Chapter 18

Zhang Feng forced himself to swallow. "Th-then, what are you brothers here for? The livestream's still going, brothers, don't—"

Liu Dalong cut him off with an angry roar. "We came to pick up trash! And then slap you!!"

Zhang Feng got sprayed full in the face. Once he came back to his senses, his whole world went dark.

No, if you came to pick up trash, why did you deny it just now?! And what cause-and-effect relationship is there between picking up trash and slapping me?! Pick up the trash if you want, but why the hell are you slapping me?!

As Zhang Feng was instantly pinned by the arms between the brawny second and fifth brothers, the livestream chat filled with shock, outrage, and suspicion.

Just as Meng Tiantian, Niu Zhuang, and all the viewers were about to call the police, they heard what Liu Dalong said next:

"I'm slapping you because you, you little bastard, have a poisonous heart and never do anything decent!"

Smack!

"All you think about every day is faking things and selling a fake persona!"

Smack! Smack!

"An environmentally conscious young man, my ass! Is this how you protect the environment—by paying me to haul over two truckloads of garbage and dirty up the place that Immortal Pretty Boy cleaned?! "

Smack! Smack! Smack!

Liu Dalong slapped Zhang Feng once with every sentence, making his face crackle with smacks. What he said left Meng Tiantian, Niu Zhuang, and the watching netizens utterly dumbfounded.

Once they recovered, a flood of holy shits and doubts followed.

[No way, right? Brother Feng can't possibly be that kind of person!]

[That big thug better not spout nonsense. Brother Feng really cares about the environment, and he's gentle and polite too. How could he specifically hire people to dump trash?]

[Although I've always thought this Zhang Feng seemed a little fake, he wouldn't do something that disgusting, would he?]

[Where's the evidence? Evidence! Spreading nonsense can land you in prison, okay!]

Liu Dalong had no time to pay attention to the stream or its comments while he was busy slapping someone, but he had six brothers. Liu Xiaomao kept an eye on the livestream chat with his phone in hand.

"Big Brother, everyone's doubting you! They're saying you're lying!"

Liu Dalong sneered when he heard that. So long as he wasn't facing Demon Pretty Boy, he could be quite imposing too.

He pulled his phone from the pocket of his floral shirt with his bear-like hand.

Then he shoved his chat history with Zhang Feng right in front of Niu Zhuang's livestream camera.

"Every idiot who likes Zhang Feng, open your eyes and look closely. Dumping trash here was something he came to me and asked me to do. He wanted that Immortal Pretty Boy to have bad luck, embarrass himself, and feel miserable. Take a good look at what a piece of trash he is!"

"If you still don't believe it, I've got his voice messages too!"

As he spoke, Liu Dalong tapped open the voice message, and Zhang Feng's voice came through loud and clear.

[Brother Long, make sure you dump the garbage exactly where that pretty boy cleaned up during the day! That pretty boy stole my camera time and popularity, and even forced me to pick up trash!]

[Ptui, he's just a beggar who likes picking up trash, fine, but he thinks he can boss me around?! I'm definitely going to teach him a lesson he'll never forget!]

The moment those words came out, the chat exploded.

Zhang Feng's pig-head-swollen face turned deathly pale in an instant. With such ironclad evidence laid out here, no amount of money he threw around could ever scrub himself clean!! He was finished!!

If the second and fifth brothers had not still been holding him up, Zhang Feng probably would have simply pretended to faint on the spot.

After Zhang Feng's fans and other netizens fired off who knew how many messages in an instant, one of his diehard brainless fans spammed more than a dozen comments—

[Brother Feng was just too angry. Dumping some trash isn't some heinous evil, right? And compared with Brother Feng merely dumping trash, aren't these thuggish hooligans much scarier and more deserving of punishment?!]

The diehard fan was trying to shift the conflict and the focus.

Liu Xiaomao read that comment out to Liu Dalong. Then everyone saw Liu Dalong give a contemptuous snort at the camera before suddenly turning around with his six brothers and bowing ninety degrees toward He Qinglan and Shui Wuyuan, who had been watching silently from the side!

The thug leader, with a blue dragon tattooed on his right arm, a white tiger painted on his left, and a vicious-looking face, shouted:

"Immortal Pretty Boy and Boss Water saw us dumping trash last night! After their earnest instruction and heartfelt talks, we deeply realized the error of dumping trash everywhere and idling our lives away!"

"From this day onward, the seven Liu brothers will no longer be thugs. We'll pick up trash just like Immortal Pretty Boy! We'll contribute to humanity's beautiful home!!"

"From now on, we are the Liu Family Environmental Protection Seven beneath Immortal Pretty Boy's command!!"

All the onlooking viewers: "..."

Qi Xiaoyuan, who had arrived carrying a lavish breakfast and apples: "..."

He Qinglan, who was playing Douyu: "..."

Shui Wuyuan slowly sat up straighter and gave a cold "Heh."

The Liu Family Seven Brothers all slipped at the same time and kowtowed to their Immortal Pretty Boy.

Everyone: "..."

That was unnecessary, really unnecessary! We believe in your resolve already, okay!!

Author's note:

Liu Dalong: Clever as I am! For my brothers, I bore everything QAQ.

He Qinglan: Human thoughts are always very... well, difficult for gods to understand.

Shui Wuyuan: Heh! More people shamelessly clinging on and faking collisions! Rain God, "bless" them!

Chapter 18

The Liu Family Seven Brothers' simultaneous kneeling utterly stunned every onlooker. It shot straight onto that morning's trending searches, adding another stroke to the legend of Immortal Pretty Boy.

Related online comments and speculation also grew explosively—

[Shocked face.jpg. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, anyone who told me this wasn't staged would get a faceful from me!]

[After repeatedly watching it, I can confirm that those seven thugs really did kowtow to Immortal Pretty Boy, solidly and sincerely. My god, my knees hurt just watching through the screen. But what shocks me even more is what method Immortal Pretty Boy used to turn those seven thugs away from evil and back onto the right path?

They came to dump trash that very night, and by the next morning they had decided to become environmentalists? Even brainwashing isn't that fast, is it?!]