CH 9.1

Hate Her 09 – Rose-themed unique cemetery

The recording of the second episode has oficially begun, and everyone has received the same task : to evaluate the other five guests on their way to the destination and rank them based on their likability.

For Song Zeqian, this task took less than a minute to complete. He spent half of his time evaluating Jiang Jing.

On the card he wrote for Jiang Jing: “A decent actress, but personal role always takes precedence over the script, unable to truly immerse in the character.”

The barrage of comments analyzed his meaning.

[It’s actually what we all complain about. Jiang Jing has acting skills, but when performing, she really disregards everything else to steal the scene…]

As for the remaining four people, it’s even simpler.

Song Zeqian wrote the same four words for Xu Ze, Shang Lu, and Lin Yanyan: “Not a good actor.”

For Ye Lu, he only wrote three words: “Not an actor.”

Then Song Zeqian put Jiang Jing’s name card aside and grouped the remaining few together, saying, “Nothing worth ranking.”

[Hahaha, never thought it would be this simple.]

[Director Song used to only have ‘good actors’ and ‘not-so-good actors’ in his eyes. After meeting Ye Lu, he added ‘not an actor’ (dog head emoji).]

[Director Song, you’re on a variety show, not an actor selection competition, hey!]

On the other hand, Lin Yanyan hastily finished writing the cards and handed them all to the PD, pretending to close her eyes and rest due to motion sickness, refusing to showcase her own cards.

The PD had to represent her and display each card to the camera. The comments she wrote about others were all criticism. However, when the card with Shang Lu’s name came up, she only wrote one word on it:

“Beautiful.”

Because Lin Yanyan didn’t know how to praise Shang Lu, but also didn’t want to write anything negative about Shang Lu, so she could only write an objective fact that was visible.

She wasn’t really complimenting Shang Lu, she was…just giving an honest evaluation of that face.

The PD reminded her again, “Teacher Lin, you haven’t ranked them yet.”

Lin Yanyan turned her head to look outside the window and whispered, “It’s in the order you’re displaying them, from low to high.”

Netizens were completely baffled.

[…Lin Yanyan, what are you doing? So, she gave the highest score to Shang Lu this time?]

[In the previous episode, she gave Shang Lu the lowest score, but now she gave Shang Lu the highest score. In the previous episode, she was in direct competition with Shang Lu, but in this episode, she criticized everyone else and only praised Shang Lu for being beautiful. Has Princess Lin’s attitude changed too much?]

[What happened? Why did Lin Yanyan change her opinion of Shang Lu?]

When it was Shang Lu’s turn, she also filled in the cards casually.

Song Zeqian : Excellent director.

Jiang Jing : Excellent senior.

Xu Ze : Excellent actor.

Ye Lu : Excellent idol.

Lin Yanyan :

Shang Lu contemplated for a long time, and finally drew a small red flower.

The PD asked in confusion, “What does this flower mean?”

Shang Lu casually made up, “It’s to compliment her for being as beautiful as a flower.”

It was actually her blind drawing.

But netizens said they understood.

[Such a strange tacit understanding, actually complimenting each other’s beauty at the same time.]

[The CP of the two beautiful girls is so perfect! Mutual pursuit, mutual choice!]

[I understood, I understood!]

But when Shan Lu placed Lin Yanyan last in this round, the whole livestream room fell silent.

[?]

[Why? Did my CP just get established in one second and break up the next second?]

[When Shang Lu gave Lin Yanyan the highest score, Lin Yanyan gave her the lowest score. This time, Lin Yanyan ranked Shan Lu first, but Shan Lu ranked her last. What’s the reason behind this?]

[They loved each other, but never fell in love (just kidding).]

[Why did we suddenly switch to a BE1 and angst channel?”

[Lin Yanyan! Snap out of it! I command you to pick up the script of the chasing wife to the end and chase after Shan Lu now!!!]

The barrage commented with a serious tone, but spoke nonsense.

Meanwhile, the others had also completed their tasks, and soon all six of them arrived at the scene of the program recording.

The director announced the rules of the first game in the morning. The six of them were divided into two teams of three for a game PK. And today, a “mysterious guest” would join one of the teams based on their performance in the game.

Although everyone knew that the so-called mysterious guest was Ning Lin, the program team did not explicitly say it, and they naturally pretended not to know, but they were also too lazy to speculate about the guest selection process.

Ye Lu directly asked, “So how are the teams divided?”

“I don’t know either,” the director shook his head and took out an envelope from his hand, explaining, “Our team formation is arranged by the guest, and now it’s up to you to see.”

The director held up the envelope, but no one came forward to take it.

The atmosphere suddenly became awkward.

So the director called out a name, “Ye Lu, aren’t you curious? Come and read it.”

Ye Lu muttered, “I’m not really curious.” But he walked over and took the envelope, opened it, and announced the groupings, “Team A has Song Zeqian, Shang Lu, and me. Team B has Lin Yanyan, Xu Ze, and Teacher Jiang Jing.”

Upon hearing the groupings, Song Zeqian’s face remained expressionless.

But everyone was used to it, as he had always had this icy expression and rarely smiled on this variety show.

Lin Yanyan immediately stood up and walked over to sit next to Teacher Jiang Jing, casting a quick glance at Shang Lu and heaved a sigh of relief.

Thank goodness, she and Shang Lu were separated.

Otherwise… she hadn’t figured out how to interact with Shang Lu yet.

[Ye Lu directly called everyone by their names, but only referred to Jiang Jing as “Teacher.”]

[The team with Jiang Jing appeared calm, while the other team of three didn’t seem very pleased.]

[It’s clear that Jiang Jing is the most normal among these people.]

[Well, after all, this is a variety show recording and not a film shoot. Jiang Jing’s issues are the least likely to be exposed here, making her seem normal and somewhat out of place.]

The team grouping was completed like this.

And the game was simple, a tug-of-war in the yard.

The director encouraged, “The winning team is more likely to be favored by the mysterious guest.”

The barrage felt that the grouping was unfair.

[It’s obvious that Team B is at a disadvantage in tug-of-war, with only Xu Ze as the male member, how could they possibly win?]

However, the competition started quickly.

After the director’s command, Team B surprisingly won the tug-of-war competition in a swift and unexpected manner.

Because—

All three members of Team A let go of the rope at the same time! There was no real competition at all!

All members of Team B fell to the ground unprepared, in a very embarrassing scene.

Except for Team A, everyone else was puzzled : ?

Barrage : [?]

Ye Lu poked his head out from the back with a wicked smile and said seriously, “Wow, congratulations on winning.”

Lin Yanyan was angry and threw away all the previous entangled feelings. She got up from the ground and looked at Shang Lu, who was standing at the front of Team A, and questioned, “What are you guys doing?”

Shang Lu didn’t answer, but instead asked her, “What might you gain from winning this game?”

Lin Yanyan was briefly puzzled and didn’t understand the meaning behind Shang Lu’s question, but she instinctively answered, “Didn’t the director just say it? The guest might join us!”

Shang Lu yawned, and her innocent eyes widened, “Such an unattractive reward, you guys can have it if you want.”

Because the reward was unattractive, Shang Lu has no desire to win, and there’s no need to make an effort.

Besides, the rope on the ground was so rough that it could easily cut their hands if they pulled too hard. They weren’t even given gloves, so she didn’t want it.

Everyone else : “…”

[Damn, Shang Lu makes a good point. I can’t argue with that.]

[Haha, I’ve gotten used to Shang Lu’s thought process since it’s already the second episode. Then, what about Song Zeqian and Ye Lu? Why did they let go too?]

Others also expressed doubts about this.

Song Zeqian’s voice was even more arrogant than Shang Lu’s, and he replied, “Having one more actor who like this kind of variety shows is not a good thing, right?”

[Let me translate for everyone. What Song Zeqian means is that he’s not interested in the guest, they’re all bad actors, and having more of them is even more annoying.]

Immediately, fans of Ning Lin came forward to refute.

[Are you kidding? Ning Lin is recognized as a talented actress among the current generation of traffic celebrities!]

[Director Song is speaking too soon. Ning Lin is a rare good actress who works hard. She never uses a stunt double when filming!]

[I think Shang Lu is just afraid and insecure about being in the same group as Ning Lin. Could it be that she’s teaming up with Director Song to isolate our Sister? Seeing Shang Lu is more annoying to me.】

There were also bystanders who couldn’t bear to watch.

[Fans of Ning Lin, please stay calm and don’t blacken others just for the sake of it. The relationship between Director Song and Shang Lu is definitely not enough to form an alliance to isolate anyone.]

[Agree +1 above. I can testify that Song Zeqian is not targeting Ning Lin, he has the same attitude towards Shang Lu as well.]

[Indeed, as a fan of Director Song, I have to say something fair. He only recognizes actors who have won major awards both domestically and internationally in the past, and looks down upon the entire entertainment industry.]

And now it’s Ye Lu’s turn to answer the question.

He didn’t have much of a reason, just sneered and said, “I’m not stupid. I saw both of them let go, how could I possibly win alone? What a waste of effort.”

So Team A easily lost the game, and all three of them were very self-righteous.

Then the director announced the final result of the guests’ choice: “The guest has watched your entire performance in the room, so her decision is—

“To join Team A! Congratulations to Shang Lu, Ye Lu, and Song Zeqian, you will welcome the fourth team member!”

Everyonen: “?”

The staff from the director’s team quickly explained: “As mentioned before, your performance was for the guest’s reference only and winning the game doesn’t guarantee getting the guest.”

But obviously, Team B didn’t want the guest that much either, so they didn’t have much dissatisfaction with the result.

Some bullet screen comments summarized the scene:

[Everyone has ‘don’t care’ written all over their faces, only Teacher Jiang Jing is still trying to perform disappointment and regret for the program’s effect, but after realizing that she’s the only one acting, she chose to be silent.]

[Teacher Jiang Jing: It’s hopeless, I can’t handle it anymore.]

[Why do I feel like they’re not very welcoming to Ning Lin?]

[The previous comment is talking nonsense, they don’t even know that the guest is Ning Lin]