APCF -Chapter 10 (1)

The programme team passed the 8000 kroner to the guests. After the guests discussed among themselves, they finally decided to let Tao Tao manage the money and record their expenses.

It was easy to solve the problem of transportation as there were taxis they could flag down right outside the airport. The crowd then met their first challenge: accommodations.

While travelling, other than transportation fees, the biggest expense would be accommodations. Liu Ziyu ruffled her hair: “All of us are public figures, it would not be befitting if we stay outside. How embarrassing, if our fans recognise us. Let’s stay in a hotel ba.”

“But……” Tao Tao hesitated, “Staying at a hotel is too costly. I had a look just now, the better hotels around here already cost 2000 kroner for a night, while a motel would only need one or two hundred.”

“What about normal hotels? No need for any star ratings, as long as it is clean it’s fine.” Zhang Yunfei asked.

“Around 500 to 1000 kroner.”

“I filmed here once,” Luo Qiuman who was silent all along finally opened her mouth, “It’s very cheap if we go down to the countryside to rent a cottage, the environment is not bad either.”

Liu Ziyu: “But look at the time now, are we going to spend the night in a car?”

Liu Ziyu was not wrong, it was already late at night in Denmark. If they were to head towards the countryside now, they would indeed have to spend the night travelling by car.

It was nothing much for a large group of men like them, but they still have the older Luo Qiuman and female celebrities. Qi Xingchen thought for a bit then said: “Why not just stay at the hotel for a night, since going to a small motel or finding someone to put us up for the night is not convenient for the ladies? If we wait till tomorrow before heading down to the countryside, we might even pass by a tourist location on the way.”

“You’re right,” Zhang Yunfei said, “Taotao1, make a room booking.”

Tao Tao: “How many rooms are we booking?”

The crowd fell into a dilemma again.

There were a total of six guests and by estimation, there was definitely not enough to book six rooms. If they allocated two people to a room, as there were three men and three women, a man and a woman must room together.

In truth, this was the programme team’s careful scheming. They had deliberately chosen an odd number while selecting guests, such that the journey was bound to have a segment with a man and woman living together.
By then, whether both parties agreed beforehand to play up the CP2 or if it was one-sided pestering3 to rub off the popularity of the CP, 《Budget Travel》would have a hundred benefits and zero detriments.

“How about we book a standard room and a suite?” Zhang Yunfei suggested.

Qi Xingchen calculated: “Two girls will stay in the standard room, while the suite can accommodate four people. It saves more money than booking three standard rooms like this.”

“Let’s book it like this then,” Liu Ziyu said caustically, “Xingxing you really do know how to calculate.”

Qi Xingchen joined the acrobatics troupe at 5 years old, and afterwards, he attended school while learning acrobatics. The small acrobatics troupe was the epitome of a small society, therefore you could say that he had already entered society as early as when he was sensible.

He was all too familiar with Liu Ziyu’s tone.
It was obviously mocking him for being poor and obscure.

Before the recording of the programme, Liu Ziyu’s team did a background check on everyone and easily learned that Qi Xingchen was a child of a working family.

One must always find someone to quarrel with during a programme and design some harmless little friction, if not, the camera lens would never focus on you.
Quietly recording a programme would only result in being marginalised, one needed to think of ways to make events happen to gain attention. This was the truth of the route of popularity from being hated5.

And among these guests, if she went to provoke someone else, their fans would unlikely spare her.

Qi Xingchen was different, with only a few ten thousand…… 200 thousand fans as of now, his fans’ combat power was not comparable to her 7 million fans.
He was the best soft persimmon to pinch.

Hence, she grabbed every opportunity to pinch Qi Xingchen.

Nonetheless, Qi Xingchen did not care too much about it. He had heard even more unpleasant words in the past, and he merely pretended not to hear it by turning his head to stare at Tao Tao booking the rooms.

“Can you guys understand what you’re reading?” As she said this, Liu Ziyu also stretched her neck over.

On the surface, it looked as if she was concerned about the state of Tao Tao’s room booking, but in reality, she was sidling up in front of Bo Ye.

As the peak of the traffic of the entertainment circle, Bo Ye was the most ideal target of female celebrities to rub off popularity from. Liu Ziyu’s team had long thought of it, just that Bo Ye had always been cautious and cherished7 his reputation, hardly accepting private invitations to meet from female stars. He also rarely appeared on other entertainment programmes outside of the music category.

No one thought that he would actually come to 《Budget Travel》, if she did not cause some scandal, it would be wasting the rare opportunity of both of them being in the same frame.
“Bo Ye, do you speak Danish?”

Bo Ye did not look at her and said something in Danish.

Liu Ziyu: “……Wah, that’s awesome. What does this phrase mean?”

“Weren’t you feeling hot?” Bo Ye nodded his chin towards the direction of the washrooms, “There’s air conditioning over there.”

There were cameras from all four directions, hence Bo Ye’s words could not be too harsh, and he changed his method of expression.

But Liu Ziyu understood him, his meaning was: Weren’t you feeling hot? Why are you sticking so close to laozi?

The corners of Liu Ziyu’s smile immediately froze, relying on that poor bit of acting skills to return to normal.
She had heard things about Bo Ye’s character, but she never thought he would really not give her any face.