Red umbrellas with white handles, lying down together after a meal (1 / 2)

The last message was so bizarre that Fang Zhou spent a long night behind drawn curtains, heart pounding, trying to figure out who sent it.

What their purpose was, remained a mystery.

He was so alert in the early night that he slept like a log in the latter half.

He didn’t wake up in time for breakfast and it wasn’t until almost 11 a.m. that Liu Hao came knocking on his door, rousing Fang Zhou from sleep.

“Awake? Everyone thought you were sick.”

Liu Hao observed Fang Zhou with concern, worried he might have caught a cold from the sea breeze.

Fang Zhou shook his head, thanked him, and went to freshen up.

Rubbing his head, Liu Hao went downstairs where several pairs of eyes turned to him, seemingly inquiring about Fang Zhou’s condition.

“He’s fine, said he stayed up late playing games, he’ll be down soon.”

After Liu Hao explained, the female guests shifted their attention away.

Qi Le joked, “True to being a game streamer, even records the show while gaming, talk about dedication.”

His comment didn’t catch any of the ladies’ favor; they all looked away, busy with their tasks.

It was a task set by the production team, requiring them to each make a Kongming lantern for use in the next episode when choosing a date.

Despite wanting to complain about such an arrangement, everyone complied.

Maybe one could choose the lantern they made and release it with the guest they admired?

Wouldn’t that be romantic?

When Fang Zhou came down, except for Han Xi and Dong Donghui, who were cooking that day and not in the hall, everyone else was present.

Several had already finished and were taking photos with their lanterns.

Fang Zhou sat on the sofa, clueless about where to start with the tools on the table.

Chu Xinran, who had finished hers, came over to teach him.

“Let me show you, it’s quite simple.”

Their interaction was noted by others, each with a different expression.

Sun Haotian, aiming for Chu Xinran’s attention, naturally didn’t want to see her teaching Fang Zhou, so he joined in the fun.

“Hey, bro, I can teach you too, come on, let’s start with shaving this bamboo strip.”

The three of them squeezed onto a sofa, a sight that made the other guests wince, so they busied themselves with their own tasks.

The live stream audience was calling it thrilling.

“Exactly, exactly, the campus belle does like Fang Zhou, I told you! She chose him on the first day!”

“Indeed, it’s the crying child who gets the candy. Fang Zhou had no clue, and now a sweet girl has taken the initiative to teach him. Poor Sun Haotian, bravely chasing love, only to be spurned.”

“I’m dying of laughter, as expected, the most common thing in love variety shows is a love triangle.

I just love watching these plots where you love her, and she loves someone else! Why can’t I have what I love, but you two get to have a happy ending? Cry, all of you!”

In the kitchen, Han Xi and Dong Donghui, both of whom had never soiled their hands with mundane tasks, were paired up to cook.

Han Xi had been taught how to cook by Chu Xinran before, and she managed to complete that task smoothly.

But then, the two of them, looking at the pile of ingredients in the kitchen corner and the refrigerator, started to feel a headache coming on.

“Where do we even start?”

Dong Donghui rolled up his sleeves, ready to handle a piece of pork. He pointed to the vegetables and said, “Why don’t you wash the greens? Later, we can make a soup.”

“I’ll take care of the meat dishes; you try your hand at the vegetarian ones. If it doesn’t work out, leave it to me.”

At the critical moment, Dong Donghui knew he couldn’t rely on Han Xi.

He guessed she had been in the kitchen fewer times than himself.

Besides, as a man, he couldn’t possibly rely on the female guest he admired to cook. Otherwise, his favorability would plummet.

55 Red umbrella, white handle, after eating, we’ll all lie down together (2 / 2)

Han Xi responded and indeed bent down to handle the greens.

The Shanghai bok choy and cabbage were very clean, washed twice and then set aside for use.

However, the small bag of red mushrooms in the corner, with dirt still clinging to their roots and bits of debris on their caps, was quite troublesome to clean.

But after they were cleaned, they were quite pleasing, and Han Xi decided to make a three-fresh soup.

When she lit the fire and put the vegetables in, the audience in the live broadcast finally noticed something was amiss.

“Red umbrella, white handle, after eating, we’ll all lie down together, isn’t this poisonous mushrooms?”

“It shouldn’t be, there’s a type of red mushroom that’s edible, and it tastes very fresh and delicious. Besides, the production team wouldn’t put poisonous mushrooms in the kitchen, they might as well not continue the show!”

“Wait, the color of this mushroom doesn’t look quite right? It seems different from the edible red mushrooms!”

“This seems to be the wild vegetables they picked yesterday!”

“Disaster! Quick, contact the production team!”

However, by the time the audience contacted the production team, and the production team went to the villa to find the guests, it was too late.

Adhering to the principle of drinking soup while it’s hot, Han Xi, after cooking the soup, unusually didn’t have a cold face and called Fang Zhou to help taste it.

Dong Donghui, who was also in the kitchen but ignored, silently added a handful of salt to the dish.

Damn it! Why didn’t she call me! I’m so angry!

Fang Zhou held the small bowl of three-fresh soup in his hands, slowly took a few sips, and nodded under Han Xi’s expectant gaze.

“The taste is great, you have a talent for cooking!”

The usually stoic Han Xi, upon receiving Fang Zhou’s affirmation, quietly blushed.

In her heart, she thought: If that’s the case, I can occasionally cook for you.

To encourage her, Fang Zhou even finished the entire bowl.

Within the next ten minutes, the effect was immediate.

The live stream audience witnessed a shocking scene.

Fang Zhou first pulled Dong Donghui into the kitchen to dance feverishly, one holding a spatula, the other a pot lid.

“QUEENKARD!”

“Look what you make me do!”

Dong Donghui was clueless but played along in front of the camera.

Until Fang Zhou pulled him into a dance called “Subject Three,” muttering, “Don’t love me to no avail, unless you’ve swayed past me with your hands!”

Dong Donghui thought he had gone mad and quickly gestured with his hands.

“I really can’t do this one, find someone else.”

Then, under the stunned gazes of Han Xi and Dong Donghui, Fang Zhou picked up a carrot and sang “The Lone Brave.”

“Loving you, I walk alone through dark alleys…”

Singing off-key, he didn’t care about the audience’s fate, just belting out with all his might.

Even at the end, he hugged Sun Haotian, touching his hand and saying, “Bro, you smell so good!”

Everyone on the scene was shocked, by Mace!

The audience was astonished.

“Help, so this is what it’s like to eat poisonous mushrooms! Today we’ve truly seen all sorts of demons and monsters!”

“I’m dying of laughter, someone pull away this madman Fang Zhou!”

“Good thing it was just a sip of soup, any more and he’d probably be laid out flat.”

The production crew felt a pang of dread, wailing internally: It’s over, fame brings trouble as growth does to pigs, now the show might go viral in an entirely different way.

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