Chapter 283

The time of only two games left was calculated according to the group that finished the fastest.

That is, the group of Jin Li and Gu Cheng.

They had already reached the 6th game; currently, Gu Cheng had taken three games, and Jin Li had taken two games.

Hearing the director's request, they were not panicked because they knew their group was the fastest to reach the sixth game.

Jin Li said to Gu Cheng: "You don't need to let me win, exert your own strength, and play with all your might."

Gu Cheng raised his eyebrows, stood up straight, rotated the paddle in his hand, pondered for a while, and nodded:

"Okay, I'm starting to get serious. If the ball speed is too fast and you can't receive it, don't force yourself, protect yourself well."

Jin Li actually said it casually.

Hearing Gu Cheng say this, her expression was a bit strange—so Gu Cheng had really been letting her win when playing against her before?

Jin Li finally understood that when one's skill is poor to a certain degree, one wouldn't know if others are intentionally letting the ball go or feeding the ball to you.

Jin Li took a deep breath, also rotated the paddle in her hand, blew a breath with quite a bit of conviction, her eyes firm: "Come on!"

This game was served by Gu Cheng first, first probing with a feint, then he quickly retreated a few steps, quickly pulling a long line to counterattack.

Jin Li only received it twice, but the third time she couldn't receive it; Gu Cheng changed his position slightly, changing the direction of the ball, and she didn't receive it.

Her dynamic vision could capture the ping pong ball, but her body couldn't keep up.

Her hand reached out halfway, and the ball had already brushed past her side.

Jin Li exhaled lightly, feeling a sense of pressure.

She glanced at Gu Cheng, and Gu Cheng smiled at her lightly, as if saying: You were the one who said not to let you win.

Jin Li:...

Next time she participates in any competitive match, she will go to the Daoist temple overnight to kowtow once.

Because Gu Cheng started to exert force, the score of Jin Li's group began to widen significantly, and it was even far ahead of the other two groups.

Qiguan Mingzhu and Chen Lin were okay; they were half serious and half for the effect, but now they were all playing seriously, and each ball could end faster.

What was more miserable was the group of Luo Yi and Yan Xingdong.

This group was miserable because they were too evenly matched.

Both of their levels were about the same; whether playing for fun or seriously, they couldn't distinguish a winner for a while.

Luo Yi gave Yan Xingdong a wink.

The two were worthy of being teammates; the tacit understanding was still there, and just with one look, they knew what the teammate wanted to do, and Yan Xingdong nodded at him imperceptibly.

These two didn't know that their subtle interaction was all captured by the lens.

【I have a premonition...】

【These two are evenly matched, leading to every ball needing a lot of effort to distinguish a winner; it's suitable for a long-line endurance battle, but the program team set a limited time, so...】

【They must be going to use a strange move!】

It has to be said that fans also know the personality of their idols very well.

Sure enough, the next ball, Yan Xingdong and Luo Yi began to perform for each other.

First ball, Luo Yi served, Yan Xingdong suddenly reached out to rub his eyes, distracted, so he didn't receive it.

Second ball, Luo Yi served, Yan Xingdong received it, but the next ball was misjudged; the ball flew to the left, but he ran to the right, hitting empty air.

3rd ball was still Luo Yi serving, Yan Xingdong received it seriously twice, Luo Yi suddenly came with a short throw, Yan Xingdong was still far behind, chasing quickly, the paddle narrowly brushed past the ping pong ball, not hitting it back.

Yan Xingdong lost the point again!

If it weren't for the camera recording their expressions of communicating with each other in advance, as well as some small gestures of making hand signals, otherwise watching them act would be quite convincing.

Time was limited, and every group was playing seriously, with no leisure time to observe other groups.

The group of Gu Cheng and Jin Li was the first to complete the seventh game, and Gu Cheng won.

Qiguan Mingzhu and Chen Lin became increasingly nervous; Chen Lin made mistake after mistake under his flashy moves, losing several points, all the way sending Qiguan Mingzhu's score up.

Seeing that they were about to take the seventh game, suddenly the director's voice sounded from their ears: "The second group to finish is Luo Yi and Yan Xingdong's group, they have already finished the seventh game!"

Chen Lin's eyes widened:???

This is unscientific! How did the elderly health-preserving group run ahead of them?!

Qiguan Mingzhu shouted at Chen Lin, telling him not to be affected and to continue playing.

When they also finished this game, the program team was just about to announce the punishment result, but the live streaming room suddenly went black.

The audience once again raised the thought of wanting to beat up the program team.

The live streaming room was turned off, but the filming was still continuing.

The small tricks of Luo Yi and Yan Xingdong's group were seen through, Qiguan Mingzhu and Chen Lin's group jumped to become the second to finish, and Luo Yi and Yan Xingdong accepted the punishment.

The director team's voice-over came: "Do you want to choose Truth or Dare?"

Luo Yi and Yan Xingdong looked at each other; as top traffic stars, they often accepted media interviews and had already summarized a set of answering patterns.

Simply put, the more you say, the more you err.

Facing things they don't understand, it's better not to say anything.

So both of them chose Dare without prior consultation.

The director's voice-over came again: "Okay... but are you sure you want to choose Dare? We can give you a chance to go back on your word!"

Luo Yi and Yan Xingdong looked at each other again; this time they were firm and still chose Dare.

They felt that the director team wouldn't be so kind.

The director team gave Qiguan Mingzhu and Jin Li one item each, asking them to take it for Luo Yi and Yan Xingdong to drink.

The reason why they didn't let teammates go is because teammates are easy to cover up!

The director's voice-over came again: "Congratulations on getting a portion of special vegetable juice, healthy, delicious, and nutritious!"

One portion of vegetable juice was blue, and one was purple; no matter how you look at it, it had nothing to do with delicious.

Yan Xingdong and Luo Yi already felt their stomachs were uncomfortable.

Luo Yi couldn't help but ask: "Director, do we really have to drink it? Can this thing be drunk?"

The director picked up the megaphone and shouted: "Rest assured, I guarantee it won't kill anyone."

The two felt their stomachs were already hurting.

Yan Xingdong chose blue, and Luo Yi chose purple; the two were also being funny.

They drank with their backs to the crowd, not giving the camera a chance to capture their expressions.

The vegetable juice obviously also had a dyeing effect; I don't know how many sips they took, but anyway, after a few seconds when they turned around, both of them looked normal.

Yan Xingdong, with a blue mouth, said: "Actually, it's quite delicious, not hard to drink."

Luo Yi, with a purple mouth, said: "I thought it would be hard to drink because the color was so terrifying, but actually the taste is okay."

Both of their expressions were too calm, making Chen Lin very curious: "Is it really not hard to drink? The color looks so deadly."

Yan Xingdong said calmly: "Not hard to drink, not bad."

In front of everyone, he calmly took another sip, and his throat clearly moved.

He pondered: "It's quite sweet; the program team must have used sugar water to mix it!"

The director smiled and said nothing.

Luo Yi simply handed his cup to Chen Lin: "Since you're so curious, why don't you try it? I think it's quite delicious."

Yan Xingdong also handed his cup to Gu Cheng, asking: "Why don't you try it too?"

Gu Cheng saw something from Yan Xingdong's calm expression, his eyebrows flying up, a faint smile crossing the corners of his mouth.

He didn't speak, but took a few steps back, standing behind Jin Li.

Seeing Yan Xingdong still wanting to follow, Gu Cheng immediately grabbed Jin Li's shoulder and hid behind her, obviously wanting to use Jin Li to block it.

Jin Li didn't understand, but she still opened her hands to block Yan Xingdong.

"If he doesn't want to drink, then he won't drink. Since it's so delicious, you drink it all."

After saying that, Jin Li also seemed to react, her expression full of shock.

She turned her head, looking at Gu Cheng in disbelief, pointed at him, and then pointed at the suspicious blue object in Yan Xingdong's hand.

Gu Cheng nodded affirmatively at her, then quickly shook his head, and by the way, pulled Jin Li to the side, changing to him standing in front of Jin Li.

He was just afraid that Yan Xingdong would suddenly force-feed him.

Qiguan Mingzhu stood on the side watching them play charades, her eyebrows slightly furrowed, suddenly a flash of inspiration in her mind, understood something, and immediately looked at Chen Lin.

"Xiao Lin, you'd better not..."

However, it was too late; when she said half of her sentence, Chen Lin had already half-believingly drunk the suspicious purple object in Luo Yi's cup.

"Ugh~~~"

Chen Lin's expression instantly became very distorted; it was obviously sour.

He stretched the suspicious object far away with an extremely ugly expression, saying fearfully: "What the hell is this? It's bitter and sour, it's too hard to drink!!!"

Successfully pitting Chen Lin, Yan Xingdong and Luo Yi yelled "Yeah," happily clapping hands with each other.

Chen Lin was greatly stimulated, chasing the two all over the field, determined to force the suspicious object into their mouths.

In the end, neither Yan Xingdong nor Luo Yi escaped, and they were forced to drink it all.

Chen Lin, with a purple mouth, asked Yan Xingdong: "I don't understand, how did you drink it without changing your expression at the time? Your expression didn't change at all; is this a level that humans can accept?"

Yan Xingdong had already finished drinking, rinsed his mouth several times, and upon hearing this, said: "I didn't drink it at all, I lied to you."

After he finished speaking, he felt it wasn't enough and asked: "How was my acting?"

Chen Lin:...

How can someone be so annoying? He only feels his fists are very itchy now!!

Playing games, there are punishments and rewards; when the punishment ended, when they received the rewards, what they received was...

Today is the first day "And Then There Were None" landed in Daye Cinema.

Thanks to the fairly good reputation on the internet and the recent buzz, netizens are very curious about this drama.

So after the official announcement, the movie tickets for the daytime slots on the 1st day were all sold out!

Only some remote towns still had tickets left, but those tickets were all in very bad locations.

Several other large cinemas watched Daye Cinema's massive promotion from the sidelines, but in their hearts, they had long been cursing Daye over and over again.

If it weren't for Daye breaking the rules first and moving "And Then There Were None" to the daytime slots, the box office of their late-night slots wouldn't have been affected so much.

Today and tomorrow are still okay, because they were booked in advance, and plus, tickets couldn't be grabbed for the daytime slots, so netizens didn't return the tickets.

But starting from the day after tomorrow, the late-night box office reservations for "And Then There Were None" were cut in half.

It is conceivable that as the daytime box office becomes easier to grab, the late-night box office will gradually decline.

Other cinemas were angry when they saw this, digging out contracts and wanting to sue the crew for breach of contract, but were told by lawyers that the contracts were all signed for late-night slots, and also specified time periods and frequency.

In other words, it is okay for the crew to authorize the cinema to show it in the daytime slots, but if the cinema takes this drama off the shelves in the late-night slots, or does not give the schedule according to the contract, they will instead be sued by the crew for breach of contract.

"Fine, fine, fine, it seems we can only swallow this bitter pill!" The person in charge of a certain film laughed instead of getting angry.

"The reason why 'And Then There Were None' has such a good box office in the late-night slots is because we helped them promote it. Now go take down the posters of 'And Then There Were None'; I want to see how good their daytime box office can be!"

"Isn't it just a suspense film, a niche category—how excellent can it be?"

The assistant nodded and bowed to the person in charge, only able to say some nice things to appease him.

How should I put this matter? The person in charge is indeed very angry, but the crew didn't violate any rules.

And "And Then There Were None" currently looks like it has good results, and the director has potential; now he's just cursing a few words.

When the director has new films coming out in the future, I'm afraid the cinema won't be so dismissive, but will take the initiative to come to the door to talk about cooperation.

But the people under him have to know how to guess the thoughts of the person in charge.

Don't think that just because someone is cursing, you really think the person in charge hates this drama.

Do you believe it? When this film comes up with something new and boosts the box office, if the news isn't reported, maybe they'll be fired the next day.

Cursing is cursing, but what needs to be paid attention to still needs to be paid attention to.

Suddenly, the person in charge thought of something and turned to instruct the assistant: "You go contact the director of 'And Then There Were None' and ask if the daytime cooperation is still available?"

The assistant hesitated and said: "Mr. Sun, this is obviously the exclusive copyright introduced by Daye Cinema, do we still need to contact them?"

The person in charge glared at him, "I told you to ask, so go ask, why so much nonsense?"

The assistant hurriedly lowered his head and said okay.

When he took out his phone to make a call, he realized.

Mr. Sun actually thinks highly of this drama, so he specifically asked him to call and ask, just to brush up his impression in front of the director!

The assistant couldn't help but sigh, this evil president's heart!

"How is the box office today?" He Xiaoshuang just finished the promotion announcement and asked the assistant.

At noon, yesterday's box office had been refreshed again.

The assistant replied: "Still 30 million box office, ranking second; the first place is 32 million, and the third place is 25 million."

He Xiaoshuang's expression was serious, "The gap between the box office is not big; if there are no other big hot spots, I'm afraid it can only be like this."

The assistant hesitated and said: "The subsequent box office may also decrease accordingly."

He Xiaoshuang looked over: "How so?"

The assistant said: "Daye Cinema allocated part of the daytime schedule to 'And Then There Were None'."

"'And Then There Were None'?" He Xiaoshuang was a bit surprised; this drama has been appearing in her ears since it went online.

The buzz on the internet is also very high, and although the reputation rating is polarized, it is still good overall; those who don't know would think it's some kind of big hit film.

He Xiaoshuang asked: "Did Daye Cinema take away our film's schedule?"

The assistant shook his head, "No."

He Xiaoshuang said lightly: "As long as they didn't, it's fine. I don't have that little capacity; it's just a niche, cold film. Even if it goes online in the daytime slots completely, it's not certain how much box office it can explode, let alone now that nearly half a month has passed."

Seeing her calm, the assistant didn't care so much either.

He Xiaoshuang didn't know what she thought of and asked: "By the way, does Li Xunfang still send me messages?"

Her work phone is kept by the assistant.

There are many stars' WeChat on it, and also many business docking person-in-charge's WeChat.

The assistant nodded and said: "She sends messages every two or three days to ask about you, and I have simply replied for you."

The assistant also said: "She inquired about 'And Then There Were None' again yesterday, saw Daye Cinema's official announcement, and asked if the crew wants to do any sniping. I replied that I haven't received any relevant news for the time being."

He Xiaoshuang suddenly discovered that she was so familiar with "And Then There Were None," but it was all thanks to Li Xunfang, who was always tirelessly mentioning it in front of her.

The assistant's puzzled words came to her ears: "Sister Xiaoshuang, is Li Xunfang very dissatisfied with 'And Then There Were None'? Before the summer file arrived, she kept mentioning it in front of us. When the summer file arrived, she didn't give up paying attention."

He Xiaoshuang came back to her senses and said expressionlessly: "Who knows."

She paused, "There are really too many people who can't stand others doing well now."