02 – What this variety show lacks the most is—normal people.

This comment sparked numerous discussions among countless netizens.

[Hahaha, is this netizen lacking in morals?]

[This variety show itself is already quite immoral, and the netizens are just making it worse (shrugging emoji)]

[I don’t know how to choose my least favorite artist. They’re all so annoying and it’s hard to decide.]

[Wait a minute…why is Xu Ze the sixth guest? His online votes were clearly in the tens. I didn’t even notice him in the first round, so how did he end up on this list?]

[I’m not sure about the earlier rankings, but Xu Ze’s votes from industry insiders were unrivaled. The final list was sorted according to a combination of netizen and industry insider votes, so he ended up as the sixth guest.]

[I understand now. Xu Ze was a victim (doge emoji)]

[Even among these six people, the one I hate the most is still Shang Lu. I predict that someone will appear much cuter than her in comparison.]

[Agreed +1]

[The first episode of the show will start recording this Friday! It will be live-streamed throughout the entire process! I’m already looking forward to it!]

……

As one of the most popular young actors in recent years, Xu Ze has a high popularity and a lot of fans. The number of his black fans should be only average.

However, as netizens have explained, Xu Ze’s appearance on this variety show was mainly due to the votes of industry insiders, who are mainly marketing and paparazzi types. Those with real power wouldn’t take the risk voting such an offending vote.

These marketing and paparazzi types don’t actually dislike artists who have bad tempers and are difficult to work with, because as long as these artists are willing to speak, they can twist their words and write misleading articles to gain clicks.

Artists like Xu Ze, who ignore them, are the most frustrating and disliked because they can’t dig up any dirt on these artists.

At this moment, Xu Ze was also having an unpleasant conversation with his agent about appearing on this variety show.

He sat expressionless on the couch while his agent was getting increasingly anxious that he was about to explode.

His agent couldn’t understand Xu Ze’s absurd behavior and asked, “Everyone knows you were wrongly chosen, and we could refuse to participate in this show without anyone saying anything. This show is popular, but it’s also dangerous! What if there are problems during the live broadcast? It can’t be edited out!”

Although this show is really popular, not everyone can stomach it. As the saying goes, what is sweet to one may be bitter to another!

The assistant was sweating with fear, while Xu Ze still didn’t say anything, but handed the script to his agent.

The agent took it and saw that Xu Ze had circled two words on the script—

“Normal.”

The agent’s originally angry face instantly softened and he said, “I got it. I’ll go make arrangements.”

It was getting late. The assistant left with the agent and curiously about why the agent suddenly changed his mind and agreed to Xu Ze participating in the show.

The agent had already changed his attitude completely and was ecstatic, “I was being narrow-minded earlier and didn’t think it through. What does this show lack the most? Normal people! Among this group of people, our Xu Ze is like a lotus flower that grows out of mud but is not stained. Compared to them, his silence is not a problem at all. What if he doesn’t talk? That’s his biggest advantage!”

The assistant also praised him, “Brilliant!”

The other teams’ willingness to participate in this show is due to two reasons:

One, the show is too popular and they offered too much money.

Two, there are always other guests that netizens hate more. Maybe their own artists can take advantage of this and get whitewashed.

Under the expectations of netizens, the recording of the first episode of the variety show officially began.

Early on Friday morning, netizens in the live broadcast room were eagerly waiting.

[Hahaha, I’ve been waiting for this day for so long!!!]

[The heavens know how much I’m looking forward to it, I haven’t even set an alarm to watch my favorite star’s variety show live, but I’m up waiting for this show!]

[Agree +1. I can spend money to vote for my favorite star, but I will only wake up early for this variety show.]

[I’m ready, I’m ready! I want to be the first one to curse at Shang Lu when she appears!]

[It’s really funny, Shang Lu actually has the guts to come on this variety show, she’s shameless.]

[…I never expected that Shang Lu’s popularity would plummet in this way in this live broadcast.]

[After all, Shang Lu was the top 1 elected by the people, and the votes for the second and third place combined weren’t even close to hers.]

At this moment, there was a comment that seemed a little out of place compared to the others.

[Hating Shang Lu but still waking up early to watch her variety show, are you guys M?]

Of course, this questioning comment was still overwhelmed by the many negative comments towards Shang Lu.

And Shang Lu didn’t disappoint the “expectations” of the comments, becoming the first artist to arrive on the scene.

The main source of Shang Lu’s black fans is actually due the CP fans of Jiang Yi and Ning Lin.

Although Jiang Yi is a scion of a wealthy family, he is not content with just staying in his own company, so he explores various fields. He even attends product launches and other events.

Due to his handsome looks, he has a considerable fan base on the internet and is even hailed as the male lead who came out of the novels.

One of the jewelry companies owned by Jiang’s family hired Ning Lin as a spokesperson. During a certain offline promotional event, Jiang Yi personally gave Ning Lin a ring. The tenderness in his eyes made it evident to anyone with sight that their relationship was not ordinary.

So the CP fans went crazy and dug up a lot of information, such as the fact that the media company owned by Jiang’s family invested in two consecutive new dramas starring Ning Lin and that Jiang Yi had visited the set several times.

Another example was when Ning Lin attended a celebratory banquet and was sent home by a mysterious luxury car, which was later found out to belong to Jiang Yi.

This is the legendary love story of a domineering president and a female star straight out of a novel. Ning Lin herself is a rising star with the most momentum in recent years, so the two of them have a large number of CP fans who ship them. This kind of hot CP between a  celebrity and a semi-outsider is considered a rare “clean stream” in the entertainment industry.

CP fans crave for their “sugar”, but they don’t know that Shang Lu is Jiang Yi’s rightful fiancée. So, after discovering that Shang Lu has had quite a bit of contact with Jiang Yi, they attacked her en masse, taking her as a thorn in their side.

In the eyes of these CP fans, Jiang Yi and Ning Lin are a natural match, and Shang Lu is a third party trying to pry the corner.

In addition, due to the fact that Shang Lu is very good-looking, she is also a top-notch beauty among female celebrities in the entertainment industry, and has been pursued by many male celebrities and rumored with them. This has given her the label of “unscrupulous”, making her already bad reputation worse.

However, Shang Lu herself doesn’t care about these things. After walking into the living room with her suitcase, she happily greeted the camera.

The barrage of comments immediately split into two groups.

[My day starts with seeing Shang Lu, how unlucky.]

[Sure enough, even if it’s for the sake of other artists I like, I still feel annoyed seeing Shang Lu.]

[How should I put it, every time I see Shang Lu, I can finally remember the full name of this variety show.]

As for the other group, they tend to be more inclined towards being a fence-sitter and having fun.

They don’t intentionally target any specific guest, and are purely there to watch the show. At this moment, many of them are already won over by Shang Lu’s beauty.

[Let’s be honest, Shang Lu can still fight in the circle for another ten years with that face.]

[Every time I watch Shang Lu’s bad movies, I forgive her because of this face. It’s the same today.]

[I was really confused by the earlier comments. Since you all know the name of this variety show, why come here and look for trouble for yourselves?]

[Maybe this is the legendary black-fans are more loyal than fans, hate lasts longer than love.]

……

The barrage was discussing lively, while Shang Lu was waiting for the arrival of other guests.

Soon, the door was pushed open and the second guest entered.

He was Ye Lu, the lead singer of the top idol group, who was very young, only nineteen years old.

He was not referred to as a top idol, but rather as the lead singer of the top idol group.

This was because his teammate, the main dancer Xia Yuan, was the top idol, but Ye Lu was not.

In fact, Ye Lu’s popularity was also high, but compared to his teammate, who had enough popularity to rank among the top in the entire entertainment industry, he was somewhat inadequate.

The reason why Ye Lu came to this variety show as the first-ranked male celebrity was : first, because of he has a bad temper and many black fans; and second, because of his teammate’s fans.

The reason why the fans of his teammate disliked Ye Lu was also very simple. In their opinion, their own Brother was the true top idol, but every time a new song came out, Ye Lu had the most lines. Why was that?

Because the fans of his teammate dislike him, they voted for him more vigorously than for their own idol, which helped him secure the position of the first-ranked male celebrity in this show.

When Ye Lu came in, his expression didn’t look too good. He was obviously not willing to come to this variety show, and was most likely persuaded by his agent.

Then he sat in the farthest seat from Shang Lu. The two of them sat on the extreme opposite ends of the two sofas, as if separated by a galaxy.

The barrage immediately became lively.

[Hahaha, Ye Lu also has a day like this too!]

[Let’s thank the fans of Xia Yuan! Without their hard work in voting, there would be no Ye Lu today.]

[Does the little tyrant feel angry when he goes on this kind of variety show? Hahaha, too pitiful, but I have to say

[Serves him right. When he was snatching parts from his teammates and acting like king, he should have thought about this day!]

But besides his black fans, Ye Lu still had quite a few fans.

This group of fans immediately began to argue in the barrage to defend Ye Lu’s reputation, and the barrage quickly became noisy.

Of course, there was only silence between Shang Lu and Ye Lu in the studio.

Because neither of them were polite people, the usual process of greeting and small talk in a typical variety show was skipped.

However, at this moment, Shang Lu was staring at Ye Lu with a curious gaze.

Ye Lu was not a shy person either and immediately looked back when he noticed Shang Lu was looking at him.

Shang Lu widened her eyes.

Ye Lu made his eyes even bigger.

The two of them seemed to be in a competition.

The barrage comments were silent for a while.

[Even though they didn’t say a word, I can already hear voices in my head.]

[I understand, previous commenter! They’re thinking: “What are you looking at?” “What’s it to you?”, aren’t they!]

[It has to be said that the top 1 most hated male and female celebrities by netizens are sitting together, and this scene is somewhat indescribably funny.]

[My mind is full of “evil will have its retribution”! The ways of heaven are fair, hahaha.]

Ye Lu was impatient, and he quickly gave up and asked, “If you have something to say, just say it, why are you staring at me?”

Shang Lu took back her gaze, and calmly replied, “You’ve fastened the wrong button.”

She had originally doubted if she saw wrong, but when Ye Lu turned to look at her, she was completely sure.

Ye Lu : “……?”

Barrage : “???”

[The damn button was fastened wrong]

[Thank you, for saving the day for Ye Lu’s toe!]

[The little tyrant Ye looked ready to look down at Shang Lu, but was caught off guard by this sentence, hahaha]

Ye Lu was a bit embarrassed, really.

But as a male  celebrity, he had to appear more composed. He walked to the corner of the wall and avoided the camera, then re-fastened his button.

The barrage were not very satisfied either.

[Ye Lu’s muscles are very good-looking. Does he take us as outsiders?]

When Ye Lu walked back again, all the buttons on his shirt were correctly fastened.

Of course, this time he was a little afraid to look at Shang Lu.

For some inexplicable reason, he felt guilty.

Soon, the third guest appeared.

The barrage was also very “welcoming” towards her arrival.

[Lin Yanyan! It’s Lin Yanyan!]

[Shang Lu vs. Lin Yanyan! The battle of the annoying people! This is going to be interesting.]

[The princess disease has arrived! The guests on this variety show are really a force to be reckoned with (thumbs up emoji)!]

The third guest to arrive was a female actress named Lin Yanyan, who was known for her princess disease in the industry.

Like Shang Lu, Lin Yanyan was also born into a wealthy family and pursued her dream in the entertainment industry. However, her family only had one daughter, so she was spoiled beyond measure.

This resulted in her personality flaws, such as being a severe princess disease sufferer.

Lin Yanyan and Shang Lu had known each other for a long time, as their family backgrounds and social circles naturally overlapped, but they were only acquaintances who knew each other’s names and were not familiar with each other.

At this moment, Lin Yanyan walked in carrying a suitcase, sitting down next to Shang Lu, and panting heavily. She then complained in an exaggerated manner, “This building is too tall. I still have three suitcases to move.”

Shang Lu looked at Lin Yanyan strangely and asked, “Why do you need to bring so many suitcases?”

Lin Yanyan replied seriously, “One suitcase is for skincare and makeup products, another suitcase is for skincare devices and massage equipment, one suitcase is for clothes and shoes, and the last suitcase is for my little dog, bear, and bunny who will sleep with me.”

Shang Lu : “…”

She didn’t understand, but she was greatly shocked.

Meanwhile, Ye Lu didn’t understand at all and asked directly, “Can you bring pets on this program? What kind of bear is that? Can it really fit in a suitcase?”

Lin Yanyan’s smile froze on her face.

Shang Lu also tried hard to suppress the urge to twitch her lips.

The barrage comments were like this.

[Hahaha, Ye Lu, what kind of straight man are you? Lin Yanyan was talking about plush dolls!]

[Listening to Ye Lu’s serious questioning, I’m laughing so hard that I’m about to puke!]

[I suddenly feel a little sorry for Lin Yanyan hahaha]

Faced with Ye Lu’s reaction, Lin Yanyan was speechless and gave up managing her facial expressions and rolled her eyes directly.

Her initial impression of Ye Lu dropped to zero because she thought he was an idiot.

“They’re my plush dolls, which have been with me for many years.” Lin Yanyan looked at Ye Lu with a dumbfounded expression, then stood up and walked outside, commanding them, “Hey, you two, there are still three more suitcases. Let’s each take one and hurry up.”

Lin Yanyan left.

Although Ye Lu had a bad temper, he also had some basic gentlemanly manners and instinctively stood up to help Lin Yanyan carry the suitcases.

However, he soon retreated and looked at Shang Lu, asking, “Aren’t you going?”

Shang Lu also put on the same expression as Lin Yanyan when looking at Ye Lu, then pretended to be clueless and asked, “Why should I go? Did she call my name? Isn’t she talking to other staff?”

If Lin Yanyan asked her politely or with a favor, Shang Lu wouldn’t mind helping out.

But that kind of commanding tone? No way.

After thinking for a few seconds, Ye Lu was convinced by Shang Lu’s argument.

He didn’t go downstairs but sat directly beside Shang Lu.

The barrage was also amused by their reactions.

[Lin Yanyan’s princess disease is acting up, but this time she’s facing another princess and a prince haha]

[You two are a lazy duo, aren’t you? Saw right through you!]

Some people were also dissatisfied with Shang Lu’s attitude.

[Shang Lu is too much. What’s wrong with helping out? Lin Yanyan has to move a lot of stuff by herself.]

But this time, most of the audience had eyes and stood on Shang Lu’s side.

[Shang Lu has no problem. Is Lin Yanyan asking for help with that attitude? Does everyone have to cater to her?]

[This is the first time I’ve seen Shang Lu so pleasing to the eye.]

[Agree +1. I think she’s a bit cute]

…….

Lin Yanyan soon came up with a suitcase in hand. Following her was the third-ranked male  celebrity, Xu Ze, who didn’t have much expression, but had a suitcase in each hand helping Lin Yanyan.

Xu Ze didn’t have too many radical black fans, so when he appeared, the barrage was unusually normal, with fans’ screams and calls.

And because Xu Ze helped Lin Yanyan, in comparison to Shang Lu and Ye Lu, he appeared more “gentlemanly” and the plan to whitewash proceeded smoothly, just as his agent had expected.

Lin Yanyan, who was holding a suitcase in her hand, felt very tired and wronged, and as soon as she put it down, she looked at Shang Lu and Ye Lu sitting on the sofa and questioned, “Why didn’t you come down? I would have been so tired if Xu Ze hadn’t helped me!”

In the face of Lin Yanyan’s entitled accusation, Shang Lu responded even more confidently, “Because I have no manners. Otherwise, the program wouldn’t have invited me.”

The live broadcast room is also lively at the moment.

[Hahaha, I’m dying of laughter. How can Shang Lu say such amazing things?]

[Shang Lu has really mastered the art of language. She insults people without using dirty words. She’s clearly mocking Lin Yanyan for being impolite.]

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[Whether Shang Lu is making fun of herself or mocking Lin Yanyan, I still find her interesting. Hahaha.]

[Other guests on variety shows are afraid of causing controversy and being criticized, so they dare not say anything, but Shang Lu is already the most hated female celebrity on the internet, so she has nothing to fear. (doge emoji)】

[Shang Lu—taking the path of black fans, leaving them with no way out.]

[From today on, I am a fan of Sister Lu. She’s really funny when she speaks! Sister Lu, bravely fly! If something happens, I’ve got your back!!!]

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