Sisters in distress

Go back and rest for a bit before the afternoon recording.

A rapid-fire Q&A session, two years in the making.

Random grouping.

The moment Chu Yiqi received the draw, he almost suspected foul play, otherwise why would he be in the same group as Xi Ai again?

Despite their thoughts, Xi Ai and Chu Yiqi quickly picked up their draft notebooks and began whispering to each other.

Xi Ai whispered to Chu Yiqi, "There's nothing we can do about it. It seems we're not very familiar with each other, so we're going to lose this round."

"That won't do." Chu Yiqi said, gripping his pen. "We can't be the last one standing, can we?"

"Okay, you two, the first question is also one that many friends are concerned about: Have you met with each other in the past two years?"

Xi Ai didn't rush to write down her answer.

Have you seen him? Of course she's seen Chu Yiqi. But... Chu Yiqi said he wants to win, so we have to answer according to Chu Yiqi's wishes.

Chu Yiqi glanced at Xi Ai, then looked away. In the few seconds of silence, Chu Yiqi blinked gently, then looked up at the camera and handed over his draft notebook.

The answer is unanimous: No.

Yu Nianxi saw the answer here and quietly nudged Meng Yike: "Really?"

Meng Yike glanced at him and said, "Of course it's fake. Xi Ai turned off her IP address once, and that was probably the case."

How did you know?

"Do you think Xi Ai is the kind of person who would just ignore things?"

"oh."

Okay, it's just a matter of marital intimacy; she doesn't care.

"So... should I eat mooncakes with mixed nuts or Yunnan ham?"

Xi Ai frowned and glared at the person behind the camera.

No, it wasn't intentional, was it?

"Xi Ai? Why aren't you answering?" Meng Yike had just finished joking with them when Shi Yunshan covered her mouth.

But this scene is strikingly similar to what happened a few years ago.

*

“Xi Ai—”

When Xi Ai heard Yu Nianxi's drawn-out "calling back the soul," she was in Chu Yiqi's room, being all lovey-dovey with him.

—A more accurate description would be mutual bullying.

The cause was actually quite simple: the two people had a disagreement about mooncakes.

Chu Yiqi stared at the five-nut mooncakes in the box and muttered very softly, "How could anyone actually eat Yunnan ham?!"

Unfortunately, Xi Ai, who had just entered the room and was about to call out to Chu Yiqi, overheard them.

As someone who doesn't eat five-nut but loves ham, Xi Ai immediately got anxious and retorted to Chu Yiqi without hesitation: "No, there really are people who only eat five-nut?"

Chu Yiqi turned his head and glared at Xi Ai. It was hard to say whether he was more embarrassed by being overheard saying bad things or angry at being questioned for only eating five kinds of nuts.

After a few words, neither of them came out on top, so Xi Ai chose to end the conflict—she stopped talking, paused for a moment, and leaned in to kiss Chu Yiqi. Chu Yiqi was stunned for a moment, then slowly responded to Xi Ai.

Up to this point, everything seemed normal, but then it inexplicably turned into a situation where the two of them would poke each other and scratch each other.

Fortunately, Yu Nianxi's call saved them.

The two tacitly agreed to a truce, each eating their own mooncakes and refusing to say anything to each other.

Then they went out hand in hand, and Xi Ai asked, "What's wrong—"

*

In a moment of distraction, Xi Ai glanced at Chu Yiqi, who looked calm and had already written down the answer.

Xi Ai hurriedly wrote down two words, glanced at Chu Yiqi, and handed over the notebook.

The scene became extremely awkward.

Chu Yiqi stared silently at Xi Ai's "Five Kernels" before meeting her gaze.

The two engaged in a silent game of wits.

"Why did you change it?"

"I thought you wouldn't change?"

"A good mooncake debate."

"Who said they would defend the Five Virtues to the death?"

"Who says the Five-Nut Sauce is irrational?"

"Fine, let's call a ceasefire."

The director called out to the four people next to him, "Hey, you four, okay, let's ask Shi Yunshan and Chuiying, sweet or savory zongzi?"

Shi Yunshan: "..."

Nie Chuiying: "..."

They really didn't let any pairing go.

They happen to be a pair who argue every year during the Dragon Boat Festival.

The North-South conflict has escalated once again.

Chu Yiqi and Xi Ai were happy to watch the excitement, and they were also drawing new questions.

Xi Ai nudged Chu Yiqi: "Hey, guess who among them eats sweets?"

Chu Yiqi thought about the misunderstanding between herself and Xi Ai and dared not speak carelessly, but she still wanted to guess.

So after agonizing for a long time, I said, "Yunshan is definitely like you, insisting on writing about sweet rice dumplings."

Xi Ai, who insists on savory zongzi but doesn't exactly reject sweet ones, felt inexplicably attacked by Chu Yiqi at this moment.

She said, "That's not necessarily true—oh, here comes the next question, what's it?"

Before Xi Ai had even finished gambling, the teacher in charge was already calling for Xi Ai and Chu Yiqi.

"Xi Ai's first work."

Chu Yiqi was stunned for a moment, thinking that he should be able to turn the tide.

Xi Ai, however, didn't seem so relaxed. She pressed on, "The first one refers to... a film or television series? Or something else?"

Chu Yiqi was stunned. If they dug another hole and found something she didn't know, how would she answer?

Fortunately, the production team hadn't thought that far ahead, so they said, "Well... this is the first public appearance, including music videos and the like."

Another huge pitfall.

Xi Ai almost laughed. If you really want to talk about her first music video, she only made a brief appearance, although... a fan named "Yi Xi Zhi Di" had quietly asked her if she had been an extra in an Anna's music video.

Xi Ai didn't reply, but she was genuinely surprised that someone had recognized her from several blurry figures.

However, Xi Ai didn't think Chu Yiqi was the kind of person who would go to such lengths to scrutinize these kinds of shots.

So she thought about it for a long time and finally came up with another short film, a promotional video, which was the promotional video for her school the year she graduated.

Her name is... Poetry Years.

How tacky.

Xi Ai wrote it down, thinking that Chu Yiqi must already know.

She looked confidently at Chu Yiqi sitting opposite her.

Chu Yiqi felt a pang of unease seeing her so confident, but couldn't quite put her finger on what could be wrong. Surely Xi Ai couldn't have forgotten?

No way, she wouldn't do something like digging her own grave.

Chu Yiqi considered it carefully, but still did not change his answer.

"Smack!"

Chu Yiqi slammed down his pen, so angry he almost laughed.

She laughed as she glared at Xi Ai.

"What nonsense are you spouting! It's clearly 'Meadow'! That red dress that flashed by!"

Xi Ai was extremely aggrieved. She slammed the notebook on the table and said, "It's such a niche item. I just happened to be passing by and added it without even adding my name! How was I supposed to know you knew?"

Chu Yiqi was speechless and couldn't say anything, so he could only stare blankly at Xi Ai.

"you!"

What's wrong with me?

"……good."

Xi Ai: "No good."

"Then what about you?"

Xi Ai stopped talking.

She blinked, then suddenly realized that if she really had to calculate it, this was a good thing.

At least Chu Yiqi really did look for it; even if Anna unintentionally mentioned it, she still remembered it.

Xi Ai should pretend to be innocent since she got the advantage.

"Okay, I'm sorry, I thought you didn't know."

"...Okay, next one."

The director, suppressing a laugh, asked the final question: "What was Teacher Chu's first song?"

Here we go again.

Chu Yiqi and Xi Ai both slumped their shoulders, and both of them looked shorter.

Fortunately, there were no unexpected problems this time, and everyone wrote the same poem, "Butterfly Wings".

After the recording was cut off, Chu Yiqi quietly said to Xi Ai, "Actually, it's not like that, is it?"

Xi Ai wasn't surprised and said, "But those songs aren't credited to Chu Yiqi, are they?"

The two looked at each other, not intending to ask for details, but smiled knowingly and naturally.

After two overly harmonious moments, it's time to get the rhythm right.

When those songs were released, Chu Yiqi's singing skills and timbre were still relatively immature, and those songs did not have a great impact, so no one has dug them up for a long time.

Chu Yiqi hesitated for a long time before finally asking Xi Ai, "How did you know?", before the production team started their next round of antics.

Xi Ai smiled faintly, answering with a question: "Then how did you know?"

"You don't care."

Chu Yiqi didn't want to bring up the time when he had just broken up with Xi Ai. Out of boredom, he started looking at things related to Xi Ai. Later, when there was nothing left to look at, he saw Anna's music video in an art appreciation class.

When she got home that day, she leaned against the headboard in a daze, watching the music video on her tablet over and over again.

She suddenly felt that the bright red color looked very familiar.

Through repeated comparisons, Chu Yiqi became certain that it must be Xi Ai. So, under the cover of her alternate account being a big fan of Xi Ai, she went to ask Xi Ai.

There was no response, but that didn't change her own conviction.

Of course, she later asked Annala and received a positive answer, along with a somewhat meaningful smile.

Xi Ai found out by accident. One day, when she was with Nadia, she randomly played some songs and Xi Ai suddenly felt that the voice was somewhat familiar.

It sounded like a song she had heard from Chu Yiqi.

This comes from Chu Yiqi, who was about to graduate from high school.

Back then, Chu Yiqi saved up for a long time to buy herself a very beautiful cake, which was a little butterfly covered in pink cream.

In the video, Chu Yiqi, whose face is somewhat blurry, says, "I got this camera from the sister at the cake shop, let's record a video."

The person in the video was wearing a summer school uniform, short sleeves and long pants, which made him look exceptionally thin.

Such a person, bathed in the night breeze on the rooftop, seemed to glow, every strand of hair like a meticulously designed work of art, blinking as they looked at the camera and sang themselves a birthday song.

It's like you've missed a happy birthday to yourself, and you have to make up for it on this day.

Xi Ai paused the music, wrote down the song title, and went back to compare it repeatedly for a long time, finally concluding that it was Chu Yiqi.

So those songs became some of the most played tracks on Xi Ai's playlist. Though they were still immature and inexperienced, they were the lovers she had been missing.

"Then you don't care."

"oh."

A pointless conversation ended, and the six people gathered around the table to announce the final score rankings.

Unsurprisingly, Chu Yiqi and Xi Ai ended up in last place due to their excessively harmonious yet lacking in chemistry.

Surprisingly, Shi Yunshan and Nie Chuiying also scored the same.

The four of them looked at each other, their eyes filled with mockery and schadenfreude.

I don't know what's so fun about it.

This is what it means to be in the same boat as your sister.

"Then let's play the next round... a word guessing game without saying the name."

The production team was the same familiar group, and everyone knew that this woman especially liked to stir things up, so it was hard to say whether we were more excited or numb.

"Okay, sister."

Chu Yiqi asked, "Should we still use the same grouping method as before?"

"Of course."

"Please answer properly this time, okay, Teacher Xi?"

Xi Ai was unjustly accused and had nowhere to seek justice, so she could only say, "Although I have been thinking about it carefully, but... be prepared."

"Come on."

Nie Chuiying chuckled and added insult to injury: "You two... it's no wonder you ended up with each other."

Chu Yiqi glanced at her: "How can you two be so close?"

"..."

A truce was reached silently, and the war began.

But this time it was done in shifts.

The first group consists of Xi Ai and Chu Yiqi.

"Guess what I'm guessing?"

The two asked the question at the same time, then looked at each other in bewilderment.

Xi Ai finally said, "I'll guess once, and you guess once."

"Alright."

The two sat down opposite each other.

"Then, Teacher Chu, please look at the question." The assistant placed a sign behind Xi Ai and pointed to the two characters on it.

Chu Yiqi opened her mouth, but her assistant reminded them: "You only have one chance this time."

"Wow, sister, you're so mean."

"It's not my fault."

After laughing for a while, Chu Yiqi also thought of a way to put it: "It's like you're in the office all day, what are you doing? Just two words."

"Wow, Qiqi, you're so obvious..." Before Yu Nianxi could finish her exclamation, Xi Ai slapped her in the face.

Xi Ai gave her answer without hesitation: "Slacking off?"

Chu Yiqi was on the verge of a breakdown.

Xi Ai could tell something was wrong from her expression, so she asked in return, "Am I not that kind of person in your heart?"