Chapter 88

After the groups were formed, Yin Xian followed Lu Juxian and got on the tractor, heading to the place to collect firewood.

"Since the heavy snow has sealed off the mountains, do we still have to collect firewood here? It's so tiring," Yin Xian complained softly.

"So many girls here haven't said a word, why are you the only one complaining!" The village chief Lu took on his authoritarian air and shot a look of disdain at Yin Xian.

Then Yin Xian fell silent.

The atmosphere of this show is indeed very different from "Infinite Challenge"...

I should just work hard and do my part!

Then Yin Xian started to work diligently according to the requirements of the production team.

Then, the format of the show began to change...

Originally, the tough girls like Narsha and Yuri suddenly became delicate, transforming from workers to cheerleaders.

The village chief Lu, who was originally working with Yin Xian, or rather, guiding him, also disappeared without a trace...

Then, the scene turned into one where Yin Xian was collecting firewood alone, cheered on by the four girls—Goo Hara, Kim Hyun-ah, Yuri, and Narsha.

Fortunately, Yin Xian was a strong and fit young man.

Coincidentally, for some reason, there were many dead branches in this area, saving Yin Xian the trouble of using an axe to chop wood.

All he had to do was drag the wood down the mountain repeatedly and pile it at the foot of the mountain. Thus, for Yin Xian, the highlight of the show became how he could creatively move the wood...

When Yin Xian finally gathered the amount of firewood recognized by the production team, he was completely exhausted.

"Was Kim Tae-woo also bossed around like this on the show?" Yin Xian, lying on the snow and panting heavily, complained loudly.

"Brother Tae-woo worked very hard!" Kim Hyun-ah replied in her signature whiny voice.

"That's because Yuri was there, right!" Yin Xian tried to counter.

"Yuri is here today too!" Narsha pretended not to understand.

Yin Xian felt a deep internal injury.

Forget it, I'll just lie here quietly and pretend to be a handsome man.

Perhaps feeling that Yin Xian was indeed quite tired, or for some show effect, Narsha took the lead in giving him a massage.

The other girls quickly followed suit, each one gentler than the last...

Goo Hara even told a childish and corny joke to cheer Yin Xian up.

The recording of the show thus proceeded in a somewhat absurd manner.

Yin Xian was too lazy to care about the progress of the show. After all, working hard first and then being funny is not an unworkable model.

Moreover, for these idols, trying to integrate humor into the normal flow of the show is indeed too high a requirement.

After all, everyone has their own expertise.

"Yin Xian... you've worked hard today." The village chief Lu suddenly appeared from somewhere, putting on a consoling air. "Is there anything you want me to do for you?"

"I want to eat jajangmyeon." Yin Xian made a completely unrealistic request.

Actually, it was just a joke. In such a remote mountain area, finding a Chinese restaurant was basically impossible.

Just as he was waiting for Lu Juxian to mock him and prepare to grab a few shots, Lu Juxian started making a phone call...

Yin Xian was stunned.

In such a place... there's a Chinese restaurant that can deliver?

Yin Xian suddenly felt that the delivery service in Korea was incredibly powerful...

Touched, Yin Xian decided to get up and continue working.

There's no way around it; you can't talk back when you're eating someone else's food!

The phone call took five minutes to confirm the delivery, and then they waited for an hour and a half for the food to arrive.

This, of course, couldn't be blamed on the delivery service.

"The road is blocked by heavy snow, I ran here to deliver it," the delivery lady, carrying a large iron box, said with a face red from the cold.

Yin Xian, who had just finished organizing the collected firewood, also came over. The slightly delayed lunch finally began.

Although they probably realized that their previous efforts weren't enough, the girls also came over to help with the wood collection. However, this content was not very interesting to watch.

Thus, the rest period for eating naturally turned into a time for humor...

"Let's have a competition!" Yin Xian suggested.

"What kind of competition?" The girls were all excited.

"There are two servings of jajangmyeon here, and we have six people. Let's split into two teams and see which team eats faster!" After some thought, Yin Xian proposed a somewhat realistic but not entirely serious game.

"Three people eating together? What's the punishment for the losing team?"

"Isn't there frozen river water? The losers will put their feet in it!" The village chief Lu, who had been watching quietly, suddenly said.

"Ah!" The response was a chorus of shock from everyone, including Yin Xian.

Such a cruel suggestion... of course, it was immediately approved.

Narsha even proposed a specific punishment: the three people in the losing team would have to soak their feet in ice water for a minute in a game of honor...

"I want to be on the same team as Brother Yin Xian!" Although the teams had already been formed—Yuri and Goo Hara with the village chief Lu, and Kim Hyun-ah and Narsha with Yin Xian—Yuri suddenly protested.

"Why?" Yin Xian was a bit curious.

"Ah! If we do this, Brother Tae-woo will be very sad when he comes back." Narsha countered in her style.

"Is that so... Come, Yuri, be on my team!" Yin Xian pretended to be enlightened, rubbed his chin, and beckoned to Yuri. "Thinking about other men while on my team... Sister Narsha, you go over there!"

"Okay!"

"Ah!"

The two girls immediately gave completely different reactions.

"Sister Narsha, come to our team!" Goo Hara also called out to Narsha. "I'm afraid Sister Yuri will deliberately lose to Brother Yin Xian..."

Goo Hara's interjection made Narsha even less willing to go over...

In the end, the teams were changed according to Yuri's wishes.

"Brother, cheer up, I'm very afraid of the cold." Kim Hyun-ah looked at Yin Xian pitifully.

Yin Xian nodded.

Eating speed... he wasn't afraid of that. After all, in his previous life, finishing a box of fried rice in twenty seconds was no longer a legend...

But with the sound of a whistle, Yin Xian realized he was wrong.

It's not that our team didn't try hard, but the opponents were just too strong!

What is Narsha? Are you sure you're a female idol?

And are you sure you're eating jajangmyeon?

The way she used chopsticks to pick up a large bundle and then directly stuffed it into her mouth...

Yin Xian felt like he was a lady at a matchmaking event...

Yuri was also stunned by Narsha.

Only Kim Hyun-ah was still whining and trying to stuff noodles into her mouth, so...

"Ah! Brother Yin Xian, Sister Yuri, what are you doing?" Kim Hyun-ah, who lost the competition, looked like she was about to cry.

"Sister Narsha, you're amazing, I'm impressed." Yin Xian completely ignored the whining Kim Hyun-ah and made a gesture of admiration to Narsha.

Narsha waved her hand arrogantly at Yin Xian and pointed to the frozen stream below: "Go, Brother Yin Xian!"

Then Yin Xian's face turned into a bitter expression.

"Who goes first?" Yin Xian still tried to be a gentleman. If it were "Infinite Challenge," he would have already taken advantage of his junior status to be the first to jump in...

This is a game of honor!

Such a superfluous question would have no answer.

The only choice was to go in reverse order of age.

Kim Hyun-ah, who had been the most enthusiastic, sadly put her foot into the ice water and pulled it back after less than two seconds.

"Ah, this punishment is too cruel and inhumane! Look at our poor Hyun-ah! This can't happen again!" Yin Xian tried to escape with a righteous look.

Then he was suppressed.

The method of suppression... was very direct.

Yuri, who had just taken off her shoes and socks and was watching Kim Hyun-ah, slipped and put her foot into the ice water, then jumped out like a fish that had been electrocuted.

"Ah! This doesn't count!" Yin Xian quickly said.

"Why doesn't it count?" Goo Hara was already laughing on the shore.

"Yuri, you decide!" The village chief Lu adopted a posture of listening to the public opinion.

"Since I've already put my foot in the water..." Yuri said with a shy look...

Yin Xian swore he saw a deep sense of satisfaction in Yuri's eyes.

Even without looking at her eyes, he could feel that Yuri's whole face was beaming.

...

"From the moment you insisted on switching teams with Narsha, you had this plan, right?" Standing by the stream, Yin Xian, who had just taken off his shoes and was looking resentful, said to Yuri, who was gloating and even holding a phone to record.

"Of course not!" Yuri naturally wouldn't admit it.

"What did I do to offend you!" Yin Xian looked resentful.

"Nothing! Brother, you misunderstood, I just accept the consequences of my bet." Yuri refused to let go.

"I bet, and you accept the consequences?"

"That makes sense!" Yuri nodded.

"Yin Xian, stop talking and get in! Both feet!" Narsha couldn't stand Yin Xian's clowning around anymore. "Both feet!"

"Why?"

"Because you're a man!" Narsha was very confident...

Yin Xian stood in the ice water for 58 seconds, then shivered and ran back to the shore.

He felt like his feet were about to freeze off.

...

"Sunni, come look, I just recorded a short video!" As soon as they returned to the filming yard, Yuri eagerly pulled Sunni to watch the 58-second video she had just recorded...

At this moment, Yin Xian finally understood why Yuri had done it.

I just won a few first places by defeating you guys a few times, is this really necessary? This could be fatal!

Feeling utterly defeated, Yin Xian was even more low-key in the subsequent filming.

"Brother, are you... okay?" During the dinner segment, the second-to-last part of the recording, Park Hyo-min, who happened to be sitting next to Yin Xian, quietly asked him.

"Not... well, my feet still hurt." Yin Xian was taken aback and replied in a low voice.

He also glanced at the direction of T-ara's manager.

The manager was on the phone...

Just as Yin Xian thought they would chat more, Park Hyo-min suddenly stopped talking.

Yin Xian felt another internal injury...

Then Yin Xian and Park Hyo-min, who were sitting next to each other, didn't say a word. Park Hyo-min continued to perform her screen role, acting as a partition between her and Yin Xian, while the production team even invited two villagers to join them for a real meal...

What should have been a dinner that could be recorded in ten minutes took nearly two hours.

When the final segment of lighting a fire and making a wish was recorded, the filming that started at 10:00 AM had already lasted nearly eighteen hours...

After soaking his feet in ice water in the afternoon, Yin Xian's feet really felt like they were about to be frostbitten.

Although he applied frostbite cream, the itching and pain were still very uncomfortable.

Worse still, the production team made the recording so long.

After all, they only needed to edit one episode, so why did they shoot so much?

Yin Xian resisted the urge to complain and, without a moment's delay, got into the nanny car.

"Going home." Yin Xian was so excited, it almost brought tears to his eyes, like a prisoner being released.

At this moment, he missed the "Infinite Challenge" brothers, especially Liu Zaishi, immensely.

Recording a show with these brothers was never this tiring! With Park Myung-soo around, they never shot so much and edited it later... everyone valued efficiency, right? If the production team did this, they would have been scolded to death by Father Park! And with Brother Zaishi, the fire-lighting wish segment would have been done in twenty minutes, not almost an hour and a half. What's this?

I'll never go to a show without Brother Zaishi, even if Brother Hwang Dong is hosting!

Yin Xian made a somewhat hysterical vow in his heart.

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