Gu Yichen and Cheng Qin's team had completed their task too.
The two had worked together on pottery and each given the other an ugly, handmade cup.
Duan Xuanyu and Fang Nuonuo's team had not completed theirs.
It wasn't because Duan Xuanyu couldn't shoot an air gun accurately.
Once he got his hands on a gun, he went on a rampage.
He utterly destroyed every shooting stall along the entire pedestrian street.
He won countless prizes too.
But instead of giving them to Fang Nuonuo, he sent them all to a nearby orphanage.
Faced with such a charitable act, Fang Nuonuo certainly couldn't complain. She even had to express her approval.
Besides, Duan Xuanyu hadn't spoken to her the entire time. He had been completely absorbed in shooting.
Not only that, but Duan Xuanyu had also kept secretly chatting with someone on his phone!
"Su Mian, guns really are formidable! I must bring this weapon back to Northern Liang."
"Su Mian, you actually have places here that raise orphans. How wonderful. Northern Liang must establish them in the future too."
Although Fang Nuonuo hadn't seen exactly what he was sending,
she had glanced over and seen that he was messaging Su Mian!
Fang Nuonuo's jaw muscles grew bigger again.
With Su Mian around, she would never have her day in the sun!
Right... although spreading rumors about Su Mian last night failed,
there's no whitewashing her beating Niu Didi, is there?
Won't she go to jail for beating someone that badly?
New hope rose in Fang Nuonuo's heart.
Once Niu Didi woke up, he would definitely sue Su Mian!
At the hospital.
Niu Didi woke up.
Sure enough, he wanted to sue Su Mian for assault!
But after his lawyer arrived and examined the situation, he shook his head.
"You can't sue over this. Although it looks like she was beating you, your conversation shows that you were clearly indulging in a consensual niche kink. You even said yourself that you liked it."
"**!" Niu Didi swore. "The whole internet could see she was beating me!"
The lawyer said, "The law doesn't take internet comments into consideration."
Niu Didi picked up his water glass and hurled it at the lawyer's head. "Get lost!"
After the lawyer left, Niu Didi called his butler.
"I'm in the hospital and won't be home for the next couple of days. Make sure you keep the secret room locked for me! Whatever you do, don't let those things get out!"
"**That stupid-ass production crew could've filmed anywhere, but they just had to go near my house..."
Niu Didi ranted and cursed for ages, only quieting down when a doctor came in and gave him a sedative.
By the time that day's dates ended, it was already evening.
The production crew had also arranged a nighttime activity for the guests-listening to music at a bar.
But the bar was so dark and noisy that the livestream quality was terrible. The viewers could neither hear nor see clearly.
So the crew decided to record rather than livestream that evening.
Once they finished recording, they would clean up the audio and video before releasing it.
The crew didn't require all the guests to sit together. They could sit wherever they liked.
Su Mian found a booth near a corner and sat down to listen to the music.
Duan Xuanyu went to sit with her.
He had a bellyful of things he wanted to tell Su Mian.
But he discovered that she kept staring at the neighboring booth with a smile.
Puzzled, Duan Xuanyu looked over too.
In the neighboring booth, an elegant middle-aged woman sat on the sofa with her legs crossed, swirling a glass of red wine.
A handsome young man wore a shirt with a panel of black mesh over his chest, revealing his pecs.
The handsome young man opened a bottle of wine and said sweetly to the middle-aged woman, "Thank you for spending 6,888 yuan, big sister. Could you please not film my face? My family doesn't know I do this out here. I'm only doing it to pay my tuition."
Yes, this bar...
had male models.
Su Mian wasn't smiling at that male model because she thought he was handsome, either.
She just thought the story he had made up was entertaining.
A wretched home and a broken boy...
Duan Xuanyu looked at the male model, then at Su Mian. His gaze lowered, his voice cold. "To peddle one's looks for profit and cast aside one's dignity like worn-out shoes is not the righteous path. A gentleman born into this world ought to uphold his integrity and value honor and shame."
Su Mian said, "Speak human."
Duan Xuanyu said, "...It's wrong for men to sell their looks."
Su Mian said, "See, you still don't understand the exalted status of us twenty-first-century women, do you? In ancient times, men liked rescuing fallen women. In modern times, now that women have higher status, we like rescuing fallen men too. Who wouldn't like a sweet-talking, understanding puppy like that?"
Duan Xuanyu was taken in.
He stared at the male model, his gaze growing darker.
So Su Mian liked this kind too?
Su Mian leaned back against the sofa and sighed softly. "When I first rescued you, you called me big sister every chance you got. That was when I liked you best. After you became emperor, you never called me big sister again."
Duan Xuanyu lowered his head slightly and slowly brought his face closer to hers, his cool eyes gazing at her from up close.
"Really? That was when you liked me best? Big sister?"
Looking into his deep eyes, Su Mian inexplicably felt a little nervous.
She quietly picked up the drink beside her, intending to bring it to her lips.
Duan Xuanyu suddenly took the drink from her hand. "I'll feed you."
He took a sip, then gently held Su Mian's chin and brought his lips toward hers.
"Ah!" Su Mian cried out, slapping him across the face!
She knocked his face aside!
Duan Xuanyu's head turned with the slap. His Adam's apple bobbed as he swallowed the drink.
Then he turned back to look at her.
There wasn't a trace of anger in his eyes, only bewilderment and confusion.
He took her hand, pressed it against his face, and gently rubbed against it.
"Why did you hit me, big sister? Did I do something wrong?"
His words were so submissive, yet his gaze was utterly aggressive.
Su Mian: "..."
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His technique came from the male model but surpassed the male model.
Su Mian wasn't the only one left dumbfounded.
The male model in the neighboring booth was dumbfounded too.
He couldn't resist leaning over to ask, "Bro, where did you train? I want to sign up for a class too."
Duan Xuanyu raised an eyebrow slightly and bestowed a cold, sharp look on him. "Get lost."
The male model fled in fright.
The rich woman next door came over too. "I'll buy a bottle worth 16,888 if you keep me company."
Before Duan Xuanyu could refuse, Su Mian turned her down first. "This one doesn't take customers. He's home-raised."
The rich woman could only shake her head and leave.
The corners of Duan Xuanyu's lips lifted slightly. Inside, he was soaring with delight.
She said he belonged to her household!
Picking up where he had left off, Duan Xuanyu continued, "Big sister, why did you hit me?"
Su Mian tried hard to pull her hand out of his, but he only held it tighter.
His other hand slipped around her waist, drawing her closer. "Big sister, did I upset you?"
The more submissive his words became, the more forceful his gaze and movements grew.
He wasn't trying to please her at all. He was on the attack!
Su Mian took a deep breath and instructed him solemnly, "Don't learn this."
Duan Xuanyu asked, "Why?"
Su Mian said, "Not everything from our twenty-first century is good. You don't have to learn everything."
Duan Xuanyu said, "Don't you like rescuing fallen men?"
Su Mian: "..."
If I'd known, I never would've opened my mouth!
Just as she was trying every way she could think of to get herself out of this predicament, she suddenly heard a woman's tearful pleas from nearby.
That voice sounded a little familiar.
Su Mian turned to look.