Chapter 90 Second Performance 20.0

Xie Qingyu was about to go straight to the waiting room, but unexpectedly met at the corner of the corridor——

——Bai Tang.

Bai Lang was also stunned when he saw Xie Qingyu unexpectedly.

Leo from the team finished his makeup first and rushed out, shouting that he wanted to find him. He thought that the two of them were already in the waiting room, but he didn't expect to run into them alone as well.

"Just finished your makeup?"

Assuming that Bai Lang was not the type to initiate conversation, it would be inappropriate not to say hello when they met, Xie Qingyu was considerate and took the initiative to speak.

Bai Lang nodded, "Yes," but then suddenly felt it was too brief, so he added, "They'll leave first after they finish, and I'll be the last to come out."

It seemed that except for the time when he was sick before, he talked more when he saw Bai Lang, but after that he became so frugal with words.

Not knowing what she had in mind, Xie Qingyu smiled and suggested, "Let's go together."

Bai Lang followed silently.

Under the light of the corridor, Xie Qingyu couldn't help but take a few more glances at his look: "The second public makeup is very different from your usual look."

His eyebrows and eyes were still stern, but against the backdrop of the white gauze, he had a more ethereal charm.

The white gauze dress is exquisitely tailored, and the outline of the muscles is vaguely visible, which is very... ahem - reserved and sexy.

"Does this...look good?"

Xie Qingyu did not expect Bai Lang to suddenly ask such a question, but he was only slightly surprised and then smiled and nodded.

"Special!" - This was exactly the word Bai Lang used to describe him.

Looking at the cunning glint in Xie Qingyu's eyes, Bai Lang pursed his lips, his chest shaking slightly, and he smiled muffledly.

He turned around as if to look at her and replied, "You are also very special." His eyes swept across the obsidian on Xie Qingyu's earlobe, and then quickly moved away.

"The earrings are with the costume designer." Xie Qingyu took the initiative to explain, "The stage look needs to be changed..."

After all, it's a gift from someone else, so it's normal to pay more attention to where it goes.

"Did I ask?" Bai Lang raised his eyebrows innocently, as if he didn't understand why Xie Qingyu wanted to explain this to him.

She walked past him quickly, but when she turned around, the corners of her mouth couldn't help but rise.

Xie Qingyu was so angry that he laughed and stood still.

So he was overthinking it. This guy had been with Gu Qiong for too long, and birds of a feather flock together!

You all like to see him angry, right?

As expected, they are from the same company and have the same bad factors in their bones.

There are many cameras in the waiting room, and the contestants are almost all here by now.

In order to avoid being blamed, Bai Lang arrived at the waiting room early without waiting for Xie Qingyu. After entering, he found a corner and sat down alone.

Less than half a minute after he sat down, Xie Qingyu pushed the door open and walked in.

Because he was not traveling with them, as he expected, the program crew and other contestants did not pay much attention to this.

They were all looking at the figure that came in with astonishment, either openly or secretly.

Except... Leo, who has always been paying attention to Xie Qingyu!

He had just clearly seen his brother glance towards Bai Lang after he entered the room.

Although their eyes looked casual as if they were looking for a place, considering the time they arrived one after the other, it was hard not to suspect that they came together!

Leo was secretly annoyed. No wonder he couldn't find his brother anywhere. He searched everywhere without success and finally had to come to the waiting room.

But he has learned to be "smart" now and simply chooses to ignore it.

Every time he gets angry with Bai Lang, he always suffers. This annoying guy keeps silent and pretends to be pitiful, as if he is being bullied, making his brother always take his side.

Xiao Gou has made up his mind - he will never be used as a tool by this man again!

Xie Qingyu saw Leo sitting there with his head down, mumbling something to himself from a distance. He walked over and pinched the back of his neck, "What are you planning now?"

He always digs holes for others and falls into them himself. It's hard not to think that this is another kind of "talent".

"elder brother--"

When he looked up and saw that it was Xie Qingyu, Leo puppy's eyes sparkled, he smiled brightly and patted the empty seat next to him.

After pulling Xie Qingyu to sit down, he glanced at Ding Zai who was sitting on the other side of him with a little pride in his heart.

This time he didn't yell, it was his brother who came over on his own initiative.

Ding found the obvious look in his eyes a little funny. It was completely a child's tendency to show off, like, "I have this and you don't!"

But in fact, this will easily make people curious and they can't help but want to make fun of it, like now——

He deliberately dragged out the words in a pretentious tone, his voice tinged with honey-like sweetness: "Oh~ I really can't tell that you were looking at the door eagerly just now~"

His pretentious manner was so shameless, and after saying that, he still felt it was not enough, so he turned around and poked You Jinzhao next to him, "Can you see that?"

You Jinzhao was sitting nearby and vaguely heard what was said. He touched his chin cooperatively and his eyes shifted back and forth between Leo and Xie Qingyu.

Finally, he nodded sincerely to Ding Zai and added, "We didn't even notice that he ran backstage for half the show before coming back. Really!"

His tone was sincere, but there was a spark of mischief dancing in his eyes, and even the corners of his mouth were tense, as if he was trying hard to hold back a laugh.

Ding Zai became more and more aggressive and started to harass Liu Xiu who was behind him.

He stretched out his arm and poked the other person's shoulder: "Xiu Xiu, can you see it?"

Liu Xiu, who was chatting with Wen Yan, didn't even turn around and said, "Get lost."

Ding Zai was frustrated every time and withdrew his hand, muttering angrily, "Alright..."

Leo laughed enough at this, and turned around to look at his brother with an expression of being greatly wronged. Xie Qingyu also smiled helplessly.

She raised her hand to stroke Leo's hair, but when her fingertips hovered in the air, she remembered her newly done hairstyle. In the end, she just lightly tapped his head, like stroking the fur of a playful puppy.

Leo's tail (if he had one) was practically up in the air.

Ding Zai didn't give up, and suddenly leaned back, looking at Wei Ran who was right behind him: "Ran Ran, what about you?"

Wei Ran was looking down and distracted, and when he called out to her, she looked up in confusion: "Ah?" It was obvious that she had no idea what he was talking about.

Ding was instantly deflated. He was no longer in that state. He raised his head and sighed: "Forget it~ I'm tired~"

After saying that, he slumped back in his chair and waved his hand in surrender - just let this little dog show off.

The recording time for the official performance stage is still set at 19:00, and the contestants must also follow the process to walk the stage route again after completing their makeup.

Xie Qingyu's song "Addiction" was the final performance, and because the movement line did not require any performance, the overall process was completed very quickly.

When he returned to the waiting room and sat down again, he glanced at the time below the broadcast screen - 17:27.

Compared with the first public performance, the efficiency has been greatly improved after the number of contestants was reduced. The performance costumes, stage makeup, and movement routes are all much more compact.

This time the program team rented a venue with a capacity of 3,000 people. If the ticket checking had started in advance, the audience should have started to enter by now.

However, the most pressing issue right now isn't the stage, but rather—where's the food?!

During the last performance, when we returned to the waiting room after completing the route, the foam boxes for meals provided by the program crew had already been piled up at the door for us to use.

But today, I don’t know what went wrong, and there is no sign of a lunch box yet.

Xie Qingyu looked at a shot in the waiting room and seriously suspected that the program crew was conducting an obedience test on them!

Most of the contestants were young men in their twenties, at the age when their metabolism was high and they could eat and drink a lot. They were so hungry that some people in the waiting room had already started wailing and "begging" everywhere.

But the key point is that the snacks and dry food that Yigongshi brought with him were not used at all, and in the end he took them back in the same way he brought them.

This time everyone thought the process was similar, so no one prepared much, and the result was - everyone went hungry.

Not long after Xie Qingyu sat down, he felt his shoulders sink.

Leo collapsed on him, holding his stomach and groaning weakly: "Brother... I might not be able to make it..."

His voice was weak, as if he was about to die in the next second. "If I starve to death here... tell my mom... my game account password is... remember to buy me all the skins -"

Xie Qingyu was amused by him and pushed his head with her hand: "Don't come on, I won't starve you to death."

We've barely finished yet, and you're already leaving your "last words"?

Leo remained undeterred, continuing his "dying" act: "Really... when I see my brother's face now... it's like looking at a piece of fried chicken without a butt, swaying in the air!"

After he finished speaking, he raised his hand and pointed downwards, lightly nodding at Ding Zai, who was also lying on the ground with hunger, and added confidently, "The chicken butt is here! I never eat the chicken butt when I eat fried chicken!"

Xie Qingyu: "..." Thank you, you really think highly of your brother!

And... there are so many cameras here. Kid, you're going to be an idol in the future, so can you please stop talking about shit, piss, and fart all the time?

He sighed and was about to say something when the door to the waiting room was suddenly pushed open and a staff member poked his head in: "The dining car has arrived, everyone please take your order -"

Before he finished speaking, the contestants who were originally slumped in their chairs instantly revived with full health, and the "evil man" rushed out like a prey.

Xie Qingyu looked down at Leo who was still clinging to her, and raised an eyebrow: "Isn't he almost dying?"

Leo jumped up with a somersault, full of energy: "I think I can still save it! Brother, let me help you get it-"

After saying that, he joined the crowd scrambling for food without looking back.

The lunch boxes in the foam boxes were still heartbreakingly plain—all cut fruits and vegetable salads.

But maybe it was because the "pure natural" version without salad dressing last time was silently boycotted by the contestants, so there were still a lot of fruit slices left after they were eaten.

This time, at least it came with a small portion of vinaigrette, and...

"Hahaha look what I found, meat!!!"

One contestant sat on a chair without any hope, searching in the plastic lunch box in his hand.

Suddenly, his eyes lit up and he forked out a piece of meat, only the size of his little fingernail, from a box full of vegetable leaves. His voice changed with excitement.

The entire waiting room was instantly in an uproar, and all the contestants' eyes were focused on him - the piece of meat on the fork.

They also began to look in their lunch boxes, and one after another some contestants exclaimed, "It's really there!"

"Cut it out! It's just chicken breast, isn't it?" a nearby contestant said, shaking his obviously larger piece of meat. "It's tough and sticky."

"I have good teeth, so I don't mind if it gets stuck in my teeth. Give it to me!"

"Hey~ No." After saying that, without waiting for the contestant to grab it, he stuffed it into his mouth, smacking his lips in disgust, "Hmm~ It tastes just average~"

This kind of ungrateful look immediately attracted the contemptuous looks from those around him.

"Brother~ I want to eat meat too, but why is there nothing in my bowl? There really isn't a single piece!!!"

Leo hung his head in frustration. He didn't want to waste meat by getting too much and not being able to finish it, so he could only continue to pick at the vegetable leaves in the bowl with a wronged look on his face.

Xie Qingyu couldn't help laughing, and handed his share to the puppy, saying teasingly, "Take your pick."

He doesn't have a strong appetite, as long as he has something to eat, but if Leo can't eat meat now, he will probably be thinking about it every time he goes on stage.

Leo's eyes lit up, but he still pursed his lips and pushed it back in grievance, silently picking up the leaves and taking a big bite.

With a smile that was uglier than crying, she said, "Brother, you eat! I like vegetables!"

But you look like you have a very hard time laughing now~

"Don't try that."

Seeing that he didn't want it, Xie Qingyu directly picked up the few small pieces of meat in his bowl with a fork and passed it to him, bringing it to his mouth, "Take it and eat it yourself."

He is such an adult, it is not appropriate to feed him too much.

Leo's Adam's apple rolled, but he finally couldn't resist the temptation.

He took the fork and put the meat into his mouth. His happiness index instantly reached the maximum, and his eyes narrowed. "It's delicious!"

As he said this, he carefully wiped the fork clean before returning it.

The words "No need to return it" were on the tip of Xie Qingyu's tongue, but he still didn't refuse and took it with good intentions. He actually had a matching fork for cutting fruit.

"Oh my, why doesn't anyone give me some meat?"

Ding, who witnessed the whole process, looked at the scene with a sour feeling. There was no meat in his bowl.

Leo's mouth curled up high, and he shook his head and said rudely: "You don't have a brother!"

This sentence has the same meaning as "You have no mother", but the puppy couldn't have such an idea - it could only have been said unintentionally, and it successfully choked Ding Zai speechless.

This kid is not polite at all, he is just an ungrateful little bastard. After all, I have brought him to two performances, but he still only has his brother in his eyes and heart.

"Jinzhao, you..." Ding turned his head to the other side and stared at the two pieces of meat that were separately separated from the box of You Jinzhao who was sitting next to him. He obviously wanted to save the delicious one for last.

You Jinzhao didn't even look at him, and quickly strung the food together and stuffed it into his mouth with two "ta-ta-ta" sounds.

He chewed it, chewed it, and swallowed it, then turned his head to look at the speechless Ding Zai with innocent eyes and said, "Ah?"

It seems like I really don't know what he is thinking.

"Haha, I knew it..." Just as Ding was lamenting the fickleness of the world, he was gently poked on the back.

He looked up weakly, only to see Wei Ran holding up the lunch box and hesitantly saying, "If you don't mind..."

Before he could finish his words, Ding Zai had already shot up, opened his 'huge mouth of the abyss', and gobbled up the meat that Wei Ran handed to him like a tiger. "Don't despise me, don't despise me, Ran Ran, you are truly an angel!"

"Um... as long as you are happy." Wei Ran also couldn't understand it. It was just two pieces of meat, why did they look like they hadn't been eaten for eight hundred years? It shouldn't be that serious, right?

"We are in the same team, right? Ranran, you don't give it to me, but give it to him?" You Jinzhao was acting like a drama queen, covering his chest in grief, as if a thousand silver needles were inserted into his heart.

Wei Ran silently picked up the lunch box with both hands and presented it to You Jinzhao to see - there was really not a single piece of meat left!

"Why should I be afraid of him? I, Ding Dabo, am not a pushover!" Ding Zai pressed down Wei Ran's hand holding the lunch box, turned around and confronted You Jinzhao with a sword in hand.

Xie Qingyu looked at the "murder case" caused by two pieces of meat the size of a fingernail, and glanced at the camera in the corner that was busy working, turning around like a shark that had seen the smell of meat.

He now fully understands why fans always scold the program crew as "dog rich people". They are so cunning to come up with such a method to collect materials!