qi Xingchen could still have been used as material for some god-tier editing to induce a war, and 《Budget Travel》can then sit back and reap the benefits.

Afterwards, they did not know what happened, but Liu Ziyu unexpectedly gave up targeting Qi Xingchen and switched to defending him at every turn.

The programme team also had bitter suffering they cannot complain about.

Luckily, they had plenty of ways to induce a war, and Director Zhao beamed, “Don’t forget that the wish card time limit is only ten minutes. Now, 3 minutes have already passed by, have you all thought of who to give it to?”

The leader, Zhang Yunfei, was somewhat in a difficult position.

The more he found things difficult, the happier Director Zhao was; he held onto his watch and counted down: “6 minutes left, 5 minutes left, 4 minutes left…… Yunfei, are you sure you’re not going to say anything?”

That would not do; if he continued not to say anything, there would really be no time. Zhang Yunfei stomped his foot: “I’ll say it!”

“Maybe you all will think I’m biased, but this time, the card…… I would still like to give it to Xingxing.”

“Ah?” Liu Ziyu was taken aback, “You also wanted to give it to Xingxing ah, if I had known I wouldn’t have held it in.”

“Hai, what’s all of this,” Luo Qiuman slapped her thigh, “I was afraid of causing internal conflict and didn’t dare to say this, but my first thought was to give it to Xingxing.”

Bo Ye said did not say anything and nodded.

The only one who felt that giving it to anyone was fine and really paid no mind to it, Qi Xingchen: “???”

Director Zhao, who was sitting and waiting for the guests’ catfight material, was thoroughly speechless. ​​Damn it, this kid shouldn’t be called an imp, he should be f*cking called a little demon2!

But since the matter had already reached this point, there was no more f*cking point in struggling any longer. Director Zhao half-heartedly tossed the card to Qi Xingchen: “There are two minutes left, hurry up and make a wish bah.”

“Wah, Xingxing, you better think about it carefully, don’t use misuse it.”

“That’s right, that’s right. Why don’t you withdraw from the remaining missions? These few days you were the most tired out, it’s just in time for you to take a breather.”

“If not, wishing for additional individual rewards is also good, it’ll make things easier for point accumulation the next episode.”

“Or ……”

His ears were blocked up by the guests’ bombardment of suggestions, but Qi Xingchen didn’t listen to a single sentence.

He raised his hand very confidently, “I’ve thought about it.”

Director Zhao: “This fast?”

“En.”

“Then say it bah.”

“My wish is that, if you know about the way we accomplished our mission today, don’t scold your staff, she was dragged into this by me.”

At the very back of the programme team, the little production assistant, who had been on tenterhooks about having leaked information, froze for a moment.

So he…… was not merely just making use of her.

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The guests were terribly exhausted from the hike today, and after everyone had taken a haphazard shower, they each went back to their own room. The courtyard quietened down very soon.

Still thinking about Zhou Yu, Qi Xingchen opened Weibo just before going to bed to see how far things had developed.

Under the clever operation of the PR team, all of Zhou Yu’s dark secrets from birth to the present were dug up one after another and went viral.

The screenshot of him being entirely naked with chilli sauce spread across his whole face has also been made into a sticker pack that was extensively used, directly nailing him on the scumbags’ pillar of shame, making it difficult for him to free himself anytime soon.

And the biggest beneficiary of this incident is Qi Yuji. Both Qi Xingchen’s and Qi Yuji’s Weibo accounts were “accidentally” discovered.

Qi Xingchen was alright, with his fans rising from over 900,000 to a million.

Qi Yuji’s situation was different, as the main character of the incident, the follower count 3 shot up straight from 1.3 million to almost 2 million!

But there are always two sides in any incident; with people supporting them, there will be people who oppose them. Many speculated that this was a joint publicity stunt by Qi Xingchen and Qi Yuji.

And this number was not small; immediately there was a large group of antis aggressively crowding Qi Xingchen’s main page, scolding him for being disgusting and using other people’s personal problems for publicity.

What’s more, they even said outright that a Z-lister obscure b*stard like Qi Xingchen should not continue to prance around and hurry up and go die4.

Qi Xingchen found it difficult to comprehend; did the people who said those things really understand him? If they didn’t understand, why could they curse with such seriousness5?

As a public figure, it was not like he could confront them head-on. After thinking about it, Qi Xingchen felt that the true meaning of anything he said could be distorted by them. Hence, he sat upwards, looked out of the window and took a picture of the night sky.

Without any accompanying text, he simply edited and posted it on Weibo.

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that his idol’s name had the character “Night”6 in his name, in his heart, the dark night was always the most magnanimous7.

It could embrace all that is beautiful in the world, and it could also accommodate all of the filth in the corners.

Eventually, along with time that elapses, night after night, everything, regardless of whether it is good or bad would all become memories, scattered throughout the long stream of time.

Qi Xingchen raised his head to admire the moon for a while, and his mood finally calmed down gradually.

Going back under the covers, he scrolled through his phone, and suddenly realised that his notification panel was crammed full of Weibo forwards and comments.

What’s going on? Could it be that Qi Yunxiao bought a hot search for him again? Qi Xingchen furrowed his eyebrows as he opened Weibo.

【Bo Ye has become your fan】