CH 24.4

Do You Still Hate Her? 14 – When Shang Lu became the prank target of the program team

[Wow… Shang Lu is too calm.]

[Shanglu, are you really not concerned at all?]

[Hahaha, Lin Yanyan and Ye Lu are both confused. I feel like they can’t continue acting anymore.]

In fact, that’s true.

Lin Yanyan walked directly to Shang Lu’s side, bent down, and took out Shang Lu’s earplugs. Then she questioned, “Aren’t you going to help me?”

Ye Lu also followed up and asked, “Aren’t you supposed to help me?”

Lin Yanyan : “???”

The look in Lin Yanyan’s eyes towards Ye Lu said, “Who do you think you are?”

[Hahaha, I feel like Lin Yanyan is going to be angry with Ye Lu for real!]

[Ye Lu! How dare you think that Shang Lu would help you instead of the princess? Those who vie for favor with the princess shall perish!]

[But in reality, Shang Lu didn’t help anyone. She’s just an innocent bystander.]

Shang Lu looked at Lin Yanyan and honestly replied, “I think he can’t argue with you. You can handle it.”

Lin Yanyan and Ye Lu’s voices are getting louder and louder. Shang Lu doesn’t want to join this argument, as it may affect her hearing.

Lin Yanyan : “?”

Is that so? Fine, she accepts this explanation.

But for the program team, this is not acceptable! Shang Lu didn’t fall into their trap at all? This segment they prepared is basically a waste, it absolutely can’t be like this!

Immediately, a staff member from the program team says, “Teacher Lin and Teacher Shang, please go upstairs and take a rest for a while.”

Shang Lu : “?”

Shang Lu looks at them, feeling confused, and asks, “I was sitting fine up there, you asked me to come down, and now you want me to go up again?”

[Hahaha, Shang Lu: Are you guys crazy? Are you playing me?]

The program team: “…”

The program team can only come up with an excuse, “We can’t let Teacher Lin and Teacher Ye continue arguing, so please accompany Teacher Lin, and we’ll stay here and persuade Teacher Ye.”

This reason is somewhat reasonable, so Shang Lu reluctantly goes upstairs with Lin Yanyan.

Five minutes later.

A staff member comes knocking on the door again.

He anxiously says, “Teacher Shang, something happened! Teacher Ye and Teacher Xu got into a fight! Please go and take a look!”

Lin Yanyan : “…”

Shang Lu : “?”

[Hey, program team, can’t you come up with a better excuse? Changing people without changing the situation is too perfunctory, haha!]

[Who said that? Be more careful! It’s clearly a different situation! Arguments have turned into fights!]

Lin Yanyan and Shang Lu walked downstairs together and saw Ye Lu and Xu Ze standing in front of the sofa, confronting each other. Their hands were holding opposite ends of the same pillow, and neither seemed willing to let go.

However, this scene didn’t look like a fight at all; it looked more like children in a kindergarten fighting over the same toy.

Shang Lu rested his hand on his chin, looking at the pillow with some confusion, and asked uncertainly, “Are you two fighting over this pillow?”

Xu Ze didn’t say anything.

Ye Lu, on the other hand, replied arrogantly, “Yes! Any problem?”

Shang Lu picked up another identical pillow from the nearby sofa and handed it over, saying, “No problem, but it’s not necessary either.”

[Hahaha, the excuse the program team came up with: perfunctory. The reasons Ye Lu and Xu Ze gave: even more perfunctory.]

[Shang Lu: Feeling unable to fit into this inexplicable world.]

[Making progress, making progress! (Wiping tears) Shang Lu is at least willing to advise them!]

Shang Lu first handed the pillow in her hand to Ye Lu, who was closer to her.

Ye Lu glanced at her and said, “I don’t want that! I just want this one!”

Shang Lu then looked towards Xu Ze, who seemed easier to talk to, and handed the pillow to him.

Indeed, Xu Ze is easier to talk to.

He took the pillow and held it in his arms with one arm, but he didn’t let go of the hand that was still struggling with Ye Lu.

Shang Lu : “…”

—Are they still going at it?

PD quietly reminded, “Teacher Shang, what else would you like to say?”

Shang Lu : “Should I say something?”

And at this moment, to make the scene more realistic, Ye Lu instantly let go of the hand holding the pillow and instead grabbed Xu Ze’s collar tightly.

Shang Lu blinked her eyes and then looked towards Lin Yanyan.

Lin Yanyan pondered for a second, then covered her mouth dramatically and exclaimed, “Wow, that’s terrifying! Are they going to fight?”

Shang Lu : “…”

Isn’t it a bit too fake?

Shang Lu picked up an empty water cup from the table and held it like a microphone. With a serious tone, he said, “Ladies and gentlemen, we now present to you the annual Boxing Championship. I am your special reporter, Xiao Lu. Today’s contestants are the King of Nonsense, Ye Lu, and the Widowed King1 of the Martial World, Xu Ze. This is the ultimate showdown between chatterbox and silent guy! The loser will have to leave the entertainment industry after a face disfigurement! Let’s cheer for them!”

Ye Lu : “?”

Xu Ze : “…”

[Hahaha, the damn Boxing Championship]

[The King of Nonsense and the Widowed King of the Martial World, hahaha! What a hilarious image, Shang Lu is really a genius with nicknames]

[This is so funny, but isn’t the term ‘Widowed King’ used differently?]

[Oh well, it doesn’t matter. Xu Ze, who is silent and reserved, really is a Widowed King]

[Shang Lu : What? Trying to mediate? No, no, no! It’s better if they fight!]

[I feel like the production team chose the wrong people from the start… How could Shang Lu possibly mediate? Hahaha]

Instead of mediating, Shang Lu turned to Lin Yanyan, holding the water cup as if conducting an interview, and asked, “Who do you think will win?”

Lin Yanyan, who hadn’t really grasped why she was making this guess, blurted out, “Ye Lu.”

“Very well, then I’ll bet on Xu Ze,” said Shang Lu, pulling Lin Yanyan to sit beside her and opening a pack of melon seeds on the coffee table.

Looking at Ye Lu and Xu Ze, who seemed frozen in place, Shang Lu even urged them, “Why aren’t you two continuing? Why aren’t you taking action?”

[Program Team: How did things develop to this point?!]

[Ye Lu & Xu Ze : Save us! What do we do? Should we continue with this act?]

Ye Lu looked at Shang Lu with a face full of disbelief and said, “Don’t you care about us at all? At least try to stop it?”

Shang Lu didn’t answer his question but looked at the PD and asked, “What’s the situation now? Should I take Xu Ze upstairs to cool down too? Can you talk to Ye Lu again?”

The PD forced a smile and said, “Sure… we can try.”

Shang Lu glanced at Xu Ze, waved at him, and said, “Okay, come with me.”

Xu Ze lowered his gaze and followed him.

They entered Shang Lu’s room.

Shang Lu looked at the identical pillows on the sofa in her room and realized there were two of them.

So Shang Lu picked them up and handed them both to Xu Ze, saying, “Here, they’re all yours.”

Xu Ze : “…”

Xu Ze didn’t say anything, but he still accepted the two pillows and placed them on his lap.

[Hahaha, help! I’m starting to feel embarrassed for Xu Ze!]

[Xu Ze is innocent, after all!]

Five minutes later, Shang Lu’s door was knocked on once again.

Looking at the familiar staff member at the door, seeing the same but clearly strained expression on their face, Shang Lu and the staff member locked eyes and said simultaneously:

“Teacher Shang, something happened! Teacher Ye and Teacher Song got into a fight! Hurry up and go see!”

Not a single word was different, and Shang Lu’s voice was even more exaggerated than the staff member’s.

Seeing the staff member’s stiff expression, Shang Lu shook his head slightly and sighed, “Oh my, I’m just too smart, aren’t I?”

The livestream room burst into laughter.

[Shanglu successfully predicted the program team, hahaha.]

[Three kicks three goals, hahaha.]

[Ye Lu : I’m doing three jobs? I should be paid more!]

This time, it’s true that only the personnel changed, not the content. The program team was just being perfunctory, but the program’s success was inadvertently influenced by Shang Lu.

[The program team probably didn’t expect that Shang Lu had no intention of mediating from the beginning, hahaha. By the way, did Shang Lu figure it out early on?]

This time, Shanglu waved her hand and said indifferently, “I won’t watch it. Let them fight it out.”

[Shang Lu : Let the show begin—]

[Ye Lu : QAQ?!]

[Everyone! The test results are out! This team! Truly! Has! No! Friendship!]