Chapter 131 Part 1: The Missing Sakura Candy, Xie Qingxuan’s Attack (1)

Sea City, apartment.

Xu Ling put down her small dinosaur pillow and picked up her house cat plushie. As she petted this cute pet that her friend had temporarily sent over, she eagerly looked at the TV.

The third episode was a whopping 121 minutes long, almost like a movie.

Even though it was longer than the previous two episodes, it condensed the time of 168 contestants for over half a month.

It’s easy to imagine that the distribution of camera shots would be even more intense.

Xu Ling didn’t mind much.

The elimination process on “Dazzling Stage” was indeed harsh, but the attention it brought was unprecedented. Even the sisters who were eliminated and couldn’t become idols could use this fame to transition to other paths in the entertainment industry.

– Risks and opportunities coexist.

Life is just like that, “Dazzling Stage” only makes it more extreme.

Those sisters with real shining qualities, even if they unfortunately fail, will surely shine in their future lives, and will be seen by the world in their own shining moments.

To put it simply, being an idol is a big dream but also narrow, big enough to encompass many people’s lives, but narrow enough that after leaving it, one can embrace a wider world.

The show officially starts.

In this episode, the only scenes spoiled in advance were Chu Yuanqing’s two Stage Battles, which add up to just 15 minutes. The rest of the 100+ minutes is a blank unknown territory for the audience.

So, this time, hardly anyone was fast-forwarding like before.

Xu Ling is just like that too, as the founder of “Meet You in the Mist” and a loyal defender of the Ironblood Sakura Party. She has become a relentless candy-searching machine, determined to find all the sakura candies in the first viewing of Episode 3!

Unfortunately, in the first 30 minutes, Chu Yuanqing and Kirimi Miyuki did not meet at all.

Don’t mention sakura candy, inside is filled with Golden Retriever puppies and Honey Qing’s daily life. What’s even worse is that, due to containing a lot of practice details of “Dangerous Party,” it has a very high copper content, causing cheers from the “Clear City Qing Empire”.

The fans of two different couples started to argue.

Meanwhile, more fans were busy showing their love for all the pretty girls.

Xu Ling didn’t join the fight, leaving the battle to the soldiers. As a leader of the Iron Blood Cherry Blossom faction, she had a more important task.

Her job was to boost her team’s morale by finding sweets to enhance the legitimacy of their couple!

The show didn’t focus much on Chu Yuanqing’s training.

In total, there were over 70 hours of training for “Dangerous Party”, but only two minutes made it to the screen, with clips of Grade A competitors’ training shown in between.

Throughout the show, all 84 teams were given some training and daily life footage, ranging from two minutes to just a few seconds.

Although all the teams seemed to get along, a storm was brewing in secret.

The storm was initiated by Kirimi Miyuki’s first Stage Battle.

Because Chu Yuanqing’s performance was livestreamed, the audience already knew the outcome of the PK battle in advance, so they didn’t have high expectations.

What’s interesting is, before this scene happened, a green-eyed cat was happily filling out a PK application form, targeting Chu Yuanqing and Xie Qingxuan’s team, completely ignoring Lin Baor’s shocked expression beside them.

The bullet comments in the video were filled with laughter, with many unable to resist commenting:

“Haha, Liuli clearly challenged with no serious intent, so Little Sakura swooped in and stole Honey Qing, playing NTR. Laugh out loud!”

“Lin Baor’s expression is so funny, she’s probably thinking about how this team should play, giving off an outsider’s beauty.”

“This is hilarious, the reason why Honey Qing lost the PK battle for the second time is found – Little Sakura is truly a specialist in hidden development.”

“So entertaining, how did Liuli agree to take on the challenge afterwards? That tricky sakura girl with many tactics!”

The camera angle in the show shifted.

Kirimi Miyuki had already cornered Tang Liuli and Lin Baor with Chu Wang Shu, wearing a polite smile. She managed to ruffle a certain cat’s fur with just a few words, successfully setting up the PK battle for the next day at noon.

In the interface of the third episode, a bunch of bullet comments suddenly appeared, eventually converging into three sentences in silence:

“Lin Baor looks so helpless.”

“Little Sakura seems so sneaky.”

“The green-eyed cat is so easily provoked.”

Xu Ling couldn’t help but admire Kirimi Miyuki’s tactics, with her foresight, she understood how brilliant this decision was.

This tricky move, on a larger scale, was a necessary process to complete the dual “Heart Flow” bonds; and on a smaller scale, it achieved a situation where one side lost a lead singer and the other gained a Grade A, truly a brilliant move!

For a moment, the cherry blossom faction in the group was extremely delighted, having a true leader who combined luck and wisdom, why worry about missing out on rewards?

Haha, the third episode is secured now! There must be rewards waiting inside!

Not long after this scene, “Dazzling Stage” broadcasted a notification to all players about the first stage PK.

Following closely behind them, one after another, like mushrooms after the rain, nearly ten teams, which are about one-eighth of the participants in the entire competition region, chose to have a stage battle that night.

Xu Ling was somewhat surprised, she had a feeling that something was not right.

“So fast? Miyuki agreed to the challenge because she happened to draw the dance she is confident in, and her opponents are a duo of two lead singers, with a high chance of winning. What about the others?”

This question was almost quickly answered.

The official of “Dazzling Stage” did not release all the stage performances, they only edited the best highlights of each team on stage, along with sharp comments from the mentors, consecutive low scores, and the high-rated participants being selected without exception.

The bullet comments exploded one by one.

“Damn, doesn’t the program group care? Isn’t this unfair to the other teams who prepared seriously for their performances?”

“Hard to say, I suspect Dream Weaver Rabbit enjoys this kind of development. Isn’t the high-pressure environment in the show created by them?”

The bullet comments were in chaos, the show continued to play, creating a storyline as if the fake competition league desired, showing scenes of them negotiating, planning selfishly, and displaying reluctance and enlightenment.

At the same time, Dream Weaver Rabbit also kindly provided all the deceived, abandoned, and tricked low-level players with a corresponding scene, which was almost unbelievable – very sad and contrasting sharply with the previously harmonious team atmosphere.

For a while, public opinion became polarized and people started arguing with each other.

All the people from the Fake Match League are Grade B players, with a large number of fans accumulated.

Their arguments were “not breaking any rules of the game”, “the program group default is considered reasonable”, “having both high-level and low-level players in one team is unfair from the beginning”, “if they don’t want to be idols, why would they risk being criticized just to increase their chances of winning a little?”