You two, get out

[Xie Dog, get lost. Don't you dare bully Yueyue.]

[Get Xie Dog off the show.]

[Xie Dog, are you even a man? What can you do besides bully a defenseless woman like Yueyue?]

[Xie Dog, I ￥％+％#＊@]

[What's wrong with your production team? Don't you use your brains when picking guests? How could you let a bully like this on the show?]

[Listen up, production team. As long as Xie Dog is around, I'll be in this livestream cursing him out every single day.]

Many viewers couldn't help frowning at the screen full of filthy abuse.

[They say fans take after their idols. Looks like this Su isn't much good either.]

[Seriously, you brain-dead fans. Do you have no brains at all?]

[Can you really not tell Su is a fake innocent? If she swam a lap in West Lake, the whole lake would reek of her sickly-sweet act.]

[She went flirting with him like a shameless hussy. She deserved to get told off.]

[Poor Young Master Xie. He was quietly eating his snacks, and then this two-faced little faker latched onto him.]

[Hahahahaha, whoever called her a two-faced little faker, that's the perfect description.]

At the filming location.

Su Wanyue and Gu Yanzhou stiffened, clearly also remembering their earlier experience of being hit.

After watching the drama unfold, Teacher He, Tan Yaya, and the others fell silent.

A perfectly good show had been successfully derailed by a single remark from Su Wanyue.

Xie Yuan turned around. "Mu Ze, I'm hungry."

Mu Ze stood up. "The last dish will be ready in a moment."

Mu Ze entered the villa and went to the kitchen.

Only then did Teacher He continue, "Teacher Su and President Gu, please buy your ingredients first."

The staff brought out all the ingredients.

Eggplants, leafy greens, carrots, green beans, tomatoes, eggs, potatoes, two one-jin pieces of pork belly, and two small grass carp.

Rather than plentiful, the ingredients could only be called pitifully scarce. More importantly, the prices marked on them made the guests frown.

"Ten yuan a jin for potatoes, twenty for eggplants, and fifty for pork belly!"

"Is your production team robbing us?" Looking at the exorbitant vegetable prices, Liu Yan spoke so loudly that her voice nearly cracked.

Beside her, Wang Zihua frowned and shifted away in distaste.

The other guests didn't look too pleased either, but none said so outright.

Only after speaking did Liu Yan collect herself and realize she had overreacted. "Even organic vegetables at the supermarket aren't this ridiculously expensive."

Su Wanyue nodded in agreement. "These prices really aren't very reasonable."

Thinking of the money she had earned that day, Su Wanyue's gaze flickered.

Teacher He explained, "These vegetables are admittedly a little expensive, but don't be fooled by their ordinary appearance. The production team bought them all in the countryside."

"They weren't sprayed with pesticides or excessively fertilized. They're genuine farm-grown vegetables."

"Besides the purchase price, there's also the production team's travel expenses for collecting them."

"Over a hundred kilometers, plus the preservation process. Naturally, they're a little more expensive."

The livestream chat was in an uproar too.

[Seriously, is your production team that short of money? The price of these greens would cover a regular meal out.]

[That's ridiculous. Are these really ordinary vegetables?]

[Even if they're farm-grown, they're still way too expensive.]

[Is the production team taking advantage of the guests never having bought vegetables at a market?]

[Sure, people rolling in money don't care about spending this much on groceries. But plenty of people come from ordinary families. These usually cost two or three yuan a jin at the market. How many times have you marked them up?]

[Come to think of it, only Su Wanyue and Liu Yan come from ordinary families here. The others don't seem short of money.]

[Did you forget the non-celebrity? The way he shopped at the supermarket earlier didn't look like someone from a well-off family at all.]

[I noticed that too. The way he picked vegetables could rival the women in their fifties and sixties in our neighborhood. Such a sharp eye.]

[My grandma just saw Mu Ze buying vegetables and said he was even more professional than she was. This non-celebrity looks like he does this sort of thing often.]

[We're talking about vegetable prices. Stay on topic.]

In the Livestream Backstage, quite a few staff members glanced at Director Ma.

The vegetable prices really were a little outrageous. They certainly wouldn't let themselves get fleeced like that.

The assistant director spoke up beside him. "Director Ma, a lot of the comments are saying the vegetable prices are unreasonable. Should we lower them a little?"

"No need. People complaining means more buzz." Director Ma remained perfectly unruffled. "I had someone do the math. These pairs of guests earned quite a bit in half a day. They can afford this much."

That was true. The pairs of guests all had a certain number of fans, and quite a few had come to support them and given them some money in tips.

The only pair without much of a fanbase was Xie Yuan and Mu Ze.

But thanks to Mu Ze selling snacks, those two had earned the most.

After a brief silence at the scene, they still went up to choose ingredients in order of their rankings.

After discussing it for a while, Su Wanyue and Gu Yanzhou chose potatoes, eggs, and tomatoes.

They had left early, so not many fans had come to support them, and naturally, they hadn't made much money.

The sight once again left Su Wanyue's fans in the livestream aching for her.

[Boo-hoo, our Yueyue is so pitiful.]

[It's all vegetarian. She can't even afford meat.]

[Why didn't anyone give Yueyue money? Those people who went to watch her sing and dance are awful.]

[Boo-hoo-hoo, if I'd known, I would've skipped class today to go support Yueyue.]

[It's all Xie Dog's fault. Otherwise, Yueyue and President Gu wouldn't have gone back to the villa so early.]

Those remarks made many people in the livestream uncomfortable.

[Are you Su fans sick in the head? It's their own money. How is it wrong not to give it away? If you're so generous, why don't you take all your money and donate it to people in need?]

[Ha. Your heads must be full of shit. Keep dreaming.]

[What does this have to do with Young Master Xie? It's not like he pulled her dress off.]

[Don't. Young Master Xie would never stoop to something that tasteless. Don't insult him.]

[Were we talking about you? Why are you jumping in like this? Are you paid trolls hired by Xie Dog?]

[You're the ones with something wrong with your brains. Yueyue is so kind. What's wrong with giving her a little tip?]

Since this was the main livestream, it wasn't full of only Su Wanyue's fans. There were also plenty of casual viewers and fans of the other guests, and an argument immediately broke out in the chat.

Director Ma looked at the foul mess of comments. "Mute all those accounts hurling abuse."

Controversy naturally brought attention, but comments that went too far would still ruin the livestream's reputation among casual viewers.

Only after quite a few accounts posting obscenities were muted did the livestream quiet down a little.

Xie Yuan and Mu Ze were the next pair. Since Mu Ze had bought ingredients himself, they didn't choose anything.

The remaining two pairs had quite a bit of money and bought both pieces of pork belly.

With the ingredients sorted, it was time to cook.

Teacher He could finally rest for a while, and he quietly slipped away.

Su Wanyue and Gu Yanzhou took their ingredients to the kitchen.

Inside, they saw Xie Yuan and Mu Ze.

Xie Yuan had gone into the kitchen alone while Su Wanyue and the others were choosing ingredients.

Now he was holding a piece of fish between his chopsticks, tasting it.

Noticing the two enter, he didn't spare them so much as a glance.

As the fish entered his mouth, Xie Yuan's eyes brightened a little. "Delicious."

Mu Ze's gaze softened. "As long as you like it."

The way the two seemed completely oblivious left Su Wanyue feeling a little awkward.

Xie Yuan's earlier warning still rang in her ears, and she was a little afraid to approach.

Gu Yanzhou had no such concerns. He said loudly, "It's our turn to use the kitchen now. You two, get out."