Chapter 77 X-MAN (4)

  After more than ten minutes, the staff came over to urge the guests to go on stage. The first team to start choosing a partner was Jiang Hudu's team. As for the choices of others, Zhang Chengyuan naturally didn't care about them, he only focused on Li Zhen's performance and her final choice.

  It's not clear if she was afraid of Zhang Chengyuan getting jealous, but Li Zhen, who was already quite reserved, found it even harder to let loose and danced a short, stiff segment of seductive dance, and only for Jiang Hudu. In the end, she also chose Jiang Hudu as her partner. Perhaps she thought that after seeing her choice, Zhang Chengyuan would definitely not get jealous. And indeed, when he saw Li Zhen choose Jiang Hudu, Zhang Chengyuan smiled without a care.

  Among the guests present, except for Yoon Eun-hye and Jeon Hye-bin who roughly guessed Lee Jin's intentions, all the other guests were surprised that Lee Jin chose Kang Ho-dong, who is often disliked by people, in this segment of the show, thinking it was a pre-arranged setup by the production team.

  Then it was the turn of Jang Sung-won's team, the Golden Team. At this time, Jang Sung-won suddenly felt that he was very lucky today. Among the three female artists in his team, one was his good friend and sister-in-law Yoon Eun-hye, one was the talented and beautiful Jun Hye-bin, who had been his number one fan, and the other was Lee Ji-hyun, who had suddenly made him feel sorry for her today. Each of them was very pretty and gave him a good impression, so no matter which one he would be paired with later, he could accept it happily.

  As for whether he would be disliked by these three beauties, he hadn't even thought about it, because he still had some confidence in his own charm.

  But he didn't think that this was a variety entertainment program, rather than reality. Sometimes the reversal of the plot would be more interesting and fascinating to the audience.

  The game segment begins, with the male and female guests standing in separate teams. The male guest starts by showing off his charm to the female guests. First up are Kim Chang-hoon and Kim Jong-kook, who both excel at singing, so they choose to showcase their vocal talents to win over the hearts of the female guests. Next is Kim Jae-dong, a man in his thirties who can't think of what talent to show off, looks confused for a moment, and is immediately teased by Yoo Jae-suk, Jang Hyeok, and the female guests until he makes a cute expression like a child throwing a tantrum, which instantly brings on a loud burst of laughter.

  When it was Jang Sung-won's turn, Yoon Eun-hye suddenly asked him to dance a powerful dance. She knew that dancing was Jang Sung-won's weakness and wanted to see how he would "make a fool of himself" today. Of course, she also had the intention of getting more screen time for him. Hwang Hui-bin and Lee Ji-hyun saw this and joined in on the fun, each asking Jang Sung-won to show off his cute and sexy dance moves.

  Zhang Chengyuan was not very willing, wanting to haggle over the price, but Liu Zai Shi didn't let him open his mouth, directly calling him out on stage. Zhang Chengyuan could only force himself up. He first walked in front of Yin En Hui, swaying back and forth a few times, suddenly placing both hands on her waist, lifting her above his head, and letting her sit on his left shoulder. Then, he supported Yin En Hui with his left hand, stretched out his right hand to the side, spun around a few times in place, suddenly leaped into the air, spinning around for about one and a half circles before steadily landing back down.

  In the process, Yoon Eun-hye was initially just astonished, but by the time she was spinning in mid-air, she was already frightened and pale, shouting repeatedly. When she came down, her heart was still racing wildly. It wasn't until a little while later that she regained her composure and looked at Jang Sung-yoon's ambiguous smile, realizing that he had intentionally "retaliated" against her for giving him a hard time earlier. She immediately blushed with anger and said, "Oppa, you're bullying me again!" and kicked his calf twice to vent her dissatisfaction.

  Everyone's expression was greatly shocked, although Zhang Chengyuan had previously shown his strong physical quality, but now he was actually spinning in the air with Yoon Eun-hye for a week and a half, is this something that humans can do? Can't help but marvel at Zhang Chengyuan's physical strength has become extremely abnormal!

  Li Zhen just smiled and watched, without feeling surprised at all. Similar scenes, the four sisters and Little Water Crystal had experienced many times before.

  The recording was interrupted again by Zhang Chengyuan, but the PD wasn't angry at all. He thought to himself that agreeing to Park Hyeon-seok's request and letting Zhang Chengyuan participate in this episode was a great decision, and the ratings for this episode might increase significantly once again.

  A few minutes later, with a command from PD, the recording continued. Jang Sung-won slowly walked in front of Jeon Hye-bin, looked at her with some embarrassment, let out a light breath, and seemed to be determined to go all out, but then his body started to sway lightly, and his hands also swayed slowly raised to his chest, making a loving heart shape towards Jeon Hye-bin. However, just as Jeon Hye-bin felt delighted, he suddenly couldn't help but lower his head and laugh lightly. For him, making a loving gesture towards a woman he had just met today, even if she was his fan for many years, made him feel very embarrassed.

  Liu Zai Shi shouted: "Cheng Yuan, this is too impolite! After agreeing to the beauty's request, no matter what, you must do it. How can you give up halfway?"

  Zhang Chengyuan thought helplessly, "I don't think I agreed to this." But at this point, he couldn't tell anymore. After trying twice more, Zhang Chengyuan still couldn't make a cute expression and instead looked like he was about to burst into tears, leaving everyone in stitches.

  At this time, Jin Jidong suddenly exchanged a glance with Jiang Hudu and Liu Zaishi, then looked at Li Zhen again. Jiang Hudu and Liu Zaishi immediately understood each other's intentions. Jiang Hudu promptly pushed Li Zhen to the center of the arena, while Liu Zaishi ordered: "Miss Li Zhen, stand beside Miss Huibin."

  Li Zhen was somewhat perplexed, but still smiled and complied.

  The music starts again, and Zhang Chengyuan tries to dance cutely once more. This time, his eyes are fixed on Li Zhen's face, and he effortlessly makes heart shapes with his hands, pouts, acts cute, and smiles foolishly. The entire audience is surprised and amused by the sudden transformation of his image from tall and cool to cute and mischievous. Standing opposite Zhang Chengyuan, Yun Eun-hye, Jeon Hye-bin, and Lee Ji-hyun can't help but laugh, their faces flushed with delight. However, Jeon Hye-bin's heart still holds a tinge of sadness and envy. Meanwhile, Li Zhen feels touched.

  Kang Taedong said, "Jang Sungwon is indeed Fin.K.L's brother. Look at him, he can't even make a cute gesture in front of Hwang Sunbin, but when it comes to Lee Jin, he's all over the place and being super cheesy. And who says that Sungyu and Jang Sungwon are a couple? Clearly, it's Lee Jin and Jang Sungwon. Or maybe both pairs are, or even all four of them."

  After listening to his increasingly exaggerated words, Li Zhen and Zhang Chengyuan, who were initially worried, let out a sigh of relief at the same time. Because the more absurd and unreasonable Jiang Hudu said, the less likely people would believe it, so their chances of spreading rumors decreased a lot.

  Jiang Hu Dong said more and more nonsense, Liu Zai Shi hurriedly persuaded: "Why are you so concerned? Are you an entertainment reporter or jealous of Cheng Yuan?"

  "Can he not be jealous? He wanted to find a few good sisters or younger sisters, but after searching for ten years, he couldn't find one that suited his heart."

  Upon hearing this, Jiang Hudu stared at Jin Jiedong with wide eyes, but unfortunately, Jin Jiedong's narrowed eyes had turned to look elsewhere, not even bothering to acknowledge him.

  After the interlude, Zhang Chengyuan continued to dance, this time a sensual dance. In front of him stood Li Zhihui, who he thought was only 17 or 18 years old. Meanwhile, Li Zhen had already left the stage. Faced with this situation, Zhang Chengyuan became flustered once again.

  To alleviate the guilt of seducing underage girls, Zhang Chengyuan slightly turned his body towards Quan Huibin before starting to dance what he thought was somewhat sexy but others found hilarious. The previous dances had everyone captivated by his high-difficulty moves, without noticing that his actual dancing skills were really bad. When he danced sexily, he couldn't do high-difficulty moves or use funny expressions to deceive, and his extremely poor dancing skills were immediately exposed, making people sigh that he truly wasted a strong and healthy body with great potential for dance.

  It seems that Zhang Chengyuan's efforts have moved the girls' hearts. In the next segment where the girls show off their charm, all three of them rush to Zhang Chengyuan one after another, performing a highly sensual dance. Each one is more charming than the last. Yin En-hui grabs his collar, Quan Hui-bin places her hand on his chest, and Li Zhi-xian boldly takes his hand and puts it on her waist, while placing her other hand on his shoulder to perform a close dance. Of course, they are not truly in close contact, with still about 10-15 cm of distance between their bodies.

  But this was enough to make Zhang Chengyuan take a big surprise, and he also felt some dislike in his heart, thinking that Li Zhihui seemed a bit frivolous. However, when he saw the flash of shyness in her eyes, he relaxed and showed a warm smile from the bottom of his heart again.

  At that moment, his good impression of Li Zhi Xian was also conveyed to her through their eye contact without any reservation. Li Zhi Xian's face suddenly turned red, and her hands slightly loosened, before she took a few steps back, turned around, and returned to her original position. Watching her walk away with a gentle swaying motion, Zhang Cheng Yuan suddenly realized that this little girl's figure was indeed somewhat alluring, especially her slender waist which his two arms could easily encircle together. His heart skipped a beat, but he immediately thought of the fact that Li Zhi Xian was still underage, and thus quickly suppressed the thoughts that were starting to get out of control, warning himself in his mind not to harbor any improper thoughts.

  Next, Kim Jae-dong started choosing a partner and chose Yoon Eun-hye, but was brutally rejected. Then, Yoon Eun-hye chose Kim Chang-won who was wearing a red hat and called him "Red Hat Uncle". Although Kim Chang-won was old enough to be Yoon Eun-hye's uncle, he didn't like being called that and immediately refused, calling her "Cowboy Skirt Aunt" instead and asking to pair up. This made Yoon Eun-hye very embarrassed, but she still agreed to Kim Chang-won's request.

  Afterwards, Kim Jong-kook and Jang Sung-won also started chasing after Yoon Eun-hye. Yoon Eun-hye was almost in a state of desperation, running back and forth between Kim Chang-wook, Kim Jong-kook and Jang Sung-won. It seemed like Yoon Eun-hye was being too "flighty", but this was actually pre-planned by the production team to add comedic effect. Although Jang Sung-won didn't have to get involved in this mess, as an artist who wasn't very well-known at that time, he could only follow orders.

  After a fierce competition, Yoon Eun-hye and Kim Chang-won, Jeon Hye-bin and Kim Jae-dong, Lee Ji-hyun and Kim Jong-kook formed couples respectively, leaving Jang Sung-kyu alone in front of the camera with a bitter expression. At this time, another unlucky loser Shin Jung-hwan from Team Kang also came over and made a gesture of hugging each other and crying in front of the camera.

  This reversal of the plot was not only unexpected by the audience after the broadcast, but also by Zhang Chengyuan and most of the guests at that time. Because before the recording of the program, in order to achieve the program effect, the program team did not inform Zhang Chengyuan, but only told Yin En-hui, Jeon Hye-bin, and Lee Ji-hyun that they absolutely could not choose Zhang Chengyuan. Therefore, although Zhang Chengyuan performed well in this link, he ultimately could not escape the "fate" of being abandoned.

  Fortunately, it was just a variety show, so Zhang Chengyuan didn't get angry after being fooled. Anyway, there are many artists in Korea who have been fooled by the program team, and he's not afraid of having one more.

  After that, the couple game no longer had Zhang Chengyuan's share, until the last one, all the people participated in the game session "Frying Pan Flying Up" when he came on stage again. This game is very simple and a bit childish, but it's also very interesting and has a great atmosphere. Unconsciously, Zhang Chengyuan was also immersed in it, performing perfectly without any mistakes. In the end, Zhang Chengyuan's team relied on this period's X-MAN Shin Jung-hwan's water release and the unity of the members to finally turn the game around, avoiding the disaster of being shaved bald by Team Jiang.