I put you on a dating reality show, but I didn't make you a viral sensation!

Upon hearing the broadcast, Xia Wanxing, Lin Jianwei, and their group all stopped in their tracks.

Xia Wanxing was a little puzzled: "Isn't it true that you need to collect two to exchange for a candlelight dinner? It's only the first day, how come someone has already exchanged them?"

"That's right, didn't Jiang Muxue just get one today?"

Su Man laughed and said, "Did Lin Zhou give his Heart of the Coast to Jiang Muxue? After all, they are the only two people who have Hearts of the Coast right now."

"That makes sense, and that's the only way."

Shen Jiashu, who had just finished dressing up, looked rather unpleasant after hearing the broadcast.

Jiang Yi was the same, but he couldn't easily show it in front of the camera.

It's Lin Zhou again.

What makes him such a lucky guest?

"Preparing the candlelight dinner will take about half an hour. Please return to the Heartbeat House and wait for a moment."

"OK."

Just as the two turned around, Xia Wanxing and the other female guests also arrived at the door of the Heartbeat House.

Upon seeing the two, Xia Wanxing stepped forward first, smiling, and said, "Congratulations on having a candlelight dinner on your first day!"

"Lin Zhou, did you give your Heart of the Coast to Mu Xue?"

Lin Zhou smiled and nodded, without offering any further explanation.

He couldn't possibly say that he made Jiang Muxue exchange for the candlelight dinner because he was worried about eating Jiang Yi's terrible cooking, could he?

This is happening in front of the camera.

Shen Jiashu and Lu Xiao also arrived late at this moment.

The group walked into the Heartbeat House while talking.

Perhaps it was thanks to the range hood being turned up to the maximum, plus the door being opened for ventilation, that the smell in the room had dissipated considerably, leaving only a faint creamy scent lingering in the room, which smelled quite nice.

Smelling the fragrance in the room, the group was pleasantly surprised, thinking that Jiang Yi had underperformed yesterday at noon.

"What is Teacher Jiang doing?"

"It smells so good."

The group headed towards the kitchen, while Lin Zhou and Jiang Muxue stayed in the living room instead of following them.

The two looked at the expectant group, exchanged glances, and silently suppressed their laughter.

The two thought they had hidden their actions well, but unfortunately, they underestimated the cameraman's ability to capture them.

Their subtle expressions were all captured clearly in the camera.

Inside the live stream room.

What's going on with these two? Why are they laughing so happily?

There's a sense of unspoken communication between them.

[I don't know what they're laughing at, but it's so funny, those two are hilarious.]

They look like a young couple, so well-matched.

The expressions of the other guests changed slightly after they entered the kitchen.

Upon close contact, an indescribable, strange smell entered their nasal cavities.

The taste... is a little different from what they imagined.

Then I looked down into the pot.

White, red, yellow...

It looks terrible.

The most crucial thing was that the cream cheese sauce in the pot was cooked until it was sticky and lumpy, clinging to the sides of the pot. There were also prawns that hadn't even been processed before being thrown in, and you could even smell a fishy odor. It looked... indescribable.

The culinary disaster from yesterday noon is still fresh in my mind. I thought this time the noodles would be alright, but Jiang Yi turned a simple pasta dish into something even more outrageous.

The smiles on their faces froze, and they barely managed to keep their expressions of disgust from showing.

be cheated.

Looks like tonight's going to be tough!

As everyone brought plates of food with questionable presentation to the table, the staff informed the couple that they could enjoy a candlelight dinner.

Two weeks later, Jiang Muxue and he got up and followed the staff towards the beach.

The other guests, watching the two figures disappear into the distance, seemed to understand something.

So these two knew this was going to happen all along.

I chose to have a candlelight dinner in order to avoid this meal.

So you're leaving us here to suffer, huh?

Careless.

I should have eaten more at noon.

……

On the other side, Lin Zhou and Jiang Muxue followed the staff to a white tent by the sea.

The sea breeze was a bit chilly at night, but luckily Lin Zhou had brought a jacket with him when he left the dormitory.

Inside the tent, an exquisite wooden dining table was set on the beach floor, covered with a cream-colored tablecloth, and set with small candlesticks and fresh lisianthus.

The staff quickly served up a refined meal: pan-seared steak with black pepper sauce, cream of mushroom soup, fruit salad, and some appetizers.

Lin Zhou was surprised that the production team had prepared such a lavish candlelight dinner in such a short time.

Lin Zhou pulled out the chair on Jiang Muxue's right and sat down in his own seat after she was seated.

Jiang Muxue instinctively wanted to say thank you, but remembering their agreement, she smiled slightly and asked softly, "May I have a small piece of cake first?"

"sure."

Lin Zhou smiled and nodded, then reached out and pushed the porcelain plate containing the small cakes towards her. "It's all thanks to you that we can have this dinner."

"No, that's not true. You also deserve credit." Jiang Muxue corrected him seriously. "If you hadn't given me the Heart of the Coast, I wouldn't have been able to collect them all, and I would have gone hungry again tonight."

At this point, Lin Zhou couldn't help but think of Jiang Yi's disastrous cooking and chuckled softly.

He raised his glass of sparkling water and said, "Then I wish us... a pleasant collaboration, and continued success in winning first place."

"It's a pleasure working with you!"

Jiang Muxue revealed two adorable dimples on her face and gently clinked glasses with him.

The two glasses clinked together, producing a crisp sound. The candlelight illuminated Jiang Muxue's arched eyebrows and Lin Zhou's gentle smile, both reflected in the glass.

……

Meanwhile, in the Heartbeat Hut on the other side, a few people around the dining table were looking at bowls of sticky cheese noodles, feeling rather miserable.

Just looking at the surface, it's hard to describe in words.

First, there's that sticky sauce on top, which almost covers the entire plate. Eating the noodles is like eating a lump of dough. The worst part is that it also has tomatoes and eggs. Just looking at those red and yellow colors makes you lose all appetite.

In addition, the prawns were completely unprocessed, cloyingly sweet and fishy, ​​so you can imagine how unpleasant the taste was.

The group looked at each other, none of them wanting to be the first guinea pig.

Lu Xiao couldn't resist taking a bite, her expression changed, and she almost vomited. Just as she was about to speak, she saw the camera next to her and could only nod against her conscience:

"Hmm...it's quite unique, the flavor is very layered, everyone should try it."

The others, seeing his expression, already knew what was going on, but there was nothing they could do. They couldn't just refuse to eat anything in front of the cameras, could they?

That's incredibly disrespectful.

Su Man forced herself to pick up her chopsticks and quickly put on an acting performance: "The taste is not bad, but I'm on a diet recently, so I can't eat too many high-calorie foods. I'll eat less."

Xia Wanxing and Lin Jianwei also only ate a little, putting down their chopsticks after a brief touch. Xia Wanxing's reason was similar to Su Man's: "I can't eat too much. I have to go to the film set in a while, and I need to maintain my figure."

Lin Jianwei's reasoning was even more direct:

I don't like cilantro.

Jiang Yi's lips twitched involuntarily.

If you're going to come up with an excuse, at least make it believable.

I didn't put any cilantro in it at all!