Chapter 28 - I reasonably suspect——that Xiao Yan definitely has an insider backer in StarTV!
Edited by Divetus and Noks
Yu Yan instinctively picked up the gla.s.s of water beside his hand and guzzled it down. He wasn’t sure why, but turning on the camera was an ordinary practice, so he didn’t have many worries about doing it originally.
But, as soon as he heard the words “I’ll be there”, his back quivered, and then his entire body started to go numb.
To top it all off, his viewers were also joining in on the fun and kicking up a fuss.
[I’m just going to live in this stream for the next two days!!!]
[Clicking to super follow this anchor. :)]
[Unfollowing. Let this relationship leave the best memories in my heart.]
[Can this basically count as a livestream meet up?]
[Oh, this fleeting love.]
Before exiting the livestream app on his cellphone, Yi Chen caught sight of a line in the barrage. He raised his eyebrow and asked, “Love?”
His voice had just fallen when the chat box suddenly turned blank——
[yanxyan has cleared the screen.]
Yu Yan said some bulls.h.i.t, “… Going to jump. Everyone, be civilized and just watch the stream. Don’t curse people out, otherwise your message will be cleared or you’ll be kicked out or banned.”
[???]
[Who cursed people out???]
Yi Chen looked away from the app and jumped off the plane with his teammates.
Yi Ran had also peeped at the barrage and was finally unable to endure it anymore. He looked up and asked the person sitting in front of him, “Ge, how did you find this anchor ah?”
“Randomly clicked on him.”
“He’s a new anchor, isn’t he ba? And he could just randomly get clicked on by you?” Yi Ran exclaimed. He suddenly thought of something and then slapped his knee. “Ge, since he signed a contract with the company, shouldn’t there be a picture to go with his information ba? Why don’t you go to the company and fish it out tomorrow to have a look…”
Yi Chen raised his eyes and glanced at him with a gaze that wasn’t gentle or critical; Yi Ran immediately shut up.
“That’s employee information. The company keeps it on file for business, not to satisfy your curiosity.”
Yu Yan didn’t stop streaming until it was nearly 12:30 a.m. After he turned off the livestream, he didn’t rush to turn off his computer.
He opened up Taobao, thought about it, and then input “webcam” into the search bar; countless product descriptions immediately jumped out at him.
He clicked to sort the listings by the highest sale volume, and all of them were cheap goods under 30 yuan. The store had countless poor reviews—after all, you get what you paid for—and these were all just bought for the purpose of video chatting with family members, and etc. No matter how poor the quality was, as long as the person could be seen, it was fine.
The girls who would video call their boyfriends wouldn’t even really buy these, let alone livestream anchors.
Yu Yan continued scrolling down the listings until he reached cameras with a price range of 600 to 900 yuan. It was only then he remembered that his original budget was just 300 yuan.
Your Great Lord Lu: Xiao Yan, do you remember the computer store near my house? They have a large amount of computer accessories, and I’m familiar with the owner’s wife, so I can get a discount. How about you come to me tomorrow, and I’ll go shopping with you?
Yu Yan: What are the prices over there?
Your Great Lord Lu: Seems to be all around 200 yuan. It’s very cheap.
Yu Yan: …
Your Great Lord Lu: What, too expensive?
Yu Yan: Is there one with like, lighting?
Your Great Lord Lu: …what kind??
Yu Yan paused for a bit. It was no wonder that Lu Xiuhe didn’t know what he was talking about, he also didn’t know how to clearly explain it.
Just as he was thinking about this, his QQ dinged again. He opened it and saw that it was a message from Tuantuan.
After the first time they had played together, Tuantuan had left her QQ information with him. Although they had added each other as friends, they had never talked.
Tuantuan: As the representative of my Jie/Mei group, I’d like to ask you when you plan to turn your camera on.
“…”
Yu Yan: After buying the webcam ba.
Tuantuan: You still haven’t bought a webcam yet??
Tuantuan: 82485x.x.x. Add this QQ account. We all buy our webcams from her, and she said that she’ll give you the dealer’s price.
Yu Yan hurriedly said thanks, and then added the account from the message.
The other party quickly accepted the friend request, and the chat box automatically popped out. Before Yu Yan could even type anything, the other side had already zoomed in and sent him several links in a row.
Lulu ya: You can see which one you like. The dealer’s price is 500 yuan cheaper than the listed price, and I’ll also include the setup, a stand, and a free-standing fill light.
Yu Yan: … Setup?
Lulu ya: Right. To set up the whitening and beautifying effects on your face. Have you seen banana’s livestream? His camera is this one [web link]. Zhu Bajie practically became Pan’an.
Lulu ya: Don’t worry, I’ve just become a fan of your CP. I can’t let your ship die as soon as you meet.
“…” He had just been wondering why she was being so enthusiastic.
Lulu ya: You’re going to take part in the anchor compet.i.tion later. If the webcam’s quality is too poor, it’ll definitely scare viewers away. Before, in the LoL category, there was an anchor, the strongest challenger player in the Ionia server, who used a broken camera, so his face was always blurry. After two months of streaming, his number never exceeded 10,000, but after he changed the camera, he’s now constantly on the hot popularity list.
… It was too real.
Yu Yan looked at the links sent by the other party. The prices were around 1000 to 1200, minus 500… It wasn’t unacceptable.
He looked back and forth, and in the end picked out a black webcam that looked like it had a simplistic design, and sent its link back to the other side.
The other party suddenly started a call. Yu Yan was given a scare and only picked up after a while.
“Little Didi, do you also want to buy some background decorations?” It was the voice of the No. 1 little Jiejie from Tuantuan’s group. “I’m too lazy to type so this way is more convenient for communication.”
“Okay, what is a background decoration?”
“It’s a background overlay for livestreams, you can use it to cover up the furniture and etc at home. We all use them.”
Lulu sent over ten images.
Yu Yan opened the images up and was stunned.
A large pink teddy bear, a large beige body pillow, a light pink blanket with StarTV’s logo printed on it…
At a glance, all the images were pink, white, and yellow.
Yu Yan said, “These… aren’t these a bit too fair and tender?”
“Ah, yes. I’m sorry, I’ve sent you the background decorations for female anchors.” Lulu froze for a bit. “I’ll resend some links to you.”
She paused and asked, “So, you don’t like stuff like this?”
Yu Yan: “…”
Why did her tone sound disappointed?
The links she sent the second time around were finally normal. There were posters of PUBG maps and pillows printed with level 3 helmet designs.
Yu Yan opened a calculator, calculated everything one by one, made sure that the price was within an acceptable range, and then finally sent the link for the chosen background decorations along with his selected camera model to Lulu.
“Eh? Are you from Manyang city?” Lulu looked at the address and said, “This factory is in Manyang. How’s this ba, I won’t tell them to mail it, I’ll just have him directly deliver it to you tomorrow.”
Yu Yan hurriedly said, “I can go pick it up there.”
“It’s fine, the dealer’s price already includes the delivery fee. You don’t have to thank me.”
Yu Yan was deeply moved and sighed, good people still existed in this world.
“Just send me a selfie and we’ll call it even.” Lulu added, “We’re so thirsty, it’s too hard to endure until tomorrow.”
——
At the end of the meeting, Yi Chen took the lead in getting up and leaving. Just after he left the meeting room, his cellphone rang.
Yi Ran asked, “Ge, where are you?”
“At the company.” He glanced at his a.s.sistant and motioned for him to stop reporting to him. “What’s wrong?”
“When will you be back?” Yi Ran asked, “Didn’t you say you wanted to watch Xiao Yan turn on the video camera?”
Yi Chen raised his eyebrows, “When is it?”
“It’s today ah! At 8:00 p.m, it’s written on his stream… Did you know that all those female anchors from the entertainment category are here? And they’re all sending presents to Xiao Yan; it’s especially exaggerated!” Yi Ran said, “I reasonably suspect——that Xiao Yan definitely has an insider backer in StarTV!”
“Hanging up.”
“Wait, Ge…”
Yi Chen hung up his phone and put it back into his pocket. He raised his chin towards his a.s.sistant. “Go on.”
The a.s.sistant hurriedly let out an “oh” and continued reporting.
The a.s.sistant was just finishing up the report when Yi Chen arrived at the office door.
When the secretary saw him coming back, he immediately got up and said, “President Yi, Mrs. Yi is waiting for you inside.”
“Then, I’ll print out the new contract first,” the a.s.sistant sensibly said.
“Go ba.”
Yi Chen pushed the door open. Mother Yi was there, sitting on the sofa and reading a magazine. When she saw him come in, she smiled. “I was in a bit of a hurry when coming here, and forgot to actually ask if you were free.”
Yi Chen smiled. “It’s okay. Why are you here?”
“Do you still have work to do?” She asked this, but in fact, she already learned his schedule from the secretary. After saying that, she continued, “Your father and I went back to England to attend an art exhibition; I told you about it before, do you remember?”
Yi Chen sat down at his desk. “I remember. You said that you liked it a lot.”
“Of course. It was a personal art exhibition, and the owner of the exhibition is a very lovely, beautiful Chinese girl. She’s about your age.” Mrs. Yi said with a smile, “She came back to China two days ago and invited me to have dinner with her.”
As Father Yi and Mother Yi had been abroad for many years, unlike most parents, they were more open to the topic of marriage than others, and didn’t urge Yi Chen to get married.
However, if there were any outstanding women around, Mother Yi couldn’t help but want to introduce them to her son.
Yi Chen took out his cellphone and turned it on. Apart from some work messages, there was nothing else.
Yi Chen had never refused her, so Mrs. Yi didn’t even bring the driver with her this time.
When she didn’t get an answer after a long time, she raised her eyebrows in surprise. “What, do you have another appointment?”
Yi Chen threw his cellphone aside and picked up his suit jacket as he left.
“Which restaurant?”
….
It was nearing 8:00 p.m, and the whole screen had already been blown up by the livestream’s barrage.
[Almost 8:00 p.m! Ten minutes left!!]
[f.u.c.k, why hasn’t Boss 1 come yet? Are they not doing the livestream face-to-face meeting?!]
[I’d like to ask why are several female anchors that I’m a fan of all here??? ]
[Why the interest in this anchor? He’s a new guy? New guys can have 40,000 popularity? You’re kidding me.]
[A man turning on his webcam, what’s so good about that??]
Yu Yan held his cellphone while reading out the gifter list. “Thank you Lulu and Tuantuan for your Myriads of Lights. Thank you Orange for the Little Star… Don’t keep spamming gifts guys, just act like usual and watch the stream properly.”
After that, he put his cellphone back onto the table for the nth time.
His chat box with 1 was still open on the cellphone’s screen.
[Is Boss 1 coming or not? Does he know that the anchor is turning on his video in the livestream today ah?]
Yu Yan said to himself, I didn’t tell him, so of course he wouldn’t know.
Would a male anchor specifically inform his boss that he was going to turn on his webcam?
Unlikely.
That would be too strange.
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that it made sense that he didn’t tell 1. He straightened his heart out and directly flipped his cellphone over.
If he kept looking at 1’s full moon profile picture, he wouldn’t be able to stop himself from sending messages.
When it was 7:59 p.m, the barrage became increasingly intense.
[Boss 1 didn’t come, boring.]
[Okay, love is over.]
[I’m crying, ahhhhhhhh. The face-to-face meeting I wanted to see isn’t happening!! It’s not meant to be!!!]
[Still one more minute! We can still hang on to it a bit!!!]
Yu Yan was inwardly calm and turned on the camera’s background settings. The moment the clock jumped to 8:00 p.m, he pressed the “finish” b.u.t.ton.
…
Yi Chen dropped his mother off at the restaurant and went straight home.
He turned on the computer and directly clicked on his only favorited livestream. The moment he entered the stream, the small anchor’s desktop wallpaper was immediately covered by other windows, and the video interface filled the entire screen——
It was a bright environment with game posters in the background, and behind him were several PUBG game items.
The boy quietly sat in the gaming chair. His hair was cleanly cut, looking fresh and cool. His eyes were bright and black with very distinct plump lower eyelids, making his eyes look soft. The bridge of his nose was very straight and tall, and below that, his lips were gently pursed.
He was dressed in a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows. The slender white arms revealed their owner’s slim body.
“Ah.” The boy suddenly let out an embarra.s.sed laugh, exposing a small tiger tooth. “Sorry, forgot to adjust the size of the video window.”
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Juurensha: You’re not disappointed, huh, Boss Yi?
Divi: Look at that glorious description. Now look at the pictures we have of Yanyan. Mmmm, Boss Yi, you lucked out!
Noks: Yes!!! A very adorable and handsome Yanyan! For a moment there, I thought Boss Yi would go for that meeting, but he just dropped his mother off and reached home right on the dot!
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