Dating Show: I Told You to Slack Off, Not Become a Top-Tier Star

[Dating Show Livestream] [Goes Viral by Giving Up] [Divorced Mom] [Building a Career] [Ex-Husband's Regret] [Feel-Good Story, No Saintly Heroine]

After staying up all night for three days, Jiang Li was in the employee restroom watching a dating show and cursing out the female contestant who'd "brought her kid onto a show to make money." She opened her eyes, and...

She had become that contestant. No makeup, pajamas, hair sticking up everywhere, half a cold sausage in her hand, facing four cameras broadcasting live.

She remembered the script by heart: get harassed online and quit in episode three, get diagnosed with depression in episode eight, and serve as maid of honor at her ex-husband's wedding to his first love in the finale.

Jiang Li smiled. The script was fine, but she wasn't playing along.

She decided to lie flat right there: no performing, no sob stories, no trying to prove herself. The production crew wanted her to attract hate, but all she wanted was a bed.

But one bowl of instant noodles she cooked for her daughter turned the dating show into a food documentary. The more she gave up, the more explosive the trending topics became. She only wanted to sit in a corner and earn her breach-of-contract payout, but the male contestants lined up outside her door.

Then her ex-husband, impeccably dressed in the investors' viewing area, removed his earpiece and said hoarsely, "Add one more person to the contestant list."

The host asked her, "What would you do if your ex got down on his knees and begged you to take him back?"

Jiang Li smiled sweetly at the camera. "He should kneel farther away. I don't want him getting in the way of my food stall."