Chapter 901 - 900: Brother Cheng, Is This Bottle of Moutai Not Strong Enough?

Unfortunately, his furious roar didn’t get the slightest response.

The three—Mu Qiu and the others—were still arguing about who was the most handsome, and the names being mentioned still didn’t include Li Yang and Shi Yuhuai.

It was enough to make him explode.

Li Yang immediately raised his hand and shouted at the director, "B! We pick B, Brother Cheng is the most handsome!"

If he couldn’t rank in the girls’ hearts, then he’d pick their answer and drag them down with him!

Cheng Zhirang rationally kept his mouth shut, as if Li Yang wasn’t shouting his name.

As soon as Mu Qiu heard Li Yang抢先 pick Cheng Zhirang, she instantly gritted her teeth, stared at Cheng Zhirang’s face twice, then decisively turned her head and changed her answer.

"I’m switching to Su Yan now! Sorry, Mr. Peach Sparkling Water!"

Guan Yu was still stubbornly holding on: "Jiang Lu!"

Shu Ran: "Su Yan! Okay, we’re two to one, so it’s Su Yan!"

Even if they lost, they’d throw in this second-most-popular top idol; his fans wouldn’t kick up a fuss.

Everyone more or less already knew the answer was most likely Cheng Zhirang anyway. Of course, that’s assuming the Cheng Zhi fans hadn’t all retired and skipped the vote while other fandoms stormed in and smashed the poll. If that really happened, well, that’d just be Li Yang and the gang’s bad luck, hahahahaha.

The director confirmed both sides’ answers again, and the audience’s poll result came up on the screen.

"B, Brother Cheng!"

Li Yang: "Yeah! It’s your turn to go in the water!!!"

Mu Qiu sighed. "You all heard it, right? I lit up Brother Cheng from the very start. You have to testify for me."

Guan Yu and Shu Ran were already clinging tightly to the swan boat, extremely nervous.

"It’s fine, Brother Cheng is a grown man now, he won’t get jealous that easily. And if he does, we’ll pretend we didn’t hear it. You can explain yourself to him."

Mu Qiu: "..."

The rope under their swan boat was already in Li Yang and Shi Yuhuai’s hands; the two of them stared at the girls with a sinister look.

Cheng Zhirang still looked like a proper gentleman, but the hand he was resting on the rope in front of them was clearly not so gentlemanly.

Cheng Zhirang reminded them in a gentle, gentlemanly tone, "Be careful."

Then he yanked the rope hard!

The boat flipped to the right. Shu Ran’s scream was only halfway out before it got forcibly muted, replaced by the splash of them plunging into the pool.

Mu Qiu shut her eyes, flailing her arms and legs in the water as she kicked, then surfaced and grabbed onto the edge of the pool, gasping heavily.

Holding her breath underwater was torture; one careless moment and she’d choke.

She snatched up the bath towel that was about to sink, twisted open a corner, and wiped the water off her face and hair.

Shu Ran was still leaning on the edge coughing, while Guan Yu was already wiping water off her face with one hand as she went to right the overturned swan boat.

"Damn, this move is literally yanking the plank from under the pot, right? Good thing I know a bit of dog paddle, otherwise I’d manage to drown in a swimming pool. Airing that would be hilarious in the worst way."

They dragged the inflatable boat back over, and one by one carefully climbed on and sat down again.

Ready to fight it out again on the fifth question.

Meanwhile online, that ’who is the most handsome’ question had already indirectly spawned a whole bunch of trending topics.

#Cheng Zhirang intoxicating Maotai#

#Jiang Lu mellow vintage liquor#

#Su Yan ice-cold Sprite#

#Lin Lian peach sparkling water#

#Li Yang and Brother Huai were never mentioned#

#Beauty boosts literary creativity to level 10#

[So it turns out the one I love is ice-cold Sprite, couldn’t resist buying a bottle, perfect for summer / dog-head]

[These descriptions are insane, my little scrub brain would never come up with this]

[Flying Maotai hahahahahaha, go straight for the priciest metaphor!]

[It’s so accurate! Isn’t Lin Lian basically bubble water?! And she happens to be at that peach-soft age too!]

[Fight, fight, fight!]

[Back in the day, I argued this fiercely with my classmates over who was more handsome]

[I also like the older man (not like that) Jiang Lu! That roguish noble vibe, like a medieval aristocrat—no one in the industry has his type yet!]

[Brother Cheng is devastatingly gorgeous hahahahaha]

[I suspect Brother Cheng was taking revenge on purpose, because Mu Qiu didn’t pick him in the end]

[Mu Qiu, how can you have room in your heart for another sparkling water?! Isn’t Brother Cheng’s bottle of Maotai strong enough?!]

[Is my Yangyang not worthy of a nomination?! And Brother Huai too!]

[Li Yang is on the verge of an identity crisis hahahahahaha]

[Brother Huai didn’t say a word, then used a full hundred percent strength when he pulled the rope]

[Brother Cheng hits my kink perfectly! Gentle and soft-spoken, but ruthless and decisive with his hands]

[Mu Qiu: sigh, gotta go home and coax Brother Cheng properly again]

[Why do I feel like Mu Qiu and Brother Cheng’s roles are kind of reversed?]

Soon, the fifth question came out.

This time it wasn’t targeting any specific person, and the debate expanded from just the girls’ team to include the guys too.

"Question: across the nine episodes so far, which one can be called ’the most loved by viewers and the one they’re most willing to rewatch’? (Note: the following titles come from netizen summaries)"

1. God’s-eye View

2. Personal Movie Channel (Sticker Grab)

3. Little Paradise of Yun City

4. Willow Leaf Ancient City

5. Seaside Sect Survival Battle

6. Castle of the Disabled: A Shared Symphony

7. SCP Doomsday Friends Match

8. Ten-Thousand-People Stage

9. Instant Period-Drama Roleplay

Guan Yu squinted at that long string of options, slightly amazed.

"We’ve already gone through this many episodes? Just looking at the numbers doesn’t feel like it, but seeing these titles—each one still feels like it was yesterday."

She suddenly felt a little sentimental.

But she quickly broke the mood again, itching to speak: "I vote for Willow Leaf City! The entrance in Willow Leaf City was hands down the most badass and most ridiculous of all the episodes! Especially Shu—... mmph mmph mmph!"

Shu Ran reached from behind and clamped a hand over her mouth. "Shut up! I vote for Little Paradise of Yun City!"

Mu Qiu had a Different take from them. "I think the SCP episode was the best! As the original author, I can say the adaptation was incredibly faithful! And it was a card game!"

Li Yang: "I think that episode was the best too! But if we’re talking funniest, I think Little Paradise of Yun City—Sister Guan Yu singing, and the shark cars at the water park—was way funnier! And, and, the Ten-Thousand-People Stage... the Ten-Thousand-People Stage was the real best one! Brother Huai, what do you think?"

Shi Yuhuai pondered, desperately trying to find an episode where he hadn’t been oppressed by the female guests, preferably one where he actually rose up and won...

Apparently, there wasn’t one?

He reluctantly picked an episode where his memory of being oppressed wasn’t as deep. "Little Paradise of Yun City, I guess."

Cheng Zhirang chimed in then. "The seaside episode was good too, and the Castle of the Disabled episode had a fantastic performance at the end."

So many episodes had passed, and they’d left behind a lot of classics. Picking just one as the ’most popular’ was genuinely hard.

For pure comedy and meme value: Little Paradise of Yun City had Guan Yu’s breakout song ’La La La La Wu Mi’ and the shark cars at the water park; Willow Leaf Ancient City had that ridiculous entrance and chaotic quiz segment. For sheer impact: the performance in the Castle episode and the singing and dancing in the Ten-Thousand-People Stage were the best. For rigor and highest overall execution, it really was the SCP episode.

But which episode was the one viewers truly loved the most and were happiest to rewatch?