Actually, Li Yang didn't mean anything else, he just surfed the 4G internet too much.
By the time he realized, he was already plunged into a deeper confusion.
"If it's about the male guest, someone who can play the ukulele, has a golden ratio body figure, and used to look a lot like me..."
Does such a perfect man really exist?
Mu Qiu, hearing the words "looked a lot like him," felt she might have veered off the path in her growth journey, her mind muddled by Li Yang.
"Li Yang, maybe the central idea of what the aunt said isn't necessarily that he looked like you?" she suggested tactfully.
Li Yang paused at her words and muttered to himself, repeating that line: "After taking a photo with me, the aunt said she had a young man she really liked before, who was young, handsome, and charming, and a lot of people liked him back then. Isn't the central idea that he looked a lot like me?"
"Of course," Guan Yu pondered for a moment, "not."
As soon as she spoke, Shu Ran quickly chimed in, analyzing, "Young, handsome, charming—these adjectives aren't accurate. Aren't male celebrities all like that?"
Cheng Zhirang glanced at her, choosing to remain calmly silent.
If you said that in front of some not-so-good-looking performance artists, you'd probably offend them directly.
He ignored it, and others didn't know how to respond. Mu Qiu didn't expect that the nation's little fresh was so unfiltered when speaking urgently.
Shu Ran probably realized she hadn't been careful with her words earlier, giving a stiff smile and remaining awkwardly silent.
The range of clues was too broad to guess, and Mu Qiu wiped the light sweat from her forehead, asking the question everyone wanted to ask: "If we can't guess for now, what do we do?"
She wasn't in a rush, after all, in the last round of role-setting group building, she wasn't in the last two. Looking at the situation, even if they couldn't guess who the next guest would be, she wouldn't be among the last two.
Sometimes underachievers think the same: as long as they're not in last place, it's fine.
Cheng Zhirang saw her sweat-wiping action, then looked at Guan Yu and Shu Ran also looking quite hot, he gathered the clues and warmly suggested, "The sun's really strong, let's go back first."
Then he looked at the director over by the camera, asking, "Is that okay, director?"
The director... What could the director say? He could only agree.
So they carried a basket of vegetables back. When they reached the stand where the aunt took a photo with Li Yang earlier, Cheng Zhirang paused.
Mu Qiu hid in his shadow, stopping as well, looking at the broad shoulders in front of her.
As she fantasized about indescribable narrative scenes, she heard the vegetable-selling aunt gossiping with the butcher grandpa in a shouting-like voice.
"Old Zeng, I heard your family was in chaos again arguing yesterday? Did you hit your granddaughter?"
The vegetable-selling aunt said with a resentful tone, "I get angry just talking about it. That kid needs a good beating!"
"Why hit the child? Qinqin is such a good kid."
"Good? She tore down all the posters her mom and aunt put up at home to chase some show yesterday. Her aunt cried howling saying it was a limited edition stage poster, but she wouldn't listen. I had to trade my face to get those posters back, and she tore half of it, leaving me just a poster of a headless school uniform!"
"Hey, I say your household too, everyone from young to old is a celebrity chaser, always hearing Qinqin and her aunt yelling, it's like a battle arena."
These everyday conversations sounded quite normal.
If only the voices weren't so thunderously loud.
"Is this a clue? Is it a clue?" Mu Qiu leaned out to look at the aunt and grandpa, asking quietly.
Before anyone could answer her, Li Yang let out a short shriek from behind.
"Oh my god! No way?!"
Everyone else turned to look at him, he glanced left then right, trying to get a hint from the director.
"A stage poster in a school uniform, and a limited edition at that, I only remember one person."
Having a friend who's a fan, Mu Qiu quickly realized as well.
Could it be... Su Yan?
This guess was quite obvious, but still, everyone present found it hard to believe.
The viewers commenting live dared not believe it either.
[Oh my, oh my, oh my, I'm absolutely stunned!]
[A school uniform stage poster... Could it be the one I stayed up all night trying to get?]
[Did my brother sign on for a variety show?!]
[Impossible! Don't give my brother more work, if there's no promotion, I won't believe it!]
[Is it Su Yan?]
[How could it be?! How can someone as top-tier as Su Yan be a guest on a variety show's first episode?!]
[But, it's Changtong investing...]
[Oh my gosh, should I be excited?]
[Is Changtong that impressive? Spending this much on the first episode?]
[Don't believe it! Previously, many shows claimed they invited Su Yan and it turned out to be a trick.]
Who is Su Yan?
Debuted as a top-tier, has never left the peak, universally adored by all demographics, with a vast and powerful fanbase. Many female celebrities failed trying to gain fame by association. Last summer, a concert of his emptied the streets of Hai City, fans scrambled for tickets and signed posters; they grabbed posters and friends' concert gift boxes too. For three months after the concert, you could see Su Yan's stage photos on Weibo daily, and his blue and white school uniform inspired countless writers and comic artists.
Mu Qiu remembered, her friend didn't get anything, constantly glued to her phone crying while refreshing Weibo.
Coming back to the moment, Li Yang was still lost in disbelief and excitement, while Shi Yuhuai, unfamiliar with the school uniform stage poster meme, focused on different points.
"So that portrait, is it actually referring to a real person?"
"......"
Asking this at such a time, isn't it practically inviting Su Yan's fans to flame him?
But apart from him, everyone else reacted quite well. Especially Shu Ran and Guan Yu, plus Li Yang, excitedly wishing they could hug each other and spin around.
Shu Ran, visibly exhilarated, covered her mouth in disbelief, dancing and jumping with excitement.
"Really? Is it really him? My gosh! I'm a huge fan of his! I went to that concert!!!"
Guan Yu also looked hopeful.
However, Cheng Zhirang, after listening to the vegetable-selling aunt and the grandpa's conversation, paused for a few seconds, seemingly observing something carefully, and then as Shu Ran and the others were about to explode with excitement, he strode forward, greeting the vegetable-selling aunt as Teacher Zeng.
Everyone present was taken aback.
Cheng Zhirang bent over, extending a hand, acting respectfully as a junior, "Are you Teacher Zeng Qin? Hello, Teacher Zeng, I'm Cheng Zhirang."
The vegetable-selling aunt was also caught off guard, but then smiled amiably, shaking hands with Cheng Zhirang, "Dressed in disguise like this and still someone recognized me."
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It's a staple in entertainment circle stories, the top-tier idol is coming, is everyone excited?