That afternoon, Bai Baozhu, who was finally feeling a bit better after suffering from her period, decided it was time to properly prepare an all-sweet feast and properly ‘torture’ those male guests!
And so, around three in the afternoon, Bai Baozhu prepared a very lavish all-sweet feast afternoon tea for Love Cottage!
When all the dating guests in Love Cottage saw the all-sweet feast afternoon tea Bai Baozhu had prepared for everyone, they were all stunned!
Durian hot pot, brownie cake, tiramisu, gold leaf rose bird’s nest, rose ice cream…
It was as if they had entered a world of desserts, surrounded by countless sweet treats.
Even the air was filled with an indescribably sweet and fragrant aroma.
Looking at the many, many desserts laid out on the table, Su Han had the biggest reaction, even bigger than Bo Shenyu, the one who supposedly ‘hated’ desserts the most!
“Uh, Zhu Zhu, these things are way too sweet.”
Su Han stared in astonishment at the huge spread of desserts before her. Her eyes secretly darted towards Bo Shenyu, and she noticed the slight bob of his Adam’s apple.
At that moment, a sense of crisis began to thicken in her heart.
She truly hadn’t expected that Bai Baozhu, who usually just cooked regular meals and made staple dishes, would suddenly, for no apparent reason, make a whole table full of desserts. Did she know Bo Shenyu also liked sweet food? Was she deliberately making all this food to hook Bo Shenyu?!
Su Han roared internally, but how could she know that Bai Baozhu hadn’t made this huge table of desserts because she liked Bo Shenyu!
She had clearly made this huge table of desserts precisely because she disliked Bo Shenyu!
It was all to ‘torture’ Bo Shenyu, the person who didn’t like eating sweets!
“Not at all! Every single one of the desserts Zhu Zhu made looks so delicious! I definitely won’t find them cloying, I’ll absolutely eat them all up!”
When Xia Tiantian saw this huge table of delicious desserts, her eyes went wide! She had absolutely no resistance to such a massive spread of sweets!
“It’s been a long time since I’ve had afternoon tea. This afternoon tea looks really appetizing. Thanks for your hard work, Zhu Zhu.”
Ye Jingyu also looked at Bai Baozhu with a smile, her tone full of joy.
Compared to the reactions of the two female guests, Xia Tiantian and Ye Jingyu, Su Han’s reaction was really quite strange.
As for that group of male guests…
“Although I don’t really love sweets, what Zhu Zhu made looks delicious.”
Wei Wenbo happily sat down right next to Su Han.
“I also think what Bai Baozhu made will be delicious.”
Lin Dong grinned and sat down next to Ye Jingyu.
“Whatever Zhu Zhu makes, I love to eat! Zhu Zhu, I’ll eat it all up.”
Jiang Boyan shamelessly sidled up next to Bai Baozhu and spoke to her with a roguish grin.
“Hmph, then you’d better eat it all up.”
Bai Baozhu sneered, her tone meaningful.
After saying that, Bai Baozhu shifted her gaze to Bo Shenyu, who had been standing motionless ever since he saw the huge table of desserts.
“Brother Shen, the desserts I made today are especially delicious. You must eat a lot! More! Of! Them!”
Bai Baozhu looked at Bo Shenyu with an especially bright smile, emphasizing the last few words.
Looking at Bo Shenyu’s somewhat ugly expression, his entire eyes filled with resistance, Bai Baozhu felt incredibly pleased with herself!
If this huge table of desserts doesn’t make you sick of sweetness, I’ll eat my hat! Hmph!
However, how could Bai Baozhu know that Bo Shenyu’s look of resistance in the face of this table full of desserts wasn’t because he hated eating them!
Rather, it was an extreme resistance born from the fear that this huge table of super-delicious desserts would make him lose his rationality and expose his sweet tooth!
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Bo Shenyu (face full of resistance): I can’t take it! Every dessert looks so good! I’m about to lose control! No! Rationality! Rationality! We’re filming a show right now!
“Brother Shen, come on, they’re really delicious.”
Acting completely out of character, Bai Baozhu actively approached Bo Shenyu and, with overbearing force, pulled him to sit down next to her.
This move gave Bo Shenyu no time to react at all.
It also shocked everyone in Love Cottage even more.
Su Han nearly snapped the fork in her hand.
“Brother Shen, do you like durian?”
Bai Baozhu imitated the way Su Han usually spoke to Bo Shenyu, her expression very gentle, her voice very sweet.
“…No.” Bo Shenyu’s brows were tightly furrowed, his mouth firmly shut.
“You don’t? Then you absolutely must try this durian hot pot! It’ll definitely make you fall in love with durian!”
As she spoke, Bai Baozhu used a thin, nearly transparent crepe, dipped it in her specially made super-rich durian sauce, then paired it with Oreos, mango, cranberries, and ice cream, wrapping it all into a small, bite-sized crepe roll.
『……』
Looking at the durian crepe roll Bai Baozhu offered him, Bo Shenyu froze completely. His eyes stared straight at the extra-sweet and rich filling in the crepe roll in Bai Baozhu’s hand, his whole body radiating an indescribable resistance.
“Zhu Zhu, since Brother Shen doesn’t like to eat it, maybe you shouldn’t force him.”
Just as everyone was watching the spectacle, eager to see if Bo Shenyu would eat the crepe roll, Su Han spoke up, her brows lightly furrowed.
Hearing Su Han’s words, Bai Baozhu smiled, not particularly concerned.
“People should always try new things. What if Brother Shen tries it and finds it especially delicious?”
After saying that, Bai Baozhu looked at Bo Shenyu with extreme gentleness, using a coaxing tone one would use with a child, and said softly.
“Come on, open your mouth, ah—”
As if bewitched, Bo Shenyu, who originally had his brows tightly furrowed, his mouth firmly shut, and his whole body filled with resistance, seemed to lose his mind. He slowly opened his mouth and ate the durian crepe roll Bai Baozhu stuffed into it.
He swallowed it in one bite. His mouth was filled with all sorts of sweet flavors.
Durian, Oreo, mango, cranberry, vanilla ice cream…
The flavors were complex, but unexpectedly, very delicious!
In an instant, Bo Shenyu was immersed in a sweet world, feeling utterly blissful!
Fortunately, he had kept a cold face for many years; his facial expressions had formed a kind of muscle memory.
Even though his heart was currently intoxicated with happiness, his face remained icy, his brows still tightly furrowed, as if he were in great pain eating the dessert Bai Baozhu had fed him…
This led Bai Baozhu to happily feed him several other desserts.
“Brother Shen, come on, try this piece of tiramisu.”
“Brother Shen, this brownie cake is super delicious too.”
…
In the end, everyone watched as Bai Baozhu personally fed Bo Shenyu a taste of every type of dessert on the table.
And what was even more shocking was… although Bo Shenyu’s brows were tightly furrowed, his entire face written with resistance, whenever Bai Baozhu fed him dessert, he actually obediently ate it!
Therefore, after this sumptuous, delicious, and sweet all-sweet feast afternoon tea ended, aside from Su Han, all the other dating guests and the staff were pondering one question—
Did Bo Shenyu like Bai Baozhu? Otherwise, why would he, who supposedly hated sweets so much, so obediently eat the desserts Bai Baozhu fed him?
Having finished the desserts and successfully messed with someone, Bai Baozhu was in a great mood. Even the pain from her period was gone!
In high spirits, Bai Baozhu, under the strange gazes of the staff, returned to her bedroom and started playing games.
Because of her period, Bai Baozhu hadn’t been in the mood to go online and play games recently. So, when she saw that her friend SZ was online, she felt a bit nostalgic.
After all, he was one of only three friends she had made in the game.
He was also a friend she had made soon after arriving in this world.
Remembering that last time she seemed to have cursed him out a bunch before suddenly logging off, Bai Baozhu thought she should probably apologize.
So, Bai Baozhu invited the only friend online, SZ.
Song Zhi, who had been about to log off, was slightly taken aback when he saw the invitation from Little Fairy. In the end, he clicked accept.
As soon as he entered the game room, Song Zhi saw the apology message from Little Fairy.
Seeing Little Fairy explain that her abrupt exit last time wasn’t because of him, and her very sincere apology for losing her temper, Song Zhi thought this girl was quite cute.
【SZ: It’s fine, I didn’t take it to heart. No need to apologize.】
【Little Fairy: Really? You’re such a good person! Then, to make it up to you, let me carry you to a higher rank! (#^O^#)】
Reading Little Fairy’s message, Song Zhi hesitated slightly. After all, he and Little Fairy had just been on the hot search for playing games together…
What if…
【Little Fairy: Wahhh, were you just being polite earlier? Do you actually hate this one now?】
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Seeing Bai Baozhu kept saying ‘this one’, Song Zhi felt somewhat helpless.
【SZ: No. Let’s play together then.】
Song Zhi sighed lightly, thinking, if they got caught and ended up on the hot search again… he’d just have it taken down again! It didn’t seem to have that big of an impact anyway!
After playing games with Little Fairy all afternoon, Song Zhi felt the atmosphere this time, with just the two of them playing, was different.
Maybe it was because they had been misunderstood and ended up on the hot search, or maybe because of that ‘Immortal CP’ fan-edit video, Song Zhi felt something was odd, not quite the same, when he played games with this girl.
Especially this time, Little Fairy seemed very attentive to him. Every time he got ganked by an enemy hero, she would arrive in time to help him counter-kill them.
For some reason, it gave Song Zhi a feeling of being carefully protected and looked after.
This was the first time Song Zhi had ever felt this way. In his team, ever since Han Chen left, he had become the leader and was the oldest of the three. So, he had always played the role of the older brother taking care of his two younger brothers.
Also, because of his own experiences, he had always been a very steady, independent person who didn’t need anyone’s protection.
But now, in the game, being so carefully protected by a girl, Song Zhi found this feeling quite novel.
And it inexplicably gave him a sense of heartbeat…
He thought, maybe just as his agent had said, Little Fairy was somewhat special, somewhat different to him.
He might, perhaps, really was starting to… like this Little Fairy?
For the first time in his life, Song Zhi tossed and turned, unable to sleep because of a girl.
As soon as he closed his eyes, he would wonder, what kind of girl was Little Fairy really? Did she know he was Song Zhi? How old was she…
However, this growing curiosity about Little Fairy, a curiosity that bordered on liking her, completely shattered when they reached the recording of Love Cottage‘s Episode Eleven!
Because—
“Wow! Bai Baozhu actually likes playing Glory of Kings too! I remember Song Zhi has been doing livestream events for this game recently.”
“I wonder how good Sister Zhu Zhu is at playing. I’m so curious!”
When Song Zhi saw that Bai Baozhu also played Glory of Kings, a sense of foreboding arose in his heart!
His entire expression stiffened!
When he saw that Bai Baozhu’s in-game name was ‘Little Fairy’, he was even more dumbfounded!
“Huh?! Bai Baozhu is also called Little Fairy?!”
“Is this Little Fairy the same Little Fairy everyone was talking about a few days ago?!”
…
At that moment, not only was Song Zhi, the celebrity observer who had just started developing different feelings for Little Fairy, shocked, but all the other celebrity observers were shocked too!
After all, the incident of Little Fairy and Song Zhi being on the hot search had happened not long ago!
“Little Fairy… is Bai Baozhu?!”
Song Zhi’s eyes widened in disbelief, his entire face etched with utter confusion. This was the first time he had ever been so flustered.
However, facing such a discomposed Song Zhi, the others all expressed understanding. After all, this information was truly too shocking!
Yet, where would this group of celebrity observers know that Song Zhi’s loss of composure wasn’t solely because Bai Baozhu was Little Fairy.
There was also—
Wait! Let him wrap his head around this properly! The Little Fairy he was just starting to develop feelings for was Bai Baozhu, and Bai Baozhu was currently on the dating show he was hosting, dating other male guests?
……
The celebrity recording for Love Cottage Episode Eleven concluded with Song Zhi in a dazed, distracted state.
He was still struggling to accept the fact that Bai Baozhu was Little Fairy.
Yet, no matter how much he struggled to accept it, the fact that Little Fairy and Bai Baozhu were the same person was already a foregone conclusion.
Just as Song Zhi was desperately trying to digest the reality that Little Fairy and Bai Baozhu were one and the same, the long-awaited Saturday finally arrived!
Love Cottage Episode Nine began airing, with countless netizens eagerly waiting to watch the drama unfold!
And the broadcast of Episode Nine marked the beginning of the classic ‘It’s Actually Good’ phenomenon for Bai Baozhu!
From then on, the entire dynamic within Love Cottage changed.