Chapter 496 - Chapter 496: Second issue of 196! The strong ones are just Bai Lian and her classmates (third of three updates)_2

Chapter 496: Second issue of 196! The strong ones are just Bai Lian and her classmates (third of three updates)_2

[Yeah, at home, I’m too lazy to even write down equations]

[But that hand looks like it could play the piano…]

On the screen, everyone could see a pale hand holding a pen and writing on paper, slender and fair, with smooth knuckles—it looked like a piece of art under the camera.

As the comments continued, the camera suddenly provided a high-definition close-up of the mobile phone.

Everyone could see the problem displayed on the phone, a small ball in a vacuum, illuminated by a 280 nanometer wavelength ultraviolet light… asking for the maximum kinetic energy of escaping photoelectrons… speed at infinite distance… number of photoelectrons.

The production team added an image of a little yellow face kneeling, with the caption: “High school students really don’t have it easy these days.”

[I can understand each problem individually, but when they’re combined, I’m lost]

[You better confirm this is a high school problem]

[The production team, you’re really outrageous, I’ve put up with everything else, but which normal high school student would solve this kind of problem?]

[The character setting is too obvious, at least understand what we regular high school students study!]

Comments continued to flood in, with several mentioning “Jiangjing”.

Jiang Fulai looked at these comments, his delicate brows betraying some hesitation, “Is this problem difficult?”

“It’s alright.” Bai Lian lazily sipped water, “I know the answer, it’s just that Ning Xiao didn’t have enough time.”

Jiang Fulai leaned back and commented indifferently, “He’s always been a bit slow.”

Next to them, Ji Heng who understood nothing: “…”

He felt like he was one of those netizens commenting.

However, it was only for a moment before Chi Yundai’s arrival shifted the topic again. The moment Chi Yundai appeared on screen, the production team highlighted his full title—

Chi Yundai, a 39-year-old practicing lawyer.

Yan Lu respectfully called him Chi Lu.

[Chi Lu? Never heard of him, is this to hype him up?]

[+1, I thought the production team would invite Zhao Jingzhou]

[You were so good in the first half, why did the quality drop in the second half?]

Soon, the scene of Chi Lu cutting potatoes made viewers satisfied: [Just admit it, production team, he must be a five-star chef, right~]

[Haha, Teacher Mei had me dying of laughter, he actually went back to secretly cut potatoes]

[…]

**

“Come Here Friend” made the hot search once again because of the Sanda King.

The last episode was a smash hit.

This episode’s first half was even more explosive than the previous one, especially since “white tank top” was already famous in the fighting ring. Now his popularity soared even higher, to the point where there were inquiries about white tank top’s social media account.

It was only the latter half that dragged on, at least Chi Yundai managed to earn the nickname “five-star chef” from netizens.

But viewers found the segment with the physics problems critically poor.

At Yan Lu’s place.

As someone who had been consistently disparaged, her sixth sense was sharp; she immediately called Wang Xin, “Sister Xin, didn’t you watch before airing the episode?”

Wang Xin had also seen the online sentiment; she rubbed her brow. “I did, but we had no idea the problems Miss Bai and the others were working on were so hard. If I’d known, I wouldn’t have allowed the director to air them.”

The director was trying to evoke empathy from senior year students who had left school for so long, thinking that the current senior students must be very strong.

Little did he know, it was only Bai Lian and her classmates who were strong.

Yan Lu opened her computer, and there were already people spontaneously joining the backlash online.

A new entry appeared on the trending search—

[The “hard-studying” Miss Bai and Classmate Ning’s “12th-grade” problem]

The program had edited together some sound bites of Bai Lian and Ning Xiao’s names, and now these two terms were being mocked coldly and derisively online.

Yan Lu furrowed her brows at this entry, then moved to the one below—

[Xingyi Martial Arts School Hall Master]

Her expression tightened.

In the information age, a hot show came with its benefits.

But with those benefits came corresponding impacts.

Yan Lu, accustomed to being maligned, was indifferent. But she didn’t want to see Bai Lian getting dragged down.

She hung up on Sister Xin and called the director directly.

“Cut that segment out?” The director didn’t hesitate after hearing Yan Lu’s suggestion. “That’s a good idea, don’t worry. The information age moves quickly, and this will blow over. It’s just Miss Bai who…”

The director was somewhat afraid that Bai Lian would be angered.

After all, people online were accusing her and Ning Xiao of putting on an act.

“She doesn’t go online,” Yan Lu sighed.

And…

She believed that Bai Lian wouldn’t be bothered by others’ opinions.

“That’s good,” the director was relieved. He lit a cigarette and instructed his team to edit the website’s video content, confused and frustrated, “But how did Miss Bai and the others end up solving that kind of problem?”

He was genuinely perplexed; Bai Lian and Ning Xiao were students from Xiangcheng, how could education resources there have such outlandish problems to excite netizens like this?

Ah, this stumped Yan Lu.

Yan Lu was not academically inclined and simply answered, “She does whatever problems she wants to.”

Indeed.

On the other end of the phone, the director shrugged—after all, Miss Bai was so cool that the industry big shots had already called him. What was the big deal about her doing a problem?

The director hung up the phone.

Beside him, the assistant director stood up from his chair. “They’re editing it now, hopefully, the audiences will quickly forget about Miss Bai and Ning Xiao.”

The director nodded, still holding his cigarette, his brow unrelenting, “How’s Lawyer Chi doing right now?”

“As you know, our show is on fire right now,” the assistant director said, resigned.

When they recorded the show, they never imagined it would become this popular. They just wanted to give Lawyer Chi some exposure but ended up overshooting.

The show was too popular, and the audience’s expectations were too high; Chi Yundai seemed too ordinary compared to Sun Dan on Backter Street and the presence of white tank top.

Editing could shave off segments with Bai Lian and Ning Xiao, but for Chi Yundai—

The latter half was all about him; there was no way to make cuts.

The director exhaled a ring of smoke and lowered his head to check his phone, opening the official Weibo account for “Come Here Friend”, “We can cut out Miss Bai’s segments, but it’s tricky with Lawyer Chi’s part.”

As he spoke, he began to read the comments to gauge the current sentiment. Seeing a comment that read “those two students are so pretentious”, he frowned and clicked delete.

Yan Lu’s and Mei Yi’s fans were trying their best to control the situation, but there were too many outside viewers, and they couldn’t keep things under control.

Scrolling to sort by popular comments, he saw the top one—

[The production team is so amazing, you even invited Sun Dan. It’s fine you couldn’t get Dean Jian and Bai Jian for the latter part, but I thought the coming lawyer would be @Zhao Jingzhou, feeling somewhat disappointed]

Zhao Jingzhou, a lawyer so renowned online as Zhao Dazhuang, was the archetype of a strong first-class lawyer in the minds of netizens.

The director couldn’t help but laugh with irritation, “Why don’t they ask me to invite God over?”