Chapter 205

After finishing a phone call with Sister Xiao Zhao, Bai Liang, who was in the hotel, felt like something was not quite right.

But for a moment, he couldn't recall what it was.

What exactly was not right?

It wasn't until his phone rang again, and it was still Li Xin calling.

This time, the other party only said two words: "Open the door!"

Bai Liang slapped his thigh. That's right, they were recording the show tomorrow, and Li Xin was bound to have arrived early as well.

As soon as he opened the door, a face trying to hold back laughter came into view.

Li Xin, while struggling to suppress her laughter, walked into his room naturally and sat on the sofa. "You really are an idiot! We're recording the same episode; did you think I was still in Yanjing? Our flights were probably one right after the other."

Bai Liang naturally responded calmly to this "unprovoked accusation": "I bet you didn't think of this just now either."

Li Xin's face froze for a moment, and then she started acting shamelessly. "I'm a girl, being a bit stupid makes me look even cuter."

"Don't go down that path; it's too crowded, you can't compete with those who are naturally gifted."

It was unclear whether this was a compliment or an insult, but Li Xin decided to forgive Bai Liang because she had a more interesting topic:

"Warrior!"

A high-raised thumb, plus a face full of admiration, seemed to explain exactly where her fun lay.

Regarding this high praise and affirmation, Bai Liang opened a bottle of champagne from the wine cabinet, deciding to play along.

"You're not bad either; just now Sister Xiao Zhao was evaluating that you aren't afraid of death, and you dare to join in on any excitement."

"She said that about me? It feels weird. I don't get involved in your messy brawls; I'm just watching the fun."

Staring straight at the bottle of champagne, Li Xin forced herself to look away, while remembering the fun she had at the Weibo Night earlier.

Honestly, she had never thought that being an artist had such benefits.

Eating melons at super close range.

This time was about the same; thinking about what kind of scenes she might see tomorrow, she couldn't help but be happy.

As if Bai Liang had pinched her Happy Beans.

Of course, ordinary people really can't enjoy this kind of fun, but she had "paid for the ticket."

"Hey, hey, hey, don't bring it over."

"Ah? You don't like this brand? I'm the spokesperson." Bai Liang indicated that he was an extremely reliable spokesperson; in this situation, he didn't forget to promote the champagne he endorsed.

Li Xin blushed. "I'm not targeting the brand; I just don't like champagne."

"Didn't you like it quite a bit before..."

"Alright, you're not allowed to say that. Going crazy once in a while doesn't mean I have to go crazy every time. I'm not the kind of... forget it, I can't explain it clearly. Anyway, just don't bring it over."

It was still that classic question.

What do girls mean when they say they want something or don't want something in different situations?

In this regard, Bai Liang's experience was exceptionally sufficient.

For example, right now, she wants it! But just not in a hurry for the moment.

After all, if she were really that resistant, she should have spoken up to stop him when Bai Liang was opening the wine, instead of saying this after the champagne was already opened.

It's like cooperating to take off your pants, and then righteously stating that you aren't willing.

That's just nonsense.

However, Bai Liang respected the girl's "pretending," which was originally one of the pleasures of getting along.

The champagne was opened and set aside for later.

Then he sat on the sofa. "How are we going to promote the TV series tomorrow? Is there a plan?"

"Just be a bit blunt. Say hello to the program team, and then just broadcast it directly. Thinking about it, it's a bit strange; the male lead and female lead aren't coming to promote it, and we, the second male and second female, are putting in all the effort..."

"After all, we took the pay~" Bai Liang said, not caring much.

The male and female leads? Those two didn't dare to come at all.

On the contrary, Li Xin, this "second female lead," always had no psychological pressure and came over to watch the fun, bouncing and jumping.

"Why didn't my CP-shipping have as good an effect as yours?" Li Xin complained casually.

"Ah? You were shipping a CP too?"

"Look, it really had no effect! You actually didn't even know?!"

Bai Liang spread his hands. "You know, I went to Africa recently, and I'm not too aware of things in the country."

"The show I recorded last year." Li Xin looked at him, the corners of her mouth turned down, looking bitter.

"Cough, cough... The CP on the show? That must be the show's fault; it wasn't popular."

It wasn't that the show wasn't popular; there were actually quite a few people watching it.

Li Xin indicated that she had "fallen in love" with someone on the show.

And the result?

She just brushed against the camera with Bai Liang at the Bulgari banquet, and her CP from the show was directly wiped out... making her become Bai Liang's "pendant," an outrageous endorsement CP.

The reason was just that she accidentally appeared in Bai Liang's viral god-tier photo.

But one photo, wiping out a CP created by a show, was indeed too outrageous.

"Forget it, one must look forward. I'll film well in the future, and I'll never ponder any tricks like shipping CPs again; it's simply not suitable for me!"

Li Xin complained while changing into a lying-down posture, as if she had lost hope and turned into a salted fish.

There was no problem with the action of lying on the sofa.

The only problem was that her direction was a bit off.

Looking down at Li Xin, Bai Liang had some slight confusion. Was this young lady in a hurry, or not in a hurry?

"I haven't showered yet."

The other party didn't look up, just vaguely replied: "I haven't either."

The champagne seemed to have a brand new use at this moment.

After more than half the bottle of champagne was used up, Li Xin asked in a muffled voice: "When are you going to find Dilireba?"

"I'm not going~"

This answer seemed to be somewhat beyond her expectations; she froze for a moment, and then worked even harder.

Bai Liang felt that if he were to say at this time: I'm preparing to give Sister Reba a surprise tomorrow, this young lady might smash the champagne bottle on his head.

So he shut his mouth, tilted his head back, and pondered the patterns on the ceiling and the style of the chandelier.

Not to mention, Bai Liang quite liked the decoration style of this hotel.

While the dark tones seemed cold, there were also a few bright spots, that little bit of playfulness and sweetness, the finishing touch.

After a long time.

"If you and Lu Han fight tomorrow, should I help you hold Dilireba back?"

"Hey, who are you looking down on? I can take on ten."

"Ip Man?"

"Yeah~"

——

Taking on ten was of course Bai Liang bragging; it was mainly because there were a lot of people in this recording of Running Man, plus he actually had a total of over ten people.

Besides the seven resident guests, there were also several flight guests this time, and except for Bai Liang, they were all women.

The program team didn't arrange it this way on purpose; even Li Xin appearing on this show wasn't because they remembered the endorsement CP of these two.

It was purely a coincidence.

Because the Running Man program team had been sending invitations ever since they knew Bai Liang had returned from Africa and hadn't joined a crew yet.

But they weren't sure which episode Bai Liang would come to, and even whether he would come at all was a question mark.

If it weren't for Deng Chao saying "This kid will definitely come," the program team wouldn't have had much hope.

However, Bai Liang's participation was uncertain, but the program team's planning had to be done normally.

In the end, they could only use a compromise: no matter which episode he comes to, just squeeze him in, and that's it!

As a result, they ran into a bunch of female guests.

As for the duration and camera time... then record a bit more and edit it into two episodes.

The program team originally had this idea, and now that Bai Liang had come, they had to seize this opportunity even more.

"The theme of this episode is male-female confrontation. Zheng Kai is absent from this recording due to scheduling issues..."

Listening to the director introduce the situation of this episode's recording, Dilireba's originally focused eyes suddenly lost a bit of luster.

They're all female guests~

Because of scheduling issues, she arrived relatively late, unlike Deng Chao and the others who had already seen the female guests yesterday.

However, precisely because she didn't know, that's why she would look forward to it every time~

What a pity.

As for why Zheng Kai didn't come, Sister Reba wasn't very concerned.

Deng Chao, who was calm on the side, knew very well; there was no way, there were too many people this time, and they couldn't find suitable female guests to come on short notice.

It was better to just let one of the Running Man team members take a break.

So to be precise, Bai Liang's squeezing in actually had no impact on the flight guests, but instead, it flew one of the resident guests away.

Zheng Kai: Forced to have scheduling issues.

And on the other side, Bai Liang had already fallen into the Daughter Kingdom.

Lin Zhilin, Rong Zuer, Cai Zhuoyan, Tang Yixin, plus a Li Xin, five big sisters and young ladies were staring straight at him.

As if they were watching some rare animal.

Bai Liang: Others are fine, Li Xin, what are you doing?

Li Xin: Integrating into the collective, you idiot!

Her positioning for herself today was: melon-eating crowd.

Anyway, it was impossible to approach Bai Liang alone, just like at the Weibo Night before.

"Hello everyone~" Bai Liang greeted obediently, not daring to act presumptuously.

Because he knew a truth deeply: women, this kind of creature, when gathered together, their courage grows exponentially. Facing one or two girls, if you tease them, they might still be shy.

But when the number of people goes up, it's hard to say who is teasing whom!

"Wow! So handsome!"

"I've watched your drama~ I like you very much!"

"..."

The enthusiasm that erupted all of a sudden made Bai Liang only able to barely cope.

Fortunately, his memory in this regard was really good.

He could clearly remember what each of them said.

And then reply to them one by one.

Oh right, Lin Zhilin's voice was indeed very distinctive; one could clearly feel that difference among a group of people.

Lin Zhilin, Rong Zuer, and Cai Zhuoyan were all quite old; the youngest was thirty-five, so the scene wouldn't be too... that.

The big sisters had also reached the age of pursuing elegance.

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Only Li Xin and Tang Yixin were in their twenties.

So after the initial warmth, they quickly split into two groups.

The big sisters gathered together to chat, and Bai Liang looked at these two young ones~

He was too familiar with Li Xin; there was nothing to be polite about.

As for Tang Yixin...

She could be considered a half-acquaintance; Bai Liang had just recorded a show with her husband.

Oh right, they were still just boyfriend and girlfriend now.

This girl's temperament was exactly the opposite of Li Xin's, sweet~

While Bai Liang was sizing her up, she didn't stage fright and blinked her eyes. "You seem to know me."

"Yeah, heard it from someone."

"Who?" Li Xin couldn't help but interrupt.

"Her boyfriend. When we were chatting in Africa, her boyfriend was showing off, saying something about how he got into a car accident and then picked up a partner..."

Li Xin listened with great relish; other people's gossip is just interesting!

However, Tang Yixin was a bit embarrassed. "This big mouth..."

"It's quite romantic." Li Xin raised an objection.

"I didn't say it wasn't romantic, it's just too childish; he even took this out to show off."

"Boys are all very childish, let me tell you..."

Alright, Bai Liang was comfortable now.

Li Xin and Tang Yixin were chatting, and their hands were already held together, even though they had just met.

Bai Liang, who had freed up some space, flipped through the script and found that it was just some program flow; he didn't see the so-called "Running Man script" mentioned on the internet, such as having to agree on who wins when tearing name tags.

It's fine if there isn't one; Bai Liang was also quite willing to seriously play some small games on the show.

But this is like playing cards; if the outcome is decided in advance, the mentally retarded small games really only remain mentally retarded.

Oh right, tearing name tags is actually quite fun; he quite liked this.

There's a kind of joy in being able to "beat up" others openly and honestly.

In other places, you can't just press people on the ground and rub them so casually.

Soon, with the entry of the college student audience in the gymnasium, the program recording was about to begin.

Unlike the past.

In previous program recordings, the resident guests would appear first, and then wait for the flight guests to arrive.

Occasionally, they would have to make some exclamations for the program effect because of the "beauty" of certain guests.

This time it wasn't; instead, they took turns appearing in a staggered manner.

Fortunately, the college students at the scene made up for this part of the support.

Whoever came out would be applauded and cheered; each one was full of enthusiasm, and I don't know if the program team paid labor fees, or if they cheated college students into working for free in the name of "seeing stars"... the probability of the latter is extremely high.

Soon, only three of the dozen or so program guests had not appeared.

When Dilireba walked out of the gymnasium passage, the cheers at the scene seemed to be a step higher than before.

This is the most intuitive manifestation of popularity.

Other female guests looked at this scene, and more or less had some emotions in their hearts...

However, after Lu Han appeared, everyone saw what is called a true top-tier flow!

"Wow! Lu Han's popularity is really high!" Deng Chao said in an exaggerated tone.

Chen Chichi immediately took the conversation, quite resentfully: "Why didn't I have such high cheers when I appeared just now?"

"Lu Han is top-tier flow, may I ask what you are?"

"Aba aba..."

And when Lu Han was guided to stand beside Dilireba, the booing at the scene rose another step.

However, by the time their voices gradually became smaller, the last guest still hadn't appeared.

Deng Chao still started to set the rhythm and pretend: "Director, did you make a mistake? Is everyone here?"

"Today is male-female confrontation, do you think the number of people is enough?"

"One boy short, who is going to replace Zheng Kai?"

Listening to these two pretending to be ignorant, the others had different thoughts in their hearts, but they still had to cooperate on their faces.

Curious~

Only Dilireba was truly curious!

Or rather, she seemed to have a premonition of something, because Deng Chao's eyes had glanced at her several times.

Her heartbeat started to accelerate! No way...

Similarly, Lu Han beside her also showed an expression that was not easy to read... weird.

Oh right, he also moved a little bit to the side without leaving a trace.

This guy obviously still knew what emergency avoidance was.

Comparing fans and traffic, he certainly wouldn't say he was afraid of Bai Liang, but compared to being weird, who can be sure about this.

Wu Moufan wasn't worse than Bai Liang at the time, and even had the upper hand.

And the result? He was pressed to death and almost nailed to the pillar of shame.

The performance of a "Journey to the West: Demon Chapter" basically announced that this guy had bid farewell to the film circle.

If it weren't for the fact that the basic market hadn't been lost, this year's top-tier flow might have been kicked out by this guy... Yang Yang, Li Yifeng, and others wouldn't let go of the opportunity to beat a drowning dog.

Until the scene almost returned to silence, smoothing out the movement caused by Lu Han's appearance just now.

A tall and straight figure finally walked out of the passage.

When the first audience member craned their neck to see who it was, a scream resounded throughout the gymnasium.

Immediately followed by a commotion even more terrifying than Lu Han's appearance just now.

This is the advantage of a "sneak attack."

In another occasion, Bai Liang couldn't surpass Lu Han in this regard.

But today, all the audience knew Lu Han would come, but no one knew he would come too.

Surprises are naturally greater than expectations.

Moreover, he also had a "bond" bonus.

Bai Liang, Lu Han, and Dilireba, these three people in the same frame on the show?

No need to wait for this episode to air; this matter can be on the hot search today!

Many people at the scene didn't focus on Bai Liang; they couldn't help but observe Dilireba's reaction.

Hmm... the reaction is too big!

Visible tension, and the expression on her face was already about to be unable to hold on.

Those few female guests who didn't know the situation exclaimed internally: Holy crap, is her acting really this good?!

Program team: This is the effect we want!

Keeping it from her was indeed the right decision.

If they had told Dilireba in advance, she probably wouldn't have been able to show this feeling, that visible impatience.

Simply amazing!

Bai Liang didn't greet the audience when he appeared like the other guests.

His pace was steady, his speed didn't decrease at all, his goal was clear...

Lu Han: Holy crap, is he coming for me?

The next second, he felt something was wrong and moved another step to the side, only then leaving Bai Liang's "attack range," and subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Now there was only one person on Bai Liang's target path.

And at this moment, many people had already started shouting internally: You should turn now!

This exclusive program for Bai Liang has always been the thing that the two's CP fans like to bring up the most.

It belongs only to him; others don't have it.

Sister Reba didn't let everyone down; when Bai Liang was about to walk in front of her, the smile on her face completely bloomed.

As always.

Time to spin~

In an instant, the screams at the scene almost lifted the roof of the gymnasium.

Deng Chao and the others who were better at performing had a look of horror, covering their ears.

Of course, this time it wasn't pure performance; was it really that scary to be surprised?

"I suddenly understand what the lethality of a 'white moonlight' is." Deng Chao suddenly started reciting lines, immediately attracting everyone's attention.

He could only say sorry to Lu Han in his heart; you are indeed not the protagonist today.

"Some people just stand there, and they have already won."

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Three updates, 15,000 words, see you tomorrow, mwah.

Asking for monthly tickets.

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