After refusing to PK with the Eager Puppy across from her for the nth time, Ji Zhaoxi hurriedly ended her stream.
Because of this, the company specifically sent her a message.
【Xiao Ji, you need to think long-term. The cat-and-dog couple persona is incredibly popular right now. You two will definitely attract a lot of shippers.】
【If your CP gets popular, your fans will send you gifts, and those CP fans will send you gifts too. Isn’t that a win-win?】
【If you don’t want to be the cat, you can be the dog instead! Let her be the cat!】
Ji Zhaoxi flatly refused.
No.
After just one voice connection, her fans already liked that Eager Puppy so much. If they connected more often, who knew what would happen?
While she slept soundly, an ID was diligently posting clips of Ji Zhaoxi’s “public persona collapse.”
【L: Her pupils suddenly widened at this moment because she saw the comments praising the streamer across from her. She was starting to lose control and cry.】
【L: She said she was whispering to her fans, but she didn’t say anything at all. She just didn’t want someone from the same company piggybacking on her popularity. Ji Zhaoxi must have forgotten how she used to leech off other people’s popularity! ［Attached: Seventy screenshots from when Ji Zhaoxi first started streaming］】
【L: Even a business marriage is being brought up now. If she really has a business marriage, I’ll eat my words.】
In an instant, Ji Zhaoxi’s Douyin feed was flooded with the clips posted by this L, and passersby poured in.
【Okay, now I get it. The blogger is a Ji Zhaoxi anti-fan, right? Their profile has over a thousand videos, and every single one is about Ji Zhaoxi. How much do they hate her?】
【Am I the only one who noticed that the blogger started trashing Ji Zhaoxi right when there were only two people in her livestream?】
【That’s some serious hatred.】
When Ji Zhaoxi had first started streaming, she had thought L was just playing around with her. Every day, L would say they hated her in the livestream, yet they would send her gifts every day—though they were always hideous gifts.
She would still politely thank them, and every time she did, L would send even more gifts. The public chat would fill with the special effects of Pigsy gifts.
Ji Zhaoxi assumed L liked Pigsy, since they sent Pigsy every day. “L, do you really like Pigsy that much? Then I’ll call you Pigsy from now on.”
L fell silent for a while. Then they stopped sending Pigsy gifts and switched to a bearded-man effect.
At that time, Ji Zhaoxi wasn’t getting much traffic, and hardly anyone wanted to enter her livestream when she was streaming every day with a giant beard covering her face.
So she had no choice but to chat with L. It wasn’t until her following grew larger that she realized L had actually been insulting her…
Most beauty streamers disliked ugly special effects. Some even banned viewers from sending them in their livestreams.
L’s dislike had been so subtle that Ji Zhaoxi genuinely hadn’t noticed.
Eventually, L realized that Ji Zhaoxi truly couldn’t understand what they were doing, so they began attacking her in writing instead.
And they had continued doing so ever since.
One anti-post every day, never missing a day.
Early the next morning, Ji Zhaoxi nearly exploded with rage when she saw the dozens of new videos.
Her fans kept reporting the videos, but L had dozens of accounts, popping up endlessly like cockroaches.
She decided to test them. Using an alternate account, she sent L a private message on Weibo.
【Ji Chaoxi’s Little Fan: Buddy, I actually hate Ji Zhaoxi too.】
The reply came almost immediately.
【L: ?】
【Ji Chaoxi’s Little Fan: I saw her at the beef noodle place last time too. She really is a liar!】
Ji Zhaoxi had typed the words through gritted teeth, but she was willing to go all out to uncover L’s identity.
【L: ……】
Ji Zhaoxi choked when she saw the reply, but continued trying to get closer to them.
【Ji Chaoxi’s Little Fan: Seriously, I’m one of her earliest fans. I know what kind of person she is. I’ve even infiltrated her fan group.】
At last, the other side stopped replying with punctuation marks.
【L: You say you’re one of her earliest fans, but why don’t I recognize you? I’m the one who’s been her fan since the beginning.】
Ji Zhaoxi: ……
【L: You say you hate her too? Fine. Then tell me the date of her first livestream.】
Ji Zhaoxi froze when she saw the question. She seriously tried to remember what date her first livestream had been.
Before she could figure it out, another message popped up.
【L: You can’t even answer something this simple? Fine, here’s a second question. What color does she wear most often when streaming?】
【Ji Chaoxi’s Little Fan: Aren’t these questions a little too difficult…】
Ji Zhaoxi fell completely silent.
Was this what people meant when they said hatred lasted longer than love…?
【L: You can’t even answer such simple questions, yet you have the nerve to call yourself her anti-fan? Blocked.】
As the person in this world who hated Ji Zhaoxi the most, L knew every single thing about her—everything she did, everything she liked, and everything she disliked.
That was what a true anti-fan looked like: someone capable of stabbing straight into her heart.
Not someone who simply hurled vulgar abuse.
Ji Zhaoxi suddenly felt a little impressed by L. Hating someone to this extent really did require a certain level of skill.
She didn’t have the time to remember what color someone wore most often.
Previously, Ji Zhaoxi’s fans had tried to dox L, but all they got was a close-up photo of a sixty-year-old man…
They hadn’t uncovered L’s identity and had instead been blocked. This left Ji Zhaoxi extremely frustrated.
L was far too cautious.
Once she arrived at the laboratory, she began observing all the senior students around her. What if L was hiding among them?
“Junior Sister, stop looking around and do your experiment,” her senior sister said helplessly.
Every so often, Ji Zhaoxi would search the laboratory for a spy. Everyone was already used to it.
Her gaze shifted to the senior student in the corner, who was huffing and puffing as he worked on his experiment. Sweat glistened on his forehead, and his eyes remained fixed on the microscope.
Just as he finally managed to observe the results, he suddenly sensed an intense gaze. Slowly, he turned his head and locked eyes with Ji Zhaoxi, who was staring at him with utmost seriousness.
The senior student was silent for a moment. “Junior Sister, is it possible that I simply don’t have time to watch livestreams?”
After everyone else left, he still had to remain behind to do work for their supervisor. He did the most work in the laboratory and was always the last to leave.
Ji Zhaoxi shifted her gaze away. Someone as familiar with her as L had to be hiding somewhere nearby.
Then her eyes suddenly stopped on Lu Huainan, who was sitting far away from her.
He sat alone at a distance, his eyes lowered as he quietly worked on his experiment.
The more Ji Zhaoxi looked at him, the more familiar he seemed. She frowned. Had she seen Lu Huainan somewhere before?
The next second, Lu Huainan met her gaze.
When he noticed Ji Zhaoxi looking at him, his expression remained unchanged. He simply stared back at her calmly.
Ji Zhaoxi: ……
She coughed and pretended to be busy tidying the things on her desk. Then she glanced over again.
Lu Huainan was still staring at her.
Ji Zhaoxi choked, then turned her head away.
It definitely couldn’t be Lu Huainan. He hated her so much.
Only after Ji Zhaoxi finally turned away did Lu Huainan resume his experiment.
