Chapter 55
The little fox doll costume designed by Su Xingyao for the third stage had already been made.
But the staff, as usual, tactfully informed him that if there was a new doll costume, he could wear it on the day of the game to give the audience some surprises.
Su Xingyao had only prepared the little fox doll costume, and the remaining sunset and cat sets had been borrowed by Lu Zhiyun.
He had no choice but to ask his driver, Master Wang, to go to the owner where he bought the frog mother costume last time and buy him a new set of teddy bear doll costume.
Now that the weather is getting hotter, the doll costume that Master Wang picked for him is already the lightest and thinnest one among all.
But in this hot weather, wearing such a large piece of cloth on the body, the stuffiness is still obvious.
Especially after leaving the cool air-conditioning in the car, Su Xingyao's face immediately turned red due to the hot and stuffy air as soon as she got out of the car.
In order to quickly get some cool air.
He quickly ran towards the elevator entrance of the VIP channel.
When we arrived, we found a sign outside saying that the direct elevator was out of order and staff were repairing it.
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So miserable.
Helplessly arriving at the stairwell and taking a look at the high stairs, Su Xingyao, who was wearing a silly bear doll costume, could only use the bear's chubby short legs to climb up to the first floor step by step, starting from the second floor below ground.
Because there is only an elevator that goes directly to the studio on the other side of the first floor.
After climbing three floors, Su Xingyao finally turned on the building's air conditioning again.
As the cold wind blew towards him, Su Xingyao firmly believed that air conditioning must be one of the greatest inventions in the world!
After cooling down in the breeze for a while, seeing that it was still early, he lowered his head and walked slowly across the building.
When he was halfway there, he suddenly heard someone in the distance calling him in a loud voice.
“Cat!!”
Su Xingyao raised his head and looked around with the little bear's round head.
"Here!!! In front!!"
Su Xingyao looked over in the direction of the voice and discovered that there was a large group of people standing in front of the gate of Exit B.
The person who just called him was the fan standing at the door.
As soon as Su Xingyao looked over, the fans screamed excitedly.
“Aaaaaaah!”
"It's indeed a cat!!"
"Today's cat has become a bear~"
Today is not the day of the official competition, the contestants are just here to record some video footage.
Su Xingyao didn't expect that just like this, there would be so many fans who like him coming to the scene.
He had just been feeling very hot because of climbing the stairs without air conditioning, and when he saw his fans still standing at the door waiting for him in the hot sun, he quickly walked over to them.
Across the guardrail, Su Xingyao asked them, "Did you come here specially today?"
The fan holding the cheering banner and taking photos of Su Xingyao's doll costume said: "Yes!!"
"I came here at five in the morning."
"I'm so happy to finally see you at work~"
When Su Xingyao heard that at five o'clock in the morning, she was shocked for a second.
After so many years of debut, this is the first time he has seen so many fans waiting for him to work.
This feeling of being cherished and loved gave him an indescribable sense of wonder.
He looked up at everyone.
Seeing that everyone who came had a satisfied smile on their faces after seeing her, Su Xingyao said to them gratefully, "Thank you for your hard work."
But despite his gratitude, he couldn't help but remind everyone, "But it's really hot here. You should go back after I go in. Don't get heatstroke."
He had just climbed the stairs and knew how hot it was.
The fans standing at the door don't have any air conditioning, so just waiting like this is not a solution.
While Su Xingyao was giving earnest advice, the fans on the other side felt a little aggrieved that they had not seen enough of the person before the real person persuaded them to go back.
"But baby, you don't have a business account and you don't have a personal account. Apart from squatting in the program building, we don't know where to check your news at other times."
Su Xingyao, who was called "baby" by enthusiastic fans, felt a little guilty when she heard this.
When he participated in the show, he actually hadn't thought so far or considered so many things.
So he had never planned to open a Weibo account.
For a moment I didn’t know how to explain my situation to my fans, but I didn’t want to make them so sad.
Su Xingyao stood there facing the camera and tried to ask, "So...would you guys take a photo now?"
After saying that, he made a scissors hand gesture to the camera and started doing business.
The mouth of the toy bear is a smiling face, and when Su Xingyao does this action, she looks even more silly and cute.
Seeing their idol working so hard, the fans’ hearts were almost melted.
“Ahhhh, it turns out Scissorhands can be so cute~”
"Wow, my son is so cute~"
"Son, Mom loves you~"
The little bear's scissor hands froze in the air for half a second...
Su Xingyao, who had been away from home without any care from her mother for half her life, was beginning to doubt her life.
Son?
Su Xingyao didn't leave until the time notified by the program crew was very close.
Before leaving, he continued to persuade fans to go home.
The fans stayed there for another half an hour, only to find their cat and order a glass of iced milk tea for each of them.
*
After the eliminations in the last show, there are only 24 contestants left.
The first recording session was completely dark.
By now, even the half-time seats are not full.
However, compared to the first show, the contestants' makeup in this recording was obviously much more refined.
The team of players equipped with assistants is also gradually growing.
Through chatting with fellow contestants, Su Xingyao learned that after the remaining contestants became famous because of the program crew, most of them signed contracts with economic companies.
Therefore, the rapper felt a little strange when he saw Su Xingyao coming alone.
"Mao Mao, have you signed with the company?"
The little bear shook his head three times.
The ancient style singer came over in surprise after listening to it.
"You're so popular, shouldn't those companies be scrambling to sign you?"
Faced with everyone's surprise, No. 77 finally found the problem.
"Maybe... maybe... they don't know who Maomao is..."
Although the production crew has not revealed their identities yet, the identities of all 24 of them have basically been stripped off.
That’s why those agencies can find the program crew to sign them so easily.
But among these people, only No. 78 had no one figured out who he was.
Therefore, even though he is a contestant with the highest popularity, all the major brokerage companies held back and did not make any move.
After all, you have to find the person himself to sign it.
After No. 77 said this, the ancient style singer, who realized that he also knew nothing about Su Xingyao, nodded repeatedly.
"Oh yeah, Cat, you don't even have a Weibo account. I wanted to follow you."
The singing and dancing singer gained three million followers on Weibo after being carried by Su Xingyao on stage last time.
I felt a little regretful after hearing the words of the ancient style singer.
"Maomao, if you had a Weibo account, your fans would definitely have exceeded five million."
No. 77 saw that Su Xingyao smiled but didn't say anything, and felt that he didn't seem to want to talk about this topic, so he smiled and joked, "Masters are more individual."
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Song Yingming passing by and immediately changed the topic to him.
"Director Song, when will the recording start..."
Song Yingming, who was pulled out to change the subject:?
She reached for the phone in her bag.
Song Yingming resisted the urge to tell the truth.
It’s not that there aren’t any agencies looking to sign him. His phone has been blowing up with calls recently.
They all came to him to ask for Mao Mao's contact information.
After the contestants chatted for a while, today's recording began.
Shen Huaixi has withdrawn from the program this time, and everyone is speculating about what kind of mentor the program team will invite to replace him.
Especially the unlucky guys in his group, their hearts were hanging in the air, not knowing what would happen to them next.
But unexpectedly, there were no new mentors on site today.
The mentors are still the same three as before.
Fu Qingyan, who didn't come last time due to schedule conflicts, came specially this time.
Soon, Fu Qingyan stood in the center of the stage and announced to everyone.
"Due to Mr. Shen's poor health, he is unable to participate in the recording of the following programs, so from today on, all the players in his team will be led by me."
After listening to Fu Qingyan's words, everyone's first focus was not on the fact that he took over Shen Huaixi's mess.
But it was this excuse he made up for the other party.
It was already known to everyone that Shen Huaixi had made such a big joke that the entire audience yelled at him to get out of the show.
As a result, when Fu Qingyan mentioned the other party, he was still trying to protect his face in various ways.
The contestants in the audience couldn't help laughing after hearing Fu Qingyan's lies with his eyes open.
"The friendship between Mr. Fu and Mr. Shen is really deep..."
After Fu Qingyan finished the announcement, the staff came and asked the contestants to record individual interviews.
This interview was not included before and was added in this issue.
Originally, everyone thought that given the program crew's nature of being tricky, the interview would be full of traps.
The results were surprisingly simple.
The questions included evaluation of their own performance in the previous episode and outlook for the next episode, as well as some questions about their evaluation of other contestants.
After recording in the "small black room" for about ten minutes, seeing that the staff did not ask any more questions, Su Xingyao thought that everything was over and stood up to leave.
Seeing this, the staff quickly called him back.
"Cat, wait a minute."
Su Xingyao sat back in her seat and found that the staff member was holding a card and an envelope.
"We still have one more link."
"Write down the name of the player you least want to meet on this card and put it in the envelope."
When Su Xingyao heard what the program crew did, she immediately looked at them warily.
"So are you planning to announce this information at the San Gong event?"
The staff member whose intention was exposed by Su Xingyao immediately shook his head guiltily, "It's just... a preliminary investigation."
Su Xingyao didn't believe their lies. She picked up the marker on the table and quickly wrote a number on the card.
After showing it to the camera once, he quickly sealed the envelope and handed it to the staff.
After doing this, Su Xingyao finally walked out of the "small black room".
As expected, the contestants who have already recorded the interviews are all discussing who is the contestant they least want to meet.
But because the production team asked us to keep it a secret, everyone tried to test the waters, but no one really said who they voted for.
This interview took a long time to record.
By the time everyone finished, it was already afternoon.
After everyone had a simple box lunch, Song Yingming gathered everyone in a studio.
"I see everyone is quite nervous, how about we play a little game?"
After saying that, the staff pushed up a wall.
This wall is covered with cards.
Su Xingyao looked carefully and saw that they were all names of songs.
The cards are arranged in no particular pattern, and the styles of the songs on them are even less regular.
Dark, healing, two-dimensional, showy, drool-worthy…
There were even a few children's songs uploaded.
"There are a total of 24 songs here." Song Yingming pointed to the wall with a smile, "You can take a look at the songs above first."
Seeing these songs, the contestants' scalps started to tingle.
Some people couldn't help but start to speculate, "Director, could the song for our next performance be inspired by this?"
These songs seem to be more explosive than the other. If the contestants perform these songs, they will really go crazy.
Fortunately, Song Yingming shook his head directly, "That's not the case."
The contestants just breathed a sigh of relief, and before they could even get their reassurance, they heard Song Yingming suddenly say, "But these songs were voted for by netizens, and you need to sing them the day after tomorrow~"
As soon as Song Yingming finished speaking, the scene suddenly became quiet.
???
What the hell?
Do we still want them to sing the feelings?
And!!! How come they don’t know that netizens voted for these songs?
Before I came here, the Internet was calm!!!
Song Yingming glanced at the shock on everyone's faces and smiled in a very provocative way.
"Oh, this... I cast it when you were recording the interview this morning..."
The contestants who learned the truth: …
Grass, a kind of plant.
No wonder all of them are like fools and know nothing.
It turns out that the program crew took advantage of the time when they handed over their phones to launch a sneak attack!
This crappy program crew has been causing trouble for a long time. After everyone rolled their eyes speechlessly, they quickly accepted it very calmly.
Everyone comforted each other.
Although the songs voted by netizens seem a bit outrageous, fortunately it is just the material for recording a video. It can be sung and it will not affect the final result of the competition.
However, the contestants obviously underestimated the ability of the program crew and netizens to stir up trouble.
Just when they were comforting themselves that it was okay and they were just recording a video, the next second the person who got the song collapsed.
The cool rapper's pig-killing-like screams echoed throughout the entire recording site.
“Why is there a boy group dance written on the back of my card????”
"Do you think I can dance like this?"
77 took a look at his card and said aggrievedly, "So why do you want me to sing this nursery rhyme in such a depressing way?"
The two brothers were looking at their own trouble-making songs and were about to hug each other and cry.
But suddenly, a contestant from the next group asked Song Yingming in confusion, "Director Song, did you print it wrong? Why are there two words Acrobatics after it?"
Song Yingming smiled and shook his head. "No, didn't you perform a backflip last time? This time your fans hope you can do some acrobatics with this background music."
Backflip contestant: ...
Others gloat: Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Seeing that there were still people who were doing so badly, the other contestants suddenly felt that their own projects were acceptable.
Su Xingyao in the crowd saw the backflip contestant doing two more backflips in anger, and she also laughed unkindly.
But the next second, after seeing his song and the content of the card, he couldn't laugh anymore.
The song that netizens voted for him is actually not that outrageous. It’s just an extremely cute song sung by an extremely cute girl.
But the content behind the card left him speechless.
There were only two words written on it.
False sound.
Su Xingyao, who was still laughing at others in the last second, now felt a black screen before his eyes.
False sound?
How fake?
This is something his close fans can come up with...
*
This segment was meant to be funny, and the production team didn't make too many demands on them. They just asked them to go back and prepare and then record again tomorrow.
After the contestants finished their respective repertoires, today’s group interview was completed.
However, in order to enrich the material, the program team prepared to record the dinner scene for everyone, so everyone went to the restaurant on the top floor of the building.
The long dining table was already filled with various ingredients, and the program team provided everyone with a sumptuous dinner.
Su Xingyao and No. 77 sat in a corner.
Because there were too many people, some contestants and mentors had not arrived yet, and the contestants who arrived first were not in a hurry to eat.
While waiting, Su Xingyao chatted with No. 77.
Before he could say a few words, everything in front of him suddenly went dark.
Then various sounds were heard around.
"Why is there a power outage?"
"What's going on?"
The sudden unexpected situation caused chaos at the scene.
Fearing that something might go wrong, the staff came out quickly and asked everyone to be patient and sit still.
The contestants did not dare to leave without permission, so they could only take out their mobile phones and turn on the flashlights to provide lighting.
No one knew what had happened to the building's electricity supply, and after the staff had been checking it for more than twenty minutes there was still no effect.
No one knew whether to eat the dinner or not, but considering that this was a recording task, no contestant dared to say they wanted to leave.
So everyone could only continue to wait.
The power outage was a bit difficult for everyone. In addition to the poor visibility, it was also very hot.
It's been a hot season recently, and this city is hot to begin with.
Now that there is no air conditioning, you can imagine how hot it would be with so many people crowded in one restaurant.
Everyone was suffering from the heat.
But compared to others, Su Xingyao was the worst off.
No matter how hot it is, others will wear short sleeves, but now he is wearing a thick layer of doll costume over his short sleeves.
Su Xingyao felt as if she had been swimming in a steamer and her head was buzzing.
But at this moment, he felt something was still inside his back, scratching his skin fiercely.
"Cat, would you mind taking off your doll costume? Be careful of getting a heat stroke."
No. 77, who had finally found two cards from the program team to act as fans, fanned Su Xingyao madly to cool her down.
He originally thought that Su Xingyao might not agree, but he didn't expect that the other party would just nod.
The two went to the bathroom. Su Xingyao did not take off her doll costume, but said to No. 77, "77, can you help me take a look? There seems to be something on my back."
Upon hearing this, No. 77 quickly put his phone on the sink and quickly unzipped the back of Su Xingyao's teddy bear costume.
"Where?"
"On the left shoulder."
Su Xingyao’s short T-shirt was lifted up by No. 77.
Without the covering of clothes, his slender waist and fair skin were completely exposed to the air.
No. 77 didn't pay attention to these things and was only focused on helping Su Xingyao see the abnormality behind him.
After his eyes swept back and forth, they were instantly attracted by the butterfly bone on the left side of Su Xingyao.
Because there is a big scar there.
Although the color looks very light, it still looks a bit shocking when compared with the extremely fair and delicate skin around it.
Seeing such a big scar on Su Xingyao's thin and beautiful back, No. 77 couldn't help but ask him, "Does it hurt here on the butterfly bone? It's such a big scar."
Seeing that No. 77 had found the wrong location, Su Xingyao quickly corrected him, "It's not there, that's where the burns were from before."
He said, "A little lower."
"Oh ok."
Realizing that he had found the wrong spot, No. 77 hurriedly looked down again, and found that there was indeed a faint scratch at the bottom of the scar.
The wound was fresh.
"I see, there's a scratch here."
He quickly picked up his phone to take a picture of the scratch, feeling a little confused.
"Why does it look like it was cut by a knife..."
After saying that, he immediately turned up the half-open doll costume on the left side of Su Xingyao, and after searching carefully twice, he finally found a sharp object like a stapler in an inconspicuous place.
"Oh my god, why is there a nail on your clothes?"
He quickly helped Su Xingyao remove the nail.
"Here, look."
Su Xingyao was also shocked when she saw the needle-like sharp object that No. 77 handed to her.
"I bought this doll costume last-minute. Maybe the seller didn't check it carefully and it accidentally fell in there."
No. 77 nodded and quickly threw the culprit into the trash can.
When he looked at Su Xingyao again, he saw that she had zipped up her doll costume again.
"You're so hot, will you cover your burned skin?"
No. 77 still felt worried when thinking of Su Xingyao's scar.
Su Xingyao was not worried, "That wound has been there for six years, it will be fine."
"Six years? How did it become like this?"
After No. 77 said this in surprise, he realized that this sentence seemed not very nice. Just when he was about to apologize that he did not mean to pry into his privacy, he heard Su Xingyao speak nonchalantly.
“I went to save someone…”
Before he could finish his words, he suddenly saw a figure two meters away.
It’s Fu Qingyan.
Su Xingyao didn't say anything else.
It was as if a sea of fire suddenly appeared in front of my eyes, and the wound, which had long since stopped hurting, suddenly began to ache inexplicably.
Noticing Su Xingyao's gaze, No. 77 also looked over, then awkwardly called out "Teacher Fu..."
His original intention was to ask Su Xingyao to take off her doll costume and get some fresh air, but knowing that he didn't want to reveal his identity, he found a deserted bathroom and waited until the power came back before going upstairs.
So they went to the restroom on the 13th floor.
Who would have thought that Fu Qingyan would also come here...
Fu Qingyan suddenly appeared and nodded to No. 77 as usual, then looked at Su Xingyao.
Thinking about the scene he had just seen and the words he had just heard, he took the initiative to apologize, "Sorry, I didn't mean to eavesdrop."
He pointed upstairs, "There are too many people up there."
Su Xingyao didn't say anything, but No. 77 waved his hand, "Ah... It's okay, it's okay."
After saying that, No. 77 thought that Fu Qingyan was going to the toilet.
As a result, the other party not only did not leave, but also came to Su Xingyao.
He looked down at Su Xingyao, his eyes over his shoulder.
"Have you ever been burned, too?"
Su Xingyao didn't say anything.
Seeing that the other party didn't say anything, Fu Qingyan chuckled and lifted up his sleeves, revealing a part of his forearm.
"No offense, it's just that I've been burned before."
After saying that, he looked at Su Xingyao and said, "I know a very good doctor abroad. If you need to remove scars, I can introduce him to you."
When he came just now, he happened to see No. 77 lifting up Su Xingyao's clothes.
Because she always wears doll costumes when recording programs, there are many speculations about Su Xingyao from the outside world.
Especially in terms of figure and appearance.
Those malicious people on the Internet believed that Su Xingyao did not dare to show her true face because she was ugly and had a bad figure.
But Fu Qingyan saw it clearly just now.
The other person has a very thin waist and a very beautiful back line.
Except for that annoying scar, it is almost perfect.
Such a person, you can imagine that he must be very elegant in real life.
Fu Qingyan couldn't help but think of the scene when he first saw No. 78.
At just one glance, he had an inexplicable feeling of wanting to know and get close to the other person.
It’s a pity that the other party has been cold and indifferent to him even though they have been recording the show for such a long time.
Fu Qingyan began to reflect on himself, wondering if he had done something wrong.
However, he didn't care about Su Xingyao's coldness.
Instead, he thought about how he and the other person had both been burned by fire six years ago by coincidence. Having had such an unfortunate experience, he felt that they were destined to meet, so he couldn't help but want to introduce a doctor to him.
After all, such a beautiful genius should not have any scars on his body for any reason.
Fu Qingyan was very enthusiastic, but Su Xingyao was not at all moved by his kind suggestion.
"Thanks."
After leaving only a few polite words, Su Xingyao just left.
Looking at No. 78 leaving, Fu Qingyan fell into deep thought.
Back on the 15th floor, the professionals had already fixed the problem.
The contestants who got air conditioning again felt like they were reborn.
After the staff re-touched everyone's makeup, everyone was finally able to enjoy this hard-earned dinner.
In order to compensate everyone, after recording the materials, the program crew also bought a lot of crayfish and seafood to reward the contestants.
As soon as the camera was turned off, the contestants didn't hesitate and started eating happily.
No. 77 peeled a piece of crayfish and looked at Su Xingyao, only to find that he had not touched anything in front of him and had been concentrating on eating his dessert.
"Are you allergic to seafood?" No. 77 asked him.
Su Xingyao nodded, "Almost, but I'm only allergic to shrimp and crab."
No. 77 nodded in understanding, "I have a friend who is just like you."
After saying that, he waved the spicy crayfish in front of him towards Su Xingyao and said deliberately, "What a pity... This is really delicious."
Su Xingyao smiled and said, "Then I'll have to trouble you to eat more for me. Double the amount."
No. 77 smiled and made an OK gesture.
However, Fu Qingyan, who was sitting opposite Su Xingyao, watched the entire interaction between the two.
He didn't eat a single bite because he was afraid of spicy food and didn't like seafood.
When I heard the person on the other side say that he was allergic to these two things, Su Xingyao suddenly came to my mind.
It has been a long time since I thought of each other so casually.
Fu Qingyan lowered his eyes, looked at the shrimp and crab in front of him, moved the two things away slightly, and stopped himself from thinking about anything related to them.
After all, the little friendship between them had long been burned out in that fire.
There are no good memories of this person.
It was already late when the contestants finished their dinner and midnight snack.
Su Xingyao said goodbye to No. 77 and went downstairs alone to find Master Wang who was waiting for him in the underground parking lot.
Not long after he got on the elevator, he bumped into Fu Qingyan again.
When Su Xingyao saw the other person's face, she subconsciously took two steps back, trying to stay away from him.
But Fu Qingyan, who was watching his every move, walked up to him and asked him in a low voice.
"Cat, am I scary?"
Su Xingyao: ...
Su Xingyao didn't say anything, just shook her head slightly.
The smiling little bear reflected in the elevator looks cute even if it doesn't say a word and just shakes its head left and right.
Fu Qingyan, who still didn't get a single word in response, sighed and said helplessly, "Then why do you always avoid me? Don't you want to talk to me?"
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