Love Variety Show: The despised me exploded in popularity

"Didn't the show's rules make it very clear?" Bai Jinze withdrew his hand caressing a tea cup and sat up straight, "The day after tomorrow, we vote, and we vote out Xu Qingyan."

"That's not quite right, there's no evidence for this." You Zijun cautiously said.

No sooner had he finished speaking than he realized Bai Jinze had taken off his recording device, and the other two had also temporarily removed theirs. Then Bai Jinze stared at him for a few seconds, his face expressionless.

With a sigh, You Zijun had no choice but to take off his recording device as well.

Almost simultaneously, someone outside was calling out, the voice of a staff member passed through the balcony French windows into the quiet living room.

"Something seems wrong with the sound equipment, go check it out!"

Footsteps arose outside, and You Zijun, like a child who had done something wrong, became tense all of a sudden. Bai Jinze, however, remained calm and looked down, speaking in a lowered voice.

"Five male guests, one of us has to be voted off. I'm not worried, personally I believe I still have some charm, confident enough to continue staying."

"If Xu Qingyan doesn't go, this show will sooner or later be ruined by him. Did we come on this show to clean up the mess after his meltdowns?"

"The day after tomorrow, the four of us vote together to send him packing!"

With a swoosh, the door was pushed open.

The staff member looked suspiciously in their direction, noticing Bai Jinze and the others fiddling with their sound equipment, a puzzled look on his face.

"What's the issue?" the staff member asked.

"The sound equipment, it's making crackling noises," Liu Renzhi said as he held the device, an innocent expression on his face, "Not sure if it's broken or what."

After the staff member fiddled with it for a while, the sound equipment was back to normal, and he left, looking speechless.

Meanwhile, on the other side.

Inside Song Enya's room.

Nian Shuyu was lying on the couch, happily eating an apple and chatting, when she suddenly heard Song Enya say,

"Among all of us, who do you think is the Money Hunter?"

She froze, turning her head towards Song Enya.

"Enya... why do you suddenly ask this?"

"Just making conversation, since we all have to vote the day after tomorrow, everyone gets a vote for the Money Hunter," Song Enya said, "So it's only right to prepare a bit earlier, isn't it?"

"Ah, that's true." Nian Shuyu suddenly found the apple in her hand not as sweet, since she had spent two hundred thousand to be on this show, planning to break even and make some money.

What did Song Enya mean by her words?

"You don't have to be nervous, there are no cameras in this room," Song Enya stood up and walked over to her, her branded clothes exuding a sense of pressure, narrowing her eyes.

"I'm the Love Hunter; you don't need to tell me your identity. This game only needs to eliminate two people, and whether or not the ones eliminated are the Money Hunter doesn't seem all that important."

Upon hearing this, Nian Shuyu couldn't help but swallow hard, not wanting to get involved in these matters.

"Then Enya, what are you suggesting...?"

"Who do you plan to vote for?" she asked, her red lips slightly pursed, "Shuyu, we're both ordinary people, there won't be much buzz for us after the show ends."

"No matter who you vote for, I hope you'll think it through."

"I...I don't know, Enya," Nian Shuyu meekly replied, "The day after tomorrow... that's when the voting starts, isn't thinking about it now a bit too early?"

"It is a bit early, hence I said, just making casual conversation," Song Enya smiled.

"Mm-hmm," Nian Shuyu nodded, then couldn't help asking, "So, Enya, have you already decided who you're going to vote out?"

"I've decided."

"Who is it...?" Nian Shuyu tilted her body, asking cautiously.

"It's...." Her red lips parted slightly.

...

"Bai Jinze? What about him?" Xu Qingyan was leaning against the headboard playing games, and when he heard Pei Muchan's words, he couldn't help but look up, "What do you mean by offending him?"

Pei Muchan was still in the just-awoken pose, her head a bit foggy. Hearing Xu Qingyan's reply made her blood pressure rise a bit.

"You've offended him, won't he come after you?"

"He might, the guy is purely sick." He leaned back against the headboard and continued playing with his phone, with a carefree attitude as if he would sleep through the world's explosion.

He was racing against the poison in the game when his teammate, Number Six, abandoned him and ran. Suddenly sitting upright, he took in a sharp breath of cold air.

"Damn, I'm running out of time! I'm going to die from the poison!"

"If you get voted out the day after tomorrow, that's when you'll really be running out of time," Pei Muchan rubbed her temples, feeling exhausted from talking to him.

Seeing no hope of outrunning the poison, he put down his bronze-level ranked match and tugged at the chain.

"You're worried about me that much?"

"Worried about you? I just can't bear to see you get ousted like that," Pei Muchan glanced at him, their gazes met by coincidence.

"Is there a possibility that right now, we're both grasshoppers on the same rope?" Xu Qingyan said, "They might want to vote you out too."

"Why?" Pei Muchan tilted her chin up, her delicate face stunningly beautiful as it came into his view.

"Nine people, each with a different identity," Xu Qingyan played with his phone in hand, "Do you think Bai Jinze is a money hunter or a love hunter?"

"It doesn't matter at all, he is definitely going to team up with the other guys to vote you out," Pei Muchan said almost without thinking, "Don't you think you should do something about it?"

"No need to do anything, Bai Jinze can't do it," Xu Qingyan said, "He wants to vote me out, unless he convinces Song Enya not to vote you out."

"Huh?" Pei Muchan was taken aback, "What do you mean?"

"If Bai Jinze wants to kick me out, Song Enya will definitely want you out," he got out of bed and pressed a button; the automatic curtains slowly opened.

Outside the panoramic sea-view window, it was dim; the sea and the sky were almost a uniform azure, with a faint light glowing in the distance.

"As long as you stay in this romance reality show for one more day, her popularity will never peak. What people fear most is comparison," Xu Qingyan looked back at her.

"I've said it before, Bai Jinze is like a woman, can't hide his thoughts. Not too bright either, destined to not amount to much."

"Each of them can control no more than three votes, while you and I together have two, and if we win over Shen Jinyue, that's another vote."

"Win her over?" Pei Muchan, still with a bit of a headache, leaned on the bed edge looking up at the man by the window, mouth slightly open.

The dizzy feeling from her temples made her unconsciously breathe in short gasps; the line of her neck was flawless, exuding a different kind of allure.

"Can it be done?"

"Don't know," Xu Qingyan replied bluntly, "But neither Song Enya nor Bai Jinze can ensure that the others will vote according to their wishes."

"The money hunter hasn't appeared yet, right?"

Pei Muchan sighed, it seemed the game was getting more complicated the more they played.