By the time we finished the fourth item, it was already 5 p.m., and the day was almost over.
Tan Xia's performance was exceptionally outstanding, demonstrating her excellence in every aspect.
However, she was always on par with Ning Qiluo. No matter how much Tan Xia wanted to surpass her or get the priority, she was always overpowered by Ning Qiluo in the end.
As a result, the two remained in a stalemate.
Finally, in the fourth round, the other guests seemed to tacitly agree to stop competing. After all, with the elimination rounds, this was now the battleground between Tan Xia and Ning Qiluo, and even another female guest, Liang Ran'an, didn't get involved.
They're not stupid; how could they not see the conflict between the two of them?!
"Qi Luo, you performed amazingly today," Tan Xia praised with a smile.
Ning Qiluo retorted, "You're not bad either."
Tan Xia gritted her teeth. Everyone could see that she and Ning Qiluo were vying for the spot, so no one else intervened. She didn't care how the production team edited it in the end; she just wanted that spot, the spot where she could choose her own teammates.
She wanted to be alone with Jiang Zhaoying.
Even when assertive, even when feigning weakness, like right now, Tan Xia said, "Qi Luo, as the captain today, you should take care of your teammates."
Ning Qiluo guessed that Tan Xia would bring up the team leader.
The captain's role is merely that of a team leader, and it has no conflict with participating in these game segments.
So she replied in a light, clear voice, "We're all at the same level, each of us is good enough. You're just as good."
The camera zoomed in on Tan Xia's face, and Tan Xia's smile became somewhat stiff: "Then let's wait and see."
The other guests nearby could sense the ongoing conflict even from a distance, and not wanting to be caught in the crossfire, no one spoke up.
The questions were prepared by the production team beforehand.
The first one is the multiplication table.
The competition involved two people competing to answer a question through a physical challenge. The first challenge was to spin a hula hoop 100 times within a minute.
This requirement is not excessive; one hundred is actually relatively easy to complete.
After all, the really good ones can do more than 150 per minute.
Tan Xia put on the hula hoop and glanced at Ning Qiluo: "Don't hurt your back, Qiluo. It doesn't matter how much you hurt, the important thing is to have fun."
What lovely words.
They even considered the opponent's perspective.
Ning Qiluo glanced at the hula hoop around Tan Xia's waist and said with a sweet smile, "You too."
Mutual flattery in business.
The start timer sounded—
"Timer...start."
As the starting sound rang out, Tan Xia and Ning Qiluo simultaneously twisted their waists and spun hula hoops.
The hula hoop counts automatically; it will sound a notification sound if you finish 100 hula hoops ahead of schedule.
Even with 100% confidence, Tan Xia still lost, falling short by just two points. In the end, Ning Qiluo finished first.
Therefore, Ning Qiluo was the one who qualified to answer the first question.
She recited a very simple multiplication table.
It went so smoothly.
"Congratulations to Ning Qiluo for completing the first question and providing the correct answer."
The guests next to them clapped and applauded.
Jiang Zhaoying looked back at the video on his phone. It was a recording of Ning Qiluo spinning a hula hoop and reciting the multiplication table. The video was too long, so he broke it down into several smaller videos and sent them to his brother via WeChat.
'Zi-'
His brother replied to the WeChat message.
That's rare, considering his brother almost never replies to his WeChat messages and only allows him to call if needed.
Tan Xia glanced at Jiang Zhaoying and saw her smiling, but the smile clearly had nothing to do with her. She felt a pang of bitterness; how had she lost to Ning Qiluo again?
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