Fang Nuonuo set the dishes on the table.
None of the dishes looked particularly appetizing.
Cold cucumber salad, cold green bean salad, cold tomato salad...
Steamed steak, steamed fish, boiled chicken breast...
They had all been made to Fang Nuonuo's own tastes.
She was planning to enter the entertainment industry, so she paid close attention to managing her figure.
Nobody looked particularly excited.
But considering how hard she had worked, they still praised her for being clever and handy and so on.
Fang Nuonuo smiled gently. "It was nothing. I cook at home all the time. Come on, everyone, try some."
Cheng Qin was the first to pick up her chopsticks, thinking that perhaps it wouldn't taste as bland as it looked.
She picked up a piece of beef.
Sure enough, it was still terribly bland! It had no flavor whatsoever!
The other guests felt the same.
Su Mian picked some up, sniffed it, and put it on her plate without eating it.
As for Duan Xuanyu...
He opened his scallop shell, took one look, and closed it again.
[Tyrant Bro, could you please take off that damn scallop shell...]
[How can they act like this? Our goddess worked so hard making all this food, and none of the others even helped. Even if you don't like it, you should respect the fruits of someone else's labor! These guests have no conscience!]
[Okay, but the agreed rule was that those with money would contribute money, and those without would contribute labor. If you pay to eat at a restaurant, do you have to eat food you dislike just to be polite?]
Watching this, Su Mian realized that at this rate, wouldn't she be unable to verify whether there was anything wrong with Fang Nuonuo's 4G beans?
So she picked up a 4G bean and put it in her mouth.
Suddenly, her eyes lit up.
"Wow!"
She clapped her hands and gave a thumbs-up!
Although she hadn't directly praised anything...
The delighted surprise was already written all over her face.
It made all the other guests feel that these 4G beans must be delicious.
The other guests didn't want to go hungry, either.
So they all tried some.
Duan Xuanyu hadn't wanted to eat any, but he felt that if Su Mian said they were good, they must be good.
So he opened his scallop shell, picked one up, and started eating.
Quick-eyed and quick-handed, Su Mian reached straight into his mouth, snatched the bean out, then smacked him on the head!
After that smack, everyone present was stunned.
The viewers were stunned, too.
Even Su Mian herself was stunned.
After a long while, Su Mian turned toward the camera and slowly explained, "If I said I accidentally mistook him for my little Shiba Inu at home, and that's why I did that, would you believe me...?"
[I would... When my puppy eats random stuff, I follow exactly the same procedure. Reach straight into its mouth, yank it out, then give it a smack...]
[How did Tyrant Bro and Teacher Su end up with a dog-and-owner relationship?]
[Is this what they call a puppy-type boyfriend?]
Duan Xuanyu silently watched Su Mian for a long time.
Fang Nuonuo thought this was a good opportunity and opened her mouth to comfort him.
But before she could say a single word, Duan Xuanyu silently closed his shell again.
Su Mian: "..."
This time, she really hadn't hit him on purpose.
She hadn't been lying just now, either. For a moment, she really had seen Duan Xuanyu as her puppy.
Had that one smack given him depression...?
Inside the shell, however, the corners of Duan Xuanyu's lips secretly curled up.
He understood. There must be poison in those beans. That was why Su Mian had treated him that way.
Su Mian had only saved him, not the other two male guests.
The extent of Su Mian's concern for him had been fully revealed.
Honestly, Su Mian.
She had come on a dating show to get things done, so she ought to keep up the act properly. Yet she still couldn't suppress her feelings for him.
At this rate, wouldn't everyone soon find out about their secret relationship?
Outside the shell.
Although the atmosphere was awkward, the meal still had to continue.
The other guests went on eating.
Although the texture of the 4G beans was still off, at least they tasted a little salty, so everyone ate plenty.
After eating, they even showered them with praise.
After all, they had to respect the fruits of someone else's labor.
The marketing for Fang Nuonuo's beautiful-chef image also began rolling out in rapid succession.
[Another shining moment for our goddess! Beautiful, kindhearted, and she can cook. She simply has no flaws!]
[Watching our goddess cook is such a treat!]
[Being this talented is going to kill us! This must be exactly the kind of woman CEO Lin wants, right?]
Half an hour later.
The guests who had eaten all began vomiting and having diarrhea.
Except for Su Mian.
Because while nobody was paying attention, Su Mian had secretly spat out that mouthful of 4G beans.
Duan Xuanyu had also escaped disaster because he hadn't eaten any.
When Duan Xuanyu learned in his room that all the other guests had food poisoning, he secretly felt so pleased he could have soared into the sky.
Su Mian really had been saving him!
If she already couldn't control her concern for him now, what would she do in the future?
The production team's doctors had already come to examine all the guests.
They confirmed it was food poisoning and prescribed medication for everyone.
[So your Goddess Fang really is deadly...]
[You look so pathetic scrambling to pull those trending topics.]
[Hahaha, go on, try claiming Goddess Fang is a total amateur with no team behind her again.]
[Then why is Teacher Su fine when she ate some, too? Did she know something when she snatched food from the dragon's mouth? Did she do it to protect Tyrant Bro?]
[The Emperor-Empress CP is real!]
Although Su Mian hadn't gotten food poisoning, she hadn't eaten a single bite of the meal, either, and was pretty hungry.
So she decided to go downstairs and make herself some instant noodles.
As she passed Lin Xi's room, she heard noises coming from inside.
Su Mian covered her nose and went downstairs in disgust.
While making her noodles downstairs, she didn't forget to complain to the host.
"The soundproofing in this villa is really terrible. Lin Xi's got explosive diarrhea in the room next to mine. With that nonstop artillery fire, I feel like I'm staying in a room with a battlefield view..."
[What?! An overbearing CEO can get explosive diarrhea?! I refuse to accept this!]
[The overbearing CEO sat on the toilet and gave a devilish smile: Little turd, spray yourself out!]
[Guys, don't project real-world overbearing CEOs onto novel-world overbearing CEOs. Novel-world overbearing CEOs are perfect. They never poop!]
In the bathroom, Lin Xi scrolled onto the livestream of Su Mian, and his vision kept going dark.
She's falsely accusing me! She's falsely accusing me!
He was sticking his fingers down his throat to make himself vomit. He really didn't have explosive diarrhea!
Lin Xi's domineering, wealthy CEO image had lasted less than three hours before shattering!
Su Mian finished making her instant noodles and started eating.
The livestream would remain on until midnight, when it would go dormant, then resume at eight in the morning.
Although the livestream was still running, there were already very few viewers because all the other guests were vomiting and having diarrhea in their rooms.
There were only a little over a thousand organic viewers, most of whom had stumbled across it, watched for a while, then left.
Some staff members also came over to eat instant noodles with Su Mian.
Yin Xiaohong casually chatted with Su Mian. "Teacher Su, your stomach's not bothering you, is it?"
Su Mian said, "My stomach's made of iron."
Yin Xiaohong smiled and nodded. "That's good."
Su Mian didn't say anything else.
Thinking about it now, the 4G beans that the original host had supposedly made, giving everyone food poisoning, must indeed have been Fang Nuonuo's doing.
Afterward, the blame had been steered toward the original host, and with Lu Zhou buying trending topics to promote Fang Nuonuo, the original host had been cyberbullied by the entire internet.
The depression the original host later developed was also inseparable from this incident.
As Su Mian was thinking about how to get revenge, Yin Xiaohong suddenly said, "Teacher Su, you know this area is full of celebrities' mansions, right?"
Su Mian nodded. "Yes."
Yin Xiaohong smiled. "You'd better stay in our villa at night. Don't go wandering around."
She seemed to be hinting at something.
But before Su Mian could ask more, she suddenly caught sight of a dark figure outside the window!
"Who's there?" Su Mian called, immediately putting down her chopsticks and charging outside.