The first episode aired, and netizens were all lamenting that Xu Chacha and Qu Tianzuo weren't paired together, even though both of them performed exceptionally well. This sparked another round of debate in the comments.

The camera also panned across the audience. Some sharp-eyed people spotted Xi Xinxin.

While you guys were still arguing about who was better, I already felt that Xi Xinxin and Xu Chacha were together.

She was sitting in the very front row, I really... I'm so upset.

Didn't you guys notice Xu Chacha secretly making a heart shape with her hands?

Xi Xinxin didn't care what cheating tricks Qu Tianzuo would use later. The director would definitely give him a scrambled note in the end, letting him have some peace and quiet for a few episodes. The more you trust the answer, the easier it is to make a mistake.

These past few days at school, Chen Tongyun has been constantly hovering around her, pretending to trip and fall, pretending to be unable to move something, and pretending to be a little cold. Xi Xinxin has ignored them all.

"No! Xi Xinxin! Can't you have pity on me? My health is so poor!" Chen Tongyun said from behind.

Xi Xinxin only noticed her when she heard the voice: "Oh my god, Chen Tongyun! I haven't seen you for a long time. You know, girls are different from boys. They can't be as considerate as you."

Chen Tongyun gritted her teeth in anger, watching helplessly as Xi Xinxin walked away. A gust of wind blew, and she sneezed again. She touched her face, looking incredibly delicate. A boy nearby was smitten. He stepped forward and offered her his coat: "Hey, don't get cold."

Chen Tongyun immediately handed the clothes back: "Excuse me, could you please move aside?"

Then she jogged over: "Xi Xinxin! I've sneezed! I'm really not feeling well!"

"If you're not feeling well, stay in the dorm and don't shout." Xi Xinxin ran even faster, and Chen Tongyun, with her small frame, couldn't keep up at all.

Chen Tongyun, who could only see Chen Tongyun's back from behind, stomped her foot angrily.

Finally, she returned to her dorm room dejectedly. Chen Tongyun didn't get along well with her roommates, who were all classmates. One of the girls' boyfriends even paid extra attention to her.

They eventually broke up. They would only help Chen Tongyun occasionally when she was feeling really unwell.

Chen Tongyun wondered, given how strained their relationship was, they would all help her when they saw her suffering, so why was Xi Xinxin so stubborn?

She placed the boxes of strawberries she was carrying on the seats of the three people. The three of them had gone out to play together, and she was always the one who was excluded. She used to think, so what? The boys all revolved around her.

Soon her roommates returned, and they looked at each other in bewilderment as they saw the strawberries on the table.

One of them washed his strawberries and placed them in front of Chen Tongyun: "Let's eat together. Haven't you been in contact with him anymore?" He was this person's ex-boyfriend.

“I’ve said before that they were only nice to me voluntarily. Look at me now, I’m not giving them the time of day, and they’ve all moved on to other people.”

The person shoved a strawberry into Chen Tongyun's mouth: "Can't eating shut you up? What are you pretending to be?"

The other two looked at each other and smiled, then went to wash the strawberries on the table.

When Xi Xinxin reached the stairs, she saw Mei Qing carrying a large package. Without saying a word, she took it from her: "Why are there so many things?"

Mei Qing smiled, her eyes crinkling: "Thank you, Xin Xin. These were sent by my parents. They said they were for you and Chu Quanyi. Thank you again for what happened last time."

After unpacking and sorting the packages, Xi Xinxin arrived at Chu Quanyi's dormitory with a bunch of them.

The first thing you hear when you enter is the clattering of keyboards.

"Given to you by Mei Qing's parents. Where should I put it?"

"Just put it on that table. Ah, this is so comfortable. The whole dorm is mine now. What's that girl you mentioned? Jin Shu? I should thank her for causing trouble." Chu Quanyi slumped in the chair: "I've figured it out. This thing needs a huge emotional fluctuation for me to pinpoint its location quickly. Go! I'll provoke everyone in this world."

Xi Xinxin rolled her eyes at her.

"Alright, alright. I'm not going to mess with you anymore. I've already identified a few people. The time I identified them happened to coincide with the time when a few people were around you."

"who?"

“Start with Xi Dai, Xu Chacha, Yu Shuwen and Ji Nianya.”

Xi Xinxin thought for a moment: "Yu Shuwen and Jinian Ya are still abroad, and Xu Chacha is filming a program, and her school is quite far away."

"So I'm starting by getting close to Xi Dai. I've been messing with her a lot in games lately, and guess what? She's not angry at all."

"Are you really not bad at the game?"

When Chu Quanyi saw someone questioning her gaming skills, she pulled Xi Xinxin to sit next to her and said, "Question me? Watch me show you!"

"Moreover, having large emotional fluctuations doesn't necessarily start with getting angry."

Chu Quanyi teased, "What, feeling sorry for him?"

Xi Xinxin released a video of the final dance performance she filmed live, stopping at the part where she danced with Xi Dai in the final. She pulled Xi Dai's hat down low and said, "You see, she kept making mistakes in this dance. I was trying to encourage her, but I didn't expect to succeed. I was very close at that time, and I could feel that she was probably happy and glad that she had succeeded."

After watching the video, Chu Quanyi looked at Xi Xinxin very seriously: "I knew you were wooden before. But I never thought you were this wooden."

"ah?"

Chu Quanyi packed her own things and then the things Mei Qing's parents had given her: "Come closer, I have a plan."

"You think the two of us need to lean in and listen?"

"...I don't want to talk to you anymore."

With the conclusion of the second round of Q&A, everyone realized that the questions became increasingly difficult. The two most talked-about contestants remained the same. However, everyone commented that Qu Tianzuo answered the questions very quickly, far faster than Xu Chacha.

Cheating is obviously faster, and the faster he does it now, the faster he'll be exposed later. He could have just honestly followed the script. Why bother with this whole character setup?

However, Qu Tianzuo wasn't satisfied. He pretended to accept an interview, in which he was asked what he thought of Xu Chacha. He pondered for a moment: "Actually, I do acknowledge her high school academic ability; she was supposedly the top scorer. But am I being too impetuous right now?"

Most people online are just following the trend.

Soon, comments began to emerge about Xu Chacha neglecting her studies and failing her grades due to acting.

Xi Xinxin opened her homepage and shared the program's promotional video.

"You think that such advanced technology means neglecting your studies?"

The comments section below Xi Xinxin's post is full of people who tell the truth.

No, even if she's bad, she's still better than those people who just talk big.

It's not that Qu Tianzuo is arrogant or anything, I really hate him.

How could anyone think Xu Chacha has gotten worse?

The show's director still thought this was just a ploy by Xi Xinxin to promote someone, a pastime for the wealthy.

Xi Xinxin still had to carry out Chu Quanyi's plan. She saw Xi Dai alone in the dormitory, which was the perfect opportunity for her to shine: "Dai Dai, let's talk about the dance from before."

Xi Dai, who had been in a daze, instantly snapped awake upon hearing this, even feeling a little anxious, her mind racing with all sorts of thoughts. What was it? Had they discovered something about her? She calmly hummed in response.

"Can I dance that part with you again?"

Xi Dai felt that Xi Xinxin must have found out something: "Why are you so troublesome? Let's go."

Actually, Xi Xinxin thought Chu Quanyi just wanted to see Xi Dai's nervous expression during that dance again. So she just went along with the lines Chu Quanyi gave her.

A chance encounter with Chu Quanyi at the dance studio

"Oh! Xinxin, Daidai! What a coincidence! You're here at the dance studio too!" (Exaggerated acting)

However, Xi Dai was somewhat distracted and did not notice.

Music begins.

Xi Dai quickly got into the zone, and surprisingly, she wasn't as flustered as before. Three minutes passed, and everything was perfect.

Chu Quanyi was somewhat unwilling. She had already realized that Xi Dai was trying her best to hide herself so that Xi Xinxin wouldn't notice anything different.

Then she smiled again and said, "Xinxin, I want to see you guys dance to a slow-motion clip of Watch Me Work."

Chu Quanyi thought: For the sake of the result, it's worth enduring some hardship and sadness!

After watching the dance video, Xi Dai's face tightened: "No. I'm leaving, it's boring."

Then they walked away, one hand and one foot in unison.

Xi Xinxin was about to chase after him when Chu Quanyi stopped her: "Guess what? It showed up."

"However," Chu Quanyi said with some regret but also contentment, "there's only a slight life tendency. Could it be a problem of being out of sync with the plot?"

"So even if we do it, we'll have to investigate a lot of people?"

"I'll go back and reorganize all the data. I'll be in the dorm for the next few days, so please check in for me, Miss Xixin~"

Xi Dai only realized after leaving the teaching building that her behavior just now was too disrespectful to Xi Xinxin, and too much. In the end, it was still her fault.

Xi Dai ordered a ton of delicious food for the dorm that night, and also ordered a bouquet of flowers for Xi Xinxin: "Just to show you. You can put it anywhere."

Xi Xinxin was both amused and exasperated. She called out to Shasha and Meiqing not to order dinner and to eat together.

Chu Quanyi seems to have gone into seclusion and hasn't come out at all. Sometimes when she goes to pick up takeout, she seems to be acting suspiciously.

Time quickly came to the end of the Q&A session. Xi Xinxin, using the excuse of celebrating the show by throwing flowers, invited many media outlets to the event.

Xu Chacha has never been paired with Qu Tianzuo, but now in the finals, it's just the two of them competing together.

"Please answer the question displayed on the big screen."

The questions were very complex, and the difficulty had increased significantly compared to the previous round. Xu Chacha had already started drafting her answers. After a while, she relaxed her brows and was about to ring the bell to answer when Qu Tianzuo beat her to it.

The same thing happened with the following questions; Qu Tianzuo deliberately took the picture just as Xu Chacha was about to take it.

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"Qu Tianzuo beat me again! However! Wrong answer!"

Qu Tianzuo was taken aback, and then went through his mental answer again.

"Wrong answer!"

"Wrong answer!"

Xu Chacha took the opportunity to share her answer and her problem-solving approach.