Chapter 18: Punishment is to Complete a Forced Kiss
When the livestream was unbanned.
The director was holding a loudspeaker announcing the punishment: “The theme of this season is Forced Love, so guests who haven’t completed the task, please complete a forced kiss with your teammates.”
As soon as the words came out.
The vast majority of guests’ faces turned black.
Only Hu Xiaoxu glanced at Zhou Mi, the disdain in her eyes instantly turning into rejoicing.
Xu Qiao immediately howled: “Although I liked the stuttering brother played by Chu Xiaoran in Lost City, I don’t want to kiss Chu Xiaoran at all!”
It had to be said that the “liked” in the past tense highlighted the details very well.
E-sports players, after all.
When operations are similar, what is compared is awareness and details, completely flawless.
But the detail wasn’t that detailed. After all, Xu Qiao was full of praise for Chu Xiaoran before, and her look at him had the admiration a fan should have. Now the praise was gone, and the admiration was gone too.
The gap before and after was so big that only Su Rui, who was obsessed with academics and didn’t understand worldly wisdom, couldn’t understand it.
Of course, Chu Xiaoran didn’t want to do any forced kiss with Xu Qiao either. But perhaps because his IQ came back online, he actually put on an act.
“Idols should keep a distance from fans. I love all fans and won’t kiss any specific fan. Moreover, Xu Qiao is good, but she is not my type. Forced kissing her is not only disrespect to myself but also disrespect to her.”
【My Xiao is really too likable! His character and values are really good!】
Fang Mo was one of the novel’s male leads, after all.
According to the plot, he naturally looked at Chu Xiaoran with affection, just like those obsessive fans of Chu Xiaoran.
This time Su Rui finally didn’t drop the ball and kept up with this team fight.
He raised his hand: “I don’t want to force kiss Fang Mo either. He looks like he likes Chu Xiaoran very much. I don’t want to become a catalyst between them like Lin Huaizhi.”
Fang Mo subconsciously asked: “What catalyst?”
Su Rui pushed up his glasses: “According to the definition by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, or IUPAC: a catalyst is a substance that increases the reaction rate without changing the overall standard Gibbs free energy change of the reaction. It can also be stated as a substance that can increase the chemical reaction rate in a chemical reaction without changing the chemical equilibrium, and its own mass and chemical properties do not change before and after the chemical reaction.”
“To put it simply, a catalyst is a substance in chemistry that increases the rate of reactants. For a simple analogy—”
“Hydrogen peroxide can decompose into water and oxygen under appropriate conditions, which is a redox reaction. The decomposition of hydrogen peroxide requires a catalyst, such as manganese dioxide or ferrous carbonate, which can serve as catalysts to accelerate the decomposition reaction rate.”
【Exited the livestream to take a good look at the title. I’m watching a dating show, when did it turn into a chemistry class?】
Everyone present was dazed by this sudden scene.
Lin Huaizhi didn’t expect that among so many people present, Su Rui would be the first to see through the essence.
“So what do you mean?”
Fang Mo still didn’t understand, or rather he didn’t have much mind to listen to Su Rui. Responding just now was just a subconscious reaction to Su Rui mentioning his name.
Su Rui looked surprised.
“I’ve said it so plainly, and you still don’t understand?”
Su Rui’s eyes were full of “are you retarded.” Fang Mo choked on his look, then defended: “It’s not that I don’t know catalysts. I just didn’t react for a moment. And you could obviously explain your meaning in a more concise way. Suddenly talking about catalysts and explaining it so troublesomely, who can understand.”
Su Rui was an experimentalist. Coupled with his personality, he was very serious. It would have been fine if Fang Mo just shut up, but choosing to continue quibbling, Su Rui couldn’t let it go simply.
“Didn’t I explain because you kept asking?”
“And knowledge about catalysts should have been learned in junior high school, right? Not understanding such a simple thing, did you really go to school?”
Fang Mo: “…”
【I always feel like he seems to be talking about Fang Mo, but actually talking about me… The key is his posture, that posture of a super genius with super high IQ, makes me scared at a glance, daring not refute him even more.】
【Right, right, right! Just that sense of déjà vu that as soon as you refute, he will immediately bring out a harder problem to stump you!】
“I didn’t go to much school, dropped out after graduating junior high. But there is a saying that learning is endless. A person’s life is a process of constantly learning and enriching oneself. So I still know about this thing called catalyst.”
Lin Huaizhi didn’t mind the trouble.
Catalysts were learned in junior high. He said this purely to disgust Fang Mo.
Of course, he never intended to get along well with Fang Mo and Chu Xiaoran. Not taking revenge when there is a grudge is not a gentleman. He repaid the grace of Chu Xiaoran’s moldy bread more than a hundred times over. Chu Xiaoran and Fang Mo still wanted to step on his spine and eat his human blood buns (profit from his suffering).
Sorry, no door.
No window either.
【Junior high chemistry, indeed learned about catalysts. For example, water decomposes into hydrogen and oxygen under the action of direct current, usually adding sulfuric acid or sodium hydroxide as a catalyst, but both only increase the conductivity of water and do not participate in the electrolytic reaction.】
【Forgot the specific equations long ago, but know what the word catalyst means at a glance, right?】
【So Fang Mo fans not distinguishing between hé (raccoon dog) and gè (chromium) is inherited from their idol?】
Su Rui looked at Fang Mo and continued: “Catalysts promote reaction efficiency without consuming or changing their own mass. But being a catalyst between you and Chu Xiaoran will bring great impact to oneself, even consuming oneself.”
“So even if forced kissing is applied to everyone present, I won’t choose you and Chu Xiaoran.”
If it weren’t still being livestreamed, Lin Huaizhi almost wanted to jump up and applaud Su Rui.
Said so f*cking well!
Fang Mo probably had never experienced being roasted with so many professional terms and such a long wind-up in his life. He really couldn’t say words full of IQ and knowledge like Su Rui, only able to mumble, asking back aggrievedly.
“Why do you also target me…”
Su Rui: “Correction, I didn’t target you, just truthfully expressing my own thoughts. Don’t think about turning me into the next Lin Huaizhi.”
Fang Mo: “…”
Chu Xiaoran finally couldn’t stand it anymore. “Expressing thoughts is expressing thoughts, why be so aggressive? Would you die saying a few words less?”
Su Rui wasn’t surprised by Chu Xiaoran’s reaction at all.
“Director, I’m unwilling to force kiss Fang Mo, nor willing to let Fang Mo force kiss me. I refuse this punishment. Please change to another punishment.”
Director: “…”
Chu Xiaoran also looked at the director, with a faint warning in his eyes: “I’m also unwilling to accept this punishment. Change it.”
Director: “???”
The director almost couldn’t hold back giving Chu Xiaoran two kicks. What kind of trash dared to boss him around and wanted to command and warn him. Go to his mom’s!
The director didn’t indulge him at all.
“My boss doesn’t shout at me here. You’d better show me some respect too.”
Chu Xiaoran: “?”
What thing dared to talk to him so condescendingly. Just wait. After recording this episode, he would have Lin Huaizhi fire this director!
“Given that none of the guests accept this punishment method…”
Lin Huaizhi interrupted the director directly.
“Who said none accept?”
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