Xia Qingtian delivered the five keys to the program team to exchange for crucial information.
In her previous life, when Xia Qingtian watched this show, no guest thought to collect all the keys to exchange for information. The locations of all the keys were only revealed to everyone when the show officially aired.
Who wouldn't praise the program team for being so cunning, or rather, so good at hiding things.
Initially, Xia Qingtian considered getting the keys directly, but felt it might be too abrupt. Coupled with her five days of rest while others worked hard for five days, Xia Qingtian still wanted everyone to participate together. At least she didn't want to feel like she was winning unfairly.
This led her to think about exchanging for key evidence, so everyone could search for the keys together afterward.
If others still couldn't find them, Xia Qingtian would then retrieve the keys.
The program team also seemed surprised that someone actually brought five keys to exchange for key information, so they temporarily added a small activity.
"To get the key information for the real keys, you have to play a little game."
"Oh?" Xia Qingtian blinked. This was new. "Alright, what game?"
"Three quick questions and answers, followed by ten consecutive poses for the camera." The program team didn't intend to make it too difficult for Xia Qingtian, so the mini-game was relatively simple.
Xia Qingtian made an "ok" gesture.
"First question: What are your ideal partner's qualities?"
"Someone I click with, capable, supportive, and honest with me."
"Second question: What behavior of a partner can you absolutely not tolerate?"
"Deception, manipulation, and constant lying."
"Third question: If your partner accidentally did something you can't tolerate, but they are exceptionally outstanding and meet all your ideal partner criteria, can you forgive them?"
"No forgiveness, no negotiation."
Xia Qingtian answered quickly, decisively, as if no consideration was needed, and absolutely no room for negotiation.
In her previous life, Xia Qingtian had paid a heavy price for her infatuation. In this life, she would absolutely not fall into the same trap.
No matter how outstanding a man was, if he deceived or used her, it could be declared over immediately.
Isn't career more appealing? Why bother with men?
Following this were the ten consecutive poses for the camera.
Having just shot an advertisement for K&K before the new year, ten poses were no challenge for Xia Qingtian. A playful wink, a gentle smile, lazily tossing her hair, or playfully acting like a little devil – each photo was instantly perfect.
Her fans in the live stream were thoroughly entertained, exclaiming that their little fairy looked beautiful no matter what!
Even Qiu Xinxue's fans and fans of other guests couldn't bring themselves to say she was ugly with a clear conscience.
Of course, some held onto their last bit of stubbornness, commenting: "Such a calculating look, I really can't appreciate it!"
That was all.
Meanwhile, Mr. Gu, in his office on the top floor of Gu Corporation Entertainment, watched the screen with a furrowed brow.
Hating deception, manipulation, and constant lying men the most.
No forgiveness, no negotiation.
It seemed... there was a bit of trouble...
He felt so tired.
No, Mr. Gu felt he could still salvage the situation...
"Wen Ning, come to my office." Mr. Gu directly summoned Wen Ning.
Yes, he could definitely make timely amends.
On the other side, as soon as Xia Qingtian received the information from the program team, she headed straight to the villa's dining room without even opening the envelope.
It was close to lunchtime, and other guests were already in the dining room waiting for food.
"I've got the key information," Xia Qingtian said, waving the envelope. "Come on, let's take a look together."
Hearing Xia Qingtian, everyone turned to look at her.
Opening the envelope revealed a map with four rooms circled.
"This is the study on the third floor, this is the game room, and this should be the balcony on the second floor and the dining room on the first floor." Lin Yirou had spent the past few days searching for keys and immediately recognized the circled locations.
"We've mostly searched these places," Qiu Xinxue leaned in to look and said.
"That means the keys in our rooms are all fake," Ji Meina stated. "The real keys are in one of these four rooms."
"Oh, right, I haven't returned the previous keys to you yet," Xia Qingtian remembered something and took out the five keys.
"No need, they're fake anyway," Ling Feng Han said. "It's good that the scope has narrowed down. If we search together, it should still be quite fast."
"Then I'll..." Qiu Xinxue immediately looked at Xia Qingtian. She had missed many opportunities to interact with Xia Qingtian in the past few days, and it wouldn't be bad to try again now.
"Qingtian, shall we do it together?" Ji Meina immediately hugged Xia Qingtian's arm and said.
"Okay," Xia Qingtian smiled. "But I'm not very good at finding things, so you might be at a disadvantage with me."
"It doesn't matter, I'm not good at it either," Ji Meina shrugged. She was just participating for the sake of it and hadn't expected much. As long as she didn't embarrass herself, it was fine.
Since everyone's keys were fake now, she definitely wouldn't embarrass herself. The rest was just not being awkward with someone she liked.
"Then, I'll partner with Rou Rou Jie," Qiu Xinxue mumbled, secretly glaring at Ji Meina.
Hearing Qiu Xinxue choose Lin Yirou, Ji Jun's eyes dimmed slightly. He teamed up with Ling Feng Han, whom he had gotten to know in the past few days.
The remaining Tong Nian Zhe and Lu Song Tao were automatically grouped together.
"We'll search the study on the third floor." After forming teams, everyone started dividing the areas. This time, Qiu Xinxue took the initiative, being the first to suggest the study, which she and Lin Yirou hadn't searched much.
They had already searched the other three places extensively, and they were definitely not there.
"Then we'll search the... game room." Ling Feng Han looked at Ji Jun, and after seeing Ji Jun nod, they settled on it.
"Where will we search?" Ji Meina looked at Xia Qingtian.
"Let them choose first," Xia Qingtian said.
"We'll search the dining room," Tong Nian Zhe said casually. "Too lazy to walk, let's just look around here."
Lu Song Tao had no objections to Tong Nian Zhe's words.
They had been searching for the past two days and hadn't even seen a shadow of a key.
"Then we'll search the balcony on the second floor." Looking at the last remaining area, Xia Qingtian shrugged. Since they had given her the correct location, there was nothing she could do.
She had yielded everything she could. Afterward, it was time to exchange the keys for gold bars.
Qiu Xinxue secretly glanced at Xia Qingtian. While nothing else had gone smoothly these past five days, at least she would consider it worthwhile if she found the key and took the gold bars in the end.
After lunch, everyone dispersed to search for the keys.
At this moment, there were exactly 100 minutes left until the 2 PM key testing.