Domination of the Aristocratic Dynasty After a Body Swap with the CEO

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Kim Lalisa drew Yang Ze, Yong Yun drew Yao Jingshan, and Duan Mangyun drew Xia Xi. The four men and four women were randomly paired up. The production team was thrilled to see this - it was a dating show after all. In the beginning, they needed to interact with each other to find out who they had better chemistry with, which would make for more drama later on. That's what the audience loves to see in dating shows!

Everyone emptied their backpacks and grabbed containers to collect supplies. Following the routes marked on the map, they set off into the dusk in four different directions.

Tall and slender Yang Ze took the lead, clearing the path ahead. He was diligent and Kim Lalisa had a quick mind. The two worked well together and soon found a new supply point.

With a man around, Kim Lalisa didn't need to carry anything heavy. Yang Ze put all the supplies on his own back, polite and chivalrous.

As darkness fell, Kim Lalisa's high-powered flashlight became very useful. Visibility in the dense jungle was extremely low at night. Regular flashlights were useless. But hers was very powerful. When she shined it up, a pillar of light reached to the night sky.

With this flashlight, Kim Lalisa and Yang Ze's nighttime exploration went very smoothly. They found almost all the supplies on their route.

But the other teams weren't prepared well enough. The dim light of their regular flashlights made their search very slow.

This made the audience like Kim Lalisa even more. In contrast, Duan Mangyun seemed useless - afraid of the dark and unwilling to press on, she missed resources just ten meters ahead in the bushes, dragging Xia Xi down.

The bullet screen comments were very critical of her:

[So why come on a survival show if you're so scared of the dark? Didn't she think beforehand that she'd be a burden?]

[If you want a dating show, go on a normal one! Why come on a survival dating show? Survival comes first!]

[Xia Xi is really patient, taking care of her feelings like that.]

[It's all her fault! Their team found the least supplies, just one place!]

[She was like this on "Return to Peach Blossom" too! Couldn't do any farm work at all. The male guests all protected her. She crafted this image of being ethereal and above worldly matters. No one criticized her for not working!]

[It's 2023 and people are still acting all delicate and precious. Can't stand it.]

...

Duan Mangyun's agent Miao Gaojun had said before that her biggest flaw was stupidity.

She really wasn't very smart, with low EQ and IQ. She didn't know to do the right thing at the right time. For instance, the environment was so harsh now. She should have discarded everything she learned from previous dating shows and repositioned herself.

But Duan Mangyun couldn't wrap her head around it. She didn't realize those experiences wouldn't work on this show. Her persona as delicate and demure, needing protection, would not appeal to anyone here.

Instead, Duan Mangyun thought the harsher environment would make the male guests even more protective and chivalrous, and they'd feel more tender affection for a girl like her.

So she was determined to stick it out as the delicate maiden!

Xia Xi maintained a gentlemanly manner all along, taking care of her. When she was scared to go on, he turned back without hesitation.

Duan Mangyun didn't care about his straight-man behavior with the fire earlier. She wanted to invite him to the yard to look at the stars and chat, to develop their relationship. But Xia Xi had already strapped on his backpack and gone out again, "Stay in since you're afraid of the dark. I'll go look some more."