Romance Variety Show: The aloof and beautiful fourth female lead is always coveted.

There were quite a few people standing in the living room on the first floor.

Besides the guest who won the game today, there were other people present as well.

"The rules are simple." The director held up his cue cards and announced, "The three male guests who won today's water polo match: Chen Yuze, Ling Yan, and Lin Zhao, will all take a plank challenge. The male guest who holds the plank the longest wins and will have the right to invite the girls to go to Love House together."

"The two female guests in the winning group, Bai Nianchu and Liu Zhiwei, need to decide who wins and who loses by playing rock-paper-scissors. The winner can invite a male guest to stay at Love House."

In other words, among the five people, only the man and woman who won the game had the right to choose.

One guest asked, "Doesn't Love House only have one bed?"

The director coughed and explained, "We've already changed to twin beds."

The original intention of setting up a double room was to capture more ambiguous, exciting, and intense moments between the male and female guests.

To everyone's surprise, the project was halted by the investor on the very first day.

Why not just put two beds in and add a couple of guests to interact?

If you can't film ambiguous scenes, can't you at least film dramatic scenes?

"They're pretty good at having fun..." someone muttered quietly.

"If there are no problems, let's get ready to begin," the director said.

The three male guests stepped forward and prepared on the yoga mats provided by the production team.

Lin Zhao did several sets of arm and leg stretches, glancing at Bai Nianchu before bending over.

Whether she didn't notice or was deliberately avoiding him, Bai Nianchu didn't react.

Chen Yuze took off his shirt jacket, leaving only his black vest underneath.

He had originally intended to toss the shirt onto the sofa, but his eyes suddenly lit up, and he walked over to Bai Nianchu, handing it to her.

"Miss Bai, could you hold this for me for a moment?"

Although Chen Yuze loves sports and sweats a lot, he also takes showers quite frequently.

This shirt was clearly just changed; it still smelled clean and fresh from laundry detergent.

The crowd cast surprised or amused glances his way; clearly, no one had expected him to do such a thing in public.

He's a bit like those cool, handsome, and arrogant guys from school days who would hand over their clothes and water bottles to their girlfriends in the stands for safekeeping before playing basketball.

On the surface, it's a minor matter.

Their underhanded boasting and territoriality are all blatantly displayed on others' faces.

Bai Nianchu didn't say anything, and simply held his coat in her arms.

Chen Yuze raised the corners of his mouth, his eyes casually sweeping over Lin Zhao and Ling Yan.

Ling Yan saw this scene and lowered his gaze.

The camera immediately cut to a close-up, capturing clearly Ling Yan's lowered eyelashes and the sudden darkening in his eyes.

The live stream chat went silent for a moment.

Has Mushroom turned evil again?

[I can't take it anymore, the fourth male lead is just secretly watching me like this—]

The look in someone's eyes when they want to kill you is impossible to hide (cat holding a knife emoji)

[Boys number four and five have really been openly and subtly competing all day.]

"Let's begin."

As the three men continued to support themselves side by side, the laughter and chatter from the other guests gradually subsided.

Plank exercises are unlike anything else.

This sport has no fancy moves, no intense competition, only pure, naked perseverance.

At first, all three of them held their positions very steadily and their postures were also very standard.

Five minutes later, Lin Zhao tensed his jaw, sweat trickling down his brow bone, a few drops hitting the ground.

Chen Yuze and Ling Yan remained expressionless, continuing their efforts.

"Impressive." Wen Shanshan also works out occasionally, but not very often, about two or three times a week.

She had also done planks for a while and knew that they required a lot of core strength; for the average person, being able to hold a plank for three minutes was already quite good.

"How long can you work at most?" she asked Liu Zhiwei, turning her head to look at her.

Liu Zhiwei thought for a moment and said, "Six minutes at most."

"That's still pretty strong," Wen Shanshan smiled. "I can only last a little over three minutes."

During a break in their conversation, Lin Zhao's arms went limp, and she collapsed onto the yoga mat, panting heavily.

Lin Zhao's time was nine minutes and thirty-four seconds.

After a second of silence, the chat was filled with comments—

"...I can't take it anymore."

[No, is this right? The second male lead had the calmest expression, so why was he the one who lay down the fastest?]

[Fine, keep pretending. What am I supposed to laugh at if you don't? Every day is already so frustrating, thank you for your pretentious act, it's hilarious, I really enjoy it.]

[Like watching, and pretend to be something you're not.]

The first person to be eliminated has appeared, leaving only Chen Yuze and Ling Yan on the field.

Bai Nianchu's gaze swept past Chen Yuze and landed on Ling Yan.

He was struggling more than Chen Yuze.

The muscles in his arms were taut to the extreme, and the joints were bluish-white.

Ling Yan was unwilling to give up for only one reason—

If you're not number one, then this challenge is meaningless.

Only the first place winner will have the opportunity to invite Bai Nianchu.

They've held on for almost ten minutes now.

Ling Yan's arms trembled noticeably, and a thin layer of sweat dripped from his face, but he still managed to support himself.

"Ling Yan is probably dying," someone whispered.

He's not incapable.

Ling Yan pursed his thin lips into a straight line, tensing his back and waist even more.

"Really...?" Xu Muyang sat up straight on the sofa next to him. "It's been ten minutes!"

"Those two are amazing! Is this what male competitiveness is all about?"

"It has nothing to do with the game; it's more about my competitive spirit when I go on a date with Nianchu."

"Is Chen Yuze even human? He doesn't even look tired."

"After all, they are professional athletes... they must have a lot of this kind of training."

The atmosphere was tense, and a small game gradually turned into a contest between the two men.

Twentieth minute—

Chen Yuze's breathing became heavy, and a layer of sweat appeared on his forehead.

As for Ling Yan, his entire face was almost soaked with sweat.

The hair on his forehead and temples was completely soaked, strands of it sticking to his face, and his breathing was extremely restrained and controlled.

Her eyelashes were soaked with sweat, her eyes were completely red, and even her lips were redder than usual.

He looks like a male ghost who just crawled out of a well.

It possesses an indescribable, decadent allure...

As I watched the comments section, it gradually changed color:

What's going on...?

[Is this really even broadcast? I wonder if the fourth female lead can hold up. I certainly can't (face turns pale)]

Holy crap, this is the first time I've ever directly experienced the phrase "sweating profusely" from a guy.

[He was also panting heavily...]

[I can already imagine what it would be like when the fourth man and fourth woman were making love. If the fourth man sweated and dripped sweat onto the fourth woman, he would probably apologize while panting and carefully lick it off.]

[Pass the pen to the great writer upstairs, teacher, hurry up and write!]

[Hehe, so can I listen under the bed when they're making love? @HeartbeatHouseProgramTeam]