Help with view filters
Your description is very confusing, I hope I was able to understand your problem in the end. 

You've framed it as if you're applying the exposed filters and then looking at the views results. But in the end you're looking back at the Exposed filters. 

The module that can help you is Views Selective Filters. 


  you get dynamic dependent filters, that is, when the value of one filter is changed, the list of options of the selective filters are updated accordingly to the trimmed down result set.