Fang Nuonuo: "Qingyun, I saw the trending searches online... honestly, I really admire Su Mian. She went to spend the night at Niu Didi's villa tonight and still managed to find time to scheme against you."
Xu Qingyun's eyes instantly lit up.
Niu Didi was the rapper with the messiest private life in the entertainment industry.
But given that his fanbase didn't care about their idol's character at all, he remained extremely popular, hailed as the godfather of rap.
Outside his fans, he had practically no goodwill among the general public.
Any normal person who so much as scrolled past him on their phone would hurry to disinfect it.
Female celebrities who had dating rumors with him would also quickly lose the public's goodwill and fade into obscurity.
So Xu Qingyun immediately paid for trending searches.
#Su Mian spends the night at Niu Didi's villa#
#Su Mian and Niu Didi's poolside passion#
Inside the villa.
All the guests had gone to bed.
In the dark living room, the light from a phone screen illuminated the face of a woman dressed in red, making it deathly pale.
She stared at the various rumors about Su Mian and Niu Didi on her phone, curled her red lips, and gave a cold laugh.
As the woman in red laughed, an ethereal, stifling piece of background music suddenly sounded behind her:
"Gong gong gong gong~ da da da~ hi~ gong gong gong gong~"
It was the sort of creepy music used specifically for horror movie commentary!
"Ahhh..." the woman in red screamed and switched on the lights.
She discovered that the person standing behind her was Su Mian in pajamas.
The woman in red patted her chest. "Teacher Su, what are you doing?"
Su Mian went over and poured herself a glass of water. "I came downstairs for water and saw you laughing so eerily, Sister Xiaohong. I thought you had some sort of performance going, so I added a little atmosphere."
Yin Xiaohong: "... well, thank you so much."
"Just a little effort of the mouth." After drinking her water, Su Mian drifted away again.
Judging by Su Mian's state of mind, Yin Xiaohong figured she probably still didn't know that sexual rumors about her were flying all over the internet.
Su Mian had worn herself out beating someone up last night and really didn't know about any of the online developments.
When she woke up the next morning, she opened her phone to take a look.
She saw that she had topped the trending searches again.
#Su Mian puts Niu Didi in his place#
Su Mian tapped in and read carefully, only then learning that the person behind it had originally intended to spread rumors that something was going on between her and Niu Didi.
But before the rumors could gain traction, the video of her beating Niu Didi up had been posted online.
[You're telling me this is poolside passion?]
[Every time I see Niu Didi trending with a female celebrity, I click in and find her tearfully telling her story or announcing her retirement. This is the first time it's been this satisfying! Ahhh, Sister Mian is so badass!]
[Sister Mian isn't playing the S here at all. This is just her super-male urges flaring up and making her find someone to beat...]
[Teacher Su's S tendencies exploded! Six! Six! Six!]
Su Mian washed up and left her room.
When she reached downstairs, she came face-to-face with Fang Nuonuo.
Fang Nuonuo forced a smile and greeted her amicably. "Good morning, Teacher Su."
Su Mian tapped her phone. "Seen the trending searches? I'm dominating the top spot again."
"Look at this whole mess. Day after day, I'm sleeping in my room, and trending searches fall from the sky."
"I don't even want to be famous, but I was born to go viral. There's nothing I can do."
Fang Nuonuo's smile grew uglier and uglier.
She also deeply regretted egging Xu Qingyun on to buy trending searches for Su Mian last night!
It hadn't hurt her one bit, and her follower count had skyrocketed again overnight!
Meanwhile, she'd spent so much money and still couldn't market herself into popularity!
Fang Nuonuo was clenching her teeth so hard her jaw muscles were practically growing bigger!
After mocking Fang Nuonuo, Su Mian looked around.
Seeing Yin Xiaohong reading her hosting script in the outdoor garden, she walked toward her.
"Sister Xiaohong, when someone spread rumors about me last night, you were the one who posted the video you took to clear my name, right?"
Yin Xiaohong looked up and smiled at her. "You don't need to feel grateful to me. This is actually mutually beneficial."
Mutually beneficial?
Su Mian didn't feel she'd benefited her in any way.
But before she could ask, that day's show began.
Yin Xiaohong had to go host.
She introduced that morning's activity to all the guests and viewers-
A big dating outing for the male and female guests!
Once again, pairs would be decided by drawing lots.
Each pair also had to complete a romantic date, during which the production team had arranged some super-sweet interactive tasks.
The guests had to complete the tasks.
Pairs who completed their tasks that day would once again be rewarded with living funds.
[Ahhh, are the male and female guests finally going to interact?!]
[Here we go! This dating show is finally looking like a dating show!]
[Production team: all of you, start dating!]
The results of the draw were soon out.
Su Mian and Lin Xi's date was to watch a Latin dance performance and then perform a partner dance together afterward.
Duan Xuanyu and Fang Nuonuo's date was to shop along a pedestrian street, then shoot air guns at a shooting stall to win prizes for each other.
Cheng Qin and Gu Yichen's date was to make pottery at a pottery studio, where they had to make a craft piece for each other.
[The storyline between Teacher Su and President Lin is the one most worth watching! The others are all pretty standard.]
[Just thinking about those two dancing together has already got me laughing!]
With the guests paired up, they were about to set off for their date locations.
Duan Xuanyu wasn't particularly interested, so he went to tell the production team, "Not going."
He even tried to pull Su Mian over and forbid her from going, too.
Su Mian knew that once his temper flared, the production team wouldn't be able to talk him around.
So she deliberately said, "Since I chose to join this show, I'm going to cooperate and finish filming it. This is the fruit of so many workers' labor."
Thinking Su Mian was talking to him, Lin Xi gave a crooked smile and muttered, "Saying one thing and meaning another."
Su Mian must have been eagerly anticipating their date and was just deliberately refusing to admit it.
And he intended to refuse to cooperate with Su Mian on the task, no matter what.
Although failing the task meant he wouldn't get a reward either.
That was fine, though, as long as Su Mian suffered with him!
Su Mian hadn't failed once since joining this show. Today, he would give her a taste of failure!
Beside them, Duan Xuanyu swallowed all his objections after hearing Su Mian's words.
He also had to cooperate with all those workers and finish filming the show. He couldn't let their painstaking effort go to waste.
"Fine." Duan Xuanyu opened the car door and got in, too.
All three pairs set off without a hitch.
The Latin dance performance on Su Mian's end was excellent, and she quite enjoyed watching it.
Once the performance ended, it was time for her and Lin Xi to complete their task.
Unexpectedly, Lin Xi sneered. "Don't even dream of getting me to cooperate on this partner dance. I'd rather lose myself than let you win. This is what you get for spreading rumors last night that I had the runs!"
With that, Lin Xi stood up and walked away.
Su Mian suddenly called after him, "Wait a sec! Lin Xi!"
Lin Xi instinctively stopped.
Standing behind him, Su Mian swung both hands and thrust her waist and hips from side to side.
A silky-smooth dance flowed out just like that.
She even remembered to provide her own soundtrack. "The rain stands still~ across the sky, like tears~ circling in my eyes, perhaps this is~ the very last time~ we meet..."
[Knowing there was a dance coming, why didn't you dodge?]
[Zero-frame startup. Impossible to dodge.]
[Fine, fine, fine, Teacher Su found another bug. The production team's rule was to complete a partner dance. They never said it had to be Latin. Although those two had no physical contact whatsoever, this is indeed a very famous partner dance...]
[Damn it, I couldn't stop myself from watching "Wait, Kaito Kid" again...]
[That's enough, Teacher Su. You've shattered my rose-tinted glasses! Not that there was much of a rosy tint to begin with.]
[I'm such a sucker, acting like I've never watched a dating show before.]
The corners of Lin Xi's mouth twitched for a long time...
Damn it, that damned woman had won again!