Chapter 67 Landing on the Island: "Teacher Jiang's biggest flaw is that he deserves a beating."
Jiang Yan answered quickly: "I am Xiao Ma."
Qin Lan couldn't hold back any longer and really wanted to hit her: "Are you out of your mind?!"
Jiang Yan laughed and dodged at the same time, almost falling onto the sofa.
The viewers in the live chat were completely confused.
What little pony?
What's the story behind "Little Horse"?
Are you talking about secrets we don't know?
[Quickly find out if they ever had any interactions in the past, and if so, if they ever mentioned Xiao Ma.]
Does JY have any resemblance to a horse?
The host quickly asked, "During the collaboration, did Professor Qin discover any new strengths or weaknesses in Professor Jiang?"
"There are too many to list." Qin Lan blurted out, but couldn't find any fault with it: "Dedicated, good acting skills, willing to challenge oneself... Weaknesses..."
She gritted her teeth: "Teacher Jiang's biggest flaw is that she deserves a beating."
The promotional campaign had everyone itching to watch, eager for it to air immediately. Seeing that the results were even better than expected, Yu Jintang quickly instructed the production team to capitalize on the momentum and release occasional behind-the-scenes clips to entice fans.
After the variety show guests were confirmed, Yu Jintang began to select a recording location.
The assistant circled several locations that met the requirements. Yu Jintang looked at them for a while, then tapped the screen with her pen: "These villas around Nanyu Lake are nice. Ask Lao Qin if her family owns any property there."
Xiahou Cheng leaned over and said, "I know this area well. My home is in this area. I'll take it all."
"Really?"
"Absolutely genuine!" Xiahou Cheng patted his chest. "If Teacher Tangtang could arrange more intimate interactions in the program..."
Yu Jintang ruthlessly pushed her away: "Dream on."
Xiahou Cheng sat to one side, grinning.
Teacher Yu is stubborn but soft-hearted; otherwise, she wouldn't even be able to see anyone, let alone sit next to her and eat fruit.
A week later, the guests arrived at the shore of Nanyu Lake and took a speedboat to the island in the middle of the lake.
Yang Xingji arrived the earliest, and when he disembarked, he was met by a thick white fog.
She looked at the cameraman: "Which way should we go?"
The cameraman shook his head and made a gesture as if he was spending money.
Yang Xingji understood: "You'll tell me if you pay me?"
The cameraman shook his head.
You'll get fined if you talk.
Yang Xingji was bewildered: "Then which way should I go?"
Nobody told her.
She simply stood there and waited. About five minutes later, a small robot car slowly emerged from the fog.
Yang Xingji: "?"
The car stopped in front of her, opened its head, and inside were water, snacks, and fruit.
Yang Xingji hugged all the food to her arms. The robot closed its forehead, revealing a line of text: "[Please walk forward thirty meters, then wait for the other guests]"
"How far is thirty meters?"
Yang Xingji quickly became disoriented and casually asked the cameraman, "How far have we walked?"
The cameraman remained silent.
Yang Xingji didn't even know if he was walking in a straight line, and stopped in a daze.
Everything around was a white blur, and visibility was extremely low.
She felt it was about time, so she plopped down on her suitcase, laid out the food in a row, and began to eat with relish.
Fifteen minutes later, a figure emerged from the fog: "Hey? Xingji, what are you doing here?"
"Yanyan?" Yang Xingji patted the person next to him happily: "Come sit down for a while."
Jiang Yan sat down next to her and asked with a smile, "When did Xingji arrive?"
"It'll only take seven or eight minutes." Yang Xingji was holding a Switch, and when he saw her, he took another one out of his pocket: "Come on, let's play games."
Another half hour passed, and two dizzy people appeared: "There are two people here!"
It's Qin Lan and Liu Lü.
"What are you all doing here?" Yang Xingji greeted them. "Old Qin! And this is Teacher Liu Lü?"
"Hello, I'm Liu Lü." Liu Lü extended her hand to introduce herself.
Yang Xingji warmly shook hands with her: "I am Yang Xingji, hello."
"I've heard so much about you." Liu Lü smiled and said, "You're the captain of Eleven, right? I remember you had pigtails in the promotional picture, you looked so cool."
Yang Xingji blushed slightly: "Hehe, I'm all about stage makeup and styling, but I'm very easygoing in private."
They chatted for a long time, but only got one camera angle; the other three cameras were all aimed at the other two people like cannons.
The cameraman sensed sparks flying between the two.
"Hello, Teacher Qin." Jiang Yan smiled brightly and extended her hand.
"Hello, Teacher Jiang." Qin Lan nodded coolly and shook hands with her.
The camera immediately zoomed in, capturing the ring on Qin Lan's hand in minute detail.
The two held hands for a full five seconds.
Qin Lan raised an eyebrow, Jiang Yan smiled, and neither of them let go.
They stayed in that position and started chatting: "Teacher Qin is in good spirits today."
"Not as good as you."
Qin Lan felt uncomfortable being filmed, so she casually started a conversation: "Why did Yu Guaiguai choose such a foggy place..."
Jiang Yan finally let go of her hand, but continued chatting with her: "Hmm? This is my first trip with Teacher Qin. Although the fog was a bit thick, it was still quite an experience."
The camera was zooming in so close to their faces that the two people next to them had to turn around and ask, "What are you doing?"
Qin Lan glanced at them both, puzzled, and said, "Say something."
Yang Xingji put his arm around everyone's shoulders and led them to the side: "Let's chat together, come on, let's eat, drink and play games."
Jiang Yan reluctantly withdrew her hand and hid it in her trench coat pocket: "What game are we playing?"
"Switch".
Yang Xingji plopped down and magically produced two more game consoles.
"Does Teacher Yang's family sell game consoles?" Liu Lü exclaimed in surprise.
"Her family owns a restaurant, and she herself is a girl addicted to anime and manga."
Qin Lan laid her suitcase down and sat to Jiang Yan's left.
Jiang Yan glanced at her, and she also felt a little shy, so she sat down next to Qin Lan without saying a word.
Seeing this, Liu Lü smiled knowingly and sat down to Yang Xingji's left: "How do we play this?"
"Come on, let me teach you." Yang Xingji eagerly leaned over.
The surveillance footage showed four people playing games together, with none of them intending to move to another location or even stand up to find their destination.
Director Lin Shu, inside the villa, looked speechless: "Does this mean they'll just stay here until dark if no one picks them up?"
"Probably," the staff member asked. "Should we go pick them up?"
Lin Shu shook her head and decided to wait a little longer.
Half an hour later, Yu Jintang and Feng Manhong also found the main group.
After exchanging pleasantries, Feng Manhong smiled and extended her hand to Liu Lü: "Hello, Teacher Liu, I am Feng Manhong."
Liu Lü, an elegantly dressed 42-year-old mature woman, was so excited that her hands trembled. It took her a while to shake hands with him: "Hello, Teacher Feng, I am Liu Lü."
"Oh oh oh oh oh—" Qin Lan and Yu Jintang drawled out their tunes.
Jiang Yan and the others joined in the commotion, chanting, "Two teachers—"
Liu Lü blushed completely, and Feng Manhong smiled and couldn't help but brush her messy sideburns aside: "Teacher Liu is so cute."
"You, you're dressed very, very beautifully." Liu Lü stiffly swayed her arms up and down.
Yu Jintang loudly exclaimed, "Yang'er, you didn't know this if you weren't there. Teacher Liu isn't like this when he's drunk. He's incredibly passionate."
Liu Lü felt a chill run down her spine: "Let's...let's sit down. Teacher Feng, please sit here."
Then she wanted to take off her clothes to be a cushion for Feng Manhong, but after much persuasion, Feng Manhong stopped her and she sat down next to her.
The number of people playing the game has increased to six.
Twenty minutes later, Xiahou Cheng rushed over carrying two huge suitcases, and a rose floated down in front of Yu Jintang: "Teacher Tangtang?"
"Hey? Teacher Chengcheng? Come play a game." Yu Jintang raised her head, then lowered it and kicked the little figure representing Liu Lü to death: "Haha! Teacher Chengcheng, your mother has been kicked to death by me."
Liu Lü was furious: "Daughter, avenge your mother!"
Xiahou Cheng pondered for a moment: "Teacher Liu is my mother, and Teacher Feng is my godmother. I feel like I'm a child born through IVF in a lesbian family."
Liu Lü looked up quickly: "What godmother?"
Xiahou Cheng grinned: "I forgot to tell you, I'm Teacher Feng's goddaughter."
Liu Lü's face flushed red instantly. Feng Manhong glanced at her with a smile, her impression of Liu Lü shifting from brave to shy. Following Xiahou Cheng's words, she continued, "Then Chengcheng will have to think about how to address us. We can't both call each other 'Mom,' can we?"
Xiahou Cheng rolled, twisted, and crawled in a dark manner: "Godmother, I approve of this marriage. I wish you and my mother a speedy marriage."
Yang Xingji pulled out another Switch: "Come on, Orange!"
Xiahou Cheng looked at Liu Lü: "Mother, you successfully met your idol?"
The willow branches turned red again, and it glanced at her with a mixture of anger and shame: "Teacher Jiang, you should just chop her up."
Jiang Yan: "I dare not cut her down, for fear that Li Longji will kill Wan'er after his coup succeeds."
The camera immediately focused on Qin Jiang and his companion again.
Yu Jintang nudged Qin Lan with her elbow: "Hey, Teacher Jiang is calling you out."
Qin Lan said indifferently, "I don't care."
Looking up and seeing Jiang Yan's aggressive gaze, she inexplicably felt her throat go dry, and after a long while, she managed to say, "It's still uncertain who will chop whom down."
"Seven guests have already met up," a staff member reported. "Director, should we notify them to come over?"
Lin Shu stared at the camera: "Wait a little longer, there are still two guests who haven't arrived on the island yet."
Each guest arrived at a slightly different location on the island. The eighth guest seemed particularly disoriented, having already circled the same area twice.
Unbeknownst to her, she thought she was walking in a straight line. After walking for a while, she became a little irritable and angrily said, "Why is there still no one here?"
The cameraman remained silent.
Song Man became even more agitated: "Where is this place? Why is the fog so thick!"
After quite a while, they finally heard voices in the distance. Song Man was overjoyed and quickly moved towards the source of the sound, soon spotting figures: "Hey! There's someone here—"
Her voice trailed off, and she stared at Anna with a mixture of surprise and suspicion: "Who are you?"
Yun Chui also stopped and tightened his grip on the suitcase.
Song Man didn't even bother to look at Yun Chui, instead sizing up the "uninvited guest." The strange woman in front of her looked to be close to forty, with good manners, outstanding looks, and fashionable clothes, all from high-end brands. She had a scholarly air and looked like a social elite.
Anna immediately stepped forward to introduce herself and extended her hand: "Hello, Ms. Song, I am a guest invited by the program team. You can just call me Anna."
Song Man shook her hand with some skepticism: "Is it still possible to use an English name as a stage name these days?"
Anna paused for a moment, then quickly laughed and said, "I'm not in the entertainment industry. I'm just accompanying a friend on a variety show."
"Friends?"
Song Man's questioning gaze fell on Yun Chui's face, clearly wanting to ask something, but her expression made it obvious that she was still angry and didn't want to talk to him.
Yun Chui spoke up: "Anna is a friend I met later, and we have a deep friendship."
She emphasized the word "friendship," and Song Man immediately understood, but she still felt a tightness in her chest. So she stared at the gap between the two of them and said stiffly, "Do you know where you're going?"
"I don't know." Yun Chui shook his head. Anna continued, "Let's look for other people first. Aren't there other guests?"
The three of them, one in front and two behind, dragged their suitcases and searched for a while. Song Man's mind was in turmoil. One moment she was wondering who Anna was, and the next she thought that Yun Chui had lost a lot of weight, looking like just a skeleton, but she was still very beautiful, noble and aloof. Not long after they walked, the three of them bumped into the main group. Parting the thick fog, they saw seven people sitting on their suitcases, each with a game console in hand, playing loudly and excitedly.
Song Man stood silently in place, and the two behind him stopped much earlier. Qin Lan looked up briefly as the game was revived, then suddenly cried out and dropped her Switch: "Yun Chui!!!"
She ran over and gave Yun Chui a warm hug, and he smiled and opened his arms wide. Everyone else was startled; Jiang Yan, Yu Jintang, and Yang Xingji threw their game consoles one after another, practically tossing Yun Chui into the air: "It really is you! You're finally back!"
The cameraman was a bit unsure how to film this scene and couldn't help but start thinking about how to explain it in the editing. Lin Shu sighed and said, "We still need to do a follow-up interview with the people who know each other later, and insert it after this scene in post-production to introduce their relationships."
The staff member nodded, thinking that this group would definitely move around and start looking for the production team soon.
After exchanging pleasantries for a long time, the group held hands and went back to play games.
Liu Lü: "Everyone's here. Shouldn't we contact the production team?"
Yu Jintang waved his hand dismissively: "Why are you looking for that thing? Let them come find us."
Yang Xingji pulled out three more Switches from his suitcase, leaving everyone speechless: "Don't tell me you used this small suitcase to store game consoles."
Yang Xingji: "How could that be? We also need to install a gaming laptop and a small memory card."
“Teacher Liu, you need to be a little more aware of the situation,” Jiang Yan said with a smile. “Xingji is Teacher Feng’s biggest fan.”
Yang Xingji quickly waved his hand: "No, no, no, I'm just a die-hard fan. I even ship the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law pairing... uh, I mean, Teacher Liu and Teacher Feng."
"Really?" Liu Lü leaned closer, somewhat embarrassed. "Do you know where I can read these stories?"
Yang Xingji's eyes lit up: "Yanyan knows this best. Come here, Yanyan, let's introduce some fanfiction to Teacher Liu."
Jiang Yan said excitedly, "Teacher Liu, search for this website..."
Feng Manhong turned her head helplessly, and Yu Jintang burst out laughing: "Teacher Feng, your expression is so funny."
Lin Shu, who was monitoring the situation, couldn't take it anymore: "These people are chattering away, don't they know that the purpose of our show is to maintain a sense of distance?! How long are they planning to keep playing around?! Send a car to pick them up!"
"Director Lin, please calm down," a staff member handed her a glass of water. "We'll be right there."
Twenty minutes later, the ten guests were taken to Yingzhou Yunshu residential area and parked in front of Villa No. 5 in the North District.
Someone at the entrance was holding a huge bunch of firecrackers. As soon as the car arrived, they lit them, and they went off for a full ten minutes, crackling and popping: "Welcome! Welcome! A warm welcome!"
Jiang Yan leaned closer to Qin Lan and whispered, "Should I have urged Teacher Yu to hurry up? Are these firecrackers left over from the New Year?"
Qin Lan moved her lips: "Don't you know her? She never intended to do anything serious."
Yang Xingji nodded: "That's right, just like Sister Yu's style."
The group walked across the red carpet into the villa, where they were then separated by a group of men in black and made to sit down in ten chairs, with a distance of more than half a meter between them.
Lin Shu walked in and looked around sternly.
Great, no one flirted or slept together, which aligns with the program's purpose.
"Hello everyone, I am Lin Shu, the director of the variety show 'Calling in the Fog.' We will be working together for ten days to complete the recording of the show. I hope everyone will cooperate actively and we can achieve success together."
"Um... Director, I have a question."
Xiahou Cheng raised her hand to interrupt: "Isn't this a dating reality show? What's your intention in separating me from the others?"
“Yeah, yeah,” Jiang Yan chimed in. “What kind of reality show has everyone sitting separately?”
Liu Lü nodded.
Lin Shu was speechless; the intentions of these three in finding partners were far too obvious.
She tried her best to be gentle and said, "Please be patient, guests. I will explain the core of the program and the rules to you later."
Xiahou Cheng fumbled around and pulled out an orange.
Yu Jintang reached out her hand: "Break it in half for me."
Xiahou Cheng broke the orange into pieces and tossed it to her over three people, giving her a flirtatious wink.
Lin Shu took a deep breath and said expressionlessly, "Considering that the two teachers are unaware of the rules, this violation will not be punished."
Yang Xingji: "What? Someone just broke the rules?"
Jiang Yan: "It seems to be Teacher Yu and Teacher Xiahou."
Qin Lan: "Does this production team not allow us to eat?"
Lin Shu, unable to contain herself any longer, said, "Please be quiet, everyone! Listen to my explanation. From now on, you must strictly abide by the rules of variety shows. Interactions between guests must not exceed the limits. Physical contact is prohibited, as is verbal flirting. Guests may only communicate verbally and must not express any ambiguous feelings!"
Yu Jintang: "No, I only ate half an orange, and I caught it remotely."
Lin Shu glared at her.
Keep pretending! You finished planning and then dumped the hard work of directing on me, while you went off to enjoy yourself. Now you're deliberately picking a fight!
Yu Jintang slid down to her knees and apologized: "Director, I was wrong. I shouldn't have let Teacher Chengcheng flirt with me."
Lin Shu continued, "The prohibition of ambiguity is the core rule of this variety show. Please remember that this includes verbal confessions, giving love letters, giving gifts that symbolize love, and all kinds of ambiguous physical behaviors, such as winking or making heart shapes with your hands. All of these are prohibited!"
Jiang Yan asked slowly, "What happens if I commit a foul?"
Lin Shu: "One foul is recorded. If the number of fouls accumulates to three or a multiple of three, the entire villa will need to be cleaned once."
Xiahou Cheng: "Hey, what's that? I have plenty of strength and methods."
Lin Shu added ruthlessly: "Including the outdoor area, swimming pool, pavilions, flower beds, and related facilities."
Xiahou Cheng: "?"
Jiang Yan silently shut her mouth, and Liu Lü also remained silent.
Lin Shu was very satisfied with the result.
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