Shen Ting dragged his suitcase into the room the production team had prepared for him.
There was a camera in the room too. Once the guest covered it before bed, the livestream would automatically shut off.
Su Weiwang was the first to cover his camera.
His heart raced, his hands trembled. At last, this socially anxious soul had a little world all to himself again.
Shen Rui casually covered the camera while taking off his suit jacket.
Bai Yuanyuan was in no hurry to turn hers off. Instead, she shared her skincare tips with the camera, only smiling, blowing a kiss, and covering it after putting on a face mask.
Meng Yun went with the reckless approach. Without even turning off the camera, he burrowed under the covers and went straight to sleep.
[Boring. So boring. (Quietly judging.)]
[Aaaaah, our baby Yu Yu fresh out of the bath!]
[What? What?! Where?]
[We get to see this without paying?!]
Seeing this message, viewers from several streams all flooded into Su Yu's livestream.
Su Yu had just finished showering, and an oversized bathrobe hung loosely on his body.
He acted as though he had only just noticed the camera in the room. His face flushed bright red with embarrassment as he nervously tried to cover it with his hand, but because he was too close and wasn't covering it properly, the view was even clearer.
[Aaaaah! Closer! Closer!]
[His skin is so nice~]
[Baby, you're my god!!!]
[Hahahahaha!]
[What are you laughing at up there?]
[I'm begging everyone to head over to Shen Ting's stream. Even a Peashooter would bow down to that mouth of his!]
In an instant, the crowd charged into Shen Ting's livestream instead.
Shen Ting was sprawled lazily on his bed, engaged in his nightly routine of browsing trending topics.
He scrolled through them one by one until he reached the last two.
#Su Yu fresh out of the bath#
#Si Chen's commanding sitting pose max#
Shen Ting opened the video. Watching Su Yu's painfully deliberate movements, he shook his head in disappointment.
"In life, having nothing going on isn't the problem. Being overly dramatic is. It was written right there in the contract, and the director reminded everyone before we came. But when it's your turn, your eyes glaze over, your mind goes blank, and you forget everything?"
"And look how wide those gaps between your fingers are. Just how scared are you that we won't see? Even a honeycomb coal briquette doesn't have as many holes as you have schemes."
"If the director saw this in the middle of the night, he'd leap out of bed shouting, 'Shit! If there was something wrong with you, you should've said so sooner!'"
[Hahaha, Shen Ting's mouth really is coated in poison. Everything he says is exactly what I want to hear.]
[Now that he puts it that way, shit, it really does look deliberate.]
Shen Ting looked at the last trending topic. Si Chen sat on a dark red sofa holding a wineglass, his left leg crossed over his right... and then... he didn't move.
???
Question marks were written all over Shen Ting's face. Had the video frozen? He dragged the progress bar and found nothing wrong with the connection or the video. That left only one truth: there was something wrong with the man!
As Shen Ting watched the motionless scene, numerous viewer comments appeared on the screen. Naturally, most were from Si Chen's fans.
Sisi (Shen Ting, get lost): Si Chen is so handsome! That aura is killing me!
Taro Ball (Shen Ting, get lost): Si Chen really has that domineering CEO vibe. I'd willingly walk right into his trap.
Tiantian (Shen Ting, get lost): I could watch this all night!
Shen Ting stared at the scrolling comments in utter shock. Pointing at them, he remarked in wonder.
"This world has finally gone so insane I don't recognize it anymore."
"But it's pretty boring with no talking. Let me add some music for you."
"At a time like this, I have to bring out the hidden-gem livestream I've been keeping to myself."
Shen Ting took out his spare phone and found a livestream featuring a burly man in a fitted suit, walking in place.
Shen Ting spent sixty yuan.
Two gifts popped up in the livestream.
Shen Ting V [Rank 6]: Sisi 666, Taro Ball 999, Tiantian, Chen Chen (male).
Just as the viewers and fans were wondering what he was up to, a deep, husky voice with an old-school vocal fry suddenly rang out from Shen Ting's phone.
"Sisi, come here. Gimme a kiss!"
"Taro Ball, come here. Hug me!"
"Tiantian, woman, you're playing with fire!"
"Chen Chen, baby, I'm here. Come sit in hubby's lap!"
Hearing the voice from the livestream, Shen Ting couldn't keep the corners of his mouth from lifting.
His livestream completely exploded with laughter!
[Hahahahaha, honk, honk, honk... I seriously can't take it!]
[I'm dying laughing. Clearly Shen Ting's internet runs on 5G.]
[Sixty yuan won't buy you a loss or a scam, but it will buy you the perfect voice-over for Si Chen!]
[Help, I'm still hooked up to an IV. The nurse is looking at me like I'm an idiot.]
[That vocal fry has seriously got me.]
[I just came across that stream. The Chen in Chen Chen is Si Chen's Chen. We all know what Shen Ting means by that.]
[Calling tomorrow morning's trending topic now: Si Chen belongs to the livestream's domineering CEO. Hahaha.]
After listening, Shen Ting left the livestream. Just when everyone thought he was going to sleep, he picked up his phone again and opened a familiar game app.
"What's the daily schedule of today's young people?"
"If the moon won't sleep, neither will I. I'm a happy little darling~" Shen Ting answered his own question, his fingers dancing as he executed one move after another.
First blood!
Penta kill!!!
In the room next door, Su Yu had only just turned off his camera when his assistant knocked on the door.
"What is it?" Su Yu tugged at the clothing on his shoulder, sitting haughtily on the edge of the bed as he sent messages.
"Su Yu, this is bad! Shen Ting's causing trouble again. Hurry, take a look!" The assistant anxiously handed over a phone.
Su Yu took it impatiently, but after watching only the beginning, he sat bolt upright on the bed, gripping the phone tightly as his nails scraped hard against the screen.
"Has Shen Ting gone mad? Didn't Jin Wang say he'd already spoken to Shen Ting's manager? Why is this still happening? Nothing has gone the way we expected since this morning." Su Yu seized the assistant's hand, his expression vicious.
All the assistant could feel was intense pain in his hand. The skin had probably been broken.
Jin Wang was Su Yu's manager.
"M-Mr. Jin said Shen Ting's old manager was fired by his company. He doesn't have a manager right now, so no one can control him."
"What about his company? Can't Jin Wang talk to them? Even if Shen Ting is the Shen family's young master, there's still a contract. With his personality, he won't ask his family for help. He'll have no choice but to obey."
"Mr. Jin said Shen Ting's current company has officially been ac-acquired by the Shen Corporation." Tears in his eyes, the assistant tried to pull his hand free.
At that, Su Yu released the hand of the person in front of him and lowered his head. His medium-length bangs just covered his eyes.
"All right, I know. I'll handle this myself. But I don't want to see any trending topics that make me look bad tomorrow morning. Got it?"
"Y-yes. I'll go tell Mr. Jin right now." The assistant fled Su Yu's room.
Su Yu paid no attention to the departing assistant. Instead, he sat back on the table, loosened his clothes a little more, put on some light makeup, and left the room. With a bottle of wine in hand, he knocked on the door next door.
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