Chapter 207: Is the Entertainment Industry's Standard This Bold Now?

Li Xin: I should be putting on a pretty good act, right?

Still, when she glanced sideways at the people beside her and saw their expressions of wanting to say something but holding back, her heart suddenly skipped a beat.

This was bad—her heart rate climbed again.

By now, quite a few people had already started sneaking glances at Dilireba, and even her original CP, Hearing Hearing Lu Han, couldn't help but join in the melon-eating at this point.

Who wouldn't want to watch this show?!

Though Hearing Hearing Lu Han also couldn't help but admire Bai Liang a little—he'd been a bit unconvinced before, but now he was truly impressed.

Bro, you're the man!

You're seriously awesome!

Just for this one move, Hearing Hearing Lu Han said he didn't mind what happened this time, because he felt like he and Bai Liang weren't even on the same track.

Being a celebrity—especially a top-tier one—is about playing a persona, about marketing.

What is Bai Liang playing?

He's playing it real!

But who could outplay you at that? Still, this streak of awesomeness also made Hearing Hearing Lu Han feel that a real man should have this kind of guts.

Fear of death isn't in the Chinese blood!

In his heart, he'd already started mulling over whether he should also make an official announcement when he got back.

At this moment, he happened to be on the same wavelength as his own manager, Yang Tianzhen.

After seeing Li Xin's situation, Yang Tianzhen suddenly realized that the official announcement between Bai Liang and Dilireba she'd been waiting for might never come.

So what could she do now to "cut her losses"?

She certainly knew that Hearing Hearing Lu Han had started dating that Beijing-circle princess Guan Xiaotong; before today, what Yang Tianzhen had to do was completely smother this relationship and never let a single bit of news leak to the outside world.

But now, facing such an outrageous opponent in Bai Liang, she felt that perhaps she could choose the method with the smaller loss.

Now she could only choose the lesser of two evils.

In short, she absolutely could not let Hearing Hearing Lu Han become the "loser" in this show's CP.

"You're also the type whose heart races easily, right? Just like me~"

That sentence was nothing short of a lifesaver.

Li Xin turned back, and looking at Lin Zhilin, her eyes were practically about to cry.

Right, right, right!

That's right, sis, that's exactly it.

"I get really nervous," she managed to explain.

"Same here~ I also blush easily, my face turns red."

Lin Zhilin's words gave Li Xin a way out, and with a way out, she hurried to take it.

She scrambled out of her seat and hurriedly took off that heart-rate monitor thing too.

Only, it was too late.

At least after meeting Dilireba's somewhat strange gaze, Li Xin knew it was still too late. She could only force a smile at her and pretend nothing had happened.

The show continued recording.

Fortunately, Bai Liang really put on a performance afterward of what it meant to be a capybara calm as still water—no matter how those disbelieving big sisters and young ladies took turns coming at him, his heart simply wouldn't budge an inch.

"Looks like only Reba can get this kid's heart rate up by five points? He can really control it?!"

"Special ability~" Bai Liang grinned and started bragging.

"His ears can move too!" Dilireba, ever the supportive one, started showing off another of Bai Liang's "special abilities."

"Reba, you know him pretty well~"

"We... filmed a drama together."

Deng Chao said in a strange tone: "I filmed a drama with him too!"

Alright, the show's rhythm was pulled back on track; everyone just pretended the little interlude caused by Miss Li Xin had never happened.

Hopefully, when this episode airs, the audience can also pretend nothing happened.

Inside, Li Xin had already started wailing~

It's over, it's over!

The "neutral country" is about to get beaten up too.

She could already picture herself being strung up and whipped by Dilireba and Gulnazar's fans.

When those two collide, they always like to casually "wipe out" the other small fry first.

What to do? When the show airs, can some big news come along and bury this?

At this moment, her newly-made friend Tang Yixin couldn't help but nudge her with her elbow, giving her an especially expressive little look.

Mainly admiration, like a surging river flowing on and on without end!

Sis, you're fierce! You dare to jump into this kind of situation?

Tang Yixin genuinely admired Li Xin—if she had nothing to do with Bai Liang, then this was purely finding topics by her own ability, making her one impressive miss.

If she did have something going on with Bai Liang... then she was even more impressive!

Sneaking into someone's home~ And sneaking into Dilireba's home! And still bouncing around on her face right now.

The two exchanged glances.

Tang Yixin: You're amazing~

Li Xin: *sob sob*

At this moment, Dilireba happened to glance at the two of them, and Tang Yixin immediately pretended she knew nothing, looking up at the sky.

Li Xin kept her smile, pretending to be calm.

Inner thoughts: I have to bluff my way through this.

Fortunately, she seemed to really have bluffed her way through, and afterward Dilireba didn't keep looking at her with that strange gaze.

Still bouncing around beside Bai Liang, joining in on every topic that had anything to do with him.

Time quickly rolled around to evening; tomorrow's recording would no longer be a men-versus-women showdown, but pairs teaming up, with the theme being some romantic, poetic journey.

The targeting here was a bit too on the nose, and there wasn't much to say about it.

After male guest number one, Bai Liang, chose female guest number one, Dilireba, he reaped a chorus of teasing and applause.

Although everyone knew he couldn't possibly have chosen anyone else, girls as a species were just that interesting.

For instance, Reba couldn't help but pipe up: "You hesitated for a second when you chose me just now~"

Does one second even count as hesitation?

It does!

Because Bai Liang really had been thinking just then: whether or not he should pick Li Xin.

The two of them still had to promote "Princess Agents," after all.

Li Xin: I'm begging you, please don't be so dedicated to your job.

"My bad, it won't happen next time."

"You still want there to be a next time?"

The exchange between the two was classic, but this time, because it was whispered, it didn't give that old rascal Deng Chao a chance to sneak in another couple of cheeky lines.

This episode's recording location was Dali, and the theme had something to do with "travel" again.

It made Bai Liang feel a little strange, to say the least.

Did this count as accompanying Nazha on a trip, and then coming to accompany Reba on one too?

Of course, the "travel" in Running Man was mostly just a gimmick; most of the segments still had everyone gathered together playing various mini-games.

After a day's recording wrapped up, everyone got ready for their own activities.

Li Xin ran the fastest, grabbing Tang Yixin and vanishing in a flash.

If she could, she wouldn't even want to stay at the hotel the production crew had arranged today~ Sleeping together with Tang Yixin was also a pretty good option.

The two of them hit it off right away; deepening their bond a bit was also quite nice.

"I won't make you drink today; I figure you've got plenty on your plate."

After Deng Chao dropped that line, he and Chen He went off with anyone else who wanted to drink to find a place to party.

Bai Liang: I want to go!

His gaze couldn't help but drift toward Dilireba: are you going?

Dilireba smiled at him, made a little expression, then shook her head. "I'll let you in on a little secret—last time you reeked of alcohol, I actually didn't really like it." "Mm? Is that so? I clearly remember you—"

"You're not allowed to say it!"

Reba was terrified Bai Liang would drop a line like "you kissed me so into it"—even if it were true, it would still be embarrassing.

Some things can be said, but not done.

And some things can be done, but not said.

The way men and women get along is always this wondrous.

Back at the hotel, Bai Liang first showered and changed clothes in his own room, then very naturally went to knock on Reba's door.

After pushing the door open, he saw her manager and assistant Lingling sitting inside.

He was quite familiar with the assistant, but not so much with the manager.

The manager gave Bai Liang—who had just walked in like that—a complicated look, sighed, and left without a word.

No errors, no missing content—read it all in one place!

They're not even trying to hide it anymore! What could she even say?

"Your manager's expression didn't look too good—what's up with her?"

"Little White bro, of course it's because of you~" Assistant Lingling chimed in with a grin, then scampered off as well.

After leaving, she didn't forget to helpfully close the door behind her.

"Huggy~"

Once everyone was gone, Reba dropped the act, threw her arms out, and burrowed straight into Bai Liang's arms.

It was her favorite thing to do—hugging Big White was indescribably comfortable.

"You coming this time without telling me—does that count as a surprise?"

"I thought the production crew would tell you; I only figured it out later from your reaction."

"How could you tell?"

Bai Liang: Please—as if I don't know your acting skills by now?

Still, he did toss out a little white lie, telling her not to ask: he could just feel it.

That answer was always what a girl wanted to hear, and it made Reba snuggle even deeper into his arms.

Then the next question was a bit of a killer.

"Was Li Xin also a surprise?"

"Huh?"

"Just kidding~ But if you hadn't come to find me today, but had gone to find her instead, that wouldn't be a joke."

He did look, but didn't find her.

On his way over, Bai Liang had actually passed by Li Xin's room and even knocked, intending to say hello.

But after knocking, there wasn't a sound; he couldn't tell if this young lady was deliberately not opening the door, or simply hadn't come back yet.

Regarding the topic of Li Xin, Reba only brought it up those two times, and had no intention of chatting about it further at all.

Besides, she hadn't cared about the "Divas Hit the Road" that Bai Liang had previously recorded, nor had she mentioned that bundle.

She seemed to hold one principle: when she's happy, don't bring up any unhappy topics.

Let alone topics about other girls—she didn't even really want to chat about things related to herself.

She quickly closed her eyes and lay in Bai Liang's arms; if she hadn't shifted a little every now and then to change positions, one would have thought she was asleep.

When the two couldn't meet, this Miss always talked an awful lot, firing off sixty-second voice messages in volleys.

Now that they were face to face, even pressed together, she only wanted to enjoy this hard-won time alone together.

Because she knew very well that afterward, it might become less and less.

But just as this thought arose, Reba suddenly felt that perhaps she should do a little more.

What a coincidence—precisely because she adjusted her position, Bai Liang's hand, just like when they filmed the pool scene earlier, landed on the most perky spot.

But because the setting was different and the relationship was different, this time Reba pressed her lips to his ear, nuzzling his earlobe: "Dabai, your hand is so warm."

Bai Liang's ear tickled, and he instinctively said: "Your butt is so perky~"

"Don't say it like that, the mood's going to be ruined!" After a coquettish scold, Reba puffed up her cheeks, then asked again: "Really perky?"

"I'm the type who loves to speak the truth."

"Then I want to see yours too."

The next day's show recording—the drawing-passing game segment!

The thing that needed to be drawn was "abdominal lines," but classmate Dilireba, after a bout of operation, drew a strange and bizarre thing.

Hmm, how should one put it.

Yesterday the whole venue fell silent because of Li Xin; today, because of her drawing, that scene appeared once again.

Immediately followed by a burst of wild laughter!

Rong Zuer beside her wanted to speak but held back, an extraordinarily odd expression on her face.

The domestic entertainment industry is this open now?! Little sis, why did you even draw out what you ate last night?

So she couldn't help but turn her head to glance at Bai Liang again.

In fact, quite a few people were looking at Bai Liang at this moment.

Everyone's gaze was also generally drifting downward.

Bai Liang:????

The drawing doesn't even look that alike! Where does it look alike?!

Deng Chao beside him, while laughing wildly, really couldn't help adding: "It's also a bit to the right."

Bai Liang, with a righteous face: Right, my buddy's trajectory leans to the left.

Li Xin, lined up at the very end, really couldn't hold back, and regardless of the game rules, sneakily craned her neck to steal a glance.

Mainly because of that line "to the right."

At one look, she nearly shouted it out.

She hurriedly pulled her gaze back, her heart thudding wildly.

Inner thoughts: What does she mean? The word she guessed—could it be Bai Liang? Playing this big?!

There's a matter of perspective involved here.

Bai Liang felt it didn't look alike because, from his own view, it leaned left; but in a Miss's eyes, of course, it leans right.

By the time he figured this out, the female guests had already finished the game.

Fortunately, Rong Zuer racked her brain and forcibly shifted the direction, letting Li Xin at the very end heave a sigh of relief and casually guess something else.

She actually guessed right!

"She could guess that too?!"

"Six dots are abs, two lines—abdominal lines~" Li Xin said, striving to feign calm.

"Who? Who's like that here?"

Deng Chao's loud clamor made Li Xin, who had just barely felt she'd escaped a disaster, start pounding wildly again inside.

No way. They're messing with her like this? Is it really that hard to let her survive this episode of Running Man?

Bai Liang's gaze at Reba at this point was also slightly complicated—let's not show off like this.

And the size was drawn so precisely too.

If the genders were swapped, Bai Liang felt he could have called the police.

Reba at this moment also seemed to finally realize, looked at her own drawing, gave a sudden start, and the next second couldn't help looking at Bai Liang.

Better that she didn't look—the moment she did, she was completely exposed!

Bai Liang felt that the gazes of those older sisters looking at him had already gotten a bit off.

Production team: Honestly, with this kind of material, they really want to broadcast it, but the scale is really a bit too big for them to handle.

So this time not only can they not stir things up, they also have to help edit out some inappropriate footage.

It's time to test the post-production crew's skills!

This unexpected turn directly made Reba curl up small.

In the following segments, the whole person turned into a little quail, the blush on her cheeks refusing to fade.

Given this situation, even Deng Chao, that old rogue, didn't really feel like teasing her anymore—afraid this Miss would find a crack on the spot to crawl into.

(End of chapter)