Chapter 4: Stacking Buffs Here?
“Beat him! Beat him!”
“Me! Me!”
Under Teacher He’s meaningful glance, the two resident guests each took an inflatable little hammer and gently tapped Chi Ye twice.
The live performance atmosphere grew increasingly heated, but seeing Teacher Huang’s expressionless face, everyone knew he had completely held a grudge against Chi Ye.
But Chi Ye didn’t care.
He was actually very reasonable, believing in “People who hate me are sick, and people I hate are also sick.”
If Old Man Huang wasn’t trying to step on my head to promote the artists under his studio, would I do this?
Self-inflicted!
……
After this little interlude passed, the program’s atmosphere gradually heated up.
Teacher He, afraid of causing more trouble, didn’t give everyone a chance to react and directly fast-forwarded to the next part.
《How to Evaluate XXX》 According to the script, it is divided into three segments in total.
The first segment is the program team selecting recent hot topics/hot spots from the internet, with the program guests and residents commenting and analyzing them in turn.
The second segment is the live performance guests showing an item from their personal life for everyone to comment on and praise in turn （）.
Worth mentioning is that at the end of the segment, the item taken out by the guest will be given as a gift to the live performance guests, serving as a meet-and-greet gift.
Until the third segment, when the real climax arrives.
Because this segment involves the guests taking turns to mutually evaluate each other’s first impression in the industry/critique of music and film works, and posing various sharp questions.
A bit like the style of the first season of 《How to Evaluate XXX》.
But the program team has long since undergone updates and changes.
Since the fifth season of 《How to Evaluate》 aired, the third segment has always been criticized.
The audience feels this hypocritical business mutual praise is full of sleaziness and inauthenticity.
Of course, today’s episode of the program is a bit different.
—Because of the arrival of this episode’s ” heavyweight guest” Chi Ye.
Before the program recording even started, all sorts of rumors had already spread outside.
Saying that the program team for this episode of 《How to Evaluate》 went all out, digging pits for Chi Ye that were deeper one after another, far exceeding the violence of the program’s first season.
Although the other guests were still the usual business mutual praise, as long as they could see Chi Ye being publicly executed on the program, direct attack, the audience’s enthusiasm was unusually high.
At this moment, as the program recording got on track, under Teacher He’s hosting, the program team listed recent hot words and topics from the internet.
The guests began sharing and commenting on their views on these keywords in turn.
This segment was relatively boring, and Chi Ye was getting sleepy listening from the side.
An hour later, they finally reached the second segment.
Lin Jingyi, as the guest with the lowest star power today, was the first to reveal a household treasure from her private life—an aroma diffuser.
This was a rather petty-bourgeois little furniture, and everyone followed the script to mutually praise it in turn, as Lin Jingyi slightly pretentiously covered her mouth and laughed.
Then it was Chi Ye’s turn to show his item.
In the close-up shot appeared fried stinky tofu served in a paper bowl, and the live performance guests were slightly stunned.
Chi Ye was also a bit dazed.
Because after waking up, he was already in the makeup room, and to figure out his current situation, he had no mind to pay attention to what the original host would give to the other guests in this episode.
“This is… stinky tofu?”
Lin Jingyi opened her mouth, looking at the down-to-earth packaging of the stinky tofu, and lightly remarked: “It seems like the kind bought from a street side stall for five bucks a bowl.”
Hearing this, Chi Ye came back to his senses and nodded in admission: “Indeed street side five bucks, and it’s even chocolate flavor.”
Lin Jingyi’s face slightly froze.
“Wow, stinky tofu, I really like eating it.”
Chu Luan Yu didn’t follow the script’s process to attack Chi Ye; she very politely nodded, embarrassedly looking at everyone:
“I’ve loved eating stinky tofu since I was little, and now seeing it makes my saliva flow.”
“Stinky tofu is one of our Star City’s specialties.”
Teacher He also nodded along, pointing at the close-up: “I also really like eating this black tofu; I didn’t expect Chi Chi to like gourmet food in private too.”
Chi Ye put his hands together: “Thank you both teachers for going easy on me.”
The audience below smiled knowingly.
“Stinky tofu is delicious, but if not made right, it’s actually a kind of junk food.”
Teacher Huang, who hadn’t spoken, slowly said: “For example… the ones Chi Ye bought today, from the color and soup base, they don’t look very even, very little soup juice, and that street side stall hygiene is hard to guarantee.”
“Well said.”
Lin Jingyi closely followed the teacher’s lead, remembering even more clearly the purpose and mission of appearing on this program today:
“I remember Teacher Huang made stinky tofu before, but that stinky tofu looked much cleaner and more hygienic than this.”
“Don’t laugh at me… Personally, I don’t really like eating stinky tofu because I can’t stand that taste… too stinky.”
She paused: “Also, I’m very curious.”
Lin Jingyi turned to Chi Ye with full aura: “For stinky tofu, I don’t quite understand the fun in eating it.”
“If you just want the texture of tofu, you can just eat tofu directly; so why eat something with the same tofu texture but just a bit stinkier… tofu?”
“Oh~!”
The stage erupted in commotion, with faint cheers and laughter.
But the bullet comments were a bit unhappy about this statement.
「What’s wrong with stinky tofu?」
「Suddenly find Lin Jingyi so annoying.」
「Respect local food cultures, thanks.」
「It’s a commentary program anyway, very normal; it’s been a while since we’ve seen output guests like this.」
「By the way, Hu Ye is really stingy; others give valuable gifts, aroma diffuser is so expensive, but he gives other guests five-buck stinky tofu?」
「Hu Ye has always been stingy; Rise has so many little angels giving gifts to their captain, has he ever reciprocated?!」
On stage, Chi Ye listened to Lin Jingyi, and after the live performance laughter died down a bit, he nodded: “I can answer that.”
Everyone looked at him.
Chi Ye stared at Lin Jingyi’s mouth, very simply and directly: “Because people can’t eat shit directly.”
As the words fell, the live performance went silent for a second.
“Pff haha!”
Chu Luan Yu originally didn’t want to laugh, she swore!
But seeing others and herself, including Teacher Huang, almost all subconsciously collectively look at Lin Jingyi—her mouth after hearing Chi Ye’s words.
She really couldn’t hold it in.
“People indeed can’t eat shit directly, but we just seemed to witness this paradox being broken, so it’s not hard to understand why you, Jingyi, don’t like stinky tofu.”
“Because your taste might be a bit ‘heavier’.”
After saying this, the live performance had already burst into laughter.
「Hahaha, can’t take it, why is it so funny.」
「Hu Ye, you’d better not go too crazy!」
「Why is everyone looking at Lin Jingyi’s mouth?」
「Hu Ye saying people can’t eat shit directly funny level: 100%」
「Everyone collectively looking at Lin Jingyi’s mouth funny level: 10000%!!」
“Ahem, I mean, Jingyi, don’t blame me; today is all about speaking freely anyway.”
Chi Ye stood up, pointing at the close-up: “You said earlier you don’t like stinky tofu because it’s too stinky; I actually don’t quite understand.”
“You say you’re around Teacher Huang every day ‘feasting’, how come you can’t stand even this much smell now?”
Lin Jingyi gritted her teeth, eyes turning red: “I didn’t feast!!!”
Hearing this, Chi Ye looked at Teacher Huang, looking troubled: “Teacher Huang, your obedience training still needs to continue; I see Jingyi is in a bit of a rebellious phase now.”
“!!!”
“OMG…”
Everyone on stage collectively covered their faces; the two residents were even scared pale, looking at Chi Ye as if he were a god.
With only one thought in their minds.
Too fierce!
Chi Ye is crazy!
Is this something we can hear?
Sure enough.
Teacher Huang and Lin Jingyi’s faces visibly turned ashen.
But at this moment, the audience below was going wild.
Because what Chi Ye said was what they usually wanted to say but never had the chance to say to Teacher Huang on stage!
Even Chi Ye’s roasts were a bit harsher; normal people don’t have that “level”!
Secondary explosion, plus it’s live broadcast; Huang and Lin now not only can’t show anger, but even have to force awkward smiles…
Too fucking frustrating!
Chu Luan Yu really didn’t want her “partner” to fall, stretched out her finger to poke Chi Ye, leaned her head and lowered her voice, extremely anxious: “You you you… how many stomachs do you have to dare talk to Teacher Huang like that?”
Chi Ye: “…”
He was just about to reply to Chu Luan Yu when he felt his arm being pulled.
Looking back, Teacher He had a sallow face, weakly shaking his head at him.
Seeing this, Chi Ye shut his mouth reluctantly.
During the earlier chit-chat, he learned that Teacher He had helped the original host when he debuted.
Fine, buffs fully stacked!
And the other live performance guests very tacitly didn’t continue the topic.
Waiting for the audience’s frenzy to pass, they shifted topics, ignoring Chi Ye.
Teacher He, afraid of other issues, quickly ended this segment and started cueing other guests’ good items.
Meanwhile.
Backstage at the studio entrance.
“Today’s Chi Ge feels a bit unfamiliar.”
“Exactly.”
Assistant Keke was chatting with another team’s bag-carrying girl.
Both were surprised and “terrified” by Chi Ye’s performance on the program today.
Is this really the Chi Ge they know? Are these words really okay to say?!
But… it feels so relieving, so satisfying; Chi Ge is so cool.
“But doing this won’t offend Teacher Huang and Lin Jingyi too much… um… I gotta take a phone call.”
While worrying, Keke’s mobile phone popped up a WeChat call; she glanced at the caller ID note, and her little face instantly turned pale.
“Whose call?” the girl asked curiously.
“…Sister Ge’s phone call.” Keke mouthed it, bent over, and ran to the better soundproofed lounge to answer.
“Hello? Sister Ge…”
……
On stage.
After Teacher Huang’s gift evaluation ended, Teacher He recorded a segment mid-way, and half an hour later, this episode’s final segment finally began.
In front of the camera, all the various complex setups had been cleared by the staff, leaving only that sofa and an oval table.
This episode’s four guests + three residents sat on the sofa like old friends chatting, but actually harboring killing intent.
Teacher Huang “highly respected,” but with sinister eyes.
Lin Jingyi didn’t hide her hatred for Chi Ye at all, staring him down fiercely.
Next, she was going to get revenge!
