Chapter 89: Love Variety Show Strategy System (7)

At this very moment, Xie Yang had already ridden to the front of the Watermelon stand.

The stall owner was an old man who was arguing with a middle-aged woman buying a melon over a few dollars of change.

The woman was spitting as she cursed him for being inflexible:

"A melon is fourteen dollars, why can't you just round it down to ten? I've bought melons so many times, when have they not rounded it off like that? Others can sell it that way, why can't you?"

"Who rounds off four dollars just like that? I only make this little bit of profit on a melon. My wife is hospitalized and needs money; if you round it off like that, then I'm not selling."

"Not selling? I wasted so much time haggling with you, and now you say you're not selling? How can you do business like this..."

"There's no one who rounds off like you do either..."

Seeing the two of them about to get into a fight, Xie Yang slammed on the brakes and wedged her bike between them: "A melon is only fourteen dollars? That cheap?"

"What do you know!" The woman rolled her eyes at her, "Watermelons on the island are generally this price. It's not the mainland, where a melon would sell for thirty or fifty dollars. Are you robbing people?"

"Thirty or fifty is cheap. I ate a melon the other day that cost several thousand!"

"What kind of melon is so expensive!" The woman widened her eyes in shock.

"A melon from the internet, hehe!"

"..."

The woman cursed her as a "lunatic" and walked off with a flick of her hand.

Xie Yang shrugged, and after parking the bike, she asked the old man to weigh all the melons on the stand.

"Weigh them all? There are two more crates here, there are over thirty of them. You want them all?"

"Mm, I want them all! There are a lot of us."

"Alright, alright, alright."

The old man excitedly picked up the scale and began weighing the melons one by one.

When it came time to pay, they discovered that the phones issued by the production team were only for receiving messages from the production team and for navigation; their personal phones had been left in the Romantic Cabin bedroom and could not be used during filming.

Xie Yang: "..."

This was something she hadn't anticipated.

"How about we let the production team pay?"

Jiang Tuo helped offer a suggestion.

The director in front of the camera: Are you being polite?

In the end, the accompanying PD helped pay the money.

Because the two of them couldn't scrape together a single dollar between them.

Unless they used their watches or jewelry as collateral.

But these looked very expensive, and the production team was afraid of losing them and couldn't bear the responsibility.

"The watermelon money will be deducted from your appearance fees."

The director's voice came through the earpiece.

Xie Yang laughed: "Fine, fine, fine, just deduct it from mine alone."

【My Sister Xie's heart is actually quite kind!】

【+1. I thought she really wanted to eat watermelon at first, but now that I think about it, she only went over because she saw the old man selling melons arguing with that unreasonable woman, right?】

【At this moment, I've become a fan of Sister Xie!】

【Me too!】

【Others are "start with looks, stay for character," my Sister Xie is "start with comedy, stay for character."】

【Sister Xie: Are you being polite?】

【Hahahaha—】

With this interlude, by the time they reached the Tropical Botanical Garden, Xie Yang's group was a step behind the other guests; the only ones slower than them were Xiao Chenglei and Liu Yang, who had walked over.

But the two of them had walked the whole way laughing and chatting; he held an umbrella for her, and she wiped the sweat for him. Their livestream room was filled with sweet pink bubbles.

Their fans were beaming with motherly smiles, shouting, "Just move the civil affairs bureau to you two already," "You two should get married on the spot," and "Lock the Yang-Cheng CP for me."

The Yang-Cheng CP fans were overjoyed, even more excited than if they had won a new stock lottery.

Thinking that the interaction between the Yang-Cheng CP was so sweet, it must be the livestream room with the most viewers.

Unexpectedly, when they exited to check, the "Alpaca CP" livestream room had somehow surged from being at the bottom to the top, surpassing the "Yang-Cheng CP" in both real-time viewers and comment count.

What was going on?

The Yang-Cheng CP fans clicked into Xie Yang and Jiang Tuo's livestream room in confusion, and seeing the screen full of "hahahaha," they were even more bewildered. What was the situation?

It turned out that after Xie Yang and Jiang Tuo arrived at the Tropical Botanical Garden, they began searching for the lucky plants.

Perhaps because they had eaten her food—after all, they had just eaten a few slices of watermelon Xie Yang had treated them to—Jiang Tuo didn't give her a hard time anymore, but instead actively suggested:

"I guess the production team will list tropical-themed plants as lucky plants, after all, we're filming on a tropical island. Let's just look for these characteristic plants; once we narrow down the scope, I don't believe we won't be able to find them."

Xie Yang looked at him speechlessly: "Brother, what kind of place is this?"

"A botanical garden."

"What about the prefix?"

"... Tropical?"

Xie Yang gave him a look that said, "Figure it out yourself."

Jiang Tuo realized it belatedly: "Damn! Are all the plants here tropical plants?"

"What do you think?"

"..."

Jiang Tuo's head drooped: "Then what do you suggest we do? The botanical garden is so big, how are we supposed to find them?"

"Do you want to win or lose?"

"Isn't that obvious? Who would want to lose if they could win? Besides, the winner gets a mysterious special privilege; I'm guessing it's the right to arrange tomorrow's date."

The twenty-one-day "Romantic Cabin" features five full-day dates in total, and tomorrow is the first official date since moving into the Romantic Cabin.

Thinking of this, Jiang Tuo wanted to win even more.

He didn't want to be arranged by others; that would give him an unpleasant feeling of being at someone else's mercy.

Xie Yang nodded in agreement.

She didn't really care who she went on a date with; either way, she wouldn't feel a spark with anyone.

These male guests were all Xie Danni's hunting targets; if she hadn't arrived, and if she couldn't retrieve the Love Variety Show Strategy System in time, these men would all, without exception, become Xie Danni's lovers.

Thinking about it was a bit disgusting, so Xie Yang quickly reined in her wandering thoughts and folded up the botanical garden's guidebook: "Let's go!"

"Go where?"

"To find the lucky plants. Don't you want to win?"

"You thought of a way?"

"More or less, it depends on how you cooperate."

"I'll definitely cooperate fully. I'll do whatever you tell me to, as long as I can win."

"Don't worry, your efforts won't fail your expectations."

"..."

That sounded a bit strange...

A few minutes later, Jiang Tuo was lying on the grass by the edge of the pond, completely losing his image as he held up his phone to photograph a "lucky grass" that Xie Yang had specifically pointed out.

"Alright, alright! Finally got the whole thing!"

No sooner had he finished speaking than Jiang Tuo lost his footing, and one foot slipped into the water.

"Damn it! My shoe is wet!"

Xie Yang pointed to the other side of the pond: "That's perfect, you might as well photograph that cluster of Shizhu while you're at it."

Before Jiang Tuo could speak, she added: "That cluster of Shizhu is very difficult to photograph; if your shoes weren't already wet, I definitely wouldn't let you go over there."

"Fine, I'll go over and photograph it."

Jiang Tuo not only took back his complaint, but he also obediently waded through the water to photograph the Shizhu.

Afterwards, holding onto the belief that "my shoes are wet, my pant legs are wet, what else could I possibly fail to photograph," he was led by Xie Yang to run around every nook and cranny; after one round, he had photographed all the tropical plants Xie Yang had specified—plants that weren't particularly good-looking, but were certainly the most difficult to photograph.

Main System: 【...】

The Host's gaslighting technique is unrivaled, from the Sub-system above to the male guests below.