Chapter 13
Translator: Aafkee
Proofreader: ChaiTea
Following his words, Mu Wanwan lowers her head and looks at her own clothes.
It is a design currently in trend where the rounded collar is at the front while the V-shaped collar and the button are at the back.
“...I didn’t wear it the wrong way. This top is supposed to be worn this way.”
Pei Lu nods, indicating that he understands.
Females don’t seem to like it when others notice such mistakes. He shouldn’t have pointed it out so directly.
Right?
Mu Wanwan somehow feels like that is not an expression he should be making if he did truly understand.
The waiter’s voice from the other side can be heard, “Sir, your drink is ready.”
Mu Wanwan tilts her head and glances over. She is a bit near-sighted, so she squints her eyes as she looks towards the waiter. Her action is seen clearly by Pei Lu.
He asks, “Are you near-sighted?”
“...A little.”
Pei Lu responds with a hum before he replies, “It’s indeed bad for your eyesight if you stare at the computer screen for so long. It’ll be better if you change your wallpaper to a green one.”
Mu Wanwan is surprised and blurts out, “How do you know that I use the computer frequently?”
Pei Lu pauses momentarily. He, then, follows up with a light cough as he answers, “Didn’t you come and watch the tournament the other day? So, I’m guessing that you probably play games, too.”
Mu Wanwan lets out a sigh of relief, “...I do quite like playing games.”
Pei Lu sees a wisp of hair sticking up on her forehead and laughs suddenly, “What’s your game ID? We can add each other and play together.”
Mu Wanwan does not know that she had already been found out. She is astonished by Pei Lu’s offer, thinking about how good this person’s personality is.
Any random friend can add him as a friend in-game?? He probably doesn’t know that she can attract a bunch of fans just by observing his game on stream.
She lies without batting an eye, “My account is on one of the new servers.”
Server Zone 1 Ionia is the very first server that started. It is also publicly known to be the server that has the highest number of god-tier level players. The new servers, as the word suggested, are the newer servers that started later on where the newbies mostly reside.
Pei Lu nods as if he only half-understands. Just as he is about to say something, his phone rings.
Brother Yang’s voice is loud, “Why are you not back yet? The practice match is starting soon.”
Pei Lu stands up, “I’ll be on my way right away.”
Mu Wanwan waves towards him, taking it as her bidding farewell to him.
Pei Lu does not rush to get back as he remains standing on the spot and asks, “It’s already this late, aren’t you going back home?”
“...I’m going back soon.”
Pei Lu nods, “Goodbye, then.”
Mu Wanwan can not help but sigh a few times internally as she watches him carry his team’s drinks and leave.
He’s handsome, has a good personality, and is considerate towards his fans.
A ten out of ten e-sports idol.
She gathers back her thoughts and buries her head once again into her revision but she can not concentrate any longer.
Just then, Lin Jiu just shared a stream link with her.
Lin Jiu: “【I have shared a link via BattleCatTV: #NationalServer’sNo.1Support: It’s another day of saving the world meow meow meow~#】”
Lin Jiu: “[Image][Image]”
Lin Jiu: “Quick, go and watch that little slut’s stream archive, it disgusts me to no end.”
The two images sent by Lin Jiu are screenshots of chat history. It looks like a conversation between MeowMeowPunch and her good friend and the content is basically talking about how Wanan is a little bitch that likes to target others after MeowMeowPunch watched Mu Wanwan’s stream archive, saying how Wanan threatened to ask the LoL pros and aim for her.
Judging from the time, the pro MeowMeowPunch was referring to is probably Chen He.
Wan: “I don’t have time to watch it, I’m doing my revision.”
Lin Jiu: “You’re already off stream?”
Wan: “Yeah. But what did she mean with that stream title, national’s number one support? Who gave her that confidence?”
Lin Jiu: “These kinds of streamers nowadays are all like this, national server’s number one xxx just to attract viewers. Those audiences wouldn’t say anything either when they enter and find out that it’s a female streamer.”
Wan: “I guess I have a lot to learn.”
After fiddling with her phone for a while, Mu Wanwan realises: There’s no point for her to come all the way out. It won’t change the fact that she can’t concentrate. It’s useless.
She replies to Lin Jiu dismissively with an emoji before she packs up her things and leaves.
**
Studying at the last minute seems to have some effect. Other than the first subject, which she flunked, Mu Wanwan is able to salvage her remaining subjects.
After the last paper, she is so excited that she wants to run laps around the track.
To reward herself, she decides to have a meal of hotpot before going home. She gives Lin Jiu a call but the other party expresses that the weather is too cold and that she is not willing to leave the warmth of her bed.
Mu Wanwan decides to go to the hotpot restaurant alone anyway. As she is dipping the finely sliced beef in the pot, she receives a call from an unknown number.
She hesitates for a moment before picking it up.
“Hello, this is…”
It’s a gentle and charming female voice, it sounds exactly like a standard fraud call. Mu Wanwan hangs up the call without a second thought.
The other party calls back again.
She has learnt her lesson this time, getting straight to the point, “I am a staff member from BattleCatTV, hello.”
Mu Wanwan’s hand pauses, “Is there something you need from me?”
“We have received a report from the online community that you have someone else playing the games on your behalf as you stream. May I know if that is true?” Although the other party’s voice is gentle, her tone is clearly blunt, “I wish you can be truthful about this so that our platform can adopt the most effective course of action.”
“What do you mean by someone else playing on my behalf?” Mu Wanwan creases her eyebrows, “Are you saying that I paid someone else to rank up my account? I didn’t.”
“That is not it. Playing on your behalf is when your monitor is connected to another keyboard and mouse and your gameplay is controlled by another person when you are streaming while you are only in charge of showing your face.”
It took Mu Wanwan a long while before she finally understands what the other party meant. She only finds it hilarious, “No, it is my own gameplay.”
The other party’s tone remains extremely official, cold and without personal feelings, “Are you certain? According to our contract, the platform will not be responsible if there are signs of the streamer breaking the rules.”
Mu Wanwan replies, “I’m certain.”
“I understand,” The staff chuckles modestly, “I apologise for disturbing you.”
The call was a bit uncalled for, so Mu Wanwan does not take it to heart.
She only realises what is wrong when she starts streaming back at home.
Her stream is open to everyone. Anyone can watch her stream as long as they have the platform’s APP so her viewers vary a lot. While she has a lot of supporters, she has a lot of anti-fans as well.
However, the number of anti-fans seem to have increased by a few times, one more aggressive than the other.
[A scheming bitch that targets other females!]
[How did you become a streamer with that kind of appearance?]
[A female streamer that has someone else play on her behalf, getting on the popularity rank list without any reason, must have slept with the platform’s moderator.]
Mu Wanwan glances at her chat, starts up the game and speaks, her tone plain.
“Moderator, ban all those who aren’t speaking kindly. Kick them out of the stream straight away, thank you for your hard work.”
[What’s happening today? The anti-fans’ aggression is level 100 today…]
[You only know how to ask your moderator to kick people out, are you not gonna give any explanations?]
“You guys are trying to create something from nothing. There’s nothing to explain.”
After saying that, Mu Wanwan opens up her stream settings and types her stream title:
【National server no. 1 ADC Challenger solo ranked queue, you’re welcome to stream snipe if you’re not convinced.】
She does not want to waste any more time so she quickly starts a game.
Her good mood is ruined just like that by the group of anti-fans. She does not even think twice before locking onto Vayne. She hears her doorbell the moment she arrives at her lane.
She quickly walks over and opens the door and finds Lin Jiu at the door.
When they are back in her room, she asks as she last hits, “What brings you here, didn’t you say you’re sealed by your warm bed?”
“I’m your little secretary for tonight, especially here to counter those anti-fans.”
Lin Jiu lifts her hand to move Mu Wanwan’s camera as she says that.
“Do y’all see it now? She’s playing the game herself. Spammers can stop being blind.”
Mu Wanwan is shocked and quickly reaches out to stop Lin Jiu – She’s only wearing a pair of pyjama pants!!
[Hahahahaha I saw Wanan’s pants, pink, there’s even a pair of bunny ears at the pockets, that can be considered very cute.]
[Please give the Taobao* link, thanks.]
(T/N*: Online shopping platform.)
[Thot streamer, reported.]
Mu Wanwan returns with, “What nonsense. I’m properly and tightly covered.”
[I still find it unbelievable. Who knows if these two female streamers teamed up and act this out? If you’re really that amazing, why not accept a few disciples?]
“Accept a few disciples? What kind of disciples?”
[Creating a guild and helping others with ranked, and turning on voice chat especially to teach others how to play better.]
“Wake up,” Mu Wanwan laughs sarcastically, “You’re asking me to accept you anti-fans as my disciples, and even turn on my voice chat to teach y’all techniques and help y’all with ranked games? Bruh, do you think your mum owns the world? Look at you, being so pampered.”
[That’s the Wanan I’m familiar with. If anti-fans are not gonna watch her properly, can y’all just scram?]
[Hahahahaha, exactly that. By the way, can real fans ask to become your disciples??]
Mu Wanwan did not even think twice before she replies, “I don’t accept any disciples.”
Lin Jiu sets the camera back to its original position and asks in passing, “Why?”
Mu Wanwan remains silent for a moment, “...I don’t have a good temper, I’m afraid that they’ll not be my fans anymore.”
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