At this moment Shen Fu pulled her luggage out from the third-floor elevator, and the camera followed her perspective, finally unveiling the mysterious face of the co-living area for this variety show.
Even the faction of fans in the barrage who loved tearing each other apart were briefly drawn in.
【Holy cr*p, so big!】
【The production team really spent money this time】
Just the entryway alone had been meticulously designed, the mirror-like pure white tiles reflected the flowers and plants placed on the shoe cabinet, the gold-framed retro green hanging painting was very tasteful. The ultra-clear ribbed glass door was half open, and one could vaguely see the oversized living room’s vintage leather sofa and avant-garde design rug.
Then they cut to the eight hot spring suites and cerulean pool, and a whole floor of gym and cinema, making the viewers in the livestream envious.
【Production team gets a drumstick, this cost, this expenditure, simply dating-show top tier.】
【hhh curious if our genius investor Ling Ge* gave some financial support to the production team.】
*brother
【There’s a hot spring aaaah I wonder if there will be any benefit segments, so excited aaah my baby why haven’t you arrived yet.】
The camera turned to the fully open large dining room and bar.
【I’m dying, the kitchen has always been the battleground of dating shows, the production team really gets it.】
Shen Fu had already sighed at this when she came up earlier to check the layout, so now she didn’t look around much.
She put her suitcase to the side, walked straight to the shoe cabinet, propped up the wooden board she’d seen earlier on the floor, and began reading the variety-show rules written on it: “Welcome to the observation-style celebrity reality show Limited-Time Heartbeat. Here, the eight guests will spend thirty days of undisturbed pleasant vacation. The first guest to arrive at the house has the duty to introduce the following rules to the audience.”
“First, please place your phone into the box next to the shoe cabinet, staff will collect them later. Another box contains eight phones, each with a number on it. For these thirty days, your only contact with the outside world is this phone. Please take out your designated one and enter the number of a family member or close friend you can ask for help……”
“Second, ten o’clock every night is the fixed time to send anonymous texts to the person who makes your heart move, please use the phone provided by the production team to send and receive messages……”
【Collecting phones? They’re really going big, this is blocking all private contact methods of the guests, only allowing them to live under the cameras.】
【Exciting.】
“Fourth, we’ve set up many game segments, partner exchange, one-day dates, spring-limited photo shoot, etc. Every night we will send the next day’s activity to each guest’s message inbox, please check in time.”
“Fifth, to avoid running out of makeup products, we’ve prepared makeup bags for the eight guests. Please open the first layer of the shoe cabinet to collect them.”
【There are makeup bags, does this mean no makeup artists?? Guests have to do their own makeup?】
【I’m dying, now we’ll see who actually survives on filters and makeup, anyway my Ge looks good barefaced.】
When Shen Fu finished reading the last word, a high-schooler’s voice in her mind said: “This time the schedule’s quite tight, you only have two months.”
“You finally came online.” Shen Fu hurriedly grabbed him: “This time finish speaking before you run, why did he agree to come on this kind of variety show? Did his brain short-circuit?”
She remembered that he wasn’t the type to join such shows.
But maybe, who knew, after all, they hadn’t seen each other in five years.
“Who knows.” The voice in her mind answered her: “Heard that last month the Jiang family arranged a blind date for him, the other party was from the Gu family.”
Shen Fu: “Gu Qingshuang?”
The system suddenly went silent.
This broken system had been a middle-schooler three years ago, and ever since entering high school over there, its battery was sometimes full, sometimes not, often cutting off halfway to go do homework. Shen Fu was often stood up. Hearing no reply now, she was used to it.
Shen Fu stood quietly for a few seconds, suddenly feeling a vague, hard-to-describe irritation in her heart.
Blind date?
Someone like Jiang Shu would also go to such lengths for chasing someone?
Steadying herself, she opened the makeup bag with her name on it.
Just then, the elevator door opened, and Zuo Mei pushed her suitcase over, her expression still a bit unnatural, though she maintained a proper smile.
She smiled to ease the awkwardness: “The production team’s architectural design is very novel, I haven’t been on this kind of variety show for a long time, I’m really not very used to it.”
Saying this, she flicked her wrist, and a clearly visible red mark from the suitcase digging into her palm was shown.
The barrage still wanted to tease a few lines about earlier, but was quickly drowned out by Zuo Mei’s fans’ distressed comments.
【Still our Film Empress is generous, just got pitted by Shen Fu like that, yet she’s still smiling peacefully.】
“Shen Fu, is this the makeup bag you brought?” Zuo Mei looked Shen Fu up and down: “I see your skin is pretty good, do you need to bring that many cosmetics?”
“Provided by the production team, they prepared one for each guest.”
Shen Fu knew exactly what Zuo Mei was thinking, but didn’t really want to spend energy dealing with her. She casually pushed the one with Zuo Mei’s name written on it toward her: “This is yours.”
Zuo Mei almost couldn’t keep her expression from breaking again.
In her thirties, she had some crow’s feet; normally her makeup artist had to carefully cover them. She became famous overnight when she debuted, and since then she’d had a nanny team serving her every step, how would she have ever done her own makeup?
“Before going on the show, the production team didn’t say they wouldn’t provide makeup artists.” Zuo Mei smiled and made a “pa” shooting gesture at the camera: “So this is where they dig a pit to harm us oh.”
【awsl Jiejie so cute, I’ve been shot in the heart.】
【Jiejie is naturally beautiful, no need for makeup.】
Zuo Mei forcibly suppressed her anxiety and opened the makeup bag provided to her for a look.
Some passerby netizens saw clearly what was inside both of their makeup bags and immediately had questions:【Did I see wrong??? What’s going on? The makeup the production team provided to the guests is actually different? The stuff inside the two opened bags is completely different.】
【I don’t even know what brand Shen Fu’s is, if I’m not mistaken Zuo Mei’s are all luxury lines, just that tiny bottle of foundation alone costs several thousand.】
【Ah??… to be fair the production team is being a bit much, even here they divide by ranking? Three-no products will ruin a face.】
Zuo Mei’s fans quickly counterattacked:【lol what does this have to do with the production team? It’s obvious these are her endorsement gifts, does your Shen Fu have any endorsements?】
【No achievements of her own yet still eyeing other people’s stuff, even internet beggars don’t act like this.】
Netizens quickly started tallying actual achievements.
【Counting endorsements, the Film Emperor alone has fifteen tier-one ones, super-tier magazines all over, Xiang Lingyun isn’t any less popular and has seven or eight, Chu Wei and Xu Tiaotiao both have several tier-two ones, Gu Qingshuang has no representative work, but she’s only debuted half a year and having two already is pretty good… awkward, calculated like this, aside from the one guest from outside the industry, it’s really only Shen Fu with 0 endorsements.】
【Who said Shen Fu has 0 endorsements? Didn’t she endorse a foot-soaking bucket last year?】
【lol I’m dead.】
Shen Fu took out her phone to power it off and put it into the designated box from the production team.
One second before shutting down, a WeChat message popped up.
【Why doesn’t she look?】
【Probably doesn’t dare look in front of the camera, maybe she’s contacting some “reporter” who loves exposing things again, did she forget her debut representative work Entanglement?】
【The person above isn’t right, is it not possible she might be contacting the sugar daddy who helped her bring investment into the crew.】
No matter what Shen Fu did, the malice in the barrage practically seeped from the screen.
Among the eight guests’ fanbases, Chu Wei’s fans saw Shen Fu as a lifelong enemy. Even their newbie fan guides were “This woman tricked our Gege back then.” “She’s on this variety show to suck our Gege’s blood again, we arrived late for so long, this time we must protect him.”
Xu Tiaotiao originally had no intersection with Shen Fu, and didn’t want to lower herself to compete with an 18th-tier vase, but since Chu Wei and Xu Tiaotiao filmed that costume drama together, the two fanbases were now tied in promotion. Regardless of whether they looked down on Chu Wei or not, since they came to this variety show, treating Shen Fu as a rival was necessary, if they could step on her, they would.
As for the Film Emperor and Film Empress fans, no need to mention, self-proclaimed high and mighty.
Xiang Lingyun and Gu Qingshuang’s fans focused only on their own idols, they wouldn’t step into this muddy water.
It could be said that Shen Fu coming to this variety show was a complete surrounded-on-all-sides situation.
“Since that’s the case then why insist on coming on this show to be bullied?”
Shen Fu didn’t have many fans, but in her three years since debut, she spoiled them a lot. Whenever fans visited her on set she would always treat everyone to the most expensive milk tea; even when she’d just debuted and wasn’t making much, she’d make her agency send fans back to the hotel safely. So she did have a few loyal die-hard fans remaining.
Rong Xiaozhen, still studying at A University, was her fanclub leader, and one of them.
But right now Rong Xiaozhen’s hands were on the keyboard, completely unable to fight back against the barrage of ridicule and contempt, feeling waves of powerlessness.
She really liked Shen Fu; seeing those words on the barrage made her nose sting.
Fans like them, not to mention doing something for Shen Fu, they couldn’t even spam the barrage fast enough to drown out those disgusting comments.
She had basically already predicted the next direction of the show.
Reportedly, tomorrow’s segment was that each female guest openly chose a location, and the male guests would drive over to invite them on a date. No need to say it, Shen Fu would definitely be picked by no one.
Just imagining that scene ahead of time, Rong Xiaozhen was already curling her toes into the floor in dread.
Although Rong Xiaozhen was 100% sure Shen Fu was the best-looking among the female guests, in a celebrity dating show how much percentage does looks account for? Doesn’t everyone still look at ranking and popularity?
Originally Rong Xiaozhen and some fans pinned their hopes on the fourth male guest, but who knew where the rumor came from, that the heir of a listed group and Shen Fu had had some conflict in the past.
Not expecting him to save Shen Fu from fire and water, it’d be enough if he didn’t publicly take revenge and purposely embarrass her on the show.
After placing her phone away, the third guest still hadn’t arrived, and the screen at the entryway indicated the two of them could go pick rooms first.
Shen Fu opened the shoe cabinet; inside were eight pairs of slippers.
Four male and four female sizes, four patterns.
This meant the eight people would be divided into four groups by accidentally wearing matching couple slippers.
One had to say, the production team really knew how to play.
Zuo Mei stood in front of the shoe cabinet for quite a while.
【Jie so cute, is it indecisiveness acting up.】
Shen Fu didn’t hesitate too much, directly took a pair of women’s slippers embroidered with the words “Get Rich” and entered the living room.
【lol so tacky, how much does she love money?】
Zuo Mei in the end chose a pair with no pattern at all.
Wen Zhenghan’s personality is gentle and elegant, not liking anything flashy, the probability he would choose this kind is higher.
Entering the living room was the room selection. The four men’s rooms and four women’s rooms form a T-shape, each side having one room with the largest space and best lighting.
Zuo Mei originally meant to be polite and let Shen Fu choose first, but who knew that after Shen Fu agreed she directly chose the one with the best lighting.
The barrage was speechless for a moment:【Convinced, really not polite at all.】
Zuo Mei selected the smallest, most out-of-the-way one, smiled at the camera: “A few years ago when filming on a desolate mountain, I even slept on floor mats, I don’t mind.”
For a moment, the barrage was again full of mockery toward Shen Fu.
【Some people have no EQ, no professional ethics, no wonder they’re not popular.】
Shen Fu knew nothing about the barrage. She opened her suitcase, took out the clothes she needed for these thirty days, then jumped onto the bed, took off her baseball cap and covered the camera, took off her clothes and turned to take a shower.
Her face suddenly came close, giving the viewers in the livestream a jolt.
An overly beautiful face is lethal, this sentence never changes.
Some passerby viewers were stunned by the beauty and couldn’t help taking out their phones to search if she had any representative works.
Even the people mocking earlier paused.
【D*mn, such scheming, did she do that on purpose?】
But the barrage quickly shifted attention, because the other heavyweight guests finally arrived one after another.
Wen Zhenghan was the third to arrive. The barrage enthusiasm instantly shot up to the point of full-screen screaming covering everything.
After he arrived, he directly chose a room farthest from Shen Fu, and reunited with old friend Zuo Mei, going to the front garden to brew afternoon tea.
The CP fans of these two were basically like celebrating New Year, excited to the point of tears.
【They chose the same slippers ahhhhhhh, this is telepathy right, right right, what virtue and fortune do I have to ship this pair.】
Wen Zhenghan’s fans weren’t too happy being dragged into CP shipping by Zuo Mei’s fans, but also couldn’t be bothered to spoil the fun at this moment. After all, Zuo Mei’s rank isn’t low, and her fans’ combat power is also terrifying.
Next were Chu Wei and Xu Tiaotiao, the two appeared together chatting and laughing, Chu Wei helping Xu Tiaotiao pull her suitcase.
Netizens already started shipping:【Just get married already you two.】
【Really a battlefield, Shen Fu still sleeping upstairs, probably doesn’t know these two arrived together, waiting for her expression later.】
【lol this variety show so lacking in morals I love it.】
【Speaking of which, why is Shen Fu still not up? Speechless, she’s slept two hours already.】
【She’ll definitely run into everyone at dinner later right.】
Xiang Lingyun and Gu Qingshuang entered one after another dragging suitcases.
Xiang Lingyun just came back from filming overseas, adjusting jet lag, wearing sunglasses, didn’t greet anyone, directly went to his room to rest.
He always had the silent-cold-cool-guy persona, the barrage not only wasn’t surprised, but was full of heartache for Gege.
Gu Qingshuang is the same age as Shen Fu, but her reputation is completely opposite. Her family is wealthy, she entered the entertainment industry to make music, wearing a knitted fringe long dress, polite, gentle, and likeable.
When she arrived she gave everyone small gifts. Shen Fu and Xiang Lingyun, whose doors were closed, she also prepared for, quietly leaving them at the door without disturbing.
This kind of behavior really increases favorability.
So even though she didn’t have many fans, her passerby reputation was good, and the barrage was all praise, even starting to self-servingly ship her with Xiang Lingyun.
Xiang Lingyun’s fans are extremely proud, naturally a bit unwilling, and typed a few rebuttals in the barrage.
Gu Qingshuang’s fans didn’t dare offend the top-stream fanbase, so they shifted topics again:【Speaking of which, why hasn’t the fourth guest arrived yet?】
A wealthy noble young master paired with a gentle musician, isn’t that a perfect match?
The barrage was discussing when suddenly below the few French-style villas came the sound of a sports car engine.
Gu Qingshuang and Zuo Mei, sitting in the living room, instinctively turned their heads.
This show had countless camera angles; to create hype and encourage spending, super members could freely switch cameras and angles in the livestream.
Regular viewers’ livestreams followed the production team’s direction.
At this moment, most ordinary viewers suddenly saw many golden VIPs madly spamming 【D*mn】 on the barrage, but didn’t know what happened.
They still saw the camera showing Gu Qingshuang and Zuo Mei politely chatting in the living room.
【?】
【What happened, what are you all woc-ing about?!!!】
The golden VIP frames couldn’t hide their excitement.
【F*ck did you see???】
【Saw.】
【My god, really didn’t expect, never seen this kind in the circle before…】
【Other male guests, danger.】
【???】
【What happened?】
Ordinary viewers were scratching their heads, almost dying from frustration, and if not for fear of missing something would have immediately switched to recharge for membership.
