This sun date ultimately ended in stunned silence and tears.
The reason for Jiang Boyan’s silence was—whether it was archery, rock climbing, or his stubborn choice of ice skating, every single activity ended with Bai Baozhu successfully showing off her skills, completely overshadowing his attempt to display his charm and making him look like a useless, weak chicken.
His male dignity had suffered a severe blow!
By the end of the entire date, he was nothing like the energetic, hopeful, and expectant man he was before it started.
After the date, Jiang Boyan felt utterly dazed, as if he were in a dream.
As for the reason Bai Baozhu wanted to cry, it was—
Waaah—! Her delicate, soft, and weak beauty persona had collapsed!
What kind of delicate, soft, weak little fairy was better at archery than a man! Could scale a rock wall like she was flying, leaving a frequently exercising grown man far behind in the dust! Her ice skating… was actually quite beautiful! It’s just, it’s just that if her showy jump and landing hadn’t smashed a big crater into the ice, it would have been even more perfect! She was wailing.
In summary, was her delicate, soft, weak beauty persona still intact?
Ah! This damn competitive spirit! Ah! This damn Jiang Boyan!
If it weren’t for that annoying Jiang Boyan taking her to such a dreadful place for a date! If it weren’t for that annoying Jiang Boyan provoking her competitive spirit, her persona wouldn’t have collapsed!
After returning to the Love Cottage villa, both of them looked like eggplants hit by frost, completely wilted, and they each retreated to their own bedrooms.
Everyone looked at the state of the two. They didn’t look like they had just been on a date at all, but more like they had just fought a battle—and lost it, at that.
“What happened to them? Are they okay?”
The dating guests of Love Cottage all wore expressions of confusion and bewilderment.
Only the following photographers from the Love Cottage production team knew what had really happened to these two.
And! They started gossiping about tonight’s text message situation.
“Hahaha! I can’t take it, Jiang Boyan is too pitiful! Who could have imagined Bai Baozhu would be that skilled! If I were Jiang Boyan, I’d be finished too.”
“I’m starting to get a little scared of Bai Baozhu’s statement ‘I’m a pretty fast learner’ now! This isn’t ‘fast learning’! This is downright monstrous!”
“I think Bai Baozhu might not be studying dance, but sports! That physical fitness! That athletic talent is just insane.”
“Maybe Zhu Zhu is just a genius academic overachiever! After all, don’t forget, when she started cooking, she also watched food shows for several days first.”
“My admiration for Bai Baozhu now is like the endless flow of a mighty river! I just want to say one word! Amazing!”
“So, what do you think? Jiang Boyan wanted to show off his personal charm in front of Bai Baozhu, but ended up getting his face slapped by her skill showcase, rubbed into the dirt. Will he still vote for Bai Baozhu tonight?”
“No idea… Feels like Jiang Boyan is a pretty proud guy. After taking such a huge blow today, he probably… won’t vote for Bai Baozhu anymore, right?”
“I also think he probably won’t vote for Bai Baozhu anymore. He can’t find any trace of his male dignity with Bai Baozhu around!”
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However, just as all the staff of Love Cottage were speculating that Jiang Boyan would absolutely not vote for Bai Baozhu in tonight’s love vote…
Who could have imagined that Jiang Boyan’s love text message for the night was still sent to Bai Baozhu.
As for Bai Baozhu… she didn’t send her love text to him.
Watching this somewhat laughable and ironic scene, the Love Cottage staff began to eagerly anticipate the broadcast of Bai Baozhu and Jiang Boyan’s first sun date!
They couldn’t wait to see what kind of reaction the audience would have when they saw Bai Baozhu wildly showing off her skills at the sports center, rubbing Jiang Boyan’s face in the dirt.
No matter what the reaction, it was bound to be extremely interesting!
And so, amidst the anticipation of everyone at Love Cottage, before the sports center date could even air, the first episode of the Love Cottage VIP Premium Version went live precisely at 12:00 noon on Tuesday on the video streaming site!
The moment Love Cottage VIP Premium Version went live at 12:00 on the video site, it attracted countless viewers. In less than half an hour after its release, the view count had already broken one hundred thousand!
Countless people dug into their pockets, bought the prestigious VIP membership, and happily started watching the first episode of the premium version.
Although it was the first episode of the premium version, the content actually started from Episode Eight of Love Cottage.
Thus, viewers quickly discovered in the first premium episode… many highlight segments that did not appear in the original broadcast!
If the original version focused more on the ambiguous romantic developments between the dating guests,
Then the premium version focused more on the friendships between the male guests, the friendships between the female guests, and some of the daily, leisurely trivial matters within the Love Cottage.
So it felt very relaxing, leisurely, and had a comfortable, warm feeling.
In the premium version, the personalities of many dating guests became much fuller, also presenting a different side not seen in the original broadcast.
For example, it turned out that the first male guest, Wei Wenbo, was actually a health enthusiast who lived like an elderly “old cadre”.
Another example, the originally cold, aloof Bo Shenyu, who seemed to radiate “strangers keep away,” was actually very gentle with small animals, often feeding food to the little creatures that accidentally wandered into Love Cottage.
Yet another example, Su Han and Ye Jingyu, although sharing a room, didn’t seem to have a very good relationship…
However, these reversals in the dating guests’ images weren’t the most shocking!
In the premium version, the most shocking, the guest with the biggest image reversal had to be—Bai Baozhu!
In the first premium episode, everyone discovered that Bai Baozhu was not actually a “universally disliked” presence in Love Cottage!
Her relationship with her roommate, Xia Tiantian, was actually very good?
And, this wasn’t the most crucial point! The most crucial point was—
[Damn! How did Bai Baozhu’s green tea persona collapse into a clueless straight guy?? Am I watching a fake Love Cottage?!]
In the first episode of the Love Cottage premium version, if you had to ask whose persona had the biggest contrast with the original show!
Then besides Bai Baozhu, there was no one else!
In the premium version, she seemed like a completely different person from the Bai Baozhu in the original broadcast! The change was shocking!
Clearly, in the original version, Bai Baozhu’s behavior and actions were like a “green tea flower” farming fish everywhere. But in the premium version, Bai Baozhu had… evolved from a green tea flower into a clueless straight guy.
Her suffocating sisterly conversations with Xia Tiantian, the “something wrong with your eyes” theory paired with the post-production team’s text roasts, had audiences laughing so hard their heads were about to fall off!
And her utterly bewildered delivery of those “classic lines”—”So you’re all taking this dating thing so seriously…”, “You guys are so complicated…”
—made her seem completely unlike a green tea! More like a clueless oaf!
This premium episode also explained the reason why Bai Baozhu sent her love text to Lin Dong in Love Cottage Episode Eight.
And this reason also made all the viewers laugh until they cried! They felt Bai Baozhu was no green tea flower! She was clearly a clueless oaf!!
The things she did were things only a clueless straight guy would do!
Furthermore, it confirmed that Bai Baozhu and Xia Tiantian’s relationship was genuinely good! At the very least, it was much better than the “good sisters” relationship Su Han and Ye Jingyu portrayed in the original version! And it felt much more real!
Therefore, after the first episode of the Love Cottage premium version finished airing, the name “Bai Baozhu” completely dominated discussions across the internet!
Countless viewers were debating whether Bai Baozhu was a green tea or a clueless straight guy. After all, the gap between these two personas was simply too vast!
[When watching the original Love Cottage, I thought Bai Baozhu was a fish-farming green tea, but why in the premium version does she so resemble my clueless straight ex-boyfriend! When I batted my eyes at him, he actually asked me if I had a twitch in my eye! I feel like Bai Baozhu is my clueless straight ex-boyfriend in person, no doubt about it!]
Let’s be real, I think Bai Baozhu was maliciously edited by the production team! Plus, with Xu Bingying among the celebrity observers leading the narrative, Bai Baozhu inexplicably became the green tea bitch fish pond manager.
[Actually, girls themselves understand best whether their companions are green tea or not. Looking at the show, Xia Tiantian and Bai Baozhu have a very good relationship. If Bai Baozhu were really green tea, she probably wouldn’t have made a female friend on the show.]
Hahaha! I don’t care if Bai Baozhu is green tea or a clueless straight guy, I just think she’s absolutely hilarious! She’s practically the comedy star of the first premium episode! Everyone else has this relaxed, warm vibe, but when it comes to Bai Baozhu, I’m laughing my head off! It’s so damn funny! I suddenly went from neutral to fan for Bai Baozhu! She’s too funny!
Although Bai Baozhu is really funny, I still feel a second of pity for Xia Tiantian! Having such a clueless straight guy for a close female friend is just too tragic! Just thinking about Xia Tiantian’s indescribable expression looking at Bai Baozhu makes me… want to laugh hahahaha!
[I want to laugh too! Is it because the premium version is web-only that the post-production guys from Love Cottage have let themselves go so much? All sorts of side-splitting post-production effects are just too hilarious! Paired with Bai Baozhu’s suffocating behavior, it’s absolutely comical! Laughed until tears came out!]
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The broadcast of the Love Cottage premium version achieved results far beyond everyone’s expectations!
It was not only beyond the production team’s expectations, but also beyond all the viewers’ expectations!
They even felt that the Love Cottage premium version was somewhat better looking than the original broadcast!
Of course, the reason for this effect was largely due to Bai Baozhu, and once again, the post-production team who worked hard to rehabilitate Bai Baozhu’s image.
Therefore, with multiple factors contributing, and the premium version being genuinely good! Bai Baozhu being genuinely hilarious!
Thus, after an afternoon of buzz, by evening, Love Cottage Premium Version and Bai Baozhu, living up to expectations, once again trended on the hot search!