“Heavens! Jiang Boyan invited Bai Baozhu on a Sun Date?!”
When the love observers in the celebrity studio saw this scene, everyone was stunned.
The pen in Song Zhi’s hand was accidentally snapped in two.
Especially after seeing Bai Baozhu dressed more beautifully than ever and leaving with Jiang Boyan, a certain top male idol beloved by countless female compatriots felt a sourness in his heart!
Unconsciously, the expression on Song Zhi’s face grew increasingly stern.
“Song Zhi, are you alright? You don’t look too good.”
Host Liu An noticed Song Zhi’s expression was different from usual and casually cued him.
Liu An’s comment also made the other celebrity observers notice that Song Zhi seemed a bit off today.
“I’m fine.”
Song Zhi forced down the sour feeling in his heart and said with feigned calm.
“Hahaha, Brother Zhi, are you really okay? Your expression just now was so serious. It didn’t look like you were watching a dating show at all, more like the evening news broadcast, and a legal news segment at that.”
Since the show had already filmed twelve episodes, Xiong Mengmeng was quite familiar with Song Zhi by now, so she playfully teased him with a laugh.
Hearing Xiong Mengmeng’s casual joke, the other celebrity observers felt she had a point!
However, Tian Hongxiu, a psychology professor, felt that Song Zhi’s state just now was more accurately described as… jealousy? Possessiveness?
Of course, Tian Hongxiu only muttered this thought to himself and didn’t voice it out loud.
After all, their relationship wasn’t that close, and more importantly… in this kind of program recording setting, who could Song Zhi possibly be jealous of? Whose vinegar was he drinking?
Hmm, it must be his old eyes playing tricks on him, overthinking things!
Yet, amidst the group joking about Song Zhi and the cheerful laughter, one person coldly watched it all, standing out starkly from the crowd.
This person was none other than Xu Bingying, currently blacklisted by the whole internet!
Ever since last Saturday’s broadcast of Episode Nine, which exposed the clip of her arguing with Song Zhi and led to her being blacklisted online, followed by the premium version airing the complete video of her critiquing Bai Baozhu and clashing with the other celebrity guests, her fans had basically all fled.
Even the fans she had accumulated before Love Cottage were all gone…
Losing fans and being blacklisted by the whole internet wasn’t actually a big deal for Xu Bingying. As long as she still had fame, even being hated was a form of popularity. She had topics, and there was still a chance for a comeback.
But… the most terrifying thing was that all her work had vanished!
All the projects that had sought her cooperation had fallen through. For projects with signed contracts, they cited her damaged image and breach of contract as reasons not only to terminate the agreements but also to demand she pay breach of contract penalties…
So, Xu Bingying’s current situation was far more difficult than others imagined.
Thinking about all the recent troubles caused by Song Zhi and Bai Baozhu, the hatred in Xu Bingying’s heart grew even more intense.
She narrowed her eyes, glanced at Song Zhi, and a flash of malicious light passed through her gaze.
Song Zhi, you love speaking up for Bai Baozhu, don’t you? Let’s see if you’ll still help her speak this time, now that you’re implicated with her…
When the on-site recording for Episode Twelve of Love Cottage with the celebrity observers ended, no one expected that on the very same day, a piece of news concerning Bai Baozhu and Song Zhi would explode onto the hot search.
And the content was absolutely shocking, causing countless melon-eating masses to drop their melons in surprise!
Regarding the relationship between Bai Baozhu and Song Zhi, all viewers of Love Cottage had never given it much thought.
They always felt that although these two were both part of the same variety show—Love Cottage—one was a dating guest and the other a celebrity guest, they were essentially two unrelated strangers.
Even when Song Zhi spoke up for Bai Baozhu, ‘shattering his persona’ by clashing with Xu Bingying, everyone thought Song Zhi was just upright and kind-hearted. No one ever linked Song Zhi and Bai Baozhu together.
But…
Today’s exposé news linked Song Zhi and Bai Baozhu together, and! The most terrifying part was that this exposé claimed the two were in an ambiguous romantic relationship!
That was truly frightening!
Although most netizens didn’t believe this exposé at all—after all, Bai Baozhu and Song Zhi didn’t seem like they could be involved in an ambiguous scandalous relationship—the exposé presented a powerful piece of hard evidence.
That was—
【The ‘Little Fairy’ who played games with Song Zhi is Bai Baozhu! And their gaming together was nothing but a coordinated publicity stunt!】
Once this piece of information was exposed, paired with a blurry photo of Bai Baozhu sitting on a beanbag chair playing games on her phone, the entire internet erupted!
Even though Song Zhi’s fans didn’t believe the news was true and were absolutely certain their idol brother had no girlfriend, they couldn’t explain away the various pieces of hard evidence and photos presented in the exposé.
And so, this exposé news hit the hot search not long after being posted.
Both Bai Baozhu and Song Zhi, the parties involved, also shot up the hot search together!
Bai Baozhu, Song Zhi#, #Bai Baozhu is the Little Fairy#, #Song Zhi’s Romance Exposed#…
【I said it! The Little Fairy’s voice sounds a lot like Bai Baozhu’s! They might be the same person, and you all didn’t believe me! That buddy who said he’d livestream eating a keyboard if the Little Fairy was Bai Baozhu, you can start your performance now!】
【Song Zhi and Bai Baozhu are a couple? I still find it hard to believe. How could these two possibly be a couple? What kind of man would send his own girlfriend into a dating show and then serve as a program observer commenting on his girlfriend dating other men? And this man is a top-tier A-lister in the entertainment industry. That’s completely impossible. Use some brainpower when eating melons, okay!】
【It is indeed somewhat unbelievable to say Song Zhi and Bai Baozhu are a couple, but I do believe they staged the gaming session! Where in the world is there such a coincidence? Two guests on the same show randomly matching in a game? Playing together? And it just happened to be during a livestream? Hah! This coincidence is way too fake!】
【It is indeed overly coincidental. But given that the exposé seems suspiciously aimed at whitewashing Xu Bingying, I’ll reserve my judgment for now.】
【No matter how this exposé stirs things up, I still believe in Bai Baozhu and Song Zhi. Let’s wait for a statement from the production team and Song Zhi. Everyone, stay rational for now.】
……
Perhaps because everyone still vividly remembered Bai Baozhu’s previous experience of being blacklisted by the whole internet, and coupled with Song Zhi’s consistently excellent reputation in the entertainment industry, even though such explosive news with photo evidence was exposed, the vast majority of netizens this time were very rational.
They weren’t in a hurry to mindlessly follow the hate trend. Instead, they rationally waited for statements from Love Cottage and Song Zhi regarding the matter.
Faced with such rational and calm netizens, Xu Bingying, the mastermind behind this incident, grew anxious!
Especially after seeing that even after she released such explosive news, a large group of people were still speaking up for Bai Baozhu and Song Zhi and dissing her, she couldn’t bear it any longer!
Her recent experiences had put immense pressure on her, keeping her constantly on edge.
So, after she released this bombshell news and even spent her last bit of savings on buying a water army to steer the narrative—yet it still didn’t develop in the direction she wanted—the taut string inside her finally snapped.
For a moment, she also lost some rationality.
Her original plan to blacken Bai Baozhu’s name step by step was completely forgotten.
Stimulated by the netizens’ comments online, Xu Bingying didn’t wait for the Love Cottage production team and Song Zhi to issue statements to assess the situation before deciding her next move.
Instead, she took the first step and played her final ‘trump card’.
Thus, before the melon-eating masses online could wait for statements from the Love Cottage production team and Song Zhi, they were treated to another huge melon—
【Holy cow! Bai Baozhu is a signed artist? She didn’t join Love Cottage to find love but to debut?!】
Xu Bingying exposed that Bai Baozhu had signed with an agency and was an artist preparing to debut!
Once this bombshell dropped, some people swayed by the water army began to feel that the news about Song Zhi staging the gaming session with Bai Baozhu seemed even more credible!
After all, both of them were artists working in the entertainment industry!
【Emmm… Wasn’t it supposed to be an amateur dating reality show? Does having an artist preparing to debut among the dating guests still count as ‘amateur’?】
【But thinking about it, Bai Baozhu is a dance major graduate, an arts student. It’s somewhat understandable if she becomes an artist after graduation.】
【Speaking cautiously under my pot lid, I actually really like the idea of Bai Baozhu debuting! Her face is too gorgeous! I hope to see her more on TV!】
【Love Cottage has always boasted about its show’s authenticity. But now, with Song Zhi staging a gaming session with Bai Baozhu, and Bai Baozhu being an artist preparing to debut… so… can I reasonably suspect that Love Cottage is just a scripted ‘idol drama’?!】
……
After the news of Bai Baozhu being a signed artist was exposed, the firepower originally aimed at Song Zhi was all transferred to Bai Baozhu, and the main focus of public discussion shifted back to Bai Baozhu.
Seeing the overwhelming posts and comments about Bai Baozhu online, the Love Cottage production team’s PR team immediately held a meeting.
As for Song Zhi, the other party involved in this incident, he wasn’t very attentive to online news. It was only quite a while after the incident occurred that he learned about it from his manager.
After understanding the sequence of events, Song Zhi’s first reaction was—
“This matter must be resolved properly. I’m fine, but we can’t let Bai Baozhu be implicated and get blacklisted by the whole internet again. Also, no matter what means we have to use, we must find the real culprit behind the scenes who’s trying to blacken Bai Baozhu’s name…”
“……?” Cheng Yingda: Wait! Are you sure you’re the one who implicated Bai Baozhu, and not that Bai Baozhu implicated you? From his perspective, this incident looked like Bai Baozhu had implicated the artist under his management!
As Song Zhi went on and on about how they must clear Bai Baozhu’s name, must not let her be wronged, must perfectly resolve this matter, and must teach the real culprit behind the exposé a lesson, Cheng Yingda fell into endless self-doubt.
He began to wonder if the hot search topic about Song Zhi and Bai Baozhu being a couple was actually true…
At that moment, it wasn’t just Cheng Yingda who was plunged into self-doubt. In a small county town in another city, a certain cousin also began to feel puzzled.
Chen Xinyi: Was this really not a post she dreamt of making? Why did someone beat her to the scoop?!