Chapter 904 - 903: Who Is the Night Owl Champion?

The final answer is still E.

Now Shi Yuhuai is recognized by the national audience as the "most suitable for remaining single" person.

Even though Mu Qiu and her team lost, they were quite happy, laughing and swaying.

Shi Yuhuai gave the rope a tug and watched the three of them fall into the water, which improved his mood a little.

Then Guan Yu and her team got up and started shouting again.

"Brother Huai, you’re really not cute at all, being so rough and unkind to girls. You truly are fit to be single."

"...Do you still want this boat? If not, I’ll throw it away."

Guan Yu: "No, no, no, spare the inflatable boat. They’re a pair, this one you’re sitting on is its partner."

As soon as she finished speaking, Shi Yuhuai maliciously tossed the inflatable boat out of the pool, causing another wave of laughter.

After the laughter subsided, the seventh question appeared on the screen.

"May I ask, who do the viewers think is the champion of staying up late among you?"

A: Li Yang

B: Mu Qiu

C: Guan Yu

D: Cheng Zhirang

"Hmm??? Why aren’t Brother Huai and Sister Shu Ran on the list?" Mu Qiu asked.

Director: "These are the four options with the highest audience votes. Brother Huai and Sister Shu Ran are at the bottom, recognized by the audience as people with regular routines."

"Regular routines?" Guan Yu glanced at Shi Yuhuai.

"Come to think of it, Brother Huai is quite regular. He never joins in nighttime chats. Shu Ran too, if it’s late she’ll say she needs her beauty sleep. Occasionally, when she sends a video at night, she’s timing her face mask and says she has to hang up in twenty minutes, tsk."

Mu Qiu continued: "Then Brother Huai would comment on the previous night’s chat content the next morning, like at seven o’clock when everyone’s still asleep, he’d send a ’hahaha’ in the group."

Speaking of this, everyone remembered and began to laugh.

Guan Yu: "Really, Brother Huai is so funny. We told him not to just send ’hahaha’ because it makes it seem like he’s fake laughing, and then next time he’ll add that smiling emoji after ’hahaha’, hahaha, such a typical guy!"

Li Yang laughed while exposing: "There’s more! Sometimes when we talk about good food at night and plan where to eat, if he’s online, he’ll pop into the group and send a red packet saying he can come along, hahahahaha! Absolutely hilarious! A walking red packet machine!"

"And Sister Shu Ran, sometimes when she’s asleep and forgets to silence her phone, and we keep chatting, she’ll send an emoji in the group, like the one with a tired face saying ’you’re so noisy’, and announce she’s enabling do not disturb," Mu Qiu revealed another.

Shu Ran shot her a look: "That’s because you guys are really noisy. I just don’t get your inexplicable urge to start a meme battle in the group, with notifications dinging everywhere and nobody talking, just emojis."

"You should blame Li Yang for that," Guan Yu pointed at Li Yang, "He’s the one who loves sharing memes, always finding some screenshot from the show to share."

Li Yang flicked his bangs and said: "Fans provide them, specifically for me to meme battle with you. But speaking of night owls, it’s normal that Brother Huai and Sister Shu Ran aren’t on the list because they don’t join nighttime chats. Brother Cheng also rarely joins, and he doesn’t reply much in the morning either, so how did he end up on the list?"

Guan Yu made a face: "Maybe it’s because he has a girlfriend."

The scene fell silent for two seconds after that. Li Yang didn’t immediately grasp the meaning, but upon noticing the other people’s ambiguous smiles and Mu Qiu’s slightly red ears, he quickly caught on.

"Ah, well..."

Cheng Zhirang cleared his throat: "Let’s choose an answer."

"Right, right, choose an answer. Um, I think I could be quite competitive for the title of night owl champion?" Li Yang said.

Guan Yu followed up: "You are quite competitive. Young people have lots of energy, participating in all sorts of activities during the day and even in the middle of the night still meme battling, inviting everyone to watch the sunrise at six. I just can’t even with you."

Shu Ran also added: "Sometimes after a whole day of singing and dancing in rehearsal, at dinner, you claim to be so tired you can’t even eat congee, yet after two hours of sleep, you get up at dawn to send a picture of braised pork in the group."

Li Yang felt slightly embarrassed but still strongly retorted:

"This is totally normal, alright? After singing and dancing, it’s easy to get hungry at night. If you’re talking about people who send food pictures, it’s Sister Guan Yu and Mu Qiu, right? They race to share photos of snacks and gourmet dishes every day. And Sister Guan Yu, haven’t you created at least twenty groups? Messaging in so many groups daily makes it feel like work; your energy is truly incredible."

Everyone had something to say about this topic.

Shi Yuhuai pointed out directly: "She even messages in the previous guest groups, praising Brother Jiang Lu for no reason."

Mu Qiu, though slightly blushing, lifted her head: "And she sends links to us three in our mini-group at midnight, trying to sell us skirts, and makes memes out of ugly screenshots from our shared program! Seeing my phone light up with those memes at midnight scared the life out of me!"

Guan Yu glared: "You have the nerve to talk about me? You’re a writer, night is your creative time. Sometimes at two in the morning, you’re energetically writing essays and sending pictures of dramas and movies to ask us if the male lead is super handsome! Does Brother Cheng know you’re watching dramas at 2 AM?"

Cheng Zhirang truly wasn’t aware.

During the time before they formally lived together, he had no idea about her late-night spirited group chats.

Mu Qiu slightly turned her head and met Cheng Zhirang’s teasing expression.

She quickly turned away, keeping a calm face, and defended herself: "That’s just occasional! Occasional! Only once or twice. I definitely can’t compare to you. You’ve sent how many links? And all those ’cut one’ requests, filling my phone with apps!"

Guan Yu: "...Cough, that’s all in the past. I’ve hardly done that since, alright?"

Li Yang lay over the swan’s neck, speaking in a tone of awe: "Is your small group of you three really that lively? The small group with the three of us, only I say a thing or two, then Brother Huai responds, and a few hours later, Brother Cheng gives an ’mhm’. Oh, and Brother Huai occasionally sends an emoji to the wrong group, then retracts it with an awkward ’sorry’.

Pfft, I can totally imagine that chat interface.

Shu Ran then asked: "By the way, how many groups do we have? Yesterday, I tried to find one with just the four of us and went through over ten with no success."

Mu Qiu casually replied: "You could try calculating them using combinations. But yesterday, just counting the groups Sister Guan Yu has made, there are seven, and these are only the ones I’m in. The ones I’m not in probably add up to another ten or twenty."

Shi Yuhuai nodded thoughtfully, frowning, expressing his frustration: "I’ve been leaving them for a long time and still haven’t finished, and by the next day there’s a new group pulling me back in."