[?!]
[The intestines weren't cleaned properly - holy shit, what a genius!!]
[Confirmed: Entertainment industry's Grim Reaper!]
[I literally puked on my keyboard...]
[Entertainment history's biggest disaster!]
[Eye-burning, no wait - ear-burning!]
[Who said earlier that the food not being made by Huang Laoshi was good news? This is tonight's biggest bad news!]
[Never in my wildest dreams did I think that in the cooking field, besides Huang Laoshi, the entertainment industry had another master!]
[I'm dying laughing - this kid's mouth is pure poison when he's drunk. He roasts people non-stop with that sarcastic attitude, nearly killed me!]
[He Laoshi told him to drive away, and Lu Ming's "I drank half a jin of liquor" had me cackling like a goose!]
[Right now if he drives away, at worst he'll face legal consequences. But if he doesn't run, whether he'll live to see tomorrow is questionable...]
[These people won't actually kill Lu Ming, will they? If it were me, I'd risk my life to make Lu Ming pay!]
[Honestly, I'd suggest Lu Ming not sleep too soundly tonight, or he might not live to see tomorrow's sunrise!]
[What kind of nerves does he have to dare sleep after causing this much trouble?]
[...]
The comment section exploded!
Netizens gathering in the livestream were saying they'd never eaten such a huge melon in their lives. Watching the explosive show effects in the livestream, some laughed until they convulsed, others applauded, some worried about Lu Ming's future situation, but most were the sounds of heartbreak...
As popular idols, Li Changfeng and Wu Qian had massive fanbases.
Witnessing their idols eat literal shit was like a thunderbolt for the fangirls. Some die-hard fans and delusional girlfriends felt like they were experiencing the apocalypse!
"Lu Ming, you bastard!"
"You ruined our baby!"
"You're killing our baby!"
"I'm going to kill this damn nobody!"
"Use his blood to pay for our baby's life!"
"Lu Ming, I want you dead!!!"
Fan groups, support clubs, forums, and various social platforms where fans gathered completely erupted. Fans of the two popular idols unleashed a torrent of online abuse. Some overly emotional fans even drove through the night toward Mushroom House, swearing to kill Lu Ming.
#Nine-Turn Intestines Incident!#
#Huang Laoshi's Reputation Ruined!#
#One Scheme Harms Three Heroes - Mushroom House in Crisis!#
#Lu Ming Destroyed Entertainment's Future!#
#...#
Various trending topics immediately shot to the top of hot searches, instantly drawing countless onlookers.
In a short time, the Kiwi livestream's online viewership skyrocketed. Compared to the already explosive popularity before, the online count increased nearly tenfold, setting a new record for entertainment variety shows!
Soon, the livestream page showed garbled text as the platform's servers crashed from enthusiastic netizens rushing to watch the drama.
Ring ring ring!!!
The Kiwi platform executive at home heard urgent phone ringing.
"Boss, we're crashed! Our servers crashed!"
"The platform's in major trouble!"
"Explain clearly!" The Kiwi executive was startled.
"Mushroom House had a disaster! The flying guest Lu Ming they invited this episode made a whole table of food that gave all the other guests food poisoning and diarrhea. Even Huang Laoshi got poisoned. Now the variety show's livestream is in chaos, and Weibo is full of hashtags about this #Intestine Incident#!"
"Too many onlookers flooded in, overloading server capacity and causing a complete crash!"
Hearing this, the Kiwi executive looked confused.
Do you hear what you're saying? Does any of this make sense?
"Boss Wang, it's all true. He was making nine-turn intestines, but when washing them..." The employee heard the silence on the other end and knew this sounded unbelievable, so he quickly explained what happened.
After brief shock and surprise, the middle-aged executive became ecstatic!
As the platform's top executive, he keenly sensed the wealth contained in this incident. If they could capitalize on this traffic wave, they could steal users from their rival Penguin, and with proper management, maybe even surpass Penguin in a short time, taking their position as industry leader!
"What are you waiting for? Call everyone in the tech department back for overtime - tell them triple overtime pay!"
"Ten minutes - I want to see the livestream back to normal!"
...
Five minutes later.
The livestream resumed.
"I'm going to kill you!!" Netizens heard Wu Qian's roar as soon as they entered.
Li Changfeng was emotionally broken, grabbing Lu Ming's collar hysterically: "You animal! You ruined me!"
Wu Qian gripped Lu Ming's neck tightly, shaking him violently: "Killing you now wouldn't be enough to make up for the damage you've caused me, you know that? You know that?!"
"Wuu... don't know, don't know... I don't know..."
Lu Ming's head tilted to one side, tongue hanging out as he made whimpering sounds. He even rolled his eyes back as if Li Changfeng was about to strangle him to death.
PD: "Calm down, teachers! Please calm down!"
"How the hell am I supposed to calm down? I ate shit in front of the whole country - tell me how to calm down! If it were you, could you stay calm?!"
"Why are you still filming with that camera? Turn it off! Cut it!"
The production team never expected their show, which had been running successfully for five episodes, would have such a major livestream accident. Including the director, everyone was completely frozen - they'd never encountered anything like this before!
Lu Ming wasn't actually being choked that badly. Facing the skinny guy having a breakdown in front of him, he felt no discomfort. Under the alcohol's numbing effect, his eyes grew hazy and his body movements became uncontrollable.
"Huang Laoshi, help me! Save me!"
"If you want revenge, go find Huang Laoshi - he's the one who made me do it!"
Huang Laoshi, struggling internally, seemed to make some decision and walked over.
Everyone thought he was coming to help, but instead of rescuing Lu Ming, Huang Laoshi picked up chopsticks and lovingly grabbed a piece of nine-turn intestines from the plate, bringing it toward Lu Ming's mouth:
"Xiao Ming, try your delicious creation!"
Lu Ming struggled frantically: "Huang Laoshi, my mom always told me good things should be saved for friends and family. My family's poor - I can't afford such delicacies!"
"You call this delicacies?" Wu Qian cursed: "Today's my treat - you have to finish everything on that plate!"
"No, guys, I really don't like eating this. I'm allergic to intestines - they make me cough! Really!"
Huang Laoshi ignored him: "Hold his mouth open!"
Wu Qian and Li Changfeng quickly complied. The other trainees, seeing this, felt they'd lost all their dignity today and angrily joined in to help.
Allergic to intestines?
They saw him grab a piece of intestines to put in his mouth before they started spitting everything out - did he think they didn't notice?
Seeing this, staff members grabbed their radios: "Director, should we intervene?"
Intervene? At this point, he didn't dare!
This was such a huge scandal. Wu Qian was the management company's future star they were planning to promote heavily. Li Changfeng's company had invested massive resources to get him selected as one of this year's top four young stars.
The enormous losses involved - he could imagine they'd definitely come after him as the director.
Although he was backed by Kiwi TV and didn't need to be too afraid, ultimately this happened on his show. If they really investigated, he was truly in the wrong!
"There really won't be any problems?"
"Don't worry, it's all cooked - won't make anyone sick."
Hearing the director's assurance, the staff thought - damn, that actually makes perfect sense.
"Help! Help!" Lu Ming shouted: "This is murder! Someone's committing murder!!"
Wu Qian had evil intentions. Seeing Lu Ming keeping his mouth shut, he simply picked up the plate: "Pry his mouth open - I'll pour this concentrated essence sauce in first to let this bastard taste it!"
For such collective bullying of the weak to happen on a variety show would normally cause huge controversy and sympathy, but the livestream comments were all encouraging:
[Feed him, feed him!]
[I want Lu Ming dead!]
[Calling for help? You could scream until your throat's raw and no one's coming to save you!]
[He deserves it!]
[This is too funny - I'm calling this episode of Mushroom House the strongest in entertainment!]
[With these show effects, nothing will surpass it for the next hundred years!]
Seeing Wu Qian really about to pour the sauce in his mouth, Lu Ming reflexively kicked up and sent the plate flying!
By sheer coincidence, the rich sauce splashed with the overturned plate, splashing all over Wu Qian's face like face wash, evenly distributed.
Since Wu Qian had been grimacing with his mouth open, the timing was perfect - he got completely drenched!
"Die, ugh! Die, ugh!"
Wu Qian cried out in panic.
He was fine when not talking, but opening his mouth made him instinctively swallow the sauce in his mouth. Immediately, the young man's expression froze completely.
"Ugh ugh ugh ugh!!"
Lu Ming freed one arm and instinctively elbowed the nine-turn intestines on the chopsticks straight into Huang Laoshi's mouth.
Huang Laoshi, who'd been smiling evilly just a second before, froze.
"Ptui! Ugh!!"
"You bastard, I'll have your life!!"
"Hold him down!"
At Huang Laoshi's command, everyone complied.
Li Changfeng: "Even Jesus can't save you today - I said so!"
Wu Qian, dripping with sauce, couldn't enjoy the "delicious" flavor and lunged at Lu Ming like a madman: "I want you dead! I want you dead!"
The scene descended into chaos.
Facing everyone rushing at him shouting for his life, the deeply drunk Lu Ming saw their menacing stance and suddenly felt an intense survival instinct. He ran to one side and violently flipped over the table:
"Since you won't let me live, then nobody fucking lives!"
Everyone was temporarily blocked as food, sauce, and seasonings splattered all over them.
"You fucking... gck?!"
"Cough cough cough!"
Li Changfeng was cursing at the top of his lungs when a heavily salted and soy-sauced sweet and sour pork piece flew into his mouth and lodged in his throat, making him choke painfully.
Everyone's eyes widened as they realized this bastard had somehow grabbed handfuls of sweet and sour pork and braised pork slices, now using the food as weapons and launching them non-stop!
Li Changfeng grabbed some sour and spicy potato shreds from the ground to throw at Lu Ming, but they had no weight and did zero damage.
Wu Qian and the other trainees, enduring the magical damage, gave chase. In the blink of an eye, they'd chased him from Mushroom House's courtyard into the rooms.
Huang Laoshi walked last, fighting back the discomfort in his mouth, coldly and unhurriedly heading into the house.
Trapped inside, this bastard had nowhere to run!
Huang Laoshi's mind immediately filled with various historical tortures, swearing to severely torment this bastard who'd made him lose all face!
Meanwhile.
Countless viewers watching their screens saw this bloody scene and burst into uncontrollable laughter.
[6666!]
[Broadcasting like this, who could possibly compete with you!]
[Such amazing show effects, I'm literally dying laughing.]
[Are you sure this won't get criticized for wasting food?]
[If someone's trying to feed you shit, would you have time to think about that? I have to say, this kid looks skinny but turns out to be so fierce - he broke free even with so many people holding him down.]
[Adrenaline: Hehe, hello!!]
[What he's doing doesn't really waste food. First, this whole table of stuff is completely inedible - feeding it to dogs would be murder. Second, my client's life was seriously threatened. Not only is using this stuff as weapons in self-defense justified, even using real food would be understandable.]
[Makes sense!]
[Not guilty!]
[For a moment there, I seemed to see Brother Crow.]
[Difficult to handle? Then don't fucking handle it!]
[You really shouldn't say that, but you really shouldn't!]
[I've seen variety shows with scripted drama, but this is the first time seeing people flip tables and actually fight on a variety show. This episode of Mushroom House is so explosive, I couldn't even imagine it!]
[Being able to witness this firsthand - my life is complete!]
[...]
While netizens were calling it amazing, they suddenly saw Wu Qian, Li Changfeng and the other trainees backing out of the doorway with their hands raised high, looking terrified and timid.
This sudden reversal left the laughing netizens completely confused.
So many people afraid of just him?
And this weird behavior - why did it look like they were being held at gunpoint?
"Calm down!" Li Changfeng pleaded earnestly with the person inside: "You outstanding... exceptional guy, you absolutely must stay calm! I'll let you off, isn't that enough?"
"No, don't come over here!"