After the eighth episode of Love Cottage aired, the entire internet was in an uproar!
It wasn’t because of the Asura field on the show, nor was it because of the sweet, ambiguous moments.
It was completely because of—a pig!
The Gold Medal Roast Suckling Pig, a very famous dish in Michelin Chinese cuisine, was incredibly difficult to make. An average chef simply couldn’t pull it off.
Yet, on the show Love Cottage, there was a female guest who perfectly replicated this Michelin Chinese dish!
And it was replicated by a female guest that none of the viewers had expected!
This simply shocked everyone!
Especially when, after the program ended, they looked at the highlighted, pinned betting post on a certain forum. They felt their faces sting!
Today’s Love Cottage not only made their mouths water and their stomachs growl with hunger, but their faces were also about to swell into pig heads!
So, as soon as the episode finished airing, the viewers who had come to their senses began frantically discussing the Gold Medal Roast Suckling Pig dish online, and—Bai Baozhu, that miraculous ‘Green Tea Flower’.
That very night, less than an hour after the eighth episode of Love Cottage finished airing, it shot to the top of the Hot Search at the fastest speed ever!
Moreover, this was also the fastest Love Cottage had ever made it to the Hot Search in its history!
Bai Baozhu, Culinary Skills#, #Love Cottage, Gold Medal Roast Suckling Pig#…
Bai Baozhu and the Gold Medal Roast Suckling Pig appeared together on the Hot Search. Furthermore, some random passerby from who-knows-where had clipped out the video of Bai Baozhu making the roast suckling pig, added the background music and voiceover narration style of the food documentary A Bite of China, and the Hot Search for the night instantly exploded!
【Holy crap! Is this still a dating reality show? I suddenly feel like I might be watching a fake dating show!】
【It suddenly hit me that Bai Baozhu looks really good when she cooks! It feels like she’s glowing all over!】
【Finally get Bai Baozhu’s face now. I can understand why the male guests kept sending her love text messages at the start of the show.】
【Looks don’t even matter anymore. Looking at my forum coins, lost to the point of bankruptcy, I burst out crying. I just want to say, Bai Baozhu is awesome! Too awesome!】
【Yingyingying! All the forum coins I worked so hard to save are gone in an instant, back to square one. Is this Bai Baozhu’s revenge? I won’t dare to badmouth her online anymore.】
【Putting a pot on my head to say this: today’s Bai Baozhu really raised my favorability! Her focused look while cooking was explosively beautiful. No wonder she’s the publicly acknowledged top beauty goddess on the show! So beautiful!】
To be honest, if Bai Baozhu had been like this from the start, being honest and not causing trouble and showing off her cooking skills, I guarantee she would absolutely be the most popular female guest on this show.
Excuse me, if I stop cursing Bai Baozhu and become her fan, can I eat a Gold Medal Roast Suckling Pig as delicious as the one on the show? Waiting online! Very urgent!
……
Just as the Love Cottage staff had anticipated, once the eighth episode aired, a single Gold Medal Roast Suckling Pig could instantly improve the audience’s impression of Bai Baozhu.
After all, the combination of a beauty and delicious food was something no one could resist.
What’s more, the post-production guys for Love Cottage had practically pulled out all the stops, editing Bai Baozhu’s segments with an extreme sense of aesthetic beauty!
Whether it was the food or the beauty, the post-production had already been pushed to the extreme!
That was also why, when the viewers saw Bai Baozhu’s segment, they felt the style seemed a bit different.
And that wasn’t all. The post-production guys had even worked overtime specifically for Bai Baozhu. The now wildly popular online video A Bite of China: Bai Baozhu was something the Love Cottage post-production guys had rushed to finish working overtime, specifically timed to be released online right after the eighth episode aired.
Then, the camera guys spontaneously acted as the water army, learning from Xu Bingying’s example, analyzing Bai Baozhu’s actions in a positive light, saying nice things, and guiding the rhythm online.
Thus, through the spontaneous efforts of many Love Cottage staff members!
After the eighth episode aired, Bai Baozhu’s image gradually began to change bit by bit in the eyes of some viewers.
Although, for now, this change was still very slight. But at least it was developing in a good direction.
They believed that once the ninth episode aired, Bai Baozhu’s reputation would absolutely reverse on the spot!
After all, Song Zhi’s retort to Xu Bingying was like a bucket of cold water waking someone up; it would make most of the audience sober up and figure some things out.
Of course, after the Premium Version and the behind-the-scenes footage went online, the Love Cottage staff felt that before the ninth episode arrived, they could do even more!
For example—
In the Premium Version, they could edit Bai Baozhu into another kind of persona! A persona completely different from the one in the first seven episodes of Love Cottage! And use the Premium Version to refute some of Xu Bingying’s previous misinterpretations of Bai Baozhu on the show!
Making the words she had used to evaluate Bai Baozhu on the show completely untenable.
Regarding this point, whether it was the camera guy or the post-production guy, they were all very confident.
After all, post-production editing was just that powerful. The same events, through different editing techniques, could be completely edited into two different narratives.
It was no exaggeration to say it could turn black into white.
“I suddenly kind of can’t wait for Tuesday to come quickly!”
“Me too. I’m looking forward to when the audience sees the clip of Zhu Zhu foolishly asking Xia Tiantian why she wanted to cry. It was simply too adorable.”
……
Just as the staff within Love Cottage, who had been fed into die-hard fans by Bai Baozhu, were filled with anticipation, waiting for the arrival of the Premium Version…
The person in question, Bai Baozhu, was completely oblivious to the outside world, nervously clutching her phone, preparing to begin her trial—to ‘graduate’ from the single-player game in the newbie training camp and attempt to play a game with other players for the first time!
At that moment, her mood was just like when she had left her master’s sect to enter the world back in the day: nervous yet full of anticipation.
Taking a deep breath, Bai Baozhu’s finger lightly touched the screen, entering the matchmaking game mode…
And at the same time, just as Bai Baozhu entered the 5v5 matchmaking game mode, a certain celebrity observer who was also a guest on Love Cottage entered the 5v5 matchmaking mode at the exact same time!
Moreover, he even brought his ‘whole family along’, dragging along the other two younger brothers from the same group he was in before he transitioned to acting.
There was no other way. Song Zhi’s manager, Cheng Yingda, was afraid that the effect of Song Zhi livestreaming a game by himself might be a bit boring. After all, Song Zhi had never been a man of many words, nor did he have much of a sense of humor.
So, Cheng Yingda simply packaged and delivered the other two members from the group—who could be both cool and sweet, talked a lot, had a bunch of flashy moves, and were ‘full of fun’—to Song Zhi as former teammates!
After all, no matter how you looked at it, if Song Zhi did a livestream with his two former teammates, it would be a mutually beneficial act.
Of course… whether Song Zhi wanted to play games with his two immature former teammate younger brothers… well, that wasn’t within his manager’s consideration!
“Brother, for this match, the fans want to see me act like a Yingying monster green tea. Later, don’t you go exposing my gender again.”
Wei Haoyang, one of Song Zhi’s former teammates, the maknae (youngest) of the boy band.
Hearing Wei Haoyang’s words, Song Zhi just felt a headache coming on.
Especially after hearing the words of his other younger brother, Luo Xiao, his headache grew even worse!
“I’ll play Yangyang’s useless boyfriend later. I wonder what kind of teammates we’ll run into. I’m feeling a little anticipation.”
Even though it was a request from the fans watching the livestream, looking at the excited expressions on his two former teammate younger brothers’ faces, Song Zhi really felt… even if the fans hadn’t suggested it, these two ‘younger brothers’ would have proposed it themselves!
“Ah! Looking at the avatars, we seem to have matched with a little brother and a little sister.”
“We won’t tease the little sister. Let’s specifically tease the little brothers on our team and the opposing team.”
“……”
Song Zhi really felt his manager had gone crazy, throwing these two endlessly chattering younger brothers at him to do a livestream together!
He finally had a holiday to rest and wanted to play a few good games properly, but even that wasn’t possible…
Song Zhi’s helpless and somewhat lifeless expression truly amused the several million fans in the livestream room.
Especially when the livestream viewers saw that at the very start of the game, during hero selection, not only were Wei Haoyang and Luo Xiao being troublesome, but even the matched teammates… seemed a bit odd. They wanted to laugh even more, while also feeling a bit sorry for their male idol.
【Man and Tower Both Perish: I’ll play marksman. I’ll carry!】
【Little Fairy: I only know how to play pretty female heroes.】
【Yangyang is Super Cute: Yingyingying, but sister, I, I also only know how to play pretty female heroes.】
【Luo Luo Handsome and Cool: I’ll play marksman. I’ll carry!】
“……”
Looking at this hellish mode from the very start, Song Zhi only felt darkness before his eyes.
The game hadn’t even started yet, and he had already predicted the outcome!
Alright, looks like we’re going to lose this match too.
Faced with four troublesome teammates, Song Zhi silently selected an assassin he was relatively good at, Li Bai.
When Song Zhi picked Li Bai, all the girls in the livestream room screamed.
After Song Zhi was the first to lock in his hero, he watched speechlessly as his two younger brothers, addicted to their acting, continued to dawdle with the other two players.
【Yangyang is Super Cute: Sister, I, I also want to play Wang Zhaojun. Let me play her, okay?】
【Luo Luo Handsome and Cool: Man and Tower Both Perish, you change heroes! I’ll play marksman!】
“You two, that’s enough. Don’t go too far.”
Song Zhi rubbed his temples with a massive headache. He just felt that if he had known playing a game livestream with these two guys would be like this, he would rather not have taken this job!
“Hehe, brother, relax. We know our limits.”
Wei Haoyang was laughing as he spoke to Song Zhi when he saw the player called Little Fairy in the game speak up.
Little Fairy: Okay, little sister. If you want to play, then this sister will let you have it.
“Whoa, this Little Fairy has too good a temper, right?”
Not only did Wei Haoyang exclaim this, even Song Zhi looked at this good-tempered Little Fairy with newfound respect.
After all, these days, it was really rare to encounter a player with such a good temper in a game!
Especially when his own teammate was speaking so disgustingly…
At that moment, the fan audience watching Song Zhi and the other two play were also praising Little Fairy, this little sister, in the livestream chat.
I thought it was another green tea, but I didn’t expect it was a soft girl. This girl’s temper is really good. If I ran into someone speaking so disgustingly, let them have it my ass! I would have started cursing long ago!
【Exactly. Our Yangyang plays a green tea so well, it makes me want to hit him, hahahaha. So, this Little Fairy really does have a good temper.】
【As a male viewer, I confess I fell in love at first sight with this Little Fairy! She feels really soft!】
Just as everyone in the livestream room was frantically praising the very polite, soft, and cute Little Fairy, they didn’t know that once the game started, they would realize they had misjudged her.
And as for Little Fairy herself, Bai Baozhu, she had no idea that her first game’s ‘debut show’ was being watched by several million fan viewers, and that she would inexplicably gain quite a few fans…