What was he joining in for?
Chu Xinghui pursed his lips, moving his mouse around the edge of the stream without clicking in.
But the viewers in his stream weren't having it.
[Why aren't you clicking in?]
[Ooh, ooh, ooh, you know to avoid suspicion now?]
[You've already worn matching outfits. What are you scared of? Be bold!]
He hesitated for a while, but finally clicked into the stream to see what exactly Pei Hanmo was doing.
Pei Hanmo had his camera on. He wasn't wearing his glasses today and was dressed in pajamas, apparently at home.
Comments flooded the stream. He picked out a few to answer, his tone mild:
"Why am I streaming? Gu Mingyue told me to."
"Gu Chupei will post the photos on Weibo in a few days."
"Are you really only streaming because you want Chu Xinghui's hearts?"
After reading that question, Pei Hanmo closed his mouth, his lips curling into a smile as he leaned back in his chair.
"That's a secret."
[Bro! That's it, isn't it? It is!]
[What are you smiling about? I'm asking you a question!]
[I've spotted lots of Xinghan Boys over the past two days. Don't tell me one of the actual guys has an alt in the super topic?]
At the sight of this, Chu Xinghui scoffed.
How could Pei Hanmo have an alt account on Weibo?
And in the Xinghan super topic, no less.
Was he probably doing it for publicity?
He thought of the contract they had signed. Pei Hanmo would only collaborate with him once Chu Xinghui had established a place for himself in the entertainment industry.
He clicked his mouse and sent all his remaining hearts.
[Streamer Chu Xinghui gifted Hearts ×52]
The moment he saw the number, he regretted it.
Why hadn't he taken a quick look at how many hearts he had left?
The stream had special effects for certain numbers.
Whenever someone sent 9, 99, 999, 52, or 520 gifts, hearts would float all across the stream.
The chat exploded.
[You did that on purpose, didn't you, Chu Xinghui!]
[Say no more. I get it, I get it~]
[Excuse me, are we part of your little game?]
[You're wrong, commenter above! Every streamer on Huanyu Live is part of their little game~]
[I'm dying. The other streamers: "My sincere devotion was all for nothing in the end!"]
Watching the hearts floating across his stream, the smile in Pei Hanmo's eyes grew more obvious.
"Thank you for the gifts, Boss Chu Xinghui. How generous of you, boss~"
[What's this? Why weren't you smiling this happily during the photo shoot?]
[Bro, what happened to your cool, aloof image? Did you eat it?]
The atmosphere was getting stranger and stranger. Chu Xinghui really couldn't watch anymore.
The people on his side were already urging them to have children.
Gu Kai couldn't ban them fast enough in the stream.
Everyone in there seemed to have ten alt accounts apiece.
Wincing, he linked the payment app on his phone and topped up his balance on the Huanyu Platform.
Then he opened the gift menu again.
There was a wide variety of gifts here, including but not limited to bouquets, luxury cars, ships, and so on.
Of course, there were also a few gifts that didn't look quite so friendly.
Rotten eggs and watermelon rinds.
If you disliked a streamer, you could send those two things.
Chu Xinghui had just received plenty of them in his own stream.
He searched through the gifting menu and found those two plain, unassuming gifts among the flashy assortment.
[Streamer Chu Xinghui gifted Watermelon Rinds ×123]
[Streamer Chu Xinghui gifted Rotten Eggs ×123]
[This must be the first time Pei Hanmo has received gifts like these, right?]
[I'm dying. Those two gifts will probably disappear from the gift menu in a couple of days.]
[Chu Xinghui: I'm off.]
After sending the message, he immediately left Pei Hanmo's stream.
This was no place to linger.
With no interaction between the two of them, half the viewers immediately left his stream.
Chu Xinghui wasn't upset either. He opened a browser page and typed in 4399.
[Everyone else is trying to retain their fans, and you're playing browser games?]
[Chu Xinghui, this is your first stream! Could you take it a little more seriously?]
[Show us your talents! Do a backflip! Bite a lighter! Cross-dress!!!]
[Cross-dress!!]
[Cross-dress!!]
"What do you mean, cross-dress?
Huanyu Live requires its streamers to cross-dress?"
Chu Xinghui hadn't learned Huanyu's rules yet. Seeing the messages in the chat, his eyes widened in shock.
Cross-dress?
What the hell?
[You didn't know? All Huanyu streamers have to cross-dress when they reach ten million followers.]
[Right, right. We'll give you a bargain this time, a ninety-percent discount. You can cross-dress at one million.]
[Gu Mingyue next door has done it.]
"No need for that."
He covered his face, unable to imagine someone as cheerful as Gu Mingyue cross-dressing.
Every time a new streamer arrived, Gu Mingyue's cross-dressing would get brought up again.
How terrifying.
He browsed the games on the webpage and clicked on Fight the Landlord.
"Tonight, I'll show you what I can do."
He rolled up his sleeves and licked his lips.
He had never lost when playing Fight the Landlord with Pei Hanmo.
[You've run out of Happy Beans. Could you show a little skill, streamer?]
[Huihui, don't be sad. Even my niece... uh, okay, my niece could've won that round.]
The huge word "Defeat" on his computer stabbed Chu Xinghui in the eyes.
He didn't understand. How could this happen?
"I give up, I give up."
He had streamed for long enough now anyway, so he got ready to end it.
He didn't want to see that little old man wearing a white headscarf anymore.
"See you next time~"
[Ending the stream in disgrace (confirmed)]
The day after tomorrow was the shoot for the second episode of "Let's Travel Together," and Chu Xinghui wanted to go out and buy some hanfu.
Thinking of what the fans in his stream had said about Gu Mingyue cross-dressing, he grew a little curious.
He tossed and turned in bed, unable to sleep.
He found a recording of that day's stream online.
Gu Mingyue had the classic look of a bright, cheerful young man, a little like Man Feiluan.
But a little more mature than him.
If it were Man Feiluan cross-dressing, he could picture it, but Gu Mingyue...
He reached out and opened the stream.
At first, the camera wasn't on. There was only a game screen.
Then, all of a sudden, Gu Mingyue's voice burst out.
"Welcome to the stream, everyone."
His voice was extremely deep and gruff. It was obvious he was deliberately lowering it to imitate Zhang Fei.
[? Who are you?]
[I'm waiting for Gu Mingyue to cross-dress. Who are you?]
Gu Mingyue switched on his camera, and a small box appeared at the top of the screen. The person inside wore a white princess dress, with a few little decorative red flowers on his face and a white veil on his head. His exposed arms showed off powerful muscles. It couldn't be called ugly, just extremely incongruous.
But that didn't stop the people in the stream from watching.
Every one of them began howling.
Gu Mingyue wasn't timid either. He opened the game and turned on his microphone.
"Older Brother! How! About! I play Yao!"
His mighty voice reached his teammates through the microphone, and they switched on their mics one after another.
"Whoa, a guy playing Yao. Come on, come on, bro, I'll carry you."
"Older Brother, I thank ya!"
What had originally been a pretty wedding dress became, with Gu Mingyue's shouting, an outfit for heading straight onto the battlefield.
His vision went dark. He put down his phone and decided he was better off sleeping.
Early the next morning, Chu Xinghui received a flood of mentions on Weibo.
Almost all of them came from the same Weibo post. He clicked into it.
[Mingyue's Little Darling: @Chu Xinghui You're the first celebrity to snoop on Mingyue through my profile without using an alt account (death smile.jpg). How about making an alt account?]
A screenshot was attached below. Under "Who viewed my profile," Chu Xinghui's name lay there quietly.
Below it was a sea of "hahahaha."
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