CH 53

During non-competition periods, the operation of broadcasting for Langyue Xingshu may not be considered glamorous, but perhaps he is highly regarded by his small group of anchors, and subsequently, several other anchors in the finals follow suit.

The law does not blame the masses, as when many people do this, it is natural that they cannot be blamed.

During the day, Xie Yao ate and rested as usual and took a rare walk along the riverbank. However, his little cat, who was less active than him, was even more disappointing. It took only two steps before meowing and asking Xie Yao to carry it.

Xie Yao was annoyed and didn’t even reach the daily goal of 3,000 steps on WeChat. He carried the cat back to the neighborhood.

After returning home, the little cat, who had just acted like it had a broken leg in Xie Yao’s arms, immediately became lively and wandered around the house, finally burying its head and eating at its food bowl.

Xie Yao took a picture of the cat’s butt and turned it into an emoticon of the cat eating and sent it to Jiang Song. Without waiting for Jiang Song’s reply, he laughed and fell onto the bed.

Jiang Song was busy today, so much so that he could only occasionally reply to Xie Yao’s messages. But whenever he had time to reply, he always carefully read Xie Yao’s messages and replied to each one.

Looking back at their chat history, each of Xie Yao’s messages corresponded to Jiang Song’s responses.

Although they didn’t chat as frequently as they used to today, Xie Yao didn’t feel ignored.

Xie Yao also told Jiang Song about Langyue Xingshu and the other anchors. Jiang Song reassured him not to worry and that he would handle it, although he didn’t give any details. However, just looking at Jiang Song’s words made Xie Yao’s uneasiness disappear immediately.

Before the competition began in the evening, Xie Yao fed the little cat and dutifully cleaned the used litter, replacing it with fresh litter. Meanwhile, his phone kept ringing with WeChat notifications.

After finishing his tasks, he leisurely unlocked his phone and opened the unread messages. The WeChat list showed 37 unread messages, two of which were from a marketing account, and the other 35 were all from Zhou Tian’s angry messages.

Son: Can you believe that Langyue Xingshu has been livestreaming all day today?

Son: I just can’t understand how someone can be so shameless.

Son: I mean, what about those other streamers who were also affected by the ‘glitch’ yesterday? Do they have PTSD now?

Son: Did Langyue Xingshu pay them off?

Son: Hey, what’s going on? I’m here defending you and you’re not even bringing back any news??

Son: Frustrated.jpg

Xie Yao didn’t tell Zhou Tian that Jiang Song could solve the problem, which led to him spending the whole afternoon shopping, eating, and walking his cat around. Zhou Tian bombarded him with messages on WeChat.

Xie Yao had known Zhou Tian for a long time and knew that he was easily agitated. Whenever he bombarded him with messages like this, he couldn’t listen to reason. So Xie Yao decided to wait until he was done venting before replying.

Gad: I don’t know if the platform gave them any benefits, but Langyue Xingshu has a powerful background. Even if those streamers knew that he was behind yesterday’s incident, they didn’t have the courage to confront him.

Gad: Since they can’t confront him, why not just go along with him? This way, they can gain favor with him, let fans donate gifts earlier, and it’s not like it has no benefits.

Zhou Tian immediately replied, “Fuck!” It was clear that he was really angry.

After a day of cursing, Xie Yao chatted with him for a few minutes and then opened the livestream ten minutes early.

As usual, fans were waiting for Xie Yao to start the livestream. However, today was different. In the past, there were only a few thousand people in the livestream room, but today, the number of online viewers reached 60,000 when Xie Yao started the livestream.

“Good evening, I’m the streamer Yao Yao.”

Xie Yao waved his hand twice in front of the camera and greeted his fans.

Today’s barrage was a bit chaotic. When he looked at it, several messages interacting with him were quickly buried by other messages, and all he could see was a flood of insults.

Xie Yao frowned, didn’t speak immediately, and stared at the barrage for a while. After figuring out what was going on, he smiled.

: Ew, can all the BL streamers just die?

: Is the praise function useful? Please, streamer, don’t pollute the gaming community.

: I’m laughing so hard. Fans are hyping him up so much, but he’s only second place. I don’t know what this streamer is trying to prove every day.

: What second place? I’m laughing. He only managed to get high scores by playing with noobs who ranked in the top ten. Does he even deserve second place with such a huge skill gap?

: If he doesn’t sell BL, can he even survive?

: What’s wrong with these people? They just come here to spread hate for no reason?

: Wow, even the fans of a trash streamer have no manners. They come in here and just start insulting people.

…

Langyue Xingshu livestreamed for the whole day, and it wasn’t for nothing. Besides securing a top spot on the donation leaderboard before the competition, it also attracted a lot of hate towards Xie Yao.

Xie Yao did not expect that this anchor would take the “green tea” route. During the day, when he was live streaming, he seemed to be advising his fans not to say or do anything wrong. But when his fans mentioned Xie Yao, they made all kinds of insinuations and sarcastic comments, casually blaming Xie Yao for things he did not do.

Selling rotten goods, fixing fake matches, riding on popularity, and pretending to be someone else… anything that could be fabricated out of thin air was brought up. Fans are easily influenced by their idols, and even unintentional actions can cause an online uproar, let alone intentional ones. Xie Yao’s live streaming room was flooded because of this.

In fact, Xie Yao’s fans had already clashed with these haters before he went live, but the haters came back when Xie Yao started streaming. Zhou Tian, who had been watching Xie Yao’s live stream recently, also saw the haters in his live streaming room and screamed in anger on WeChat.

The barrage of comments made it hard to tell who was on Xie Yao’s side, but Xie Yao remained expressionless and simply enabled the “level blocking” function in his live streaming room, banning anyone with a VIP level below three.

Once the function was activated, the haters disappeared instantly. If it were any other time, these haters, who would rather smash gifts and level up by attacking the anchor, would keep on harassing him. But this was during a competition.

Every penny sent in Xie Yao’s live streaming room would be counted towards his total donations, and once the donation amount reached a certain level, he would receive bonus points.

The people causing trouble in Xie Yao’s live streaming room were mostly fans of other anchors who had heard about the “scandals” here and came to join in the attack. They would enter the room with their main accounts and start cursing at Xie Yao, and their fan badges with special effects could be seen on their home pages.

During the competition, Xie Yao’s opponents would definitely not send him any money.

Xie Yao’s live streaming room immediately became much more peaceful.

Five minutes before the start of the competition, Zhou Tian’s anger began to boil over again on WeChat, and even the fans’ words of comfort for Xie Yao in the barrage were full of anger from the previous fights.

Xie Yao rubbed his fingers against each other and smiled at the camera.

Before turning on the camera, Xie Yao’s facial expression wasn’t very vivid, even when he was joking and insulting people with a smile.

But after turning on the camera, he became even more poker-faced, and even started speaking less.

Fans haven’t seen Xie Yao laugh so much in a long time, and for a moment, the screen was filled with chicken noises, screen licking, and mom fans calling him their husband.

Xie Yao tapped the table in front of the camera, his index finger making a clear sound as it hit the surface.

“Did you come here to cause trouble with your fans just because they have more fans than me? Do you think I’ll just swallow my pride like other streamers and let this go?”

“Or do you think that if I really fight back, you’ll just use it as a handle to continue fabricating other dirt on me?” Xie Yao stared at the barrage, leaning lightly on the back of his chair, his eyebrows raised, and his face full of aggression.

The fans in the live stream were silent for half a second, then began to exclaim. “Help! We’ve been cursed!”

With only a few days left in his contract with SharkTV, Xie Yao was already a rebellious person. He had to swallow his pride for his livelihood, but when someone came to him looking for trouble at the last minute, why should he continue to swallow it?

“You’re angry that you’ve been banned from talking, aren’t you? Ha!” Xie Yao laughed again.

“Selling gay stuff? Your dad is openly gay, if you want to see that kind of stuff, go watch the top of your screen licker list.”

“Praise is happy to let your dad ride on his popularity. If you’re jealous, go to the hospital and wait in line for your red-eye disease.”

“As for the second──” Xie Yao looked up at the barrage, his gaze as if he were looking at someone through the screen.

“I pray that your main screen licker can match up with my dad tonight and see what it really means to be number one.” Xie Yao didn’t bother to hide his declaration of war, and the barrage went crazy.

: Oh my god, Yao Yao is killing me!

: Too cursed, I’m about to faint!

: Screw them, let’s just kill these idiots tonight and show them what it really means to be a big spender!

: I’ve never liked these streamers who climb to the top through dirty tricks. Finally, someone is standing up to them, let’s kill them!

: I don’t know if anyone else is enjoying this, but I definitely am!

…

The time jumped to 59 minutes, and Xie Yao sat up straight, picking up the phone he used for the competition next to him, and putting his index finger to his lips.

“Shh, the competition is starting.”

The live broadcast screen entered the countdown. In the next moment, the game interface changed and twenty streamers entered the competition.

Xie Yao clicked on the match button.

Jiang Song had been busy all day, but he compressed his work to free up his evening and opened Xie Yao’s live broadcast room on time.

As soon as he entered, he saw the small streamer smiling and announcing the start of the competition, causing Jiang Song’s heart to race.

Xie Yao entered the game, and Jiang Song took a glance.

Finally, in this match, he was matched with Langyue Xingshu.

The barrage was rolling by at an extremely fast speed, and fans were calling for Xie Yao to bloodily kill the opponents.

Xie Yao locked onto Diao Chan, and the dancing girl in a pink dress spun around on the screen, “Do you want to appreciate my dance?”

Xie Yao typed a message in the public chat.

“Don’t worry about the mid lane, the other side will die on their own.”

Jiang Song held the mouse in his hand, the cursor hovering over the gift interface, while his phone on the table displayed a group chat on WeChat.

A message notification sounded.

YQ Ju Ye: Brother Jiang, we’re ready!

YQ Bu Ling: Wuhu, the funds have arrived.

YQ Xiao Bu: Everyone is here.

YQ Da Bu Liu: Charge!

YQ Song Song: +1

The mouse moved, and Jiang Song’s index finger clicked.

: Praise gives the streamer a spaceship x10!