Chapter 219: Counterattack! The Northern Expedition!

"Sister Tian Tian, didn't you say you didn't want to develop things?"

"Huh? What's up? I'm just watching TV," Miss Jing Tian said, her face a picture of confusion, as if sitting in front of the TV at this hour were the most natural thing in the world.

Hearing this, Miss Jing Tian's manager said nothing, just silently sat down on the sofa.

She glanced at the time—it was already 9:50.

Normally at this hour, if she didn't have filming or other work, Miss Jing Tian would have finished her skincare routine and be getting ready for bed.

But today, her little bottom was glued to the sofa, a pair of big eyes bright and alert.

"Then I'll keep you company for a bit. What show are you planning to watch?"

"Oh, I'm not planning to watch anything in particular, just flipping around. Can't really sleep."

As she spoke, Miss Jing Tian worked the TV remote, switching back and forth between a few channels.

It seemed she hadn't found a show she liked.

Oh right—she still hadn't tuned to Mango TV.

The manager, watching the time, smiled brightly when it hit exactly ten o'clock and reminded her: "Divas Hit the Road is starting."

"Divas Hit the Road? Oh~ that show on Mango TV? Is it any good?"

"Sister Tian Tian, your usual acting isn't nearly as good as when you're filming."

Generally speaking, a lot of actresses who get criticized for their acting are, outside of filming, one better actress than the next in every other situation.

Miss Jing Tian was the opposite—outside of a role, her acting was terrible.

Of course, her acting inside a role wasn't much better either; she needs her "thigh" to carry her~

And right now, her "thigh" had just appeared on the TV screen.

Because the manager couldn't stand it anymore, she simply took the remote out of her hand and switched to Mango TV. The show had just started.

"Let's just watch this one, I happen to want to watch it too, okay?"

Thank you, Manager Sister, for the way out.

Miss Jing Tian nodded quickly, meaning: Okay! Why not! She just loved travel shows.

At this very moment, Bai Liang probably couldn't imagine just how many of the young ladies he knew were silently sitting in front of their TVs.

Some alone, some in groups.

A reality show, after all~

Let's see how you plan to show off!

Nazha: Watch it, everyone watch! All of you, watch it for me! Oh right—has Dilireba watched it?

Mm. She happened to have Dilireba on her WeChat contacts.

They added each other at that Weibo Night event. After the two of them had a little "battle" in their hometown dialect outside the restroom, and to avoid letting onlookers notice they'd actually been sniping at each other on the sly, the two of them put on a show and added each other on WeChat.

After adding each other, they never spoke a single word, and had each other blocked from their Moments feeds.

Ding-dong.

Your friend has shared a link with you.

Reba glanced at her phone, then casually blocked Nazha—having forgotten to do that earlier.

As for that lousy show?

Not watching!

Divas Hit the Road? She felt it might as well be called Bai Liang and the Little Bitch. She really couldn't hold it in anymore—what on earth did that show film that made Gulin Nazha so eager to throw herself at her?

Reba had a vague, uneasy premonition in her heart. In the end, she really couldn't hold back,

Even though she had an early schedule call tomorrow, she still climbed out of bed and turned on the TV.

The first episode of Divas Hit the Road 3 hadn't actually set off on the trip yet.

The main content was team assembly and... isolation.

One person solo-trips to Africa, while everyone else groups up to go to Brazil?

Plenty of viewers tuning in immediately felt it was absurd, and finally understood why the first half of the ultimate trailer had been so "split."

"It can't be that Bai Liang is going to Africa alone, right? Then he and Nazha won't have any interaction for half the season?"

"I came here for their CP! You want me to wait half a season?"

"Can't Jing Boran read the room and just go to Africa himself?"

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As for getting "cyberbullied" the moment the show premiered, Jing Boran was utterly speechless.

He knew it—any time he was pitted against Bai Liang, nothing good ever came of it.

Can't be helped; fans just feel sorry for their idol~

That's just what being a top-tier celebrity is like.

Still, there were some sharp-eyed folks online who, even before the "winner" had been revealed, had already guessed that Bai Liang probably wanted to go solo on purpose.

"Everyone else has suitcases, but he's the only one with a giant mountaineering backpack. It's obvious this was arranged."

"I'm dying laughing—Nazha just told Jing Boran something about the tour guide being too tired, that she didn't want him to be that exhausted. I believe she genuinely didn't know; she's way too eager to travel with Bai Liang!"

"This girl on this show really doesn't even bother to act—she might as well be openly confessing."

"Did anyone notice the look in Nazha's eyes when Bai Liang went to find her? Iron-clad secret crush!"

"No wonder she's always fighting Dilireba for the CP—she really does like him! She's not fighting for the CP at all, she's fighting for the real person!"

"How about... Bai Liang, just give in to her, she's already been this proactive and obvious about it~"

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Nazha did put on a tiny bit of an act while filming the show, but everyone knows how her acting is.

One could say, in this regard, she went even more "overboard" than Dilireba.

Fortunately, Reba still had her signature twirl move, and for now the rhythm online hadn't tipped toward Nazha's side.

The CP fans held firm, raising high the banner of Bai Liang × Reba, not allowing any little wretches to come and try to hitch a ride.

Then, the show cut to the scene before boarding the plane.

When Nazha tried to dodge the cameras and quietly stuffed her money into Bai Liang's backpack, viewers watching on TV were fine, but those watching online saw the bullet comments immediately start to "go wild"! Same old story—Nazha just can't act it out.

So this one is the real deal!

And when Bai Liang did the exact same thing, the bullet comments straight-up "exploded"!

Today's related topic #Bai Liang × Nazha#, which had already been trending pretty high, finally shot all the way to its peak at this moment.

In just a few minutes either way, it topped the hot search at number one!

"So good to ship, these two. From this moment on, I'm their devoted CP fan! No one can change my mind!"

"Switching sides, switching sides! I've never seen Nazha look so passionate. I feel like she really likes Bai Liang. This girl is absolutely a love-brained fool!"

"Love-brained for sure, but I really can't read Bai Liang. Are these two actually going for each other, or is this guy just a total central air-conditioner?"

"Bai Liang's acting is pretty good. So I'm not sure—wait, why does a top-tier idol like you have to act that well? So annoying!"

"Can't tell, really can't tell. But just based on these two's interaction this episode, it felt like watching a romance variety show, damn it was sweet."

"Is this real sugar or industrial sweetener? I can't tell either, whatever, ship it!"

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At this point, the "new" CP was officially formed.

Not a single error—every word, every line, every bit of content is here for you to read!

Don't treat variety show CPs as no CPs. Back when Lu Han and Reba were hyping their CP, the industrial sweetener flavor was that strong, and didn't they still have a huge crowd of CP fans shipping them to death?

Of course, this was boosted by both their traffic plus the popularity of the Running Man show, which is why it had this effect.

"Divas Hit the Road Season 3" has the same thing!

So. Counterattack! Northern Expedition!

Nazha, who had always been at a disadvantage in her "battle" with Reba, finally fully perked up tonight.

As one side fell and the other rose, the CP fans on both sides directly kicked off a "world-shaking great war"—to use the exaggerated description from novels: even the Great Dao was polished to extinction.

Thanks to Lu Han's official announcement earlier, which gave Weibo a boost, otherwise it would probably have crashed and gone down on the spot for everyone to see.

From this moment on, Nazha, as Bai Liang's CP, finally got a seat at the table for real! She even stood up!

Meanwhile

"How many people messaged you?" Dou Dou Xiao Zhao Jiejie's voice seemed a little gleeful, and her next line didn't even bother to pretend: "Serves you right! Let you play the central air-conditioner!"

Today, Dou Dou Xiao Zhao Jiejie had a sudden whim and insisted on watching the show together with Bai Liang.

Facts proved her idea was brilliant—she was laughing her head off after watching!

Especially paired with Bai Liang's phone buzzing nonstop with message notifications, she laughed until she was hugging her belly.

As for the fact that his phone had an unusually large number of messages, Bai Liang couldn't argue his way out of it.

Mm. The messages really were a lot.

Even Reba, who usually didn't bring up this kind of topic much, sent over a single "hmph."

Just one word, but it was enough to express what she meant.

She didn't send a sixty-second voice message barrage, which meant she hadn't really broken down—otherwise she would have either ignored Bai Liang completely or bombed him mercilessly.

This middle-ground situation basically means: I'm actually fine~

Most of the girls who were closer to him all asked the same thing: are you two about to make it official?

After getting a negative answer, they were actually quite satisfied.

Meng Jie was the most interesting: "Can I still go back to him? I'm a little scared of her—how about you just hype a CP with Dilireba, she's not that fierce."

Clearly, she didn't really understand Reba—the other girl just hadn't gone all-out on her the way Nazha had.

Even Yang Mi came to join the fun, cursing him as a "scumbag," then praising him: "You kid really are something, be careful the CP fans bite back."

Mm. Mi-jie did show a bit of concern~

But the gleeful tone was pretty strong too.

She seemed to think that the way Bai Liang was playing this, he'd eventually set off a big firework.

But standing from Yang Mi and Jiaxing's position, they were actually happy to see Nazha perk up.

If she didn't perk up, and dragged this out another half year or year, Reba and Bai Liang wouldn't even need to make it official—everyone would just assume it by default.

Now it's good, Reba continues to stay "single," and the CP's heat can be nibbled on from time to time.

After all, if you insist on judging who's real from these two girls' respective performances on their two shows—Nazha comes out on top.

Because Reba still held back a bit; she didn't externalize it to that degree.

Mm. This was only the show's broadcast's personal impact on Bai Liang.

As for the external impact.

It exploded the moment it aired!

Ratings topped the charts at number one!

These ratings weren't just compared to the same time slot—they beat out all variety shows on every provincial satellite channel on Saturday night.

Even by the next day during the day, the hot search still had a bunch of trending keywords about this season of Divas Hit the Road.

The celebrity super-topic sections were going wild with spam. Just from this momentum, it already had the same vibe as when Bai Liang went on that episode of Running Man—standing toe to toe!

One could say that just from hyping these two's CP, the show ate its fill this round.

"What a shame, how did they let Bai Liang go off to Africa all by himself?"

Some in the industry suddenly started gloating, thinking Mango TV had still "overlooked one thing despite a hundred precautions."

If they had kept letting the audience watch these two's sweet interactions, this season's show would have been locked in for sure.

The result was that the two of them turned around and were about to split up—what about the next few episodes?

It's not that he looked down on the other few artists, but they absolutely couldn't carry a hit variety show.

And Bai Liang, on his own without Na Zha's interaction—even as a top-tier star, he couldn't hold things up, right~

Terrible move! Absolutely a terrible move!

Mango: Oh? Really? I don't believe it!

When did it become your turn, you stinky fish and rotten shrimp, to tell me how to run a show?

This time, let the peers know what it means to be the pillar of the satellite TV!

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A bit embarrassed—tonight's update was too short, so I just didn't sleep and added one more chapter.

See you tomorrow, muah!

Tonight is four updates, fifteen thousand characters.

Begging for monthly tickets.

(End of this chapter)