Lin Xuan Qi gave the man an awkward laugh.
The high school girl rolled her eyes at what she saw.
"I'm sure you have lots of tips for us." The young couple interjected to try and keep things calm.
Luckily, the staff of the variety show came in and asked them to follow him.
A hidden camera on the ceiling had filmed what had transpired earlier.
The producer was all smiles as he saw the number of viewers increase as word spread.
As the show was being live streamed, the viewers started to comment on what happened.
First these viewers weren't too happy with the muscular men.
[Isn't that intimidating?]
[The staff condone such behavior?]
[They remind me of the school bullies in my school.]
The comments were flooded with those on Lin Xuan Qi's side.
The producer smiled and soon, his plants in the viewers started doing their work.
[It's a competitive sport, if you are such a pussy, maybe stay home.]
[Yeah. Be a man and stand up for yourself. That bro obviously didn't want to.]
[Lads horsing around is normal, do you guys even get out of your room?]
His plants swayed some of those originally on Lin Xuan Qi's side.
And so, the two parties battled it out typing in comments one after another.
With the interactions getting more intense, the algorithm promoted the show more than the others.
More and more viewers came in and had a look at what's going on.
[What's so interesting about this?]
[Something happened earlier, here's the link of a video on what had happened.]
New viewers who didn't know what happened were made aware of what happened by edits from the fans of the show.
The producer's eyes opened wide at the numbers he was looking at, the number of viewers jumped from 10K to 100K.
He was confident that he could get to 1M today with what he had in store.
Phones began to ring all around him as the advertisers wanted to secure a slot.
He looked at Lin Xuan Qi and let out a long sigh.
...
By now Lin Xuan Qi and the other contestants were brought to the obstacle course.
The high school girl went first.
Viewers weren't too optimistic about her chances.
She ran after the whistle blew.
To everyone's surprise, she was agile and strong.
With every leap she was able to easily leap a distance more than three meters.
And when the different gadgets in the obstacles came at her, she somersaulted into the air and got over the obstructions.
Soon, she got to the last stretch of the obstacles and the path was filled with bubble foam.
She slipped and was near the edge, and she held onto the edge at the last minute.
Lin Xuan Qi thought he saw her body giving out a faint glow as she took a deep breath.
She was halfway getting back up onto the path when she looked up and gave out an astonished expression.
As if she had seen the devil.
Plop.
She fell into the pool below and was disqualified.
[See, what did I tell you.]
[I don't mind the optics though. Rather a pretty young lady than some old men.]
[You have good taste.]
Unknown to them a figure far away disappeared after witnessing the high school girl drop into the pool.
Next up was the young couple, they took turns one after another.
Both managed to get to the middle of the obstacle course and dropped into the pool from there.
After that it was Lin Xuan Qi's turn.
But the muscular men came up and raised their hands.
"Let us go first, we're tired of all the waiting."
"We have the best chance to win, why are you letting us wait for this guy over here."
"Come on, let us go first so the viewers can get on with their lives after that."
What they said stirred up a storm again.
The viewers of the two camps went at each other again.
[What's with the ego of these men?]
[Shut up. They aren't wrong, saving time for everyone.]
[Well, I hope you meet with such persons in your daily life.]
The producer nodded at how everything was progressing.
It would be time for him to perform soon.
And he knew he better not mess up.
He took the mic and said, "We are having some updates as we speak, something that's important and we would like to have the Seng brothers go first if that's okay with everyone."
[I guess no need to argue anymore, the officials have spoken.]
[Hmph. I will curse these men to fail and hope they get back home with nothing.]
[Shut up and enjoy the show.]
Supporters of Lin Xuan Qi kept quiet as they didn't know why the producer decided to make such a decision.
They could only suck it up and wait for Lin Xuan Qi's turn.
The first of the muscular men got up to the path with the bubble foam before sliding and falling into the pool.
The rest of them also didn't fare any better.
Supporters of Lin Xuan Qi were glad when one after another they failed.
Finally, it was Lin Xuan Qi's turn.
[Huh. Look at his frail body. Get it over and done with.]
[I bet he would only last three seconds.]
[Three? One second would be a second too long!]
Comments started to pile on Lin Xuan Qi, when they saw his frail looks.
The producer then knew it was time to strike while the iron was hot.
He picked up the mic and solemnly said, "Thank you for watching viewers."
[Huh. It's already 'thank you for watching', show's over.]
[There goes the circus, just wrap it up.]
[Have patience, the producer might not be done with his announcement yet.]
"It is with a heavy heart that we've confirmed that Lin Xuan Qi here..."