The moment those words were uttered, the bullet comments in the streaming room began to increase at a speed that didn’t match the capabilities of just a few dozen viewers.
“Miss, you’ve completely figured out how to master the arrogant persona!”
“Hahahahaha… If you can win, I’ll start a live stream of myself eating feces. Everyone present, please be my witness!”
“Holy crap! It turns out that a wicked, arrogant expression isn’t actually greasy; it’s just a matter of whether the face is attractive enough. Miss with the jumbled mess of a username, from now on, I am your number one face-admirer! Please remember my name: Little Magic Fairy Poop-a-Lot!”
“Look on the bright side, streamer. It’s not like you have nothing; at least you have an abundance of confidence!”
The bullet comments argued endlessly. However, when the countdown on the lucky draw page of the number one streaming room on the XX streaming platform entered its final ten seconds, everyone, including Gu Ting, held their breath and looked on with anticipation.
“…5, 4, 3, 2, 1!”
The wealthy second-generation streamer let out a loud shout, spinning around. “Congratulations to this user with a bunch of letters that the streamer is too lazy to read out for winning a house! Congratulations to you! Wow, it’s actually a lucky baby with a fan level of one. Your luck is truly awesome! Of course, the luckiest thing for you is meeting me, because I love throwing money around at any time. Being my fan is your good fortune! Yoyo!”
Gu Ting thought: What a unique quirk, what a niche track. I like it!
“Regarding the prize, my assistant will contact you through the back end. Remember to reply, ha!”
Although there were only a few dozen people in Gu Ting’s streaming room, the wave of frantic excitement was not inferior in the slightest. The reason was none other than a notification that suddenly popped up right in Gu Ting’s own streaming room: “Congratulations to user hdjfjh74iewbf for winning the prize!”
The user hdjfjh74iewbf was precisely Gu Ting!
“Holy crap, holy crap! Someone quickly transfer a hundred yuan to me to see if I am actually dreaming!”
“You are definitely dreaming. Go wash up and sleep already!”
“A house! That’s a whole house! Streamer, how exactly did you work hard to be this lucky? Requesting a guide!!!”
“Too late for that!!! Rubbing off your luck, rubbing, rubbing!!!”
“Receiving the luck, receiving, receiving!!!”
Due to the traffic routed from the number one streaming room, many viewers followed the lucky draw results and clicked into Gu Ting’s streaming room. Wave after wave of viewers flooded in, and the bullet comments flew past incredibly fast.
“Hello, is this Uncle Cop? I want to report something. This streamer shot an arrow right into my heart~!”
“At this moment, how I wish someone could see through my vulnerability and directly transfer 10 million to me, ah ah ah ah!”
“Where is that brother who was going to eat feces? It’s mealtime!”
“It must be rigged. Otherwise, how could the streamer be so certain she would win? Everyone, go report her. She’s just putting on a show here!”
“…”
Gu Ting stared at the screen, but she didn’t pay attention to what the bullet comments were saying at all. From the moment she won the prize, her mind had gone completely blank, as if everything around her had become impractical and completely illusory.
Her financial luck over the past two days had indeed been very good—so good that she felt it was a bit absurd. But regarding the house draw, she had only wanted to create a bit of entertainment value for the stream and hadn’t dared to hope she would actually win. Yet the facts lay right before her eyes: she had really won the grand prize and gotten a house for nothing! With so many netizens bearing witness, it was impossible for that wealthy second-generation streamer not to deliver on his promise.
So, the dream of having a little home of her own, which she had longed for since childhood, was actually achieved on her second night after traveling back, just by clicking a mouse a few times?
It was so absurd that it felt like a scam!
Gu Ting closed her eyes and took a deep breath, forcing herself to slowly calm down. Before the house was truly in her hands, everything remained an unknown. It was best to handle it with a composed mind.
She would just treat it as if she had won a steamed bun. Who would go wild with joy over winning a steamed bun?
Gu Ting adjusted her mindset very quickly. On the contrary, the fans in the streaming room grew more and more heated. At some point, the streaming room had split into two opposing camps. One side praised the streamer for being beautiful, kind-hearted, and lucky, claiming that winning the house was done purely by her own strength. The other side, however, cursed the XX streaming platform for inside trading and rigging the lucky draw, treating all the fans in the streaming room like fools. They pointed out that Gu Ting, who had won the house, had explicitly stated before the draw that she would win, which practically rubbed the audience’s intelligence into the dirt. It was truly detestable.
Facing the storm of a live stream for the first time, Gu Ting kept her eyes clear the entire time, speaking up with a resonant, composed voice that was neither submissive nor overbearing. “There is no inside trading, and there is no rigging. My win was based entirely on luck. The super-moderators are welcome to check it at any time.”
The most active IP address, named ‘Professional Dog Catcher for Twenty Years’, commented: “Streamer, don’t bother explaining. You streamers and super-mods are all part of the same corrupt bunch! Didn’t you say your luck is good? Then join the draws again! Do it right now. If you can win three times out of six draws, I will admit your luck is genuinely good!”
A bunch of anti-fans echoed the sentiment: “Yeah! If your luck is so good, then join the draws! I want to see just how good your luck can be! Let’s see how stubborn your mouth can be!”
“Listen to yourselves, are those words even human? Winning three times out of six draws—having a mouth isn’t for you to talk nonsense. This is clearly making things difficult for the streamer.”
“Is a lucky draw like picking up cabbages, where you can just bend down and grab one? You certainly talk a good game!”
Seeing that the two sides were about to wage war again, Gu Ting stood up at the right time. “Could everyone please pause for a moment? I originally intended to take advantage of my good luck to join a few more rounds anyway. I accept the challenge from this netizen ‘Professional Dog Catcher for Twenty Years’!”
If she won, it would happen to shut these people up. If she lost, she would just act as if nothing happened. As long as she abandoned her moral baggage, others wouldn’t be able to kidnap her morally anyway. Regardless of the outcome, she would definitely reap the traffic from this wave of popularity, so she wouldn’t lose either way.
To put it simply: she was bound to win big!
Faced with the criticism from numerous netizens, Gu Ting remained unfazed by either praise or blame. Her expression was calm, and her manner of speech was composed, which actually caused a portion of the neutral audience to feel a bit of pity for her. In an instant, her follower count began to skyrocket.
Gu Ting was a woman of action. She immediately sat up straight and began searching the homepage for streaming rooms that were currently holding lucky draws. Her luck wasn’t bad; it didn’t take her long to find six streaming rooms giving away cash. Cash was exactly what Gu Ting needed. She immediately recharged her account again, purchasing fan cards where necessary, and even spent a painful 168 yuan to activate a diamond fan status.
Within ten minutes, she had gathered fan titles from seven different streamers.
On the surface, Gu Ting looked calm, but internally her heart was bleeding from the financial pain. Watching live streams truly drained money; she had spent two hundred yuan in the blink of an eye. How many cups of milk tea could that buy? She didn’t even know if this wave of traffic was worth two hundred yuan.
During the final few minutes, Gu Ting and the hundreds of viewers in her streaming room held their breath in anticipation. Finally, the first streaming room announced its results.
“Congratulations to user hdjfjh74iewbf for winning the prize.”
Immediately following that was the second streaming room: “Congratulations to user hdjfjh74iewbf for winning the prize.”
In the third streaming room, the streamer’s congratulatory voice was very loud: “Congratulations to the three fans above for winning 1,666 yuan.”
Gu Ting clicked in, and the winners’ list still held a place for user hdjfjh74iewbf.
The fourth one, the fifth one, all the way until the very last webpage—the figure of user hdjfjh74iewbf appeared on every single list of winners. In the end, the grand cash prize worth 5,000 yuan was still exclusively claimed by her jumbled mess of a username, standing out in an extremely eye-catching manner.
The seven lucky draw results hit the hearts of all the viewers across the streaming rooms like seven artillery shells one after another, causing their heart rates to accelerate, their blood to run cold, and their breathing to become a bit difficult.
Who could tell them if this was really not a dream?
Leaving the audience aside, even Gu Ting herself was dumbfounded by the results. If she hadn’t entered the draws with her own hands, she would have doubted herself too. Entering seven consecutive draws and winning seven consecutive times—could it be that she had some hidden quest to summon the Divine Dragon?
This was too absurd!
If she were an audience member, she would go report it right now! A thorough investigation—it had to be thoroughly investigated! She didn’t believe that Heaven would display such obvious favoritism toward a single person!
The person involved was too shocked to speak, let alone the viewers in the streaming room, who were each experiencing a mix of shock and madness.
“Holy crap!!!!!!! Jealousy makes me completely unrecognizable!!!”
“I must be driven mad by the desire to get rich to have such an absurd dream, hehehe…”
“Winning once could be inside trading, but winning seven times consecutively—even a fool wouldn’t do that. There is only one truth: the streamer is possessed by the God of Wealth!!! Quickly rub off her luck!!! Brothers, charge!!!”
“Rubbing, rubbing, rubbing!!!”
“I’m absorbing, absorbing, absorbing! I want to absorb all of the streamer’s financial luck!!! The one getting rich tomorrow will be me!!!”
“Damn, this is hilarious. Winning six times only adds up to ten thousand yuan. A pair of my socks costs more than that money. What is everyone in the streaming room getting so worked up about?”
“The streamer pushed it too far, didn’t she? They told you to enter six times, and you actually dared to win six times. Damn it, I’m truly laughing.”
“Say no more, reporting her directly.”
Situated at the center of the whirlpool, Gu Ting remained perfectly relaxed and directly began directing the crowd. “Everyone, line up in an orderly fashion, one by one. Those praising me, don’t stop. Those rubbing off my financial luck, go right ahead. Those wanting to report me, take your time leaving, I won’t see you out. The one who lost the bet, please stand out and act like a man!”
‘Professional Dog Catcher for Twenty Years’ didn’t bark wildly anymore. Instead, he quietly tipped Gu Ting an airplane gift worth 100 yuan and then left the streaming room at lightning speed.
Even his retreating figure carried a hint of wretched embarrassment.
Upon receiving the gift, Gu Ting was very tactful and immediately shifted the topic, pretending that the bet had never happened. “This is the first time the streamer has received an airplane. It looks so good, and I haven’t seen enough of it. Which older brother or sister will gift another one to let the streamer open her eyes?”
The crowd of viewers: “Eyes wide open at the sight of money! Feigning ignorance! The height of shamelessness!”
Gu Ting cupped her hands. “Thank you for the compliment, I will continue to work hard…”
The viewers: “…”
The comments calling Gu Ting too bizarre were quickly pushed away by a massive wave of bullet comments. These comments contained nothing else, carrying only a single demand: We love the draws, quick, do the draws! Do another hundred million rounds!
The main point of watching live streams was to have a good time. Game streamers, beautiful women streamers, PK streamers… they had seen all kinds of streamers, but a lucky draw streamer was truly a first. It was far too novel!
Yet Gu Ting refused to oblige, treating the ghostly wails and bitter pleas of the viewers in the streaming room as absolute nothingness. She covered her mouth and let out a gentle yawn. “Once the lucky draw prizes arrive, the streamer will allocate a portion to share with the family members in the streaming room. Mm-hmm, the streamer is indeed tired, so I will sleep early. You all should do the same. Love you all. Bye-bye~~~”
The viewers: Who exactly did the streamer learn this ability to talk to herself from?
Without giving the viewers a chance to criticize her, Gu Ting swiftly ended the stream and shut down the computer at lightning speed.
She left a massive crowd of fans who were hooked on the lucky draws with nowhere to go, driving them crazy with frustration, to the point where they wished they could climb through the wires to grab the streamer and make her draw another hundred million times!
After washing up, Gu Ting lay on the bed. Her emotions were far too excited, making it impossible for her to fall asleep for a long time, because tonight’s harvest was simply too immense: the bounty money for the suspects, the two million yuan in cash dropped from heaven, and then a house won through a lucky draw. This was material that she could only use in her dreams!
However, since the matter of the house hadn’t been finalized, she still felt a bit uneasy. She simply cleared out her phone, installed the XX streaming software onto it, logged in, and proceeded to check it once every three minutes.
She didn’t know when the wealthy second-generation streamer’s assistant would contact her to fulfill the promise of giving away a house.
While scrolling through her phone, she unexpectedly discovered that there was also a 1,000-yuan tip today. Hmm? She truly didn’t understand the world of rich people. Could it be that whenever the other party saw an internet beggar, they would throw a tip? Gu Ting found it baffling.
Without knowing how much time had passed, Gu Ting fell into a deep sleep, enjoying a night of good dreams.
Gu Ting’s good mood lasted until eight o’clock in the morning, right before Luo Yuan opened his mouth on the phone.
“Gu Ting, what on earth are you doing!”
Gu Ting spoke lazily, “Right, right, right, I am still sleeping. You have indeed disturbed me.”
Luo Yuan: “…”
A deep sound of inhaling came from the other end of the line, followed by: “Being late for the stream last night and not replying to messages—you still owe me an explanation. Setting that aside, you only streamed for one night, so how did your account get banned?”
Gu Ting let out two sarcastic “haha” laughs. “Didn’t you tell me to do suggestive streaming, Brother Luo? Getting banned in a single night—isn’t that a perfectly normal thing!”
She was a bit surprised that the streaming room was banned, but not entirely surprised. There had been plenty of bullet comments mentioning reporting her last night. However, she was living perfectly fine while shouldering a five-million-yuan debt, so what did a banned streaming room amount to?
On the other end of the line, Luo Yuan fell silent again. “…” Why does it always feel like her scolding sounds odd?
Luo Yuan quieted down for half a minute, and his tone actually softened considerably. He inquired with great warmth, “Tingting, just now Brother Luo was also anxious on your behalf and got a bit excited for a moment. By the way, you went to the hospital yesterday… everything is fine, right?”
Gu Ting shifted from lying on her side to lying flat on her back. “The results… sigh, I don’t want to talk about it. I’ll just take it one day at a time.” I want to see what kind of intentions this person has, showing so much concern for my body.
On the phone, Luo Yuan could not stop sighing. “You are such a good girl, how could it turn out like this…”
Before a minute of sighing had passed, the conversation shifted immediately. “Your account is banned for three days. Spend these three days coming to the company for some training. The teachers at our company are experienced; they can teach you how to dress sexily without getting warned, how to dance in a way that catches eyes more effectively, and furthermore, there are a few dances you should learn well. When danced, they get the blood pumping—any man would love it!”
Gu Ting: “…” Damn it, this is truly—even if I’m dying, I still have to do suggestive streaming!
Gu Ting was now certain that this Luo Yuan had a massive problem. While claiming to view her as a younger sister, his actions clearly treated her like a beast of burden. This man was far too hypocritical.
Gu Ting had nothing to do today anyway, and her streaming account was banned, so she might as well go. It would double as a way to familiarize herself with the environment. The fake Gu Ting had taken many photos of the food at the company cafeteria; it must have its outstanding points, otherwise the fake Gu Ting wouldn’t have taken so many pictures of it.
There was one more thing: renting a new apartment was a matter of utmost urgency. Last night’s encounter remained fresh in her memory; a comical ending could not alter its dangerous core. Living here meant inconvenient transportation, no food delivery, and most importantly, a lack of safety. She had crossed back after going through a thousand hardships, and a beautiful life lay ahead waiting for her; she hadn’t returned just to throw her life away.
Although she was still carrying debt, if she truly couldn’t pay it back, then she truly couldn’t pay it back. If she could pay it back, this little amount wouldn’t make a difference. Between her and the money, she was obviously more important. As for the house she had won, she still didn’t know what the situation was, so it was better to rent a place first.
Gu Ting got up. After finishing her washing up, she divided the burlap sack of money into several portions and hid them separately in several inconspicuous locations before finally heading out toward the Cheng Gong Entertainment company.