IHWL – Chapter 81.2

    Su Jishi left the disoriented Zhou Jing behind, and rode back to the rest area amidst the cheers of the onlookers.

    The entire rest area was filled with dozens of people from the program group, but they were dead silent. From Director Zheng and the Chief Producer, down to several artists and assistants; everyone looked at her as if they had been nudged to shut up and look at her in awe.

    In the cold wind of nearly40 degrees below zero, almost every single one of them was full of ruddy faces, excited as if they had just gotten off their horses.

    “What’s the matter?” Su Jishi woke them up amusedly. “I’m freezing to death. Where’s my down jacket?”

    She twisted and spryly dismounted the horse. She collected some horse grass and fed her horse, thanking him for his tacit cooperation with her. The horse snorted and instead of going after the horse grass, he instead turned sideways and rubbed his head intimately against the side of Su Jishi’s face. A horse asking for pampering knew nothing about controlling his strength, so Su Jishi’s high hat was rubbed off.

    Xiao Xia snapped back to attention. She rushed to shake off her down jacket and hurriedly approached Su Jishi, draping it on her.

    Her cheeks were glowing ruddily, and like a fattened chicken in a coop, she couldn’t contain herself anymore: “Sister Su! Sister Su, I will be your reverse Su((not quite sure about the term, but it simply means treating a woman as a man)) fan! How about I call you Brother Su?”

    Su Jishi: “…” Wait, she only heard of male celebrities as reverse Su. So, could female celebrities also be a reverse Su?

    Xiao Xia: “You were just too awesome! How did you come up with that last move?” While saying that, she imitated how Su Jishi wielded her whip just now, jumping up and down. “You just swished, ha —— then swished, ha —— then swished —— And you ended up smacking her hat to the ground!We saw her face here on the monitor. She was so furious that her nose went crooked! No, that’s not right! Her nose wasn’t straight. It was crooked!!!” 

    Su Jishi hurriedly stopped her bragging, “That’s enough. I didn’t want to hurt her. I just wanted to teach her a lesson. After all, we’re recording a show. It’s unwise to shed blood.”

    Qin Qiu was also considered a traffic celebrity. She wasn’t afraid of things and said straight, “Sister Su, you don’t want to hurt her, but she wants to hurt you, ah.”

    The two whips that Zhou Jing drew were aimed at Su Jin’s vitals. If you called the first one cheap tease, then Zhou Jing was the cheapest of the cheap.

    Things happened very quickly. When Director Zheng saw Zhou Jing’s death-defying actions on the monitor, he was scared out of his wits. He immediately instructed people to quickly call off the game, but too many tourists were around the railings. The staff simply couldn’t squeeze in to stop things from getting worse the first time the whip fell.

    Su Jishi turned to the Chief Producer and said bluntly, “I believe everyone saw that I’m at odds with Zhou Jing. I know that as an artist, I have to finish the job properly since I accepted it. But if she honestly came in as a wallflower in the show, and nothing more, that’s fine. But now, she directly came at me. Even if I can tolerate it, my hammer can’t.”

     The crowd remembered that Su Jin wielded her hammer like magic. When they were in Indonesia, she could kill monsters and open up wasteland. On their trip to Xinjiang this time, her Treasure Hammer had yet to make an appearance…Reminded of it, everyone looked aghast, and their eyes fell everywhere around her, as if searching for traces of the hammer.

    Su Jishi flatly ignored everyone’s probing eyes and said domineeringly, “I don’t want to see Zhou Jing again. I hope that in tomorrow’s recording, she gets lost and stays as far away as possible.”

    She had never exercised her ‘First-tier Traffic Celebrity’ privilege before, but now she found that if she didn’t exercise her ‘privilege’ all this time, her partners would think she was easy to talk to and negotiate with.

    She, Su Jin, was the only guarantee of this program’s record. Even if the Mu family stood behind Zhou Jing, so what? The TV station would have to weigh up who was the one who couldn’t be offended.

    Director Zheng and the Chief Producer looked at each other and nodded their heads, as if pounding garlic: “Okay, okay, okay, don’t worry, Ms. Su. We will give an accurate account to the Station Director’s side.”

    Zhou Jing did not know that she had come all the way here with a ‘mission’ and was going to be blown off the stage before she could start her performance with just a few words from Su Jishi.

    “…Then look, does this section need to be deleted directly today?”

    “There’s no need to delete it.” Su Jishi plucked the hem of her skirt, and layers of red fabric piled up in the snow, creating a blooming flower. “I’m dressed so beautifully. Naturally, I want all the audience to see it.”

    ……

    At present, it was the media era, after all. 

    Although the program’s staff informed viewers by radio that they shouldn’t ‘expose’ the results of the horse race before the show’s release, how many people would actually comply?

    Along with word of mouth and various photos and videos to support the show, the trip to Xinjiang won the attention of countless fans before it even aired.

    Soon, a shady, upside-down discussion quickly surfaced on the front page of an anonymous forum, and it didn’t take long for it to hit the [HOT] sign.

    《hydyj, has everyone read the latest breaking news? A traffic starlet in the program directly bullied a female guest on the same stage. How violent! Has her persona collapsed?》

    LZ: Exemption from identification. LZ is also a fan of the show, but when I watched the online video on Reuters((https://cn.reuters.com/)), I was scared into tears.

    This female traffic star was really a sister of this sister. How could she pass the girl off as a gang leader??

    1L: Upon seeing the title, I knew that my sister had been cheated…Would you be miserable or my Sister’s miserable? How could you confuse right and wrong so shamelessly?

    8L: Did you watch that 15-second short video on Douyin?? Could you please watch the entire video before you open your mic?

    25L: Real service, can our Jinjin satisfy some people’s selfish desires without fighting back?

    33L: The whip was drawn on the head. Would certain anti-fans rejoice only if Sister Jin was disfigured?

    56L: Wait…this pure melon-eater on the line just wants to ask, what video? What female gang leader? What whip? How come I can’t read anything after a day without internet? What whip? How come I can’t understand anything after a day without internet?

    Someone immediately posted a link to spread the knowledge.

    It turned out that the hottest Wilderness Winner program group ran to a remote area of Xinjiang for their taping, and many tourists were around to watch. As the traffic generator of the show, Su Jin blasted all social media, again, and again, and again.

    It started when a tourist uploaded the horse race between Su Jin and Zhou on Douyin. Douyin wasn’t friendly to bloggers with a small number of fans. The video could only be cut into 15 seconds, so a certain content entitled “Su Jin whipped another female guest”, quickly gained nearly a million likes after a short fermentation.

    The video was moved to Weibo, tagged, and spread throughout the fan circle.

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