Chapter 86: Love Variety Show Strategy System (4)

Whether it was the netizens watching the livestream or the observers in the Observation Room, none could guess the purpose behind Xie Yang appearing on camera without makeup.

There is no one who does not love beauty.

Even powerful male celebrities will find a stylist to fix their hair and touch up their makeup before appearing on camera.

Female celebrities would rather sit upright without resting than let their makeup smudge.

Xie Yang not only went to take a nap in a hammock, but she also appeared on camera with a bare face afterward.

The director got a headache just looking at her.

Fortunately, she was still quite cooperative regarding the program's flow.

If one were to say she was slacking off, she still cooperated very well with the director's requests, doing whatever she was told to do.

But if one were to say she was proactive, she appeared very indifferent toward the male guests, the partners she was competing for, and even her date for tomorrow, as if she had seen through it all.

In reality, Xie Yang just wanted to complete the Task as quickly as possible.

The remuneration she signed for this program was 500,000 after tax.

She guessed that she was likely the lowest-paid among all the guests.

After all, she had no notable works, no popularity, and her appearance was quite ordinary.

If it weren't for Xie Danni wanting to earn Resentment Value from her, the production team might not have been willing to take her even if she paid them.

Therefore, this 500,000 could be considered a high salary for her.

If she didn't rely on her family after graduation, it was uncertain whether she could even find a job with an annual salary of 100,000 given her current major.

Thinking of this, Xie Yang felt she should cherish such an opportunity.

Moreover, if she quit halfway, not only would she not get the 500,000, but she would also have to pay the production team ten times the penalty for breach of contract.

After calculating the original owner's small treasury, the total amount wasn't even 500,000.

Thinking of this, she worked even harder.

She worked so hard that it gave everyone watching her play the games an illusion: it was as if the show she was participating in wasn't a Love Variety Show, but a competitive variety show.

The first game was Blindfolded Teammate Identification.

Game rules:

Five male guests spray on different perfumes and stand still; each female guest takes turns being blindfolded to find the male guest wearing the same perfume as her own.

The female guest who accurately finds her teammate in the shortest time earns 1 point; if she is not found, the male guest earns 1 point.

Logically speaking, this game could allow male and female guests to play with a sense of ambiguity and sweetness, except for Xie Yang, that oddity—

After being blindfolded, she kept a one-meter distance from each male guest, walked past them at a constant speed, and then accurately identified her teammate without error.

Other guests expressed disbelief: "How is this possible! You didn't even get close to anyone; can you really smell the perfume?"

Xiao Chenglei asked bluntly: "You didn't just guess randomly, did you?"

Xie Yang raised an eyebrow: "Do you need me to report your main scent notes one by one? Lu Ming: lemon bergamot; Yichen: lemon lemongrass; Xiao Chenglei: citrus lemon; Jiang Tuo: citrus lemongrass; Zhou Hanqing: lemon verbena. Mine is lemon verbena, so my teammate is Zhou Hanqing. Is that clear enough?"

【Holy crap! Awesome!】

【The main notes are either lemon or citrus, they smell about the same, and she could actually tell them apart?】

【Too awesome! The four female guests before her sniffed for a long time and didn't necessarily find the right teammate, but as soon as she came up, not only did she get it right on the first try, she even smelled out what the scent notes were. If she didn't steal the answers, I'll kneel to this sister!】

【Stealing the answers is impossible; didn't you see the director shout 'Holy crap' after she reported the string of scent notes.】

【Hahahaha! I heard it too. This segment will probably go down as the fastest-ending game in the history of Love Variety Shows, right?】

【This sister No. 5 is hilarious; she looks like she's participating in a quiz competition. Ambiguity, sweetness—you can't find any of that on her.】

The four observers in the Observation Room were laughing until they had tears in their eyes:

"My god, is Xie Yang a 'straight girl'?"

"What straight girl, she's clearly a chivalrous heroine."

"Oh my god, I'm laughing until I have tears. She doesn't think the winner gets to choose what kind of transportation to take, does she? Did the director not explain the game rules clearly? Winning only gives you priority in choosing; what you actually get depends on luck. The game is just to let the guests interact and increase watchability."

"……And to pad the program's runtime."

"Hahahaha! Is that something we can say?"

"It's fine, Xie Yang shortened the program's runtime all by herself; the director is too busy going bald to care about us."

"You guys say we're sitting here, clearly here to observe the sweet interactions between guests, but why does it feel like we're watching a comedy show?"

"Hahahaha…… stop it, I'm laughing my crow's feet out……"

At the recording site, the director helplessly held up a sign: "……This round of the game is over! Xie Yang, Lu Ming, and Yichen each get 1 point, the other guests get 0 points."

"……"

"Next, we begin the second round of the game……"

As soon as the director read out the name of the game, the livestream chat started scrolling frantically:

【I like Pillow Fight!】

【I get dizzy just doing the Elephant Trunk Spin five times; if they spin ten times, won't the female guests be dizzy enough to fall into the male guests' arms? Director, you know how to play.】

【My adrenaline is already skyrocketing before it's even started.】

【I reckon I'll be smiling like a doting aunt the whole time.】

Upon hearing "Pillow Fight," the male and female guests at the scene couldn't help but reveal shy and bashful smiles.

Of course, except for Xie Yang.

She had never been exposed to a Love Variety Show before.

In the one hundred lifetimes she was bound to the Saint System to complete tasks, she had traveled through all sorts of planes and taken on all kinds of tasks, but she had never taken on any tasks related to the entertainment industry.

During the lifetime with the Shenhao System, she had indeed acquired an entertainment company to complete a task, but she only provided the money for the investment, and afterward, she became a hands-off manager, not even knowing which direction the company's front door faced.

When watching programs, even if she scrolled past a Love Variety Show, she rarely clicked in to watch, let alone the mini-games interspersed in Love Variety Shows; she completely failed to 'get' the shy points of the other guests.

Isn't it just spinning ten times with an Elephant Trunk Spin and then using the pillow in your hand to hit the male guest opposite? What is difficult about this?

"Male guests, please form an outer circle, and female guests, stand inside the circle. You must hit the male guest whose number matches the number on the pillow in your hand to win. Whoever hits their target first earns 1 point."

After the director finished explaining the game rules, the male and female guests stood in two circles, inner and outer.

The male guest opposite Xie Yang was Xiao Chenglei, and the number on the pillow in her hand was 5; the number tag on Xiao Chenglei was also 5, so as long as she hit him, the game would end.

Xie Yang made an "OK" gesture toward the director.

The director suddenly had an ominous premonition.

He had wanted to give Xie Yang a few words of advice, but the whistle had already blown, and the game had begun.

Xie Yang glanced at the postures of the other female guests; oh, she understood. She also pinched her nose with one hand, bent over at a 90-degree angle, and with her other hand holding the pillow, reached forward past the hand pinching her nose to simulate an Elephant Trunk Spin, spinning in place ten times. After finishing the spins, she quickly hurled the pillow in her hand at Xiao Chenglei.

In no more than five seconds, Xie Yang had ended this round of the game.

Xiao Chenglei, who had been hit: "..." He looked completely bewildered.

The other male guests forming the circle: "..." What just happened?

The netizens watching the live stream: "..."

Did it start? No! It's over!

The director covered his forehead.

He just knew it!

When Xie Yang made the "OK" gesture at him, he already had this premonition.

Is this a woman?

No! Is this even human?

After spinning ten times for the Elephant Trunk Spin, who wouldn't be dizzy? Let alone spinning that fast!