The people in the private room were all the Wu Ha members and guests for this recording, plus Director Wang Xiang. Mu Li was the last to arrive.
Seeing that he was the youngest and the last to arrive, Mu Li said somewhat apologetically, "Sorry, I just found an agent and was discussing some work matters with him."
"Is everything alright?" Chichi asked.
"Everything's been handled," Mu Li said with a smile. "I'm planning to set up a studio with my dorm mate. He's a new actor, and it works out perfectly with me."
"Alright, as long as you've handled it. If you encounter anything, just find me," Chichi said with a smile.
With that, he introduced Mu Li to Zhang Shiqi and Hani, but when Mu Li greeted Hani, it turned into a funny moment.
Ever since Mu Li saw Hani's stunning dance in the afternoon, he had been somewhat afraid to look directly at Hani.
Unexpectedly, when Chichi introduced the two earlier, Mu Li actually blushed directly.
"He actually got shy," Wang Xin said, as if he had discovered a new continent. "A Li, you've really grown up."
"Get lost! A dog's mouth can't utter ivory!" Without the cameras, Mu Li immediately reverted to their interaction style from years ago.
However, this startled everyone else.
Wang Xin wasn't just some celebrity; he was a legitimate World Champion. This identity carried honor. Didn't they see that even those familiar with Wang Xin didn't dare to joke so casually with him?
Wang Xin, being a smooth operator, saw everyone's gazes and quickly explained on Mu Li's behalf, "Don't mind them, we're just used to messing around."
Deng Fei was the first to laugh, "We're fine, we're just worried about A Li. He's a newcomer after all, and if the audience saw that, you know, a lot of haters would make a big deal out of it."
"Thank you, Fei Ge, I'll be careful," Mu Li also knew his situation, but then he turned his head and joked, "A World Champion really is different!"
Wang Xin retorted in annoyance, "Who are you being sarcastic about?"
Seeing the two bicker, everyone burst into laughter.
After these few jokes, the distance between Wang Xin and the others actually shortened.
Considering there was still recording tonight, no one drank alcohol, and they finished dinner quickly.
Mu Li actually didn't particularly like this kind of dining atmosphere, because there were too many unfamiliar people at the table, and he himself wasn't someone who could liven up the mood.
After this dinner, he also fully grasped the relationships of intimacy and distance within the group.
Within the entire team, perhaps the person he was least familiar with was Zhang Shiqi, who had only joined today. Even when their eyes occasionally met during dinner, it felt a bit awkward.
After returning to the hotel, the evening recording began.
"It was agreed today that we'd play a brain game tonight," Wang Xiang went straight to the point. "Considering your limited abilities, we won't give you particularly difficult questions."
"Director Wang, who are you looking down on?" Deng Fei said, about to jump up, but Chichi, quick-witted, pulled him back.
"Fei Ge, Fei Ge, what Director Wang said isn't unreasonable," Chichi quickly placated him.
"Is it reasonable?" Deng Fei asked in confusion.
"It's reasonable, it's reasonable," everyone echoed.
Deng Fei also stopped his actions: "Since you all say it's reasonable, then it's reasonable."
Chichi couldn't help but cover his eyes: This guy was unbearable to watch.
"Director Wang, hurry up and tell us the task," Chichi couldn't help but start urging the process.
"We'll play an old game we've played before, connecting song lyrics," Wang Xiang said. "One person, one line of lyrics. If you make a mistake, you start over."
As soon as he finished speaking, Chichi immediately knelt on the ground, holding his head and sighing, "No!"
"No!" Deng Fei was the second to kneel on the ground.
The other members had never played this lyric-connecting game on Wu Ha and were all a bit confused.
"Isn't it just one line of lyrics per person? Easy!" Gao Hanyu said.
"Yeah, it's not hard," Hani also asked, puzzled.
Zhang Shiqi, who used to be an idol singer, didn't need to say more.
"You're still too young," Chichi covered his face with one hand. "You haven't played this game on Wu Ha. Do you know how long we played connecting songs last time? If the production team hadn't gone easy on us last time, we could have played all night."
Hearing Chichi say this, Mu Li couldn't help but recall the content of that episode. He vaguely remembered that they sang a song by an absent member, a particularly well-known online song.
However, even with such a song, the Wu Ha brothers still struggled for a long time to complete the task.
"Director, didn't we say it was a mental game? Why did it change to memorizing lyrics?" Mu Li suddenly asked.
"Yeah! Didn't we say it was a mental game?" Chichi immediately stood up to support Mu Li.
Deng Fei also jumped up, "What kind of mental game is memorizing lyrics? Director, are you insulting us?"
Wang Xiang directly asked, "Just tell me, is memory a part of intelligence or not?"
Deng Fei's features twisted into a knot: "What you're saying actually makes a lot of sense."
With that, he turned to Chichi, "What should we do? He makes a lot of sense!"
Chichi sighed and lay directly on the ground: "Just kill me."
Seeing Chichi like this, Fan Yizhi, the biggest bug in this game, suddenly comforted him, "Chichi, there's no need, this game isn't hard."
Chichi covered his face with one hand, "Brother, my brother, you're the least qualified to say that."
In the last song-connecting game, eight out of ten failures were because of this brother, Fan Yizhi.
It was bad enough that he wasn't familiar with the songs, but his memory was also terrible, and he sang off-key, ten oxen couldn't pull him back, the melody was directly sung into rap, and rap became recitation.
Seeing that they couldn't resist, everyone finally decided to give it a try, what if this time the song was easy to Sing?
"This time, I've specially prepared a song with very simple lyrics for you," Wang Xiang said with a smile on his face.
"No, Director Wang, don't smile like that, I'm scared," Chichi couldn't help but complain.
Wang Xiang completely ignored him and continued, "The song is called 'like you as a friend.'"
"Huh?" Except for Mu Li, everyone had a bewildered look on their faces. "What song is that? Never heard of it!"
Mu Li weakly raised his hand, "Everyone, I'm sorry, that's my song."
Chichi had a look of sudden realization, "I've heard it, I've heard it..."
Deng Fei still looked confused, "What song?"
Chichi couldn't help but roll his eyes, "I played it for you before! Just yesterday!"
"That happened?" Deng Fei, whose poor memory combined with last night's alcohol stimulus equaled amnesia.
"It's okay if you're not familiar with it; you'll get familiar with it soon," Wang Xiang said, mercilessly mocking them.
Everyone didn't continue bickering with Wang Xiang and immediately started dividing the tasks.
There were a total of 18 lines to Sing for "like you as a friend," meaning 8 people would have to Sing two lines.
But when the lyrics for this song were handed out, everyone except Mu Li was stunned.
"What is all this? Why does one line have so many words?" Chichi immediately complained.
The lyrics started with, "It was me who started bickering, it was me who opposed, it was me who was most annoyed by you," and "I didn't expect us to become good friends." It must be said, this song was a lively one, but the lyrics were incredibly numerous.
Especially the verse, everyone looked like they were going crazy just looking at it.
Seeing everyone staring at him fiercely, Mu Li chuckled awkwardly, "How about we give it a try?"
Chichi directly threw the script on the ground, "Try? Trying means dying!"
"We haven't even really heard the song, and you're telling us to try?" This sentence immediately sparked outrage.
Mu Li quickly explained, "Brothers and sisters, look, didn't you keep failing the last lyric-connecting game?"
Everyone subconsciously nodded in unison.
Mu Li continued, "And were you very familiar with that song?"
Everyone paused, then continued to nod in unison.
Mu Li clapped his hands: "That's right! Is it possible that the reason you failed last time was because you were too familiar with that song? So this time, since you haven't heard this song at all, you might actually succeed?"
Deng Fei was stunned: "What you're saying seems to make some sense! Are you really a genius?"
Chichi could no longer suppress his anger: "You two, are you trying to fool us into thinking we're idiots?"
Mu Li slumped his shoulders and said helplessly, "Alright then, I'll perform it for everyone first. You can listen."
Mu Li wasn't foolish; he naturally knew this was Wang Xiang giving him a chance to showcase his song, so he immediately began performing it, interacting with the Wu Ha members.
He embraced Chichi and began to Sing, "It was me who started bickering, it was me who opposed, it was me who was most annoyed by you, I didn't expect us to become good friends."
...
The round-faced girl who loves you next door, I secretly love her
I heard the beautiful sister you love is madly infatuated with me
When he sang here, Mu Li walked directly in front of Hani, pretending to be embarrassed, which immediately caused a burst of screams.
It must be said, this song was incredibly interactive and very catchy. Everyone could Sing along after hearing the chorus for the first time.
By the third time the chorus was sung, the entire recording set erupted into a massive Sing-along, the atmosphere even more electrifying than a bar.
At the end of the song, Mu Li directly shouted loudly, "In my next life, I still want friends like you!"
That shout instantly hyped everyone up, and they all started jumping to the music.
After one song, everyone was already out of breath.
"Director, do we really have to connect the songs? I feel like I'm about to die from exhaustion," Chichi said, leaning against a pillar.
"I'll give you five minutes to rest. We'll continue singing after five minutes," Wang Xiang said, looking understanding.
Chichi couldn't help but want to pounce on him and bite him, but Deng Fei hugged him tightly: "Calm down, Chichi, calm down, five minutes of rest is good."
Five minutes later, everyone began an endless cycle.
Although there were frequent jokes, as the joke-makers, Mu Li and the others were on the verge of collapse.
By the end of the recording, Mu Li couldn't even remember the lyrics, and he himself had sung them wrong several times.
Fortunately, the production team had a moment of humanity and let everyone go.
By the time Mu Li returned to his room, it was already 3 AM.
Thinking about the third day of recording starting at 7 AM, Mu Li truly understood how difficult it was to record a show.
According to Chichi, this recording pace was already considered good. Previously, during Wu Ha recordings, sometimes they would only go to bed at 3 AM and only get 2 hours of sleep before having to get up and record again.
It wasn't just Wu Ha; many indoor shows had to be recorded until the early hours of the morning, and each recording session would last 8 to 10 hours.
Arcanine seemed to sense Mu Li's exhaustion today and didn't disturb Mu Li's sleep in the morning. Mu Li slept straight until 6:30 AM.
After a quick wash-up, he immediately started recording the show.
What? You mean makeup?
Mu Li indicated that he'd rather sleep more than bother with that. Since they were participating in Wu Ha, who cared about their image anymore?
However, today there were fewer members. Zhang Shiqi, Wang Xin, and Xu Sheng'er had all left after yesterday's recording.
"Today's content is experiencing a Frontier wedding."