Chapter 438 - The Star of Variety Shows (1)

The friendship between girls can sometimes really be described as magical.

Some of them would affectionately call themselves sisters during their first meeting, and those who had been best friends for years would even call each other ‘Daddy’.

It’s human nature to hoard and collect things. For women, happiness comes from shopping and reaching the minimum cart value for bigger discounts.

Sister Yan initially thought that Xu Tumi and Xiang Yi would get into a conflict with each other, but she never expected to see them getting along so harmoniously.

Xu Tumi placed a few orders and winked at Xiang Yi in satisfaction. “I’ll also recommend you to use the products that I find are effective in the future!”

Xiang Yi smiled and continued with archery.

Sister Yan quickly pulled Xu Tumi to the side and said “Ah, Tumi, you have to be very careful in case she misses and the arrow strikes you instead…”

Xu Tumi said in annoyance, “Okay, okay, I know.”

Sister Yan explained, “When filming starts later, stay further away from her. You’re the main guest of this episode, so she won’t get much screen time. Besides, we have the mission card now so don’t worry, Mimi, we’ll definitely come in first place!”

Xu Tumi rolled her eyes and asked, “Am I proficient in archery? No. Can I run? No. How can I win first place?”

Sister Yan was speechless.

‘Why are you blatantly telling the truth?’

…

On the other hand…

The director organized a short and concise meeting.

“What? Change the main guest? And the rules of the game?” At first, hearing the screenwriter’s proposal, the assistant director couldn’t accept it. “The previous planning for this episode was pretty good. It doesn’t seem appropriate to change it now.”

The director picked up his thermos flask and drank a mouthful of wolfberry water before saying indifferently, “Didn’t you guys see the way she shot an arrow just now? What’s the purpose of a variety show?”

The assistant director was displeased with Xiang Yi in the first place. Once one is prejudiced against someone, they tend to be irked by everything that the other person does. Hence, he said bluntly, “She’s not a suitable candidate. Our program team has never replaced the main guest with a D-lister.”

“If we were to replace the guest this time, the netizens would definitely slam our program terribly. As you know, cancel culture is thriving among netizens and we can easily get boycotted overnight. I believe none of us wants the hard-earned reputation of our show to be ruined because of a mistake in decision-making, right?”

The director shot him an ambiguous glance without criticizing him much. Instead, he said, “Variety shows need funny punchlines, humor, juicy topics, and enjoyable content. Once we secure these three, we can have anything we want. I think Xiang Yi has the potential to be the main guest.”

The screenwriter chimed in, “Yes, so I suggest that we go ahead with the battle tactic that we implement in the game, where we feature one of the four guests as the highlight of the episode. This episode, Xiang Yi shall be the highlight and induce a different soul to the show.”

The assistant director was extremely speechless as they thought that the two of them were out of their minds.

“It’s up to you guys,” he said stiffly. “If things don’t work out, don’t blame me for not reminding you!”

The director and screenwriter started whispering to each other about the new rules and scheme of the game.

The assistant director was indignant.

‘Let’s wait and see. They’ll definitely regret it’

‘It’s unbelievable that they’d rather have a random woman be the main guest than Xu Tumi, for whom we already have a plan!’

He hadn’t realized that he had been ignored by the core members.

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The filming officially began.

“Viewers, welcome to this week’s episode of ‘National Mass Workout’, I’m your best friend, Wang Yao!” The resident host of the show was MC Wang Yao, who was also an actor that had starred in numerous family dramas. He was very well-known among the middle-aged and elderly audience. “First of all, let’s welcome our dearest Xiang Yi!”

Sister Yan immediately had a change of expression outside the studio.