Chapter 117: Zhou Xiao is also going to be disciplined

  Of course, as a well-known comedian in Japan, the program team is also a prime-time program team. It's impossible for Zhou Xiao to lead them by the nose alone. After the entire program was planned out by Zhou Xiao, the program team felt that if they didn't do something about Zhou Xiao, it would be somewhat embarrassing for themselves.

  So what they did was... at the end of the show, they thoroughly teased Zhou Xiao.

  Logically speaking, 18-year-old Zhou Xiao should have been treated with more care by the program team. However, in this episode that Zhou Xiao participated in, he showed no courtesy to his seniors at all. From the beginning, the soft cushion was replaced with ink noodles, and in the later segments, Zhou Xiao came up with countless messy and hilarious plans and sarcastic comments, which were entertaining but also left the participants exhausted.

  The broadcast of this matter began after the program ended.

  When it came to the last one, after the announcement of the last person related to this semester's exam plan, the narrator in the program said: "This episode is broadcast thanks to Mr. Zhou Xiao's script, and with such a wonderful script, we can have such a wonderful episode. However, most people, including the program team, are not happy because we are very jealous of Zhou Xiao's genius, let alone she has been teasing the participants in various segments, we think that we cannot let Zhou Xiao participate in this episode so easily, which is inconsistent with our program team's spirit and also inconsistent with the spirit shown by Zhou Xiao during the production of the program, so we made a decision!

  The camera zooms out to reveal the entire studio, and the director shouts: "Alright, that's a wrap, it's all over!"

  "Oh!" The whole studio shouted out in unison. After finishing the first episode, everyone felt a lot more relaxed.

  At this time, an AD from a fan group walked up to Zhou Xiao and said: "Mr. Zhou, please follow me. The promotional video you requested has been prepared in another room, let's move..."

  Zhou Xiao's appearance on the show is not for free, apart from the notification fee, the main thing is to promote the movie. During this period, the promotion of "One Liter of Tears" has already begun, but most of the promotions are posters and self-promotions by the cinema chain. As for the film production side, Zhou Xiao's company is a small one, and apart from sending out notifications to all TV stations in Tokyo and inviting them to participate in press conferences, there isn't much they can do. That's why Zhou Xiao attaches great importance to this episode and the next two episodes of "Flame Challenge", which are all prime-time shows, and participating in them will bring out a presence that far exceeds other promotional methods.

  Zhou Xiao in the TV didn't arouse suspicion, he went through the studio with this group of staff, took the elevator to another floor and entered a much smaller shed.

  At this time, the camera cut to a large photography studio. After Zhou Xiao left, others in the studio were also preparing to leave. They chatted with each other in a relaxed manner. When the microphone approached, it was found that most of them were sighing about one thing.

  "Zhou Xiao this guy... is unbeatable. This episode was done so wonderfully, it's going to be a bit difficult for the writers of future episodes to surpass this one..."

  "Yes. It's really hard to imagine that this kid is only 18 years old and hasn't been in the industry for long. How can he be so familiar with the entertainment circle and understand the script of a variety show? Have you guys calculated it? There's a joke every few minutes, a burst of laughter every few minutes, it's like he's calculated it all."

  "Don't you know? This kid has not only released a single, but also filmed a movie. It seems like he's here to promote the movie this time, and after leaving the studio, he probably went to film promotional shorts."

  "Still filming movies? How many things has he done?! Truly extraordinary energy! I'm already over 30, and I've become lazy to the point of not wanting to move at all."

  "You're already eighteen years old, and you're still this lazy!"

  Everyone was chatting and about to leave, but suddenly everyone discovered that the entire program team seemed to have no intention of moving. Usually after the show ended, the ADs had already started packing up their things, but this time, the bright lighting equipment and cameras were still facing the crowd, continuing to film. Okamura Takashi and the staff stopped them from leaving and said: "Everyone, please wait a minute, our program is not over yet, there's another very important thing we haven't done."

  "What? What's going on? Are you kidding me again? No way, I still want to go back and take a bath!" Mitamura Yasuko said, clutching her face. This woman's face was square like a die, but paired with her delicate expression, it gave people a very playful impression.

  "Koume-san!" Okamura Takashi shouted.

  "What!?" Hikaru's eyes widened in shock.

  "Correct answer! What a heavenly intuition! However, the person we need to get is not everyone, but Zhou Xiao who just left!" said Okamura Takashi.

  "Is Zhou Xiao okay?! This kid is only eighteen years old, right? Is it really alright to mess with him like that?" someone asked.

  "Don't worry, it's absolutely no problem. In fact, before we did this to him, we specifically consulted with people from his personal company, that is, Mr. Inoue from the Zhou Xiao Company. Mr. Inoue, isn't that right?" Okamura Takashi asked, pulling Inoue-san in front of the camera.

  "No problem at all, in fact, Zhou Xiao's recent trouble is that when he first appeared on the show, he said it was okay to come and mess with him, but no production team has ever done so, making him very helpless. So if your show can prank him, that would be great." Uncle Inoue completely sold out Zhou Xiao.

  "So Zhou Xiao is leaving the studio now?" someone reacted.

  "That's right, he's about to get a beating! Everyone, follow me!" said Okamura Takashi.

  As Okamura spoke, the "classroom door" of the studio, which had been opened by many people before, was pushed open again. What everyone saw was a brand new set!

  Here is the translation:

  In this episode, I want to describe the structure of the entire studio. The studio for recording this episode was very large, but when everyone arrived at the studio, they only saw half of the space. After the studio was divided in two, one half was used as a classroom for recording and the other half was used for pranks. When Okamura pushed open the classroom door again, the people participating in the recording discovered that the entire studio's setting had been greatly changed. Originally, during the episode recording, the seemingly unused part of the studio was actually being quietly and silently renovated by the production team, and Zhou Xiao, who came out from the other side of the classroom, was completely unaware of this!

  The modified equipment presented before everyone looked a bit scary. On the ground, there were long whiteboards that stretched over ten meters to the classroom door. The whiteboard was covered with another sticky and transparent substance, which is usually used for lubrication and is also one of the most common things in Japanese variety shows. Looking along the whiteboard, at the far end, everyone saw... a slide-like track, but this slide was really high, reaching all the way to the top of the studio!

  Above the slide, there was actually another pipe continuously injecting lubricant onto it!

  At the end of the slide is connected a small room, but this small room looks like it was temporarily built just for show!

  "Wow... amazing!" The people involved in the filming were utterly astonished.

  "Are you really being pranked?" Little Kurakawa Yoko in front of the TV couldn't help but turn her head and ask Zhou Xiao in surprise.

  Regarding Ogura Yuko's question, Zhou Xiao could only cover her face and say: "You'll know if you look..."

  The camera was switched back to Zhou Xiao, who knew nothing and followed the AD group on the road to the evil cave. In front of and behind him, there were actually many cameras secretly recording his actions, but Zhou Xiao had no idea about this at all. Unfamiliar with the studio side, he just followed the AD group's movements step by step.