Chapter 266: Chapter 245: A Bit Hard-Hearted

Ji Xizhi doesn’t have any celebrity airs, and she can accept the job of picking up trash in the scorching sun. To her, it’s just an ordinary job that Xianyu Village villagers have been doing, and it’s quite meaningful.

Zhu Xiu’an stood beside her, watching Ji Xizhi’s position with envy, nearly in tears.

Such is the way dramatic reversals work. The position he mocked just a moment ago has now become the one he desires the most.

Compared to selling tickets or hyping fans, picking up trash like Ji Xizhi is a much better way to avoid tourists. As long as Ji Xizhi keeps her head down and picks up trash, the risk of her identity being discovered is almost none. It’s simply a perfect job!

Zhu Xiu’an’s eyes were shining.

The production team ruthlessly interrupted this gleam of hope and began announcing: “Congratulations to everyone for receiving your destined positions. Next, the production team has thoughtfully prepared a dressing room for everyone, providing free costumes, props, etc. You can go into the dressing room and choose whether to do some disguising. The time is half an hour, and once you’re done, we’ll set off immediately!”

The production team was unexpectedly generous this time, not leaving the guests to struggle with equipment. They provided all the necessary disguise tools, and even pushed out two makeup artists, which they shouldn’t have, to help everyone with their disguises.

Of course, this was mainly due to time constraints. Director Wang originally intended to use these items to trick the guests again.

But because too much time was wasted on snatching up discounted crystal lamps, they had to abandon that plan. Thɪs chapter is updatᴇd by novèlfire.net

The dressing room was rented in the yard next to the supermarket, which is a villager’s yard in Xianyu Village. The production team only rented a small room on the first floor of their house that they basically never used as a temporary dressing room.

All nine guests chose to enter the dressing room for a simple reason: to conceal their identities. Everyone wanted to do some disguising; otherwise, if they were recognized after going out, the whole day would be wasted.

It wouldn’t matter if others’ efforts go in vain, but Zhu Xiu’an and Bai Zhe absolutely couldn’t stand it.

Bai Zhe wasn’t really planning to take this task seriously. An idol killing fish? It’s worse than an idol losing face!

If he ends up killing fish, all the memes online would definitely be animated clips of him killing fish. Last time Bai Xing held fish guts with both hands, and the troll fans edited the photo, making it look like he was holding fan ashes, costing him tens of thousands of fans. Bai Zhe absolutely couldn’t repeat the fiasco.

But if he doesn’t kill fish, the haters would criticize him for being out of touch and pretentious!

It’s a no-win situation.

In that moment, Bai Zhe even regretted joining this program.

But looking at Ji Xizhi not far away, he remembered what their manager said when their group was about to disband. So he bit the bullet and entered the dressing room.

In the dressing room, there was only one makeup artist. Several female guests were all basically capable of doing makeup themselves. The male guests were not so adept. However, Guan Fengyan didn’t plan to use makeup for disguise, leaving only Zhu Xiu’an and Bai Zhe to compete for that one makeup artist.

Bai Zhe quickly called out, with a very polite attitude: “Hello, can you help me change my makeup?”

Zhu Xiu’an was a step too late and glared at Bai Zhe, then demanded, “Help me first!”

Bai Zhe said, “I just need to modify my stage makeup a bit, add some eyeshadow and style my hair.”

Zhu Xiu’an became anxious, “I’m doing a female disguise!!!”

The makeup artist being fought over was taken aback, “???”

After saying that, Zhu Xiu’an smugly raised his eyebrows at Bai Zhe, “What do you say? Do you dare?”

Bai Zhe: “…” This guy is crazy!

The live stream fans were also stunned by Zhu Xiu’an’s words.

[Covering my eyes, I’m dying of laughter! I’ll unfollow for a minute, not because of the female disguise but because he’s too foolish!]

[He’s actually quite desperate. Why don’t you let the makeup artist do him first! (Curious to see the face)]

Unfortunately, despite Zhu Xiu’an’s tactic that harms himself more than others, he didn’t manage to seize the opportunity.

Since Bai Zhe spoke up first, by order of arrival, the makeup artist decided to style Bai Zhe first, then Zhu Xiu’an.

The dressing room was located right in the middle of Xianyu Village. By that time, the villagers were up, and with the production team setting up cameras in the yard, it was inevitable that some villagers, mainly elderly people, would come to look.

The production team couldn’t really stop them. After all, coming to the village to shoot has already disturbed these residents, and now these elders weren’t interrupting their filming, so it was okay for them to appear onscreen.

Since Zhu Xiu’an couldn’t get the makeup artist, he had to wait his turn behind Bai Zhe. It was uncertain whether he would make it in time, so he sat gloomily on the steps by the door, looking extremely dejected.

The other female guests were mostly seated in front of mirrors doing their makeup or changing their looks themselves, leaving Zhu Xiu’an alone on the steps at the entrance of the dressing room.

Fans of Zhu Xiu’an felt sorry for him.

[Feeling a bit sympathetic, the silly dog looks a bit forlorn!]

[Well, it’s because he doesn’t know how to do makeup! Look at the female guests, and then look at Zhi Zhi…eh? Where’s Zhi Zhi? Why isn’t she putting on makeup?]

[Strange, I just saw her come in, why isn’t she visible? Silly dog, you keep crying, I’m going to check out Zhi Zhi’s live stream now!]

[I’m going too!]

Zhu Xiu’an’s fans felt sorry for a second, then left in droves to check on Ji Xizhi.

But just when they switched to Ji Xizhi’s live stream…

Zhu Xiu’an’s fans realized that the camera was still on Zhu Xiu’an?

Why was the camera following Ji Xizhi still filming Zhu Xiu’an?

[Did Zhi Zhi go change clothes? PD is being cheeky, secretly filming our silly dog crying~]

Everyone was confused.

In the camera view, a granny in a floral shirt, gray pants, cloth shoes, wearing a full set of sun hats and red plaid arm wraps, appeared next to Zhu Xiu’an. She was dressed similarly to the elderly spectators who came along just now.

Granny: “What are you doing here?”

The granny’s waist was hunched, her face unclear. Her voice was muffled by the mask attached to the sun hat.

Moreover, Zhu Xiu’an, who was sitting on the steps, distracted by Bai Zhe taking the makeup artist, didn’t quite hear clearly.

Zhu Xiu’an only vaguely heard the granny asking what he was doing, and he looked up. Seeing the Xianyu Village granny and the close-up camera focused on him, he suddenly became dramatic. Pretending to hug the granny’s leg, he cried, “Granny, granny, they’re all bullying me, this production team, they’re all bullying me!!!”

Granny: “?”

The filming PD: “???”

Zhu Xiu’an’s fans: [??]

Ji Xizhi’s live stream fans: [?? Ah hahaha, I’m going to laugh until I cry!]

Zhu Xiu’an originally intended to act dramatically to earn sympathy from the elderly spectators of Xianyu Village, hoping they would join him in denouncing the production team, which might compel the production team to get him another makeup artist.

But he couldn’t have imagined that the granny he clung to was quite hard-hearted.

Even after he cried for so long, she didn’t offer a word of agreement to denounce the production team with him.

Zhu Xiu’an acted for a long while, growing tired. He got up from the steps: “Granny, could you do me a favor?”

Granny (Ji Xizhi): “Are you tired?”

Once standing up, they were closer, and Zhu Xiu’an finally heard the voice inside the mask more clearly.

It seemed a bit young? And somewhat familiar?

While Zhu Xiu’an was pondering this.

Ji Xizhi reminded once more: “There’s only fifteen minutes left before disguising ends.”

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