Chapter 71
Qiao Ruiyi was about to type to find out the situation, but his fingertips paused when he saw the word "heat".
Heat, what heat?
Aren’t Yaoxing and him both ordinary people?
[Descendants] Cat Language - Jingxian: This is so funny. You don't really think you are a big shot? Why are you pretending to be so cool?
[Descendants] Maoyu-Jingxian: You are so big now, you have a fan club and a support club. Are you going to leave Yaoxing tomorrow and start your own live broadcast on the Maoyu platform?
Qiao Ruiyi was stunned, the words on the screen made his mind go blank.
Leaving Yaoxing? Live streaming?
Could it be... Yuan Xingyou is the anchor?
Qiao Ruiyi had just started playing games and his concept of live streaming was formed through watching game competitions.
He roughly understood that in addition to professional competitions, there are also people who make money through live broadcasts, and these people are called anchors.
Before Qiao Ruiyi had time to digest this information, several more messages popped up in the game:
[Descendants] Cat Language - Jingxian: Who in the entire Cat Language doesn't know that you have become famous by riding on Yuan Xingyou's popularity? There are people posting your name in his live broadcast room every day. People who don't know would think that your name is written in his live broadcast room. You are secretly happy, right? Others don't have the same treatment as you.
[Descendants] Cat Language - Jingxian: Humph! I work so hard to live stream from morning till night, but the fans I have accumulated are not as many as you who are not even a live streamer. How can this world be so unfair! If only I had been the one who met Yaoxing in the first place.
[Descendants] Cat Language-Jingxian: However, even someone as strong as Yaoxing has to go the gay route to attract fans, but I can tell you very clearly that once you are no longer useful to him, he will abandon you. You are nothing more than a tool for him to gain popularity temporarily.
Qiao Ruiyi stared at the screen, feeling a dull tightness in his chest.
He suddenly remembered Yuan Xingyou's hesitation yesterday, and his hesitation when he said "give me some time"...
So, it was because of this?
In the game, their teammates have begun to get impatient:
[Chang'e] 57-year-old taking care of children in the wild: Are you guys annoying?
[Lian Po] The dance never stops: Is it playing games or just a verbal battle?
[Zhen Ji] Fang Lu Shang: Just block him and focus on the operation.
Qiao Ruiyi took a deep breath and blocked Jingxian's words, but the other party's words were like thorns in his heart.
Is Yuan Xingyou really the anchor?
Could it be that he approached me because of... the heat?
After a game ended, Qiao Ruiyi immediately quit the game and searched for "Yaoxing Maoyu Live" on the browser.
A lot of information pops up on the page immediately:
Yuan Xingyou (Yao Xing) was born on June 18, 20xx in Jing City. He is good at jungle and is famous for his fierce and aggressive gaming style.
Identity: Top anchor of Maoyu platform
Number of fans: 3.2 million
Update: Recently, Yuan Xingyou met a powerful side lane player in the ranking. The two went from being enemies to close friends. Their friendship brought Yuan Xingyou a lot of popularity and also gained a large number of new fans.
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Qiao stared at the screen intently, his heart chilled.
It turns out that Yuan Xingyou has never been an ordinary person, but a big anchor with millions of fans.
He was kept in the dark from beginning to end - the so-called "friendship" might have been an elaborate scam from beginning to end, just a means for Yuan Xingyou to increase the popularity of the live broadcast room.
He stared at the screen of his mobile phone, confirming again and again that the photo of Yuan Xingyou displayed on the Internet was the same person in his memory.
At this moment, the words that Maoyu Jingxian said came back to haunt him - riding on the popularity, being a tool, selling homosexuality...
Every word cut into his heart like a knife.
Qiao Ruiyi turned off his phone suddenly and threw it aside.
He leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes in disappointment.
The only thing left in the room was the faint sunlight coming in from the window, and the house was so quiet that it made people feel numb.
--fraud.
——It turns out that the tacit understanding of fighting side by side and the concern for each other were all just for the live broadcast effect.
——And he, Qiao Ruiyi, was just a "tool man" being used from beginning to end.
Qiao Ruiyi opened his eyes, and there was a little more moisture in his eyes. He wanted to question the other party regardless of the consequences: What is my identity? Is there any real love between them?
But the cruel reality taught him not to humiliate himself. Did he want to hear an answer that would make him even more uncomfortable?
Joe forced himself to put these things behind him.
He stood up and walked to the window. The summer sun stung his eyes and hurt them. He raised his hand to block it, but found that his fingers were shaking slightly.
Qiao Ruiyi stared at the trembling fingertips with a broken heart. He had to admit that he couldn't let him go. He missed Yuan Xingyou's voice and appearance, and missed the scene of fighting side by side with him.
He still wanted to hear the other party's explanation, but not to directly question Yuan Xingyou. Instead, he wanted to see what kind of person the other party was from a third-party perspective.
Qiao Ruiyi made a bold decision - he was going to watch the other party's live broadcast, today.
The time waiting for Yuan Xingyou to start broadcasting passed particularly slowly. Qiao Ruiyi didn't know how many times he refreshed the page before he finally saw the news that Yaoxing had started broadcasting.
Qiao Ruiyi couldn't wait to enter Yuan Xingyou's live broadcast room.
The boy in the picture looked the same as Qiao Ruiyi remembered. He smiled gently and was interacting familiarly with the barrage of comments.
The comments were also lively:
【Container】Good evening!
[Being his mouthpiece] Brother Yaoxing, you and the great goddess Hua Mulan’s performance last night was so cool!
[Da Huang 255] By the way, why didn’t Lord Dark Moon come today?
[One person doing two jobs] Why is the anchor playing solo? Aren't you looking for a Dark Moon duo today?
[I'm the only one in jail] Huh? Yuexing CP is closed today? I downloaded the Maoyu app just to watch you guys.
【54+2263】Brother Yaoxing, we want to watch you play games together!!
【Committing aaa sin】add one.
【6*5595】Please, let’s go find Dark Moon and play games together!
Yuan Xingyou saw the content of the barrage and his expression froze slightly, then returned to normal.
He didn't want Joe Rui to become the topic of conversation.
"Dark Moon is just a friend the host met by chance. Don't pay too much attention to him. Just focus on the host."
After a pause, Yuan Xingyou added: "After all...he is just a passerby."
After saying this, he felt as if his heart was being tugged at by something.
Yuan Xingyou bit the tip of his tongue, letting the pain awaken his reason: he had to make peace with the other party in front of the camera, which was good for both of them, and Ruiyi would not know this anyway.
The other side.
Qiao Ruiyi stared at the screen. The other party's nonchalant look deeply hurt his eyes. The hand holding the mouse exerted force uncontrollably. The air around him seemed to be sucked out, and a feeling of suffocation lingered on his neck.
So this is how Yuan Xingyou defines their relationship?
Qiao Ruiyi was silent for a moment, suddenly chuckled, and directly exited the live broadcast room.
He just found it ridiculous that their story could be glossed over so lightly in front of the camera.
Since the other party has made his choice, there is no need for him to be sentimental anymore.
——It's time to wake up.
Qiao Ruiyi turned off the computer, picked up his mobile phone and logged into the game. In the friend list, the avatar of "Yao Xing Shan Shan" was lit, indicating "In the game".
He stared at the familiar star avatar for a long time, and finally chose to "delete friend".
System prompt: You have deleted your friend [Shining Star].
Qiao Ruiyi continued to search in his friend list. He was also friends with Yuan Xingyou, and the same thing happened - he deleted the friend.
There is also the possibility of quitting the team that the other party asked you to join.
After doing all this, Qiao Ruiyi quit the game, opened the Green Bubble software again, and found Yuan Xingyou's account in the address book.
He opened the chat box, and the happy conversation with the other party turned into false text.
Qiao Ruiyi pursed his lips and tapped on the keyboard with his slender fingers:
【Joey】Yuan Xingyou, I know that you are actually a big anchor on the Maoyu platform.
[Joey] You are so famous, you shouldn't be held back by someone like me. I am not a tool for anyone to hype me up. It was fun to hang out with you, but I don't want everything you said or did to me in the past to be a show, even though I was just a passerby...
【Joey】So... let's not contact each other anymore, let's leave some good memories for each other, and don't let everything become what we hate.
Qiao Ruiyi's finger hovered above the send button, trembling slightly.
In the end, he still pressed the send button.
The unexpected friendship now turned into an absurd joke.
Qiao Ruiyi's heart was twitching with pain. After sending the message, he deleted the other party and added him to the blacklist. He was also worried that Yuan Xingyou would contact him again through their game chat group, so he quit in one breath.
——He didn't want to see this person again.
After finishing everything, Qiao Ruiyi lay on the bed, raised his hands to cover his eyes, and sighed deeply.
That's it.
It's time to end this ridiculous "friendship".
Outside the window, the night deepens and raindrops hit the glass.
Qiao Ruiyi buried his face in the pillow again, letting the sound of rain drown out his heavy breathing.
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Another place.
Yuan Xingyou only had time to check his private messages after finishing a game. When he saw the three text messages sent to him by Qiao Ruiyi, the expression on his face suddenly became panic.
Qiao Ruiyi's last message stabbed into his heart like a poisoned knife.
【Joey】So... let's not contact each other anymore, let's leave some good memories for each other, and don't let everything become what we hate.
No - it shouldn't develop like this!
When Yuan Xingyou was about to reply with trembling hands, he found that a glaring red exclamation mark suddenly popped up next to the message he had sent.
[Message sending failed, you have been blocked by the other party]
He opened his game friend list in a panic, and the name "Dark Moon Yin Yin" had disappeared.
Yuan Xingyou hurriedly logged into his own account again, but still couldn't find Qiao Ruiyi.
Yuan Xingyou suddenly remembered that they had a gaming group, so he hurried over to look for it, but still didn't see the familiar avatar - Qiao Ruiyi had deleted all his contacts!
Yuan Xingyou's fingertips felt cold, and he realized then that Qiao Ruiyi was serious.
That person cut off all possible connections and wanted to completely disappear from his world.
Yuan Xingyou stood up suddenly, and the chair made a harsh sound on the floor.
The audience in the live broadcast room didn’t know what happened to Yaoxing, and the number of barrages on the computer’s secondary screen increased rapidly.
Yuan Xingyou then remembered that he was still live streaming.
He mechanically sat back in front of the camera, forced himself to say "Sorry, I don't feel well today", and then hurriedly ended the broadcast.
The moment the screen went black, his shoulders finally slumped.
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