Chapter 16: Argument
The entire venue fell silent.
Even the livestream was silent for five seconds.
【What is this thing! Daring to scold my Xiao! Indeed, like master, like dog! None of them are good goods! Bah!】
【Chu Xiaoran just spoke up for Baby Mo, told the truth, and this director immediately protected his master loyally. Indeed a good dog! Hehe!】
【I won’t say who’s anxious. Chu Xiaoran and Fang Mo’s fans are freaking abstract. So nowadays, anyone who doesn’t like their Xiao or Baby Mo doesn’t deserve to be human?】
【Being a director gave him a sense of superiority. Scolding guests like this, can’t Lin Huaizhi manage him?】
Chu Xiaoran also asked the same question: “Lin Huaizhi, can you control your people! Targeting guests like this, does he deserve to be a director?”
Before Lin Huaizhi could react, the director opened his mouth to scold: “Can you shut your broken mouth first!”
“Relying on Lin Huaizhi promoting you to yell at me here. If Lin Huaizhi hadn’t spoken, do you think I’d be willing to invite you to my dating show?”
“Your acting is trash. It took three years of promotion to get your current achievements. That’s because I didn’t direct movies or TV dramas. If I did and met an actor like you, I could scold you until your genealogy opens a new page!”
Fang Mo immediately stepped forward: “Director, how can you say that! Brother Chu clearly has very good acting skills! And half of his current achievements rely on his own ability!”
The director treated everyone equally.
“Can you also shut your broken mouth.”
“Up to now, all the conflicts sparked in the program were caused by you! I haven’t even questioned which corner you, an eighteenth-tier nobody, were stuffed into the celebrity group from. Just be sensible and stop seeking presence, ok?”
Fang Mo was typical: unskilled but loves to play.
A few words from the director made his eyes red, and tears fell as soon as they were mentioned. But instead of shutting up as he should have, he defended Chu Xiaoran even more.
“I can’t be sensible!”
“I can’t watch you slander Brother Chu! Throwing dirty water on Brother Chu!”
Lin Huaizhi clicked his tongue secretly.
The director also hissed: “Why do you two have such a desire to perform? If I weren’t filming a dating show, I would have thought that I, like Lin Huaizhi, was a villain in your romance drama here to boost your intimacy.”
Chu Xiaoran had never suffered such anger and exploded directly.
“Dai Keqing!!”
The director dug his ear impatiently. “I’m here. Lower your voice. You have a loud voice, but I’m not deaf.”
Seeing the director’s look of being unafraid of anything, Chu Xiaoran knew scolding the director was useless. He turned to look at Lin Huaizhi.
“He’s being insubordinate! Are you going to manage him or not!”
Lin Huaizhi shrugged: “Can’t manage. When I came, I told him I was here to chase Huo Chen. No need to treat me as the boss; just treat me as an ordinary guest. Now that he’s firing on all cylinders, even I would get scolded if I went up.”
“Besides, the Qing Dynasty has fallen. Everyone’s personality is equal; there’s no such thing as insubordination.”
Fang Mo’s tears fell like they were free.
“You are capital. Brother Chu and I can’t afford to offend you, but I won’t admit defeat!”
【Can’t stand it! Lin Huaizhi and the director are completely birds of a feather! It’s obvious they are intentionally bullying Chu Xiaoran and Baby Mo!】
【Is Fang Mo intentionally trying to get my Xiao’s attention? Even Lin Huaizhi isn’t good enough for him. You, an eighteenth-tier nobody, want to hook up with him? Are you worthy!】
【Are Fang Mo’s fans all fish that slipped through the net of nine-year compulsory education? That character is pronounced hé, second tone, yī qiū zhī hé (birds of a feather), not yī qiū zhī gè!】
【Animal transformed into chemical element, dying of laughter!】
【Chu Xiaoran stands up for Fang Mo, and Fang Mo in turn disregards himself to stand up for Chu Xiaoran. What is this called? This is called a two-way rush. But can you two not rush? This kind of rush regardless of right or wrong is really disgusting.】
【Although Chu Xiaoran and Fang Mo are being scolded, I really can’t sympathize. Chu Xiaoran acts like an old-school domineering CEO, the kind of law-breaking CEO who defends his woman indiscriminately. Fang Mo looks like a little white flower with only love in his brain. With these two joining hands, I suspect I’m watching an eight o’clock melodramatic romance drama from my mom’s era.】
【Right, right, right! Just that they are righteous, their love is moving and tragic. As for others’ life and death, they don’t care at all!】
“Alright, alright, reign in your desire to perform.”
The director really didn’t want to continue wasting words with these two. “I don’t want to be the villain in your love story. Let’s bring the topic back to why Fang Mo and Su Rui didn’t earn a single penny.”
The director had the staff bring out the video of the selling goods segment.
“Please watch the video—”
“Everyone knows today’s task is to help farmers sell goods to earn money. We are completing a task; failing the task only results in punishment at most. But the farmers rely on the money earned from selling goods to survive.”
“Fang Mo didn’t remember the prices of goods and didn’t tell Su Rui the prices. A circle of people gathered in front of the stall, arguing incessantly. Lin Huaizhi arrived at the scene after selling the tofu and suggested he could help.”
“First, the program team does not prevent guests from helping each other. Second, guests can also refuse help. But Fang Mo’s attitude of refusal showed very low EQ.”
“In front of the village chief’s wife, Fang Mo said Lin Huaizhi helping to sell goods would hinder the fairness of the game. She already had opinions about your unskilled selling. Yet you still treated selling goods as a game. It shows her self-restraint that she only scolded you and didn’t beat you on the spot.”
“If not for Lin Huaizhi mediating, do you think the livestream accident you caused would be settled so simply?”
“You caused a livestream accident and had a conflict with the hosting farmer. So is there any problem with the money earned for the farmer returning to zero?”
Fang Mo fell silent.
The bullet comments also called Fang Mo an “Old Six” (slang for someone who plays dirty or ineptly) and said Su Rui was dragged down by him.
Seeing Fang Mo not speaking, the director finally felt a bit smoother in his heart. However, before he could feel smooth for long, Chu Xiaoran jumped out again.
“Ultimately, Lin Huaizhi is the culprit for this livestream accident.”
Director: “?”
Lin Huaizhi: “?”
All viewers in the livestream: “?”
Chu Xiaoran had an expression that said “it should be so”: “If not for Lin Huaizhi being smart-alecky and going to Fang Mo saying he wanted to help him, Fang Mo wouldn’t have said those words.”
Lin Huaizhi lost even his smile. He looked coldly at Chu Xiaoran, the irritability and disgust in his eyes impossible to suppress.
Xu Qiao was straightforward and scratched her head directly: “Can things be interpreted like this? Isn’t helping others a traditional virtue?”
Zhou Mi laughed “Hehe”: “Not necessarily. Obviously, Fang Mo didn’t want to be helped.”
Hu Xiaoxu put an arm around Xu Qiao’s shoulder: “Right and wrong lie only in people’s hearts. Who is right and who is wrong will have its own conclusion. What this world lacks is not counter-accusations, but a pure heart.”
Chu Xiaoran frowned.
“Forcing help regardless of others’ wishes is not called help; it’s called meddling.”
Huo Chen looked at Chu Xiaoran, his deep eyes like a frozen lake: “So Lin Huaizhi helping you was also meddling?”
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