“Tian Tian, Zhu Zhu, there are only five minutes left until 11. Jingyu and I have already sent our texts to the production team.”
As soon as Bai Baozhu entered the small living room on the female guests’ floor, she heard a light, cheerful female voice.
Bai Baozhu looked up and saw a woman wearing a taro purple cardigan and a milky white dress sitting on the living room sofa, smiling at her and Xia Tiantian.
Seeing the two very beautiful but completely different-looking women sitting on the sofa, Bai Baozhu quickly identified them.
The one who had spoken with a smile was Female Lead Number Two, Su Han. Her sleek, straight black hair cascaded over her shoulders. She had clear, bright brown eyes, cherry-blossom lips, and an oval face full of collagen—the very picture of a standard first-love face.
Although Su Han wasn’t the most beautiful female guest in Love Cottage, nor did she have a stunningly gorgeous appearance at first glance.
She was, however, the most pleasant to look at. Especially when she smiled, her eyes narrowing into two little crescents, she appeared pure and sweet, a sight that lifted one’s spirits.
The woman sitting alone on a single-seater sofa, wearing a black silk robe, who merely nodded a greeting without speaking, was Female Lead Number Four, Ye Jingyu.
In terms of looks, Ye Jingyu definitely had the grand, dignified, and luxurious beauty of a peony, the epitome of a socialite.
Her lazy yet stylish cold-brown long curls, her delicate and small pointed chin, and her long, narrow, seductive willow-leaf eyes were contrasted by her light brown, cool gaze that tempered that allure. Her entire being exuded an elegant, aloof aura.
Although Ye Jingyu couldn’t compare to Bai Baozhu in terms of facial feature refinement, when it came to temperament, Ye Jingyu was miles ahead of Bai Baozhu.
Coupled with the vast gap in both emotional and intellectual intelligence between the two.
So, after Female Lead Number Four Ye Jingyu made her entrance, Bai Baozhu, the publicly acknowledged most beautiful goddess of Love Cottage, completely collapsed.
Bai Baozhu was also unlucky. The wealthy, beautiful goddess persona her agency had built for her clashed directly with Ye Jingyu, a genuine wealthy, beautiful goddess!
How could a fish eye like Bai Baozhu possibly fare well when placed next to a pearl like Ye Jingyu?
Already, her popularity among the male guests had plummeted due to being overshadowed by Su Han. Now, Ye Jingyu’s appearance was a devastating blow to Bai Baozhu.
Thus, only six days after Female Lead Number Four Ye Jingyu arrived at Love Cottage, and under the double ‘assault’ from Su Han and Ye Jingyu, Bai Baozhu had already received zero votes for four nights in a row…
“Zhu Zhu, let’s sit here.”
Seeing Bai Baozhu spacing out again, Xia Tiantian kindly pulled her roommate to sit down together.
Once seated on the soft sofa, Xia Tiantian shoved the smartphone sponsored by the show into Bai Baozhu’s hands.
Following the memories, Bai Baozhu began to operate it.
However, although she, a person from another world, could indeed use the so-called smartphone to send text messages based on the memories left by the original host…
But…
Who should she send it to???
According to the original host’s memories, she seemed to somewhat like Male Lead Number Three, Bo Shenyu??? But she also seemed to somewhat like Male Lead Number Four, Jiang Boyan???
And her relationship with Male Lead Number Two, Lin Dong, also seemed pretty good???
So, who on earth should she send it to!
Bai Baozhu, who had no real interest in dating, was utterly vexed.
Forget it, forget it. She’d just send it to anyone.
Seeing that the other three female guests seemed to have already finished editing and sent their messages, she somewhat clumsily tapped on the phone screen to type.
After three minutes of typing, including punctuation, she had only managed to input six characters.
【Hello. Good night.】
Seeing that it was almost 11 o’clock, Bai Baozhu closed her eyes, randomly pressed a number, and sent the message.
Hearing the ding sound confirming the message was sent, Bai Baozhu finally let out a sigh of relief.
What she didn’t know was that after she sent this message… the entire production team was thrown into confusion.
“What does Bai Baozhu mean by this? Wasn’t she very disdainful of Male Lead Number One, Wei Wenbo? And the two of them had no interaction today. Why would she suddenly send a message to Wei Wenbo?”
“Maybe she was stimulated by getting zero votes for several days? Sent it to Wei Wenbo out of spite?”
“Is that it? But the previous days’ votes were quite normal…”
“Alright, there’s no time. Let’s send all the messages out first.”
…
11:01 PM.
All eight male and female guests in Love Cottage received their messages one after another.
“Buzz—!”
“Buzz—!”
“Buzz—!”
“Buzz—!”
Accompanied by the buzzing vibration alerts, the previously quiet small living room instantly became lively.
Bai Baozhu looked at the other female guests in the living room, their faces either beaming with joy or smiling broadly, and she only felt completely out of place here.
“Ha~!”
Looking at her own phone, which was as quiet as a mouse, Bai Baozhu yawned and casually placed the phone on the coffee table.
She didn’t care in the slightest that she hadn’t received a love text message, nor did she try to hide the fact that she hadn’t received one.
“I’m sleepy. I’m going back to bed first. Good night.”
Bai Baozhu stretched, stood up from the sofa, and without paying attention to anyone else’s reactions, walked straight out of the small living room and returned to her bedroom to sleep.
Watching Bai Baozhu leave without looking back, the three female guests in the room had different thoughts. Xia Tiantian felt sympathy, Ye Jingyu felt disdain, and Su Han felt—
Boundless mockery.
Su Han looked at the spot where Bai Baozhu had disappeared. She lowered her head, and her phone screen completely obscured her face.
Even with the countless indoor cameras in this small living room, none could capture the expression on Su Han’s face at that moment.
Heh, this Bai Baozhu is nothing special after all. Next, it should be Ye Jingyu’s turn…
…
The undercurrents among the female guests were unknown to Bai Baozhu, the next monarch of a female-dominant kingdom. Even if she knew, she wouldn’t care.
By then, she had already entered a sweet dreamland.
Pillowing her head on the fragrant, soft latex pillow, Gang Zhu relived Bai Baozhu’s entire life in her dream.
And this dream lasted two nights.
Over the course of two nights, it was as if Bai Baozhu was acting in a play within her dream, ‘performing’ twenty-one years in the gender-equal 21st century using Bai Baozhu’s identity.
These two days and nights also allowed Bai Baozhu to completely adapt to this identity of Bai Baozhu.
And to become thoroughly familiar with the other seven ordinary guest participants in Love Cottage.
Su Han, Female Guest Number Two, 24 years old. Cheerful, lively, understanding. A fashion blogger.
Xia Tiantian, Female Guest Number Three, 26 years old. Somewhat slow to warm up, shy, and timid. An original painting designer.
Ye Jingyu, Female Guest Number Four, 23 years old. Elegant, aloof, yet not lacking in gentleness. A jewelry designer.
However, compared to the ‘high-end’ professions and resumes of the female guests, the male guests seemed somewhat lacking.
Wei Wenbo, Male Guest Number One, 26 years old. Taciturn, enjoys health preservation. A civil servant on a fixed salary (on the surface).
Lin Dong, Male Guest Number Two, 23 years old. Hot-tempered, impulsive, loves playing games. An esports champion with over a million fans, though now retired.
Bo Shenyu, Male Guest Number Three, 27 years old. Cold, deep, not easy to get close to. Enjoys reading. As for profession… putting it grandly, he’s a freelancer. Putting it bluntly, he’s an unemployed drifter without a proper job (on the surface).
Jiang Boyan, Male Guest Number Four, 24 years old. Unrestrained, free-spirited. Hobby is photography. A bartender at a high-end bar (on the surface).
It was no exaggeration to say that among these four male guests, apart from Male Guest Number Two, the conditions of the other three simply didn’t match up to the three female guests (excluding Bai Baozhu, who was still a university student)!
But then, who told these male guests to have such good-looking faces! Their looks were simply too high!
Especially Male Guest Number Three and Male Guest Number Four!
These two were even more handsome than a bunch of high-value fresh meat idols in the entertainment circle!
Just based on their faces alone, they captivated countless viewers, making them forget everything.
Of course, they did not captivate Bai Baozhu, the quasi-monarch of a female-dominant kingdom who had seen countless beauties.
Whether it was the steady, reserved, and secure good man, Male Guest Number One Wei Wenbo, or the clean, comfortable, youthfully boyish ‘little milk dog’, Male Guest Number Two Lin Dong.
Or the noble, aloof, high-mountain-snow-lotus-like Male Guest Number Three Bo Shenyu, and the carefree, unrestrained, bad-boy-aura-filled Male Guest Number Four Jiang Boyan.
Bai Baozhu didn’t fancy any of them~
After two days of interaction, among the four male guests, the only person Bai Baozhu found somewhat acceptable was the ‘Old Cadre’ Wei Wenbo, who did everything at a slow pace.
Although… this ‘Old Cadre’ Wei Wenbo didn’t seem to like her very much, always maintaining a very distant sense of space from her.
But he was a good person. When she was figuring out how to use the high-tech products of this era, she had relied entirely on Wei Wenbo’s patient teaching.
Even for questions about common sense, Wei Wenbo answered patiently without a hint of impatience.
Compared to the other three male guests, he was truly on a whole different level!
“Did you guys see the bulletin board! Su Han used her Sun Date privilege on Brother Shen. They’re going out on a date.”
Just as Bai Baozhu, Xia Tiantian, and Wei Wenbo were sitting on the sofa in the first-floor living room watching videos, they saw Lin Dong walk in excitedly.
Hearing Lin Dong’s words, Wei Wenbo’s expression stiffened slightly.
Especially after hearing what Lin Dong said next.
“And I saw two suns already drawn on the bulletin board. Which one of you drew them? Brother Bo, was it you?”
The Sun Date was a new dating rule the production team had just informed them about.
The initiator posts the date’s target, time, and location on the bulletin board.
Each guest only has one chance to initiate.
The invited guest can refuse the date.
Furthermore, apart from the two people on the date, one male and one female guest can each draw a sun, participating in this Sun Date as ‘love rivals’.
However, no one expected someone to use their Sun Date privilege so quickly, and for it to be a female guest.
Even more unexpected was that someone would actually play the spoiler, joining someone else’s Sun Date as a third wheel, an awkward role for everyone involved.
And not just one person, but two!
This novel kind of four-person date was really…
Too exciting!