Ch7 - Cyber Sweetie’s Gege

Edited by Divetus and kat

Shen Qi kicked Lu Tun from the team and explained to his livestream viewers, “He has something to do, so he can’t play.” 

Lu Tun, who had been muted: “….”

He took the free glowstick gifts that he received from the platform for afking on streams and smashed them all onto Shen Qi, banned the antis that were in the livestream, and then went to go train in low spirits.

He didn’t dare to tell Shen Qi that the team manager had sent him back to the youth division.

…. 

“Gege, duo?” Shen Qi glanced at WeChat, and saw that friend request hadn’t been accepted yet.

Pink Loli Head’s account was still in the livestream.

[The double standards have begun]

[These damn double standards are so sweet]

[Aren’t I a fan of your skills??? Why do I have to watch Sweetie flirt with boys?!!!]

Fu Mingyuan logged into the WeChat that he hadn’t opened for a long time and saw the friend request. The other party’s profile picture was a handwritten “Qi” character, which made him pause for a moment.

That person also had “Qi” in his real name.

Fu Mingyuan let out a self-mocking chuckle as he rubbed his water glass. How could there be so many coincidences in this world? 

He ignored the other party’s “Hello Gege” friend request message and accepted the request. Then, he slowly typed out all the medicine names again.

When he heard the “improper anchor” calling out to him, his typing grew slower, and he thought for a bit with his eyebrows scrunched up. Then, he picked up his younger brother’s cellphone again to reply——

[Pink Loli Head: Not playing.]

Just saying that seemed impolite, so he added: [Don’t have a computer here] 

He was at the company, and there really was no computer for him to play games on.

Shen Qi let out a very quiet “ah,” sounding a bit regretful.

He looked down at the other party’s WeChat interface on his phone that kept indicating “Typing,” and felt that he was a little cute.

It couldn’t be that Gege was typing all those medicine names again, right? 

Shen Qi’s heart felt a bit itchy.

He simply put his cellphone down and queued into a solo match, ignoring the barrage that was laughing at him for being rejected once again.

By the time Fu Mingyuan had sent over all the medicine names, Shen Qi had already started another match.

“I’ll show you guys a textbook example for using a 98K.” 

When Du Jing entered the room, he just so happened to hear this sentence.

He was somewhat surprised. He glanced at Fu Mingyuan, who had a completely serious expression on his face, and asked, “Was that the same anchor from the other day?”

Fu Mingyuan turned over his cellphone on the table and nodded.

Now it was Du Jing’s turn to frown. “You’re aware that Song Shi was exposed some time ago for giving gifts worth millions of yuan to a female anchor, right?” 

Song Shi was a new actor in their company.

Fu Mingyuan shook his head. He usually didn’t even look at Weibo.

Du Jing sighed. “He got familiar with a female anchor and added her on WeChat. As a result, that female anchor dug up his real identity and tried to ride on his coattails.”

Before Du Jing had finished speaking, he was interrupted by Fu Mingyuan. 

“He’s not that kind of person.”

We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.

“How do you know? You’re a public figure and this kind of livestreaming thing or whatever it is…”

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Fu Mingyuan was silent for a while, then said, “Don’t overthink it.”

“Also, with regards to the contract, I will discuss it with the higher-ups myself when the time comes. At that time, if you want to stay, I will defer to your wishes.”

Du Jing was stunned. 

Although Fu Mingyuan hadn’t said anything, he still knew everything.

He had followed him since his debut. Fu Mingyuan had become famous early on and had always been in the spotlight because of his mother. Other people didn’t understand him, and only he, as his manager, could understand how much Fu Mingyuan wanted to break away from the label of “Jiang Chuyao’s son.”

In the past six years, he worked hard as an actor and finally won a “Best Actor” award.

And his contract with the company was about to expire. 

This was the company that his mother had signed with before. When Fu Mingyuan had first debuted, in order to provide better resources, Jiang Chuyao had arranged for him to enter this studio.

Now, he wanted to go out and start his own studio.

However, he had just won an award and was in the limelight, so at this time, the company was doing its best to make its case. Today, Du Jing had gone to help him discuss the termination of his contract with the company.

Of course, they couldn’t come to an agreement. 

“If you used someone else, then you wouldn’t be used to it either ah.” Du Jing patted him on the shoulder.

A long string of profanity suddenly came out of his cellphone.

Du Jing glanced at Fu Mingyuan.

The latter had already picked up his cellphone again and looked at the barrage. 

[Why is it this woman again?]

[She’s crazy ah, she’s spying on the livestream here and cursing out Sweetie for killing her???]

[Giving a direct link, this woman is an anchor on this platform and she’s cursing out Sweetie in her own livestream too]

[???? So shameless??? Sisters!!!] 

The barrage was all fighting against injustice, and some people even went to the female anchor’s livestream to seek justice.

On the other hand, Shen Qi was actually very calm, and he turned off PUBG’s public voice channel while cracking a joke, “It seems like we can’t turn on the public voice channel anymore.

“Girls, don’t get angry, you’ll get wrinkles,” he chuckled and spoke with a completely relaxed tone, utterly unfazed, “You won’t be littles fairies anymore.”

[My God, Sweetie’s actually comforting us] 

[Wuwuwuwu, but this female anchor!!!! So infuriating!!!]

Shen Qi let out an “en,” then jumped up and down on the other party’s lootbox for a bit, and shot at her box a few more times.

He shifted his chair back and slowly said, “If you think it was unfair of me to kill you after making you sing that day, then I can also let you kill me once.

“However, it’s so dull for you to curse at people like this. Don’t you know that, in e-sports, being a noob is the original sin?” 

He was a little sleepy so he yawned. Then, he simply remained motionless as he afked in-game as he picked up his cellphone.

He let out a joyful laugh after he saw the long list of medicine names that Fu Mingyuan had sent him.

Fu Mingyuan saw on the webcam that Shen Qi was typing with one hand on his cellphone very quickly.

When the other party put his cellphone down, Fu Mingyuan’s own cellphone let out a WeChat notification sound. 

Du Jing was baffled. “You were actually willing to log into WeChat?”

Fu Mingyuan let out a sound of agreement, but didn’t check it.

Because of Shen Qi’s words, the barrage started quarrelling again.

[You make people sing and then still kill them, you’re trash] 

[Previous poster is toxic ba, that woman opened her mouth first. She really thought that everyone was a dog who would slobber over any girl]

[If you can’t beat them, then you can’t beat them. If you have the ability, then kill your murderer]

[Sweetie didn’t force her to sing, and he also didn’t say that he’d let her go if she sang. Please watch the video replay]

[On the other hand, she’s choking herself and then swearing at others] 

[Latest war report, the female anchor next door is crying and saying that you’re using her for her popularity]

Shen Qi was getting a little angry now. “How many stream followers does she have?”

The spy reported immediately——[Over 10,000]

Shen Qi let out a profound “oh” sound. 

He glanced at his own stream follower count, which was also over 10,000. However, he didn’t allow people to give paid gifts to his stream, so his popularity score wasn’t high.

The popularity score was based on the gifts that an anchor received.

[Her popularity score is higher than yours. Ah, she’s calling for her Gege to send her gifts and raise her popularity score]

“Who doesn’t have a Gege?” Shen Qi looked at WeChat. He had sent the other party a message and the other party hadn’t replied, but Pink Loli Head’s account was still in the livestream. 

A few old-time stream followers were so unbearably angry that they began to spam him gifts.

Shen Qi coughed and stopped them. “I don’t need this popularity score. Why don’t you guys buy something to eat with this money instead, wouldn’t that be good?”

[Not good, I’m too angry. She’s a signed anchor, and yet she’s very shamelessly comparing herself to you, a non-contracted anchor!]

Shen Qi laughed. “There’s no need to compare myself with her, be good.” 

[I’ll “be good” when I’m dead, must spam gifts!]

[I’m willing again wuwuwwuwuwu]

[We are good!!!! Me!!! Ah!!!!!!]

As soon as he said this, the gift spamming became fiercer. 

Shen Qi clicked his tongue and asked, “Do you guys all want to add me on WeChat to get the money you gifted back?”

With such a wave of gifts, his popularity score really did go up, but since he hadn’t signed a contract, he couldn’t get on the recommended list.

WildLeopard Live’s non-contracted anchors got a higher cut of the gift money than signed anchors, but signed anchors had a base salary.

[Yes, yes, yes, add me on WeChat] 

[I just want to add you on WeChat, I don’t want the money back]

Shen Qi opened a lottery and replied, “Yeah, you wish. Opening up a lottery, the prize is all the gift money from today. I will contact whoever is drawn before ending the livestream.”

The gift spam from the stream followers immediately stopped.

[No, I don’t want that! I just want to add your WeChat] 

[Hahahaha, his popularity score is higher than that female anchor’s now, I’m about to die from laughing. She’s still begging her Gege]

Shen Qi went back to the game. The poison circle was amicable, so he once again went toward the place with the most intense gunfire.

….

Fu Mingyuan turned his head back and asked Du Jing, “What is a popularity score?” 

Du Jing felt conflicted. “You see that fire icon next to the viewer count? You add popularity points to the anchor by sending a paid gift, and each yuan adds 100 points.”

Fu Mingyuan nodded.

Then, he picked up his own cellphone.

He couldn’t spend money on Fu Mingli’s cellphone. 

While downloading the app, he asked, “How do I register for an account?”

Du Jing: “….”

“You’re going to…throw money at him?”

Fu Mingyuan silently nodded. “The barrage said that his popularity score couldn’t be compared to that of the female anchor who was just cursing him out.” 

Du Jing: “….”

That was a few minutes ago. How could it take you so long to react?!

“Did you already forget what I just told you…” Halfway through his sentence, he thought of something and changed what he was going to say. “I’ll register an account for you. What do you want your username to be?”

That anchor just now seemed to be called “Cyber Sweetie?” 

And then he addressed Fu Mingyuan as Gege or something?

He should have heard correctly.

Fu Mingyuan thought about it for a while and was just about to ask if he could make it an abbreviation of his name when Du Jing simply gave him his cellphone back. “Done.”

Fu Mingyuan paused, then handed him his cellphone again. “Put my card on it.” 

“You and your old man habits. You don’t even know how to play on your cellphone,” he complained, but accepted his fate and did it for him.

Fu Mingyuan turned off Fu Mingli’s cellphone and searched for the livestream using his own account.

Shen Qi had already slaughtered his way into the final circle.

In the barrage, many of the female anchor’s stream viewers had arrived and were hurling insults at people. 

Fu Mingyuan pulled up the list of gifts, and saw that the most expensive one was 1000 yuan per gift, with just one being able to increase the popularity score by 10,000 points.

He clicked to send the gift, but a prompt popped up saying that he had an insufficient balance.

Du Jing: “….”

Du Jing helped him again with charging his account, and then left with a look of impatience. 

He actually taught his own person how to throw money at an anchor!

“Cyber Sweetie’s Gege sent a luxury cruise ship to the anchor”

“Cyber Sweetie’s Gege sent a luxury cruise ship to the anchor”

…… 

“Congratulations, your stream follower rank in the livestream has grown to VIP10!”

A total of 10 cruise ships were spammed, with those lines directly appearing in the barrage. This “Cyber Sweetie’s Gege” account also jumped to first place on the livestream contributors list.

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Juurensha: Hahahaha, Du Jing is so done with his non tech-savvy actor.

Divi: Du Jing is the unintentional wingman, but FMY sounds so unrealistically tech illiterate…. Even my grandmother can text faster than him I bet.