I Ship My Rival x Me

CHAPTER 42

༻❁༺

Lights, stage, cameras, backgrounds. Everything had already been prepared, and the audience that had been seated ahead of time had also been prepped by the staff.

At the front of the stage, an opening performance was happening to warm up the crowd. Gu Yiliang and I stood behind a huge prop background, waiting to go on stage, communicating with hand gestures about what we were going to eat for supper after the recording.

Right now, it was already past nine at night. The planned duration of this live variety show was supposed to be an hour and a half. Even if midway through the filming, the producer or the host decided to veer off script and improvise something, dragging the filming, the latest they would be done should be before 11 pm. Even if it took them until midnight to finish packing up, they could still find a small shop for some clay pot congee or something.

༻❁༺

It wasn't that I was so mentally prepared that I wasn't the slightest bit nervous going on the show. It was mainly that among the guest CPs that would be participating, there was one rather famous male star that had been late without any notice, and he went on to join the rehearsal with an extremely nonchalant attitude.

The one the show wanted to highlight was him, and the one who wasn't prepared enough was him. Thus, if anything wrong happened during the broadcast, it could also only be because of him as well.

Furthermore, we had all already compared their scripts. I remembered that the games in the program consisted of simple ones that weren't very outrageous, and they had been tested during the rehearsals. Even if Gu Yiliang unknowingly sold fan service, it wouldn't create too big of a hoo-hah.

Feeling extremely at ease in my heart, I was elegantly sipping at a teacup with my pinky up. Both Gu Yiliang and I had well-practiced, professional smiles on our faces, and we were calmly watching the background board slowly slide apart.

༻❁༺

This was the concept for the CPs.

A male and female CP, the male and female leads of a movie, are full of doting.

A CP of two males, two young, wolfhounds who excelled in variety shows, giving people a feeling of being in a campus romance.

Gu Yiliang and me.

༻❁༺

If we were to be counted as well, there were a total of 3 showmance CPs. The six of us stood in a row, joking with the two hosts as we spoke words of platitude to the cameras. A round of self-introductions, then a round of mutual praises that were expected of them, and a round of promotion for their new shows that had just either finished filming or were ongoing. Next, they split into three teams according to the direction of the script, sitting down on the platform stage and listening to the host introduce the rules of the game to the audience.

༻❁༺

The general flow of the entire show would go along with the rhythm of how they interacted in speech, body, and speech again, but they needed to make sure that it was entertaining and did not go overboard. The game the hosts were introducing was the most basic, clichéd game called Guess the Lyrics. One person would look at the card and then describe it, and the other person would guess the lyrics according to the description.

༻❁༺

SO EASY!

This was not a problem, not a problem at all. Everything was within my control.