Intentional
【Mmm? What what what?】
【Even though Teacher Jin’s sneak attack was fast, I screen-recorded it.】
【Good sister! Send it to me, send it to me!】
【I took a screenshot, oh my goddddd, ahhhhh my two wives kissed, why am I so happy?】
【Fuck! I want to kiss Qiuqiu too, what kind of peerless cutie is Qiuqiu, her blushing makes my heart melt!】
The screen was full of bullet comments, and spammed with all sorts of gifts. The messages jumped by more than ten at a time, making it impossible to read. The fans in the livestream room scrambled to drop screenshots of that last moment into the Weibo Super Topic1, and in an instant, the number of fans in the livestream room skyrocketed. In no time, the popularity score hit six million. Xiao Yu was amazed at how quickly the popularity was soaring; it was already on the homepage’s ranking list. She turned her head to look at Lu Zhenqiu and Jin Shuilan, who were still playing the game like a serious book2, hoping they hadn’t discovered that she had moved the camera.
She still wanted to be left with a whole corpse for the New Year.
Xiao Yu, her heart frightened and gallbladder trembling3, waited for the round to end, and no one took the initiative to look at the livestream’s bullet comments. It was only when Ji Zibo passed in front of the camera while getting water that she waved and said with a smile, “Good afternoon.”
The bullet comments briefly filled with “Teacher Ji,” temporarily suppressing the comments about Jin Shuilan and Zhenqiu’s livestream kiss. Xiao Yu breathed a sigh of relief, now too distracted to focus on the game. She kept glancing over at Jin Shuilan and Lu Zhenqiu.
The two of them really were—
Xiao Yu thought to herself, they really are a good match.
Jin Shuilan wasn’t playing the C position4, but was playing support, giving the C position to Lu Zhenqiu. Her protection was impeccable the entire time; as long as she wasn’t dead, the enemy team couldn’t even think about touching Lu Zhenqiu. Xiao Yu was eating dog food5 in real life while being incredibly envious in the game. She sighed into the livestream, “When will I ever get to be in a relationship?”
【Wife, look at me!】
【Wife, I’m curvy, can be top or bottom, can 1v56 in games, and have endless stamina in real life, look at me!】
【Xiao Yu, if I dated you, could I see Qiuqiu and Teacher Jin every day?】
Xiao Yu couldn’t hold it in when she saw this message. “Hey, hey, hey, that’s going too far!”
The bullet comments were exceptionally lively. Before long, Hua Luo sat down beside her and also interacted with the netizens for a while. Lu Zhenqiu was still being pestered by Jin Shuilan. She had originally planned to go over to Xiao Yu’s side to greet the fans after the second round, but one of Jin Shuilan’s legs was hooked around hers. Their legs were under the bed, hidden from view by the bed itself, but the moment Lu Zhenqiu moved, Jin Shuilan’s foot would hook her ankle, preventing her from moving. Lu Zhenqiu turned her head. “Jin Shuilan.”
Jin Shuilan hummed in acknowledgment, looking at her with an innocent expression. Lu Zhenqiu realized she was an exceptionally good actress; it would be a loss to the entertainment industry if she didn’t join. She couldn’t help but pinch Jin Shuilan’s arm, not daring to use any force. Jin Shuilan still clutched the spot as if in pain. Lu Zhenqiu said, “You’re trying to trick me again.”
She hadn’t used any strength at all.
Jin Shuilan asked her, “You want to go over there?”
Lu Zhenqiu said, “I want to go say hi.”
Jin Shuilan unhooked her leg and said magnanimously, “I’ll go with you.”
Lu Zhenqiu shot her a sideways glance, figuring she wouldn’t let her go alone anyway. She simply went with her to greet everyone in front of the screen. When the netizens and fans saw the two of them appear on camera, they started screaming. Lu Zhenqiu didn’t yet know that the camera had been moved earlier and just answered the netizens’ questions as usual. “What did it feel like to be kissed by Teacher Jin?”
Her face turned slightly red.
She skipped that question and read the next one. “Between you and Teacher Jin, who’s the top and who’s the bottom?”
Thinking of how relentless Jin Shuilan was in bed, she blinked, her face flushing crimson.
Skipped again.
The next one was, “Your favorite position with Teacher Jin is…”
What are all these ridiculous questions!
Lu Zhenqiu’s face was beet red. She ignored them and simply lowered her head to play the game.
The bullet comments were a sea of: 【Wife Qiuqiu is shy.】
【Holy shit, my wife is so sweet.】
【Help, help, how can I make Teacher Jin green7, waiting online for an answer!】
【I really can’t take it, how can there be such a sweet Qiuqiu!】
【To the sister who wants to make Qiuqiu green, I want Teacher Jin, can you give her to me?】
The bullet comments were full of flirty talk. Lu Zhenqiu continued to play the game. Jin Shuilan sat beside her, and the two of them were muttering something. Lu Zhenqiu ignored her. Jin Shuilan called out, “Qiuqiu.”
Lu Zhenqiu pressed her lips together, then said after a few seconds, “What.”
Jin Shuilan said, “I want to play that hero you’re using.”
Lu Zhenqiu nodded, handing her the phone and swapping with Jin Shuilan. As Jin Shuilan passed her own phone over, her fingertips dipped down and deliberately scratched Lu Zhenqiu’s palm. A tingling sensation spread through Lu Zhenqiu’s palm, and she almost failed to get a grip on Jin Shuilan’s phone.
Her face instantly turned fiery red.
From her angle, no one else could see Jin Shuilan’s action, but she knew. A tingling numbness remained in her palm. Lu Zhenqiu kept her head down the whole time, not seeing the bullet comments scrolling by: 【Wanna bet? Teacher Jin definitely did something just now.】
【Qiuqiu’s face is so red.】
【Qiuqiu is so soft, I really want to kiss her!】
【Don’t fight with me for my wife, don’t you have your own wives? Right, wife Qiuqiu?】
【You guys are still being so flirty, aren’t you afraid of Teacher Jin’s great silencing technique? But my two wives’ interactions are so great to ship!】
The flirty talk in the livestream room got several accounts banned. Lu Zhenqiu lowered her head and focused on the game. Jin Shuilan would occasionally turn to look at her, smiling after a few seconds, her expression unusually relaxed and natural. Everyone in the livestream room had already transformed into screaming chickens8, frantically going ‘ahhh’.
【I know why Teacher Jin doesn’t show her face during Qiuqiu’s streams now. We’d be able to tell with just one look.】
【Forget Teacher Jin, who could resist Qiuqiu when she’s like this?】
【I can’t, anyway. My two wives!】
After the game ended, Lu Zhenqiu sang a song with Xiao Yu before finally wrapping up. Ji Zibo said he had to go and also notified Lu Zhenqiu to report to the production team early. Lu Zhenqiu said with a laugh, “Got it.”
Ji Zibo looked at Jin Shuilan. “You have to go to your production team soon too, right?”
Jin Shuilan said, “In a few days.”
Ji Zibo nodded. Xiao Yu and Hua Luo also said they were leaving. Lu Zhenqiu told them to be careful on the road. Before leaving, Xiao Yu leaned in and whispered a couple of sentences in Lu Zhenqiu’s ear. Before Lu Zhenqiu could react, Xiao Yu had already slipped away.
Lu Zhenqiu quickly grabbed her phone and went on Weibo. She saw a great many @s—all of them were screenshots and even GIFs of her being kissed!
That Xiao Yu!
Lu Zhenqiu bit her lip and scrolled to a comment: 【Screensaver, screensaver, hehehe.】
Using this as a screensaver, are they serious?
She was featured more prominently in the shot; Jin Shuilan was only in profile and was only captured when she leaned in to kiss her. But the distance was far, so it wasn’t very clear. Even so, her face was hot enough to steam an egg.
Lu Zhenqiu followed the @s into the Super Topic and saw that someone had even quickly churned out Q-version9 fanart10!
What kind of monsters11 were these people.
She was too embarrassed to look anymore. When Jin Shuilan returned from seeing everyone off, she saw her clutching her phone and asked, puzzled, “What are you looking at?”
Lu Zhenqiu said, “Nothing.”
The denial was very quick.
Seeing her awkward expression, Jin Shuilan didn’t press further and just nodded. Lu Zhenqiu cleared her throat. “I’m going to take a shower first.”
After saying that, she put down her phone and went into the bathroom. Behind her, Jin Shuilan took out her own phone. Besides the @s, there were the shocking messages in her Moments. Yu Wen and Tang Yingxia had started on a journey of self-destruction. Once a person went mad, all rationality ceased to exist. She had already pushed Tang Yingxia’s rationality to its limit, acting as the last piece of straw. So she wasn’t surprised by Tang Yingxia and Yu Wen tearing into each other. What she didn’t expect was that quite a few people would be dragged into it. Several authors in the circle were implicated—those connected to Yu Wen, those connected to Tang Yingxia, those who had been trampled on by Yu Wen, and those who had been forced out of the circle by Yu Wen. All sorts of news rushed towards her face.
Although Yu Wen was prepared, Tang Yingxia had the mentality of the fish dying and the net breaking12 and was completely unreachable. Yu Wen cursed ‘fuck your mother’13 ten thousand times in her head, but still tried her best to minimize the impact of the incident.
But it was futile.
It was as if someone was deliberately working against her. News that had just been suppressed would pop up again, not just within reader circles and reader groups, but also through anonymous submissions to novel-complaint bots14. And it wasn’t just one; several complaint accounts posted it simultaneously, pushing it onto the trending charts. The incident was visibly blowing up and couldn’t be suppressed no matter what. Several of her novels started to be review-bombed with negative scores15, all on behalf of the authors she had forced out of the circle.
【I’m gonna puke. I used to think she was gentle and cute, that marketing was fine, but your marketing tactic of stepping on one to praise another16 is disgusting!】
【I don’t hate marketing, but I hate your attitude, Yu Wen. Are you worthy of He Nuan Yidong17?】
【Fuck your mother, Yu Wen, I knew something was wrong when our Dongdong18 suddenly quit the circle!】
Yu Wen was powerless to defend herself. Things she had done in the past were all being dug up. What was more terrifying was that there were many things Tang Yingxia didn’t even know about.
She knew there was an invisible hand pushing things from behind.
Who was it?
Tang Yingxia? He Nuan Yidong? Or Jin Shuilan?
She had made too many enemies; for a moment, she couldn’t even pinpoint a specific person to suspect. Yu Wen was receiving the enemy on four sides19, her situation momentarily no different from Tang Yingxia’s.
【A perfect match with Tang Yingxia, Dual Gods? More like Dual Dogs!】
【Don’t insult dogs, are they worthy?】
Yu Wen never expected that the next time her name was placed alongside Tang Yingxia’s, it would be in this manner. With a throbbing headache, she quickly wrote a long essay, but this time, no one comforted her. The moment she opened the comments, they were filled with abuse.
Jin Shuilan glanced at it, then deleted her previous “happy to collaborate” Weibo post and put down her phone to go to the bathroom.
Lu Zhenqiu heard a noise at the door. She turned off the showerhead and peeked out from behind the frosted glass door, seeing Jin Shuilan filling the bathtub. She asked, “You’re going to take a bath?”
Jin Shuilan said, “I’ve been a bit tired these past two days, thought I’d soak for a while.”
The bathtub also had a separate curtain. It had never been drawn before, but today, Jin Shuilan had uncharacteristically pulled it shut. Lu Zhenqiu could see the silhouette of Jin Shuilan taking off her jacket on the curtain. She bit her lip, pulled her head back, and quickly finished her shower. When she came out wrapped in a bath towel, Jin Shuilan was already lying in the tub.
Seeing her come out, Jin Shuilan asked, “Do you want to take a bath?”
Lu Zhenqiu shook her head. “I’ve already showered.”
The surface of the tub was covered in white bubbles, and there was a faint scent of essential oils, very similar to Jin Shuilan’s own scent. Jin Shuilan didn’t insist. “Then pour me a glass of water.”
Lu Zhenqiu agreed. After leaving the bathroom, she poured her a glass of water. When she entered the bathroom, Maomao tried to follow her in but was shooed out by Lu Zhenqiu. The door closed. Lu Zhenqiu placed the glass on the edge of the tub. Just as she turned to leave, Jin Shuilan called out, “Qiuqiu.”
“Hm?” Lu Zhenqiu turned her head. Jin Shuilan said, “Do I have a pimple here?”
As she spoke, she turned to the side, exposing the back of her neck for Lu Zhenqiu to see. “It’s a little itchy.”
Lu Zhenqiu walked over and looked down. Her skin was fair and pink, with no pimples at all. She shook her head. “No—Ah!”
Before she could finish her sentence, she was pulled into the bathtub by Jin Shuilan.
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