On Sunday night, Bai Baozhu once again took out her Green Head Plaque, preparing to perfunctorily choose a recipient for her text message.
However, the moment her Exquisite Ball was tossed out, she heard—
“Zhu Zhu, are you holding something in your hand?”
Because she hadn’t received any text messages recently, Su Han would often glance over at Bai Baozhu.
Just now, she had subconsciously looked towards Bai Baozhu again, and as a result, she noticed that Bai Baozhu seemed to be holding something.
But Bai Baozhu’s movements were too fast, and the object was very small, so Su Han wasn’t entirely sure.
“Huh? No, I’m not.”
Bai Baozhu swiftly retracted the Exquisite Ball into her sleeve and spread her hands open towards Su Han with complete nonchalance.
Seeing that there was nothing in Bai Baozhu’s palms, Su Han felt something was off, but she didn’t think too much about it.
Nevertheless, this scene of Bai Baozhu being questioned by Su Han was faithfully recorded by the cameras.
Soon, the filming for the day’s love text messages concluded.
Just as everyone was preparing to go to sleep, the production team suddenly notified them that they were adding a solo interview for each person to be included in the behind-the-scenes footage.
Since Bai Baozhu was Female Guest No. 1, she was the first among all the female guests to enter the interview room for her solo interview.
After all the male guests had finished their interviews, Bai Baozhu was the first to enter the interview room.
“Zhu Zhu, may we ask if you currently have someone you’re interested in on this show?”
Bai Baozhu truly hadn’t expected the interview to start with such a bombshell question.
She furrowed her brows, agonized for a long time, and ultimately decided to follow her true feelings.
“No.”
Bai Baozhu’s answer genuinely stunned all the staff in the interview room.
Seeing as the show was already more than halfway through filming, how could Bai Baozhu say she wasn’t interested in anyone?
Then what did all those love text messages she sent every night even mean!
However, just as all the staff finished their internal complaints, they suddenly remembered… ever since Episode Seven, Bai Baozhu’s love text messages had been sent randomly, with no discernible pattern.
Their content was also utterly baffling.
Instantly, the production team staff seemed to understand why they could never guess correctly who Bai Baozhu sent her love text message to each night…
So it was because she wasn’t interested in anyone, which was why she kept sending them haphazardly…
“Then, have you ever been interested in someone before?”
The staff of Love Cottage immediately grew curious.
“Before…”
Bai Baozhu thought about the Original Host’s memories. In truth, the Original Host had quite liked Bo Shenyu and Jiang Boyan. Especially Bo Shenyu.
So, Bai Baozhu once again followed her true feelings. Even though the Original Host was no longer here, she still had to voice the feelings that had once existed.
“Mhm, I have.”
Bai Baozhu nodded lightly, her tone carrying a hint of melancholy.
“Then why isn’t there anyone you’re interested in now?”
“I feel… it seems impossible for us.”
Bai Baozhu shrugged, her expression completely unperturbed.
“How do you know it’s impossible? What if the person you were interested in also likes you?”
“I just know it’s impossible. Because I’m no longer interested in him, so whether he likes me or not, it’s impossible.”
Bai Baozhu’s words immediately left the production team staff speechless. For a moment, they actually felt what she said was absolutely right! They truly had no retort!
Seeing that they really couldn’t dig up anything more on the topic of feelings, the staff asked some trivial questions about daily life, and finally inquired about which of the three female guests Bai Baozhu liked the most.
Originally, all the staff in the interview room thought Bai Baozhu would definitely answer Xia Tiantian.
After all, Bai Baozhu and Xia Tiantian had been very close recently. In the cottage, the person Bai Baozhu spent the most time with and interacted with the most was Xia Tiantian.
However, Bai Baozhu’s subsequent answer shocked everyone!
Because Bai Baozhu named someone who, from any perspective, seemed an impossible choice.
“Which female guest do I like the most?”
Bai Baozhu hesitated for a moment, then still said with utmost seriousness.
“If I can only choose one, then I’d pick Su Han.”
“Huh?! Su Han? Are you sure?”
Bai Baozhu’s answer practically made all the staff in the interview room widen their eyes in shock.
Although Bai Baozhu and Su Han’s relationship was decent now, hadn’t Bai Baozhu clearly disliked Su Han before?
Moreover, Bai Baozhu and Su Han were the only two female guests on the show who had ever had a minor conflict.
And now Bai Baozhu was saying she liked Su Han the most?
“Mhm, Su Han is very cute. I feel a certain quality about her is especially attractive to me, something I yearn for.”
After hearing Bai Baozhu’s answer, the staff of Love Cottage found it even more surreal! They completely couldn’t understand what Bai Baozhu was talking about.
“What about Xia Tiantian? Isn’t your relationship with Xia Tiantian the best among the three female guests?”
“Tian Tian Jie? Of course I like her too! She’s my best friend in Love Cottage, but she doesn’t have that quality I yearn for! Still, she’s also a very cute, very nice girl.”
For some reason, Bai Baozhu’s series of answers made everyone feel something was off. They couldn’t help but think… if Bai Baozhu’s gender were switched—
Wasn’t this just issuing a ‘good person card’ to Xia Tiantian!
After interviewing Bai Baozhu, the interviewing staff felt dazed and confused, feeling the interview might have been better left undone. Because after the interview, they realized they understood Bai Baozhu even less!
However, Bai Baozhu herself was quite happy after the interview.
Ever since confessing that she wasn’t interested in anyone on this show, she felt completely relaxed!
However, when all the female guests finished their interviews and returned to the girls’ floor together, passing through the living room, they discovered—
“Wow! Someone initiated another Sun Date!”
Xia Tiantian, with her sharp eyes, spotted writing on the living room bulletin board.
She dragged Bai Baozhu over. When they got closer, all the female guests were shocked.
And among them, the most shocked was Bai Baozhu.
Because…
The person being asked out was her.
And the person asking her out was Jiang Boyan.
“Jiang Boyan asked you out?? Doesn’t he always pick on you?”
And wasn’t Jiang Boyan interested in Su Han?
Although Xia Tiantian didn’t voice this last thought out loud, it was something all the other female guests were well aware of.
After all, when Su Han had initiated a Sun Date with Bo Shenyu before, Jiang Boyan had drawn a sun.
“Yeah, I’m really puzzled too. Why would he ask me out?”
Bai Baozhu wore a look of utter bewilderment, speaking with particular innocence.
Seeing Bai Baozhu’s innocent little-white-lotus act, Su Han was practically fuming inside, silently cursing that Bai Baozhu was truly hypocritical!
She was probably secretly over the moon right now, yet still pretending to be confused and flustered.
Although Su Han’s target was Bo Shenyu, and she only considered Jiang Boyan as an option, seeing Jiang Boyan actually develop feelings for someone else still made her uncomfortable!
“But, when was this Sun Date written? It didn’t seem to be there before we went for our interviews.”
“The male guests probably wrote it after their interviews.”
Ye Jingyu guessed.
The reality was exactly as Ye Jingyu guessed. This Sun Date notice was indeed written by Jiang Boyan after his interview.
The reason he initiated a Sun Date after his interview, and specifically with Bai Baozhu, was entirely because… during his interview with the staff, he suddenly realized that the person who made his heart flutter seemed to have always been Bai Baozhu?!
He did have some affection for Su Han, but the person who occupied his thoughts more was still Bai Baozhu.
Therefore, after the staff finished interviewing him, after a brief hesitation, he ultimately decided to use his one and only Sun Date opportunity on Bai Baozhu.
He wanted to clarify his feelings further…
“Zhu Zhu, are you going?”
Su Han looked at the bewildered expression on Bai Baozhu’s face and asked softly.
However, before Bai Baozhu could answer, Xia Tiantian took the lead and answered for her.
“Go, of course you should go. Whether you like him or not, interact with him first. After all, you’re here on this show, you should definitely interact more with the male guests.”
Xia Tiantian’s answer, in a way, also provided an explanation for Bai Baozhu’s earlier interactions with many male guests.
Hearing Xia Tiantian’s words, Bai Baozhu, who had originally intended to refuse, nodded.
She felt what Xia Tiantian said was quite right. Since she had already come to participate in this show, she should see the filming through properly. After all, one should have a sense of responsibility! It could also count as helping the Original Host complete a work task.
Seeing that Bai Baozhu really intended to go on the date, Su Han didn’t show anything on the surface. She still smiled, verbally agreeing that she should interact more, but inwardly she was practically disgusted to death by Bai Baozhu.
Incidentally, she also began to dislike Xia Tiantian.
Back in the bedroom, Bai Baozhu hugged the plush toy on her bed and, in a particularly good mood, told Xia Tiantian about what happened in the game today.
“Tian Tian Jie, I met a really cute girl in the game today. We even added each other as friends and agreed to play games together in the future.”
“Oh? How was she cute?”
For some reason, Xia Tiantian, thinking of Bai Baozhu’s ‘steel straight man’ attributes, felt that the ‘cute’ Bai Baozhu described might differ somewhat from what girls usually understood as cute.
Xia Tiantian had only randomly thought this, but she never expected she had actually guessed right!
Listening to Bai Baozhu excitedly describe that very cute little sister to her, the more she listened, the more she felt—
“Isn’t that just a ‘green tea ranking bitch’ in the game? And she likes to go ‘yingying’, totally a fake-crybaby too…”
Xia Tiantian looked at Bai Baozhu with a complicated expression. This kid was good in every way, except… her judgment was not great.
“Huh? Tian Tian Jie, you don’t understand. She’s really cute.”
“……”
This… Bai Baozhu was probably the true embodiment of most ‘steel straight men’… forever unable to recognize what a ‘green tea’ is, forever only finding those fake ‘green teas’ utterly adorable…
“Achoo—!”
A certain green tea ranking bitch fake-crybaby sneezed violently.
After pouring a glass of water, Wei Haoyang returned to the living room. Looking at the two people sitting on the sofa watching a movie, he felt a bit bored and started talking about the ‘Little Fairy’ he met in the game today.
“That Little Fairy today was so cute. I’ve never met a girl like her before. I really hope we can play games together again tomorrow.”
Hearing Wei Haoyang’s words, Luo Xiao grinned mischievously and teased.
“Maybe it’s a guy, just pretending to be a girl to pick up chicks.”
“Pfft, you’re just jealous.”
After the two bantered for a while, they finally turned their attention to Song Zhi, who had been watching the movie and hadn’t paid them any mind.
“By the way, Brother, I heard from Brother Cheng that you got into an argument with someone on the show a while back?”
“Brother Zhi, that really doesn’t seem like you. I’ve never seen you argue with anyone before, especially not while working.”
Listening to the two of them, Song Zhi slightly raised an eyebrow and said with little concern.
“It wasn’t really an argument, just reasoning with someone. If you’re interested, you can watch the show. It’ll all be broadcast on TV anyway.”
“Brother, I found out you were ‘reasoning’ with someone over a female guest. That doesn’t seem like something you, who’s always wary of scandals, would do…”
“Come on, tell us, do you maybe like that female guest a little?”
“But honestly, I’m also quite curious about what kind of person that female guest is, to make you speak up for her.”
“And it was during filming too.”
Wei Haoyang and Luo Xiao spoke in tandem, grinning at Song Zhi as if they were two mischievous big boys.
Facing these two younger brothers, Song Zhi was truly quite helpless.
After pondering for a while, Song Zhi saw that the two of them were pestering him relentlessly, determined to get to the bottom of it. In the end, he finally voiced the reason for his unusual behavior.
“No, it’s just that when I looked at her, I thought of Brother Han’s girlfriend.”
Song Zhi’s words instantly silenced the two who had been all smiles and laughter just moments before.
Brother Han—Han Chen, their former team leader. Back when they had just debuted, his relationship was exposed, leading to his childhood sweetheart girlfriend suffering severe cyberbullying from fans. In the end, unable to bear it, she took her own life. Han Chen also left the group and quit the entertainment industry for good.
This incident had hit all of them hard, and its impact on Song Zhi was the greatest.
Since then, he had kept himself clean, being extremely cautious. He avoided excessive contact with any member of the opposite sex, never got involved in dating rumors, and never used scandals to generate hype.
It also influenced his career shift from an idol to an actor.
“Alright, it’s getting late. I’m going to bed. Goodnight.”
After confessing his thoughts to his two former teammates, Song Zhi returned to his room.
He went through a simple bedtime routine, changed into his pajamas, and lay down on the bed. Unbidden, the image of Bai Baozhu’s face, so serious and focused… so calm as she cooked, surfaced in his mind.
Perhaps it wasn’t just because of Brother Han’s girlfriend.
Perhaps it was also because he had been hungry at the time.
That food… it really did look delicious…