“Helping his wife zip up, touching his wife’s ears—how can we not ship them!”
“This CP gives sweet moments every time, I’m sweetened to dizziness~”
Xu Baichuan watching the livestream backstage: “…”
Mo Xun, what are you doing now?
Touching Fang Yinnian’s rabbit ears? You really know how to play this game!
The blue team’s male and female guests who witnessed this scene: “…”
Their CP had become popular during the summer drama broadcast, and their company had arranged various marketing tactics, such as standing together making heart gestures during livestreams, liking each other’s Weibo posts, and frequently exchanging glances during shows.
But today, seeing the recently popular Magic Cube CP, they truly felt inferior!
Respect, respect—they really know how to market themselves. No wonder they’re popular.
…
The second round game began.
The five FTM members, wearing rabbit costumes of different colors, had to imitate rabbits by hopping around while searching for clues, according to the rules.
Rabbits can’t walk with alternating legs but must hop, creating a scene that made many viewers laugh hysterically.
“Everyone hopping around is so cute, hahaha!”
“FTM Rabbit Group?”
“Xiao Fei is wearing a pink rabbit, haha! Xiao Fei has a pink girlish heart”
“Tang Che’s gray rabbit looks so cool and aloof!”
“Junwen’s red rabbit is super cute, but his hopping movements aren’t very agile”
“Five big rabbits—this episode has suddenly become a childhood special”
“Yinnian hopping around searching for clues so quickly is adorably cute!”
“Mo Xun is tall, so one hop sends him flying forward, hilarious~”
All 10 guests cosplaying as rabbits, hopping everywhere looking for clues—the Moon Palace was hung with many lanterns, with most clues hidden inside them, while others were concealed behind trees, under stone platforms, or in bushes.
FTM had previous experience collecting clues from “Desperate Escape Room,” so the five coordinated perfectly. After exchanging glances, they split into five directions, each quickly conducting a thorough search of their assigned area.
The blue team was also searching rapidly. However, lacking clue-searching experience and coordination, they were naturally slower than the red team.
After 20 minutes, the host announced the results: “In this round of ‘Jade Rabbit Treasure Hunt,’ the red team found 33 clues while the blue team found 27. I’m afraid the blue team must accept a penalty!”
The blue team was called over by the host and made to strike various silly poses in their rabbit costumes as punishment, causing the FTM side to laugh non-stop.
Host: “The current score is 2-0. With one round left, both teams need to give it their all!”
After losing 0-3 last time, FTM had already won two consecutive rounds this time.
Mo Xun said: “Let’s keep up the good work, everyone. We’ll take this 3-0.”
His teammates gathered around and shouted in unison: “FTM, fighting!”
The blue team also began encouraging each other: “We must win back one round!” “Let’s go, we’ll definitely win the third round!”
The competitive spirit on both sides was ignited.
The host asked: “Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival. Have you all eaten mooncakes?”
All five FTM members said in unison: “No.”
On the opposing blue team, some said they had eaten mooncakes, while others said they hadn’t.
The host said: “The next game involves eating mooncakes!”
“We will place a tower of mooncakes in front of both teams. Team members will take turns eating mooncakes—after the first member finishes, they immediately pass one to the second member, and so on. Whichever team finishes all their mooncakes first wins!”
For the Mid-Autumn Festival, a game involving mooncakes perfectly matched the theme.
If everyone ate simultaneously, the scene would be chaotic, and filming everyone wolfing down mooncakes wouldn’t look good.
Setting up a mooncake tower for a relay eating competition would create more interesting moments.
The three resident guests finished their predictions. Today, senior Cheng Kangle, in an effort not to jinx FTM, kept betting on the blue team, which ironically ended up jinxing the blue team instead.
The other two guests bet on the red team throughout.
The livestream had clearly been flooded with FTM fans, with the red team’s support rate surging continuously, reaching 80% by the third round.
Host: “Please have the props team bring the mooncake towers to the center of the stage.”
Two mooncake towers were wheeled out.
The host explained: “Each tower contains mooncakes of various flavors—red bean paste, lotus seed paste, sesame, five nuts, date paste, durian, beef, and more.”
Fu Fei’s eyes immediately lit up: “Wow, so many I’ve never tried before!”
Host: “The production team invites all guests to eat mooncakes. You can only take one piece at a time. Please sit around the table.”
The guests from both sides sat in a circle around their respective round tables, with a five-tier mooncake tower placed in the middle.
Each mooncake was only about 5cm in diameter, small enough to be eaten in one bite. If they had used large mooncakes, the contestants would have gotten too full.
The plates held many fruit forks for picking up the mooncakes.
The five gathered to discuss strategy.
Fu Fei excitedly said: “Let me go first.”
Last time in the relay race, he had gone first and fallen, bringing down a group of people with him.
Tan Junwen said: “Don’t go first. You troublemaker—what if you collapse the mooncake tower? They’d roll everywhere and we’d have to pick them up.”
Fu Fei: “…”
Mo Xun smiled and said: “That’s right. Let Tang Che go first, and we’ll pass mooncakes clockwise.”
Clockwise meant the order would be Tang Che → Mo Xun → Fang Yinnian → Tan Junwen → Fu Fei → Tang Che.
Everyone sat in a circle, with cameramen moving around to film.
Mo Xun asked Fang Yinnian softly: “What flavor do you like?”
Fang Yinnian said: “Red bean paste or lotus seed paste.”
Mo Xun: “Okay, I’ll pick those two for you to eat later.”
The production team had prepared mooncakes in many flavors, each labeled with text. Since it was a relay race with each teammate selecting a mooncake for the next person, it made sense to pick flavors the next person liked for faster eating.
Fu Fei looked at Tang Che beside him: “Brother Che, is it okay if I pick spicy beef and spicy peanut for you? I see these two are both spicy.”
Tang Che nodded: “Perfect.”
Mo Xun said: “If any of you aren’t used to durian, you can give me the durian ones. I can eat durian.”
Fu Fei asked: “Then who will eat the five nuts? I hate five nuts the most.”
Tan Junwen smiled and raised his hand: “I’ll take all the five nuts. I like five nuts mooncakes.”
Fang Yinnian said: “Good, I’ll pick five nuts for Junwen.”
Mo Xun said: “Everyone should use the fruit fork to pass mooncakes to teammates immediately after finishing. But don’t rush too much—it’s just a game, don’t choke.”
The four nodded in agreement.
Host: “Both teams have probably discussed their strategies? Countdown 3, 2, 1—start!”
On the FTM side, Tang Che started first.
Tang Che quickly selected a mooncake labeled “spicy beef,” ate it in a few bites, then used the fruit fork to pick a durian one and pass it to Mo Xun.
After Mo Xun finished, he selected a “lotus seed paste” mooncake and passed it to Fang Yinnian.
Seeing Mo Xun’s hand right near his mouth, Fang Yinnian smiled and opened his mouth to receive it. Mo Xun naturally fed it to him.
The CP forum thread exploded once again.
“Holy crap! Nian Nian is taking it with his mouth instead of his hand?!”
“Mo Xun just fed him like that…”
“Yinnian, how could you do this?!”
“Opening your mouth in front of your husband, I can’t even…”
“Nian Nian with red lips and white teeth, smiling with curved eyes while opening his mouth to eat food fed by his husband—my goodness, Mo Xun, you’re so fortunate!”
“Mo Xun, just kiss him already—what are you waiting for!”
“I’ve already imagined an 800-word romantic story~”
“How can we not ship this when they’re selling it so hard?”
This scene was perfectly captured by the cameraman.
Fang Yinnian actually hadn’t thought much about it. The relay race required speed, and when Mo Xun was passing the mooncake, his hand was positioned high, only about 5 centimeters from his mouth. Opening his mouth directly was obviously the fastest way.
Reaching out to take Mo Xun’s fruit fork would have been awkward.
After catching the mooncake with his mouth, he could immediately use his right hand to pick up the fork and prepare the next piece for Tan Junwen.
With food already at his lips, wasn’t it most convenient to swallow it in one bite?
In that moment, the two were truly focused on the relay race and didn’t think too much about it.
But from an outsider’s perspective…
It looked exactly like Mo Xun feeding Fang Yinnian mooncake.
The two acted super naturally. One extended food, the other opened his mouth.
Just like an old married couple feeding each other.
CP fans collectively went wild.
Xu Baichuan, watching the livestream backstage, was also speechless.
He guessed the CP thread would be trending hot again tonight. These two managed to give “sugar” to CP fans every time they appeared in public—it was uncanny.
Whatever, after all, two straight men wouldn’t actually… Xu Baichuan tried to comfort himself.
**
At the variety show recording site, both teams were rapidly eating mooncakes.
FTM had Fu Fei the big eater, who swallowed each mooncake in one bite, saving a lot of time. Gradually, their tower of mooncakes diminished.
Livestream viewers were dying of laughter at Fu Fei.
“Xiao Fei really has great variety show comedy effect~”
“Eating one mooncake per bite super fast, like a starving little squirrel!”
“He’s waiting eagerly while others are eating”
“His gaze follows the mooncakes continuously, killing me with laughter”
“Xiao Fei seems to be thinking: I wish the entire mooncake tower was mine!”
After about ten minutes, the red team finished their mooncake tower first.
The blue team still had about 10 pieces left.
The blue team guests graciously acknowledged defeat, collectively giving thumbs up: “You ate so quickly, were you hungry?”
Mo Xun said: “We have a big eater on our team.”
Fu Fei laughed and raised his hand: “I ate the fastest!”
Host: “Congratulations to the red team FTM for ultimately winning today’s competition 3-0, and thank you to the blue team guests for their earnest participation!”
“Please could all guests sign the Mid-Autumn postcards for fans who win the draw. The production team has also prepared Mid-Autumn gift boxes for all guests.”
While this episode wasn’t as funny as the previous one, everyone had a good time during the Mid-Autumn Festival, both dressing as rabbits and eating mooncakes.
In the end, each person received a gift box.
The gift box contained four mooncakes of different flavors, a greeting card, and sponsor-provided hand cream and sunscreen—all very practical items.
After recording ended, the blue team female guest, young actress Cheng Yixin, added Fang Yinnian on WeChat and privately messaged: “Yinnian, teach sister your CP marketing techniques someday. I’ll learn from you for my next drama’s CP promotion.”
Fang Yinnian replied embarrassedly: “I actually don’t know how to do marketing.”
Cheng Yixin sent a covering-mouth-laughing emoji: “You’re too modest. Your Magic Cube CP has already topped the charts.”
Fang Yinnian was startled and hurried to find his manager: “Brother Xu, what’s going on? Has my CP with Mo Xun topped the charts?”
Xu Baichuan had certainly noticed this.
He opened his phone, pointing to the #MagicCubeWorld# super topic ranking first in CP discussions: “Yinnian, you really go from silence to making a huge impact. Opening your mouth to take the mooncake Mo Xun handed you directly sent Magic Cube CP to the top of the popularity rankings.”
Fang Yinnian: “Huh?”
He had no recollection of whether he had opened his mouth to receive the mooncake. Wasn’t it a relay race to save time? With the food so close to his mouth, wasn’t it normal to open his mouth and eat it…?
Fang Yinnian scratched his head: “What’s so shippable about this?”
Mo Xun walked over and asked: “What’s the matter?”
Xu Baichuan handed him the phone: “See for yourself.”
The two leaned in to look at the super topic rankings. In Weibo’s CP super topic section, #MagicCubeWorld# had indeed become today’s number one trending topic.
It surpassed recent TV drama CPs, various entertainment industry forced pairings, and all boy band marketing CPs.
It had topped the charts.
Fans were frantically posting and shipping them.
In this variety show episode, Mo Xun had touched Fang Yinnian’s rabbit ears, they had smiled at each other, helped with each other’s zippers, hopped around together—providing many sweet moments for fans.
The final killer move was Fang Yinnian opening his mouth for Mo Xun to feed him mooncake.
These scenes had been separately edited and had frighteningly high view counts.
The CP fans’ “ahhhh” bullet comments screaming across the screen were loud enough to disturb Fang Yinnian’s eyes. The super topic was filled with CP fans going crazy.
“I’m being shipped to death ahhh!”
“Kill me to help them get in the mood!”
“These two are so good at this~”
“Mo Xun, if you don’t kiss him now, are you even capable?!”
Fang Yinnian said helplessly: “Is it really that shippable?”
Mo Xun also smiled and said: “As long as they’re happy.”
The manager said: “Having a popular CP is a good thing. So many TV dramas desperately try to promote CPs without success. You’ve picked up free traffic—you’re naturally destined for popularity.”
Fang Yinnian and Mo Xun exchanged glances.
CP marketing was common in the entertainment industry. They hadn’t deliberately marketed themselves as a couple, but the popularity certainly exceeded expectations. Perhaps this was the so-called “mystical CP chemistry”?
Actually, as long as they were clear in their own consciences, it didn’t matter what CP fans said.
After all, shipping wouldn’t turn into reality.
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10/10
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