9 Chapter 8 – Sauteed Black Pepper sLittle” Ribs 3 (2/2)
”Can you possibly suck up even more? …” Feng Ya Song burst out laughing. ”… O our great assistant group leader.”
”You go take your leave from your highness's presence now.” Dou Dou Dou Bing gave a hmph. ”Those who are tone deaf are not allowed to speak tonight.”
With tail between his legs, Feng Ya Song also turned off his microphone.
”Unrivalled Allure Toupai DaRen?” Dou Dou Dou Bing continued to wag her tail.
”Hmm?”
”What… are you doing?”
Qiang Qing Ci thought over his answer briefly. ”Listening to you guys talk.”
”DaRen, do you have any other special program, or do you have anything you want to say to the fans?”
He seemed as if he wanted to leave, and from the sounds of it, it really did appear as if he was winding things down. ”Let me think.”
A hush settled momentarily over the channel.
Considering that tonight, Unrivalled Allure Toupai Daren's performance had sent everyone's blood surging much too fast, they were all extremely looking forward to how he was going to conclude.
”What I want to say is…” He seemed to be eating something along the lines of a throat lozenge, and his enunciation was not very clear. In a muffled, gentle, doting tone, he gave a low laugh and said, ”Don't invest yourself too much into liking someone simply because you are infatuated with a voice. You never know, on the other side of the Internet, what type of person the owner of the voice is, right?”
Right?
Right…
No! Not right, k?!
If someone else had said that, it might have been more convincing.
But Toupai DaRen, tonight, you first used your voice to seduce everyone and then warned everyone not to be too infatuated with a voice … Did you do that on purpose? You must have did that purpose. Absolutely, it was on purpose!
Sure enough, the fans very fittingly started spamming the screen, all of them crying, Daren, I love you. Forever behind you!
Jue Mei Sha Yi was giddy with glee. Clearing his throat, he used his domineering, manly voice to override the fans' enthusiasm. ”Qiang Qing Ci Dada meant, liking the voice is good enough. Don't let the voice deceive your feelings. Oh, you know, a rational type of liking. Uh, yeah, a rational type of liking.”
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Fine, he knew that he was making up bullsh**.
Gu Sheng, the little lyrics scroller, had apparently been forgotten and engulfed into the crowd as she listened to their bantering and mocking.
So amusing. It was because they were all speaking through the Internet that everyone was so amusing. This was what was meant by birds of a feather flock together…
She felt Qiang Qing Ci must have left already. Turning off the sound recording function, she started to search for her software, with the intention of clipping out Toupai DaRen's half a song that he had sung.She had just opened up the software when Qiang Qing Ci unexpectedly sent over a private chat.
Qiang Qing Ci: Have something urgent to do. I need to go.
Gu Sheng hastily typed off on her keyboard: DaRen, hurry and go then ^^
As for why DaRen would suddenly say goodbye to her, uh, she guessed it was probably to be polite or something…
A polite goodbye to the little lyrics scroller whom he had just collaborated with for the first time. Uh huh.
Qiang Qing Ci: Do you have WeChat?
Gu Sheng: Yup, Dada.
Qiang Qing Ci: Is it okay to add each other in WeChat?
...
Gu Sheng stared at the screen dazedly... DaRen he…wants…wants… wants… wants to add me as a friend in WeChat?
Qiang Qing Ci: Moqingcheng. That's me. Sorry. Need to go now.
Gu Sheng continued to gaze blankly at the screen... This is DaRen's…his… his… his… his WeChat ID?
[1] The Three Pure Ones, 三清 are the three highest gods in Taoism. ”So I have heard Buddha's words” 如是我闻 is a phrase frequently seen in Buddhist scripture. This line is saying the person knows both Taoism and Buddhism but does not belong to either.
[2] 命格 'ming ge.' Also known as one's ”birth chart” or ”natal horoscope.” In Chinese fortune-telling, one's fortune, encounters, love, etc. are laid out already at birth and are written into one's ”ming ge.'
[3] 倾国倾城. Literally 'downfall of a country and city.' This idiom describes beauty that can cause the ruin of a country or a city and is usually used to describe a woman. In this context, it is a teasing tone but it is meant to say that Toupai's talents and allure are unrivalled. This nickname for Toupai will come up many more times. For readability, I may simplify this as ”Unrivalled Allure.”
[4] In wuxia stories, a pugilist would wash his hands in a golden basin to signify his retirement from the pugilistic world.
[5] 牛鬼蛇神 ”niu gui she shen.” Literally, ”ghosts with heads like an ox, gods with bodies like serpents.” Originally used to describe things of fantasy or grotesque things but evolved to become a metaphor describing all sorts of ugly things or bad people.
[6] YY horse levels, described in chapter 6 footnotes. The purple horse is the channel founder and owner. In a more casual sense, the ”purple horse” of a group is the leader.