With the familiar opening animation, Love Cottage Episode Seven officially began airing.
Today’s episode was destined to be the one viewers were most looking forward to!
After all, ever since the fourth female guest arrived in the last episode, Bai Baozhu had gotten zero votes! On top of that, no less than two ‘insiders’ from the show had already jumped out to leak that Bai Baozhu would continue to get zero votes this episode.
So, this had all of Bai Baozhu’s haters extremely excited.
For no other reason than they wanted to see Bai Baozhu completely crash and burn, going from the popular queen with 4 votes to the universally disliked one with 0 votes!
That way, Bai Baozhu, this female guest who seemed to be holding the script of the female lead and also had the most screen time, should also be completely marginalized and get no more screen time, right!
However, what frustrated everyone was that at the very start of Love Cottage‘s seventh episode, they aired Bai Baozhu’s date with Wei Wenbo.
This made quite a few viewers who were waiting in front of their TVs a bit unhappy.
But this unhappiness quickly disappeared amidst the celebrity observer Xu Bingying’s criticism of Bai Baozhu!
“…Bai Baozhu must be furious. Did you see her micro-expressions? Her eyes were full of disdain.”
“I want to tell all my female compatriots in front of the TV, you must absolutely not learn from Bai Baozhu. She is just too low. I dare to predict, Bai Baozhu will also get zero votes today.”
“…I think the label of ‘Gold Digger’ can also be stuck on Bai Baozhu now.”
……
With Xu Bingying’s scathing criticisms and analysis, everyone once again stuck the ‘Gold Digger’ label onto this female guest, Bai Baozhu.
They also became even more certain that Bai Baozhu’s outcome this episode—no, from now on—would definitely be zero votes!
Soon, Love Cottage Episode Seven reached its finale. After all four dating CP dates had been aired, it was time for the moment everyone was looking forward to: the heartstring connection.
While the celebrity observers were analyzing who the dating guests would send their love text messages to, countless viewers in front of their televisions were also speculating who each dating guest would finally send their message to.
However, just like the celebrity observers in the show, no matter what the results of the connection were, everyone encountered their Waterloo when it came to Bai Baozhu!
No one could have guessed that this episode, Bai Baozhu—who had looked down on Wei Wenbo the entire time and was relentlessly mocked by Xu Bingying—would actually send her love text message to Wei Wenbo!
This simply left everyone dumbfounded!
So much so that after this episode of Love Cottage ended, what everyone discussed wasn’t the sweet dates of the other three CPs, but why Bai Baozhu sent her love text message to Wei Wenbo?
Just as the viewers in front of their TVs were following the celebrity observers in a daze, puzzled about what kind of situation Bai Baozhu was in, the next preview made them even more shocked!
The reason for their shock wasn’t because the next episode would have an exciting Sun Date, nor was it because this Sun Date seemed to involve four people participating together.
It was because, in the preview for Love Cottage Episode Eight, there actually appeared—
『Gold Medal Roast Suckling Pig?!』
When the Gold Medal Roast Suckling Pig, fried until oil splashed, with a red and glossy color, crispy and delicious, appeared in the trailer, the attention of all the viewers in front of their TVs could no longer be pulled away from it!
Things like why Bai Baozhu sent her love text to Wei Wenbo, or the four-person Sun Date, all took a back seat!
As soon as the episode finished airing, the internet instantly became ablaze.
Everyone was enthusiastically discussing the plot of this episode of Love Cottage!
And the most hotly discussed topic was that dish that had only appeared for a few seconds in the trailer—the Gold Medal Roast Suckling Pig!
『Gold Medal Roast Suckling Pig! That’s a Michelin Chinese cuisine dish, a very difficult one to make. Am I seeing things? Did the trailer get edited wrong? Seeing a gourmet food shot in a dating variety show, I suddenly feel the style doesn’t quite match!』
『To be able to make such a perfect Gold Medal Roast Suckling Pig, the dating guests in Love Cottage are too amazing, too hidden talents! Even if it’s』
『Ah—! The production team’s preview this time is really too much! Through the screen I can almost smell the meat fragrance!!! Oh my god! Am I really watching a dating reality show? Why am I suddenly hungry…』
『So who made this Gold Medal Roast Suckling Pig???』
『Wild guess: Little Angel Su Han! Because in the show, the one who cooks the most is Little Angel Su Han!』
『I also guess Su Han. After all, Su Han’s scenes have always been related to the kitchen.』
『But in the trailer, Su Han seems to have gone to participate in the Sun Date, right? It probably isn’t Su Han.』
『Then wild guess: Female Lead Number Four Ye Jingyu. When she appeared, didn’t she say she could cook? Feels like her cooking skills should be pretty good.』
『Why is no one guessing Bo Shenyu? Bo Shenyu can cook too~』
『First, eliminate Bai Baozhu!』
『+1. No matter who made it, it definitely couldn’t be that green tea Bai Baozhu, who has never stepped into the kitchen.』
……
Just as the internet was fervently discussing who made that Gold Medal Roast Suckling Pig that only appeared for a few seconds in the trailer, and unanimously confirming it absolutely could not be Bai Baozhu, they never imagined they were about to get a slap in the face very soon!
And as for the protagonist Bai Baozhu, who was about to slap everyone in the face, she was—
Staring at her phone in a complete daze.
To be accurate, staring at a phone that had once again received four love text messages.
That’s right. Today, Bai Baozhu had once again received four love text messages!
It left her utterly bewildered.
She didn’t understand why she had received four love text messages again! Moreover, all four love text messages shared the same keyword, which was—
Beef Tofu Pudding Noodles!
She admitted that the Beef Tofu Pudding Noodles she made were indeed explosively delicious.
But… wasn’t this a dating reality show?
Weren’t love text messages meant for confessing to the person you liked??
Since when did love text messages become messages for expressing how delicious the chef’s food was??
Holding her phone, her head full of question marks, Bai Baozhu suddenly felt that maybe she wasn’t participating in a dating reality show, but a food reality show!
Having received four love text messages for two days in a row, a dazed Bai Baozhu followed Xia Tiantian and left the girls’ living room.
Su Han and Ye Jingyu, who remained sitting in the girls’ living room, were also sitting on the sofa in a dazed state.
After all, they had already gone two whole days without receiving a single love text message, which was simply unbelievable.
Ye Jingyu, who originally thought that as long as the love text message wasn’t from Bo Shenyu, it didn’t matter even if she received none, now, for the first time having zero messages for two consecutive days, felt a bit sour inside.
It was only then she realized she wasn’t as carefree as she thought. Actually, she was also a very ordinary person.
For a moment, she thought, since she had already come to participate in this show, should she… try a little, try to get to know other people…?
But, she also felt a bit unwilling.
After all, she came to this show specifically for Bo Shenyu…
So, who exactly did Bo Shenyu send his message to?
Could it be Su Han?
Just as Ye Jingyu was guessing who Bo Shenyu sent his love text message to.
Su Han was also thinking about why she hadn’t received a single love text message for two whole days!
Clearly, her daily interactions with the others went quite well, so why hadn’t she received a single love text message?
The hard-to-conquer Bo Shenyu was one thing.
But… why didn’t Wei Wenbo and Jiang Boyan, who had already fallen for her, send her love text messages either?
Where exactly did the problem lie?
No matter how she thought about it, Su Han felt this was completely illogical!
However, on second thought, the best opportunity to conquer Bo Shenyu was coming soon! So, the gloom and confusion in her heart dissipated quite a bit.
As long as she could successfully conquer Bo Shenyu, other backup options like Jiang Boyan and Wei Wenbo didn’t matter whether she had them or not.
Even if Wei Wenbo was a copyright god-tier writer with an annual income over ten million.
Even if Jiang Boyan was a super-rich heir, sitting on hundreds of millions in family wealth.
But how could these two compare to Bo Shenyu’s status?
Bo Shenyu wasn’t just very, very rich, with his own listed company abroad. He also possessed ancient noble blood. Abroad, the castles he owned were more than one!
Most importantly, he was clean and self-disciplined, faithful in relationships, and his looks were also the handsomest among the four male guests!
Such a man was completely the most perfect other half in all women’s hearts!
So, for Bo Shenyu, she could give up other high-quality male guests who liked her. For him, she could be ‘faithful’!
Thinking of this, Su Han took a deep breath.
She glanced faintly at her other rival in love, Ye Jingyu, looking at the lost and desolate expression on her face, and mockingly curled the corner of her lips.
She was just a woman who didn’t understand Bo Shenyu at all, yet she wanted to compete with her. At best, she just had a slightly better family background than others, knew how to be reborn better than the average person. Other than that, she was nothing.
As Su Han thought about it, she imagined that after she used the time node she knew to completely secure Bo Shenyu, this rich, beautiful, and privileged Ye Jingyu, who had always been high and mighty and looked down on her, would probably be furious to death!
Just thinking about this, Su Han’s mood instantly improved.
The originally somewhat gloomy expression on her face gradually gained a hint of a smile.
“Jingyu, it’s getting late. We should rest early too.”
“En, okay.”
……
The next day, as soon as the sky began to brighten, Bai Baozhu got up, practiced martial arts for an hour, and went to the kitchen to make breakfast.
Influenced by yesterday’s cooking show, today Bai Baozhu decided to make pan-fried buns for breakfast.
Old dough for the wrappers, minced pork from the hind leg, scallions, soy sauce, MSG, salt. With nimble hands and feet, she wrapped these ingredients into delicate and small buns.
After wrapping all the buns, she placed them in the pan, sprinkled a bowl of water. Once the water evaporated, she drizzled a layer of oil…
“Sizzle sizzle sizzle…”
After the oil boiled, the pan-fried buns had been fried until crispy and golden. She poured off the oil, sprinkled on a layer of vibrant green scallions and sesame seeds. In just seven minutes, a pot of fragrant and delicious pan-fried buns was ready to come out.
Smelling the aroma of steamed buns and the fresh scent of scallions permeating the air, the staff of Love Cottage once again couldn’t help but swallow their saliva, looking forward to today’s feeding from Bai Baozhu.
As usual, Bai Baozhu gave the first pot of pan-fried buns she made to the production team’s staff to eat.
Picking up a pan-fried bun, taking a bite, oil and juice splatter everywhere. The fragrance of scallions and sesame, the plump, smooth, and tender pork hind leg meat and the golden-brown, crispy bun wrapper. Crispy on the outside, tender on the inside, the broth is delicious. It was incredibly delicious!
After eating six pan-fried buns in a row, seeing that Bai Baozhu had finished another pot and had time to talk, Li Le reluctantly put down the pan-fried bun in his hand and walked over to Bai Baozhu.
Because all the staff were currently eating the delicious pan-fried buns being fed by Bai Baozhu, the cameras filming now were all the indoor fixed ones.
As a photographer, Li Le naturally knew the position of every camera in the villa. So after he walked to Bai Baozhu’s side, he led her to a blind spot where the cameras couldn’t shoot.
“Brother Li, what’s up?”
Bai Baozhu looked at Li Le, who had suddenly called her aside, and asked very suspiciously.
Looking into Bai Baozhu’s clear eyes, Li Le scratched his head a bit and spoke with some embarrassment.
“Zhu Zhu, Love Cottage Episode Eight is airing tonight.”
“Ah?”
Hearing Li Le’s words, Bai Baozhu just felt baffled, not understanding what he meant.
“It’s just, it’s just…”
At this moment, Li Le remembered that Bai Baozhu didn’t know what was happening outside, so she had no idea she was being slandered.
After cursing himself in his heart for being so stupid, Li Le finally smiled and spoke to Bai Baozhu.
“It’s just that you performed exceptionally well in Episode Eight of the show. Once it airs today, I’m sure a lot of viewers will come to like you.”
He’d bet on it! After Episode Eight aired, it would be the official start of Bai Baozhu’s comeback!
“?”
Bai Baozhu looked at Li Le’s passionate and earnest expression, his eyes practically glowing as he talked about how well she’d performed and how the audience would like her. Her head was full of question marks; she truly didn’t understand what he was trying to say.
“Zhu Zhu, you have to keep up the good work on the show from now on! I’ll make sure every shot of you cooking looks beautiful! So more people will like you!”
Li Le, who had already become Bai Baozhu’s number one fan, looked at her encouragingly.
Although Bai Baozhu didn’t understand why Li Le was acting so strange today, she was instantly happy when she heard him say he’d make her cooking shots look beautiful.
“Mhm, mhm, I’ll definitely perform well~”
She still had to advertise her culinary skills on the show!
……
Although Bai Baozhu was utterly confused and didn’t really understand what Li Le meant, nor did she get what the airing of Episode Eight had to do with anything, Episode Eight was indeed an important turning point for her.
At the same time, it was also the ‘first episode’ where all the viewers had their faces slapped by Bai Baozhu!