"Who the hell said the title was Eating Beef?!"
"So Su Shi was half-English or something? He could even say 'beef'?"
"Why don't you say Su Shi loved sushi? His name is literally sushi!"
"And don't you think mixing Chinese and English when talking is really low? I despise people who put on that kind of act!"
When it came to food, even Zhou Baowei, who was usually extremely steady and composed, couldn't hold back from ranting nonstop:
"Dramatization isn't nonsense, adaptation isn't butchering! Apologize to Su Shi, apologize to Chibi, apologize to beef!"
"Burning Chibi" was already a tragedy. Zhou Baowei thought "Chibi" was so pitiful—she would scream in pain, and if she was lucky, she'd turn into a white tiger. If she was unlucky, she might never be able to have children for the rest of her life. Yet these two were still joking about it. They had no empathy at all.
Bai Bufan ignored Zhou Baowei's ranting attack and parried with, "So, are you eating beef or not?"
Zhou Baowei answered instantly, "Eating it."
One thing was one thing. Chibi being pitiful was one thing, but it couldn't stop him from eating beef.
"So you'd still instantly Chibi, huh?" Having received the entirely predictable answer, Bai Bufan smiled at Lin Li. "I'm telling you, Baowei is just like this. He'll never become Homelander in this lifetime, and he can't believe in Taoism either."
The "I don't eat beef" Homelander meme came from a drama starring Louis Koo. He played a warlord who went to a noodle shop and ordered a bowl of beef noodles. Then he made a bet with the noodle shop owner's cousin, saying that if there were scallions in the noodles, he would kill them all.
In the end, the owner hadn't added scallions.