Chapter 048 Variety Show Game
"Hello everyone, we are Wax&Wane——" a neat voice came from in front of the camera.
In the studio, production director Qin Kai was watching the images on the monitor. Currently being recorded was Honeydew Channel's long-running indoor variety show "Runaway". The performers in this episode were the popular idol group Wax&Wane, which had just released its debut single recently.
Speaking of this group, Qin Kai has a close relationship with them.
When he first took over "Runaway", the show's ratings were declining. When he was worrying about this, the group variety show produced by Lin Chiran for Wax&Wane suddenly became a big hit on the Internet. Qin Kai went to communicate with the producer specially. After getting inspiration, he made drastic reforms to the program, which led to the current highly talked-about "Runaway".
Qin Kai was very grateful for this and had long wanted to give back, so he extended an invitation as soon as he debuted, and this scene happened.
The starting point was good, but a sudden incident made Qin Kai feel a little embarrassed.
"Mr. Li, what are you doing...?" Qin Kai looked at the senior executive of Honey Melon TV next to him. Li Hong, the production director who was dismissed due to the lip-syncing incident of Music Life a few days ago, was a relative of this senior executive. Li Hong's failure became known to everyone in the station.
"It's okay, you guys are busy, I'll just take a look." Mr. Li waved his hand casually.
Although Qin Kai had his doubts, he was still focused on the filming at hand. This episode would be the last one to be broadcast before the New Year, and the staff of the program group were all working seriously to wrap up the program well in the year when it would start again.
The revised "Runaway" mixes various types of indoor games in each episode, such as competitive indoor football, □□, which requires both luck and skill, and werewolf, which tests acting skills and emotional intelligence.
The segment that the five members of Wax&Wane will participate in this episode is the well-known classic game - drawing ghost cards.
A deck of playing cards has a total of 52 cards, excluding the jokers. After adding a joker card, the cards are shuffled and divided among five people. Two cards with the same numbers or letters can be thrown away as a pair, and then the cards are drawn in order in a clockwise direction.
During the drawing process, the number of cards in your hand will continue to decrease as more and more pairs are formed. The person who discards all the cards first wins, and the person who has only one joker card left in his hand is the loser.
In the camera, the members sat around the table, responding to the host's questions and speaking in the order in which they drew the cards with the goal of winning.
"I am very confident in drawing the joker card. I have never lost." Shen Xun smiled gently, looking straight at the camera, and there was no trace of modesty in his words.
An Juesui, who was sitting next to him, blinked his eyes and said in high spirits: "Captain, it seems that your undefeated record will end today. I will not give up the victory!"
The two men seemed to be sure of victory, and their words were very confident, sparks flying for a while.
Jing Xing thought of his past record of drawing ghost cards and felt a little guilty. He took a deep breath and said, "Although my winning rate of drawing ghost cards was not high before...but I will work hard to win!"
The tone without any confidence made everyone laugh, and the gunpowder smell in the air dissipated a little.
Jiang Hechu played with the cards on the table: "It seems that someone is not very confident?" He raised his eyes casually: "Then the opportunity is mine."
The photographer captured the playful smile in Jiang Hechu's eyes, and there would probably be a good show.
Finally it was Ji Qifeng's turn. Although he had never played the game of drawing ghost cards before, he was full of confidence from nowhere: "I will be the only one who wins."
At the moment when the harsh words are finished, the sound effects are inserted to create a tense atmosphere of tit-for-tat.
The five members shuffled the cards one by one first. Jingxing was not very familiar with it, so he simply took the cards under the table to shuffle them.
An Juesui joked: "Hey, no cheating allowed!"
Jingxing blushed a little, shuffled the cards hurriedly, and passed them to the next person.
Jiang Hechu showed off his handsome flower cutting skills, shuffled the cards quickly and skillfully, and handed them to Ji Qifeng to deal.
After the cards were dealt, they were sorted out and pairs were drawn. The five players' hands were divided into the following numbers.
Chen Xun has 7 cards, An Juesui has 5 cards, Jing Xing has 5 cards, Jiang Hechu has the fewest cards, only 4, while Ji Qifeng has the most cards, 8.
The camera begins to search for the joker card lurking in someone's hand.
An Juesui quickly glanced at the expressions of the other four people and said directly: "The joker card is not with me."
Jiang Hechu looked at his hand with interest: "I don't have any here either."
Shen Xun remained calm: “It’s not with me.”
Ji Qifeng and Jingxing also shook their heads.
"Oh? No one has it?" Jiang Hechu smiled meaningfully.
The other few people kept silent and observed silently.
Chen Xun said calmly: "Let's start drawing cards." He spread out the cards in a fan shape and pointed the back of the cards at Ji Qifeng, indicating that he could draw cards.
The camera was focused on Shen Xun's hand of cards. The joker was hidden in the third card from the right among the seven cards, in the perfect position.
Ji Qifeng looked at the cards, then at Shen Xun's expression. There was no flaw, so he casually drew the second card from the left - the 6 of spades. Unfortunately, it did not form a pair with any other cards in his hand, so he had 9 cards in his hand.
The next person to draw cards was Jiang Hechu. He seemed to have no fear of drawing a joker card. Without even looking at the cards, he randomly drew one - the Five of Diamonds. He placed the card directly on the far right side of his hand, a bit higher than the other cards. He suddenly turned to Jingxing and smiled, letting him draw.
Jingxing was confused by Jiang Hechu's expression. He nervously scanned the cards in front of him, and finally gritted his teeth and took away the very abrupt... Five of Diamonds.
"Huh" they just formed a pair, Jingxing's face relaxed, so he only had 4 cards left in his hand, and he was currently in the lead.
An Juesui suddenly said, "Jingxing, you don't have any joker cards in your hand, right?"
Jingxing's eyes were vague and he didn't answer.
An Juesui seemed certain of this conclusion and drew a card at random - the 10 of hearts, and sure enough, nothing happened.
It was Shen Xun's turn again. He drew a card from An Juesui's hand - the 4 of diamonds, forming a pair. He had 5 cards left in his hand including the joker.
After one round, Ji Qifeng roughly confirmed that the joker cards were not in Jingxing and An Juesui's hands, and he obviously didn't have any either. This means that when you draw Chen Xun's cards this time, you might get a joker card.
Calculating the probability in his mind, Ji Qifeng took the card in the middle of Shen Xun's hand. His expression froze instantly when he saw the card. He tried his best to keep a poker face and be impartial. The card he took was the joker.
Ji Qifeng didn't have much time to think, and decisively placed the joker card on the left side of his hand, which was the position that Jiang Hechu had just drawn.
Jiang Hechu noticed Ji Qifeng's movements, and said in a relaxed tone, "Is this a joker card?"
Ji Qifeng shook his head: "No." While speaking, his body was a little stiff.
Jiang Hechu was very considerate and took this card directly. He looked at the joker card in his hand and put it on the edge of his hand with a smile: "It turns out not to be it."
Jing Xing also breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this. Seeing that Jiang Hechu was using the same trick again and placing the card he had just drawn a little higher, he hesitated for a moment and finally drew this card.
Uh... the moment he saw the cards, Jingxing couldn't help himself, and his expression was somewhat obvious.
An Juesui saw through it immediately: "Hahahaha, Jingxing, you drew the joker, right? It must be the joker. Your expression is so easy to understand."
Jingxing was depressed. Jiang Hechu was definitely doing it on purpose. An Juesui saw through his cards. He had no choice but to put his hands behind his back, shuffle the cards in a corner where no one could see, and put them in front of him for An Juesui to draw.
"Let me see, which one should I draw...?" An Juesui's fingers slid over the only four cards left in Jingxing's hand. He stopped after each card and observed Jingxing's expression. He drew one - the 2 of hearts, which was safe and formed a pair. An Juesui still had 4 cards left in his hand.
After confirming that the joker card was in Jingxing's hand, the members' pace of drawing cards became much faster. After several rounds, when it was Jingxing's turn to draw cards, the number of cards in the hands of the five people were as follows.
2 cards of Chen Xun, 3 cards of An Juesui, 2 cards of Jiang Hechu, 3 cards of Ji Qifeng, and 3 cards of Jingxing, including 1 joker card.
Jingxing felt a little melancholy. Why did the joker card remain motionless when it came into his hand? He drew a card from Jiang Hechu's hand - the 3 of spades, to form a pair. Jingxing only had the joker card and another safe card in his hand.
An Juesui couldn't help laughing when he saw Jingxing's expression: "How about I help you take it away?"
Jingxing played dumb: "What do you want to draw?" Even if he was seen through, he would still struggle. What if? He shuffled the two cards again and again, and simply closed his eyes and didn't look, letting An Juesui draw.
Only when he felt a card being taken away from his hand did Jingxing dare to open his eyes. He looked at the Nine of Diamonds in his hand with joy.
"So your expression is so easy to understand." Shen Xun shook his head. It seemed that the joker card had been passed to An Juesui.
"Captain~" An Juesui shuffled the cards and placed the joker card on the second card from the right among the four cards in his hand. He held the cards in his left hand and pointed at the joker card with his right hand: "Would you like to guess, is this the one?"
Shen Xun pretended to be thinking, and without hesitation, he took the rightmost card - the 2 of diamonds, to form a pair. At this time, Shen Xun only had one card left in his hand.
Ji Qifeng looked at Shen Xun's hand of cards in a daze, and took away the last card. How come Shen Xun suddenly had no cards left?
Shen Xun had nothing in his hands and smiled gently: "Look, I've never lost in drawing the joker card." He happily won first and started watching the show.
An Juesui muttered, "I will definitely be the next one."
Ji Qifeng threw away the two cards that had just formed a pair, and he only had two cards left in his hand.
When Jiang Hechu saw this, he spoke slowly: "You'd better give the joker away first." He took a card from Ji Qifeng's hand, but unfortunately he couldn't make a pair.
Jingxing also failed to get it, but An Juesui drew one - the 9 of hearts, making a pair. Currently, except for An Juesui who has two cards, everyone has only one safe card. It seems that this game of drawing ghost cards is about to end.
An Juesui was righteous and put a card on the table. He handed the other card to Ji Qifeng to draw: "Qifeng, you know me. How could I cheat you? This is not a joker card. It depends on whether you believe it or not."
Ji Qifeng looked suspiciously at the cards on the table, then looked at An Juesui's pitiful face and said, "I want another one."
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