Bai Baozhu was completely unaware of everything that had happened outside of Love Cottage.
To avoid affecting the filming content, no one from the production team had told Bai Baozhu about the terrifying cyberbullying she had once endured, nor how she had gradually been vindicated recently, becoming the dating guest everyone felt most sorry for.
At that moment, Bai Baozhu, who was being pitied by countless viewers and netizens, was carefreely… making sweets.
That’s right! Ever since she ate an incredibly sweet all-sweet feast during her period, which left her feeling refreshed and completely free from menstrual cramps, Bai Baozhu had fallen in love with eating sweets~
Before her period ended, Bai Baozhu had been crazily making all sorts of sweet treats!
Now, she wasn’t even sparing the main dishes!
Watching Bai Baozhu melt the finely mashed potatoes with pure milk, stir it evenly, then frantically add large amounts of butter and cheese, pushing the potatoes’ elasticity to its limit, all the staff members of the production team couldn’t help but tremble.
They all had the same thought… this was way too sweet! And the calories seemed a bit too high!
However, seeing the mashed potatoes become sticky and stretchy, filled with the sweet aroma of milk and cheese, everyone couldn’t help but feel a little anticipation.
During this period, being crazily fed sweets by Bai Baozhu, even staff members who had no interest in desserts had fallen in love with sweet food.
Of course, their weight gain was also quite “impressive”.
Waterfall mashed potatoes weren’t very hard to make; in fact, they were quite simple. All you needed was patience—to keep stirring and adding various ingredients continuously.
But it was this simple dish that, after passing through Bai Baozhu’s hands, became incredibly delicious.
It was no exaggeration to say that even people who didn’t like potatoes or sweets would fall in love with Bai Baozhu’s waterfall mashed potatoes!
The fragrance of potatoes mixed with the milky aroma of milk, paired with the mellow sweetness of cheese, the dense creaminess and the soft, glutinous, rich texture of the potatoes… it was simply irresistible!
The long, stretchy strands made this mashed potato mixture, packed with countless calories and sugar, melt in the mouth like clouds, impacting the taste buds like a waterfall, delivering an unprecedented sense of satisfaction…
“This flavor is really amazing!”
“This is the best mashed potatoes I’ve ever eaten! Bar none!”
“The salty-sweet mashed potatoes paired with black pepper steak really aren’t greasy at all! Zhu Zhu, I never expected you to be so good at Western food too!”
…
This dinner truly left all the dating guests in Love Cottage extremely satisfied.
At the same time, it further confirmed… that Su Han’s specialty, Western food, actually wasn’t that great either!
Before, everyone thought Su Han’s cooking wasn’t as good as Bai Baozhu’s might just be because they were more accustomed to Chinese food, and Western food really wasn’t as tasty.
But now, after trying Bai Baozhu’s Western food—even though it was just simple mashed potatoes and pan-fried steak—Bai Baozhu had forcefully created a top-tier deliciousness worthy of a Michelin three-star chef.
Instantly, the gap between Bai Baozhu’s and Su Han’s culinary skills became glaringly obvious.
It wasn’t that Western food was inferior to Chinese food, but that Su Han’s cooking skills were really quite ordinary!
At that moment, Su Han, who had been completely outclassed by Bai Baozhu, felt extremely sour inside as she ate the sweet, delicate mashed potatoes.
Bai Baozhu’s recent crazy dessert-making spree had already made her furious, and now she had even ventured into her own area of expertise, Western food…
Moreover, it was only now that the filter she had for herself shattered. It wasn’t that everyone disliked Western food, but that… her cooking really wasn’t as good as Bai Baozhu’s!
Most importantly… she felt that if Bai Baozhu kept feeding them sweets for a few more days, that sweet tooth Bo Shenyu would probably be won over!
Thinking this, Su Han glanced over at Bo Shenyu.
What she saw was Bo Shenyu, once again with a cold face and eyes full of resistance, eating sweets under Bai Baozhu’s urging…
While others might not see it, Su Han knew that Bo Shenyu’s favorability towards Bai Baozhu was increasing day by day. Their relationship had also grown much closer because of these constant desserts.
Just like in the plot, among the four female guests, Bo Shenyu had the most favorable impression of Bai Baozhu…
“Zhu Zhu, I’ve gained so much weight recently. Could you maybe not make sweets next time? The calories are too high.”
Su Han forcibly suppressed the resentment in her heart towards Bai Baozhu, looking at her with a very gentle smile.
Bai Baozhu had always been unable to refuse requests from beautiful, gentle women.
Of course, this was also because… Bai Baozhu’s period was over!
“Hmm, okay! Starting tomorrow, I won’t make sweets anymore!”
As soon as Bai Baozhu’s words fell, Bo Shenyu, who was sitting beside her, seemed to choke and started coughing violently.
“Pfft! Is Brother Shen too happy that these ‘sweet’ days are finally coming to an end?”
“Brother Shen really hasn’t had it easy lately. He clearly doesn’t like sweets at all, but Bai Baozhu’s recent menus have been all sweet.”
Hearing the others’ teasing remarks, Bai Baozhu also found it funny and laughed.
Recently, because of her period, she had found these men irritating in every way.
She had originally thought that these male guests didn’t seem too fond of sweets and wanted to mess with them a bit. But she never expected her cooking skills to be so good (proudly puffs chest) that she hadn’t managed to torment the male guests at all.
However…
It had made her somewhat interested in Bo Shenyu.
Her recent daily experimentation with making desserts wasn’t just because of her period; part of the reason was also to see if her delicious sweets could make Bo Shenyu, who didn’t like desserts, start to enjoy them!
The result—
“Bo Shenyu, do you really dislike the desserts I make that much?”
Bai Baozhu looked at Bo Shenyu somewhat helplessly, utterly baffled by this man who didn’t like sweets!
She completely couldn’t understand people who didn’t like sweets! After all, sweets were so delicious! And they could bring people happiness!
“…”
Facing Bai Baozhu’s question, Bo Shenyu stared at her blankly, his lips moving slightly. But in the end, he still couldn’t utter the words ‘he liked them’.
Perhaps because of this, after finishing this last ‘all-sweet feast’, Bo Shenyu seemed somewhat listless, lacking energy for anything.
Regarding Bai Baozhu stopping her sweet-making from tomorrow, he felt both relieved and somewhat disappointed.
And, for some reason, he felt the disappointment outweighed the relief…
It wasn’t until 11 PM, when it was time to send the love text messages, that Bo Shenyu finally snapped out of it.
He stared blankly at his phone. For the past few days, his messages had all been sent to Bai Baozhu.
But every night, the messages ended with the format [Thanks for the food] [Goodnight].
Today, however, he wanted to send something different. He wanted to express some of his own feelings…
“Buzz—!”
The message notification sounded. Bai Baozhu, once again like the previous few days, received two love text message votes.
Without exception, they were from Jiang Boyan and Bo Shenyu.
Jiang Boyan’s love text message was still the same as the past few days—full of sweet talk and clingy flattery.
But what surprised Bai Baozhu was that Bo Shenyu’s love text message today was completely different from before.
『Every dessert you make is delicious. I have tasted each one properly, they are truly delicious. Zhu Zhu, thank you very much. In this program, I’ve been able to eat so many delicious desserts. I am very happy ^ ^』
Looking at the longest love text message Bo Shenyu had ever sent, Bai Baozhu was instantly full of confusion.
She kept muttering to herself, was it because she was finally stopping making desserts that… Bo Shenyu had gone crazy with joy?
Otherwise, why would he send such an insincere message!
He was clearly someone who hated sweets so much. (Big misunderstanding~)
In contrast to Bai Baozhu’s mistaken understanding of Bo Shenyu, the female staff members who had seen Bo Shenyu’s message in advance were all moved to tears by its sweetness!
“Ahhh—! Bo Shenyu has fallen for Bai Baozhu, right?! Someone who clearly dislikes sweets so much, but for Bai Baozhu, he ate everything! And now he even specially sent a love text message to tell Bai Baozhu her desserts were delicious and he liked them! Oh my god! I never thought Bo Shenyu could say something like this!”
“No! Did you notice, Bo Shenyu addressed Bai Baozhu as ‘Zhu Zhu’! This is a huge change! He has never called any other female guest so intimately before!”
“I’m switching CPs! The Lollipop CP of Su Han and Bo Shenyu isn’t nearly as sweet as the CP of Bai Baozhu and Bo Shenyu! Bo Shenyu’s attitude towards Bai Baozhu is absolutely unique among all the female guests!”
…
Without Bai Baozhu and Bo Shenyu’s knowledge, they had gained quite a few CP fans among the Love Cottage staff…
Of course, besides the Bai Baozhu and Bo Shenyu CP, many people also shipped Bai Baozhu with Jiang Boyan.
Seeing their own program’s internal staff shipping couples so happily, the post-production team naturally had to do a good job editing these two CPs!
Just as the Love Cottage staff were happily watching the live stream ahead of time and shipping couples, the audience friends, who were many episodes behind the staff, were also shipping couples very happily while watching Episode Ten of Love Cottage!
Of course! It would have been even better if Episode Ten didn’t have so many delicious food ‘attacks’ made by Bai Baozhu!
After Episode Ten of Love Cottage aired, not only were the dishes Bai Baozhu made highly notable—making the celebrity observers in the live stream room drool—they also made countless viewers drool.
However, in Episode Ten of Love Cottage, aside from Bai Baozhu’s cooking, the topic that sparked the most heated discussion was—
『Was Jiang Boyan about to eat his words?! He sent a text message to Zhu Zhu!』
『Ah! Bo Shenyu also sent a text message to Zhu Zhu!』
Bai Baozhu, who had received zero votes for several episodes, had finally received love text messages!
And she received two! And they were from the two male guests universally acknowledged as the most handsome in Love Cottage!
This nearly made the group of netizens who had just changed their view of Bai Baozhu and felt guilty cry with joy!
Furthermore, it increasingly confirmed that all those claims—like Bai Baozhu being a green tea (manipulative person) or a fish pond manager (player)—which had been pushed by Xu Bingying’s narrative, were false! They were all nonsense!
The dating guests on the show weren’t stupid! If Bai Baozhu were really as despicable as Xu Bingying claimed, she wouldn’t have made female friends on the show, nor would two other male guests have developed feelings for her!
Thus, this episode of Love Cottage finally made the originally still-rational netizens completely change their view of Bai Baozhu!
Under complex feelings of guilt, pity, and more, Bai Baozhu’s fan growth rate instantly skyrocketed! Her Weibo follower count, originally a measly four-digit number, suddenly surged to six digits!
And it was still continuously growing! The speed of her fan increase was simply unmatched by the other guests.
Most importantly, the cohesion of Bai Baozhu’s fan group was also very strong. Perhaps it was because many among these fans had once been anti-fans who had blackened Bai Baozhu, now acting with immense guilt.
Therefore, these new fans of Bai Baozhu had high loyalty and were also very active.
Episode Ten had just finished airing. Because of Bai Baozhu’s bickering with Jiang Boyan and her dessert interactions with Bo Shenyu in this episode, CP names quickly emerged for both pairings, and they began to climb the CP ranking chart!
The Sweet CP of Bai Baozhu and Bo Shenyu, who exchanged love texts that night, had particularly strong momentum. They were just a tiny bit away from surpassing the currently most popular Lollipop CP of Su Han and Bo Shenyu!
【Although Su Han is really good at flirting, I prefer watching the interactions between Bai Baozhu and Bo Shenyu! It feels like only Bai Baozhu can make Bo Shenyu show more expressions!】
【When I saw Bo Shenyu eating that molten chocolate cake, I laughed until I cried! That was nothing like the usually expressionless Brother Shen! 2333】
【Although, but, Zhu Zhu didn’t force Bo Shenyu to eat the dessert! Yet, anything Zhu Zhu made, Bo Shenyu obediently ate it all! Feels a bit sweet!】
【Why are you all shipping the CP of Bai Baozhu and Bo Shenyu? Am I the only one shipping the ‘True Fragrance’ CP of Bai Baozhu and Jiang Boyan?】
【You’re not alone! I also ship the ‘True Fragrance’ CP of Bai Three-Year-Old and Jiang Three-Year-Old! Hahaha! Now Jiang Three-Year-Old has fallen for Bai Three-Year-Old! I’m just waiting for the warning that Bai Three-Year-Old will fall for Jiang Three-Year-Old!】
【You’re not alone 1!】
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After watching the online public opinion about Bai Baozhu following the broadcast of Episode Ten of Love Cottage, a certain top-tier superstar—Song Zhi, who had just finished recording Episode Eleven and hadn’t yet sorted out his own feelings or figured out exactly what kind of emotion he held towards Little Fairy, or rather, Bai Baozhu—found his mood extremely complicated!
Especially when he saw netizens online enthusiastically shipping Bai Baozhu with different male guests in various CPs, his mood grew even more complicated! And, he inexplicably felt a bit sour.
He couldn’t shake the feeling that there was a bit of green on his head…
A certain Song Male God, who had never lacked female admirers, lay sleeplessly in bed, thinking that in a few days he would go to record Episode Twelve… According to the production team, the interactions between the dating guests in the later episodes would be even sweeter…
Just thinking about this made Song Zhi feel even more unable to sleep!
Clearly, he had only played games with Bai Baozhu a few times, and the two of them hadn’t had much communication. Why did he care so much?
It was utterly unbelievable!
Had he been brainwashed silly by those fan-made shipping videos that netizens randomly edited?
Or was it…
“Have I been single for too long?”
The sleepless Song Zhi seriously tried to recall when his last relationship was.
The result…
A certain explosively popular top-tier star, who since his debut had won countless titles like ‘Sexiest Man’, ‘Man Most Want to Hug’, ‘Man Most Want to Date’, ‘Man Most Want to Marry’—all ranking first—only now shockingly realized… he had never been in a relationship!
He had been born single until now!
“……”
Having suddenly discovered this fact, Song Zhi felt… a bit embarrassed! Someone as old as him had actually never been in a relationship.
“Forget it, sleep!”
Having just discovered he was a born-single dog, Song Zhi decided not to think about such complicated problems anymore!
Feelings and such, just let them take their natural course!
How could romance compare to the drive one gets from one’s career!
However, when it came time to record Episode Twelve of Love Cottage, a certain top-tier star who once had his heart set only on his career was proven wrong!
He suddenly discovered that if you become curious about someone, you start to develop feelings for them. And if you start to develop feelings for someone, then… those feelings seem to become a bit uncontrollable!
Even though it was just a normal program recording, his gaze would uncontrollably stick to Bai Baozhu. And whereas before he just thought Bai Baozhu was a fairly pretty girl,
now… he felt there was no woman more beautiful and adorable than Bai Baozhu!
“Wow! Zhu Zhu’s dance tonight was amazing! She actually received four love text message votes! So exciting!”
“Snap—!”
A certain top-tier star snapped the pen in his hand in two.