Chapter 124: CH 124

Moving was a big hassle, and Wen Chuo followed the agent around a few times before finally settling on a place that he was satisfied to rent. The original owner had left some furniture in the space and they didn’t bring too much luggage with them, but to move in and clean up, it still took quite a bit of time. In no time at all, half a month had already passed.

Two bedrooms, one living room, one bathroom and one kitchen. Wen Chuo set up one of the bedrooms as his streaming room: a computer and a background poster on the wall along with some other simple decorations, and it was done. He then finally went live again, ending the waiting period for all his screaming fans lying in wait for him to come back.

He had not updated his status in a long time and there were a million DMs piled up in his inbox. Wen Chuo looked over each one and found that the video and livestreaming platform, DK, had sent him an invitation to an event. It was mostly aimed at the big streamers in their gaming category, and the aim was to hopefully get them to interact with each other. After that, there would be some highlights cut out of their co-op stream, and using the view count and like ratio as the decider, letting the audience vote for their favorite, the event would end in a competition for a prize of a few thousand dollars and a promoting spot on the homepage.

No need to look into the details any further as with << Jue Jing >> as DK’s sponsor, this was just another advertisement campaign.

This event was only for seven days, and today was the fifth day. Money was one thing, but the ability to be pushed onto the homepage as a gaming streamer was what caused a lot of fuss. Quite a few streamers banded together to pair up and did some wacky things to attract viewers. Only the top few popular streamers did not do anything.

Most of them already had quite a lot of popularity and made a name for themselves very early on. Being on the homepage, to them, was not a big deal. Whether they could be or not, it didn’t matter to them. Wen Chuo had purely seen the news too late, as otherwise he would have really gone all out for that money prize.

Each streamer in their section actually had a lot of private interactions with each other. Some even specifically started group chats, but Wen Chuo at that time had not been too into socializing, so the streamers he knew were nil. Now that they would have to stream together, he didn’t know who to find.

Without putting a lot of thought into it, he sent out a status in a call for help:

Today’s friendly competition stream, any streamer who looks kindly on me, please DM me. The homepage will be yours, money’s all mine (nibbling on melon seeds).

Wen Chuo was truly poor at this time. To rent the apartment, he had to pay half of the rent as a deposit upfront, so his wallet was now practically empty. Previously, all his status updates had been serious and few, as if they were gold, pasting on a very honest and earnest propriety to them that the sudden switch to this mischievous side, it did break his image a bit.

— K-Da you finally showed up. I thought you disappeared into the wind. If you need money, just holler. We’ll spare you some change!

— Omona, that was so funny. Pretend all you want to be so cold and high up normally, but when it’s desperate times, you can’t even find someone huh. Wait a bit, I’m just creating a streamer account to help you. Hold up, wait for me!

— @Wan Ye @Chuo Dao Duan Shui @Mao Zi Shen Shi,1 come take a look, come take our family’s main streamer, our child’s too pitiful. Help out a little bit please, he only wants money.

These @’s didn’t matter much, but a few minutes passed and an unimaginable person suddenly popped up……

Wan Ye: Already DM’ed. Whenever you want to go online. You set the time.

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The comment section paused for that one second before suddenly exploding and going haywire. A few who had great imagination immediately set up their own scene, thinking that Wan Ye was issuing a battle, where each word and action seemed to be about to ignite into flames. After all, before this, fans had been split into two sides and fighting nonstop wherever they met, despising each other on sight.

Bai Yang erased the drawing and re-sketched the lines. Right at this time, there was suddenly a shadow by his hand, and looking over, he saw a young shorthair cat curling up on the desk. Its big dark murky eyes were staring at him as it kept meowing.2

A human and a cat stared at each other.

Wen Chuo thought that this scene looked too funny, and he leaned against the desk, chuckling, 

“Ah, do you like it? I took a long time to pick him out.”

Wen Chuo thought about it, 

“You’re called Bai Yang, he’ll be Hei Yang.”3

Bai Yang: “……”

Notes:

*1 These are account names obviously, but Chuo Dao Duan Shui means to take a knife and stop flowing water; it’s an idiom that comes from a poem and it basically means that you are trying to stop something, but you actually make it worse. Mao Zi Shen Shi is a gentleman wearing a hat.

*2  Shorthair Cat (藍短貓) – I originally had it as Chartreux cat, as I was just pairing pictures up, trying to find the best fit, when I first searched the name (and hoped it was right), but the more I looked, I think it might actually be a shorthair cat, which would make more sense given the name (and more pictures seemed to be of the British shorthair, but I’m not sure)… If anyone knows, please let me know! I’m not sure about cat breeds (or any animal breeds for that matter…) : )

*3  Like the title, Bai in Bai Yang means white, Hei = Black, so he’s making a play on the color words here.

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