The guests were led in pairs to separate simulated living areas to begin the day's task.
All three groups would simulate married couples encountering different relatives after marriage.
They had to face their relatives' finger-pointing, pressure to have children, and other problems, all while keeping their emotions stable.
At this point in the simulation, Su Mian had to get up early for work.
Su Mian walked into the living room.
Her mother-in-law sat on the sofa, watching her with a stern face. "Getting up this late, you won't even have time to cook for Yichen. Do you want him going to work on an empty stomach?"
Almost without thinking, Su Mian rattled off, "If your pension were enough to cover your expenses, would I have to work myself to death every day? Couldn't I just stay home and look after your paralyzed son? Go find yourself a job."
Her mother-in-law froze. "Since when was my son paralyzed?"
Su Mian said, "Oh, then why doesn't he cook?"
"..." Her mother-in-law turned red with rage.
Just then, her husband's older sister came out too... Who knew why the production team had arranged for the couple to live with his older sister?
Her sister-in-law clasped her hands behind her back, the corners of her mouth drooping as she looked Su Mian up and down with contempt.
Seeing Su Mian's fitted blazer and JK miniskirt, her gaze grew even more disdainful. "Dressing like that for work? Who knows who you're trying to seduce."
Su Mian said, "Your dad. That way, you'll have a mom."
Her sister-in-law's eyes widened. "You... you..."
Su Mian said, "So happy to have a mom that you can't even speak?"
Her sister-in-law turned red with rage.
Then her sister-in-law's husband came out too.
Su Mian: "..."
All she could say was that the production team had quite the budget, hiring so many extras.
Her brother-in-law said, "Why don't you quit your job? At your age, it's time to have a child. If you wait any longer, you'll be too old."
Su Mian said, "Oh, I'm waiting for you to reincarnate."
Her brother-in-law turned red with rage.
Her mother-in-law had already regained her composure and rejoined the battle. "When I was your age, I'd already had three children!"
Su Mian abruptly turned her gaze on Gu Yichen, who had remained silent beside her, and scrutinized him from head to toe.
"And this is what you gave birth to? Tsk. You'd have been better off not having any and just raising a dog."
[Ahahaha, Sister Mian's combat power has my approval!]
[Holy crap, the relatives the production team found are so typical! Mine are basically all like this. I work too, but those relatives still demand I have three kids and wait on my husband hand and foot. If I dress up even a little, they call me loose!]
[Sister Mian, keep going. I'm studying this frame by frame!]
Gu Yichen's expression didn't change. He merely clenched his fists in secret.
His Disgust Points didn't rise either.
Su Mian narrowed her eyes. It seemed he was more emotionally stable than Lin Xi.
Just as her father-in-law, mother-in-law, sister-in-law, and brother-in-law all ran out of things to say,
Gu Yichen suddenly spoke. "What value does your work have? You'd be better off quitting and staying home to look after the family."
He, too, joined the camp trying to provoke Su Mian, hoping to make her so angry that her heart rate would rise.
Su Mian remained unhurried. "I'm an entertainer. I heal people's hearts. How about I give you all a little performance right now? You'll definitely be healed!"
Gu Yichen gave a faint smile. "Sure. Go ahead."
Su Mian began to rap:
"Smash the plates, throw the chopsticks, love to slap my mother-in-law's face~ Curse my father-in-law, beat my nephew, hubby washes my underpants~ No kids, no cooking for me~ Mess with me and I'll fight you~ Yo~ This is MC Su Mian~"
"My declaration of love is: my husband works, I work him over. The rod makes a filial son, the fist makes a virtuous husband!"
At this point in her performance, she even landed two punches on Gu Yichen, bam, bam!
"Thank you, everyone!"
"..." Gu Yichen's heart rate soared!
He looked at the livestream camera, took a deep breath, and calmed himself down.
[Hahaha, sis, start teaching classes!]
[This song suits me so well. Hurry up and release an album!]
[A mother-in-law isn't your mom. Hit when you should, pinch when you should! Youth has no price tag, kick your father-in-law in the hip!]
[Seriously, sis, you're really here to win the competition, not to fall in love... Look at Goddess Fang next door. She immediately started doing laundry, cooking, and cleaning. Her in-laws are delighted, and Lin Xi looks like he's about to fall in love with her! And you? You're practically coming to blows!]
Su Mian didn't care at all how Gu Yichen looked at her.
She sat down on the sofa, picked up a teacup, and leisurely took a sip.
The tea tasted pretty good.
"Hysteria is a breakdown. Teriahys is delicious."
[Hahaha, help! Even memorizing memes every day can't beat someone born this absurd!]
[You can tell Su Mian's desire for money is really strong! She really wants to win!]
In the end, the extras called an early halt to the task, conceded defeat, and hurried away.
Su Mian waved them goodbye.
That was it? That was it? That was it?
Seeing her act like a dead pig unafraid of boiling water, Gu Yichen finally got so angry that his heart rate shot up to 120!
Their group was the quickest to produce a winner and loser, and Su Mian received the day's living allowance.
Su Mian happily pocketed the money.
But although she'd won the competition, a look at Gu Yichen's Disgust Points showed they hadn't budged at all.
She'd hit him and cursed him, and he had indeed been very angry.
Yet his Disgust Points hadn't gone up?
Maybe she'd left him with a very, very bad first impression yesterday.
So everything she did today had been within his expectations?
He couldn't be any more disappointed?
It seemed farming his points would be much harder than Lin Xi's!
The two of them left the simulated living area.
Passing Lin Xi and Fang Nuonuo's living area, they saw Fang Nuonuo wearing an apron, kneeling on the floor to put Lin Xi's shoes on for him.
As for that behavior, Su Mian couldn't do it herself, so she wouldn't comment.
She just thought that way of doing things was rather Japanese.
It was common in little Japan, but rarely seen in China anymore.
Farther ahead were Duan Xuanyu and Cheng Qin.
Cheng Qin had encountered the same treatment.
Cheng Qin wasn't as defiant as Su Mian, nor as obedient as Fang Nuonuo.
She resented it and didn't want to do it. She'd given her in-laws dirty looks and said a few words in protest...
Then done it angrily.
Just as she picked up the mop, Duan Xuanyu suddenly asked, "Since she is unwilling to do it, why can't we pay someone else to handle these chores?"
This group's father-in-law said, "You marry a wife to do the housework! To show filial devotion to me and your mother on your behalf!"
Duan Xuanyu said, "Someone taught me that men and women are equal in this era. Women can live the lives they want too. If they don't want to do something, they don't have to."
[Ahhh, I never expected the tyrant to be the most responsible of the three men!]
[I'm curious who taught him that. Why does he listen to that person so much?]
[That's how the tyrant was! Even his personality is faithful to the cosplay! Although history books devote loads of space to his brutality, he really was a man who loved his wife. His dad sent him abroad as a hostage prince when he was little. It was his empress, Lady Su, who accompanied him home and helped him conquer the realm. His dad disliked his empress at first, thinking she was rather uncouth. He straight-up usurped the throne and forced his dad to become a retired emperor without any real power. He even wrote a whole bunch of stuff cursing his dad out. The central message was: my wife can do whatever she wants, and you, old geezer, don't get a say.]
[Yes! And historical records say the empress was his only wife! They had the progressive concept of monogamy. Empress Su held power too, and enacted lots of laws benefiting women at the time, protecting women's property and safety within marriage. Sometimes I even wonder if Empress Su was a modern woman who transmigrated into the past!]
[But if he really loved his wife that much, why would he kill the children? Could there be a lot of hidden circumstances in history that no one knows about?]
In the end, apart from Gu Yichen, none of them had been provoked by the domestic trivialities in today's task, and they all received their living allowances.
Su Mian had been having so much fun cursing earlier that she hadn't realized.
Now that she thought about it, this whole thing was far too unfair.
"Isn't this task way too biased toward the male guests? When will the production team give us a task where the wife's parents absolutely destroy their live-in son-in-law? Let us female guests coast to victory too!"
[Exactly! Watching those three livestreams sent my blood pressure through the roof! Sure, it was realistic, but it wasn't fair. The male guests weren't targeted at all!]
[Yes! I support doing a live-in son-in-law version!]
The host said, "Uh... well... the production team will discuss it later."
Su Mian nodded, then suddenly heard a notification: Gu Yichen, Disgust Points: 55.
Huh?
Hitting and cursing him earlier hadn't raised his Disgust Points.
Just mentioning a live-in son-in-law disgusted him?
Could it be...