FWTS Chapter 085
"Pass the level!"
"Pass the level!"
"Pass the level!"
Upon hearing the audience's cheers, Hou Muyun smiled, took a step forward, and bowed to Ami, who was seated among the mentors. "Teacher Ami, please guide me!"
The audience erupted once again.
After successfully passing four challenges, everyone naturally knew that Hou Muyun would continue to challenge further. It was something anyone could foresee.
Having succeeded in four challenges, if he didn't continue, he would definitely be criticized. On the other hand, if he continued, regardless of whether the fifth challenge succeeded, Hou Muyun would become the biggest highlight of the show, both for the audience and the mentors.
Behind the label of "the biggest highlight," there was undoubtedly the program team.
Passing the level!
Undoubtedly, this was the outcome the program team had hoped for when they initially planned the show. However, everyone knew this goal was extremely difficult, even impossible. Could a rookie contestant challenge celebrity mentors five times in a row and succeed every time? It seemed highly unlikely.
This wasn't as simple as the program team manipulating the outcome for an average contestant. If that were the case, not only would the audience stop watching, resulting in low ratings, but the celebrity mentors would also likely refuse to participate, feeling insulted!
The program team had originally estimated that such a scenario might only occur after several seasons, with an extremely small probability.
But unexpectedly, it happened in the first season—a recognized abnormal and strong contestant emerged, rumored to be the strongest amateur after the era of talent shows!
Now, the label "after the era of talent shows" could be removed!
Given this promising situation, the program team knew that the ratings for the upcoming episodes were guaranteed to skyrocket!
Hou Muyun's decision to continue the challenge was within everyone's expectations, and Flower Boss timely announced the "challenge closing" once again.
After the recording ended, the mentors left their seats, and Hou Muyun left the stage.
"Monkey, Monkey!"
At this moment, there were a few calls from the audience. Hou Muyun looked over and smiled.
"Why are you guys here?"
These people were none other than Qiang Ge and his group, along with Professor Feifei Yu. There was also one person he hadn't seen before, but he had seen his photo before and recognized him as a senior disciple of the Song family.
"Of course, we're here to see you!"
Qiang Ge gestured to Feifei Yu and the others. "We happened to run into Feifei and the others, so we sat together." He gave a thumbs-up. "You were amazing just now!"
Each of them still had excitement on their faces.
Hou Muyun greeted them one by one and said, "Are you guys staying in Hang City tonight, or are you heading back? The program team probably has some things to discuss. If you're still in Hang City, I'll treat you to dinner after I'm done."
Upon hearing Hou Muyun's words, they were all delighted. Those who had already booked return flights would definitely cancel them now.
After returning to the backstage rest area and being "criticized" by the celebrity mentors for a while, the program staff came to find Hou Muyun, and he went back to the recording site, which had already been cleared.
The director, producers, and others were all there.
After a while, the program team reached a consensus with Hou Muyun. The original plan of recording two episodes consecutively remained unchanged, and the recording of the ninth episode would begin tomorrow afternoon.
Next, Hou Muyun and Liu Zhuo discussed the songs. For the ninth episode's recording, Hou Muyun still thought he should sing a new song, so at least two songs needed to be finalized.
After some consideration, Hou Muyun suggested two songs. When Liu Zhuo and the others heard the titles, especially the first one, they were all stunned. However, this time, they didn't ask questions like "Is it true or are you joking?" because they had already gotten used to Hou Muyun's capriciousness!
Liu Zhuo asked, "Then let's go with these two songs. Monkey, do you have any requirements for the arrangement?"
Hou Muyun shared his thoughts, and after considering it, Liu Zhuo nodded in agreement. Then they began to work on the arrangements while collaborating with Hou Muyun. The first song also featured Hou Muyun's performance, and Liu Zhuo's arrangement was based on Hou Muyun's performance because this guy's performance skills were just too strong. Previously, Liu Zhuo had independently arranged the songs, but after hearing Hou Muyun's performance, he had to make modifications again. Eventually, he just made Hou Muyun the main focus to save trouble.
...
"That's it for now. Monkey, come back tomorrow morning for another run-through."
"Alright! Thanks, Brother Liu, and thanks everyone for your hard work!"
After successfully completing everything, Hou Muyun went to greet the program team. When he returned to the backstage lounge, the celebrity mentors had already left the venue. Hou Muyun walked out alone and checked the time—it was already past nine in the evening.
"I wonder if they've eaten yet?"
Hou Muyun called Qiang Ge, but instead of Qiang Ge, a female fan who had come with him answered the phone.
"Where are you guys?"
"We're in the city center..."
"Okay, I'll be right over."
Hou Muyun wondered why Qiang Ge had gone to an internet cafe. He took a taxi there and was surprised to find Shi Shiwu and his assistant there too.
"Qiang Zi! You're such a scammer!"
"Qiang Ge, please stop feeding the enemy! Why don't you just stay at home? Why did you bring the Professor and the others to play? With four against five, we still have a chance of winning!"
"Can we change players? We're really tired of this!"
"Qiang Zi, what are you so proud of? Oh no, we lost again!"
As soon as Hou Muyun entered, he heard the wailing of Shi Shiwu and the others, while Qiang Ge was comfortably seated, shouting about killing.
Hou Muyun was speechless. "What's going on here?"
The girl named "Cuo Cuo," who had answered the phone earlier, explained, "Originally, we were supposed to find a place to play and wait for you. But then..." She pointed to Shi Shiwu and whispered, "That internet addict dragged the Professor to the internet cafe, so we followed. They were short on players for their game, and Qiang Ge volunteered, and then... this happened. They're all almost driven crazy by Qiang Ge."
Thinking for a moment, she added quietly, "Shi Shiwu is nicer than we imagined!"
"Monkey, you're here!"
The group playing the game turned to look.
Shi Shiwu exclaimed, "Quick, quick, quick! Get Qiang Ge off, he's been a disaster!"
Hou Muyun sighed. "Are you still playing? Aren't you guys hungry? Let's have dinner first!"
The Professor's eyes lit up. "Are you cooking?"
Hou Muyun replied, "We couldn't find a place in time, and it's too late now."
"In that case, let's just order food here! You've tormented us so much today, you must cook a few dishes to vent our frustrations, and you can't steal my kills!"
Feifei stood up. "You guys play, we'll order food."
Cuo Cuo and the other girls nodded in agreement. "We'll chat with Feifei and the others. If we get bored later, we'll go downstairs to the cinema."
"Sounds good."
Hou Muyun thought for a moment and said, "Since you're all here, and we have another recording session tomorrow, continue watching. After the recording is over, I'll find a place and treat you all to a private dinner."
"Great!"
Everyone's eyes lit up at the mention of a private dinner.
"Feifei, did Xiaoman not come with you guys? I wanted to thank her in person."
"She's in Suzhou, not far away. Shall I ask her if she's free tomorrow?"
"That would be great."
While Qiang Ge continued to play, Hou Muyun joined the live broadcast with Feifei and her internet-addicted boyfriend. Both of them were hosts on the TT live platform. Hou Muyun was now considered the top entertainment host on TT, and many fans in their live broadcast room were also fans of Hou Muyun.
As soon as Hou Muyun appeared in Feifei's live broadcast room, the netizens exploded.
"Catch a wild monkey alive!"
"What the heck, why is the monkey in Feifei's live broadcast room? Did the monkey straighten Feifei out?"
"The detective is here! From the footage just now, it's clear that Feifei's 'boyfriend' is definitely playing games with some internet addict! And today is the recording time for Episode 8 of 'Music,' which means the monkey was dragged into playing games by the internet addict again! Hahaha!"
"Exactly!"
"The monkey hasn't streamed today! Looks like he's going to have to because of some internet addict!"
...
After the game ended for Shi Shiwu and the others, and their food arrived, they started another round. Hou Muyun replaced Qiang Ge.
After some thought, he logged into his own live streaming account.
Hou Muyun said in the live broadcast room, "Sorry, there's definitely no way to stream normally today. Yeah, you guessed it right, I was dragged into playing games again by some internet addict. So today, I'll just stream a bit of 'Blade 2' for you all. Many of you may not be familiar with this game, but that's not important. What's important is that during the game, you may hear the excited gasps of the internet addict when he gets a kill, and the painful moans when he gets killed!"
Shi Shiwu rolled his eyes. Damn, he got scammed again!
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