HEIFEIGU -Chapter 26

Zhu Qian stared at the pop-up for a long time, only noticing his phone’s low-battery alert afterward.

Without greeting the camera again, he ended the livestream.

Xie Jixing felt a bit guilty and rubbed his nose. When he arrived, Summer Xing’s two other members and the manager were causing trouble. What could he do? Naturally, he chose to take responsibility and deleted all Summer Star groups.

Considering he had never met Zhu Qian, not being blocked already counted as leniency.

Now it seemed this person might be a good guy.

Plus, that post said Zhu Qian is the number-two boss in the livestream rankings—definitely not someone to offend!

Xie Jixing wanted to ask the unlucky kid about it, but the ghost was facing away, sulking, and dark energy swirled fiercely around him.

What was going on?

Busy coaxing the ghost, Xie Jixing waved goodbye to everyone and logged off.

He didn’t dare directly ask the unlucky child, instead choosing to ask Yue Qinyao, who was sitting on top of a cabinet.

“Sister Yue, what’s wrong with the unlucky kid?”

Yue Qinyao glanced toward the unlucky ghost, speaking softly to Xie Jixing.

“Since you opened that livestream of Zhu Qian, something’s off.

The ghost clings to the computer screen like he wants to crawl in. When he saw that person calling you without success, the black energy in his eyes surged outward. Once that person went offline, he sulked.”

“I think… this reaction is probably because of love troubles…”

After speaking, Yue Qinyao drifted back to her room for beauty sleep.

Love troubles?

Xie Jixing thought it unlikely. Sister Yue must have read too many BL novels and was just imagining a team romance.

From Xie Jixing’s perspective, Zhu Qian must have done something even worse to the unlucky ghost than Xia Letian and Ji did. If he ever met him, he’d make sure to deal with him thoroughly.

To capture attention, the mystery-variety show quickly relaunched.

Previously invited observer guests Wu Hongyuan and Yin Li were found to have accepted private payments to praise contestants, and were heavily criticized online.

The production team secured new funding and completely revamped the cast.

Not only was Meng Zezhou brought in to replace Ji, but all the observer guests were replaced with four new ones.

This time, they invited senior host Yu Xinghan instead of using a proxy.

The female guest was new actress Li Jiani. Two male guests: one was young actor Ling Peng, who had acted opposite Meng Zezhou before, and the other was Jiang Zhengqi, who had failed an audition before and secretly filmed Xie Jixing.

Li Jiani was an elegant older sister figure, with large wavy hair, fiery red lips, and a simple white shirt and jeans that were extremely sexy.

Ling Peng and Jiang Zhengqi aimed for a “hormonal tension” look, with massive muscles—entering the studio like two double-door refrigerators.

Yu Xinghan felt the air get tense.

This relaunch focused on guessing, giving each observer guest a blank board to guess the adventurer guest’s past life identity.

But it wasn’t random; the production provided a set of keywords. Based on the adventurer’s current identity and reasoning, they could match keywords to characters.

Keywords included positive and negative ones, ordered by character count: Light, Line, Smoke, Bestie, Scumbag, Deep Feelings, Informant, Redeemer, War Correspondent, Patriot, New-Style Young Master.

“The keywords don’t correspond one-to-one. A character could match multiple words, or a word might not belong to any character,” Yu Xinghan explained. “Ladies first, so let’s start with Jiani.”

“Hmm…” Li Jiani held her blank board, thinking. “Line definitely corresponds to Yu Yueting. She’s a non-heritage embroidery inheritor.”

“Light and Smoke… can’t guess these, maybe a red herring…”

“Bestie goes to Quan Youer. Based on her profession, we can’t tell her past life, so let’s choose this for now.”

“Scumbag?”

Seeing this word, Li Jiani laughed, immediately putting it after Meng Zezhou’s name.

“Hahaha, no doubt, definitely him. Reason: personal grudge.”

The chat flooded with comments.

【Hahaha, Meng Zezhou is a scumbag!】

Li Jiani and Meng Zezhou were familiar—they had previously played a comedic couple. At one point, Li Jiani slapped him and called him a scumbag—a famous scene in the show, widely referenced online for almost a year, so fans knew this meme well.

The barrage of comments reflected the popularity of the artists. Seeing a sea of mentions for Meng Zezhou, Ling Peng quietly clenched his fists.

Clearly, the two debuted at the same time, so why was Meng Zezhou so much more popular than him? If Meng Zezhou had agreed to hype a “CP” with him back then, he probably wouldn’t still be struggling to stay in the second tier.

“Deeply affectionate—this one goes to Old Huai,” Li Jiani joked, stirring up the atmosphere, then continued, “Informant—this one’s not obvious, but could it correspond to a reporter? Also for Old Huai.”

“Redeemer—I’m not sure. War correspondent—Old Huai isn’t a reporter? Then also for Old Huai.”

“New-style young master—this one’s for Xiao Ran,” Li Jiani took the last label, “Okay, I’m done.”

Yu Xinghan leaned over to take a look and commented sharply, “Deeply affectionate love, informant war correspondent… can Old Huai handle all that?”

“Hahaha,” Li Jiani laughed brightly, “Of course he can. Trust in Old Huai’s skills—he can handle any character with multiple layers.”

This episode’s barrage had a very different vibe from the previous one.

【This is the kind of closed-room variety show I want! The guests are much more normal this time.】

【Teacher Yu hosts without inspection, and Sister Li is cute and approachable, no airs at all.】

【LOL, I can’t tell who’s worse off, Meng Zezhou or Teacher Huai.】

After Li Jiani finished, it was Ling Peng’s turn to choose.

Ling Peng took this segment very seriously. Due to his personal image, people often thought he was all muscles and no brains. So the company had pre-bought several trending spots to establish him as clever and witty.

He had also seen the script in advance.

The script had been secretly photographed by Jiang Zhengqi during his audition. Ji Jin had previously bought the same version. As Ling Peng’s junior in the same company, Jiang Zhengqi had leveraged access to the script to get on the show.

For the labels of Yu Yueting and Quan You’er, Ling Peng’s choices matched Li Jiani’s.

“I mostly agree with Teacher Li’s judgment for these two female roles,” Ling Peng said, winking at the camera, “but I want to add an informant tag for Quan You’er—after all, better safe than sorry with your girlfriends.”

“For Teacher Huai, war correspondent, and for Xiao Ran, I’ll give him a patriotic enthusiast,” Ling Peng deliberately put Meng Zezhou last, “As for Meng Meng, I actually disagree with Teacher Li.”

He lowered his eyelids, as if reminiscing, “I think Meng Meng’s tag should be deeply affectionate, new-style young master.”

“Hopefully he hasn’t forgotten that character either.”