Your mom is my descendant!!

Except for Jiang Yunli and Ji Nanxian.

Everyone seemed ready to bite everyone else's head off.

But this was their first meal together since arriving at the livestream villa.

They didn't know each other very well.

No one started a fight.

Everyone wore a cold expression and said nothing.

The atmosphere was utterly chilly.

The only sound in the entire room was the clink of cutlery.

Even the live comments were flooded with complaints about how boring it was.

The livestream's popularity plummeted.

The director was just thinking about how to liven things up.

Then Shen Yunzhi suddenly burst into song in the middle of the table.

"Your mom is my descendant!!"

The director: "..."

The guests: "..."

The audience: "..."

An Zhizhi couldn't help herself. "Isn't it 'Dense and tangled is my pride'?"

Shen Yunzhi fell silent for a moment and sat down.

"Oops, sorry. I'm used to mishearing lyrics. I'll sing it again."

Seeing Shen Yunzhi actually start clearing her throat, An Zhizhi hurriedly said, "No need!" to save her ears.

[Girl, has your throat been marinated?]

[We're all on the same side. Don't go firing off your voice.]

[Those two howls from Shen Yunzhi made me think my dog had learned to talk.]

[Teacher Shen, ignore all that criticism. You're a brave girl. Remember, your singing really does sound awful.]

Chi Zong murmured what everyone was thinking. "I get the feeling that with Shen Yunzhi's mental state, if she developed a mental illness in her old age, we might not notice."

Xiao Yao: "Wouldn't it be hard to tell even now?"

"..."

"..."

Ji Nanxian couldn't take it anymore. "What the hell is wrong with you?"

Shen Yunzhi wasn't the least bit embarrassed. She even looked perfectly righteous. "I'm livening things up. Couldn't you tell? Didn't I sound good?"

Xiao Yao: "Somewhere between good and bad."

Shen Yunzhi: "?"

Xiao Yao: "Good and awful."

Shen Yunzhi: "?"

Chi Zong: "It wasn't that bad. You captured the bewilderment of a welfare recipient, the sorrow of a widow, the loneliness of a bachelor, the grievances and despair of a married woman, and the melancholy of a retired official. The first listen breaks your heart; the second scatters your soul."

Shen Yunzhi: "..."

The audience was already laughing uncontrollably.

[I almost forgot this was a variety show full of All Villains. Following any other show's script, Xiao Yao and Chi Zong would've comforted her.]

[I'm so grateful for Shen Yunzhi's singing. I had a migraine before, but that's fixed now. My whole head hurts.]

[I won't let you talk about our Teacher Shen like that!!]

[...]

[Wait, does Shen Yunzhi actually have fans now?]

Yes.

She really did.

Quite a few casual viewers didn't know that Shen Yunzhi's Super Topic had been set up by Jiang-Yunli and Ji-Nanxian CP haters to disgust the ship's fans.

Yet Shen Yunzhi's performance on the show so far really had been winning people over.

She could dish out insults, and she threw hands when she got the short end of the stick.

She'd even beaten up Xiao Yao, which countless people found especially satisfying.

Although people kept saying she liked Ji Nanxian, when she finally faced him, she hadn't shown any tendency to fawn over him.

Instead, she'd thoroughly infuriated Ji Nanxian.

It was hard not to become a fan.

So they started following Shen Yunzhi's Super Topic, as well as her Weibo account.

[Quietly following Shen Yunzhi. Sooner or later, I'll be a woman with great jokes too!]

[This girl's mental state really is on another level.]

[I vehemently oppose Teacher Shen retiring from the literary world!!!]

[Now that's a satisfying fight!]

[To be fair, Teacher Shen really is beautiful.]

[You're right. Teacher Shen, I can be your dog (lick, lick, lick). Stop fawning over Ji Nanxian. Teacher Shen, I can be your dog (lick, lick, lick). Stop fawning over Ji Nanxian. Teacher Shen, I can be your dog (lick, lick, lick). Stop fawning over Ji Nanxian.]

[? Bro, seriously?]

[?]

[??]

Shen Yunzhi's haters couldn't stand it anymore and struck first.

[Get some better taste. You can actually become fans of someone like her?]

[What Shen Yunzhi just said was obviously all for show.]

The perspective on Shen Yunzhi was as follows-

They figured Shen Yunzhi had even been willing to howl in a nightclub's private room until midnight just to find Ji Nanxian.

With that kind of perseverance, did anyone seriously believe that catching Ji Nanxian cheating with Jiang Yunli had actually made Shen Yunzhi give up on him?

Surely not. Surely not.

Shen Yunzhi's haters had plenty of receipts on her.

There were countless examples of Shen Yunzhi fawning over him, and Ji Nanxian had publicly humiliated her many times.

Yet Shen Yunzhi had kept fawning over him all these years without stopping.

Shen Yunzhi in the show saying a few harsh words hardly made her look like she'd truly given up.

Besides, she'd said at the end that she wouldn't take the initiative to break off the engagement.

Didn't that count as proof?

The people who had just become Shen Yunzhi's fans found their arguments baffling.

[Breaking off the engagement shouldn't fall on Shen Yunzhi, a girl, in the first place.]

[Exactly. Ji Nanxian's a grown man. If he's got any backbone, he should do it himself. Shen Yunzhi is single anyway. She's in no hurry.]

[Ji Nanxian talks a good game, telling Jiang Yunli to trust him, but it's been five years and he still hasn't given her an official status. What a joke.]

[Shen Yunzhi exposed it at her own Birthday Banquet. To me, that proves she'd given up on him.]

[Normally, Shen Yunzhi would've swallowed the humiliation, never mind bringing people to catch him cheating and exposing it.]

No matter what they said.

Shen Yunzhi's haters simply wouldn't listen.

In reality, they just couldn't stand seeing someone they'd hated for so many years suddenly turn into someone people defended.

Whatever Shen Yunzhi did, they thought she was only trying to attract Ji Nanxian's attention.

Once Ji Nanxian cooled down, she'd go scampering back to fawn over him again.

Shen Fans stopped trying to reason with them too.

[I'll be her fan if I want, I'll be her fan if I want. Lüelüelüe. Stay mad, stay mad.]

[You can't get anything through to these people, good or bad. We'll just have to carve it on their gravestones later.]

[If you have any complaints about Teacher Shen, feel free to share them. I'll report every last one of you in a minute. How dare you have complaints about my goddess.]

In the livestream.

Shen Yunzhi hadn't livened up the atmosphere at all.

It was even quieter than before.

Everyone was terrified someone would get her started and make Shen Yunzhi sing again.

They finished eating in silence.

Who would wash the dishes was a difficult question.

The director had finally talked the housekeeper An Zhizhi had brought into leaving.

From then on, all the chores in the livestream villa, including cooking, had to be divided among the guests themselves.

These guests all came from privileged backgrounds, so naturally, none of them wanted to wash the dishes.

Jiang Yunli did want to.

But Shen Yunzhi spoke first.

"How about this? I'll stir-fry a plate of shredded potatoes and ginger. Whoever eats the ginger washes the dishes."

Everyone thought Shen Yunzhi's idea was good and readily agreed.

But Shen Yunzhi didn't put any potatoes in the dish.

It was all shredded ginger.