Studio Superstar: Chapter 60 Part 2

Xue Xiao and Dou Mingjian stepped into the huge studio together, determined to do as Xiao Ye said. Keep smiling, cooperate well with the host, and be a low-key backdrop…

The host didn’t really mean to ask them to take the lead. After introducing them, he started to grandly introduce the other two important guests today—two popular male stars.

This old variety show had a fixed game mode. The first game was one person making gestures and the other person guessing.

Cheng Yang and the other two participants were cued in the first round and formed two teams with one of the popular male artists.

Experienced artists were different. They knew very well that performance wasn’t the most important thing. The effect of the show was important.

The male guest gestured hard and did all types of funny tricks, making the audience laugh non-stop. However, Cheng Yang and the others seemed very dull and awkward.

It was funny, but they couldn’t laugh. They had to guess but couldn’t guess.

After ten minutes on the field, he still had no presence when he came off the field.

In the second round, Xue Xiao, Dou Mingjian, and Gu Ling played.

Dou Mingjian and Gu Ling formed a team, while Xue Xiao and another male guest formed a team.

The male guest’s name was Zhang Yuyang. He was handsome and famous for being a beautiful man in ancient costumes. He had a very lively and outgoing personality.

He said to Xue Xiao, “Xiao Xiao, just try your best. I have to be honest. I have never won in this game. The one who plays this game with me can only focus on participation.”

The audience laughed.

Zhang Yuyang’s brain circuit was notoriously different from ordinary people’s. No matter whether it was the one who gestured or the one who guessed, he could drag the entire group to the bottom.

Xue Xiao replied seriously. “Okay!”

The moment the ghost called out, Zhang Yuyang started to show off.

Xue Xiao was obviously mentally prepared, but he was still stunned when he saw this person’s gestures.

In the midst of the wild laughter of the audience, Zhang Yuyang gradually showed an expression of collapse. After recording so many variety shows, who would know that he had never been doing it for the effect of the show?!

He was really trying his best. He was very determined to win!

Often at this time, the guest in the same group as him would go completely off track. They felt that they ‘understood’ and started to show off.

However, Xue Xiao was different. Xue Xiao had always been serious about everything. Naturally, he was also serious about this game.

He opened his eyes wide and looked hard. His little face was tense. He was sometimes confused and sometimes deep in thought.

His seriousness was so endearing on this occasion that the audience burst out laughing.

It was at this time… Xue Xiao suddenly got it!

His eyes lit up. He raised his hand and shouted, “Is it ‘a slight blemish’?”

The host was stunned, and the audience was shocked.

Could he guess this?!

Zhang Yuyang was so moved that he almost cried. “Yes yes! That’s right, that’s right!”

After that, it was as if their group was cheating.

No, it wasn’t their group that was cheating. It was Xue Xiao who was cheating!

No matter how bizarre Zhang Yuyang’s gestures, Xue Xiao could accurately guess the idiom.

“No blood on the men’s sword!”

“White dragon fish clothes!”

“Conversant with things past and present!”

“Lights in a dark room.”

The audience was gradually shocked while the show’s staff were stunned by Xue Xiao.

Unlike other shows, they really didn’t give the guests the answers in advance for them to memorize.

When most artists played this game, forget understanding each other’s gestures. Even if they understood, they sometimes couldn’t remember the idiom at once because they didn’t have such a large vocabulary in their brains.

Some artists were so embarrassed that they simply adopted an ‘uneducated’ persona and appeared to be quite pure and unpretentious.

But Xue Xiao… it was as if he memorized the ‘Idioms Dictionary.’ No idiom could trouble him!

The show had seen the hot searches over the past few days and knew that Xue Xiao was highly educated and very powerful. However, they still didn’t believe that Xue Xiao was so powerful… They started to increase the difficulty.

The moment Zhang Yuyang saw the new idiom, he immediately held his head and went crazy. “What is this? What does this idiom mean? Does the show know!?”

The director of the show laughed shamelessly backstage.

However, Xue Xiao… he even guessed it again!

He looked at Zhang Yuyang’s gestures attentively. Then he raised his little hand and said excitedly, “It is abalone store, right?”

The host was shocked again, and Zhang Yuyang was pleasantly surprised. “Yes yes yes!”

The host couldn’t help asking, “Xiao Xiao, do you know what the idiom ‘abalone store’ means?”

The audience was also very curious.

Xue Xiao could really say it. “Abalone means salted fish. Abalone store is a store that sells salted fish. Stores that sell salted fish are dirty and smelly. The idiom means a place where evil people or villains gather.”

This eloquent explanation really had the feeling of a Chinese language teacher. The tone was soothing and gentle, making it easy for people to listen.”

Zhang Yuyang studied it seriously on the side. “I see. This idiom is very appropriate to describe the show’s staff.”

The audience laughed. “Hahahahaha!”

The host exclaimed, “I want to ask you to help my son with Chinese language lessons. Are you willing to come if I pay the highest market price?”

Xue Xiao was stunned. “That, it depends on whether I have time later…”

One person dared to ask, and the other person dared to answer. The audience burst out laughing.

In the later game sessions, Xue Xiao’s performance was even more surprising.

The show’s staff asked them to divide into two groups to play the ‘blindfolded poetry writing relay race.’

After each group decided on the relay order, the staff would give them a poem. They had to memorize it one by one before blindfolding themselves and blindly writing it on the paper, starting from the first team members.

Once they finished writing one, they had to hand the brush to the next person.

Once everyone was done, let another group of people look at it to see if they could guess what the ancient poem was.

Xue Xiao was still in a group with Zhang Yuyang, Dou Mingjian, and Gu Ling. He was the last in line.

This link was also funny.

There was no need to talk about Zhang Yuyang. He was a collection of jokes. Gu Ling looked serious, but he was blind when writing calligraphy with a brush. He was such a handsome guy, but the words he wrote were crooked. In addition, he wrote it blindly, so the words were stacked over each other.

Dou Mingjian was smarter. Every time he wrote a character, he moved a long distance before writing the second one. It took up a lot of space, but it ensured that every word was separated.

But he ruined the words when passing the brush to Xue Xiao.

He shouted, “Xiao, take the brush!”

Xue Xiao hurriedly moved forward to grab it. Then… the brush firmly touched the tip of his nose!

He took a step back, but a black mark was already on the tip of his small nose.

The audience couldn’t help shouting, “So cute!”

Xue Xiao’s ears turned red.

He tried to hold it in. He touched the table, turned around cautiously, and took a deep breath. His little face became serious again.

They saw him moving the brush boldly and writing two lines of poetry smoothly. The whole process took less than a minute.

The host watched from the sidelines.

….What appeared on paper was very wild, cursive writing.

The characters were so cool that they could be taken home and framed. It looked like they were written by someone who had practiced calligraphy all year round. The most important thing was that the contrast between this wild cursive script and Xue Xiao’s cute face was too great!

The audience was shocked, and the host muttered, “Can I cut off Xiao Xiao’s side and take it home…”

Zhang Yuyang asked sincerely, “Is it okay not to cut it off?”

The host ruthlessly asked, “What makes you think that your characters can appear in the same photo frame as Xiao Xiao’s characters?”

The audience laughed. “Hahahahaha!”

……

On this day’s recording, no one would’ve imagined that Xue Xiao’s performance would be so outstanding.

He wasn’t like the old veterans in the entertainment industry who deliberately created laughter. He played seriously and took everything seriously. It was just that his personality, the skills he possessed, and his quick thinking naturally attracted everyone.

The end was a warm interview session.

The host asked Xue Xiao, “When you first embarked on the road of acting, what was your deepest memory about it?”

He added slyly, “I mean, before meeting Teacher Shen.”

The audience laughed heartily.

Xue Xiao blushed.

He quietly recalled the past. Then he picked up the microphone and spoke in a gentle voice.

“There was a time when I felt that the industry was very different from what I imagined.”

……

In the hotel.

Shen Tingyan got up and left the table. Fang Lei’s WeChat message was received immediately.

Fang Lei: “Are you going to leave?”

Shen Tingyan took out a cigarette and walked to the end of the corridor. “I will stay for another 15 minutes at most.”

Fang Lei: “…Okay. Then come back quickly and leave after saying goodbye.”

This floor was dedicated to VIP customers.

There were few people today. The people in the other private room on the same floor were gone. The dining car was parked at the door of the private room. Empty wine bottles and dinner plates were placed on top. The waiters were still cleaning up inside.

Shen Tingyan was just about to go around it when he heard voices coming from the bathroom in front of him. The words ‘Xue Xiao’ made him stop.

In the bathroom.

Two male artists were washing their hands and gossiping.

“…Shen Tingyan is too cold. How could Xue Xiao hug his thighs? I tried to talk to him several times, but he didn’t even look at me. It was so difficult for me to speak.”

“Who knows? Didn’t you @ Xue Xiao a few days ago, and he hasn’t replied to you yet?”

The man sneered. “No, once he becomes famous, he starts to act like a big star.”

“Tsk. If I knew that he would be so popular now, I would’ve been kind to him and left my WeChat account.”

“Come on.” The sound of running water stopped, and the man laughed angrily. “Wasn’t I good enough for him in the first place? I didn’t forget to take him with me when there was a good thing.”

“…You mean that time when Mr Liu came to see you, and you tricked Xue Xiao into going over there to play as a trio?”

The two of them were about to laugh when a black shadow flashed in Jiang Ye’s eyes.

There was a loud bang. The sink mirror in front of them suddenly developed shocking spider webs. The fragments of the red wine bottle mixed with the remaining scarlet wine splashed toward them, making them hold their heads and scream.

A bloody mark was drawn on Jiang Ye’s face. He was shocked and hurt. He turned his head sharply and was about to scold the madman when he saw the person standing behind them. Then his body froze.

“T-Teacher Shen…”

Shen Tingyan put one hand in his pocket. His other slender, bony hand picked up another red wine bottle from the dining car on the side.

The waiter who stepped out of the private room was so frightened that he ran away. Jiang Y e said in horror, “T-Teacher Shen. Is there something wrong—”

“Why are you shaking?” Shen Tingyan smiled softly, but there was no trace of a smile in his eyes. He said slowly, “Don’t shake.”

“Tell me clearly.”

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