Chapter 14
Translator: Aafkee
Proofreader: ChaiTea
[You must’ve some misunderstanding about yourself, you have no fans, wake up.]
[Don’t worry, you’ve already gone unrestrained without a care in the world many times and yet I’m still watching your streams.]
“Look, look at how my fans are. If I ever take in an apprentice, we’ll probably end up scolding each other on stream.” Mu Wanwan finished eating and is very full. She lets out a tiny yawn and asks, “Are you not going to stream today?”
“I stream six days a week and have one rest day. There’s no way I can take it if I stream every single day.”
Mu Wanwan nods her head in agreement, “Seems like I need to choose a day to rest, too.”
[Please don’t, I used to watch your stream sneakily in class with 4G. Are you telling me that you’re going to have a break now that I’m finally home and have wifi?]
[Please don’t take a break, I’ll send you gifts.]
Mu Wanwan ignores the comment and glances at her calendar, “Let’s make it tomorrow. I’ll have a break tomorrow and resume my stream the day after.”
Many viewers send her gifts but none of them is able to persuade her against her new schedule.
“My exam ended today so I’ll stream a little longer than usual.”
Just as she finishes her sentence, Lin Jiu raises her chin slightly to indicate for her to mute her mic.
“What’s wrong?”
“Look at how many antis you have on your stream, you can’t even ban all of them in time,” Lin Jiu looks at the comments, her expression unhappy, “There’s definitely someone behind the scenes leading this.”
Mu Wanwan does not seem to mind it at all, “It doesn’t matter, as long as it doesn’t affect me.”
“Don’t you feel uncomfortable looking at them?”
“What’s there to feel uncomfortable about? I can’t always become angry whenever they type random crap, right?” Mu Wanwan finds it hilarious, “Though I’m quite curious who has so much free time on their hands to do this intentionally to a small streamer like me.”
“There’s no need to think who did it, it must be TigerTV.”
“Hm?”
“Your fan base grew there. Now that you’ve jumped over to another platform with such high popularity, they’re being salty and trying to ruin it for you. How can you not know?”
Of course Mu Wanwan doesn’t know.
In her eyes, her relationship with TigerTV was somewhat akin to a relationship between a landlord and a shop owner renting a physical store to do her business. At that time, she could only rely on her viewer’s donations and even half of that went to TigerTV. It was kind of equivalent to her paying her rent as she did not even receive a basic monthly income from them.
TigerTV also did not give her any manual support in terms of helping her grow in popularity. It was all thanks to her viewers throwing money at her that she could end up on the ranking list for receiving the most donations.
Simply put, they do not owe each other anything at all.
Mu Wanwan sounds very unsure, “No matter what, they are a proper streaming platform, there’s no need for them to not let me go.”
“What do you know? It’s because they see you as an easy target and are trying to pressure you before you become popular,” and then, Lin Jiu sees something and makes a “tsk” sound in disdain, “A small part of it is also because of that little bitch’s fans. Since they all saw you making their Goddess Meowmeow cry, they’re all coming to your stream every single day just to give you a bad time.”
Just as she finishes her sentence, Mu Wanwan sees an account with an ID “MeowmeowGuardian” dissing her like crazy.
“What, is she the only female now?” Mu Wanwan is unhappy now, is she not a female too? “Could it be that I’m not cute??”
Lin Jiu sighs, “...Do you think you’ll be cute as long as you have a good looking face with loli makeup on?”
Mu Wanwan is pissed.
She unmutes her mic.
“Thank you LittleSpottedDeer for your gifts, love ya, let me gesture you two hearts, biubiubiu~”
(T/N: Mu Wanwan acting cute and FAILING MISERABLY IS MOOD.)
She uses her index finger and her thumb to make a heart shape and blinks her eyes nonstop towards the camera.
Lin Jiu’s expression freezes.
The comments, too, go silent for a few seconds before they return in waves.
[Just what wrong have I done that I have to endure seeing such a thing the moment I turned on the stream?!]
[Unfollowing for a day.]
[LittleSpottedDeer: Please refund the gift to me, thank you.]
After today’s training, Pei Lu sits back into his own seat in front of his computer and lets out a tired sigh.
He then opens up his browser and goes directly to BattleCatTV’s homepage and takes a quick glance.
Unexpectedly, he can not spot Wanwan’s stream on the first page today. Her stream is usually popular enough to be on the first page.
He moves his fingers and finally finds her stream. He realises that rather than being less popular, her stream actually has more viewers than usual today and yet she is not showcased on the first page for some unknown reasons.
“Thank you LittleSpottedDeer for your gifts, love ya, let me gesture you two hearts, biubiubiu~”
Just as he clicks into the stream, he hears Mu Wanwan pinching her voice and acting coquettishly.
A voice unique to her flows into his brain through his headphones.
He can only feel a sense of numbness passing through his back. As he looks at the girl winking on his screen, it feels as if there are ripples in his heart. He can not really verbalise his current feelings.
It is troublesome to always borrow Lil Meat Bun’s account so he has made one for himself.
A majority of the comments are ridiculing Mu Wanwan, Pei Lu hesitates for a long while as his hands hover over his keyboard. He decides to send out a comment.
[Guest112133: It’s pretty cute.]
[Bootlicker, we’re isolating you.]
[We won’t bring you along for our toilet sessions.]
[We’ll put a caterpillar in your mouth!]*
(T/N*: Those comments by other people rhymes in Chinese. Basically, the other viewers are acting like young school kids ostracising Pei Lu for being the “bootlicker” in class.)
Pei Lu is speechless.
He quickly minimises his browser when he hears footsteps behind him.
Lil Meat Bun walks over, “The window was not closed when I was walking down from the second floor just now. It was so coldー Chen He must have forgotten to close it after he returned from having a smoke… Xiao-Lu, wanna duo for a few games? I have lost so many rank points so I feel like I’m about to cry.”
Mu Wanwan just entered a game when Pei Lu just started her stream.
So he nods, “Okay, invite me.”
Lil Meat Bun returns to his seat hurriedly and logs into his account at lightning speed.
Brother Hu begins grumbling on the side, “Aren’t you tired of it yet? We literally just had a few hours of practice matches.”
Lil Meat Bun replies, “Do you think I’m the same as you? Look at you, rushing like mad at the end of each month just to reach your monthly stream quota. Let me give you a friendly reminder that it’s already the 22nd today.”
Brother Hu shuts up.
Pei Lu suddenly recalls something after he logs into his account.
“Meat Bun, are you guys streaming on BattleCatTV, too?”
“Yeah,” Lil Meat Bun invites him in the game, “Why, do you want to stream as well?”
“No, I just want to ask if there’s a bug where a streamer is clearly very popular and yet the stream is not displayed on the ranking list?”
“I’ve never encountered such a bug throughout my time with BattleCatTV. That account is probably on watch by the platform’s moderators.” Lil Meat Bun pauses to think for a second before he continues, “I remember there was once a streamer who was suspected of using cheats in a shooter game so his account was managed directly by the moderators and his account was banned in the end.”
Pei Lu has never come in contact with anything related to streaming. Before he can think through and understand Meat Bun’s words, he has already entered a game’s banning page.
Lil Meat Bun has already started streaming and is currently greeting his viewers loudly, “Yes, yes. I’m duo-ing with Xiao-Lu today. Hahaha, I should change my stream title quickly.”
“Whoa damn, God Lu is supporting me??” The AD in their team speaks.
TS.roubao*: “Are you surprised? Are you happy?”
(T/N*: Roubao is the Chinese pronunciation for meat bun.)
TS.Luu: “Pre-pick the AD champion you want to use.”
The AD hesitates for a second and chooses Ashe.
Pei Lu glances over their team composition. Realising that there are not many tanky champions in their team, he chooses Nautilus.
“Huh??” Meat Bun suddenly calls out as he looks at his comments, “Xiao-Lu, we actually got into the same game as DepressedPrince! Do you remember? Sheー”
He recalls something halfway through his sentence and shuts up immediately.
Pei Lu is a bit surprised too.
How did Wanan end up in the enemy’s team? He alt-tabbed to her stream page and only then does he realise that she was immediately defeated in her previous game.
When the game starts, Pei Lu stands blankly for a minute before he buys his equipment from the store and gets out of the base.
Mu Wanwan is playing Caitlyn who has an extremely long-range, a champion who is excellent at keeping pressure on the lane.
In such circumstances, it’ll be much easier for him to play against her as long as he can hook her at least once.
But… it has already been five minutes since they have started laning and Ashe has yet to see a single Q from his Nautilus.
DepressedPrince happily last hit a huge wave of creeps, she even drains more than half of Ashe’s health, forcing them to go back to their base.
Ashe finally can not bear it and asks as he runs out of the base, “God Lu, is your Q button malfunctioning?”
TS.Luu: “No, I just couldn’t find a good timing.”
Ashe does not dare to question the Father of all supports, so he can only take his words for it.
Finally, this time when they return to the lane, Nautilus finally throws out his heavy-looking Q, hooking the enemy’s support with precision.
However, Ashe makes a mistake in her positioning and accidentally steps on Caitlyn’s trap. Although they are the ones who initiated the fight, it is Caitlyn who gets a kill in the end.
Ashe feels extremely guilty, “God Lu, I’m sorry.”
TS.Luu: “No problem, let’s get it back next time.”
All the comments in Meat Bun’s stream are praising Pei Lu for having a good personality while Meat Bun finds it extremely strange.
Yes, Pei Lu’s personality is indeed good but he usually does not like typing to others on the chat box while playing with pubs.
When they were playing together on the Korean server, Meat Bun had never seen him talking to others at all.
Meat Bun finally finds out something is obviously wrong during their team fight.
…He has never seen Pei Lu being so noob!
His hooks all went to the enemy’s solo mid while the out-of-position Caitlyn at the front line was completely disregarded by him. His ultimate has also never once landed on Caitlyn… The key point is, when they lost the team fight, Pei Lu, who only had a bit more health left, actually went to hook Caitlyn, who still had half a bar of health points, giving her another free kill for absolutely no reason.
Lil Meat Bun feels like crying, “Xiao-Lu, we’re at a disadvantage. Please lead the team.”
The team is in a complete mess. They can somehow all end up together in the bottom lane when trying to clear the lanes while their middle tower is completely open to the enemies.
“You do it. I’m at my best this game so they may not listen to my lead.”
Lil Meat Bun is utterly confused, “???”
Who in the world wouldn’t listen to him on this server??
Even Mu Wanwan can see that Pei Lu isn’t playing like his usual self.
The comments on her stream are all roasting him. She creases her brows.
Will Pei Lu be alright during the competitions with such a condition?
Two minutes later, a big and sturdy Nautilus meets a slim and tender Caitlyn in the middle of the river.
Caitlyn is trying to kill the neutral monster called the Rift Scuttler while Nautilus is there to plant a ward.
Caitlyn’s equipment is very good right now, she even has a red buff on her which has a slow debuff when she auto attacks. If she is to rush towards Nautilus and auto-attack him, there is a high chance she’ll get the kill.
Lil Meat Bun moves his camera towards them and shouts anxiously, “Xiao-Lu, quick, run to me! I’m behind you, just bait her over and we’ll be able to kill her!”
Just as he finishes his sentence, Caitlyn’s voice lines can be heard from Lil Meat Bun’s headphones.
ー “Want another shot? I wouldn't want to leave things up in the air.”
In LoL, players are able to press Ctrl 1 or 2 to make their champions say their voice lines. Every champion has various unique voice lines.
And that is Caitlyn’s.
Before Meat Bun can react, he can already hear a heavy and deep voice from a male.
“I will not rest.”
…That is Nautilus’s voice line.
Lil Meat Bun watches with wide eyes as the two communicate with each other without actually talking. Then, each of them then uses an emoji towards each other, Wanan even puts down a ward right under Nautilus feet.
In the end, the two turn away and disappear into their own respective jungle.
…
What is this?!
Lil Meat Bun has a flash of realisation. He mutes his mic immediately and leans his head as he shouts, “Xiao-Lu, you must have intentionally thrown the game, didn’t you?!”
He is bitter as he laments, “How dare you flirt so openly on the holy grounds of the Summoner’s Rift!!!”
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