The 12th melon
The next day, Lin Cha woke up, rubbed his sleepy eyes and came to the leisure courtyard.
The other guests had already gotten up, and Liu Mingqian also bought breakfast and placed it on the dining table in the courtyard.
Lin Cha counted the dishes on the table while secretly nudging the equally sleepy Jiang Mingkai next to him, "Brother Kai, aren't there seven of us? Why did Teacher Liu buy five breakfasts?"
Jiang Mingkai yawned and said, "Ling'er and Teacher Pei left last night."
"Gone?"
Lin Cha blinked. I thought the guests would be on the show for two days and one night, but they were gone after only one day?
Jiang Mingkai glanced at Lin Cha quietly: Who should I blame?
After such a big incident, Pei Hongyun still had the nerve to stay? Liu Ling'er was still willing to stay?
If he hadn't turned off the drone in time last night, the entertainment industry would have been in turmoil today!
Jiang Mingkai pulled up a chair and sat down, taking a bite of the cold fried dough sticks.
He had a strange feeling that he and Liu Ling'er were just the beginning of this show. As long as Lin Cha was around, who knew how chaotic "Leisure Life" would be in the future!
Lin Cha, the instigator, was completely oblivious and happily dipped the dough sticks into the sweet soy milk. Although the dough sticks and soy milk were a little cold, the combination was sweet and crispy, and it was delicious.
Chen Xianzhi and Liu Mingqian cleaned up the kitchen, came over with five bowls of tofu pudding, and sat at the dining table in the courtyard.
"Ze Xu hasn't gotten up yet?" Chen Xianzhi asked casually.
"He doesn't want to get up," Jiang Mingkai said with a wry smile, "He feels that if he does, the audience will laugh at him."
Liu Ling'er and Pei Hongyun left last night, but Zhou Zexu stayed. Ever since Liu Mingqian had his wig shaved off, he'd been devastated, and Jiang Mingkai had taken him to his room. He'd slept in the same room with Jiang Mingkai last night.
The photo of his bald head happened to be the last shot of yesterday's live broadcast and was widely circulated on the Internet.
In just one night, boy group idol Zhou Zexu lost 100,000 fans.
Liu Mingqian touched his nose awkwardly. He had recognized the wrong person after all. In a fit of rage, he cut off Zhou Zexu's wig. He felt very embarrassed.
But who can be blamed for this? Wasn’t it because Lin Cha misunderstood him when he was halfway through telling him some gossip?
Liu Mingqian glared at Lin Cha angrily and pushed the blame onto Lin Cha.
Lin Cha who is eating tofu pudding:?
What's wrong with Mr. Liu? Why is he looking at me so strangely? I didn't offend him!
[Ah! Does he know that I spent three hundred rounds fighting with keyboard warriors last night, debating whether he had been constipated for five or ten days?]
[But I wasn't lying. He has indeed been constipated for more than ten days!]
Liu Mingqian: Poof!
I almost spit out a mouthful of tofu pudding!
No wonder his agent sent him two boxes of enema this morning. Turns out this is the reason!
Chen Xianzhi and Jiang Mingkai looked at Liu Mingqian with burning eyes, which were hard to describe, and then looked at his slightly bulging beer belly.
It won't be all...
Liu Mingqian quickly covered his stomach!
No! He's not constipated! He hasn't been constipated for ten days!
How boring is this kid Lin Cha, arguing with others about this in the middle of the night!
The guests were silent. Talking about this while eating made them feel like their breakfast didn't taste good anymore.
Only Lin Cha was fearless and drank another big sip of soy milk with satisfaction.
…
After dinner, Jiang Mingkai and Lin Cha went to deliver breakfast to Zhou Zexu.
The guests didn't dare to go out, but they also didn't want to let them go hungry. The two of them came to Zhou Zexu's room carrying soy milk, fried dough sticks, and tofu pudding.
At 8:00 AM, it was time for the live broadcast, and fans began to flock to the live broadcast room, hoping to find Zhou Zexu. However, since Zhou Zexu's "bald head" was exposed last night, he had chased away the PD who was following him and turned off the camera in the room.
He was huddled in a corner, hugging his knees, wearing a baseball cap, counting the hair that had fallen from his head.
"This one fell from the top of my head. It's called Tony, this is George, and this is Peppa..."
As soon as Lin Cha and Jiang Mingkai entered the room, they saw Zhou Zexu squatting on the ground counting and naming his hair.
Hearing the sound of the door opening, Zhou Zexu looked up at the two of them. When he saw Jiang Mingkai's thick hair, Zhou Zexu's eyes became even more resentful.
Jiang Mingkai: “…”
Lin Cha put breakfast on the table, and Jiang Mingkai pulled Zhou Zexu up to eat breakfast.
"Don't be sad. Just add more protein and your hair will grow back!" Jiang Mingkai comforted Zhou Zexu. "Besides, everyone loses hair these days. I'm losing hair too!"
Zhou Zexu stared at Jiang Mingkai's hair and said enviously, "But you still have a lot of hair..."
"It's all fake! Fake!" Jiang Mingkai said, "If you don't believe me, ask Lin Cha!"
Lin Cha was caught off guard when he was suddenly called out and could only nod obediently.
"And you're not bald at all!" Jiang Mingkai lied with his eyes open, "It's just that the parting is a little obvious, right, Lin Cha!"
Lin Cha nodded obediently again.
“Yes, yes, yes!”
[Where is Mr. Zhou bald? He only has a slightly noticeable parting! Does a noticeable parting mean he's bald? A noticeable parting doesn't mean he's bald!]
Zhou Zexu: "..."
The psychological preparation that had been made collapsed in an instant.
Get out of here, you two bad guys!
With Lin Cha's exaggeration, Zhou Zexu had even less appetite for breakfast.
Anyway, the program recording is for two days and one night, and he will leave after breakfast. I don’t want to stay in this sad place anymore!
After leaving the show, he went for hair transplant and bought a wig, huh!
After breakfast, Zhou Zexu packed his luggage and was about to leave when his agent hurried over.
"Who asked you to pack your luggage?"
Zhou Zexu pressed his cap. "Hasn't the show already been recorded? Why would I keep it?"
The agent frowned, "But the higher-ups have signed a long-term contract with the production team. From now on, you'll be a permanent member of this show!"
Zhou Zexu: ???
"You're crazy!" Zhou Zexu frowned. "This show has become a dark history of mine, and you still want me to continue participating? Are you worried that the internet making fun of me for being a bald idol isn't bad enough?"
"This is the boss's idea, after all!" The agent said helplessly, "You know, the boss and Zhao Kuan have a good relationship..."
Zhou Zexu's face turned completely dark.
He clutched his luggage tightly, veins bulging on the back of his hands.
Beside him, Lin Cha nudged Jiang Mingkai and whispered, "Brother Kai, who is Zhao Kuan?"
"He's from Xinghui Entertainment, and he's the captain of the boy band Zhou Zexu is in," Jiang Mingkai answered in a low voice.
He then sneered, his eyes filled with disdain. "This Xinghui Entertainment is really interesting. They knew Zhou Zexu was embroiled in a scandal, but instead of letting him stay home and take care of his hair, they let him appear on our show every day? They're really driving him crazy! What? Are they planning to have Zhou Zexu livestream his hair growth on our show?"
While baldness isn't exactly a scandal, it can certainly detract from a male celebrity's allure. Typically, when a celebrity's baldness is exposed, they hire a network of trolls to delete any negative comments, then withdraw from the internet for a while to allow their hair to heal before returning to the stage.
When fans see their idol's new look with thick hair, they naturally forget about his bald head.
But instead of letting Zhou Zexu go home to recuperate his hair, Xinghui Entertainment signed him up to be a regular on a variety show. This is to remind the audience all the time that he is a bald idol who walked out of this variety show!
"Isn't Zhou Zexu an artist of Star Shine? Why is Star Shine treating him like this?" Lin Cha was puzzled.
"He's just a small-time celebrity with no capital and no connections. Star Shine has so many artists, how could they care about Zhou Zexu?" Jiang Mingkai said coldly, "Artists, after all, are just playthings of capital."
…
The contract has been finalized, and Zhou Zexu has no chance of becoming a permanent guest on "Leisure Life".
But he couldn't meet people like this, so he asked his agent to go back to the company and let the stylist customize a wig for him again. At the same time, he had to complete the filming of the new song MV and return to the variety show in two days. His agent agreed.
After Zhou Zexu left, Lin Cha and Jiang Mingkai returned to the leisure courtyard.
Although there are no new guests today, the recording has to continue. The production team handed over today's task cards, asking the guests to go to the mountains to pick corn.
Lin Cha looked at the task requirements with a sad face.
[Why pull out corn? It's tiring, not fun, and the audience doesn't like to watch!]
Jiang Mingkai beside him nodded rapidly.
[I might as well go watch Zhou Zexu make a wig. Bald idols are way more interesting than farm work! And I just searched Zhou Zexu's company, and it's not even a company, it's just a melon field!]
All guests:!!!
The prestigious Xinghui Entertainment Company is actually full of melons?
That's no more fun than pulling corn!
Liu Mingqian coughed twice and said sternly to the director team, "Director Yu, Zexu will be joining our guest team. In that case, shouldn't we go to the company in person to greet him and show our appreciation?"
"Teacher Liu is right!" Chen Xianzhi echoed. "Ze Xu has been caught up in some bad scandals lately. We, the leisure guests, should go and offer our condolences in person. This shows our team spirit!"
Director Yu: ???
You are a team of guests who have known each other for no more than three days. What kind of team spirit do you have?
Director Yu was about to refuse when Liu Mingqian whispered something in his ear, and Director Yu's eyes lit up instantly!
"In that case, we won't be pulling corn today!" Director Yu shouted, "Let's go live broadcast Zhou Zexu making a wig!"
“Cough cough cough!”
Liu Mingqian coughed repeatedly to remind Director Yu. Director Yu realized that his wording was wrong and corrected him, "No, we're not making wigs... We're going to welcome Zhou Zexu to join the organization!"
"Greet him in person to show your respect!"
“Personally pick you up and drop you off to show your care!”
The guests were dressed neatly, their eyes bright and their spirits high.
Oh yeah! Time to eat some melons!
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