Chapter 251

Chapter 251: A Long-Awaited Reunion, Sharing Sweet Moments With the Whole World

The audience was buzzing with chatter, clearly noticing something was off.

The emotions Chu Yuanqing displayed at that moment were so strong that they seemed to exceed her age, like discovering gold from ancient times, shining and heavy, like a treasure revealed after many years.

It made one wonder if her earlier mention of Vienna was connected to the person in the advertisement, a proposal that had been planned all along.

At the same time, due to Charlotte’s fairy-like beauty and her stunning performance that outshone the green-eyed cat, even those who didn’t pay much attention to Chu Yuanqing couldn’t help but look up who she was while watching the show, eager to learn about her background.

Xu Ling, feeling nervous, began to research as well; as the banner carrier of "Meet You in the Mist," Kirimi Miyuki’s former loyal supporter, she instinctively sensed a strong feeling of danger.

That woman is extremely dangerous!!!

If she has any connection to Honey Qing, it will surely shatter "Qing Ci Li Qu," draw closer to "Qingcheng Qingguo," and threaten the noble "Meet You in the Mist"!

Pei Xiaotong’s eyes lit up with excitement; she tugged at the sleeve of the girl next to her and exclaimed:

"Wow, Honey Ling, that sister is super beautiful!"

"Who is she? A contestant from the Vienna division? How can she sing so nicely?"

"I’ve decided! I want to support her! No, I want to support her, Honey Qing, and Xie Bao!"

Xu Ling was greatly shocked; that woman convinced her assistant to betray her in just a few minutes!

No, damn it, Honey Tong, weren’t you just promoting "Qingcheng Qingguo"?

Xu Ling angrily used a little dinosaur toy to hit Pei Xiaotong on the head several times, trying to make this love-struck fool calm down.

The girl crossed her arms and looked seriously at the girl covering her head, saying:

"You, DD, are not allowed to insult our noble pure love supporters anymore!"

Pei Xiaotong puffed out her cheeks and quietly mumbled:

"You clearly were only supporting Little Sakura before, and now you are only supporting Honey Qing."

"Honey Ling is really bossy! It’s too much!"

Hearing this, Xu Ling became angry and embarrassed. She hit the other person again with the little dinosaur and said:

"If you say any more, I’ll take away your pay!"

Once she said this, the girl who was thinking about using her pay to buy a little dress immediately kept quiet. Inside, she looked down on Honey Ling’s fake pure love, but on the outside pretended to be very well-behaved, showing a cute smile. To show her loyalty, she shamelessly began to hit her cousin sister’s leg.

Xu Ling continued to look up information, but because she had been joking around with her cousin for a while, comments started to appear from experts who came to share knowledge, discussing Charlotte’s great popularity in the other continent.

"It’s impossible. Even now, The Last Diva’s popularity has not spread to Donghong, let alone when Honey Qing first arrived in Vienna. Charlotte still had several weeks before she could participate in a commercial performance, so the chance of being a fan is small."

When Xu Ling saw these comments, she let out a cold laugh:

"How ridiculous, just worrying for no reason!"

"So far, there is not a single photo of Honey Qing with Charlotte on Weibo. Given Honey Qing’s personality, she probably doesn’t even know what avoiding suspicion means. If they really met, it wouldn’t make sense for it to be like this."

In other words, even if Chu Yuanqing has a secret past with Charlotte, they haven’t had a chance to meet. As long as they haven’t clearly been together on the show, a group that threatens ‘Meet You in the Mist’ cannot be formed!

Pei Xiaotong also quickly agreed:

"Honey Ling is right. Little Qing might just simply think Charlotte is amazing, just like how the main characters feel when they enter a new map and see a new BOSS, feeling awed and shocked to find a new goal."

The young girl grew more and more excited as she spoke:

"This kind of close-up animation really feels like the moment when an idol show’s main character sees a bigger stage or meets a rival! And according to the bullet comments, isn’t Charlotte very powerful? She’s the best in the Vienna competition area and even in the Sacred United Country competition area."

There were also viewers in the audience who thought like this girl. They believed that with Chu Yuanqing’s sincerity and passion for the stage, it made sense for her to follow the classic plotlines from idol shows.

Even fans who like to ship female relationships innocently thought it was understandable that Chu Yuanqing, shining like a Gemstone idol, would react this way when first meeting an idol who clearly surpasses her.

So, this excitement temporarily faded.

After the show gave Chu Yuanqing’s team a few minutes of attention, it switched to other teams, focusing mainly on the tasks.

This feels very much like a variety show, unlike the earlier episodes filled with tension. Each team’s interactions highlight their unique styles, creating a relaxed and refreshing atmosphere.

The crucial point is that the sixth episode clearly states that there will not be a performance until at least the eighth or even the tenth episode, so there is no elimination risk before the performance.

In fact, although the rules say that if you can’t return on time, it means you will miss the performance and be eliminated, no one thinks that the idols they support would be so bad that they couldn’t even get tickets for the show.

Because of one simple reason.

"Dazzling Stage" does not set a limit on the task points, so theoretically, you could score ten points from a commercial performance and ninety points from a task, adding up to 100 points to make it back to the performance venue.

Therefore, the audiences kindly refer to the third round of competition as the "bonus round."

This round is different from the previous tense and intense competitions. The remaining contestants have 45 days to eat, drink, travel, practice dance, and do a commercial performance, allowing them to have 3 to 4 episodes on "Dazzling Stage" without any risk.

Even if they are eventually eliminated, considering the scale of "Dazzling Stage," the viewership and popularity gained from 3 to 4 episodes would be comparable to that of an average third-tier star.

From a more common viewpoint, compared to the popularity gained now, whether one can continue to be an idol seems no longer important.

After all, in the entertainment industry, the status of idols is already low; for many people, idols are merely a way to gather fans, and once they have enough, they can jump to other fields to earn more money.

However, what is fascinating about "Dazzling Stage" is that the most materialistic, realistic, and impure contestants either adapt to the atmosphere created by Dream Weaver Rabbit or are eliminated early; those who remain mostly have dreams that are hard to let go of.

The most interesting thing is that the purer, more passionate, and more dedicated the young idols are, the more the audience can feel their joys and sorrows.

As the show continues, the warm daily lives of the ten or so teams slowly unfold from different perspectives.

Ruan Wutong overslept on the tram at Dongliu Island.

Liang Xiaoxiao and Lin Baor each grabbed one of her arms and carried the purple-haired silly girl off the tram, but they forgot her backpack on the seaside tram; meanwhile, Chen Yining was still bickering with Ji Shuzhu, allowing the slow tram to drift away, which made the team’s atmosphere quite chaotic.

Qi Yushuang got lost in Jincheng and ended up near Cheng Hao Academy, where she confusedly played chess by the roadside with a group of pretty young idols and an old man fanning himself, and then she was successfully tricked out of fifty yuan, all caught on a tiny camera.

After arriving in the border area, Chu Qiushuang suffered greatly from altitude sickness; she wore heavy clothes that were not summer-like and looked at the distant snowy mountains with a group of pretty girls wrapped up like little penguins, beginning to question her life.

Fan Qiuling arrived in Cixi and quickly reached the ancient town of Minghe, which has a history of a thousand years. She and her teammates changed into traditional Han clothing and rowed a boat in the misty atmosphere of Jiangnan, listening to the morning bells and evening drums from the temple, happily completing their tasks.

It can be said that each team’s experiences and situations are different, but from the audience’s perspective, they all seem quite joyful and interesting.

On the other hand, in this type of travel variety show, the importance of tiny cameras is incredibly high. They not only ignore the regional environment but also allow the contestants to present themselves in the most natural way, making the show feel very real, and the young idols appear more vibrant.

However, this instead made the audience, who were familiar with the routine of "Dazzling Stage," alert and sense a danger:

"Damn it, it’s already become a memory of my deceased wife."

But soon, the focus shifted back to the most popular team in the Sea City competition area, causing bullet comments to flood in from fans again.

After spending the night at Sah Hotel, Chu Yuanqing and her teammates took a morning walk in Vienna for the first time, leisurely arriving at the city’s landmark building—Saint Stephen’s Basilica.

Up to this point, the style of the bullet comments was still quite appropriate. They were either praising the young idols’ looks and outfits or commenting on the beautiful scenery of Vienna.

But once the lantern of Pure White Witch lit up and emitted a terrifying charm that made people spread out, and she walked towards another team from "Dazzling Stage," the direction of the bullet comments began to feel off.

"Something feels off. Honey Qing seems much better after coming to Vienna, and what did she go over for?"

Soon, a group of unfamiliar foreign idols performed a true scene of ‘how active girls become when they see beautiful girls in the XP community’ for the audience.

Chu Yuanqing’s popularity is truly amazing, making it hard for the audience to imagine that she used to be so unnoticed in school.

"The key question is, what was Honey Qing’s reason for coming over? I remember she wasn’t that outgoing."

In the midst of the audience’s confusion, the Pure White Witch’s two sentences hit the fans hard.

"Oh really? I just arrived in Vienna with my teammates yesterday. Before that, I saw an advertisement for a contestant from your competition singing ‘βίος’ from the building in the square."

"Excuse me, could you give me Charlotte’s contact information?"

In an instant, the bullet comments rolled in like a tsunami:

"6, the map of Yan country is so short. Honey Qing, is this how you ask people for contact information?"

As the program reached this point, a group of fans had noticed something strange. This sixth episode felt off; could it be aimed at ruining their favorite?

Even fans like Xu Ling felt angry as they saw their beloved daughter being pursued by someone else, and inside, they felt a bit anxious and tense, as if they were playing a game with NTR elements.

Luckily, as the tale unfolded, Charlotte appeared very little. Most of the time, the adorable stars were shown savoring delicious food and having fun in Vienna, completing their tasks with heartwarming and cozy moments centered on the three couples—"Qing Ci Li Qu," "Meet You in the Mist," and "Qingcheng Qingguo"—spreading sweetness to their fans.

In these warm daily scenes, the moment when Chu Yuanqing picked up her phone to reply to Charlotte’s messages hadn’t caught Leuwen’s attention yet, quickly moving on to a shining scene of the green-eyed cat showing off her skills in the roller rink.

The visuals in the program came from Little Sakura’s camera and the nano cameras carried by the program group, creating a product that looked much better than recordings from bystanders’ phones, showcasing the talented child star’s performance perfectly.

Whether it was the swan dance, various professional-level graceful acts, or the smooth and cool backflip at the end, everything was truly astonishing.

Of course, for fans of the green-eyed cat and XPure White Witch couple, the duet they performed in front of the camera was like high-class candy at a grand banquet.

However, having everything filmed so clearly wasn’t necessarily a good thing; some viewers captured a few detailed frames and imagined that the sunshine cat had stolen a kiss from Chu Yuanqing, getting "Qing Ci Li Qu" especially excited, surprised by the main character being so effective.

After that, it swiftly moved on to the progress of the other teams’ tasks.

As the sixth episode was about to come to an end, Chu Yuanqing’s vlog footage filmed in Vienna had almost shown most of the famous scenes.

Xu Ling only felt a little unsatisfied.

The sixth episode was truly long, lasting a full 178 minutes, but when divided among 17 teams, it meant each team only had about ten minutes.

Although Chu Yuanqing’s team had more than twenty minutes of famous scenes and received the highest popularity, this amount was clearly not enough for the fans.

On the other hand, many shots were cut down, so we can only hope for the full vlog.

Pei Xiaotong patted Xu Ling’s thigh and happily said:

"Honey Ling, don’t worry, look at the progress bar, there are still five minutes left. We will just finish showing Honey Qing’s team’s street performance. ‘Dazzling Stage’ has been non-stop this time, it’s simply amazing!"

Xu Ling nodded in agreement and eagerly watched the performance.

The stage in the sixth episode was much less intense than in the previous episodes; every performance was worth cherishing, especially the stages of Little Sakura and Honey Qing!

Fortunately, Chu Yuanqing and her team’s performance did not disappoint the audience. Even though it was an ordinary road show, they showed great seriousness, and by the end of the dance, they were surrounded by passing people who gave them praise and applause.

The comments were filled with heartfelt compliments.

But in the next moment, Chu Yuanqing’s smile froze suddenly.

This person seemed to be searching for a treasure in life, a hint of worry appeared on her brow, but in an instant, a bright smile, like the sun, blossomed on her face. It was as if she had seen something wonderful, ignoring the noise around her, she leaped over all obstacles and ran far away.

In the scene, The Last Diva’s deep blue hair danced like falling snow. She took off her sun hat that covered half her face, looking like a fairy stepping out of a painting, returning the same radiant smile.

Time seemed to freeze in that moment.

The scene came to a halt in a moment of brilliant sunshine.

The new ending theme of "Dazzling Stage" began to play, with a melody that felt like parting, like goodbye, yet also like a long-awaited reunion after many heavy years.