“Buzz—!”
Just like usual, Lin Dong received another text message. This message was, without a doubt, another one sent to him by Xia Tiantian.
Sure enough, opening the message and looking at the lengthy content detailing today’s trivial matters and her feelings, Lin Dong pursed his lips with a sense of burden, a faint trace of helplessness flashing in his dark eyes.
To be honest, even though he was a straight man , after half a month of interaction, he could tell that Xia Tiantian liked him.
But, Xia Tiantian wasn’t his type.
Moreover, Xia Tiantian’s feelings for him were just too heavy, making him feel very burdened.
Just as his mood was sinking a bit, suddenly his phone received another message!
“Buzz—!”
Lin Dong, who had been about to put his phone down, immediately widened his eyes, looking at his phone with an expression of disbelief.
This was… receiving two messages??? That couldn’t be!
Lin Dong nervously swallowed. Ever since coming to Love Cottage, he had never received two love text messages!
With a nervous and expectant heart, Lin Dong opened the second love text message he had received.
【Accompaniment is the longest confession. Cherish the person by your side.】
Looking at those brief words, Lin Dong didn’t know why, but he just felt a warmth in his heart.
His fingers gently brushed over the words on the phone screen.
Accompaniment is the longest confession… cherish the person by your side…
Could it be that in Love Cottage, besides Xia Tiantian liking him, there was another girl who liked him?!
Or perhaps, was interested in him?! It was just because they hadn’t interacted much that she would send such a message to remind him???
In an instant, Lin Dong’s heart began to beat wildly.
And after using the process of elimination, he became even more excited!
Because—
Could this have been sent by Ye Jingyu?
…
“Achoo—!”
Bai Baozhu sneezed violently and climbed out of bed.
“Zhu Zhu, did you catch a chill? I told you, you can’t eat so much ice cream in this weather.”
Seeing Bai Baozhu sneeze a big sneeze right after waking up, Xia Tiantian muttered at her roommate before going to the living room to make Bai Baozhu a cup of isatis root tea.
“Drink this first. During this sensitive period, you really can’t afford to get sick.”
Ever since confiding in Bai Baozhu about her feelings yesterday, Xia Tiantian had truly started treating Bai Baozhu as her friend, and moreover, as a simple little sister who needed looking after.
Bai Baozhu, who hated drinking medicine, pouted and somewhat reluctantly took the isatis root tea from Xia Tiantian’s hands.
However, after taking a sip, her eyes immediately lit up.
“It’s sweet!”
“Hehe.”
Seeing Bai Baozhu acting like a child, Xia Tiantian couldn’t stop laughing.
But how could she know that Bai Baozhu, this quasi-national leader from the Female-Dominant Kingdom, was genuinely shocked!
Even the medicine in this world tasted so good! It really was a paradise!
As roommates, the two of them dawdled a bit more in the bedroom before finally heading out.
Once out of the room, they discovered that Love Cottage today was unusually quiet.
Usually at this time, there would definitely be people in the dining room and living room.
But today…
“Could they all have gone on dates?”
Xia Tiantian checked the time; it was only nine in the morning.
“No way, would they go out on dates this early?”
Listening to Xia Tiantian’s soft muttering, Bai Baozhu blinked and rubbed her stomach.
She didn’t care who was dating whom or if anyone was dating at all. She only cared about what to eat.
“What are we eating today?”
Ever since transmigrating to this world, Bai Baozhu had always just followed the ‘main group’ for food and drink. Whatever the people in Love Cottage made, she ate, never being picky.
After all, there were many things she had never eaten before!
Things like sandwiches, steak, pasta, and such.
Although she found the taste just so-so, well, she was new here and wasn’t too proficient with this modern-style kitchen yet, so of course it was better to keep a low profile.
“Zhu Zhu, what do you want to eat? I’m not very good at cooking, I only know how to boil noodles.”
Xia Tiantian looked at Bai Baozhu with a troubled expression, thinking to herself that the people in Love Cottage who could cook were Su Han, Ye Jingyu, and Bo Shenyu. Usually, it was these three who did the cooking.
She and Bai Baozhu were truly kitchen idiots, only responsible for washing dishes and cleaning the kitchen every day.
Thinking this, Xia Tiantian felt a bit of a headache coming on.
“The master chefs aren’t home today. Looks like we can only eat instant noodles.”
Hearing Xia Tiantian’s words, Bai Baozhu instinctively frowned, feeling resistant.
Although instant noodles weren’t bad, how could they compare to meat!
For a foodie like Bai Baozhu who was unhappy without meat, every meal absolutely had to have meat!!!
So—
“How about I take charge of today’s three meals.”
Bai Baozhu decided to roll up her sleeves and do it herself!
Anyway, over the past few days, she had already mastered all those modern kitchen appliances!
“You? Can you? Didn’t you say you can’t cook, that you’ve never been in a kitchen before?”
Xia Tiantian looked at Bai Baozhu with a skeptical gaze. It wasn’t that she didn’t trust Bai Baozhu, but Bai Baozhu herself had said upon arrival that she couldn’t cook and had never been in a kitchen.
Moreover, during this period of recording Love Cottage, Bai Baozhu really had never set foot in the kitchen to cook.
Even going into the kitchen to wash dishes only started a few days ago when she began doing it with Xia Tiantian.
“Ahem!”
Under Xia Tiantian’s doubtful gaze, Bai Baozhu gave an embarrassed cough and declared righteously.
“I couldn’t cook, but even if you can’t cook, you can still learn! I’ve been watching a lot of cooking videos lately! I think I should be ready to graduate! Don’t look down on me!”
Besides, the original host wasn’t actually incapable of cooking! The original host’s family wasn’t wealthy; the original host had known how to cook since childhood. It was just that now, to maintain the persona of a rich, beautiful goddess, she was pretending to be completely kitchen-illiterate.
Seeing Bai Baozhu puff out her chest and raise her head, looking as proud as a peacock, Xia Tiantian couldn’t help but laugh again, saying with a face full of smiles.
“Alright, alright, alright. Then I’ll look forward to Chef Zhu Zhu’s cooking.”
After some laughter and banter, the two girls finally headed to the kitchen. Upon entering, they discovered that in the kitchen fridge, there were sandwiches that Su Han had made for them before she left—breakfast.
Taking the sandwiches out of the fridge and heating them up for breakfast, Bai Baozhu couldn’t help but sigh inwardly. Although Su Han’s cooking skills weren’t amazing, this thoughtful gesture really won a lot of favor!
If she were a man, she’d like Su Han too!
“Burp~! I hope Su Han and Bo Shenyu’s date goes well.”
After finishing the sandwich, Bai Baozhu downed a glass of hot milk in one go, let out a satisfied burp, and spoke without any regard for her image.
Seeing Bai Baozhu’s childish manner, Xia Tiantian shook her head with amusement and couldn’t help but get a bit gossipy.
“Zhu Zhu, don’t you have any feelings about it?”
“Huh? What feelings?”
Bai Baozhu wiped the milk from the corner of her mouth and looked at Xia Tiantian, her face full of question marks.
“…Well, who did you send your text message to last night?”
Seeing Bai Baozhu’s complete confusion, Xia Tiantian could only awkwardly change the subject. She figured that whoever Bai Baozhu sent the love text message to must represent who she liked now.
However, the moment she asked this, Xia Tiantian realized she had spoken without thinking again and said the wrong thing!!!
Just as Xia Tiantian was thinking that even if Bai Baozhu was simple-minded, she probably wouldn’t answer such a sensitive question, she never expected Bai Baozhu to answer her without the slightest hesitation!
And! The answer was completely beyond her expectations!
“The text message? Last night’s text was sent to Lin Dong.”
Bai Baozhu blurted out Lin Dong’s name casually, completely failing to notice that Xia Tiantian’s face immediately fell, the little boat of their friendship teetering on the edge of capsizing.
“L-Lin Dong? You, why would you send it to him?”
Xia Tiantian tried hard to calm her unsettled heart, constantly comforting herself inwardly that Bai Baozhu definitely didn’t send the message to Lin Dong because she liked him! It must be like that! It must be! It must be! (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻
“Well…”
Bai Baozhu was just about to explain that she had ‘rolled the green head plaque’ and it landed on Lin Dong, when she suddenly remembered they were recording a show! And it was a dating show at that!
If she told the truth, wouldn’t that be disrespectful to the audience watching the show, and unfair to her friends here who were seriously trying to date?
So, Bai Baozhu changed her tune, a clever idea striking her.
“Well… I was helping you give that straight man Lin Dong a hint, telling him to pay attention to the person by his side.”
After saying this reason out loud, Bai Baozhu really felt she was too clever!
She was also very satisfied with the deep, meaningful text message she had sent last night!
However…
The person involved, Xia Tiantian, fell silent.
Looking at the very pleased Bai Baozhu, she said with a mix of laughter and tears.
“Are you sure… the message you sent was helping me, and not sabotaging me?”
“Huh? How could it be sabotaging you? Of course it was helping you!”
“Do you think that straight man Lin Dong could actually understand it?”
“He should! Anyway, I could understand it!”
“If you say he can, then he can…”
Faced with Bai Baozhu’s absolute conviction, Xia Tiantian weakly massaged her forehead, finally giving up. She also confirmed one thing, which was—
Bai Baozhu really was just like Lin Dong! Both were straight men (women)! And, Bai Baozhu was an even more steel-straight man (woman) than Lin Dong!!!
…
——Production Team——
“Pfft hahaha! This Bai Baozhu is really something!”
“I originally thought Bai Baozhu was stirring up drama! Turns out… she really was ‘messing with someone’s head’!”
“Even through the screen, I can feel Xia Tiantian’s deep sense of powerlessness!”
“No, I’m going to die laughing because of Bai Baozhu! How is she a green tea bitch? She’s clearly a know-it-all steel-straight man!”
“If this segment airs, it’s absolutely going to kill the audience with laughter.”
“And it could even wash off Bai Baozhu’s green tea bitch label!”
“Uh, but the program editors probably won’t agree to air this, right? After all, if this plot airs and Bai Baozhu’s green tea bitch persona gets whitewashed, then the show can’t ride on her for hot search topics anymore…”
“But that seems a bit unfair to Bai Baozhu.”
“They all signed contracts. What’s fair or unfair? And Bai Baozhu herself probably didn’t come here to date anyway.”
“Sigh, it feels a bit of a pity.”
…
While the production team’s behind-the-scenes staff were discussing Bai Baozhu, the protagonist herself was—
“Production team, production team, can you get me a suckling pig? I want to cook!”
Production Team: What the heck is a suckling pig??? Are you sure you want a whole suckling pig, and not just some pork???