The golden retriever came trotting back again, wagging its tail. This time, when Ji Zhaoxi threw its toy, it didn’t even go after it. All it wanted was for her to play tug-of-war.
Ji Zhaoxi had just started replying to a message when the golden retriever silently placed its tail over her phone.
One person and one dog stared at each other in silence.
Ji Zhaoxi had no choice but to play tug-of-war with it. She pulled with one hand while sending Lu Huainan a voice message with the other. “Lu Huainan, I sent you the academic calendar. My advisor said we’re following the university calendar.”
She was panting from exhaustion, but the golden retriever only grew more excited, its tail wagging nonstop.
When Lu Huainan saw the voice message, his heart seemed to stop for a moment. He carefully tapped it open and listened to her voice over and over.
Then he opened her Moments. The video was somewhat dark. A golden retriever was rolling around on the grass, while her voice drifted in and out from the background. He silently gave it a like.
For the next few days, the two of them didn’t contact each other. Lu Huainan quietly lurked on the Weibo accounts of several major fans and learned the time of Ji Zhaoxi’s next livestream.
He still wanted to join her fan group. That way, he would know whenever she went live. But he simply couldn’t get in…
Ji Zhaoxi’s parents also knew that she livestreamed regularly. They never disturbed her while she was streaming and would conveniently drag away the golden retriever, which had been pretending to be pitiful the whole time.
Ji Zhaoxi adjusted the lighting and started her livestream. It had been a while since she had last gone live.
The moment the livestream began, fans flooded in. Ji Zhaoxi adjusted the camera angle.
[My girl is finally streaming again 😭]
[Why are you streaming today? I already spent all my pocket money for this week!]
[Hurry up and do a PK battle. I just got paid a few days ago, haha.]
[Whoa, are you at home?]
As she adjusted the lights, Ji Zhaoxi answered the questions scrolling across the screen. “Yep, I’m at home.”
Recently, quite a few new streamers had appeared, and the traffic had been divided among them.
Once her equipment was finally set up, Ji Zhaoxi looked at the comments. “Do you want to do a PK battle? Maybe we shouldn’t. Let’s just chat instead.”
It had been a long time since she had chatted with everyone.
Just then, a message suddenly popped up on her WeChat. It was from her eldest sister.
[Do a PK battle.]
The comments were also full of complaints.
[PK battle!]
[Why aren’t you doing a PK battle? We don’t want to chat 😭]
[Can you do one with Lin Zhehan?]
Ji Zhaoxi immediately became serious. Since everyone was so eager to give her money, she might as well empty her pockets and wait for them to throw it in.
The battle hadn’t even started, yet her eldest sister had already begun sending gifts. Carnivals instantly filled the entire screen.
Ji Zhaoxi frantically swiped through the list. “Sis, wait a moment. I haven’t found someone to battle yet. Send them after the PK starts.”
Everyone else was already doing PK battles, and she had no idea whom to choose.
A comment drifted across the screen.
[Summer: I’ll be busy later, so I’m sending them to you in advance.]
Ji Zhaoxi suddenly understood. “So that’s why. Thank you, Summer.”
As soon as the Carnivals were sent, Summer immediately left Ji Zhaoxi’s livestream. She looked incredibly busy.
[So many Carnivals! Summer is forever the best 😭]
[Summer spoils Xixi so much ❤️]
[Thank you, Summer!]
Because of that shower of Carnivals, quite a few passersby entered the livestream.
[What kind of streamer is this? Her big sister is loaded!]
[The government really needs to crack down on these streamers. They contribute nothing to society. They make this much money from a single PK battle—they’re parasites!]
[Are these gifts being sent by her agency?]
[Harmony at Home, Prosperity in All Things: It’s great to be a woman. You can make money from rich men just by turning on a beauty filter. Now I want to become a female streamer too 😂]
[Harmony at Home, Prosperity in All Things: Turn off the beauty filter! Let’s see whether there’s a person or a ghost underneath it!]
On the other side of the screen, a man sat beneath dim lighting, hammering away at his keyboard. He looked absolutely furious.
These female streamers knew nothing but how to swindle men out of their money every day.
He was just about to continue posting comments when a private message suddenly popped up. The moment he saw the profile picture, his face lit up. It looked like a woman’s account.
He hurriedly opened the message, but the instant he read it, his expression changed completely.
[Li Tianjun, you work for the government, don’t you? If you keep spouting nonsense in livestreams, I’ll send records of your visits to prostitutes straight to your work unit.]
The man’s face turned deathly pale.
A voice suddenly came from outside the room. He instinctively covered his phone, cold sweat breaking out across his back.
Gritting his teeth, he sent a message to the other person.
[How did you find that out? What you’re doing is illegal!]
The reply came almost immediately.
[Hehe 😬]
A baby began crying outside again. Before long, someone started cursing at the door. The man’s voice trembled as he shouted toward the outside, “I know! I’m going to mix the formula right now!”
By then, Ji Zhaoxi had already begun her PK battle. As usual, she was facing a familiar opponent.
Sanzi looked extremely unhappy. Even when he asked his viewers to send gifts, he sounded completely listless.
[L sent 99 Carnivals]
[L sent 99 Romantic Carriages]
…
This time, there was no Zhu Bajie mask or giant-beard effect.
The comments were highly dissatisfied.
[Why are you putting on an act?]
[🙄]
[Ugh… trying so hard to get attention…]
[Come on, don’t be like that. At least the money is going into Xixi’s pocket 😭]
[He’s finally acting like a normal person.]
Ji Zhaoxi had originally planned to thank L, but seeing the screen filled with angry comments, she pretended not to notice. She would send L a private thank-you message after the livestream ended.
Just then, a familiar ID suddenly sent her a gift.
[San-san’s Little Train sent 10 Carnivals]
Ji Zhaoxi froze. Wasn’t that Sanzi’s biggest supporter? Why was she sending gifts to her?
She hesitated before saying, “Thank you to San-san’s Little Train for the ten Carnivals…”
When Sanzi heard Ji Zhaoxi’s voice, his face stiffened. He stared at her in disbelief.
Ji Zhaoxi silently met his gaze.
Sanzi’s eyes reddened with fury. He frantically opened Ji Zhaoxi’s follower list, and sure enough, he spotted his biggest supporter at a glance.
Ji Zhaoxi!
Ji Zhaoxi quietly turned on Sanzi’s microphone.
Sanzi choked back a sob and played an extremely sorrowful piece of background music. Gripping the microphone, he spoke in a hoarse voice. “It’s okay, San-san’s Little Train. If Ji Zhaoxi can make you happy, then stay in her stream. We livestreamers are just here to have fun. It’s your freedom.”
A sorrowful female voice played in the background, and tears immediately fell from Sanzi’s eyes. “Sis, if you ever miss Sanzi, you can come back.”
Ji Zhaoxi watched as San-san’s Little Train repeatedly entered and left her livestream. The woman was clearly extremely agitated.
It looked like Sanzi had gotten into a fight with his biggest supporter.
With Sanzi’s sad background music playing, Ji Zhaoxi said earnestly, “Sanzi, since you can’t make Sis happy, then let me be the one to make her happy.”
The other two streamers in the PK battle watched in silence.
Were they still supposed to keep battling? There were five minutes left…
Ji Zhaoxi followed San-san’s Little Train and gave her a sincere smile. “Thank you, Sis, for the ten Carnivals. You can even change your ID to ‘Ji Zhaoxi’s Little Train.’”
The live-chat comments were just as enthusiastic in welcoming her.
[Welcome, Little Train sis!]
[Thanks, sis, for the ten Carnival gifts!]
[Sis is so generous! [Scatters flowers] [Scatters flowers]]
The tear-streaked girl on the other side of the screen froze as she stared at Ji Zhaoxi’s public chat.
She had never been welcomed like this before. Whenever she sent gifts to Sanzi, his fans would curse her in the chat, saying she was obsessed with being a sister-in-law.
When she first started sending Sanzi gifts, he had been very attentive. But later on, he stopped replying to her messages and only contacted her when there was a major PK battle…
Across the screen, Sanzi stared at Ji Zhaoxi, his expression twisting for a moment.
What the hell was wrong with Ji Zhaoxi?!
He was actually trying to steal Sanzi’s biggest supporter right in front of him?!
