Chapter 785: Scandal Queen vs. The White Lotus Actor 56

As for Wan Jie, the editing team was quite clever about it.

Although the Bai family had said that there couldn't be any negative footage of Wan Jie, they hadn't said that they couldn't show his tendency to show off.

So Wan Jie's scenes were directly edited to make him look like someone who would confidently say, "I'll handle this," only to have his words immediately come back to bite him, ultimately accomplishing nothing despite all his boasting.

The tent was a particularly good example. When the torrential rain came down and the four of them started arguing, the editing team replayed the earlier footage of Wan Jie confidently giving orders and suggesting that they set up the tent on flat ground.

Alongside it was the middle-aged actor's earlier objection.

Once these scenes aired, the audience was first amused to tears by Wan Jie repeatedly proving himself wrong, finding him hilariously "adorably stupid."

"Wan Jie Gets Owned by His Own Words" even naturally shot up the Weibo trending searches for a time.

After watching the show himself, Wan Jie was also relieved.

As expected, having the Bai family step in had been effective. The footage of him cursing at people hadn't been included.

……

However, when the same thing happened too many times, it stopped being amusing.

Once audiences saw enough of it, they would naturally start to grow annoyed.

Especially when they saw Wan Jie's increasingly impatient expressions later on, as well as the way he treated the two girls when they went out looking for food, the audience's favorable impression of him plummeted.

"Isn't Wan Jie a little too obsessed with putting on a show? At first, I thought he was pretty decent. He took care of the girls and did so much work himself. But now I realize he really is the kind of person who takes on a job without having the skills to do it! The only thing he's successfully accomplished so far is climbing the tree to pick coconuts."

"Being grouped with Wan Jie is seriously unlucky. He doesn't know how to make arrangements, yet he keeps running his mouth! Weren't we told that Zhang Chen was the group leader? In the end, Wan Jie was the only one constantly shooting his mouth off."

And so, the two words "adorably stupid" instantly lost the word "adorable" and became simply "stupid."

……

When Tang Wan saw the production team's final edited version, even she couldn't help admiring the editor's genius.

At the same time, she couldn't help sighing inwardly: This was what happened when you offended the post-production team.

If they really wanted to make you look bad, even without showing obvious footage of you cursing and arguing, they could still make the audience dislike you.

As for the incident that netizens had been most curious about—Wan Jie's "disfigurement"—the post-production team directly restored the truth.

After Wan Jie coldly rejected the traffic actress's suggestion, he stubbornly walked toward the beach alone, his back looking somewhat pitiful.

Then he climbed up the coconut tree and fell down not long afterward.

The camera clearly captured the terrified expression on his face when he reached up and touched the blood on his own face.

And when he lost control, grabbed the doctor, and threatened to sue the production crew, the post-production team played the footage in its entirety, adding some humorous captions.

But the netizens didn't overlook the facts just because of the funny captions.

What a huge wound!

He almost got disfigured!

After this episode ended, many netizens took screenshots of Wan Jie's expressions and turned them into memes mocking him, with captions like, "Get me to the hospital, I've been disfigured!" followed by an image of him arriving at the hospital only to find that the wound had already healed and disappeared.

Although falling from the tree had indeed been pretty miserable, could he really blame anyone else?

Movie Emperor Shang's group had already agreed to let them come over and share their food and water. He was the one who stubbornly refused because he wanted to "have some dignity," which led to all the problems afterward, and he even threatened to sue the production crew.

If you couldn't handle it, then don't participate in a variety show that was inherently dangerous in the first place.