CH 19.1

Do You Still Hate Her? 09 – If you can’t beat them, join them.

This farce naturally came to an end with the wigs of the other three people being ripped off by Ye Lu and thrown towards the audience, marking the end of the show.

Of course, these three people didn’t really put up much resistance. Ye Lu had already exposed them, and they couldn’t escape. Defending those wigs to the death clearly had no practical meaning.

[Ye Lu : I’m suffering, so all of you will too!]

[Can’t take it anymore, Ye Lu! What kind of elementary school student are you, hahaha]

[One person, blood contractor Shang Lu, joins the director’s team, hahaha]

The four people stood on stage, their identities all exposed. The audience below, although prepared in advance, still shouted their names with excitement.

Ye Lu covered his face with one hand and said, “For the first time in my life, I hope I’m not famous.”

The other three people also looked awkward and uncomfortable in their own ways.

Fortunately, Jiang Jing finally appeared and rescued the four of them, waving her hand and saying, “This way.”

The four of them quickly squeezed onto Jiang Jing’s table as if fleeing. Although it seemed like only Ye Lu was in a hurry, in reality, the other three were just as hurried.

Needless to say, they were all embarrassed!

They still had some shame!

Song Zeqian looked at Jiang Jing, then looked around, furrowing his brows as he asked, “Where are Shang Lu and Lin Yanyan? Are they behind all this mischief?”

Suddenly, Shang Lu and Lin Yanyan, who were mentioned, reacted with surprise, “?! “

Lin Yanyan was shocked, “How did he know?”

Song Zeqian paused for a moment, turned to look at them, and reminded them with a somewhat speechless tone, “If you’re going to talk about it while sitting right behind us, at least speak softly.”

Lin Yanyan covered her mouth and looked at Shang Lu. The immediate reaction to being caught talking behind someone’s back was guilt, followed by a defiant response, “It serves you right for being so clueless! Lulu is the smartest among us! You deserve it!”

Song Zeqian nodded, indicating that he understood, then turned to look at Shang Lu, half-smiling and half-serious, “So, it was you.”

Lin Yanyan, “?! “

Shang Lu, “…”

[The princess is shocked: How did he know?!]

[I believe Lin Yanyan didn’t intentionally shift the blame to Shang Lu. Her intelligence can only reach this level, and she genuinely wanted to praise Shang Lu.]

Lin Yanyan looked at Shang Lu with a panicked expression, realizing that she might have said the wrong thing but not knowing how to make up for it. Shang Lu patted her hand to reassure her, indicating that it was alright, then locked eyes with Song Zeqian. Despite this, there was a hint of contempt in Shang Lu’s tone, “Director Song, you really have no understanding of dance.”

Feeling Shang Lu’s disdain at that moment, Song Zeqian, not one to lose his composure, responded with even more arrogance in his tone, “And so what? My singing is even worse.”

Shang Lu was stunned.

The netizens in the live stream room also expressed their confusion: “?”

[Hahaha, Song Zeqian, have you gone crazy too?]

[Did the series of sad incidents, where he cross-dressed, danced, and got his wig pulled off by Ye Lu, cause some psychological impact on Director Song? Hahaha]

[Speaking with a tough tone but saying cowardly things? Isn’t that Director Song’s character? It’s strange but funny.]

In fact, this was an accident.

Song Zeqian started speaking but suddenly remembered his true thoughts when he heard the music playing after being pulled onto the stage:

—Thank goodness it’s not singing.

So he blurted out the wrong words, but since they were already spoken, Song Zeqizn could only control his expression, with the corner of his lips twitching uncontrollably.

Shang lu remained silent for two seconds, still not quite understanding, and asked, “So what are you proud of then?”

[Hahaha, Shang lu! My online mouthpiece!]

[Shang Lu: Confused, the first time I’ve seen such a strange person, inexplicably exposing a weakness]

At this moment, Lin Yanyan didn’t really believe Song Zeqian’s words. She sneered and said, “I’m famously bad at singing. Can you sing worse than me?”

Ye Lu, with a mouthful of meatballs, muttered, “Is this something worth comparing?”

What’s the point of winning?!

[Hahaha, even Ye Lu can’t bear to watch anymore! Lin Yanyan, reflect on how outrageous you are!]

[What should we do, Yanyan? Will the dumbest person in this variety show become you? (I’m crying, but I’m pretending)]

Of course, Ye Lu’s question only earned him an eyes rolling from Lin Yanyan.

And the most important event today is Jiang Jing’s birthday.

When a huge cake was brought out and placed on a round table with many people, the program team naturally announced the arrangement that Shang Lu had already guessed—

Wow! Surprise or not, it’s no surprise at all! Actually, all the guests today have the same birthday!

Although she had known about this for a long time, after all, it’s a joyful occasion when everyone celebrates their birthday, so Shang Lu couldn’t help but pretend to be surprised. Then, she graciously joined everyone in applauding and cheering.

[Shang Lu, you already figured it out a long time ago, so why did you still act surprised?]

[Can you believe it? I actually noticed Shang Lu’s acting for the first time! If I hadn’t watched the live broadcast, I would never have known that she already knew.]

The production team really put thought into it this time. They custom-made candles based on each person’s name. Each birthday person placed the candles and blew them out together during the birthday song.

Although the atmosphere on-site was clichéd, it was genuinely heartwarming.

[Xu Ze, don’t think I didn’t see you only lip-syncing the words!]

[Director Song! Your singing for the birthday song wasn’t bad at all! Be more confident!]

[Hahaha, singing the birthday song doesn’t require much skill. Director Song can be more confident.]

[The person who said that singing the birthday song doesn’t require skill must not have heard Lin Yanyan sing on other shows. You can’t even tell if someone is having a birthday with the way she sings off-key.]

[That’s right, Lin Yanyan said she sings worse than Song Zeqian, and she wasn’t joking.]

After the candles were blown out, Jiang Jing took over and cut the cake to distribute it to everyone.

The cake was large and there were many people at the scene, so this process took quite some time.

After finishing the cake, everyone gathered together for a group photo.

When Yu Su was taking the photo, he rarely looked at the camera, but when he saw Shang Lu voluntarily standing next to him, he lifted his eyes and looked towards the camera, quietly imitating Shang Lu’s gesture of supporting his chin with one hand.

For Yu Su, his life was actually quite mediocre. If it weren’t for his somewhat talented creations, he wouldn’t have had the chance to join SN, the group that the company had high expectations for in the beginning.

But even so, Yu Su was well aware of his position within the team. He was merely responsible for creating and allowing his teammates to shine on stage. Rather than being an idol, he was more like a staff member accompanying them on stage.

No one would think of him first, whether it was for work invitations or when fans wanted autographs and photos together. He was always seen as a substitute, a ‘second choice.’

However, after coming to this variety show, it seemed like he had transformed from a perpetual second choice to the first choice.

This was an experience he had never had before.

Shang Lu would sincerely compliment him and always believed that he was the most good-looking.

During moments like taking photos, she would also deliberately come over to find him.

Yu Su felt fortunate for the first time that Xia Yuan’s casual attitude about work gave him the opportunity to come here and meet Shang Lu.

He was truly grateful for all of this.

But right after the group photo, the Director said, “The birthday cake has already been eaten, so everyone can bring out the gift prepared for Teacher Jiang Jing.”

Everyone : “?”

Huh? Where did this come from? It wasn’t mentioned before!

Of course, nobody had prepared a gift because they only found out about this halfway through the recording today.

However, after seeing Jiang Jing’s gentle and expectant eyes, no one could say such cruel words.