Tuan Tuan's Tearful Cry

018. Tuan Tuan in Tears

"Sigou said it well!"

"Well said! Cheaters deserve to rot! Trying to make money with hacks—pfft!"

"Sigou's a real man. Compare the two, Tuan Tuan—still no clue?"

"Just checked Bixin. His rating's been tanked below 3.0. Haha, feels good."

"More than that—comments are all roasting him. Daring to bully our Tuan Tuan? Dream on!"

"That bastard's probably crying in the bathroom now. Haha, serves him right!"

Seeing her fans' comments, Tuan Tuan immediately opened Bixin to check.

Sure enough, under Jiang Siming's service listings, it was nothing but bad reviews.

A flood of insults, and it even alerted Bixin's higher-ups. They instantly pulled his recommendation slot and banned his account.

Seeing all this, Tuan Tuan's heart was heavy with guilt.

Sure, Jiang Siming had cheated, but he hadn't actually caused her any loss.

In fact, he'd given her plenty of good content at the start. Even when she snapped at him, he didn't fight back or talk back, and he refunded the fee.

But she had completely ruined his livelihood.

Overwhelmed with guilt, Tuan Tuan's mind was a fog, her heart a mess of mixed flavors—sweet, sour, bitter, spicy, she couldn't tell.

Just then, a reply came from the Monitoring Station.

Tuan Tuan opened the email in front of all her viewers, and froze completely.

The email read: This account shows no abnormalities.

This was a response from the Monitoring Station. The chance of a detection error was one in a million.

So far, no one had been falsely flagged after detection.

And Tencent had publicly declared that if any detection error occurred, they would pay the account owner ten million in compensation!

When that news first broke, countless hackers and cheat-making teams sprang into action, crafting extremely subtle cheats to claim that ten million.

But unfortunately, a year had passed, and no one had ever received that payout.

No abnormalities meant he hadn't used any cheats at all—not even a macro built into his mouse.

The room fell silent. Tuan Tuan's usually lively live stream was, for the first time ever, dead quiet.

From streamer to audience, no one spoke a word.

What finally broke the silence was Tuan Tuan's sobbing.

In her nearly year-long streaming career, whether old Fans or new, this was the first time anyone had seen Tuan Tuan break down like this.

Always carefree, always laughing with that pig-like squeal, endlessly cheerful—today, she was crying, and crying so bitterly.

It was the first time in Tuan Tuan's memory that she had lost control of her emotions like this. She cried like a child.

She loved to laugh, to mess around, to shriek—but she never loved to cry.

Her fans quickly tried to comfort her.

"Tuan Tuan, stop crying. Hearing you cry hurts me so much."

"We wronged him. Turns out he really wasn't cheating."

"Strong as hell, and you all called him a cheater. You're the noobs—I'm speechless."

"Tuan Tuan, stop crying. Let's go to Bixin and fix his rating, then apologize to him."

"You already got his job ruined. What good is an apology now?"

"You guys jump to conclusions at the first sign of wind. Don't rush to judgment before you know the facts, got it?"

The fans' comfort didn't help. Tuan Tuan kept crying, crying heartbrokenly.

Even without the camera on, everyone could imagine her on the other side of the screen, face streaked with tears.

Her true fans ached for her, but were helpless.

Chen Sigou, who hadn't spoken a word since reading the email, finally opened his mouth.

"Tuan Tuan, don't cry. This isn't your fault. I—"

Before he could finish, Tuan Tuan permanently kicked him out of her YY Channel.

Not only that, she went into Chen Sigou's live stream and returned every gift he had deliberately sent to butter her up.

Before leaving, Tuan Tuan left a bullet comment. After reading it, Chen Sigou's face turned ashen.

From today on, whatever little friendship we had ends here. I'll say this one last time—I never liked you. That was all in your head.

After posting the comment, Tuan Tuan cried and apologized to everyone, then went offline.

In an instant, late at night, Shark Tieba exploded with activity again.

The new queen of Shark, Tuan Tuan, with nearly ten million Douyin followers, had cried in guilt over wronging a good person.

And she publicly clarified her relationship with another second-rate streamer, Chen Sigou, cutting off all ties.

This news spread like wildfire in the Shark circle, no different from a celebrity scandal.

Before the previous buzz had even died down—Dumb Sister's heartbreak secret still simmering—now Tuan Tuan was in trouble.

And it was way more serious than Dumb Sister's case. She was sobbing her heart out on stream, at least Dumb Sister hadn't cried on camera.

Many curious viewers asked what happened, and fans watching the stream told the truth, bringing the whole story to light.

After hearing about it, some netizens went to check on Bixin out of curiosity.

That check turned up something unexpected—sharp-eyed users spotted an anomaly!

From Jiang Siming's companion profile, they found a screenshot of his main account ID data.

The stats were unremarkable, even a bit low.

But what caught everyone's attention wasn't the score or KDA—it was the ID name in that screenshot!

ming

Quite a few Fans instantly recognized that ID!

Wasn't that Dumb Sister's rumored boyfriend, the Sniper God Wei Shen had mentioned and even tried to recruit into his team—that random pro player?

This discovery was like a bomb stirring up Shark's waters, and the buzz multiplied overnight.

All the news shaking Shark these past few days came from one person—and he was just a random!

With those stories combined, the heat naturally skyrocketed.

Super pro player, Dumb Sister's rumored boyfriend, Wei Shen's recruitment attempt, and now the voice-acting heartthrob who made Tuan Tuan cry her eyes out.

Every hot topic traced back to the same random player.

In an instant, the ID ming became Shark's hottest random.

Even hotter than So-and-so Accountant, who'd gotten into legal trouble, or Boring Bro, who'd fraudulently swiped Shark fins.

Those two randoms had long since rotted in jail, relying on crazy gift-spamming for their fame.

But ming was a completely different story—his buzz was all clean and aboveboard.

Even Shark's higher-ups couldn't sit still, starting to plan on inviting Jiang Siming to stream on Shark.

If he were a big spender, they wouldn't have much leverage, but he was doing companion work.

Willing to work for twenty bucks an hour—if they offered decent pay, they figured he'd be happy to take it.

That night, Dumb Sister, who was streaming, naturally caught wind of this news.

She couldn't miss it, because the whole screen was flooded with Bullet Comments.

"Old Woman, your boyfriend's been found!"

"Old Woman, your husband got wronged and lost his job!"

"You've been listless these past two days—well now, your man's found, happy?"

"One Pair A, your man got bullied by Tuan Tuan, go get revenge!"

"Your man got framed by Tuan Tuan and her fans, even lost his job!"

Seeing these Bullet Comments, Dumb Sister didn't believe it at first, but after her Best Friend Erqian confirmed it, she immediately grabbed her phone to check Bixin and sure enough found Jiang Siming.

These past two days, Erqian knew Dumb Sister's state best—she was completely out of it, like The Walking Dead.

Zoning out while eating, zoning out while walking, zoning out when Erqian took her shopping, even her stream kept glitching—textbook lovesickness.

But now that she'd found Jiang Siming, Dumb Sister's long-lost Smiling returned to her face, though it quickly faded into disappointment.

Because Jiang Siming's Bixin account had been banned, Dumb Sister couldn't contact him or place an order.

Luckily, she was close with Xiao Xian, a Bixin customer service rep, and got Jiang Siming's phone number from her.

But when she called, she found he was already on the line.