Wu Xiao gripped his phone and took several deep breaths in succession before barely forcing down the fervor in his chest that was about to explode.
With trembling fingers, he opened the Yin Yue app and casually swiped up twice.
Very quickly, the homepage's algorithm recommended a highly popular Star Show livestream to him.
The instant the screen lit up, Wu Xiao's breathing caught sharply.
It felt as though his heart had been struck hard by an invisible sledgehammer, skipping half a beat.
Before the camera sat a top streamer with tens of millions of followers, her ID reading "Menglu Qingyin."
She wore delicate, elegant makeup.
Her waterfall-like dark hair fell casually around her slender waist.
Her features were like a work of art meticulously sculpted by the Creator—red lips, white teeth, and a mature, alluring charm in the glances of her eyes.
He had only taken one look through the screen.
Yet all the gloom and pain Wu Xiao had felt from his breakup and being cheated on were instantly swept away by a surge of powerful male hormones.
His ex-girlfriend Li Ya, that gold-digging woman, had once been praised as the "flower of the Finance Department" in college. She was indeed fairly pretty.
But compared to the stunning beauty on the screen, she was like a pheasant beside a true phoenix.
They simply weren't on the same level.
If this had been ten minutes earlier.
A top-tier goddess like this would have been someone a lowly code monkey like Wu Xiao wouldn't have dared fantasize about even in his dreams.
Having spent years lurking around the internet, he knew all too well that these glamorous top influencers were nothing more than high-end playthings kept by the capital bosses behind the scenes.
The saying went, "The poor man's icy