Mu Nianwen only told Xiao Can about receiving a condom in his gifts. Xiao Xiao took the initiative to inquire about the subsequent developments between them, but after much hesitation, Mu Nianwen chose to conceal the key details. He had a good relationship with Xiao Xiao, but precisely because of this, he knew Xiao Xiao’s flaw: she couldn’t keep her mouth shut.
Many people in Xiao Xiao and Mu Nianwen’s fan group were familiar, and if word got out, it wouldn’t be good. After all, regardless of anything else, Tan Janglin had been the top supporter, and even if he felt uncomfortable, he still had some gratitude.
However, he didn’t expect that despite his recent indifference, Tan Janglin seemed completely unaffected and still appeared in the live broadcast room every day, firmly holding the top spot with generous rewards.
This made Mu Nianwen feel a bit shaken.
The impression left from that day was too good. After the initial anger, he couldn’t help but want to find some excuses for Tan Janglin’s rude behavior, to beautify it.
For example, the meaning of the condom wasn’t “I want to sleep with you,” but rather “I want to have a deeper relationship with you,” a confession.
Or perhaps he really thought it was a pair of disposable gloves, meant to be paired with the chocolate croissants.
Of course, he didn’t rule out the possibility of accidentally dropping it in.
The first two possibilities were too far-fetched for Mu Nianwen to convince himself. The last one had a slightly higher probability, but it also meant that Tan Janglin had opened and used condoms with someone else.
Who would keep such a thing around if they were single and celibate? It couldn’t possibly be for blowing up balloons.
…But if he really used it to blow up balloons, then he would have blamed him wrongly.
Mu Nianwen didn’t dare to mention these thoughts to Xiao Can, fearing to see his disdainful gaze.
He really wanted to ask, and if Tan Janglin’s answer wasn’t satisfactory, he would simply cut off his thoughts, instead of keeping them in his heart all day, feeling uncomfortable and disgusted.
But the situation had already passed.
For so long, Tan Janglin didn’t initiate any conversation, and there was simply no pretext. He couldn’t bring himself to do it.
Why wasn’t Tan Janglin talking? Did he feel it was okay to continue being indifferent like this?
The more Mu Nianwen thought about it, the unhappier he became.
He deliberately treated Tan Janglin differently during the live broadcast, even showing indifference towards the large gifts Tan Janglin sent.
This was definitely not the attitude a streamer should have towards their patrons.
Even before starting a relationship, he was already being emotionally unreasonable. After four years in the industry, this was the first time Mu Nianwen secretly criticized his own unprofessionalism.
Xiao Xiao undoubtedly sensed that something was wrong, which prompted her to inquire.
But Tan Janglin himself, who was treated coldly, surprisingly showed no reaction at all and continued to generously send gifts as if nothing had happened. Was this reasonable?
Was there any way to stimulate Tan Janglin a bit and get some feedback from him?
While Mu Nianwen was troubled, he saw someone in his list of friends.
A sexy Alpha known as Fei Zai, who possessed an angelic face and a devilish physique, and had countless fans drooling over him.
Fei Zai was a very easygoing person privately, so when Mu Nianwen proposed a joint live broadcast, he quickly agreed.
After discussing it, they decided to have a PK competition while also pretending to be a bit ambiguous.
Fei Zai readily accepted this. Since Xiao Can had distanced himself from the internet celebrity circle, he had completely lost his target for publicity and needed a substitute.
That evening, after the PK started, Fei Zai showed off extravagantly, leaving Mu Nianwen blushing.
There were many gay viewers in Mu Nianwen’s live broadcast room, and many of them immediately changed sides, saying “Sorry, Xiao Wen” while covering their nose bleeding noses and sending gifts to Fei Zai, quickly widening the score gap.
This was entirely within Mu Nianwen’s expectations.
He deliberately pretended to be enchanted by Fei Zai, eagerly awaiting Tan Janglin’s appearance.
High-level viewers were displayed separately backstage. But Tan Janglin had a bad habit of going invisible. This was a VIP privilege that could only be unlocked after a large amount of recharge. Most people who spent lavishly in the live broadcast room wanted to be welcomed wherever they went, so it was generally considered a useless feature.
But Tan Janglin obviously appreciated this feature very much. Like a ghost, he suddenly appeared and made a contribution without anyone noticing.
Mu Nianwen didn’t know if Tan Janglin was watching. Based on Tan Janglin’s frequency of contributions during this period, he basically came every day, but his appearance time was not fixed.
With a serious and infatuated expression, he imitated Fei Zai’s actions, acted dumb, pretended to be cute and pitiful to ask for gifts. As the point gap grew larger and larger, he finally took a desperate look and was about to take off his shirt to dance.
With his clothes lifted up, the screen was filled with the sound of “ding dong,” and twenty-two super rockets flew in succession.
Tan Janglin finally arrived late.
The super rocket was one of the most expensive gifts on the platform, worth five digits.
The PK scores on both sides completely reversed, and Mu Nianwen achieved an overwhelming victory. Although there was still some time before the end of the PK, the final outcome was already a foregone conclusion.
Although he had anticipated that Tan Janglin would intervene, Mu Nianwen was still shocked by such a generous contribution.
After all, even if he only invested half of the amount, he could still win this PK.
After that, Mu Nianwen changed his attitude towards Tan Janglin from the past few days of indifference to extreme enthusiasm, even singing a song passionately and finally smiling and making a heart shape at the camera.
This stimulation seemed to have worked indeed.
Shortly after the broadcast ended that day, there was finally new content in the chat window between him and Tan Janglin.
Tan Janglin greeted him.
The wording was very simple, even a bit dull.
“Are you asleep?”
At that moment, Mu Nianwen was having a late-night snack with Xiao Can. Being looked at by Xiao Can made him unconsciously reserved. After hesitating for a while, he replied with the standard business-like tone.
“Not yet, thank you for today~”
He wondered if Tan Janglin would think he was someone who just went along with the flow and was money-minded.
Mu Nianwen silently thought to himself, maybe I am. If I can’t bear to part with this Alpha, it must also be because I can’t bear to part with the money.
Tan Janglin quickly replied, and the content left him speechless.
“You’re welcome. It’s getting late, go to bed early.”
What was this person here for?
“Are you asleep? Go to bed early.” Wasn’t this just pure small talk? But since you’ve started chatting, couldn’t you say a few more words?
Just as he felt speechless, a new message came.
“Oh, by the way, remind me next time when you’re PK-ing with someone else, I wasn’t in front of the screen today and almost missed it.”
Mu Nianwen blinked twice, and after some consideration, replied:
“Hahaha, don’t take it so seriously, just seeing you when you have time makes me very satisfied. You should also go to bed early, goodnight~~”
Tan Janglin might have been coldly treated for too long, so Mu Nianwen’s standard business-like enthusiasm now seemed a bit bewildering to him, and he didn’t respond for a while.
Mu Nianwen’s face was almost smoked by Xiao Can’s gaze, and he felt embarrassed.
He didn’t know what he was feeling guilty about.
He escaped back to his room, and Tan Janglin’s message came again.
“Would you feel disturbed if I send you messages like this?”
Mu Nianwen thought, it’s hard to say.
Sending messages was okay, but could you say something useful? You dared to stuff something so obviously suggestive into the gift, but when it came to talking, you were so awkward and beating around the bush, which was annoying.
If he hadn’t received the condom in the first place, he probably wouldn’t mind Tan Janglin coming to talk nonsense to him, and might even enjoy it.
But now, that thing was stuck in his chest, making him feel uncomfortable and unable to engage in idle chatter.
Mu Nianwen sat cross-legged on the bed, seriously contemplating for a while.
“Why do you want to send me messages?”
Even if it was just text, you could tell that the tone and attitude were different from before.
Mu Nianwen thought, why not do it today, right now? Let Tan Janglin express his attitude. If he’s really a low-minded person, then so be it.
After all, over the years as a streamer, there were actually quite a few people who approached him with ulterior motives, and he even encountered some scum trying to take advantage of him at VIP gatherings and offline meetups.
Mu Nianwen had seen too much, and even his feelings of disgust and resentment had become somewhat numb.
But Tan Janglin was different. The way Tan Janglin smiled at him was too charming, and he accidentally had many sweet fantasies.
And when the false beauty decayed before his eyes and he realized that Tan Janglin was essentially no different from those low-level Alphas, he felt not only disappointed but also a strong sense of indignation.
So no amount of money could compensate for it, he had to have a clean break.
Of course, he had no intention of returning the earnings he had already received. Tan Janglin willingly gave them, and the platform’s terms were clear. Mu Nianwen had no obligation.
He thought, if Tan Janglin expressed affection for him at this moment, then he would ask him how sincere he is, and then tell him that he was not a casual person and disliked the cheap tricks of including such things in gifts.
What happened next would depend on Tan Janglin’s attitude.
Mu Nianwen’s blood boiled as he imagined it, but he finally received Tan Janglin’s reply, dumbfounded.
“Sorry, I’ll restrain myself.”
Mu Nianwen cursed.
What kind of brain was that? How could he interpret his words like that?!
As he struggled to resist the urge to type swear words into the chat window, a new message came.
“Goodnight.”
Mu Nianwen looked at the word, feeling a sense of powerlessness as if he had punched into a pile of cotton.
He frowned in silence for a moment, then threw his phone aside and lay back, staring at the ceiling.
That was enough excitement for a while.
Dumbfounded, he picked up his phone again and typed in the text box:
“Don’t misunderstand, I don’t mean I dislike you messaging me.”
Tan Janglin replied with a squinting smiley face.
Stupid, he thought.
Would this kind of soft idiot really put that kind of thing in a gift?
It was strange. After being annoyed by Tan Janglin for a while, Mu Nianwen’s inner balance became even more obvious, and his trust in him became stronger.
He flipped over restlessly, burying his face in the blanket, making a frustrated sound.
He had things on his mind, and he became restless.
The next day during the livestream, he happened to encounter a vulgar and outspoken guy in the game. He couldn’t resist cursing loudly because his language was too explicit, leading to the system detecting it and forcing the broadcast to end.
This was undoubtedly a livestream accident. Fortunately, most of the audience in the livestream room found it amusing. Many of them not only made fun of him but also sent gifts to the empty broadcast room.
Tan Janglin was among them. He first sent him ninety-nine “Be Happy Every Day” and then ninety-nine “Happy Tips”.
When Mu Nianwen reconnected to the livestream, he did feel much better.
“Don’t misunderstand, everyone. I am usually very gentle,” he deliberately spoke with an affected tone, pretending to be coy, “I was really shocked by what I said just now!”
A group of familiar viewers started spamming the chat with “disgusting,” “stop it,” “enough,” “?”, and one high-level account on the VIP list said, “Oh no, Xiao Wen has caught a serious case of pig disease.”
The so-called real pig was undoubtedly the competitor Zhenzhu Zhuna’er.
After the previous farce, fans of both sides clearly didn’t like each other. Unlike Zhenzhu Zhuna’er, who always said, “It’s my fault, don’t blame Xiao Wen,” Mu Nianwen never stopped his fans from using such aggressive language. Occasionally, he would join in with the sarcasm himself.
“Are the moderators here? Please help ban those who attack the streamer,” Mu Nianwen put his hands on his hips, pretending to be angry, “Really, saying such things, it hurts feelings.”
Many people followed suit with “indeed excessive,” “even worse than what Xiao Wen said just now.”
The VIP symbolically sent a small gift as an apology, and the entire livestream room was filled with attacks on Zhenzhu Zhuna’er, with everyone in high spirits.
Just then, someone spoke up, “TJL sent a gift to the real pig this afternoon!”
This sentence was mixed among many bullet comments, but Mu Nianwen immediately caught it.
Mu Nianwen’s face instantly darkened.
He visibly changed color, and some people began to make a fuss.
“Xiao Wen, reflect on whether you’ve been a bit too cold to the boss recently?”
“Oh no, Xiao Wen’s in big trouble!”
“Quick, think of a way to win back TJL’s heart!”
Mu Nianwen smiled awkwardly, “Where everyone wants to go, who they like, and who they give gifts to, it’s all personal freedom. It’s not like when you come here, you have to be tied to me. I’m completely fine with this kind of thing~”
But the bullet comments floating on the screen were saying, “Oh no, Xiao Wen is going to cry,” “The heartless TJL is gradually heading into the distance,” “Xiao Wen has been betrayed!”
At this moment, Mu Nianwen’s phone vibrated. He glanced at it, and it was a message from Tan Janglin.
“It’s a misunderstanding! Don’t listen to their nonsense.”
Mu Nianwen didn’t reply, his face still long.
He said “misunderstanding” instead of “rumor,” indicating that there was indeed something wrong.
Viewers were free to reward whomever they liked. Streamers all strived for the favor of big spenders in their own way.
Skill couldn’t retain people; self-reflection was the right thing to do.
But Tan Janglin going to reward Zhenzhu Zhuna’er was a completely different matter.
It was one thing to support others, but it just had to be Zhenzhu Zhuna’er, who had a grudge against him. When they met that day, he pretended to be serious, saying he couldn’t appreciate that kind of person!
Truly the mouth of an Alpha, deceiving people.
Mu Nianwen completely immersed himself in the role of the pitiful original wife whose husband cheated, feeling a bit annoyed silently for a while, then suddenly smiled.
He put on a curious look and asked in a sweet tone, “I’m really curious, does anyone know where to watch the recording of this afternoon? Let’s enjoy boss TJL’s demeanor together.”
Suddenly, the live stream was in chaos, with cries of “catching adultery” all around, and someone provided the address.
At the same time, someone else shouted, “Where’s boss TJL? Why isn’t he speaking?”
Tan Janglin was busy messaging Mu Nianwen.
“I slipped, accidentally clicked on it.”
“The system suddenly popped up and asked if I wanted to send, and I habitually confirmed.”
“After clicking wrong, I immediately exited.”
“I don’t like him.”
Mu Nianwen knew what he was referring to. The system automatically pushes information to viewers who have watched for a certain period, asking if they want to send a gift to support the streamer. Many people accidentally confirm, and if there’s balance in their account, the item gets sent out. The specific type of gift in the push is freely set by the streamer, and most people choose relatively cheap ones, costing just one or two dollars.
Tan Janglin’s explanation was completely plausible, but it also meant that he watched Zhenzhu Zhuna’er’s livestream for quite a while.
Isn’t this tantamount to cheating!
Mu Nianwen clicked on the video link and found that in a corner he didn’t know about, quite a few people were paying attention to this matter. This seven-minute video recorded the whole process, including the bullet comments at the time.
Zhenzhu Zhuna’er was wearing hot pants and dancing provocatively at the time. Perhaps the system had pushed out many prompts to all viewers at the same time, suggesting to send “support little stars” gifts.
He leaned close to the screen, bent down, and read out the names of these people one by one. Halfway through, he suddenly paused, then his expression visibly distorted, appearing extremely excited.
“Thanks to the charming TJL for sending the support little stars! Thank you, boss, for the little stars, I danced poorly, thank you for not minding~ Receiving the little stars from the charming TJL boss, it’s really shining brightly! I am so happy!”
After that, he rambled on, thanking him for three-dollar gifts for a full five minutes.
During this time, many people were puzzled about who this mysterious figure was worthy of such differential treatment, and many recognized him as the top of the list in Mu Nianwen’s livestream, taking the opportunity to mock Mu Nianwen.
Wow, turns out he went to watch someone shake their butt.
“That was quite a spirited dance,” Mu Nianwen said with a smile, “So boss TJL likes this type?”
The bullet comments were bustling, words piling upon words, almost unreadable.
Meanwhile, Tan Janglin was still flooding Mu Nianwen’s screen unilaterally.
“No, I don’t like it.”
“Look.”
“It’s just watching.”
“Don’t make a fuss.”
“I blocked him.”
“[Link push – Am I the only one who thinks Zhenzhu Zhuna’er might have found a stand in…]”
“I stumbled upon this, and got curious.”
“Not interested in his dancing.”
“Really.”
