24 Chapter 23 – Spicy Crispy-Skin Fish 1 (1/2)
She heard the alert indicating there was a private message.
Lifting up her head, she saw the screen was being inundated with comment after comment of love declarations. The senior manager of Qiang Qing Ci's YY channel was there, working continuously to maintain order. ”Calm down, calm down. You can't spam the screen on someone else's channel, eh….. Alright, kids... If you keep spamming, I'm going to have to come back tomorrow with gift in hand to apologize T T...” Her eyes seemed as if they were seeing everything in a blur, mainly because there were so many online users. If each person made even only one comment, there was no possible way to keep up.
”How come DaRen isn't saying anything? ( ⊙ o ⊙) AH! Maybe he's having a private chat session with Sheng Sheng?...”
”They must be private chatting…”
”What do you think they're talking about?”
”I heard that they had their in person meet-up today????”
( ⊙ o ⊙)
( ⊙ o ⊙)
How did somebody know that???? I just got back to the school not that long ago, you know? T T
Gu Sheng was already starting to feel she could not hold up any longer. Suddenly, she remembered that her private message window was still flashing. She thought it might be her association president or Zou Diao'er or someone like that, but it unexpectedly turned out to be Toupai.
Toupai: My phone's battery is dead, so I just dropped by here to say a quick hi.
Gu Sheng: ^^Okay.
Toupai disappeared from the channel very shortly after.
So many Toupai fans were still there. She truly was having a hard time digesting this all, and tearfully, she begged Zou Diao'er to take over for her. Inspired by his idol and god, Zou Diao'er immediately got onto his microphone, and Gu Sheng fled the scene right away. Indeed, getting to Toupai's status had its disadvantages: everywhere you went, a group of kids would follow you around and, in an instant, they could flood the screen of someone else's channel with comments…
Her mind in a whirl, she exited out of YY.
She began to organize the things she needed for class tomorrow. Geng Xiaoxing was sitting with a radiant smile on her face in front of her own desk, and seeing from the corner of her eye Gu Sheng climb down from the bed, she suddenly said into her headset microphone, ”Sheng Sheng's getting off her bed now.” When she finished saying this, she pulled her headset plug out of the jack to allow the audio to come through on her speakers, deliberately letting Gu Sheng listen in.
Jue Mei's voice quickly came back through the computer speakers. ”Hmm, Toupai's gone off to take a shower. Those two are truly in sync with each other.”
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Gu Sheng bared her teeth menacingly at Geng Xiaoxing, mouthing a silent threat: ”You are so dead.”
Jue Mei Sha Yi's voice was heard again shortly. ”The video game promotional video we did the dubbing for was just released.”
Geng Xiaoxing put on her headphones again. ”Let's carry on. I type, you talk, though. Otherwise, Sheng Sheng will hear what I say…”
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Fine. She was thin air.
However, Gu Sheng was still rather curious about that promotional video Jue Mei had mentioned. Large-scale type promotions such as this one usually generated extremely high-quality productions and were definitely worth collecting. And anyways… she remembered that Toupai had said he had participated in it as well. While she was opening up her computer, she cast a guilty glance at Geng Xiaoxing, who was enthusiastically rattling away on her keyboard. A question suddenly popped into her mind that piqued her curiosity: Jue Mei Sha Yi had hung out in this online show business for many years now, so how was it that he ended up getting reined in by a girl from outside the entertainment circle?
This world was truly remarkable.
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She switched on her computer again and headed over to Toupai's Weibo page. Sure enough, an official video had just been posted.
Oh, so it was that video game.
She looked at the official channel of the game and saw that a series of couple-focused videos had been released.
It was truly a series.
Toupai had retweeted the one he had worked on. When she opened it up, she instantly heard the soul-stirring background music, a very desolate, sorrowful tune. An ink and wash painting gradually transformed into the story's male and female leads whom Mo Qingcheng and Dou Dou Dou Bing had provided the voices for. Their two voices, coupled with images taken from the video game, created an atmosphere that was completely different from the fun, cheery setting of this afternoon.
From when the two leads first met to how they both grew to have feelings for one another to finally… their separation.
The character Toupai had voiced walked from the light into darkness.
The girl rushed after him and told the retreating outline of his back, ”I will wait for you to come back.”
In the video, the man, his garments fluttering in the wind, gave a very light ”mm.” Then, without turning to look back, he disappeared into the darkness.
The music in the background was simply too mournful and caused this parting to feel…
Gu Sheng blinked her eyes rapidly. Her nose was tingling.
From behind her, someone tapped her on the shoulder. She turned around and looked at Geng Xiaoxing with red eyes. ”Yes?”
”What's the matter? … Friend Sheng Sheng…” Geng Xiaoxing had originally intended on asking if she wanted a to have a late night snack or something, but when she saw the look on her face, she was alarmed. ”Had an argument with Toupai? No wonder you got off your mike so quickly…”