The trailer was very short, lasting only one minute.

It opened with a sequence of rapid cuts, showcasing intriguing close-ups of the six guests’ expressions. Then, the screen suddenly went black as the show director’s voiceover abruptly rang out: “Have you ever regretted it?”

As soon as the words fell, the camera cut to a panoramic shot.

The starry night was vast, and the coastline stretched out flatly.

A passionate bonfire bloomed from the sand like a cluster of seductive red lotuses. Not far away stood a traffic light pole. The six guests stood in the firelight, their faces looking as if they were covered by a layer of crimson gauze. Their expressions were hazy, making them difficult to see clearly.

Off-camera, the director continued to question them:

“Tonight is our last night staying here. After spending this week together, have the hearts of our guests changed at all? If you were given another chance to choose right now…”

As he spoke, the screen flashed to various cold and stiff moments of the three couples arguing or throwing tantrums over the past few days: screenwriter Duan Feiwen was sulking alone in the utility room while rock singer Xu You banged frantically on the door outside, her expression deeply displeased; two veteran seniors shared a room but treated each other completely as air; a tall man slammed the door and left, leaving his partner alone in the room…

Rummaging through a trash can.

【???】

【Movie King, what on earth are you doing?!】

【There are so many scenes I haven’t seen before! [Gasps]】

【Wait, when did the production team set up a bonfire party? As someone who has been camping in the livestream room the entire time, how come I didn’t know about this? The traffic lights have even been upgraded; they look ready to stir up some serious drama.】

【I haven’t seen this part either.】

【It must have been scheduled after 10:00 PM.】

【Oh, oh, oh! Looks like there’s a ton of newly added content!!】

A few seconds later.

The screen cut back.

A burst of fast-paced drum beats began to play in the video.

The respective divorced couples stood face-to-face beneath the traffic lights. Accompanied by the director’s voice explaining the rules, they were about to make a decision to either stop or turn around and leave.

And this choice would directly impact the arrangements for the following week.

With a limited duration, the trailer flashed by in the blink of an eye.

In the final few seconds, the camera panned below the calves of each divorced couple, seemingly just about to reveal the guests’ answers. But before the audience could see clearly, the progress bar had already reached its end.

Thud!

A heavy drumbeat fell.

The video ended and automatically skipped to the next advertisement interface.

Many viewers lingered in the comments section, discussing the clip with fiery enthusiasm.

【Curse them! Don’t let me find out who the editor is!!】

【They really know how to keep people on the edge of their seats. Once the raw episodes for the first week are updated, I’m going to watch what these people did during the off-stream hours right away! [Clenches fist]】

【I don’t know what’s going with the others, but the Movie King is digging through a trash can.】

【Pfft.】

【This wasn’t in the livestream room at all, Hahahahahaha!】

【The production team really knows how to name things. Why Are You Unhappy should be renamed Why Are Xie’s Fans Unhappy, Hahaha. Out of the six guests, he and his man are the most controversial. They are so popular they’ve turned black; they’re bleeding hate. Especially that part where Boss Shi exposed his phone’s location sharing—even without being a fan, ordinary viewers were completely shaken.】

【The most shocking part was that the Movie King exposed his own right after.】

【Mr. & Mr. Smith [Thumbs up]】

【Do you guys think only the audience was shocked? I feel so bad for the other two couples next to them; their faces completely lost control. I really didn’t expect the people involved to be so calm, while the onlookers were sweating buckets.】

【Xu You’s memes have gone completely viral; she gained over 700,000 fans in just one week.】

【A total laugh-out-loud moment. Fans of Xie and some passersby absolutely couldn’t accept this kind of toxic marriage. As soon as the show started broadcasting, they set up a Super Topic and clocked in every day. It’s called ‘Did the Wu-Shi Group Divorce Today?’. Who would have thought that these two would inexplicably attract a bunch of CP (couple) fans? They’ve been churning out fan content like crazy, which attracted even more passersby. The army is growing bigger and bigger, and now the two factions are about to start a physical fight. I’m laughing so hard I’m throwing up.】

【Same here! Every day after eating the drama of the divorced guests in the livestream room, I go to the Super Topic to eat the drama outside the show. Delicious. This show is just too interesting, and the fanfiction produced by the CP fans is incredibly tasty! I’m completely swooning!】

【Ah, I visited out of curiosity, it’s insanely good [whispers]】

【What on earth are you guys talking about??】

【Afraid of getting yelled at, floor below me, you do it!】

【I’m not afraid of getting scolded, I’ll do it! [Raises hand]】

【Click into the Shi-Xie CP Super Topic. There is a pinned, top-tier masterpiece written by a sister with the ID ‘Ninety Million’. The title is Hate You to the Bone. The story is basically about a gloomy, obsessive big boss who tricks the affection-starved Movie King into giving up both his body and heart, playing him like a puppet in the palm of his hand, making love with absolute madness. The main point is that the Movie King in the novel is such a submissive little housewife, Hahaha, crying bitter tears every day. The plot is incredibly explosive, and the smut is super spicy.】

【I like your speech, but remember to close your DMs.】

【We can watch the unedited, pure entertainment version of the first week tomorrow night. I already foresee how lively the hot searches will be tomorrow and the day after. Chasing the variety show and then chasing its spin-offs, truly thrilling. [Dog face]】

【Fight! Fight! Fight!】

【…】

The next day, December 29th.

At 8:00 PM.

The online streaming platform released both the upper and lower parts of the program right on time.

Even though some of the footage had already been exposed during the live broadcast, the number of viewers only increased without dropping. The view count shown on the platform’s backend soared rapidly, and the number of bullet comments changed by the second.

A nation-wide discussion, caught in the spotlight of tens of thousands—it was nothing short of this.

Because today was the online broadcast date, and the production team along with the divorced guests needed to change locations to shoot for the following week—coupled with the fact that the distance between Xijiang and the next stop was exceptionally far and would consume a lot of time—the livestream room was not opened on the 29th.

This was one of their marketing strategies.

Its purpose was to gather all the traffic onto the online streaming platform.

Aside from marketing needs, the production team also took into account that the guests had recorded until after 1:00 AM the previous night. Therefore, they took great care of everyone today, escorting them throughout the journey without arranging any mobile cameras to follow their movements.

They just hadn’t returned the guests’ phones yet.

Fortunately, they didn’t need them anyway.

While the audience was watching the edited version of the variety show, Shi Linchuan, the other guests, and the staff of the production team had already been sitting on the plane for seven or eight hours.

The production team had chartered the entire passenger plane.

The winged machine broke free from gravity, safely delivering a cabin full of people out of the country’s borders.

The final destination was a small tourist country on the Northern European continent.

Dodan.

This time, Shi Linchuan sat in the window seat.

Xie Jinghe sat next to him, his eyes tightly shut, looking as if he were fast asleep.

Asleep? Like hell he was.

He was throwing a tantrum.

He had ignored him since last night.

Shi Linchuan turned his head to glance at the man. Bored out of his mind, he initiated a provocation to pass the time: “Sleeping ever since you got on the plane. Aside from eating and using the restroom, I haven’t seen you open your eyes once. Xie Jinghe, are you a pig?”

The person called out by name pretended not to hear. Turning his head toward the aisle, he didn’t open his mouth once, but his meaning was made crystal clear anyway.

I don’t want to talk to you.

Shi Linchuan rested his elbow on the armrest, propping his chin up with his palm in a lazy and casual posture. His tone was light and leisurely as he spoke, “Isn’t it just because I chose the red light again during last night’s bonus selection round? I choose divorce every day, you should have gotten used to it by now.”

“Why are you pulling a long face? I’m not going to coax you.”

Hearing the man bring up this matter, Xie Jinghe’s eyelashes fluttered wildly.

He endured it, but ultimately couldn’t hold back. With a sharp snap, he forced his eyes open and glared furiously at the man, his voice laced with unhideable anger and frustration: “Why did you have to choose that? Were you intentionally trying to anger me again? The director said that next week, only the two of us will have to live separately!”

Listening to Xie Jinghe rattle off a string of words like a machine gun, Shi Linchuan felt as if he had found a piece of entertainment to relieve his boredom. Unhurriedly, he replied, “So what? Do you want to sleep in the same bed with me that badly?”

“How old are you?”

Xie Jinghe continued to glare at him.

The deep, affectionate eyes that had been praised countless times by countless fans and moviegoers were now filled with two clusters of tiny flames. They looked exceptionally scorching, burning across space right onto the man’s face.

What ‘gaze as gentle as water, deep affection akin to drowning’?

He was clearly about to jump up from anger because of him.

Shi Linchuan contentedly endured the death glares for a full two minutes before unhurriedly proposing, “How about you perform a tearful scene right now, begging me to sleep with you, and I’ll consider asking the director to make an exception.”

After saying that, he even urged, “Hurry up.”

Of course, it was a lie.

He was just casually teasing this person.

He was just too bored and needed to find a bit of fun to pass the time, Shi Linchuan thought to himself.

Regrettably, after being played by the man several times during this period, Xie Jinghe had finally developed a modicum of vigilance. No longer trusting his words blindly, he stared at Shi Linchuan suspiciously for half a minute before refusing in a muffled voice, “No. You must be messing with me again.”

Shi Linchuan: “…”

He seems to have gotten smarter.

Shi Linchuan carried no moral burden whatsoever. He said quite frankly, “Am I really that bad in your eyes? I do tell you a few truths every now and then.”

Xie Jinghe was still glaring at him, his expression completely speechless.

The temperature inside the airplane cabin was comfortable and constant. The entire cabin was filled with people from the production team, and subtle noises rippled around them from time to time. Yet, this corner possessed a unique kind of silence.

It was as if it had become a small world of its own.

Shi Linchuan met Xie Jinghe’s gaze, locking eyes with him for a few seconds. The triumphant smile at the corner of his lips subconsciously retracted a fraction—

It was very slight, very slow.

Almost impossible to detect with the naked eye.

However, just as Shi Linchuan wanted to look away and continue gazing at the boundless, dark sky outside the small window, the person locking eyes with him kept the same expression, but his rims grew slightly red. A tear the size of a bean suddenly dropped from his eye, brushing past his cheek, and smashing into pieces against his own collar.

Pitter-patter. Pitter-patter.

Xie Jinghe expressionlessly let his face stream with tears, looking like a broken faucet.

The watery sheen caught the light.

The light gathered within his pupils.

Gazing at the water glinting at the depths of the other man’s eyes, the expression on Shi Linchuan’s face returned to calm and indifference. Yet, he subconsciously shifted his posture, leaning his entire body back against the chair. He stared intently at Xie Jinghe and the tears flowing from him for a long, long time—

His gaze was focused, and excited.

He spoke slowly:

“Next, you should beg me.”

Xie Jinghe was incredibly straightforward.

“I beg you.”

Shi Linchuan raised an eyebrow, throwing a question back:

“Oh, begging me for what?”

As soon as the words left his mouth.

Xie Jinghe silently raised his right hand. On their fifth day in Xijiang, the soft tissue injury on his right wrist had finally recovered, and he no longer needed to trouble the man to feed him. He flexibly rotated his wrist, curling four fingers back toward his palm—

He flashed a highly impolite gesture at Shi Linchuan.

“I beg you to act like a human being.”

Shi Linchuan: “…”

As everyone knows, [Anger] does not disappear; it merely transfers from one person to another. With a sour face, Shi Linchuan glared back at the discourteous person beside him. Being extremely lenient with himself but harsh on others, he cursed:

“Xie Jinghe, where the f*** did you learn such a bad habit?!”

The two of them quickly descended into a scuffle.