Chapter 201
With everyone eagerly waiting, the day for filming the official episodes finally arrived.
At 8 a.m., the livestream started on time.
As soon as the livestream rooms for all eight guests opened simultaneously, viewers flooded in, the number of online watchers skyrocketed, and netizens on Weibo interacted in real time. In an instant, it shot to the very top of the trending topics list.
[“Love Obs” stopped streaming for ten days, and still returns at its peak!]
[Worthy of being a phenomenon-level variety show, my Love Obs is just too strong.]
[Ahhh it’s here, it’s here! Super excited! I went to bed early last night and totally missed the pilot episode livestream. I’m crying, but today I’m here first thing!]
[First!! First!!]
[Love Obs is live! My happiness has returned!!]
[You can watch funny variety shows for laughs, but for true madness you gotta watch Love Obs.]
[What Love Obs? It’s clearly Mad Obs.]
[Isn’t this program actually called “The Human Insanity Observation Room”?]
[Good good good, good good good good good]
The bullet comments scrolled wildly in the chat, viewers chattering with excitement. Inside the show, eight staff teams each brought cameramen to the guests’ rooms.
At this moment, the guests were all preparing for recording, doing makeup and changing outfits.
“Good morning.”
Xu Shuangrong pushed open her door, smiling gently and warmly. Compared to her gloomy state at the end of last season, she now looked much brighter.
She warmly invited the cameraman in and openly showed the clothes she planned to wear today.
“I heard today’s shoot is at a water park, so I prepared a swimsuit that’s easy to move in.”
She wore a white ruffled one-piece swimsuit, her hair tied to the side in a ponytail with a frangipani flower tucked in, making her look pure and innocent.
[Ahhh Shuangshuang looks so beautiful, she seems so much better now. Mama-fans can relax.]
[Uh… just thinking that Xu Shuangrong once slandered others, I still can’t look at her straight.]
[Enough upstairs, how long ago was that? She already apologized. And she’s been doing charity lately. Can you do that?]
[She only apologized because she was forced to! If she hadn’t been exposed, she never would’ve told the truth. She’ll never be “washed clean” for me.]
Comments about Xu Shuangrong remained controversial. But her recent charitable image clearly had an effect.
At least it wasn’t all one-sided cursing anymore. Some viewers who hadn’t followed last season’s drama even spoke up in her defense.
Seeing Xu Shuangrong in good shape, the PD asked: “Could you share with us what you’ve been doing during the break from the show?”
Everyone already knew about her charity work.
But Xu Shuangrong herself had never marketed it deliberately. She quietly did the volunteer work, and only when bystanders happened to snap photos and upload them online did people find out.
Even then, she never commented. Instead, her fans widely promoted it under those leaked photos, spreading her charity work far and wide.
Now, faced with the PD’s question, Xu Shuangrong only smiled and said: “I did some things to adjust my state of mind, and it truly helped me heal.”
And that was all. Not a single word about charity.
The PD was a little surprised.
He thought she would take the chance to boast of her good deeds, but she didn’t mention it at all—showing no intention of leveraging it for publicity.
Instantly, her fans on the bullet chat showered her with rainbow praise.
[Ahhh Shuangshuang, I’m crying! You do good deeds quietly, and if not for those leaked photos, you never even planned to let us know, right?]
[This is true charity! Other celebs donate money and want the whole world to know. Shuangshuang personally went to a nursing home to work as a caregiver and even kept it secret from us.]
[How could anyone bear to hurt such a kind girl TAT]
But alongside her self-moved fans, there were still some clear-headed viewers.
[Excuse me… are there really people who believe this “pretending to secretly do charity but ‘accidentally’ get caught on camera” trick?]
[Isn’t it possible that if she really didn’t want you to know, you’d never know in the first place?]
[Hahahahaha, this is why I love hanging out in Xu Shuangrong’s livestream—watching a bunch of delusional fans entertain me. More fun than the show itself.]
The crew knocked on another room.
This time, Yu Jinzhe opened the door. He still looked obedient and well-behaved, but his appearance was different from last season.
He had taken off the gold-rimmed glasses he always wore, so he looked less scholarly and gentle—but surprisingly revealed sharp, handsome features.
For today’s water park shoot, he wore dark blue patterned swim trunks with a light gray quick-dry shirt.
What shocked people most was—he didn’t look as frail as last season.
The PD was slightly astonished:
“Mr. Yu, you seem to have put on some signs of working out.”
Yu Jinzhe smiled obediently.
“Yes. During the break, I went to the gym for a few hours every day after class.”
[It’s true! Half the leaked photos of him online were from gyms hahahaha]
[Lots of girls from his school even ran into him at the gym. One girl joked, “It’s like a bottom sneaking into a gym full of tops.”]
[Hahahahaha bro, Jinzhe: are you polite??]
The PD seized the chance to ask: “So why did you suddenly decide to start working out?”
“Partly for change,” Yu Jinzhe answered frankly.
“And partly to give myself more… capital. After all, this is a dating show.”
[OHHHHHHH!!]
[To give himself more capital? Nice! My Jinzhe little brother has learned seduction.]
[As everyone knows, only one person openly said they liked abs… so clearly Jinzhe is trying to lure them.]
[If you’re this bold, then I’ll have to stan you!]
[HAHAHA I see your ID says “Xie Yao Donkey-Slayer Fan”!]
[Shh, that’s called infiltrating the enemy camp.]
Then the crew arrived at Xiao Jingxi’s room.
As a movie emperor, Xiao Jingxi had stayed in the public eye throughout the break—joining new film shoots, promoting upcoming movies, stirring up huge buzz.
But when he opened the door and showed his face today, netizens were surprised again.
[What’s going on, everyone’s changing their image?]
[Is this season all about one-upmanship??]
[Yes! This kind of competition is what we love!!]
