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On stage, Lu Wen Hao’s posture stiffened for a moment.
His textbook cool swinging motion was now distorted and twisted, looking somewhat awkward and bizarre.
“See, I told you you should warm up a bit…” The plushie muttered quietly.
Filtered through the headgear, the voice was soft and was a bit muffled, carrying a hint of cuteness.
However, the contents of those words sounded as if they were provoking him when they were heard by Lu Wen Hao.
In between breaths, he felt the pain on the right side of his waist intensify.
Even standing upright became somewhat difficult for him, and he could only maintain a bent position with his back.
F*ck!
He suspected that this cat was mocking him, and he even had evidence.
“When hitting the ball, the muscles go from relaxed to tense in an instant, and engages the waist in order to move the whole body, which is different from dancing. Without warming up, it’s easy to hurt the waist. The waist is the capital of the revolution~” She explained to the staff through the earpiece in a soft voice.
Who hurt the capital of the revolution!
Lu Wen Hao turned his head with difficulty and saw the silly-looking cat using its paws to press its head, looking foolish.
He wanted to remove this cat from his fanbase!
【Hahaha!】
【I can’t laugh anymore. Although I feel sorry for my son, this cat is too cute, and what she said makes sense.】
【Brother, remember to warm up next time, listen to the cat, don’t get hurt~】
【You only know how to advise Brother to warm up, unlike me, who can only feel sorry for Gege~】
gege: used to refer to older brothers, but can also be used to address older males (similar to oppa in korean)
【Speaking of which, has the mascot changed today? It looks quite soft, really want to pet it.】
【This cat is so cute, and the warm-up moves are so funny! I almost forgot to pay attention to my brother~】
【Brother, are you okay?】
The barrage was very lively, but unexpectedly, the tennis ball machine started up again!
Tennis balls shot out at lightning speed, heading towards Lu Wen Hao, making his expression instantly turn ugly!
He couldn’t lift the racquet at all now… he could only dodge and barely avoid these balls.
However, each ball he dodged didn’t stop and continued flying towards the people behind him. They were on the verge of hitting the staff behind the cameras.
Lu Wen Hao gritted his teeth.
【!】
【Help!】
【Did my husband really get hurt?!】
【Heavens! Quickly turn off that ball machine!】
Rapidly shot tennis balls hitting the body was no joke.
But just as the audience was worried, the large, pink, stretching cat on the stage stiffened for a second, then turned around.
With a quick three-step snake-like shuffle, it rapidly retreated, and in a surprisingly enchanting posture, it leaped high onto the speakers with one leg!
With a pow, its thick cat paw reached out and steadily caught the out-of-control tennis ball!
The entire barrage: 【… o_o!!!】
With a couple of pows, the cat caught two more tennis balls with its pink left and right paws respectively, casually throwing them into a basket about a metre away.
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The entire venue became as silent as a chicken.
Until the ball machine suddenly paused its firing.
The large cat clapped its left and right paws, breathed a sigh of relief on its paws, and jumped down from the speakers, acting as if nothing had happened, and returned to its original position.
Hidden merit and name.
Lu Wen Hao, the guest of the game with five million fans, stood in front of her, unable to attract even a single glance from the audience.
The whole audience was dumbfounded.
Almost everyone had forgotten how this ball game was supposed to be played and what the original rules were.
And when the last tennis ball, launched from the preset ball machine, flew out, Lu Wen Hao, who was still lost in thought while looking at the bizarre ‘cat,’ failed to make a move.
As the ball sped towards him, just when it seemed it would hit his face, the pink cat mumbled something that even Lu Wen Hao couldn’t hear clearly. Its right paw pulled him from behind, and its left paw steadily caught the incoming ball.
Lu Wen Hao, who was 1.83 metres tall, was instantly hooked into the arms of the furry cat, appearing somewhat petite…
It was a strangely harmonious scene.
Lu Wen Hao: “!”
Live broadcast room: “!!”
The game came to an end, applause thundered throughout the venue as the variety effect reached its peak.
Bao Ruan Ruan released Lu Wen Hao somewhat apprehensively.
As soon as he stood in front of her, motionless, the ball would have hit him. For such a tall person, if he had fallen because of the ball and then as a result fell on her, then she would have most likely suffered from a work-related injury.
Before, when she had been trapped in the game, she had once been hit and fallen from a one-metre-high stage, and unfortunately suffered from breaking her neck.
Even to this day, she still couldn’t forget the painful feeling.
Bao Ruan Ruan was still lost in her thoughts when the host cued her.
Lu Wen Hao had suffered a sprain and had been urgently taken backstage by the staff for rest and treatment. With a gap in the program, the host had no choice but to reluctantly interview the mascot, Bao Ruan Ruan.
However, Bao Ruan Ruan was completely puzzled under the headgear.
The only instructions she had received for this job was to catch the balls.
Pressing a hand to the mascot head, she waved her hand.
Host: “…?”
Bao Ruan Ruan wanted to leave the stage but was stopped by the host.
She immediately started playing a game of hide-and-seek with the host on the spot, moving left and right, hiding and dodging.
The host gritted his teeth, “…?”
“Are you so shy? Say hello to the audience, don’t be nervous.”
Bao Ruan Ruan shook her head.
Saying hello, that was a separate cost.
The host still wanted to reach out, but it was too late. Bao Ruan Ruan, still dressed in a cat costume, agilely moved away from him, took two steps, and rushed off to the backstage area.
Host: “???”
【Damn, this episode is going to make me laugh to death!】
【Hahaha, I really didn’t think that i’d be crying from laughter at this mascot’s antics.】
【How many years has it been? The show’s mascot has finally become an expert!】
The mascot actually ran away; even with the opportunity to perform, it didn’t want it. In the entertainment industry, this was quite rare.
【Catching balls so skillfully, and even the dodging skills are equally impressive. Not even the host, a big man, could stop her!】
【A master among us mortals. The cat must be a girl, right? That height does not look like a guy’s.】
【If she’s a girl, then she’s even more powerful!】
Still in a daze, Chen Feng’s phone suddenly vibrated, and a WeChat notification popped up:
[Xue Jing]: Is the recording over? Did it go smoothly?
Chen Feng looked at the stage, then at his phone, his eyes twitching a few times.
Go smoothly? He almost didn’t recognize these words ‘go smoothly’ from Brother Xue.
Backstage, with Yunnan Baiyao sprayed on his waist, Lu Wen Hao finally felt like he was in less pain and glanced at the live broadcast replay. Immediately after watching it, he fell into self-isolation.
‘White medicine from the Yunnan Province’ is a chinese herb mix that is used for pain relief and stopping bleeding
That foolish cat stole his screen time.
But in the end, it still saved him.
“If it weren’t for that cat, your face would have been made swollen by that ball.”
Lu Wen Hao: “…”
Then, he will add her back into his fanbase.
“Give her a signed photo.”
Manager: “?”
Lu Wen Hao rubbed his chin.
This was definitely one of his face fans.
Fans that become fans of a certain idol’s looks. Similar to face dogs who are people who go crazy for good looking people.
She had remained calm before, yet at the critical moment, had jumped out to protect his face.
His brother had said that his face had been obtained by exchanging it with his brain.
“Send three signed photos.”
This face of his was too expensive.
After dealing with a bunch of matters that had piled up, Xue Jing was finally free to pay more attention to the new artist he had signed.
However, when he sent a message to Chen Feng, he didn’t receive a reply.
Xue Jing lightly tapped the ends of his eyes with his index finger and opened the live replay of ‘Happy Saturday’ himself.
Half an hour later.
The coffee in Xue Jing’s hand became cold.
Had Huangtai delayed a martial arts athlete?
Xue Jing stretched out his fingers and pressed his temples.
He couldn’t figure it out.
Her resume had been so ordinary, yet she unexpectedly turned out to be a martial arts expert?
Her agility sharply contrasted with her delicate appearance.
Did he pick up a big leak from Huangtai?
“Brother Xue, Little Bao has a new job! Director Zheng Ming Chang noticed her appearance as a mascot and wants to bring her onto ‘Island Restaurant’!” Chen Feng sent a congratulatory message from the scene.
Xue Jing was stunned for a moment, then picked up his phone and glanced at it, “Isn’t Director Zheng on vacation?”
“Yes, he just so happened to be at home and watched this episode of the live broadcast.”
“…”
Zheng Ming Chang is a well-known entertainment director from Jiangcheng TV station.
A few years ago, when the entertainment industry was in a downturn and variety show ratings were frozen below 0.5%, he single-handedly launched ‘One Person Restaurant,’ assembling several celebrities to open a restaurant and entertain tired overtime workers returning home at night, boosting Jiangcheng TV station’s ratings to 1.2%, which became famous in the industry.
However, after seven seasons, the audience got tired of watching it as it lost its freshness, and the ratings gradually declined.
Seeing it about to fall below 0.6% this year, Zheng Ming Chang, thought of the painful experience and decisively renamed the show ‘Island Restaurant’, changing the shooting mode.
There were six guests; apart from veteran actors, they also invited currently popular little fresh meats as well as various other talented people.
People often refer cute, young guys as little fresh meats
Now, with one vacancy left after five guests, Zheng Ming Chang was in a dilemma.
Each guest had their own requirements:
Guest No. 1 was a 40-year-old veteran actor who was still playing the male lead in idol dramas. He requested the show not to invite guests of the same age who had acted as parents on a show, fearing that it would give the audience the impression that he could also play a father, which would in turn affect his future male lead roles.
Guest No. 2 was a popular young actor who recently starred in a BL drama adaptation, was about to market a CP, so didn’t want to collaborate with any boys who were shorter than him, fearing that the audience would be prejudiced and damage the CP feeling from the original drama.
danmei novel refers to a story about a romance between males
In China, “CP” is a popular Internet slang that stands for the imaginary lovers or couples in novel, drama or comic. “CP” is an abbreviation of either “couple” or “character pairing”.
Guest No. 3 was the youngest member of a new girl group and didn’t want to collaborate with male artists too much for fear of being pulled into a gossip scandal.
…
Guest No. 5 was Lu Wen Hao, who was inserted into the program after Zhen Ming Chang finally found the Lu family for an investor of the show.
His manager had repeatedly emphasised that they didn’t want any young female guests who were too actively flirty and for them to avoid having any improper thoughts about Lu Wen Hao.
After all, his elder brother, Lu Wen Yao, had just been caught in the ugly scene of ‘108th tier Bao disturbing engagement ceremony’, and his younger brother couldn’t get caught in that pitfall either.
Zhen Ming Chang could understand all of these requirements, but putting them all together, wasn’t this just making things too difficult for him?!
The sixth guest, neither male nor female, neither tall nor short, neither beautiful nor ugly… where could he find such a person?
But who would have thought that while he was on vacation at home, casually turning on Jiangcheng TV when he was bored, that he would be captivated by the cat mascot’s twisting waist and agile ball-catching abilities in ‘Happy Saturday’?
A flash of inspiration crossed Zheng Ming Chang’s hairless head: Wasn’t this just the sixth person that was chosen by heaven?
“I want this cat’s contact information! Hey, forget it, I’ll be at the station in twenty minutes; you guys make sure to keep the cat for me!”
Having the mascot coming onto ‘Island Restaurant’ could satisfy the requirements of the five guests and also at the same time, stir up hype and conversation for the show.
Zheng Ming Chang drove all the way to the station, and by the time he got off the car, #Cat Mascot Shows its Strength# had already shot up to the fifth place on the trending hot search
The popularity of Cat Mascot continued to increase, with over 100 million views on the topic.
Zheng Ming Chang was immediately anxious, hoping that no one would try to snatch it from him.
Entering the prop room as directed by the staff, Zheng Ming Chang rushed in anxiously.
“Hello, I have a new variety show and would like to invite you as a permanent guest in the form of a big cat mascot. Remuneration can be negotiated— —”
In a second, the pink cat’s figure appeared before his eyes.
The fluffy cat paw was pressing on its head in the corner, clumsily preparing to take it off.
Looking at it up close, Zheng Ming Chang also found it cute.
But without any defence, its head was taken off, revealing a face with black hair clinging to sweaty skin and a delicate small face with a fair forehead.
Full cheeks that were rosy like an apple, picturesque countenance, slightly upturned eyes, and a hint of redness in her pure and beautiful eyes. There was a hint of fragility in her pure and unadulterated beauty that made people hold their breath.
Zheng Ming Chang: “!”
Stunning.
But why did she seem… a bit familiar?
have no fear, lu wen hao is merely a puppy dog in front of god ruan ruan HAHAHAHA all the characters will inevitably fall at our public safety enforcer’s feet^^
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