You successfully caught my attention

Like a domineering CEO encountering the unusual heroine in a romance novel, Su Tangtang decided he was special because she couldn't find any information on him.

Man, you've successfully caught my attention!

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When Gu Yeting's gaze met hers, his hand abruptly froze in the middle of wiping his face with a towel. Then he discreetly looked away.

Fortunately, his face was already red from exercising, concealing his pink ears. No one should have noticed his discomfort.

But because he was looking elsewhere, not daring to meet anyone's eyes, he also missed the looks Chen Sinian and Qi Zhaoyi were directing back and forth between the two of them.

Something feels off about those two.

Could it be because of what Su Tangtang said last night?

Chen Sinian greeted Su Tangtang. "Morning."

Su Tangtang withdrew her gaze from Gu Yeting. "Morning."

Qi Zhaoyi greeted her too.

Seeing this, Gu Yeting, whose eyes had been wandering all over the place, also said, "Morning."

Su Tangtang nodded at them and looked around. Spotting He Pijiu, she hurried over. "Director, did you prepare breakfast for us today?"

[You prepared it last time. It'd be rude not to this time!]

He Pijiu: "..."

Ignoring her thoughts, he replied, "No."

That day had been an exception. He hadn't even been there. Who could have known that the assistant director would prepare breakfast for them just so he could get home sooner to kiss his wife?

As a rule, breakfast wasn't provided.

Su Tangtang smiled brightly. "Okay, I'll cook something myself."

Inside, she thought: [MMP, you're just targeting me, aren't you? When I ask, there's nothing. When I don't, there is. What the hell? I curse him to have no toilet paper when he takes a shit!]

[Oh? That was the second time he ran out?! Who did it? Well done!!!]

The three men, who had reached the stairs and were about to head up for showers, stopped in perfect unison.

They didn't turn around, but their ears slowly pricked up.

That subject made He Pijiu furious!

One second, he'd clearly seen the cleaner put a fresh pack of tissues inside. The next, when he'd gone in, it was gone!

He wanted to know who had done it too!

[Huh? The assistant director???]

He Pijiu: "?!!"

Who did you say?!!

[Hahahahaha, I'm dying! After the assistant director punched Beer twice in front of everyone last week and made him lose face, Beer kept finding fault with him. Just because the assistant director wanted to hurry home to kiss his wife and went off-script, taking it upon himself to prepare breakfast for the guests, Beer subjected him to a full hour of criticism!]

[The assistant director is totally lovesick. You can criticize him, but not his wife. One remark about how "women only slow down our sword draw" made him secretly hold a grudge against Beer. But he's only the assistant, so he can't openly take on Beer, the actual director. Whenever Beer tells him to keep an eye on things while he goes for a number two, he sneaks off first...]

[Hahahahaha, these two Crouching Dragons and Young Phoenixes! It's a miracle this dating reality show can become a hit with them in charge!]

He Pijiu: "...!"

You can call me childish or petty, but questioning my ability? No, I won't stand for that!

I've made a billion at the box office, after all!

But Su Tangtang had no interest in his achievements. She had already run off to the kitchen to cook breakfast.

The three men at the foot of the stairs started moving again.

[Qiao Yufan's seventy-two-year-old teacher went to the Police Station to bail out his son?]

That was what An Ruzhi and Xu Yuntong heard as they came downstairs.

They followed the voice toward the kitchen and found Su Tangtang leaning against the wall, her eyes fixed on the water in the pot.

"Tangtang, what are you cooking?"

"Noodles." Just then, the water boiled, and Su Tangtang lifted the lid. "Want some? I was just about to put them in."

"Sure." The two women went over to help.

Once the noodles were ready and brought to the dining table, An Ruzhi sat down opposite her.

The perfect front-row seat for gossip!

She even saved the seat beside her for Xu Yuntong, waving for her to hurry over.

Xu Yuntong smiled as she carried her noodles over too.

Su Tangtang barely paid them any attention. She was still thinking about what she'd just discovered: [Huh? Everything Liu Fangbo did was because he was impotent?]

As those words fell, more people came downstairs.

An Ruzhi told them, "There's more in the kitchen."

They headed inside while listening to Su Tangtang.

[And his own dad was the one who kicked him into impotence? Liu Fangbo used to be hooked on betting on soccer and racked up a lot of loan-shark debt. When the debt collectors came to their house, Professor Liu was so furious that he crippled him with one kick.]

[But it wasn't deliberate. He misjudged the angle and force. He regretted it afterward, too. The younger generation of the Liu family hadn't produced a single boy yet. Liu Fangbo's wife had given birth three times, all daughters.]

[Afraid he'd have no face to meet his ancestors when he died, Professor Liu decided to shamelessly do it himself. And he actually fathered a son... That's fucking absurd! The father's already seventy-two, and his son's only eight...]

[Seeing that his own father could still have children while he couldn't, Liu Fangbo became psychologically twisted and started getting pleasure from imprisoning and torturing people...]

She couldn't stomach any more of this gossip. It was ruining her appetite.

But there was one important point she had to check: [He won't actually manage to get Liu Fangbo out, will he?]

[Oh? Someone sent word to the Police Station that he wasn't to be released. The He Family... Beer?!!]

Hey!

Right here!

His face wreathed in smiles, He Pijiu waited for her praise.

Su Tangtang: [Didn't expect this Crouching Dragon to have that much sense. He actually gave them advance notice. Hmm, he's barely got thirty percent of my old flair.]

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He Pijiu: "..."

So what exactly was I expecting?

Although no one knew when the director had acquired the nickname Crouching Dragon, that didn't stop them from laughing.

None of them had missed his spectacular expressions. In Su Tangtang's words, his face changed faster than Xu Guanghao went limp.

Xu Guanghao: "?"

Why do I suddenly feel a chill?

[Whoa! Thanks to Beer's intervention, Liu Fangbo ends up sentenced to fifteen years!!!]

[Ye Wenxuan takes a leave from school and goes home to help her mother sell breakfast. She becomes lively again. Looks like she gets through this ordeal.]

[When I checked her future before, it was awful. This incident hurt her badly, and afterward, she was too afraid to tell anyone. She kept everything bottled up until she became depressed. At just twenty, she swallowed a huge number of sleeping pills. By the time someone found her and took her to the hospital, it was already too late.]

Everyone was shocked to hear what her original fate would have been, then breathed a sigh of relief. Thankfully, she had now been "saved."

Fifteen years was too lenient for that scumbag!

After breakfast, it was time to head out on their dates.

Apart from Su Tangtang, Chen Sinian, and the three new guests, no one knew where their dates would be.

Only after they got into the cars did the drivers take them straight to the addresses the director had provided.

When Su Tangtang arrived at her date location, the Shooting Range, Chen Sinian was already there.

[Which of you picked this place for a date? What can you even do at a shooting range?]

[Girl, you just don't get it. There's plenty you can do at a shooting range. Hands-on instruction, with your back pressed against his chest /snicker/]

[So Su Tangtang picked it, then?]

[Guys, go check the other stream! I can't with these two sneaky little devils, Chen Sinian and Su Tangtang. They put Xue Ruyin, An Ruzhi, and the other three all in the Private Cinema. Now the five of them are just staring at one another in there /facepalm/]