Jiang Shengxu was not the only one who had the same thought as Wei Jiayu.
Jiang Shengxu had it too.
While inspecting one of his family’s chain restaurants, Jiang Shengxu accidentally noticed a name on a food delivery order.
It was the same name as his online romance partner.
May Wealth Bloom.
The name contained a wordplay pun and was not particularly common. The chances of two people using the same name were not very high.
Moreover, the IP address was in the same city.
Jiang Shengxu suspected it was his online romance partner.
Strictly speaking, that person was not really an online lover. Jiang Shengxu had been browsing short videos on the livestream platform when he saw a clip posted by the other party. The person in the video looked quite handsome, so Jiang Shengxu clicked into the livestream and casually sent a few small gifts.
The result was that the other party clung to him like a ghost.
Only transferring money could make him quiet for a while.
To avoid being pestered to death, Jiang Shengxu would occasionally send a red envelope or transfer some money, treating it as if he were raising a dog that wagged its tail and begged for affection.
At least the guy looked decent.
But Jiang Shengxu later discovered that the photos the person used seemed to be stolen.
He tentatively asked him to take pictures in specific poses or with specific backgrounds, planning to judge whether the person in the photos was really him.
Unexpectedly, even simple poses or very common backgrounds would make the other party stall and delay, taking a long time before sending anything.
Sometimes he even brushed the request aside entirely.
Something was wrong with this person.
There was definitely something wrong with this person.
So when Jiang Shengxu saw the name May Wealth Bloom on the delivery order, he did not hesitate. He immediately transferred one thousand yuan to the delivery driver and asked him to help check whether the person picking up the order matched the person in the photos.
The result...
He really did not.
Jiang Shengxu looked at the message sent by the delivery driver and laughed in anger.
This person really had some nerve. Not even bothering to find out who Jiang Shengxu was before daring to use stolen photos to run a romance scam on him.
If he did not send this person to jail, then he would not be called Jiang Shengxu.
However, just as he finished organizing the evidence and was preparing to report the case to the police, a transfer notification suddenly popped up on his phone, followed immediately by a message.
"May Wealth Bloom: Transfer 52,600 yuan."
"May Wealth Bloom: Let's break up."
Jiang Shengxu: ...?
What?
He was dumped?
He had been dumped by someone who used stolen photos to run an online scam?
He had always been the one dumping others. Yet this scammer, who did not even dare to show his face, actually dared to dump him?
Fine.
Very fine.
Jiang Shengxu laughed in anger again. Since the man was courting death himself, then he should not blame him for being merciless.
He would make him understand the consequences of offending him.
Jiang Shengxu carefully organized the chat records between the two of them, his transfer records, and the evidence proving that the other party had used stolen photos. Then he opened the social account of May Wealth Bloom.
He was going to expose everything he had done.
He was going to show him what it meant to be utterly disgraced.
Hm...?
Did he click the wrong account?
Jiang Shengxu stared at the account page showing more than a hundred thousand followers and froze for a full three seconds. For a moment he suspected he had opened the wrong profile, so he looked again at the account name.
It was May Wealth Bloom.
He had not clicked the wrong account.
Then why did this person suddenly have so many followers?
Jiang Shengxu clearly remembered that only a few days ago, this account had barely two or three thousand followers.
What had happened?
Jiang Shengxu rarely watched livestreams and had no idea what had occurred the night before. A trace of confusion flickered in his eyes. He casually opened one of the videos and then tapped into the comment section.
"My wife, my wife, your voice is so seductive! Listening to it got my ears pregnant!"
"Help, I can loop this voice a hundred times! I want to marry the streamer and make him my wife so I can hear him talk every day!"
"I'm listening and getting turned on. Doesn't anyone else think the streamer's voice is ridiculously sensual? Just hearing it makes me lose control. Stop slacking and start the livestream!"
"Not only does he have such a good voice, he is also that handsome. Which door did heaven even close on you?"
Jiang Shengxu: ?
Are your ears broken?
His voice sounds good?
Jiang Shengxu looked at the skyrocketing follower count and the greasy comment section filling the screen. He was so speechless that he laughed in irritation.
Hah.
There were really too many sick people these days.
While Jiang Shengxu felt speechless, he also figured out the reason he had been dumped.
The guy had probably become popular, gained more wealthy targets, and now thought Jiang Shengxu, the old patron who was "not generous enough," was in the way. So he kicked him aside to make room for someone else.
As if he even cared about being in an online relationship with him.
Just wait.
He would definitely make him utterly disgraced.
...
Wen Ruyu had no idea that his message breaking up had angered two people at the same time. At this moment, he was sending screenshot after screenshot of the breakup message to Yi Wen Bu Zhi.
After he finished sending the screenshots, the chat window remained silent for a full thirty seconds before the other party finally replied. The message carried obvious sarcasm and restraint.
"Yi Wen Bu Zhi: ...?"
"Yi Wen Bu Zhi: You really know how to scam people."
Wen Ruyu looked at the screenshots. His long eyelashes trembled slightly, and he fell silent for a moment.
The original host really had been good at scamming.
Except for the time he spent livestreaming at night, he had spent almost the entire day maintaining relationships with these targets. He even secretly sent messages during class.
Only during livestreams would he stop replying.
But his scamming skills were not particularly good.
After deceiving dozens of people, he had only managed to collect a little over a hundred thousand yuan in total.
It was not even enough to cover the interest on the loan shark debt he carried.
Wen Ruyu did not reply again.
However, less than a minute later, Yi Wen Bu Zhi sent another message. His tone was direct, without any unnecessary words.
"Yi Wen Bu Zhi: Bank account number."
Wen Ruyu paused. He typed a question mark.
"May Wealth Bloom: ?"
"Yi Wen Bu Zhi: Not paying the loan shark?"
There was no such thing as a free lunch. Two hundred thousand yuan had only required him to break up with the others. If the debt of more than one million yuan were involved, the demand would likely be even higher.
Wen Ruyu’s fingers hovered over the screen for a moment before he slowly typed a line.
"May Wealth Bloom: What do you need me to do?"
"Yi Wen Bu Zhi: Obey me."
Four simple words.
Yet they carried an unmistakable sense of control, like an invisible chain meant to bind him completely to the other person’s side.
Wen Ruyu did not hesitate.
He rejected the offer immediately.
"May Wealth Bloom: Then I won't repay it."
If he had enough money, he would not mind repaying the debt.
But if the cost was something he was unwilling to pay, he naturally would not consider it.
Besides, the loan shark had already granted him a one month extension.
If he could not resolve the dungeon within one month, then either he would be dead inside it, or he would have completely lost his freedom.
In either case, he would not need to repay the debt.
"Yi Wen Bu Zhi: ?"
The other side probably had not expected such a decisive refusal. After sending the question mark, there was no reply for a long time.
Just when Wen Ruyu thought the other party would not respond again, another message finally appeared.
Only a single sentence.
"Yi Wen Bu Zhi: I will wait for you to beg me."
The tone was extremely certain, carrying a sense of inevitable victory that practically overflowed from the screen.
As if he was convinced that Wen Ruyu would eventually come begging.
Wen Ruyu looked at the line of text. His slender pale fingers moved slightly, but in the end he did not reply.
He directly exited the chat with Yi Wen Bu Zhi and tossed the phone onto the table. Then he opened the original host’s livestream account on the computer.
It was almost time to start the broadcast.
Wen Ruyu did not like livestreaming.
But the original host loved it.
Even when his follower count had been small, he had almost never missed a single day.
He enjoyed the feeling of being surrounded by attention and admiration.
While satisfying his vanity, he could also screen for new scam targets.
That made the original host enjoy livestreaming even more.
Wen Ruyu could not arbitrarily change the original host’s character.
He had not forgotten the warning from the system.
Once someone noticed that he was not the original host, the only thing waiting for him would be death.
The persona could not collapse.
The livestream could not stop.
Wen Ruyu opened the livestream platform and pressed the Start Streaming button.
Because someone had clipped and uploaded the segment where he "sang," that cool voice tinged with a hoarse seductive edge had unexpectedly gone viral.
His follower count had surged overnight to more than a hundred thousand.
The moment the livestream opened, only a few seconds had passed before a large number of viewers flooded in. The chat immediately exploded with messages.
"It's here, it's here! Wife finally started streaming! I've been waiting all day!"
"Voice lovers rejoice! Are you singing today? Yesterday was way too short. And does that even count as singing?"
"The streamer's voice is so good. I can't imagine how amazing it would sound if he actually sang. Just hearing him read that short passage yesterday made my heart race."
"I watched all the videos because of the voice and didn't expect the streamer to be this handsome too. The voice and face don't quite match, but they are both handsome in different ways! Instant fan!"
"Same here! I never expected the streamer to not only have such a great voice but also be so handsome. Show your face! Turn on the camera!"
"Stop urging him. The streamer doesn't like turning on the camera. The voice is enough. If you want to see his face, just watch the videos."
"Exactly. I love the streamer's voice so much that honestly his appearance almost doesn't match the voice. Don't turn on the camera. Just hearing the voice is enough."
Wen Ruyu looked at the chat scrolling rapidly across the screen and rubbed his temples weakly.
Just as he was about to speak, two connection requests suddenly appeared.
One was from May Wealth Bloom Is A Scammer.
The other was from May Wealth Bloom Dare To Turn On The Camera.
Because Wen Ruyu did not understand livestreaming very well, he did not know that connection requests required permission settings. Nor did he know that the original host, for the convenience of "fishing" targets, had set the connection function to automatically connect when someone applied.
However, only one person could connect at a time.
May Wealth Bloom Is A Scammer had applied one second earlier than the other and connected first.
May Wealth Bloom Is A Scammer was Jiang Shengxu.
The moment he connected, he immediately turned on his microphone. His deep pleasant voice carried a sharp accusation as it exploded through the livestream room.
"May Wealth Bloom, you're a scammer."
Jiang Shengxu's voice was filled with ridicule.
"Back then you cried poor to me every day. You said you couldn't scrape together enough rent and were about to be thrown out. You said something urgent happened in your family and urged me to transfer money to help. Later you said your mother was sick and needed medical fees."
"Altogether you scammed more than fifty thousand yuan from me."
"Do you dare admit that?"
When Wen Ruyu did not respond for a long time, the mockery in Jiang Shengxu's tone nearly overflowed. The pressure in his voice tightened step by step, leaving no room to breathe.
"What?"
"Feeling guilty?"
"Too scared to speak?"