Chapter 98: Love Variety Show Strategy System (16)

This downpour came too suddenly, and the raindrops were large; they were not the only pair to get soaked.

Of the other four pairs of guests, except for Jiang Tuo and Liu Yang who happened to be watching a movie indoors when it rained, the other three pairs were also forced to interrupt their dates, and one pair even returned earlier than them.

"Brother Fu, you're back too? You got caught in the rain, didn't you?"

Xiao Chenglei had just come downstairs after changing his clothes, a dry towel draped over his neck, still wiping his wet hair:

"Us too. This rain came at such an inconvenient time; we were just about to go eat dinner and were still on the road when we got drenched from head to toe. Sigh, we had no choice but to come back."

Xiao Chenglei was genuinely regretful, but Xie Danni was not necessarily so.

The One-Day Date with Xiao Chenglei was, to her, simply like living a year in a day.

Xiao Chenglei complained that the heavens were unhelpful, launching a surprise attack on a perfectly good sunny day and causing them to miss dinner.

She, however, wanted to thank the heavens for this rain! Otherwise, she wouldn't have known what excuse to find to return early.

She couldn't wait to find out the result of the date between Fu Yichen and Xie Yang—had the latter been loathed by Fu Yichen all day?

According to her guess, Fu Yichen would not linger outside with Xie Yang until very late before returning.

Enduring a whole day was enough; what man would be willing to eat both lunch and dinner while facing an ugly face?

Not to mention that Fu Yichen was a standard lookist.

Therefore, upon returning to the Cabin and seeing that Fu Yichen's pair had not yet returned, Xie Danni frowned and immediately went upstairs to her room to get her personal phone, wanting to log into the livestream room opened by the program team for the guests.

Of course, not to watch her own livestream room, but Fu Yichen and Xie Yang's.

But before she could log into the livestream room, she first received several push notifications from her alt account on Weibo—

#Romantic Cabin and National Team interaction#

#Xie Yang the Spiker delayed by the Love Variety Show#

#Liu Ying chasing stars is me#

#Xie Yang spike shot#

What does this mean?

Xie Yang is trending?

Did the program team push the trending channel to her?

Xie Danni quickly tapped in to browse the news content, and seeing this made her furious.

What kind of damn luck does that woman have!

Going to Shazhou Island and being able to encounter the National Beach Volleyball Team training, showing off in front of the cameras, and even being a gifted Spiker...

Pfft! Can she even play beach volleyball? She actually took the coach's polite words seriously!

Fortunately, Fu Yichen didn't interact much with her; this was the only thing that made Xie Danni feel satisfied.

As for Xie Yang's trending topic...

After squinting and thinking for a moment, Xie Danni used her alt account to contact several internet troll studios, throwing money at them to suppress all topics related to Xie Yang.

After doing this, her mood felt much better; she changed into a fairy-like white dress, reapplied her makeup, and walked downstairs gracefully.

Xie Yang had long since finished showering and changed into a loose set of loungewear to make dinner in the kitchen.

If you want to be well-fed, you have to do it yourself.

The ingredients in the refrigerator were abundant; she chose green vegetables, mushrooms, fresh bamboo shoots, shrimp, eggs, pork tenderloin, and vermicelli, planning to cook a Three-Fresh Casserole.

The traditional side dishes for a Three-Fresh Casserole are usually large shrimp, egg dumplings, and meatballs; since the ingredients were all there, she didn't intend to settle for less.

Using a meat grinder to turn the pork tenderloin into minced meat, she mixed half with diced bamboo shoots to roll into meatballs, and fried a few golden egg dumplings with the other half.

"Is there anything you need me to do?"

Seeing Fu Yichen standing at the faucet helping to wash vegetables, Xiao Chenglei also followed him in and asked.

He hadn't eaten yet either; Xie Yang said she would cook more for everyone to eat together, and it would be embarrassing to just eat without working.

"Then Teacher Xiao, please help me process the shrimp; trim the shrimp whiskers and pull out the shrimp veins, can you?"

Xie Yang handed a bag of oxygenated live shrimp to Xiao Chenglei.

"Sure, sure, no problem." Xiao Chenglei actively took on the Task of removing shrimp veins.

Since the livestream hadn't ended and there were cameras in the kitchen, Xiao Chenglei worked silently for a minute before proactively finding a topic:

"I heard you went to Shazhou Island today; is it fun there? I haven't been yet."

Fu Yichen didn't respond, and was even somewhat repulsed by the topic Xiao Chenglei brought up.

He was still feeling stifled while reflecting on how the date itinerary today wasn't perfect; talk about hitting a sore spot!

Xie Yang, however, was still savoring the hearty and fun match with the National Beach Volleyball Team, and upon hearing this, she smiled and praised:

"It's a very nice little island; if you have the chance, Teacher Xiao, you must go visit."

"Alright, I'll arrange that for my next date too."

As he spoke, Xiao Chenglei even cupped his hands toward Fu Yichen:

"Thanks to Brother Fu for doing the homework; this little brother will copy the ready-made answer, hehe!"

Fu Yichen: "..." He felt even more stifled.

When Xie Danni entered, she felt that the atmosphere between the three was surprisingly relaxed, and a sense of crisis arose in her heart.

"What are you talking about that's so happy?"

"Talking about the Shazhou Island that Brother Fu and Xie Yang went to today." Xiao Chenglei chimed in cheerfully, "Hearing Xie Yang say it's beautiful there, I'm a bit itching to go."

After a day of wooing, Xiao Chenglei's Favorability Value toward her had finally risen again; although it hadn't yet converted into Love Value, it had increased quite a bit compared to when they finished work last night.

But this was not enough!

Xie Danni flicked her hair and gave Fu Yichen a deep look; what she wanted was the Love Value from all the male guests, including Fu Yichen and Zhou Hanqing!

Calculating in her heart how to win them over, she replied perfunctorily: "Shazhou Island? That place doesn't have any special attractions, right?"

【Ding! Male No. 4's Favorability Value is decreasing——】

【Ding! Male Lead No. 5's Favorability Value is dropping—】

【Ding! Male Lead No. 4's Favorability Value has dropped to 20, warning of a limit-down! Please, Host, increase Male Lead No. 4's Favorability Value as soon as possible to avoid affecting the Strategy Mission.】

"!!!"

Why did it drop again?

What did she say?

She didn't say anything!

At this moment, Xie Danni was practically about to lose it.

"It smells so good! What are you making?"

At this time, another pair of guests who had been caught in the rain returned.

Seeing everyone in the kitchen, Chen Anqi didn't rush upstairs to change her clothes, but came over to say hello first:

"Have you all not had dinner yet? Lu Ge and I haven't eaten either, but we were planning to change our clothes before going out..."

Lu Ming walked in, holding a dry Towel to wipe his rain-soaked hair, and upon seeing Xie Danni, a soft light misted in his eyes: "Danni, you're back too? Have you eaten dinner?"

"Not yet." Seeing Lu Ming, whose Favorability Value she had raised to 90 points, Xie Danni's mood finally improved quite a bit, "Lu Ge, are you and Anqi still going out?"

"I guess we won't go out," Lu Ming said casually, "Let's just make something to eat. What do you want to eat? I'll make it."

As he spoke, he rolled up his shirt sleeves and walked to the refrigerator to pick out ingredients, not even turning back to consult Chen Anqi's opinion.

The joy in Chen Anqi's eyes gradually faded away.

But she still remembered that she and Lu Ming were the dating couple for today, so she said: "Lu Ge, your clothes are still wet, go upstairs and change first, don't catch a cold."

Xie Danni felt displeased, with the sensation that the food in her own bowl was being eyed by someone else who wanted to snatch it away.

She spoke before Lu Ming could open his mouth: "Lu Ge, you got soaked too? Then go change quickly. Chenglei and I were also soaked quite badly; this rain came so suddenly, we didn't think to bring umbrellas before heading out."

Lu Ming smiled gently at her: "Then I'll go change first and come down to cook in a while. If you're hungry, find something to eat first."

"Okay."

After Lu Ming went upstairs, Xie Danni tossed her long hair, faintly carrying a sense of victory from having regained the upper hand, and cast a triumphant glance at Chen Anqi.