The wild boar was about to send Lin Xi flying.
Su Mian rolled up her sleeves, ready to jump in.
Lin Xi couldn't die. She hadn't maxed out his Disgust Points yet!
Su Mian lunged forward!
And kicked Lin Xi flying!
Lin Xi fell backward, taking Fang Nuonuo down to the ground behind him.
Su Mian turned around and kicked the boar too!
The boar's head twisted to one side. Seizing the opening, Duan Xuanyu grabbed its head and slammed it hard into the ground!
Thud!
The boar's head struck the ground heavily, and it passed out.
[Aaaah, the emperor-empress ship is so badass I'm numb! Their teamwork is incredible!]
[Sister Mian, are you sure that kick at Lin Xi wasn't you settling a personal grudge in the line of duty? You could've just kicked the boar, but you had to kick him flying first...]
[So nobody cares that Fang Nuonuo falsely accused Sister Mian anymore? Even a little pig could charge out of that crappy trap of hers, and she said Sister Mian stole its use? Sister Mian has already proven with her own strength that she doesn't need a trap at all!]
With her hands on her hips, Su Mian lowered her gaze and gave Fang Nuonuo a lofty glance.
Hands on her hips didn't mean sorry. It meant, girl, you've still got training to do!
Su Mian said, "You've got a notification from QQ Farm."
Fang Nuonuo looked bewildered.
Su Mian said, "Your vegetables are dead. Just like your skills."
Fang Nuonuo: "..."
[A meme from last year feels old, but a meme from twenty years ago just feels familiar.]
[I know this one. It held me when I was little.]
"As for you..." Su Mian looked at Lin Xi again. "I saved you. Asking you for a little money isn't too much, is it?"
Su Mian had already figured it out.
What Lin Xi disliked most about her was her love of money.
So all she had to do from now on was play up that point!
Sure enough! Lin Xi's Disgust Points had reached 90!
He opened his mouth, about to speak.
Fang Nuonuo suddenly spoke up beside him. "Su Mian, how much do you want? He works so hard delivering food. Let me pay you for him."
Lin Xi gave Fang Nuonuo a long look.
Normally, he would definitely have been thinking that Su Mian was a gold digger and Fang Nuonuo was generous.
Su Mian was the type he hated most, while Fang Nuonuo was the type he liked best.
But when danger struck just now, Su Mian had rushed over to save him.
Fang Nuonuo, on the other hand, had pulled him in front of her to shield her from harm.
Although Su Mian's gold-digging face was pretty annoying.
Fang Nuonuo's hypocrisy was simply the most annoying of all!
A person's disgust toward someone often diminished when someone even more disgusting appeared.
Lin Xi's Disgust Points dropped and dropped...
All the way down to 45!
He even told Fang Nuonuo with a look of distaste, "No need! I'll pay her myself! I wouldn't dare owe you a favor. What if you drag me down with you again the next time there's danger?"
Fang Nuonuo's eyes reddened. "I didn't... That's not what happened just now..."
[Lin Xi is so petty! I used to think he and our goddess were the sweetest ship on this show. Who knew he wouldn't even take a hit for a girl!]
[Everyone should protect themselves at a critical moment! Our goddess acted on human instinct. It shows intelligence and quick reflexes! If you think she did anything wrong, just die without resisting when you run into danger!]
[My god, they can even whitewash this... Fang Nuonuo's fans are even more disgusting than she is.]
[Was she resisting? She was hurting someone else!]
"..." Su Mian went numb.
She had finally found the right approach this time, only for one sentence from Fang Nuonuo to wipe out half her results!
She was furious!
Su Mian gave Fang Nuonuo a long look.
Our feud is officially set in stone!
In any case, the wild boar had been caught.
Su Mian had also used her strength to prove her strength.
That afternoon, professional pig slaughterers slaughtered the boar.
Professional chefs then smoked and roasted it for everyone; otherwise, the wild boar's gamey stench would have made it impossible to eat.
Then came the long cooking time.
The guests all gathered around the grill.
Some grilled meat, while others pretended to help.
Some didn't even bother pretending and played on their phones.
Duan Xuanyu was playing on his phone.
Phones were so much fun.
This rectangular brick, flashing with a dazzling array of colors, could display everything under heaven.
At times, however, it was like a soul-stealing demon. Anyone lacking a firm will who used it would sink into it, unable to pull themselves free.
But Duan Xuanyu felt his will was quite firm.
He only wanted to use it to learn of the world's affairs without leaving home.
As he kept looking, he actually spotted Su Mian on the phone!
He tapped on it and found quite a few people speaking ill of her.
Duan Xuanyu was very angry.
But he still didn't know how to reply to comments.
He couldn't even get a phone number without an ID card, so he had no way to register an account and had remained in guest mode.
That meant he couldn't curse them back for Su Mian.
He could only tell her, "Su Mian, quite a few people here are insulting you. Insult them back."
Su Mian leaned over for a look.
[Su Mian is a super-male woman. She's beaten Lin Xi up three times in four days on this show.]
[I'm so sick of Su Mian. Women who are violent gold diggers like her are exactly why I don't want to date!]
Su Mian scoffed. "They're all dad-damned haters."
The host reminded her quietly, "Mianmian, watch your language. We're livestreaming..."
Su Mian said, "It's fine, Sister Xiaohong. I've tried it. Cursing their dads gets past moderation. Besides, I really don't blame the haters who trash me. I only blame their dads. Couldn't they have done something else with those three seconds? Why did they have to spurt them out?"
[Classy. Truly classy!]
[The stream actually hasn't been blocked? Has moderation not caught on yet?!]
Duan Xuanyu considered this for a while, then suddenly said, "I understand."
Su Mian asked, "Understand what?"
Duan Xuanyu said, "There must have been haters among the court historians. The ones spreading rumors that I killed my brothers, ate my children, and massacred cities were all my haters."
[Tyrant Bro just voiced the doubt I've always had. History was recorded by people, and people can never be absolutely impartial. Everyone has their own subjectivity. So is it possible that Tyrant Bro's reputation as a tyrant was false?]
Su Mian held her forehead and gave a wry smile.
Duan Xuanyu was admitting his identity as an emperor more and more openly now.
Oh well. It didn't matter anymore.
Whatever he said, the audience wouldn't believe he was really an emperor anyway.
They all thought he was doing absurdist bits.
Suddenly, a hand reached over from beside her and set a skewer of grilled tenderloin on the plate in front of Su Mian.
Su Mian turned to look.
It was actually Lin Xi.
Lin Xi was taken aback too.
He had been concentrating on grilling the meat and didn't know why he had automatically handed the first finished skewer to Su Mian.
His eyes shifted. "I didn't grill it for you. I just couldn't finish it myself, so I gave you some!"
Su Mian scoffed. "Duan Xuanyu and I caught this boar. You're eating my food and still running that stubborn mouth? When you die, they should cut your mouth off and stick it on a drill for mining."
Lin Xi said, "You..."
Duan Xuanyu put down his phone, picked up the skewer from Su Mian's plate without expression, and tossed it back onto Lin Xi's plate.
Then he picked up some skewers and began grilling them, copying the chef.
"Su Mian, eat what I grill."
[Oh my god! A shura field! I actually got to see a shura field on this dating show!]
[So excited! Until now, this dating show has only had competitive desire, not desire! This is a first!]
Backstage, Lu Zhou lost it yet again.
He had paid for that latest massive wave of Su Mian haters too.
Fang Nuonuo had been getting flamed all over the internet for using that trap of hers to falsely accuse Su Mian.
So Lu Zhou had sacrificed Su Mian for Fang Nuonuo to divert the audience's attention.
But Su Mian was actually this calm after learning people were trashing her online?
When had she developed such a strong inner core?
In the past, even a single insult would send her home crying. She would cry so much that even he found it annoying.
And then there were Duan Xuanyu, Lin Xi, and even Gu Yichen.
They were all supposed to hate her.
Why were they all so friendly toward her now?
Especially that Duan Xuanyu!
Just as Lu Zhou grew so angry he was about to smash his phone again, it suddenly rang.
It was the person he had sent to investigate Duan Xuanyu.
He answered immediately.
"Mr. Lu, you asked me to investigate Duan Xuanyu's identity. I've found it!"
"He really isn't the heir to the Duan Family we were looking for before!"