Chapter 202 The Real and Fake Heiresses Used as Cannon Fodder (Part Fourteen) Bai Zhiyao...
Bai Zhiyao's live stream is scheduled for 3 PM today, which is right after her afternoon nap. Whether office workers can see it is not even on Bai Zhiyao's radar.
The live stream announcement only mentioned "eating melons," but the equipment was top-notch, thanks to a top-tier sponsorship from Brother Bai Yichen, and there was even a professional accompanying the live stream as a comedian.
The story of the real and fake heiress of the Bai family has spread online, attracting quite a few netizens to watch the spectacle. As one of the main characters in this big gossip about a wealthy family, it's bound to be quite a show.
What's more, this is a fake heiress. She used to live a life of luxury, but now she's so destitute that she has to do live streaming to support herself. The contrast must be huge.
Some people with impure motives even thought that they could spend a lot of money to get this once high-and-mighty young lady to call them "brother" or "godfather".
Most netizens are pretty carefree; they're just there for the fun of it all, especially with the livestream's name: "Watching the drama unfold online." Who knows if there will be any secrets from wealthy families!
Everyone was excitedly discussing, completely unaware that Bai Zhiyao was already eager to hear their gossip.
Although metaphysics cannot develop here due to global influences, and Lin You herself has not learned divination, she has a "subsystem".
"Subsystems" can have their attributes set according to the system's requirements. Each task world can only be set once. There is no limit to the number of people bound to the subsystem, but each task world can only be bound to one person and cannot be changed.
The system requires energy to operate, which is the points and experience points Lin You gains when completing tasks. Similarly, the "subsystem" can also obtain a certain amount of energy through the tasks of the task objects.
As its owner, Lin You can set the percentage she can take. For example, she can take as much energy as the "subsystem" earns through the task object, up to a maximum of 90%.
The more energy Lin You extracts, the less the task objects bound to the "subsystem" will gain. The task objects will be unable to grow and will instead fail to acquire energy, sometimes resulting in more harm than good.
The first time Lin You used the "subsystem," it was still bound to her own task object. She didn't set any percentage reduction and started it directly. Bai Zhiyao could use all the energy obtained this way.
Recently, Lin You has been reading a lot of online novels with Bai Zhiyao. She skillfully set up the gossip-eating system and then bound it to Bai Zhiyao.
[Ding! Dear host, the Gossip System has been bound.] A mechanical electronic voice sounded, its tone somewhat similar to modern AI reading.
Lin You originally wanted Bai Zhiyao to try communicating with it, but after a couple of sentences, she gave up completely. It was just a pre-programmed artificial intelligence that could only repeat itself according to a template.
Bai Zhiyao studied it for a while, and when the time was almost up, she didn't care about the ritual of timing it perfectly, so she opened the live broadcast room a few minutes early.
The live stream took place at Bai Tiantian's villa. Bai Zhiyao sat on the second-floor terrace, which had been transformed into a small garden. In the middle, there were tables and chairs for reading and drinking tea, as well as a swing surrounded by vines and flowers, just like in a fairy tale.
Some viewers in the live stream who didn't know the truth and wanted to see the fake heiress fall from grace were dumbfounded for a while, while some with ill intentions who were planning to make lewd jokes immediately shut up.
Livestream title: "Fake Heiress Livestreaming and Eating Gossip"
Although it was her first live stream, more people came than Bai Zhiyao had expected, and a barrage of comments quickly appeared.
[The streamer didn't use any beauty filters, but she's really good-looking!]
[Juliet Rose? White Crown Lotus?! So expensive… oh no, what a beautiful garden!]
[Where are you, host? Is this the Bai family residence? It looks like a villa area. Is it the XX villa near the 5A scenic area in the east of the city?]
[Is the "fake heiress" livestream name the juicy gossip we're going to hear today?]
[Having usurped her place for years, does she still dare to boast that even if she's a fake heiress, she's still the favored one?]
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Bai Zhiyao adjusted the camera and waved generously: "Hello everyone, I'm Bai Zhiyao, a gossip streamer. As for why I started a live stream, well, it's because I've read too many novels."
The chat in the live stream was silenced by her, and it took a while before anyone continued to send messages. Bai Zhiyao casually picked a few questions to answer.
"What's going on with the real and fake heiresses? This is different from what you see in online novels. My two fathers have the same name. There weren't many hospitals where I was born, and the nurses called the wrong babies when they called out the names."
"Where am I broadcasting live? This is my sister Bai Tiantian's villa, which is also the real heiress's villa. It was a birthday gift from my brother, and I live here now."
"Am I jealous of her and deliberately using her house for a live stream? Why would I be jealous of my sister?" Bai Zhiyao blinked, deliberately waiting for some people in the live stream to mock her before turning the camera towards the villa next door.
This was a spot she specifically chose, as it offered a perfect view of the entire other villa and a glimpse of its terrace garden, whose decor was very similar to this one.
"See that? That villa over there was my birthday present. It's similar in style to my sister's. My older brother decorated it himself, and his aesthetic is still a cute, princess-like style."
The netizens who were just mocking him in the live stream were instantly proven wrong, and then their opinions peculiarly shifted to Bai Yichen's aesthetic sense.
While watching the live stream comments with great interest, Bai Zhiyao answered the questions, "Why did I start a live stream? Of course, it's not because I'm short of money. Aren't all the fake rich girls in online novels doing live streams to tell fortunes? I'll give it a try too."
After she finished speaking, she took out an exquisite signboard from under the table, a banner the size of two palms, and propped it up on the table in front of the live broadcast camera.
The banner bore four characters written in bold, flowing calligraphy: "Eating melons and fortune telling." The live stream chat was stunned into silence for a long moment before finally managing to string together a single line:
I must say, this calligraphy is quite good; it's almost at the level of a master.
The words were not written by Bai Zhiyao, but by Lin Youdong. In the first mission world, she learned four skill books: zither, chess, calligraphy, and painting.
I used to think that books on musical skills, chess, calligraphy, and painting were useless, but now I realize that I actually got a bargain.
There were no skill books for sale in the system store, and even in the worlds she later experienced, she didn't encounter any skill books as rewards from her cheat abilities.
Seeing the comments praising her handwriting in the live stream, Lin You decided to ask her friends about skill books later.
Bai Zhiyao interacted back and forth with the viewers in the live stream. The live stream assistant, seeing that she was having a lot of fun, didn't try to guide her or do anything, and just acted as a supporting character.
Before the assistant arrived, President Bai specifically instructed that as long as there were no harsh words or serious negative impacts, the second young lady should be allowed to do whatever she wanted, as long as she was happy.
[Host, how should we interpret this divination?]
Bai Zhiyao feigned profundity: "Of course, it's calculated by counting on my fingers?"
[Host, was your divination accurate?]
Bai Zhiyao earnestly assured, "If the calculation is wrong, you don't have to pay."
[Host, are there any rules for fortune telling?]
Bai Zhiyao pretended to flip through the book: "Hmm, let me take a look. Only three divinations a day, not lottery numbers, live online divination... um, the divination subjects are randomly selected..."
It's hard to say whether the streamer is professional or not; at this point, they've started looking for rules in a book.
[Who can tell what book the streamer is reading?]
[The screenshot has been enlarged, and the text looks familiar. Isn't this the novel from xx website, the one about live fortune telling and fake heiresses watching gossip online?]
With her assistant's prompting, Bai Zhiyao readily admitted that she had indeed borrowed content from a novel, "But don't worry, I'm definitely not a professional at gossiping... ah, I mean fortune telling."
How much is the price for this divination?
Bai Zhiyao: "Oh, I don't need it, why would I need a fortune-telling fee?"
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Viewers in the live stream: So what you meant by "no money if you don't allow it" is this kind of "no money if you don't allow it".
These days, not many people believe in fortune telling, but there are always plenty of people who like to join in the fun. Bai Zhiyao, reminded by the "gossip system," randomly selected someone and started a live stream connection.
On the other end of the screen was a young girl with a ponytail. After opening the live stream, she hurriedly tidied up the somewhat messy table before greeting everyone with a smile.
Bai Zhiyao waved her little "Gossip and Fortune Telling" sign and asked seriously, "What would you like to have told?"
The girl with the ponytail thought for a moment and said, "I don't really have anything to figure out, but my brother has been avoiding me lately and acting suspiciously. I've also smelled a girl's perfume on him. I want to know if he's in a relationship."
Bai Zhiyao glanced at the information provided by the "gossip system," and pretended to do some calculations with her fingers. Although her movements were not very standard, she still put on quite a show.
The viewers in the live stream didn't really believe she could do the calculations, but they were just there for the spectacle. Who cared whether the spectacle was real or fake? As long as it was entertaining, that was enough.
“According to my divination, your brother shouldn’t be in a relationship yet.” Bai Zhiyao clearly put on an air of profound mystery, which made the girl laugh and unconsciously play along with her performance.
"Then why is he avoiding me? And what's with the perfume?"
Bai Zhiyao couldn't help but laugh: "The reason he felt guilty when he saw you was because he took your treasured badge and showed it off to his classmates. He hung it on his backpack and forgot to take it off. It happened to rain those two days, and your badge got rusty."
The girl with the ponytail had a bunch of exquisite little standees on her table, several dolls on top of the table, and a bouncy storage box next to her, clearly a fan of anime and manga.
Seeing that she didn't believe him, Bai Zhiyao continued, "He was afraid of being beaten, so he kept avoiding you. As for the perfume scent, there was a girl in his class who also had that kind of vibrator, and he went to her every day to beg her to sell it to him so he could secretly put it back in your hand."
The girl with the ponytail really didn't believe it, after all, she liked to eat millet, and she had saved up hundreds of them, and quite a few in multiples, as evidenced by the boxes piled on the table.
Besides, even if her brother really did take her badge, they've always had a good relationship. It's just a regular badge; it shouldn't have scared her brother so much that he avoided her for half a month.
However, since the streamer had already done the divination, she still wanted to verify it. Coincidentally, her younger brother was doing his summer homework next door, so she went over and pulled him over.
"Little Fish, did you take my badge?!" The boy, who was already feeling a little guilty, visibly trembled upon hearing this, and lowered his head even further.
[That guilty look on his face is exactly like when I got caught stealing my sister's snacks!]
[It's just like how I drowned my sister's favorite cactus, replaced it with a realistic one, and she didn't realize it until six months later.]
[This is what happened after I accidentally broke a cup that my brother's ex-girlfriend had given him. I bought him ten more online, but he still couldn't tell which one was from her. He treasured all ten and locked them in a closet.]
[Upstairs, you're making this look incredibly realistic!]
No, I got the online store address directly from his ex-girlfriend. It's the same store, guaranteed to be exactly the same.
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Bai Zhiyao happily ate the melon, and the girl with the ponytail was also amused by the comments. She said to her younger brother, "If you honestly admit it, I won't hit you this time."
Little Fish secretly looked up to make sure she wasn't really angry, and didn't seem like she was going to settle scores with him, before nodding a little guiltily.
The girl with the ponytail was still amazed that Bai Zhiyao had actually guessed... no, calculated correctly, and was still asking her if she really had some kind of magic.
Seeing this, the little fish brother hurriedly tiptoed, hunched his neck, and carefully and silently slipped out step by step.
The girl with the ponytail's live stream captured his escape in its entirety. The girl finally realized something was wrong and immediately opened the cabinet to check her treasures.
After counting and counting, she still missed one of her favorite badges, which is now out of print and can't be bought even if you have money. It's her absolute favorite and the hardest badge to get.
"Liu Jiayu, how dare you touch my treasured possessions!"
After sensing something was wrong, Little Fish darted out, only to be slammed shut by the ponytail girl, who had anticipated this, and expertly locked the door.
Seeing that the girl with the ponytail in the camera had already picked up a feather duster, in order to prevent the other party's dirty laundry from being exposed, or rather, to avoid her own live stream account being banned, Bai Zhiyao promptly disconnected the live stream.
"Come on, come on, there are still two more melons to gossip about today. Let's draw the next one." Bai Zhiyao excitedly waved the small sign.
Shouldn't it be "卦" (guà), pronounced with the fourth tone?
[Why do I feel like the host was referring to gossip/melon-eating?]
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