"Hello, Brother Li."

Ultimately, I wish Zhu Jinzhao the best in taking this step.

"Hello." Li Weiwan smiled awkwardly on the other side of the screen, politely responding to Zhu Jinzhao's greeting. After replying, she nervously pursed her lips and remained silent.

"..."

The live stream fell into an eerie silence once again.

Zhu Jinzhao stared with his big, round, bright eyes, while Li Weiwan blinked his deep, handsome phoenix eyes. Their eyes met in silence, awkward yet amusing.

[Hahahaha! This is hilarious! Who came up with the idea of ​​having these two socially awkward people connect?]

[Brother Li, say something! Start a conversation! Don't just stare blankly like a stone!]

[Hahaha, Li Ge might have had a problem.]

[Zhu Jinchao looks so cute! (Please don't scold me, I have both parents and a complete family tree.)]

Two people are about to break apart, someone please save them!

The live stream was so bizarre that viewers, always eager for drama, flooded the chat with mockery, completely disregarding the plight of the two socially awkward individuals.

One minute later, the hashtag #WereLiWeiwan and ZhuJinzhao poisoned and rendered mute?# quickly climbed to the top of the trending searches.

The trending topic attracted many casual netizens, whose humorous comments diluted the insults directed at Zhu Jinzhao in her live stream. Zhu Jinzhao secretly breathed a sigh of relief and mustered the courage to speak to Li Weiwan again.

"Brother Li, what's your task? My task is to draw."

“Uh…” Li Weiwan stammered for a moment, “My task is to write, to write the fans’ online names.”

As he spoke, he picked up the sheet of white paper spread on the table and showed it to Zhu Jinzhao, "Look, I've written so much."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Jinzhao moved closer to the live stream screen, her large eyes blinking gently in front of Li Weiwan. Li Weiwan suddenly felt her cheeks burning.

"Wow, your handwriting is so beautiful!" Zhu Jinzhao praised sincerely.

Li Weiwan smiled shyly and gently put down the blank paper: "Thank you, your writing is also very beautiful."

Zhu Jinzhao: "...I didn't write it."

“…Ah?” Li Weiwan looked panicked.

[Hahahaha! Four words were all it took to easily break down the defenses of the nation's top actor!]

[Li Ge frantically did a lot of embarrassing things.]

【Ahhhh! Don't you guys think Zhu Jinzhao is adorable? I just didn't like her, but when she was on screen with Li Ge, I suddenly thought she was so cute! She even took the initiative to talk to Li Ge!】

[She and Li Ge are both adorable! Two little socially awkward babies.]

[Waaaaah, you guys are not allowed to scold Zhu Jinzhao anymore! She's willing to initiate conversations with Brother Li, she's a good girl.]

"I'm sorry," Li Weiwan said softly, blushing, "I forgot your task was to draw."

Zhu Jinzhao obediently shook her head: "It's okay. Would you like to see my painting?"

Li Weiwan: "Okay."

Zhu Jinzhao then picked up his drawing board and showed Li Weiwan the ugly thing he had just drawn.

Li Weiwan asked curiously, "What is this thing? Is it a cactus?"

Zhu Jinzhao: "This is ginger."

Li Weiwan: "...And this one? Is this a drawing of poop?"

"This is Lazy Sheep."

"...Why does this fish have sausage lips?"

"It doesn't have sausage lips, it has normal lips."

"Um...did this stick figure fall down?"

"No, it's jumping off a building."

Li Weiwan: "..."

This person shouldn't have spoken; the more they say, the more awkward it becomes.

[Hahaha, I'm laughing so hard! I wanted to guess everything, but I guessed nothing correctly!]

[Brother Li: One act of initiative can lead to a lifetime of inferiority. (Sending love)]

[Actually... you can't really blame Li Ge, Zhu Jinzhao also bears some responsibility. Which female celebrity's paintings are as abstract as hers? So abstract they could be on "Approaching Science" (a popular science program).]

One asked the question earnestly, and the other answered earnestly, but I just felt like they were both talking nonsense.

[That's how we socially awkward people are; we always do the most ridiculous things with a straight face, making ourselves incredibly embarrassed!]

"Sorry, I'm never good at guessing things," Li Weiwan said with an awkward laugh, touching the tip of her nose.

Zhu Jinzhao shook his head: "This is not your fault. It's because my drawing is too ugly. It's normal that you couldn't guess it."

Li Weiwan: "...Okay."

Then I didn't know what to say.

"..."

The live stream fell silent for the third time.

[Hahahaha, I laughed until the rooster crowed! This humble woman is unworthy of your favor, sir.]

[Brother Li: If all the other guests are having a great time, then I'll be the one to apologize!]

[In less than ten minutes of the call, Brother Li had already apologized many times.]

[Hahaha, Zhu Jinzhao across the way is totally stunned, she's so cute!!]

[The socially awkward, clueless guy and the socially awkward, apologetic guy—why is this pairing so strangely endearing...?]

"Um, my drawing is terrible, why don't you give it a try?" Zhu Jinzhao's social anxiety was less than Li Weiwan's, so she consciously took the initiative to find topics to interact with.

"Shall I try?" Li Weiwan was unsure of her meaning. "Shall I draw?"

Zhu Jinzhao: "Okay! You draw, and I'll write. Let's switch tasks."

“Sure.” This interaction was quite interesting, and Li Weiwan was unusually interested. “Then I’ll draw the fans’ usernames, and you can write them.”

Zhu Jinzhao picked up her small drawing board: "Hmm. Brother Li, come out for a second, let's exchange props."

Li Weiwan immediately stood up: "Come now, see you in the corridor."

The live stream camera was fixed to a tripod, and Zhu Jinzhao couldn't take it off, so he simply took his drawing board and went to the corridor to meet Li Weiwan.

The two socially awkward people met but didn't dare to speak. They quickly exchanged props and hurriedly slipped away.

"Where have you been today?" Shi Jing sat up straight, curiously examining the object in Zhu Jinzhao's hand.

Zhu Jinzhao said with a grin, "I went to exchange items with Brother Li. We swapped our missions."

“…Oh.” Shi Jing raised an eyebrow, his expression suddenly becoming somewhat strange.

Zhu Jinzhao didn't pay much attention to him, and naturally didn't notice the expression on his face.

"They seem to be having a lot of fun..." he muttered to himself, feeling annoyed again.

Zhu Jinzhao returned to the live broadcast room and laid out the props on the table with Li Weiwan on the other side of the screen.

"Brother Li, let's begin."

Li Weiwan waved her paintbrush at her: "Okay."

The insults in the live stream were largely drowned out by Li Weiwan's fans, and Zhu Jinzhao no longer had to feel helpless looking at the screen full of comments.

She picked out a few interesting usernames and wrote them down as she read them aloud.

"Brother Li, I'm your dog..."

"Honey, come home and take care of the kids. (Parentheses: the version after marrying Li Ge...)"

"Li Weiwan, you're a husband..."

Zhu Jinchao recited these shameful online names with a calm expression, without blushing or skipping a beat.

"Ahem..." Li Weiwan blushed deeply, trying hard to suppress her laughter on the other side of the screen.

In the live stream, another strange couple was born.