Chapter 59: A Three-Person Team Doesn’t Equal a Three-Person Relationship
At the mention of a special card, almost all the guests remembered the previous episode.
They remembered Lin Huaizhi’s special ticket.
Xu Qiao had just teamed up with Hu Xiaoxu. Hearing this, she rubbed her face. “Another special card? Director, you’re not going to use the same old trick again, hold a vote to let El choose someone, and then the person he chooses gets first pick of rooms but has to be bound to him, right?”
Dai Keqing shook his head. “Of course not. Playing the same trick twice is boring. El’s special card doesn’t allow him to choose someone for a forced binding, but he can refuse anyone who wants to team up with him.”
Xu Qiao let out a “Wow.” “Then won’t he only be able to play by himself?”
That was exactly what Dai Keqing wanted—for him to play by himself. But as the director, he certainly couldn’t say that explicitly. “He can refuse anyone who wants to team up with him, or he can choose to team up with someone else.”
Of course, the premise was that he dared to.
Zhou Mi thought of the unpleasantness with El just now and felt the other party definitely wouldn’t choose him. But that didn’t stop him from asking, “What if the guest he chooses refuses him?”
Yes.
What if they refused him?
It wasn’t that Zhou Mi was targeting him, but Fan Fangfang had just directly shown favor to Lin Huaizhi; it looked like she had her sights on Lin Huaizhi and definitely wouldn’t choose El. As for Su Rui, that went without saying.
A bookworm who didn’t look like the type to chase stars, but certainly reasoned logically. Given El’s attitude just now, as long as Su Rui had a bit of empathy, he wouldn’t choose him.
Dai Keqing scanned Zhou Mi. “There are four guests left on the field. If the guest El chooses refuses him and chooses to team up with another guest, he can choose the last remaining guest, or he can choose not to. If the last guest also refuses him, then he will form a team alone.”
Hearing this answer, Zhou Mi felt his mood improve significantly, as if he could already see the situation where El was abandoned.
Dai Keqing didn’t miss Zhou Mi’s subtle expression. He lowered his brow, and when he raised it again, the sharpness in his eyes had vanished. “Of course, if El chooses no one and refuses all guests who choose him, then the remaining three guests will form a team together.”
Zhou Mi instantly frowned. “What does ‘three guests form a team together’ mean?”
Dai Keqing looked at Zhou Mi, the smile on his face vanishing completely. “Three guests forming a team together means three guests form a team together. May I ask which part you don’t understand?”
No matter how obtuse he was, Zhou Mi felt Dai Keqing’s targeting.
No!
What exactly did he do? He clearly hadn’t done anything! What was with Dai Keqing’s attitude! Or was it because in the last episode, he spoke up a few times for Chu Xiaoran, so Lin Huaizhi held a grudge and instructed Dai Keqing to treat him this way?
The more Zhou Mi thought about it, the more he felt this was the case.
But so what?
He wouldn’t admit defeat easily. Since Chu Xiaoran was a Huameng artist, and Lin Huaizhi wanted to control Chu Xiaoran because he had once promoted him, he wasn’t anything good either.
“Romance is for two people. Three people teaming up to date seems a bit inappropriate, doesn’t it?”
[Exactly! Mi-Mi is right! Love is meant for two people. What does a three-person team mean?]
[This director seems to have a problem with our Mi-Mi?]
Zhou Mi dared to order El to swap food with him in front of Dai Keqing and wanted to embarrass El. If Dai Keqing didn’t have a problem with him, that would be seeing a ghost.
“A three-person team doesn’t equal a three-person relationship.”
“The program team only stipulated a three-person team; it did not stipulate that a three-person team must involve a three-person romance or date. Guests in the three-person team can choose each other during the date. In this process, guests need to actively express themselves to gain the opportunity to be chosen. The guest left out in the end will be like El, needing to date alone.”
“So, Zhou Mi, do you have any other questions?”
Zhou Mi naturally still had questions. He puffed out his chest, projecting a sense of justice that feared no power. “Of course I do. Clearly, ten people can form five teams. Why must you create a three-person team and a one-person team?”
Before Dai Keqing could speak, El couldn’t help but defend his lover first.
“Why do you have so much to say? The program team has the program team’s considerations; just follow them properly. I don’t have an opinion on teaming up alone. You guys have three people, isn’t that enough?”
Zhou Mi: “??”
Zhou Mi was angry. “Is this a question of being enough? It’s clearly too enough! We could clearly team up in pairs, why must it be three people! Can a third person be mixed into love?!”
[Zhou Mi’s values are so upright!]
[Yeah! It’s clearly love between two people, why force a third person in!]
[Don’t bring up values here. The director already said a three-person team isn’t a three-person romance. They can choose each other; guests with mutual arrows can date. Zhou Mi insists on dragging on about how a third person can’t mix into love and dodging the point—is that really fun?]
[I found that Zhou Mi is really troublesome. Before, he lost in “Tomorrow’s Rap” and said his team was full of weaklings, blaming this and that, just never blaming his own poor skills. Later, when the team was full of strong players and he was the one dragging them down, he claimed he was under too much pressure and didn’t perform well. How does he have no self-awareness?]
[Exactly. Even in a romance variety show, Zhou Mi is still like this. The program team has its reasons for grouping. El has no complaints about dating alone, yet he talks so much.]
[Whatever a person lacks most is what they love to emphasize most. To summarize, Zhou Mi keeps emphasizing that a third person can’t mix into love—could it be he got green-hatted (cheated on), so he’s this triggered?]
The bullet comments started arguing again.
Dai Keqing wasn’t affected at all and continued, “This Is Love is indeed a romance variety show, but the program team only provides everyone with an opportunity to understand each other. Teaming up is a way to understand each other. In the first and second episodes, the program team used a four-four teaming method. The purpose of the one-two-three teaming is the same—we just want everyone to spark more romantic flames.”
“Additionally, the theme of this episode is ‘Gaming Tourism.’ Although a three-person team is inconvenient for dating, it has an absolute numerical advantage in the game missions of this episode.”
Of course, these words were half-true and half-false.
The true part was true; the false part was that the one-person team was purely his selfishness. He created it because he didn’t want El to team up or date anyone else.
His man could only be his.
He was just protective of his food.
So what?
If you, Zhou Mi, have the ability, go call the police and arrest him for creating a one-two-three grouping!
Fan Fangfang wanted to laugh hearing this.
The director spoke beautifully, but he had essentially created a Shuraba (a battlefield/hellscape).
In a three-person team, ultimately only two people could date. One person would definitely be left over. To avoid being left over, the three of them would definitely express themselves frantically, perhaps even elevating themselves by belittling the others.
If this wasn’t a Shuraba, what was it?
Of course, Fan Fangfang wouldn’t raise any questions. She was different from Zhou Mi, that mama’s boy with the shrunken cerebellum—she had seen various interviews of Zhou Mi where he mentioned “my mom” over a hundred times. Even in an interview about his preferred type for the romance variety show, it was “filial and someone my mom likes.”
In short, she didn’t have Zhou Mi’s family conditions and wouldn’t challenge the director’s authority again and again.
Here, Dai Keqing’s patience had also reached its limit. He really didn’t want to continue wrangling with Zhou Mi, so he said directly to him, “If you strongly refuse the three-person team, you can issue an invitation to any guest on the field. As long as the other party is willing, you can team up with them.”
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