Fairy Tale Town

"Um, did everyone not like that song?"

Yuuka had reopened Zhao Yu's livestream. She could see the bullet screen now, and as she looked at the empty chat, she felt a little confused.

Was it because she had sung a children's song and it was too childish? Or was her singing really that bad?

Yuuka felt uneasy, like a student waiting for a teacher to grade her paper.

"Hey, what are you all spacing out for? Praise her! Didn't Yuuka sing well?" Zhao Yu said to the viewers, holding back a laugh.

[This shocked me for a whole damn year.]

[I haven't heard such perfectly articulated Three-Character Classic in ages.]

[Honestly, Yuuka's two lines of national essence were kind of a vibe?]

[Bro above, it sounds like you've awakened some seriously messed-up fetish!]

The bullet screen finally began scrolling. Many people started praising Yuuka in Japanese, and she finally let out a sigh of relief.

"Hehe, thank you, everyone. You're all such, such nice people," Yuuka said with a beaming smile.

[Worth it. My whole life has been worth it.]

[Ah! Yuuka really is a little angel!]

[Damned streamer, if you corrupt Yuuka again next time, I'll definitely find a chance to kill you!]

Hiss! No way, Yuuka already had diehard fans? Zhao Yu froze, the corner of his mouth twitching slightly.

For a moment, he could not tell whether this was his livestream or Yuuka's.

"You bunch of fair-weather brothers, this is my livestream!" Zhao Yu said in mock anguish.

[Huh? Isn't this Yuuka's livestream?]

[Exactly. What do you mean, your livestream? Aren't you the translator?]

[Let Yuuka talk more. Don't overstep your bounds, Translator.]

"Fine, you bunch of guys who forget loyalty at the sight of a pretty face." Zhao Yu shook his head helplessly.

[IG Awesome sent Rocket x10]

[IG Awesome: Yuuka is so cute, and the streamer looks almost human too.]

"No, boss, you..."

[Hahahahahahahaha]

[For discovering Yuuka, we'll reluctantly classify him as human.]

"Come to think of it, what was that children's song Lord Yu just taught me about?" Yuuka spoke up again while Zhao Yu was interacting with the bullet screen.

[Here it comes, let's see how the streamer explains this.]

[I'm dying, he really smashed his own foot with a rock this time, huh?]

"It's actually a story about an elephant and a giraffe. It doesn't mean anything else," Zhao Yu said confidently.

He had actually thought of a response long ago. Otherwise, he would not have encouraged Yuuka to sing that song.

"Huh? Is it something like a fairy tale? I'm kind of curious..." Yuuka asked.

"Do you like fairy tales, Yuuka?" Zhao Yu asked in return.

"Not really, I'm just curious."

"I happen to know a song about fairy tales."

"Huh! Lord Yu is going to sing? I want to hear it!" Yuuka instantly threw her earlier curiosity to the back of her mind.

Tsk, wasn't she easy to handle? Zhao Yu's lips curled up slightly.

He had actually noticed earlier that Yuuka was a little like a child. Her attention would be drawn to more interesting things.

That was why he was not worried about Yuuka asking questions like that. He just needed to use something else to distract her.

And as it happened, he knew a song related to fairy tales. It had been incredibly popular in 2016, though he did not know whether it was equally famous in this parallel world.

"Let me find the instrumental first..." Zhao Yu said as he typed the words "Fairy Tale Town" into Baidu.

But after searching for a long time, he found no trace of the song at all, giving him a subtle premonition.

Could it be that this world did not have that song? Zhao Yu refused to believe it and typed in the singer's name. The result was just as expected.

No such person found...

"Hiss, could this be the opportunity Heaven has given me?" Zhao Yu could not help muttering.

"Lord Yu, what's wrong?" Seeing that Zhao Yu had not reacted for quite a while, Yuuka asked.

"Nothing. I suddenly realized I don't seem to have an instrumental, so I'll just sing it a cappella for you." Zhao Yu snapped back to his senses.

It felt a little immoral, but since that singer did not exist, it was not like he would be stealing his work, right?

After all, this was a parallel world. It would not affect whether that person could make money or anything.

As it happened, Zhao Yu also needed some popularity beyond games and Japanese girls. And this song... might just be the start of his rise.

Sorry, Brother Angang. Zhao Yu silently apologized in his heart, then began to sing softly.

"I heard Snow White was running away, and Little Red Riding Hood was worried about the Big Bad Wolf. I heard the Mad Hatter liked Alice, and the Ugly Duckling would become a white swan..."

His uniquely youthful voice echoed through the livestream, quieting the bullet screen. The viewers stopped discussing Yuuka and began listening carefully to Zhao Yu's singing.

[He's pulled out another new trick? How have I never heard this song before? Is it from some obscure singer?]

[I just searched the lyrics and couldn't find this song...]

[Didn't the streamer say the instrumental wasn't done? Did he write it himself?]

[The melody is pretty nice, but the lyrics are a little hard to make sense of.]

[Wasn't he singing about fairy tales? He probably made it up on the spot.]

Just as the bullet screen was filled with confusion, Zhao Yu's singing reached its most crucial line.

"There is always a rainbow river winding through Fairy Tale Town, tainted with the capricious air of magic, yet twisting through love. Flowing endlessly, it raises splashes, then sweeps a curtain of Zilean into the water, bringing every once upon a time to the moment of a happy ending."

Without this passage, the earlier lyrics might have sounded like nothing more than a casual stringing together of fairy tales. But these finishing-touch lyrics brought the entire song vividly to life.

In a dim room, a young girl listened to the song coming from Zhao Yu's livestream. A complicated expression appeared on her face, as though she had remembered something.

Elsewhere, a slovenly man sat frozen in his chair, Zhao Yu's singing echoing endlessly in his mind.

On the way home, an office worker sat on the subway, as though recalling the carefree self he had been as a child.

Everyone had a Fairy Tale Town in their heart, but as they gradually grew up, it slowly became tainted by the ways of the world.

Zilean never stopped, burying their childhood longing for happy endings deep within their hearts.

And Zhao Yu's song made them remember who they had once been as children.

When the song ended, Zhao Yu gave a light cough and said to the livestream and Yuuka, "I didn't sing it very well. I wasn't prepared, sorry."

"Not at all! It was super good! It's just... I don't really understand what it means..." Yuuka scratched her head.

"Ah! I forgot, this song also has a Japanese language version. I'll sing it for you next time." Only then did Zhao Yu realize that he had just sung in Chinese.

There really had been a Japanese cover when Fairy Tale Town became popular. Zhao Yu had listened to it for quite some time back then, so he still remembered it.

"That would be wonderful, hehe... It's a promise, then." Yuuka's eyes curved into crescents.

She always felt that Zhao Yu was subconsciously accommodating her. She did not dislike that feeling at all; instead, it gave her an inexplicable secret delight.

[So strong! He sings that well, yet he's a game streamer?]

[Wait, what? I thought we were all ordinary people. If you're this amazing, what the hell am I even living for?]

[Besides Japanese girls, I didn't expect the streamer to have this skill too. Followed!]

[IG Awesome sent Rocket x20]

[IG Awesome: The song was very nice. I liked it a lot. Can you sing the Japanese version now?]

Sure enough, a song that had exploded in popularity in his previous world would definitely not receive a poor response in this parallel world. Zhao Yu thought this as he thanked the boss for the Rockets.

Perhaps... his future would not be limited to being a streamer. Maybe he could try some other ways to make money too.