CHAPTER 468: CHAPTER 465: BEST ACTRESS 32

The location for this survival game is again set deep in the mountains. Accompanying the seven stars are not only cameramen but also a group of professionals with rich wilderness living experience, specifically tasked with ensuring the personal safety of all the stars participating in the show.

After arriving, the director handed out a backpack to everyone, inside which was a set of change clothes, a camping tent, and a camping light. Apart from these, there was nothing else; nutritious canned food and water would be distributed daily to prevent everyone from gobbling up everything at once due to excessive hunger.

None of the participants had their phones confiscated though, but given the place was remote with no signal, keeping or taking phones away didn’t matter.

At the onset, the program team laid out a big pile of tools before everyone, including kitchen knives, axes, saws, cooking pots, and even small tanks of natural gas, along with a variety of condiments, of which the most important was salt.

Everyone stood around dumbfounded, staring at the items in front of them, completely clueless about what tricks the program team was up to this time.

Before coming, everyone had watched previous survival games, and during those, the program team usually supported the stars with one or two tools, but to obtain them, one had to endure an ordeal.

What puzzled everyone was why this time the program team simply placed all the tools in front of them. Could it be they were lucky and the program planners suddenly had a change of heart, allowing them to grab the tools directly?

While everyone was making wild guesses, the program host announced that this episode would introduce a heavyweight new guest, the super big name who has won the Best Actor award over a dozen times, a top-tier superstar in the entertainment circle, Yu Yingjie!

Yu Yingjie is a superstar who has captivated a generation. His fame is unmatched by the current popular first-tier stars. Let’s put it this way, many top-tier stars might have numerous fans, but no one dares claim their fame is at the household name level.

And Yu Yingjie can undoubtedly say he is indeed a household name superstar! From the elderly at ninety-nine to little children, everyone knows the superstar Yu Yingjie!

The reaction of everyone seeing this superstar was one of genuine shock, absolutely shocked. That’s because the program team had never mentioned beforehand that such a massive name would suddenly join the show, leaving everyone momentarily stunned.

Not just the participating stars were shocked, even the audience watching the live broadcast were yelling in excitement! In recent years, Yu Yingjie hasn’t appeared much on screens, leaving many who grew up watching his work endlessly wanting more.

Now over forty, Yu Yingjie has long shed the youthful immaturity, radiating the charm of a mature man imbued with intelligence and generosity. He’s like a well-aged wine, having endured the long passage of time, becoming more aromatic and captivating, not losing an ounce of charm despite growing older.

"Wow! My man crush! My man crush has appeared, didn’t expect he’d join the survival game show, I can’t wait to see how my man crush performs on the show!"

"Oh my God, never thought he’d actually join the survival game show. I thought he was bluffing when he said at interviews the survival game was interesting, and he wanted to join, didn’t expect him to act on it so swiftly! Exciting!"

"He hasn’t appeared much in recent years, and it’s rare for him to join a program. I’ve decided to watch the live broadcast every day these two weeks, can’t miss any moment he’s on screen!"

"Confessing to my man crush, I wanna have little monkeys for you!"

Online, the discussion underneath the live broadcast was already lively, but the moment Yu Yingjie appeared, it went berserk. Comment after comment flooded in, all declaring love for the man crush Yu Yingjie, that’s the allure of the superstar Yu Yingjie—fans span the globe, any program he joins is bound to be a hit, and his presence assures high ratings.

The program host was very satisfied with this effect. Although the survival game was already popular, having a top-tier superstar like Yu Yingjie voluntarily participate would definitely elevate the survival game further, making it truly the leader of variety reality shows!

After the initial shock, Ning Shuangshuang and the others snapped back to reality and immediately crowded around, eagerly expressing love for their man crush Yu Yingjie, asking for autographs and photos—a group of stars turned into ardent fans!

This kind of response was partly for show but mostly genuine. The oldest among them, Qi Qing, was almost of an age to be Yu Yingjie’s daughter. They had all grown up watching Yu Yingjie’s work, saying they were Yu Yingjie fans wasn’t wrong at all.

Of course, Yu Yingjie’s demeanor was very friendly too. After a lively fan meeting among the stars, the program commenced onto its usual track.

The program team announced that due to the addition of the superstar Yu Yingjie, the initial seven participants turned into eight, requiring the survival game program team to alter the rules, shifting from a collective effort to a group competition.

Rules dictated splitting into two groups, each with four people, competing against each other daily to complete a task. The winning group could collectively decide on selecting two items provided by the program, which could be tools, supplies, condiments, or even two sumptuous gourmet meals.

The losing group could only send one blindfolded person to randomly pick an item, which could be a tool, a condiment, or even just a piece of stone—getting anything depended on luck.

The grouping method would be decided by drawing lots—staff brought in eight grass stems of random lengths—drawing longer ones meant joining one team, shorter ones meant joining the other, fair and equitable, no objections from anyone.

Whether it was lucky or not, the result had Ning Shuangshuang’s team with an overly yin energy: Ning Shuangshuang, Qi Qing, Yun Chuching, Yu Yingjie formed one team, while the other consisted of Feng Zhipeng, He Bin, Lin Xichen, Jiang Mengchen.

On one side were four big guys, while the other had three women and one man; the program team was stunned at this output, never expecting three women to end up in one team, with one side overly abundant in yang energy, the other in yin energy—this grouping wasn’t scientific, ideally, pairing men and women to work would be less tiring!

The program host was pulling their hair out over this grouping outcome—not belittling women, but acknowledging their physical weakness, for challenging tasks, having male assistance would make completion much easier.