After Transmigrating into the Main Shou, I Topped the Paranoid Big Shot 51

Chapter 51

Before heading to record the show, Zong Mo took out a brand new, printed version of the agreement. This time, it was much more formal.

Agreement for Participating in the Variety Show Island Diary
Zong Mo’s demands on Ruan Chi:
Follow the arrangements of the program team
No sex
Ruan Chi’s demands on Zong Mo:
Be obedient

Ruan Chi took this so-called agreement and asked, “What about the penalty for breach of contract?”
“Hmm… anyway, you keep your word, and a million yuan is nothing to you,” Zong Mo said, giving his pre-prepared reason. “I think it’s fine without writing a penalty?”
This penalty could only restrain him!
Ruan Chi smiled, not interested in exposing him, and readily signed his name.

The filming of Island Diary allowed the live stream to be turned off during sleep, but the rest of the time was still in live stream format. To avoid being found by fans, they had chosen a remote mountain valley last time. This time, they came to a newly developed island that was not yet open to tourists.
Unexpectedly, they had gone abroad.
There were no direct flights, and taking a boat was too far. The program team, which had made a fortune, chartered a private plane and flew the six guests and staff from City A together.
It was Zong Mo’s first time on a private plane, and also his first time abroad. The seats were spacious enough to recline and serve as a bed. The view outside the window was more magnificent than any previous flight. Above were layers of snow-white clouds, and below was the vast expanse of boundless blue waves.
It was so beautiful that he temporarily forgot that a new round of the love battlefield had already begun.

Someone poked his shoulder from behind.
Zong Mo turned his head and met Qi Zhiyi’s smiling, curved eyes.
“Little Mo, do you know how to surf and dive?”
The twin brothers’ storyline had not yet triggered any strange plot. And the twins came from a well-off, normal family with both parents.
The only difference from ordinary people was that they had lived in the spotlight since childhood and lacked the normal school and play time of their youth, but the two brothers could accompany each other, and the personalities they had shown so far were the most normal.
Zong Mo had gone to the seaside with Ruan Chi last time, but they had gone to the apartment after watching the sunrise and hadn’t played in the water. Zong Mo was a little interested in Qi Zhiyi’s words, but he really didn’t know how, so he honestly admitted, “I don’t.”
“We can teach you,” Qi Zhiyi said. “Next time you come to M Country to play, we can go surfing on the south coast?”
Zong Mo: …
Wait, it was better not to touch the twin brothers’ storyline.
If he was tricked into going abroad, in an unfamiliar place with a language barrier, he would truly have no escape.

The private plane landed on a tropical island in the middle of the ocean.
The island in June was sunny, with clouds of various shapes in the washed-blue sky. White waves surged onto the yellow sandy beach. The sea was clear and blue, its sparkling waves constantly flashing, like stars that had fallen to the mortal world.
Arriving at the seaside again after a month, the feeling of summer was already clearly discernible.
The program team brought the six guests to a seaside homestay.
There was a wooden terrace suitable for barbecues, a courtyard with coconut trees, and a large, clean swimming pool.
The program team had booked the entire homestay. It was large, but dozens of staff members also needed to stay, and for the sake of the show’s effect, the guests certainly couldn’t live too far apart.
Tu Bu brought them to the corridor where the bedrooms were. Zong Mo took a look and saw only four doors.
After all, it was a variety show, not a real vacation. If the guests each lived in their own rooms, what would be the point of watching?

Tu Bu opened one of the doors and introduced:
“This is the public bathroom. The remaining three rooms are your bedrooms. They also have bathrooms, but the size and number of people are different. To ensure fairness, you can’t visit them in advance. Now, you will go to the living room to play a game. The winner can choose a room first.”
Zong Mo: …
Three bedrooms for six people, an average of two per room. No matter what, it shouldn’t be too much of a battlefield.
In the living room, Tu Bu continued to introduce, “The three rooms are a single room, a double room with a large bed, and a standard room for three. The game to choose a room is very simple and fair—it’s rock, paper, scissors.”
Actually, Tu Bu had considered rigging the room assignments in advance, but previous experience had shown that the guests’ improvisation was more exciting than his pre-set script.
The show had just started, so they would play a simple game to test the waters first.

Zong Mo’s spirits were immediately lifted. He didn’t have any skills he was confident of winning against Gongs #1 and #2, but if it was a game of luck like rock, paper, scissors, then of course he also had a fighting chance!
Rock, paper, scissors required no extra preparation and started immediately. In the first round, except for Qi Nanfeng and Qi Zhiyi who showed scissors, everyone else showed rock.
Two opponents were eliminated at once!
Zong Mo was excited. The twins didn’t show any signs of regret. Qi Zhiyi even smiled and said, “Ah, we lost. Anyway, we don’t want to stay in the single room. You guys wouldn’t leave the single room for us, right?”
Zong Mo thought to himself: Of course not. Isn’t the best way to avoid the love battlefield that single room!?
He must get that single room!
He glanced at Ling Han. It was very likely that Ling Han would choose the single room. He was the competitor he needed to be most wary of.
As for Ruan Chi and Lu Bo, he wasn’t sure if they wanted the single room or the double room with a large bed. But Ruan Chi wouldn’t want him and Lu Bo to sleep in the same bed, and Lu Bo wouldn’t want him and Ruan Chi to sleep in the same bed.
The battle was unpredictable. No matter how he thought about it, only by getting first place would he have the initiative.

The second round of rock, paper, scissors ended in an instant.
Zong Mo: …
He had just set his grand ambition, and he had already lost.
Since he couldn’t get first place, it didn’t matter what place he got.
He accepted it!
The worst-case scenario would be to stay in the three-person room with Ruan Chi and Lu Bo. But both of them had entered the top three, so it was unlikely they would choose the seemingly worst three-person room.
Zong Mo was slightly relieved and observed the battle.
Ruan Chi and Lu Bo won against Ling Han’s rock with paper.
Great!
Then between Ruan Chi and Lu Bo, as the top two, one of them would definitely choose the luxurious single room. He hoped it would be Lu Bo.

The two entered the final round. It was no longer a one-shot deal, but a best-of-five.
First round, two fists, a draw.
Second round, two fists, a draw.
Ruan Chi: “Hmm? I think I’ve found a pattern.”
Lu Bo: “Is that so?”
Zong Mo: ?
What’s wrong with these two? Do they have a telepathic connection?
“Heh,” Ruan Chi let out a cold laugh. “I need a one-minute break.”
Zong Mo: …?
A rock, paper, scissors match needs a halftime break?
Ruan Chi confirmed with Tu Bu, “Best of five, right?”
Tu Bu nodded, “Yes.”
Third round, Ruan Chi scissors, Lu Bo rock. Lu Bo wins.
Fourth round, Ruan Chi paper, Lu Bo scissors. Lu Bo wins.
Lu Bo only needed to win one more time to be the final winner.
Then Lu Bo should choose the single room, right? He had also lived in a single bedroom before. Zong Mo thought. Even if he chose the double or triple room, with the twins at the bottom, he could avoid sharing a room with him no matter what.

After losing two rounds in a row, Ruan Chi said in a deep voice, “Are you predicting me?”
Lu Bo smiled, “Am I?”
“Hehe.”
Fifth round, both showed paper, another draw.
Just watching the rock, paper, scissors match made Zong Mo extremely nervous. He heard Ruan Chi say again, “I need a three-minute break.”
Tu Bu: …?
Is this rock, paper, scissors or a war?
Zong Mo’s thoughts were not much different from Tu Bu’s. During the break, he asked Ruan Chi, “Ruan-ge, what pattern did you find?”
Ruan Chi: “Don’t disturb me.”
Zong Mo: ?

The twins, who had been eliminated the earliest, hadn’t been idle for a moment. They had been reviewing and practicing on the side. Qi Nanfeng suddenly spoke, “I know.”
So Zong Mo went to ask Qi Nanfeng.
“I found that boys and nervous people tend to show rock first,” Qi Nanfeng said.
“But I played a few rounds with the staff over there and found that girls prefer to show scissors first. Zhiyi and I also showed scissors first, probably because we were in a relaxed mood and didn’t care which bedroom we stayed in.”
The mentioned staff member let out an “eh,” opened his phone to search, and exclaimed in amazement, “There really is such a saying…”
Perhaps because he had entered his area of expertise, logical reasoning, Qi Nanfeng was unusually talkative, “The winner usually doesn’t change their move in the next round. The loser will switch to a move that can win against the previous one. We’ve tried a round, and no one has shown the same move three times in a row.”
Zong Mo was puzzled, “Then Teacher Lu showed rock three times in a row? And Ruan-ge switched to scissors after showing rock twice, but scissors can’t win against rock?”
Qi Zhiyi lamented, “They seem to be predicting each other.”
Zong Mo: ?

After a short break, the rock, paper, scissors match started again.
Lu Bo sighed lightly, “Now we can only guess based on personality.”
Zong Mo was surprised to find that he understood Lu Bo’s words!
The general meaning was that because the halftime break had made it inconvenient to predict, they had started to play psychological warfare.
First round of the new match, Ruan Chi scissors, Lu Bo paper.
Second round, Ruan Chi continued with scissors, Lu Bo continued with paper.
Third round, Ruan Chi paper, Lu Bo rock.
Ruan Chi won three out of five in one go, turning the tables.
…Did Lu Bo lose a little too easily?
Zong Mo’s intuition, honed in the love battlefield, was always accurate. He suddenly had that bad feeling again.
Ruan Chi also frowned slightly.

Tu Bu hadn’t expected that a simple game of rock, paper, scissors could be played in such a way. Qi Nanfeng, as if he had a script, had timely summarized the pattern, raising the live stream’s effect to be no less than a carefully post-produced recorded version.
Like the other staff members, Tu Bu had also thought that rock, paper, scissors was a game of pure luck. He searched according to Qi Nanfeng’s words. As he had said, there was a large amount of statistical data to support it. Rock, paper, scissors did have a pattern, and therefore, a winning strategy.
But, after I predict you and you predict me, this winning strategy also becomes invalid.
This time, for the special episode, Tu Bu had originally not wanted to invite Ruan Chi again.
If he only excluded one guest, it would inevitably lead to questions from the netizens. On the other hand, although Ruan Chi clearly had no variety sense, his innate ability to torment the program team could always pull the viewership to a new peak.
He was no less than the self-generated huge traffic Lu Bo, and Zong Mo, who had abandoned his idol’s burden to be physically comical.
Tu Bu looked at the lively bullet comments in the live stream, unwilling but also marveling.
Some people were just born to be in this business. His self-proclaimed sharp eye was not always accurate.

As the final winner, Ruan Chi said to Tu Bu, “I want the double room with a large bed.”
After saying that, he gave Zong Mo a look, without saying any extra words.
Zong Mo: …
He instantly understood the meaning of this look.
If Lu Bo chose the single room, Ling Han would definitely rather go to the three-person room than be in the same room with Ruan Chi.
Then it would be his turn to choose, to go to the double room to accompany CEO Ruan.
Lu Bo also looked at Zong Mo, but Zong Mo’s full attention was on Ruan Chi, and he did not, as before, keenly notice his gaze.
If he had gotten first place, no matter which room he chose, Ruan Chi would have avoided him. And Zong Mo had to listen to Ruan Chi, so he could only choose to be in the same room with Ruan Chi.
Thinking of this, Lu Bo, as the second place, suddenly smiled and said, “I also choose the double room with a large bed.”
Zong Mo: …?
Wait.
Ling Han, as the third place, had been silent all along. At this moment, as if afraid of being beaten to it, he immediately followed up, “I want the single room.”
Wait again, this direction is very wrong.
Qi Zhiyi sighed, but smiled, “Ah, Little Mo, only the three-person room is left. Then we have no choice.”
Zong Mo: ?
A world of three people is really too crowded. He can’t.

Author’s Note:
Nanfeng and Zhiyi: Hehe, we got the leftovers ^^