“Hahaha~ I’m just sitting here waiting for Jiang Boyan to get his face slapped! He’s such a dense blockhead! Our Sister Bai Baozhu is actually a really good cook! I feel like Sister Bai Baozhu is the legendary big shot who plays the pig to eat the tiger!”
Xiong Mengmeng had been happily roasting Jiang Boyan, but after seeing one dating guest after another in Love Cottage question Bai Baozhu’s cooking skills and dismiss her, her voice gradually grew weaker.
Especially when she saw everyone else go to the dining room to eat, leaving Bai Baozhu alone in the kitchen facing the steamer without her cute smile, Xiong Mengmeng muttered unhappily.
“Even though I know they don’t know Sister Bai Baozhu can cook, and that she’s quite good at it, their attitude is still really hurtful.”
Hearing Xiong Mengmeng’s childish muttering, the others smiled kindly.
Liu An, as the senior and host, even laughed and comforted the now fully emotionally invested Xiong Mengmeng.
“Mengmeng, don’t you believe these people will regret it later?”
“Huh?”
Xiong Mengmeng looked at the camera blankly, not catching Liu An’s meaning.
“Think about it. They refused Bai Baozhu’s breakfast now. Later, when Bai Baozhu finishes making breakfast and they don’t get any, won’t they regret it?”
Hearing Liu An’s explanation, Xiong Mengmeng’s eyes immediately lit up. She clapped her hands happily and laughed while muttering.
“They’ll definitely regret it! I hope Sister Zhu Zhu definitely doesn’t make their portions, and just torments them with craving!”
Amid Xiong Mengmeng’s utterly childish words, everyone quickly realized!
Bai Baozhu wasn’t just tormenting those dating guests who refused breakfast with craving! The people being tormented included them too!!!
After the hairy crabs were steamed, everyone was stunned watching Bai Baozhu’s lightning-fast crab shelling technique!
Those hands were clearly so fair and slender, soft and boneless, beautiful and delicate as if they would shatter with a pinch.
Yet! It was precisely those soft, boneless-looking hands that effortlessly dismantled the crab into pieces, with extreme ease, without even breaking the shell anywhere!
It was as if the hairy crab in Bai Baozhu’s hands was the soft, boneless one, as if it were made of paper!
Just as the celebrity observers of Love Cottage were shocked by Bai Baozhu’s terrifyingly scary crab shelling technique…
The style suddenly changed!
The show’s style suddenly shifted from a dating reality show to a gourmet food program!!!
And one shot extremely well! A gourmet show of guaranteed high quality!!!
In the video, Bai Baozhu, with a calm and serious expression, rolled out dumpling wrappers as thin as paper. Then, with her fair, lovely fingers, she effortlessly filled the golden, tender crab meat filling into the wrappers, pinching them into thirty-two pleats.
When Bai Baozhu’s crab roe soup dumplings came out of the steamer, the camera used a specialized food filming technique for a huge close-up!
The plump, substantial crab meat filling, the soup-filled wrapper thin as paper, slightly illuminated by the light, took on a faint transparency that could make the kid next door cry with craving!!
No! The first to be tormented to tears by craving were them, these poor love observers!!!
“Gulp—!”
Because they were recording the show, everyone’s audio was picked up clearly. Even the sound of swallowing saliva could be clearly recorded and transmitted to everyone’s ears.
However, this swallowing sound… everyone was guilty of it!!
So, there was no question of who was more embarrassing than whom!!!
Under this huge close-up and color grading employing gourmet filming techniques, the celebrity observers of Love Cottage all just felt their stomachs growling, so hungry!!!
Hungry enough to only want to eat the crab roe soup dumplings made by Bai Baozhu!!!
“Recording this show is pure torture! I seriously suspect I’m not recording a dating deduction reality show! But a gourmet food program!”
“I just realized, I’m not afraid of others showing off their love and shoving dog food in my face. What I fear more is others showing off their cooking skills and making me cry with craving, but I can’t eat any!”
“Suddenly I really want crab roe soup dumplings…”
…
For a moment, the celebrity observers of Love Cottage protested and wailed to the production team!
However, very quickly, these celebrity observers tormented by craving felt instantly balanced when they saw the other dating guests, full of regret and having been rebuffed, also couldn’t eat Bai Baozhu’s crab roe soup dumplings and could only watch Bai Baozhu and Xia Tiantian eat!!!
But, that was only psychological balance! Physically… they were still swallowing saliva while watching the video.
“Even so, I’m still so happy watching Bai Baozhu shut Jiang Boyan down! Hehe, Sister Zhu Zhu really did an awesome job!”
“This episode, Jiang Boyan really lacked gentlemanly manners. No matter what, the way he treated Bai Baozhu wasn’t right.”
Watching Xiong Mengmeng and Song Zhi immediately side with Bai Baozhu without a second thought, especially Xiong Mengmeng, who seemed to have become Bai Baozhu’s little fangirl, Xu Bingying felt extremely irritated.
These two were idols with many fans, especially Song Zhi, whose fans were all over the world.
She was really worried that because these two kept speaking up for Bai Baozhu, it might give Bai Baozhu a chance to make a comeback.
If that happened, her own situation would worsen.
After all, she had climbed up by stepping on Bai Baozhu and feeding off her.
If Bai Baozhu were to make a comeback and get her reputation cleaned, no longer the green tea bitch blacklisted by the whole internet, then… the one in trouble would be her!
However much blood she had sucked from Bai Baozhu, she would have to pay back double then. Moreover, at that time, she would absolutely swap places with Bai Baozhu, becoming the one blacklisted by the whole internet…
Just thinking of this possibility made Xu Bingying feel a chill run through her body.
No, she absolutely could not let this possibility happen!
So—
Xu Bingying had no choice but to grit her teeth and continue leading the charge to smear Bai Baozhu.
“But have any of you considered why Jiang Boyan is uniquely ungentlemanly towards Bai Baozhu? Jiang Boyan has been very friendly and gentlemanly towards the other three female guests. So, I think Bai Baozhu must have done something bad, which Jiang Boyan saw through, which is why he became so disdainful of her and always wants to shut her down.”
The logic chain in Xu Bingying’s words actually made sense! At first listen, it would indeed convince many people, and they would start to think just that.
However, which of these celebrity observers wasn’t an old fox who had been in the entertainment circle for quite some time?
Even the youngest, Xiong Mengmeng, who usually maintained a ditzy, brainless persona, could see that Xu Bingying was no bitch-identifying expert or righteous envoy! She was purely nitpicking, finding fault with Bai Baozhu!
Bai Baozhu clearly hadn’t done anything wrong, yet she could fabricate wrongs for her!
“Sister Bingying, you’re overthinking it. I think Sister Zhu Zhu is really nice.”
Xiong Mengmeng, a foodie who loved watching mukbang streams, had only seen Bai Baozhu cook two meals and eat two meals, but she was already completely won over. Her fondness for Bai Baozhu was really UP! UP! Rising!
So, even though Bai Baozhu was currently blacklisted by the whole internet, and even though she worked with Xu Bingying, she still somewhat willfully stood up to speak for Bai Baozhu.
However, although Xiong Mengmeng wasn’t as ditzy and brainless as her persona suggested, her debating skills were still no match for Xu Bingying’s slick tongue!
Very quickly, she was bombarded into a daze by Xu Bingying’s series of ‘presenting facts and reasoning’.
It had to be said, the reason Xu Bingying could successfully lead public opinion and climb up by stepping on Bai Baozhu was absolutely due to her skill!
After all, her tongue was slick, her speech logical and well-founded. She could argue one, two, three, four points even without reason, and it still seemed quite reasonable! It really looked like things were exactly as she said!
Thus, what should have been a very harmonious episode where everyone enjoyed watching delicious food and sweet romance, a very enjoyable episode where Bai Baozhu could also improve her negative image in front of all viewers, became somewhat discordant because of Xu Bingying’s forced interpretation.
It also further solidified Bai Baozhu’s persona as a green tea bitch and a fish pond manager!
And this solidification was the disdain and lack of gentlemanly manners the fourth male guest showed towards Bai Baozhu this episode.
“Actually, looking at the previous few episodes, Jiang Boyan’s attitude towards Bai Baozhu was still quite friendly and gentlemanly. But suddenly, Jiang Boyan’s attitude towards Bai Baozhu changed. Doesn’t this precisely indicate that Bai Baozhu’s fish farming was discovered by Jiang Boyan, leading to this consequence?”
Seeing that Xu Bingying’s constantly blabbering mouth had finally paused, Liu An secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He was just about to end this topic and warm up the atmosphere.
What no one expected was that Song Zhi, who always treated everyone with gentlemanly politeness, as if he were a true noble son, actually… shut Xu Bingying down!!!
Although it was a rebuttal, it was still relatively mild.
However, compared to Song Zhi’s usual way of handling things, his current attitude towards Xu Bingying could indeed be described as a fierce rebuttal.
“Everyone is an independent individual. Everyone has their own different way of thinking and their own different way of handling matters. Xu Bingying, isn’t your malice towards Bai Baozhu too great? Those so-called claims and concepts in your mouth, aren’t they all ‘you think’, ‘you guess’, without any evidence?”
Today, Song Zhi was wearing a white casual suit, looking really like a gentle and handsome noble son, his demeanor very gentle and elegant.
So, when he spoke these words, even though the content was slightly aggressive.
Paired with his styling today, his face so handsome it could anger gods and mortals, and the slight smile at the corner of his mouth, it really made his words sound quite pleasant!
“…”
Xu Bingying, shut down by Song Zhi like this, was immediately stunned, accidentally getting lost in Song Zhi’s beauty.
However, after remembering that Bai Baozhu was related to her own future, she immediately snapped back to reality.
“First, I declare, I hold no malice towards Bai Baozhu whatsoever. Second, my comments about Bai Baozhu are not just my own assumptions spoken casually, but are based on a detailed analysis of clues within the show. I believe viewers who have watched our show can attest to this for me.”
As she spoke, Xu Bingying’s eyes reddened slightly, her voice carrying a hint of grievance.
“I don’t know why you would say that about me, but I want to say that everything I’ve said on this show is based on facts, and I can absolutely face my conscience with a clear heart.”
Seeing the atmosphere of the show suddenly become heavy and awkward, Liu An’s heart immediately grew somewhat panicked, and he also felt some annoyance towards Xu Bingying, the instigator.
In fact, it wasn’t just Liu An who felt some annoyance towards Xu Bingying; the other celebrity observers also disliked Xu Bingying.
They just felt, why was this woman causing so much trouble! It’s just recording an ordinary person dating show, is it necessary to make such a big deal out of it, to be so ‘capable’?
Seeing Xu Bingying’s aggrieved, red-eyed appearance, Song Zhi nodded slightly, his gaze gentle as he looked at Xu Bingying and apologized to her.
“I’m sorry. What I said might have made you feel uncomfortable. I apologize.”
Hearing Song Zhi apologize to her, Xu Bingying felt somewhat smug inside, thinking Song Zhi was still a decent man.
However, in the very next second, that smugness in Xu Bingying’s heart completely shattered.
“But, look, I just voiced my opinion of you, and you couldn’t take it, feeling wronged. So, what about Bai Baozhu, whom you’ve been casually speculating about and evaluating all along? What would she think upon seeing these evaluations you’ve made of her?”
Ignoring Xu Bingying’s now completely stiffened face, Song Zhi continued speaking.
“Moreover, following your logic, couldn’t I just as easily conclude that you are deliberately trying to smear Bai Baozhu’s name? After all, the things I’m saying aren’t just baseless assumptions I’m spouting off. I analyzed them point by point based on clues from the show itself. I believe any viewer who watched our program could vouch for me on that, right?”
“Boom—!”
In that instant, Xu Bingying felt as if she had been struck by a bolt from the blue!