Yan Jie was the second to be invited into the small dark room.
He sat on a high stool with a world-weary expression, coldly looking at the three main creators sitting in front of him.
The main creators cleared their throats, their intentions clearly stirring things up:
"I just interviewed Ximei, and she commented that your hairstyle looks like it came from somewhere. What's your response to that?"
"Then how dare you ask me that?" Yan Jie said fiercely.
The three main creators exchanged glances and continued asking:
"Xi Mei just said she likes you. What do you want to say?"
Yan Jie paused slightly, then his gaze dimmed, and he said sarcastically:
"Please tell the production team to keep up the good work and not just talk the talk without walking the walk. Otherwise, no one can escape from farming reality shows."
The staff member finally asked, "What were your feelings when you returned to a farming reality show?"
Yan Jie stared blankly at the camera and said, "An indescribable sense of loss, dejection, and confusion."
The three main creators simultaneously revealed their question boards and gave him three capital X's.
After the video interviews with the six guests concluded, Director Chen announced the results of the preliminary evaluation:
"Adhering to the principle of humanistic care, the program team conducted a preliminary assessment of the psychological state of the six guests after the floods, and the results are as follows:"
Jiang Hexi is doing well, Yu Xiangwan is doing well, Shen Yingyu is doing well, Zhou Gongqi is doing well, Chu Yang is doing well, but Yan Jie is experiencing psychological distress. We hope the guests will support each other and help Yan Jie overcome his psychological struggles and regain his confidence in farming.
"Director Chen—"
Jiang Hexi pressed further, "Please publish your scoring criteria. I suspect there's something wrong with your test."
Director Chen looked at this troublemaker and said sternly:
"If the test results are problematic, then Yan Jie's mental state is good, but yours is a mental disorder. Is that what you mean?"
"Instead of questioning the production team here, it would be more important to care about your teammate and help him get out of this predicament as soon as possible."
Jiang Hexi was rendered speechless by Director Chen's barrage of questions.
As expected of Gossip Girl's man, after two months of training, his verbal skills have improved by leaps and bounds to a point where even she can hardly handle them.
After moving their luggage to their rooms, the group gathered in the living room to drink tea.
Jiang Hexi tried to comfort Yan Jie, saying, "What on earth could have driven you to cut your hair into a buzz cut?"
"I'd like to ask you that same question."
Yan Jie stared at her intently and said, "How can you let go so easily, without any lingering attachment to the past?"
He was implying that she was cold-hearted.
“Yan Wang, you can’t get stuck in a dead end. You need to think about the problem from a different perspective.”
When Jiang Hexi saw him look up, she broke down the reasoning and explained it to him in detail:
"You need to give yourself something to look forward to. You can't dwell on the past when the wheat was flooded and you can't see any hope."
"For example, imagine how hard you work farming now, and then reward yourself double after the show is over. Doesn't that give you something to look forward to?"
Yan Jie finally heard a decent sentence from her: "Are you sure this will work?"
Jiang Hexi's hints were so obvious, yet this person still shamelessly replied, "Confirmed."
Yan Jie's gaze finally softened slightly as he looked at her, and he bargained, saying:
"Double the rewards cannot make up for the damage I suffered in the farming reality show."
"So how much do you think is appropriate?"
"More than three times."
"Okay, whatever you say."
Jiang Hexi didn't know what reward he wanted, but seeing the look in his eyes that wouldn't let her go, she couldn't afford to offend him and sold herself out in advance.
Seeing her stance, Yan Jie didn't put on a sour face for the rest of the live stream.
Director Chen returned to the living room with an account book and a thick stack of invoices, and read them aloud to everyone:
"It took the finance department three days to reconcile your accounts for the past three months. First, let's disclose the losses, specifically regarding the free-range chicken farm—"
"Director Chen, just report the results."
Shen Yingyu interrupted him, saying, "I'm not going to look at these accounts. There's no need for you to read out the profit and loss details and undermine our confidence."
"Aren't you afraid I'll rip you off?"
"The way the director is talking makes it sound like we have money for you to rip us off."
Director Chen looked at the bill in his hand and finally read out, "Your current net worth is: negative 1,037,600."
Shen Yingyu asked everyone sitting on the sofa, "Compared to reading it out item by item, doesn't this debt sound less burdensome?"
Chu Yang: "This astronomical figure didn't cause my little heart a single shock."
Director Chen immediately realized that he had made a mistake:
"You've worked hard in the fields for over three months, only to end up with a net loss of 130,000 yuan. Shouldn't you reflect on this and strive to improve yourselves?"
"Director Chen, I admit that I overdid it when it came to farming."
Jiang Hexi, who had completely given up, said, "That's why the flood submerged thousands of acres of wheat, and I couldn't take the blow, so I fell ill and couldn't get out of bed. Later, I reflected on it for a long time."
She lowered her eyes, then looked up again and said:
"Actually, there's no need to pay off the debt within six months. Haste makes waste. Being too eager for quick success will only deplete your energy. Just enjoy rural life, work slowly, and reap the rewards gradually. We should just live in the moment."
Upon hearing this, all five guests turned to look at her.
“Xi-mei’s words have touched my heart.”
Zhou Gongqi said cheerfully, "I just want to paint on the white wall in the evening after I finish work, and then you can call me back for dinner when it gets dark."
"I want to ride my bicycle all over the village."
"The three of us like to stay under the camphor tree and listen to the aunties and grandmas chat."
When it was Yan Jie's turn to express his thoughts, he spoke slowly and deliberately:
"Feed the ducks, herd the ducks, and buy two more female ducklings to lay eggs."
Director Chen was angered by their passive-aggressive attitude. "Are you just going to give up?"
Jiang Hexi replied to him lightly, "Director, from now on, we will be in charge of our farming variety show."
[The five chaebol members: Three months of work for nothing, a net loss of 130,000. Sigh, might as well just give up and give up completely.]
[Hahaha, what's the deal with Yan Wang raising ducks? Why is he so obsessed with getting female ducks to lay eggs for his male ducks?]
[Don't argue, fans of the handsome actor. If you do, I'll win. His words reflect a subconscious thought: he wants to get married.]
[Xi Mei is the best version of me! Since I started giving up, my life has been absolutely amazing!]
Seeing that they wouldn't listen to his advice, Director Chen continued with the procedure:
"According to the program's new rules, future guest stars will be selected by the production team through rigorous screening and by online voting."
"Please give a round of applause to welcome Liu Yuxi, the top of the four new generation actresses, as a guest of choice in the online poll for the second season of the farming variety show!"
The previous controversy over the replacement guest caused a huge uproar online, and the fact that the production team still dared to invite Liu Yuxi to record a variety show with Jiang Hexi has caused a stir among netizens.
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