"Here we are, brothers! It's time for everyone's favorite streamer to go live again. Are you ready?"
The next afternoon, Zhao Yu opened his stream full of energy, but the moment he glanced at the viewer count, he froze.
"No way? Did I play too much and start hallucinating? Why are there so many people today?"
Today's viewer count was even more outrageous than yesterday's. Before he had even started streaming, plenty of Bullet Screen comments were already chatting in the room.
Judging by this popularity, even many top League of Legends streamers probably couldn't compare.
[Finally! Where's the Sakura girl? We want to see the Sakura girl!]
[How did you dare start this late, Streamer? Big streamers finish during the day and stream again at night, yet a small streamer like you is only starting in the afternoon?]
"Didn't I say I'd been busy with other things during the day?" Zhao Yu immediately made up an excuse.
He certainly wasn't going to tell them that he had only recently transmigrated and hadn't slept well in a long time, so he had slept straight through until the afternoon.
[I think the streamer got lazy because some big shot sent him a ton of rockets yesterday.]
[I figure so too. Didn't he say before that the streamer could be in the livestream room, or up in heaven... ahem.]
[Wait? Is this even a proper livestream room? Don't tell me the streamer is really that kind of person?]
"It's a proper stream! A proper stream! Don't talk nonsense." Seeing the topic drift further and further off course, Zhao Yu quickly stopped them from continuing.
[??? Sure enough, now that he has money, he even dares call his own stream proper.]
[What does being rich feel like, Streamer? Can you share it with us?]
"Give me a break. You're asking me what being rich feels like? How would I know?" Zhao Yu rolled his eyes helplessly.
"Still, while I don't know what being rich feels like, if you had money, you could probably experience me."
[???]
[That's the flavor! That refined and unhinged pervert vibe!]
[Sure enough, the streamer is still the same streamer.]
Less than a minute after getting serious, Zhao Yu casually tossed out another wildly inappropriate remark and once again kept the perverts in the livestream room hooked.
"Ahem, ahem. The moderator warned me, so I won't say more." Zhao Yu glanced at the moderator who had appeared and coughed softly.
"Can any brothers explain why there are so many people today?"
[Someone uploaded clips of you and the Sakura girl to the little broken site. I came after watching your clips.]
A Bullet Screen comment drifted past Zhao Yu's eyes, and he immediately understood what was going on.
The appeal of a Sakura girl to the shut-ins on the little broken site was definitely not as simple as one plus one.
"So you're brothers from the little broken site. Welcome, new friends, to my livestream room. This streamer streams everything, as long as you want to watch it." Zhao Yu took the opportunity to introduce himself to the new viewers.
[Everything? Now I'm not sleepy anymore.]
"Hold it. Only things that can actually be streamed. Put away those unrealistic thoughts." Zhao Yu cut off the Bullet Screen.
[What is the streamer talking about? We just want to see the Sakura girl.]
[Yeah, when is the Sakura girl coming out?]
Damn, so they wanted to watch him interact with Yuuka. Zhao Yu had thought they wanted him to put on some hardcore show.
After letting out a breath of relief, Zhao Yu opened that Japanese companion-for-hire website from before and found Yuuka in his order history.
But when Zhao Yu was about to order Yuuka's companion service, he discovered that her status showed offline.
"What's going on? Yuuka isn't here?" Zhao Yu muttered to himself.
[Huh? You're already calling her by name? Something's going on!]
[Don't tell me the streamer has already hooked up with the Sakura girl in private?]
[Just a convenient thing to do.]
[Don't do this to us!]
"Didn't I get her contact information yesterday? What are you people thinking? Who starts trying to hit on a girl the moment they add her?" Zhao Yu complained.
[Huh? Isn't adding a girl specifically for hitting on her?] The Bullet Screen expressed its confusion.
"Nonsense. If your intentions are that obvious, girls definitely won't want to talk to you. Let me guess—after you added a girl, did she start taking baths all the time?" A thoroughly malicious smile appeared on Zhao Yu's face.
[It seems... that really happened!]
[Stop talking, Streamer. If you keep going, someone's going to turn red-hot.]
"Hahaha, anyway, sometimes when making friends with girls, don't have so many ulterior motives. The way you view her affects the treatment you receive." Zhao Yu smiled.
"Treat her as a friend, and she'll talk to you normally. But once you have other thoughts, she'll have to carefully assess you."
[No wonder. Her attitude changed after I confessed to my friend.]
"Nonsense. That's because you became a pursuer. The status of a pursuer and a friend is obviously different. In other words... your status now is worse than a dog's."
[That hurt.]
[What a relationship master.]
[I learned something new again.]
"Since I can't find her on the site, wait a moment. I'll send her a private message and ask." Zhao Yu took out his phone and stopped interacting with the Bullet Screen.
Since everyone was here to watch him and the Sakura girl, he definitely couldn't keep these people around by merely chatting with them.
Although he didn't know why Yuuka was offline, he should at least ask, right?
If possible, Zhao Yu still wanted to interact with Yuuka in the livestream room rather than switch to another Sakura girl.
"Yuuka, are you there?" Zhao Yu sent a message.
The message was quickly marked as read, but Yuuka did not reply.
Strange. I shouldn't have made Yuuka angry, right? Zhao Yu scratched his head in confusion.
On the other side, Yuuka looked at Zhao Yu's message. She had originally intended to reply, but seemed to think of something and put her phone back on the table.
"Hmph!" With a soft snort, Yuuka went back to browsing YouTube.
The recording of her call with Zhao Yu from yesterday seemed to be quite popular. It already had tens of thousands of views.
This turned Yuuka's previously furrowed little face bright with joy as she read through the comments one by one.
[This streamer sings really well.]
[Is he Chinese? His Japanese language is so good www]
[Is no one going to mention that the uploader is also really cute?]
"Why is everyone talking about that annoying guy?" Yuuka looked at the few comments mentioning her, hesitated for a moment, then liked them one by one.
Meanwhile, after waiting several minutes without receiving a reply from Yuuka, Zhao Yu could only speak to the Bullet Screen.
"Yuuka should be busy, right? How about we switch to another companion today?"
As he spoke, he sent Yuuka a message.
"If you're not free today, I'll find someone else to play with."
The very next moment, Yuuka's reply arrived.
"Who are you going to play with?"
"Other Japanese companions, of course. Isn't Yuuka very busy?" Zhao Yu replied.
"I never said I was very busy!" Yuuka sent an angry little rabbit emoji.
"I see. Since Yuuka hadn't replied to me, I thought you were busy. But there's no need to force yourself. I can have another companion keep me company."
Ding-ding-ding! A voice chat pop-up appeared on the computer. It was from Yuuka.
Zhao Yu took a look and realized that, at some point, Yuuka had already accepted his order.
"It's all Lord Yu's fault!"
The moment the voice chat connected, Yuuka's indignant voice came through.
"Huh? What's my fault?" Zhao Yu asked in confusion.
"If you hadn't sent me photos of food last night, how could I have gotten up in the middle of the night to eat a late-night snack? Today, I found out I'd gained 0.5 kilograms!" Yuuka's tone was full of resentment.
Oh! So that was why she was angry! Zhao Yu suddenly understood.
"So... because you couldn't resist eating a late-night snack last night, you gained weight?" Zhao Yu asked tentatively.
"Using the word 'fat' around a girl is a little rude, Lord Yu?" Yuuka reminded him.
"Oh! I understand! So, Yuuka, when you woke up today, did you find that you'd swelled up?" Zhao Yu spoke again.
???? Yuuka was completely dumbfounded.
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