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If someone else did this, they might be criticized by the viewers. After all, the viewers weren't fools – despite the contestants acting all buddy-buddy with each other, they were all still competing by the end of the day.
But if this matter was done by Fu Jinxiao, they would only laugh it off. According to logic, it was Anran1 who took the initiative in joining Fu Jinxiao's team. So it was his fault if he was duped in the end. Besides, the viewers already knew Actor Fu's temperament for many years now – they were used to this. He's the black-bellied type, so of course he would do something like this.
Anran, who still didn't know much about the actual situation, took the mask and asked hesitantly, "Then why don't you two wear it?"
"Us? Well, this might be the logo of our team, but since you are the rookie amongst us three, it will naturally be passed for you to wear," Fu Jinxiao lied through his teeth.
At first glance, there seemed to be nothing wrong with his words.
But Anran's gut feelings told him otherwise.
Fu Jinxiao's smile faded. He was very accurate in grasping people's hearts, so he spoke as if he wanted to take his offer back, "If you don't want to, forget it."
Seeing that the mask was about to be taken back, Anran snatched it back immediately, and quickly put it on like a treasure. He slapped his own face, and then he quickly explained himself, as he was afraid that Fu Jinxiao might misunderstand, "No no no, I want to join you!"
Fu Jinxiao smiled.
The audience in the live broadcast room laughed like crazy.
[You are still too naive, my child.]
[It's wrong to add insult to injury, but I can't help but want to laugh.]
[Fu-ge, you truly are a ruthless man.]
Jian Xingsui was still in shock, and his dazed little expression became one of the jokes. The audience quickly christened his expression into a reaction meme.
Before this, everyone had given him the nickname of "20,000 yuan Brother". Their impression of him was that he was a very naive boy. After this battle royale, many viewers found that most of the contestants are actually smarter than they usually appear. In contrast, this simple kid suddenly looked very attractive, especially when he was following behind the shrewd Actor Fu. It was as if the big-tailed wolf suddenly gained a little white rabbit as a loyal follower. The contrast between the two was very appealing.
Fu Jinxiao turned around and patted Jian Xingsui, "Let's go."
Jian Xingsui nodded quickly, "Okay."
After this rag-tag team walked forward a bit, they heard a distant voice from the radio upstairs: "There are 10 minutes left until the end of the game. The remaining players are 30 in total, 19 on the red side and 11 on the blue side. The current score of the red camp is 43 points, the blue camp's score is 54 points. We are about to close the passages on the third, fourth and fifth floors. We kindly ask for all players to please move to the first floor's lobby as soon as possible."
It was almost like shrinking the poison circle2.
It is impossible for the contestants to hide. It forced those who hid in the dark to come out. The dawn of the final battle came closer and closer.
Anran asked, "Why do we only have so few people left?"
Jian Xingsui looked around and said, "The red camp's firepower is quite fierce."
"But our score is quite high, who has all those torn off name tags then?" Anran pretended to ask casually, but he actually kept looking at the two people beside him.
Jian Xingsui hesitated for a moment, considering whether to answer or not.
Fu Jinxiao, however, glanced at Anran lightly, and said in a slow tone, "It's not with you anyway."
"..."
It was the truth, but it felt slanderous somehow.
Anran's parlor was now gloomier, but he didn't dare to talk back to Fu Jinxiao. Of course he also guessed that this should be a sensitive issue, so he simply stopped asking.
He came here for a team-up because he wanted to get screen time together with Fu Jinxiao. What he didn't expect, however, was that instead of having a wonderful start, he got the beginning of a nightmare instead.
All three of them went down to the second floor, but they bumped into people from the enemy – the red camp.
The members of the red camp were taken aback for a moment, and the person leading the team was Zhou Xun. He was holding a water gun. When he saw the three blue camp members approaching from the opposite side of the room, he immediately picked up the gun vigilantly and made a defensive posture.
The person behind him said, "It's the masked man! Zhou-ge, it's him!"
Zhou Xun also noticed it, and he said angrily, "We finally found him."
"It's him who eliminated many people from our camp." The younger man behind him said, "Zhou-ge, the points on the blue camp's side are so high, and most of them are held by the masked man, it seemed to be attached to his cell phone. Should we..."
Zhou Xun spat, "Of course I know! But you didn't see the masked man's phone. And that's Fu-ge beside him!"
No one dared to tear Fu Jinxiao's name tag. So having him was enough of a deterrent – by just standing there menacingly, he could emit a pressure that scared people.
The younger man encouraged him and said: "Then we don't tear Fu-ge's name tag, we just need to deal with the masked man. We couldn't let that masked man escape!"
Zhou Xun thought so too, so he nodded. This time, he was unlucky to not be in the same team as Anran. As they were technically enemies in this game, Zhou Xun was always worried he would meet his sweetheart and had no choice but to fight him. But if he didn't perform well because he was soft to Anran, he would lose his face.
But it seemed that his luck was coming around. He met the infamous masked man here. So long he succeeded in taking off the masked man's name tag, won't all of his problems be solved in one fell swoop?
The only caveat was that Fu-ge is here, and it's a 2v3 in his team's disadvantage.
"Hey, you are here too." Just as he was thinking, a voice came from the nearby upstairs, "I am also from the red camp, what a coincidence."
His back-up was here!
Zhou Xun suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, pointed to the person in front and said, "Over there! The masked man is over there!"
Without too many words, the red camp back-up members had serious expressions when they heard the word 'masked man', "Where is he?"
The masked man was notoriously good. More or less, someone's friend or teammate has been eliminated by him. Now they have a number advantage over him. Such a big piece of fatty meat, who wouldn't want to grab his points for themselves?
The two sides looked at each other, and both saw calculations in each other's eyes.
Zhou Xun was afraid that the other party would strike first, so he didn't have time to think carefully. He gave an order to the teammates behind him, "Don't let them run away, hurry up!"
With that command, everyone rushed forward – nobody would want to come out as the loser.
At the other end of the corridor, Anran stared dumbfounded at the rushing red camp, weak and helpless.
Fu Jinxiao , who was in front of him, had already prepared. He turned around and gave a command to the two people behind him: "Run."
This time, Zhou Xun was going to go all out. The goal was very clear, which was to defeat the masked man. Anran also wanted to run along with him. Unexpectedly, Zhou Xun rushed over like crazy, holding a water gun and spraying at the three of his enemies. He tried to aim at the biggest piece of meat, and ignored the other two.
Anran still tried to resist: "You..."
Zhou Xun said harshly, "I see where you are going this time!"
The overwhelming water poured down, and there was no way to retreat. Before Anran could open the door of the cafeteria, he wanted Shen Xingchen, who was also holding a water gun, to make trouble for Jian Xingsui.
But alas, he never expected that the person who would finally enjoy this kind of treatment was actually himself. And on top of that, he was shot by his good friend.
Anran: "..."
As the red camp members rushed up and tore off his name tag, Zhou Xun was stunned after he took a good look at the masked man's identity. He raised his head hesitantly, his voice wavering, "Ranran?"
It was actually Anran who was splashed wet like a drowned rat. Miserably, he took off the mask, wanting to cry but no tears came. How could he still have the beauty of a fairy boy now? His hair was messed up, and his makeup was smudged. He looked uglier than usual – just like another nameless character nobody would care about.
In contrast to Anran's misery, the audience in the live broadcast room was very happy with the current turn of events.
[This is too tragic.]
[It's really difficult for our Angelic Ranran...]
[Is it just me or now I think he's not particularly good-looking...?]
[Think carefully about the many things that happened this time. After the contestant was drenched in water, he would lose his hairstyle. And that's an easy point to dock from their current good-looks. Though, there's an exception to this rule...]
Of course, the audience was talking about Jian Xingsui.
Because of the strong contrast of Anran's appearance, many viewers suddenly became inspired. They put a college of comparison between the before and after a contestant was drenched. Not-so-surprisingly, they found out that the person with the most consistent good-look was their 20,000 yuan Brother.
That's right, it's him, who was currently sporting a buzz-cut hairstyle. No matter if he's wet or not, his hair wouldn't change.
That's right, it's him, who casually wiped off his drenched face, not caring if he would smudge his make-up. Because he's not wearing any, he has no such worry.
Combining those two facts made this young man stand out from the crowd.
The audience also sighed with emotion:
[Sure enough, the buzz-cut hairstyle is the true test of appearance. Idols nowadays are hard-carried by their trendy hairstyles.]
[Actually, if you look closely, I think he is very good-looking.]
[At first I didn't think he was very handsome, but now I think he's very attractive now.]
[His facial features are very three-dimensional. This is the kind that a cute girl would fight wars over~]
Anran never thought that when he came here to get extra screen time, he would instead become a foil to Jian Xingsui because of their differences in hairstyle and make-up. Not only did he end up making a wedding dress3 for Jian Xingsui by mistake; nobody felt sorry for him, and he can't even sell his misery for the audience's pity points!
On the other side, Jian Xingsui, who ran out of the crowd all the way to the hall, felt his legs go limp. He had never been so excited in his life.
Fu Jinxiao, who was beside him, glanced sideways at him, "Is this not enough?"
"Huh?" Jian Xingsui looked up, and found that the movie emperor4 next to him had obviously run the same distance, but he was neither flushing red nor panting. Curiosity took over, so he asked, "Ge, are you so physically strong?"
Fu Jinxiao raised his eyebrows when he heard the words, and commented mercilessly: "It's because you lack exercise."
Jian Xingsui murmured softly: "I have been exercising for a while. But I still feel dizzy..."
"Exercising requires long-term persistence," Fu Jinxiao guided the child's wrong thoughts, but he spoke not in a criticizing tone, rather it was in an impartial one, "I have strengthened my physical fitness for a long time. Coupled that with my work in many films, it was no wonder I would be stronger than you. A good physical condition is also a kind of professionalism in my line of work."
Jian Xingsui inwardly complained in his thoughts, 'Just what level do you consider hard-working? You injured your throat because you sang too much, you skipped many meals until your stomach needed extra care, and you have a lot of old injuries because of filming accidents. Don't you feel a little bit of shame telling your junior to take care of his body?'
He secretly slandered the older man from the bottom of his heart, so his facial expression was a little out of control. Fu Jinxiao squinted his eyes and easily noticed this, so he used this opportunity to tease the youth, "Are you secretly saying bad things about me in your heart?"
Jian Xingsui was shocked!
He looked at Fu Jinxiao in disbelief. Does this man have mind reading skills?
Fu Jinxiao raised his eyebrows, and his tone became a little threatening: "Hey, I was really right, then?"
Jian Xingsui wanted to quibble, but looking at Fu Jinxiao's dark eyes, he suddenly remembered that the actor said he hated liars the most. So he obediently begged for mercy: "I was wrong, I don't dare to do it again, I will definitely exercise hard."
'His little cowardly appearance was actually cute,' Fu Jinxiao mused.
Fu Jinxiao couldn't hold back his muffled laughter. It was the kind of joy that resonated in his chest, different from the public relations-style polite laugh he usually used. He was really amused by the youth in front of him.
The audience in the live broadcast room also laughed:
[These two people are inexplicably so cute.]
[I don't know why but I feel they're quite sweet lol.]
[I didn't have this feeling when I saw his CP with Anran. The corners of my mouth couldn't stop rising up when I saw them talking to each other.]
[Fu-ge really likes to bully people~]
As the audience was discussing things, the radio suddenly broadcast an announcement:
"The time is up, this game is officially over. The red camp's final score is 51 points, and the blue camp's final score is 57 points. The winner is blue camp! The staff will calculate the winner's name tags, so please gather in the square."
The broadcast ended, heralding the noisy burst of cheers from the blue camp's members. They won from a headwind position! Their joy was making them a little bit too wild.
Jian Xingsui was also very happy when he heard the broadcast. He raised his head and smiled at Fu Jinxiao with sparkling eyes: "I didn't expect to win."
"Yes," Fu Jinxiao nodded, tore off his name tag, and said in a low voice: "We won."
Jian Xingsui paused.
He mused about what Fu Jinxiao meant by "we".
It turned out that one day, and there was such a lucky day. He was considered in Fu Jinxiao's definition of "us". Not "him" nor "you". "Us" together.
This might just be a casual sentence from the actor, but Jian Xingsui's ears are extremely hot. He was like a sponge that has dried up for a long time, carefully absorbing all the available invisible warmth, carefully cherishing every scrap he could find.
Fu Jinxiao handed him the name tag and said, "Why are you so dazed, go and hand in the name tag to the staff."
Jian Xingsui quickly took it over and replied, "Okay."
After reacting, he realized that these were two name tags. After hesitating for a while, he said, "Ge, I'll just hand in this one. Or, do you want me to hand in your name tag too?"
Fu Jinxiao nodded, "It can also be counted as points."
The words "Fu Jinxiao" were written in black, regular script. It looked plain, if not for the words printed on it. Jian Xingsui squeezed it a little bit harder in his hand, and hesitated for a moment.
Fu Jinxiao urged: "Hurry up, if you hand it a little later, you won't get into any screen time."
"...Okay."
He ran to the scoring staff with small steps and handed over the name tag. The staff took a look and said: "This is no good, Fu-ge's name tag was not torn by you, so it cannot be counted as your score."
Jian Xingsui was not sad: "It's okay."
Just as the staff threw the sign into the box aside, Jian Xingsui suddenly said: "Hey, since there is no scoring, can you give me this name tag?"
The staff looked at him in surprise.
"I mean..." Jian Xingsui was also a little embarrassed at his sudden query: "It doesn't count anyway, right?"
Although the staff felt a little strange in their hearts, in the end, it really didn't matter. So they nodded in agreement, "Okay, you can take it."
Jian Xingsui hurriedly took Fu Jinxiao's name tag from the box. It seemed that the name tag still had some warmth, and he put it in his pocket like a treasure.
Everything he experienced recently was as happy as a dream. He was very afraid that if one day he woke up from this pleasant dream, he wouldn't know what to do. After tasting a bit of sweetness, he no longer could live in bitterness.
But... every good thing has an expiration date. He could be so lucky in his life.
In the end, he thought that this was enough. Even if he was to be eliminated from the show, with this memento, he could recall those sweet memories to give him extra strength to continue forward.
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Just as Jian Xingsui was about to leave, the staff stopped him.
He stopped in his tracks, and saw the staff hand him a sealed card and said, "Take it, but don't open it yet."
When the envelope marked "Xingsui" fell into his hand, Jian Xingsui actually had a premonition, the content of this envelope should be this stage's contestants ranking.
After leaving here, someone shouted outside: "Jian Xingsui, come here!"
Under the evening sun, his roommates stood in a row, and the leader, Shen Xingchen, waved at him with a bouncy, joyous feel.
Shen Xingchen was impatient: "Why are you in a daze! Hurry up!"
Jian Xingsui hurried his steps. At first, he walked quickly, but when he got closer, he changed to a small step for some reason, and finally rushed to his roommates' side.
"Why are you moving so slowly?" Shen Xingchen muttered, "You aren't happy to see us? Don't want to come back?"
Jian Xingsui shook his head lightly: "No. Not that."
Shen Xingchen snorted softly: "That's about the same!"
Wen Shengge next to him also smiled and said, "We are lucky tonight. You must be the number one, so you'll get a hot pot for dinner! Since we are in the same room as Suisui, we can have a taste, can't we? So happy~"
Ning Ze also nodded: "We are blessed."
Jian Xingsui listened to their cheerful words. His heart felt really warm. He lowered his head, and said in a low voice: "It is also my blessing to know all of you."
The surrounding voices were too noisy for everyone to hear clearly.
But Jian Xingsui didn't care, because he already understood that the really important feelings don't need to be emphasized loudly, as long as they are well treasured in his heart.
This was enough.
For the dinner celebration, the program group suddenly grew a conscience, and they arranged a big buffet in the cafeteria for everyone to enjoy.
Because the blue camp was the winner, they were especially rewarded. They got extra rich self-service hot pot ingredients. Seeing this, the red camp's members became very envious.
As one of the leaders of the red team, Shen Xingchen had penetrated into the enemy's inner rank. He casually sat next to Jian Xingsui and began to eat unceremoniously. Seeing their leader's shameless behavior, other members of the red camp soon followed suit. At the beginning, the members of the blue team would pretend to fight and not let them eat, but later they really couldn't care much, and instead enjoy the jolly atmosphere of everyone happily eating the delicious, steaming hot pot.
The previous grievances between the two camps also dissipated.
Boys were sometimes good at this – there was no such thing as an overnight feud when food was involved.
However, when eating, most of the people's thoughts were still preoccupied with the mysterious envelope. Naturally, a large number of people gathered to discuss who would be eliminated.
"When will the envelope be opened?"
"I'm too worried to eat..."
"I'm really curious."
However, there were some people who really just focused on eating, and didn't give a single thought about the envelope.
Shen Xingchen saw that Wen Shengge and Ning Ze looked a little too serious. As the (self-proclaimed) leader of their room, he spoke to them, "Do you know why the show crew arranged this dinner before the ranking announcement? They just wanted everyone to be together, to enjoy the dinner without so much sadness about some of the contestant's parting or something. So, let's have a happy dinner together, yeah? You think too much, let us not waste any good intentions of the show's crew."
Sometimes this fool's babble actually hit the mark.
After thinking about it, Wen Shengge and Ning Ze agreed. So they pushed aside their worries and tried to enjoy the dinner as-is. Besides, the food was actually delicious, they could very well indulge in it for a moment.
Just at this time, the cafeteria's door was pushed open. It was the instructors who came in. Seeing that the instructors were here, someone hurriedly greeted in excitement, "Teacher, come and let's have dinner together!"
Teacher Tuya was an easy-going lady. She had always been very popular among the trainees. She greeted them back warmly, her expression was open and welcoming, "Wow, this smells so good~"
"Teachers, have you eaten yet?"
"Teacher, come here to eat."
The trainees were very enthusiastic, greeting the instructors one after another.
Fu Jinxiao came down after changing his clothes. He wore a loose and casual sportswear. Except for the tailored suit he wore when he first appeared on the stage, he always wore such loose clothing in order not to steal the trainee's limelight. Actor Fu tried to tone down his attractiveness with plain, ill-fitting clothes. But he was good-looking with a nice physique, so even in such clothing, he was already quite attention-grabbing.
Amidst the trainees' lively greeting, Jian Xingsui was a bit silent. He was hesitant to greet Fu Jinxiao at first. But then, from the corner of his eyes, he saw Anran move an empty chair to his side, clearly wanting to ask the actor to sit next to him. It seemed that Anran was about to greet Fu Jinxiao, and that was enough to vaporize his previous hesitation.
He suddenly remembered Fu Jinxiao's own words – that blind patience and cowardice will never make the enemy back down.
A little glimmer of courage grew from the bottom of his heart.
Many people greeted Fu Jinxiao. Anran also raised his hand: "Fu-ge..."
However, he was blocked by a crisp voice that came from the opposite side. Jian Xingsui bravely called out: "Fu-ge, there is a space here."
Actually, the voice wasn't loud. Compared to other trainee's greetings, it could be considered a quiet voice. But to Fu Jinxiao, the voice was clear as day. The actor was still smiling and refusing to greet other students, so turned his face to Jian Xingsui. He sat down beside the youth without any hesitation.
Jian Xingsui didn't expect to succeed, he looked at the man beside him with a foolish, dumbfounded look.
Fu Jinxiao should have washed up. He could pick up a faint fragrance on the actor's body. He couldn't actually tell what kind of scent it was, but it smells better than any other perfume he knew. It smells perfectly fitting to Fu Jinxiao – attractive and distinctly mature.
Fu Jinxiao glanced at him with the corner of his eyes, and teased the youth softly: "You still have the conscience to greet me politely. It seems like my grace hasn't been forgotten."
Jian Xingsui came back to his senses, and quickly said, "I haven't forgotten!"
In order to express that he really didn't forget, Jian Xingsui also praised the actor rather excessively. He thanked the actor in a low voice, "It is thanks to you that I can eat this meal today."
"What are you being too modest for? You were quite brave when tearing off other contestants' name tags, weren't you?" Fu Jinxiao continued his teasing, "We are comrades-in-arms, Comrade Little Jian."
This nickname was chosen casually to tease the youth, but it somehow sounded very intimate.
Jian Xingsui listened to it and felt his ears burn. In order to cover up his excitement, he also helped the film emperor adjust his dipping sauce. He was very good at mixing an appetizing sauce.
Shen Xingchen tasted his own dipping sauce that Jian Xingsui mixed, and he claimed it was tasty. Thanks to the young master's commotion, many people from other tables came over to see what the ruckus was about. Seeing was believing, so those who came also asked Jian Xingsui to mix their sauce too. So in the end, his action of helping Fu Jinxiao looked normal.
After mixing a bowl, Jian Xingsui handed it to Fu Jinxiao: "Here you are."
Shen Xingchen took a quick look and said, "Why didn't you put coriander, this thing is delicious."
Jian Xingsui, still holding the bowl, suddenly looked like he was guilty. His eyes were squinting, and he said hurriedly, "Ah, I forgot."
Fu Jinxiao took the seasoning bowl, raised his eyelids and looked at the people around him. His dark eyes seemed to be able to read people's hearts. Putting down the bowl, he commented, "It's okay, I don't like to eat coriander."
Jian Xingsui smiled and said: "Well, that's great, luckily I didn't put it."
His acting skills were really bad. Fu Jinxiao immediately knew Jian Xingsui's little lie. He was secretly pleased about it, though.
At the end of the meal, some trainees probably expected that they were going to be eliminated, so they suppressed their sadness as much as they could. Because they were full of good food and wine, they lost a lot of their self-restraint and became bolder in front of the camera. Some trainees even dared to go to Instructor Tuya and said with a cheeky tone, "Tuya-jie, if I am eliminated tonight, can I ask for your autograph?"
Tuya had a very good personality, so she easily agreed, "Of course."
Some people who have a better relationship with their instructor even boldly said: "Tuya-jie, can I get your WeChat contact?"
Tuya smiled: "No problem."
After those people who set a precedent, other trainees gradually became bolder. Many people looked at Fu Jinxiao intentionally or unintentionally, their hearts had the same thoughts. If they – somehow, by some miracle – could add Fu Jinxiao's WeChat contact, their journey in this show wouldn't be in vain. Even if they get eliminated tonight, having Fu Jinxiao as a WeChat friend was something to be bragged about in front of other colleagues and family members!
But due to the majesty of King Fu, no one dared to really come up and ask.
Under so many longing gazes, Fu Jinxiao put down his chopsticks, sighed softly, raised his head and said, "You can add my contact."
Although no one dared to speak, many people immediately started cheering as soon as Actor Fu's words came out. Mobile phones were not allowed here, so someone came over with a small notebook and wanted to write it down by hand. With that, a group of people gathered around and added their contact information in a lively manner.
Jian Xingsui also wanted to join, but couldn't make it.
He envied those who were brave enough to come. But sadly, he could only watch helplessly, just like he had done many times before. He always could only look at the center of the crowd from a distance, watching the glow of the protagonist – the person who was destined to shine. In contrast, he was just an ordinary passerby, just another cannon fodder who would never get a moment in the spotlight.
If he was good enough... if he was brave enough... maybe, he could also go up and asked for Fu Jinxiao's contact information...
Jian Xingsui curled up subconsciously. As he was feeling anxious in every possible way, a voice came from beside him, "Why are you in a daze here?"
He came back to his senses and saw Shen Xingchen's face.
Shen Xingchen kicked him lightly: "Go if you want!"
Jian Xingsui stood up from such a kick, stuttering: "No, I..."
"I, I, I, are you a repeating machine?" Shen Xingchen snorted lightly, then pushed the younger man lightly, "I can see what you actually want. Just hurry up, I think you'll succeed in getting his contact!"
Pushed like this, Jian Xingsui fumbled into taking a few steps forward, and stood beside the crowd with a lost look. His heartbeat had never been so fast – he was so nervous, it was beyond any comprehensible words.
However, at this moment, Fu Jinxiao in the crowd seemed to have noticed him and looked in his direction.
Jian Xingsui opened his mouth, but forgot to move, and stood there in a daze.
Fu Jinxiao looked at him for a while. There was a hint of fond smile in his eyes. He freed himself from the crowd and unhesitantly walked towards Jian Xingsui's direction. After he reached his destination, he teased the youth, with a deep, alluring voice that bewitched his soul, "Looking for me?"
Jian Xingsui's heart raised to his throat, but he still nodded lightly. He mustered up every bit of courage he had, and said nervously, "I think, I want to ask for your..."
"Well, what a coincidence. I also have something to ask you," Fu Jinxiao's voice was slow, and he asked very politely: "Can I have your WeChat contact, Comrade Little Jian?"
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1) the previous translator used "An Ran". But since his full name is "Jian Anran", I chose to translate it this way so as to not make it seem like "An" is his surname.
2) like in PUBG. The "safe zone" is steadily shrinking, and the area outside of the safe zone will decrease your HP continuously.
3) trying to make a trouble for someone, but ending up giving them benefits instead.
4) award-winning actor; another synonym would be "film king"