Chapter 18
" 'Cheng Ge, let Smiling do a stream with the camera on. We'll see her face
sooner or later, there's no need to hide.'-- --Hum, Comrade Smiling, come take
a look. Don't you think the bullet comment makes a lot of sense?" Xiao Rui spoke
to Tong Yao while looking at the Lu Sicheng's stream on the spare computer next
to Lu, supporting himself with one hand on the desk-- --
"You're going to be on stage competing during the Summer season, people will
see your face then anyway. Why hide!"
"I, I, I'll wear a mask!"
"Oh, wear a mask. Ok, then what about the official photo for the Summer season
competition? This summer we're going to have new uniforms and everyone has to
redo their pictures-- --You think the club will allow you to take the picture with the
mask on? Are you playing professional esports or playing the urban legend Kuchisake-onna?"
Tong Yao twitched the corner of her lips and just as she was about to speak, Lu
Sicheng slowly commented, "More like a female pervert than the Kuchisake-onna?"
"Oh." Rui Ge squinted and got closer to the screen and began reading the bullet
comments, " 'Female pervert, ahhhhh', 'Cheng Ge, you're so mean', 'Cheng Ge,
why are you so mean to my wife'-- --Eh, this is interesting. Comrade Smiling, you
even have male fans."
Lu Sicheng: "She won't have any after they see her face."
Tong Yao: "? ? ? ? !"
Xiao Rui looked at Tong Yao while pointing to the back of Lu Sicheng's head, "You
going to let him say that?"
Tong Yao: "What else can I do? Unplug his internet?"
Xiao Rui: "Start streaming as soon as possible to prove your charm. You were
streaming on Yellow Fish before, right? Have you signed a contract with them?"
Tong Yao: "No."
Xiao Rui: "Our team always streams on Panda, just join us. Anyway, all the official
members of the club have to stream. I'll get you the contract tomorrow…...."
Tong Yao: "? ? ? Wait, when did we talk about this?"
Xiao Rui: "Just now."
Tong Yao: "..."
Xiao Rui said seriously. "It's part of the job."
"Oh." The dedicated Tong Yao gave in after hearing what Xiao Rui said and agreed
obediently, "Alright."
Xiao Rui, satisfied with her answer, left the room after bending over to pick up Dabing
who had just finished the yogurt drink and was rubbing against Lu Sicheng's ankle…...
Lu Sicheng continued clicking his mouse. Tong Yao, who sat crossed legged on the
chair next to him, hadn't gotten over the fact that she had to stream.
Lu Sicheng glanced at her, "Why didn't you bargain just now? It was a good chance.
Maybe you could use your absurd argument that 'girls need to be in bed early in order
to get up early' to persuade Rui Ge to reduce your monthly stream time by 10 hours."
-- --According to the official rules by the creator of LoL, Riot Games, all active professional
esports players can't stream more than 45 hours a month. Usually the club will sign a
contract with a streaming platform for their players. The players can stream any time
during the month to fulfill the hours specified on the contract.
Tong Yao calculated with her fingers, "There's not much difference between 45 and 35 hours."
"No difference? Wait till you have to make up all the hours at the end of month."
"? ? ?"
"It's like when you procrastinate doing your kindergarten summer homework until the
day before school starts, then you have to catch up like crazy."
"What are you talking about? Speak nicely."
"This is a warning from your senpai. I'll do this kind of charity only once in my lifetime."
"..."
A charity that he would only do once in his lifetime?
It was very persuasive coming from Lu Sicheng.
Tong Yao was persuaded again.
She immediately got up from her chair. Lu Sicheng heard her move and turned his
head to glance at the person getting up in a rush next to him, "What?"
"I'm going to look for Rui Ge." With an appreciative expression, Tong Yao put on her
slippers, "To negotiate."
Tong Yao hurried away. Lu Sicheng smirked, turning back to focus on his game. After a
while, he suddenly remembered something. He switched the screen to check the bullet
comments, as expected, they were all like-- --
[Damn, why is our Cheng Ge so considerate? Is he high!!!∑(Дノ)ノ]
[He even instructed the new comer to bully Xiao Rui. Ahhhhhh, the world is changing.]
[Question: why is the water in the Huangpu River turning green? Answer: Because Li
Junhe (Pope) is washing his hair upstream. Hehe.]
[Hubby, why are you so tender with other girls. QAQ I'm unhappy with you. I'm going to
cancel my subscription.]
[I feel sorry for Little Fatty, he never received such a gift from Cheng Ge for two years.
Cheng Ge's only being gentle to this girl.]
[Sorry for Little Fatty 1]
[Sorry for Little Fatty 2]
[Sorry for Little Fatty 10086]
[Why doesn't anyone feel sorry for Li Junhe?]
[I can't even feel sorry for myself.]
Lu Sicheng: "..."
Lu Sicheng: "I'll stop streaming if you guys keep talking nonsense."
After he spoke, it was like someone had removed the ability for anyone to write bullet
comments. All the comments stopped.
He glanced at the quiet screen as if there was no audience at all, then returned to play
his game. He looked completely calm, as if nothing had happened.
The next day, when Lu Sicheng went downstairs after finally waking up, he
saw Tong Yao sitting on the sofa cross legged. Her tightly furrowed brows
could squish a fly. With a pen in her mouth, she seemed to hold deep grudge
against the stack of paper on the coffee table based on the glare she was giving it-- --
It was probably the stream contract that Xiao Rui had brought to her.
Lu Sicheng walked straight pass the coffee table to the refrigerator, taking out a
yogurt drink and gulping it down in two mouthfuls. After throwing the empty box
into the trash, he coldly said, "Just sign it. What's there to look at."
Tong Yao seemed to just realize that someone had come down. She raised her
head and looked at him in despair, "I lost the negotiation."
Lu Sicheng: "Oh."
Tong Yao: "That talk about girls needing to go to bed early didn't work."
Lu Sicheng lifted his head to glance at her, "What did Xiao Rui say?"
Tong Yao: "Rui Ge said that there are 22 hours before 10pm each day. The
average time for a stream is only one and a half hour each day and you can
squeeze out the time by farting one less time."
"What a vulgar analogy." Lu Sicheng commented. After pausing for a while, he
asked again, "Then what?"
"I even agreed with him." Tong Yao was desperate, " Cheng Ge, am I too easily
swayed?"
Lu Sicheng walked slowly over to Tong Yao and unexpectedly pinched her earlobe
with his icy fingers from the drink-- --Tong Yao jumped away. Lu Sicheng had already
retracted his hand and came to a conclusion, "You do have soft earlobes. Hrm, very
gullible indeed."[1]
Tong Yao blushed, rubbing the remaining cool sensation away from her ear. She used
her other hand to quickly sign the papers on the table. Afterwards, she threw away the
pen, leaned back into sofa, and spoke in a serious tone, "Cheng Ge, though I admire you
and I think you're a nice person, it's improper for a man and a woman to touch each other.
A man and woman need to keep a safe distance away from each other. You can't just touch
me for no reason..."
The man picked up the sleeping cat who had occupied his seat once again and threw the
cat onto the chair of its rightful owner. He raised his eyelids to glance at the owner of the cat-- --
She straightened her back, raising her chin slightly.
Lu Sicheng smiled briefly, "Oh."
Tong Yao felt that something bad was going to happen-- --
Indeed, she heard him open his mouth the next second, "You don't count as a woman, just
a kindergartener."
"What kindergartener!"
Tong Yao jumped up on the sofa-- --standing bare feet on the sofa-- --Now she was about
the same height as Lu Sicheng. She felt quite powerful in the moment and looked like she
was ready to rush over for a fight.
"I just started streaming."
Lu Sicheng indifferently pointed to the camera and pretended to turn the camera around
while he was talking.
"............"
Tong Yao instantly sat back down onto the sofa.
Then she lied down on the sofa.
-- --She performed the entire movement in one breath. It was so fast, it looked like she had
just finished her military training.
After a long while, she peeked out behind the arm of the sofa. Using a low voice, she
whispered, "You win."
Lu Sicheng briefly smiled, then lazily clicked open the game to get his ranked matches for
the day in. What Tong Yao, who was hiding inside the sofa afraid that he would turn the
camera towards her, didn't know was that the stream today was different. The bullet comments
read as follows-- --
[Streaming! But no camera!]
[Are you going to use the camera today, Cheng Ge (#`n)]
[Turn on the camera, camera, camera~]
[Why don't you turn on the camera!]
[No camera, no camera, then I don't have anything]
[No camera and no voice either. My roommate wants to see Cheng Ge's face and hear his
voice before he dies!]
...
He didn't turn on the camera.
He didn't even turn on the microphone.
Tong Yao, who was oblivious to all this, turned into a mute for more than an hour until Little
Fatty came over to ask her about the runes for a Mid champion. She turned on the game and
gestured to show him without making a sound. Little Fatty was confused, "You can just tell me,
I can understand."
Tong Yao glanced at Lu Sicheng who was still focusing on his game and lowered her voice,
"He's streaming."
Little Fatty: "The camera isn't on. It seems that the microphone isn't on either."
Tong Yao: "What?"
Tong Yao: "........................."
Tong Yao: "LU SICHENG! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !"
[1]: As you might have figured, in Chinese culture a soft ear is supposedly indicative of a gullible
person.