CH 38.4

Do You Still Hate Her? 28 – Game Win/Loss | Reversal of Fortunes

However, after the end, the program team didn’t have them leave the stage directly. Instead, they were going to present awards to them.

There are a total of three awards today, and the director asked, “Are all Teachers looking forward to winning an award?”

Never in their lives have all of them been so coincidentally unanimous, shaking their heads together like rattles.

[Hahaha everyone looks quite disdainful of this award]

[The program team has never encountered guests who doesn’t give face like this in their entire lives.]

Although everyone doesn’t seem to look forward to it, the process must still be followed. The director holds up a card and announces: “No matter what others are doing around you, you can immerse yourself in the plot undisturbed. The Best Actress award goes to our teacher Jiang Jing!”

Everyone applauds together, because this recognition is well-deserved indeed.

The director continues : “Controlling the entire storyline, seemingly like a backdrop on the stage, but actually supporting the entire stage play. The Best Screenwriter award goes to our Teacher Shang Lu!”

“Great! Teacher Shang is amazing!”

“Wow! Lulu is awesome!”

The voices of Ou Yi and Lin Yanyan ring out simultaneously, both of them almost clapping their hands to death.

Shang Lu has already grown accustomed to this. She no longer feels bothered by the commotion and calmly accepts her award under the gaze of two pairs of sparkling eyes.

Netizens :

[Shang Lu seems really numb now, hahaha]

[At least they changed their words a bit, they’ve made progress.]

[So touching, I cried, but I was faking it.]

“The King of Atmosphere, whether on stage or off, can always bring unexpected surprises to all of us. The Best Atmosphere Team award goes to Teacher Ye Lu!”

“Huh?” Ye Lu is quite dissatisfied with this. Although he accepts the award, he still says, “Shouldn’t I be the Best Director award?”

The program team responds with silence.

The program team doesn’t directly criticize, but netizens sure do.

[You, Ye Lu, almost ruined this play! Can you please not be so confident!]

[But he really managed to hold up the atmosphere, hahaha.]

In the end, the three of them won an award, and everyone stood together for a group photo as a commemoration of this segment.

After being busy until now, they finally received the ‘gift fund’ from the program team and began to complete the initial tasks the program team had given.

Split into three groups, they exchanged gifts with each other.

Each team had a gift fund of a thousand yuan, but that doesn’t mean that this thousand yuan is the money they can use in the end.

On the way to the store, they had to hold water in their mouths.

As a group, spraying water once would deduct a hundred yuan from the gift fund. The money remaining when they finally arrived at the store was the amount they could truly use.

Because it wasn’t fair for Ye Lu, Lin Yanyan, and Ou Yi’s group, their gift fund was increased to one thousand five hundred yuan.

On the way, the directing team arranged different “obstacles” to make them laugh.

And they would depart in three different time periods, which means each group wouldn’t see what the previous group was experiencing.

Shang Lu looked at the water in her hand with some concern, then looked at Xu Ze, and said straightforwardly, “I have a very low sense of humor, I’ll drag you down. We probably won’t have much money left in this round.”

“No problem,” Xu Ze said gently and reassuringly, “We can wait until the show is over before buying gifts.”

“Okay.” Hearing Xu Ze’s words, Shang Lu also felt relieved and smiled.

At this moment, Ye Lu, Lin Yanyan, and Ou Yi, as the first group, had already set off.

As soon as they entered the first alley, they saw five burly men with rosy cheeks and wearing pink mini skirts dancing girl group moves at them, with exaggerated and theatrical expressions.

The three of them were stunned, and in the next second, they couldn’t hold back and all burst out laughing, spewing water everywhere.

Lin Yanyan laughed so hard that her stomach hurt and said directly, “Lulu definitely can’t hold back when she sees this, hahaha!”

Ou Yi was even choked by the water and started coughing heavily.

Netizens also found it amusing.

[Starting with such a fierce move? Who can hold back from laughing at this?]

[My eyes, save my eyes!]

[I was trying so hard to hold my laughter that my face got stiff. I just realized I can laugh, so I’m going to laugh out loud, hahaha]

However, at this moment, Ye Lu’s intelligence kicked in. He suddenly looked at the program team and confirmed the game rules, “So, the rule is, if you laugh and spray water, you lose a hundred bucks, right?”

After getting a nod from the program team, Ye Lu looked at Ou Yi and Lin Yanyan, and said directly, “When we feel like we can’t hold back our laughter, we immediately swallow the water, got it?”

Everyone : “!!!”

[Oh my god, Ye Lu’s brain is actually starting to exploit the loopholes in the program team’s rules? Is this really Ye Lu’s line? Ye Lu, are you using Shang Lu’s script?]

[It’s possible that Ou Yi’s arrival replaced Ye Lu’s position in the IQ ranking, so Ye Lu grew smarter rapidly?]

[Hahaha, this method sounds like it could be really useful!]

Indeed, this method proved to be quite effective. Along the way, they burst into laughter countless times, but because they remembered Ye Lu’s guidance, they would swallow the water in their mouths before laughing. Although they couldn’t achieve a 100% success rate, when they reached the store, they still had a whopping 800 yuan left!

Of course, the only drawback is—

*Blob—*

Ye Lu’s stomach made a noise, but at the same second, Ou Yi and Lin Yanyan also felt guilty covered their bellies.

[They must have had a tough journey coming here! All three of them must be filled with water, hahaha.]

[The peculiar way of passing the level has increased!]

[All three of them are probably carrying a belly full of water now. They’ve probably drank up several bottles of mineral water.]

Ye Lu’s expression was resolute: “In order to win, we can give everything… Ugh—”

Ou Yi leaned against the wall with one hand: “Well said, ‘Shang Lu Will Win Team’ must win! Ugh—”

Ye Lu : “???”

Struggling, Ye Lu reached out and pressed down Ou Yi’s head. Now is not the time to mention that strange team name!

Lin Yanyan : “Ugh—”

[I’m laughing so hard, hearing them retch makes me feel like retching too, hahaha.]

[All three of them have put in so much effort for victory.]

[Lin Yanyan : Skipping the process and going straight to retching!]

Indeed, the three of them did win, as the second team to depart, Song Zeqian and Jiang Jing, were left with only 200 yuan.

Jiang Jing felt guilty because Song Zeqian’s sense of humor was very high. Out of the eight times, she was the one who laughed seven times.

However, soon enough, Shang Lu and Xu Ze also arrived at the scene.

“Teacher Shang Lu laughed thirteen times, Teacher Xu Ze laughed five times, so they were deducted a total of 1800 yuan, leaving no gift funds, and they owe the production team an additional eight hundred yuan.”

Laughter erupted from the audience, and even Song Zeqian couldn’t hold back this time. Everyone was mocking Shang Lu and Xu Ze for their dismal failure.

[Sisters, go watch Shang Lu’s livestream room. She gave up by the fifth laugh.]

[Shang Lu burst into laughter three times in the manly cross-dressing dance, it’s outrageous hahaha.]

[I feel like Xu Ze probably didn’t intend to laugh there. His laughter was purely because Shang Lu was too funny, hahaha.]

[Same here. After watching the first two groups, I already didn’t find it funny, but when Shang Lu laughed for the third time, I laughed even more exaggeratedly than her]

[I hereby dub this episode as Shang Lu’s Waterloo in life!]

[Shang Lu has never lost so miserably in her whole life, hahaha.]

Next, it was the turn of the Shang Lu Will Win Team and the Normal People Team to use the remaining gift funds to buy gifts for everyone. Only Shang Lu and Xu Ze had to wait on the first floor because they had no money.

After about half an hour, everyone else came down with neatly wrapped gifts.

The director’s team then announced, “First of all, everyone will receive gifts from the Must Win Team.”

Everyone : “?”

Shang Lu and Xu Ze exchanged a glance, both looking confused.

They didn’t have a single cent, so where would the gifts come from?

Then, the director’s team announced, “Since this is a gift fund, no matter how much is left in the end, it will be used to purchase gifts. Shang Lu and Xu Ze have a combined debt of negative eight hundred yuan, so this debt is the gift from the Must Win Team to all of you. The Must Win Team’s debt is cleared, and the Normal People Team and Shang Lu Will Win Team each owe the program team four hundred yuan.”

Shang Lu clapped his hands, incredibly surprised, “Wow!”

Xu Ze followed suit, clapping as well.

Others : “?!?”

[Ye Lu’s face turned pale, while I burst into laughter with a red face]

[My heart aches for the six bottles of mineral water that the Shang Lu Will Win Team drank haha]

[I’m going to die of laughter, as expected of the program team!]

[The real twist actually happened here haha, you never know the true outcome until the end]

[I couldn’t sleep whether lying down or sitting up. I examined it carefully for half the night before I finally realized that in this program, the words ‘unethical’ were written throughout the entire episodes.]