Xia Zhi had no idea someone was recording her makeup removal process.
She strictly followed Dou Dou’s instructions, deliberately holding each product she used in front of the camera for display.
After Xia Zhi methodically completed each step of removing her makeup and finally washed her face clean with facial cleanser in the basin, she looked at the camera and said very seriously, “Hello everyone, sorry for the wait, I’m done removing my makeup.”
As she spoke, the rabbit headband on Xia Zhi’s head still hadn’t been taken off, leaving her entire forehead fully exposed.
But even without the modification of that thin layer of bangs, and even with her forehead—which could easily be a weak point in one’s appearance—on full display, her facial structure remained exquisitely refined and smooth.
Compared to how she looked just moments ago, she appeared even more pure and natural instead.
To prove that she hadn’t secretly adjusted her beauty filter, Xia Zhi leaned closer to the camera and waved her hand in front of the screen for a moment: “My beauty filter has never been turned on either.”
Her fair little face, freshly washed, still carried droplets of water. After moving close to the high-definition camera, even her pores were clearly visible. It was precisely because of this high definition that viewers discovered Xia Zhi’s face had not a single flaw.
Her clean, fresh, tender pink face, paired with her naturally curled lashes and beautiful double-lidded big eyes, delivered a devastating beauty attack to everyone watching.
Axis on the other side of the screen was completely stunned.
This little female’s face actually didn’t use any cosmetics? And she promised she wasn’t using any live-stream effects!
Was she really… just relying on her own natural features to look like this?
Though he was a cold-blooded creature, Axis could feel his own body temperature continuously rising.
He tried to tear his gaze away from Xia Zhi, telling himself to only take one glance at the monitor—but after looking at the monitor, Axis’s body temperature rose even higher with every beat of his heart!
His internal Pollution Value of 75% had quietly dropped to 68%!
What was going on?
Only females could lower a male’s Pollution Value.
And in the live-stream room, there were two females.
Axis’s gaze briefly lingered on Dou Dou’s face, then quickly shifted away.
In terms of personal preference, he preferred Xia Zhi’s pure and captivating face. Both when she was wearing makeup and after she removed it.
So which female was it that lowered his Pollution Value—Zhizhi or this Dou Dou? And the method… could it be through speaking?
While Axis was deep in thought, comments praising Xia Zhi continuously scrolled across the screen.
[Damn, what’s going on? Why does the streamer look even prettier without makeup?]
[The streamer is so young—which school did she graduate from? Was she always considered the campus belle before?]
[User Little Cabbage sent a sports car!]
[User Make a Hundred Million sent 3 glow sticks!]
[User Motorcycle Boy sent 10 heart-thumping ducks!]
Seeing the comments on screen, Xia Zhi said shyly, “I’m not a campus belle—in school I was just average-looking. Thank you to all my darlings for the gifts, mwah mwah~”
She brought her hand to her lips and gently made a flying kiss gesture.
The live-stream viewers had barely recovered from being called “darling” by Xia Zhi when they saw the beautiful girl on screen—with her pink cheeks, apricot-shaped eyes, and big bright orbs—staring naturally and generously at them before blowing them a flying kiss.
In an instant, countless new comments flooded the live-stream room.
[Ahhh, big brother is dying here—streamer, how can you be this adorable?]
[Originally she was just a little pretty, and I thought it didn’t matter, but looking at me like that and blowing me kisses, so cute and soft—I really can’t handle it…]
Strawberry Candy: [Pretty wife, come here!]
[User Strawberry Candy sent ten lollipops!]
[User Cicada sent ten cheek-pinch ducks!]
Seeing the gifts piling up and her followers growing from 1 to 1,003, Xia Zhi’s smile grew brighter and brighter, all her initial nervousness gone.
“Thank you, babies, for following me—over a thousand new fans now. Love you all~”
Xia Zhi raised her hand and made a heart shape above her head.
As she did this, her expression was utterly natural—graceful and charming.
Naturally, she earned another wave of compliments.
[So cute, so cute. Zhizhi is really cute.]
[My mom asked me why I was grinning at my screen like an idiot, and I said I saw a heart-making angel!]
The compliments from the audience and the follower growth from this PK made Xia Zhi’s smile impossible to contain.
She looked at Dou Dou and, out of politeness, asked, “Want to keep going with the PK?”
As Xia Zhi spoke, Axis looked at the monitor.
He was no longer coiled up but stretched out across the hospital room, raising the upper half of his serpentine body to watch the screen.
Every minute Xia Zhi spoke, the number on the monitor dropped by one point.
Confirming that Xia Zhi’s voice had a Soothing effect, Axis turned his gaze to Dou Dou.
At this moment, Dou Dou’s smile was rather awkward.
She had planned it all out—after Xia Zhi removed her makeup and transformed, she would maintain her gentle persona and compliment Xia Zhi on having good bone structure. But Xia Zhi looked just as gorgeous with makeup as without.
Those big, sparkling eyes made even her feel a flutter of attraction, let alone the male fans in her livestream.
Her stream had originally had 10,000 viewers, but now only 6,000 remained. Where those departed fans had gone didn’t require much thought.
Still, this was common in the livestream industry—many streamers relied on PKs to poach each other’s big spenders.
As long as her big spender stayed in her stream, she was fine.
Dou Dou steadied herself and smiled back at Xia Zhi. “If you’re not afraid of losing and want another round, that’s fine too. If I lose, you can also ask me to remove my makeup.”
With mutual agreement reached, the screen returned to the PK interface.
With four and a half minutes of PK time total, either party could mute the other’s microphone to rally votes.
Having gone through the experience of using scripted vote-pitching lines that no one responded to, Xia Zhi didn’t rigidly reuse her old approach this time.
She thought for a moment, then spoke up: “I’ll sing a few songs for everyone. If you think they’re decent, please help me cast a gift vote. Here’s the current song list—Motorcycle Boy, the baby who sent the most gifts earlier, what song would you like to hear?”
Since this was a PK and people were now willing to spend money, winning would certainly look better.
So the stream needed a little incentive to get viewers with spending power to open their wallets.
After Motorcycle Boy was called out, someone indeed posted in the chat: [So the person with the most expensive gifts gets song-request rights?]
[Nothing wrong with that. The streamer really can sing, and she’s good-looking too. Having her own rules is normal.]
Motorcycle Boy: [Sing me “Rice Field” then.]
Xia Zhi took a sip of water to moisten her throat, pulled up the instrumental track for “Rice Field,” and began singing the nostalgic melody that evoked childhood memories along with the music’s rhythm.
[The streamer really sings beautifully, shouldn’t she be in the talent category for singers?]
[Level 43 user Mi Douzi has entered the livestream!]
[Holy crap, Brother Mi Douzi, why are you here too? Dou Dou is dancing your favorite whistle dance today, and only Brother Huaizhong Baomei is sending her gifts. What if Dou Dou loses?]
Mi Douzi: [No one said I can only gift one streamer. This new streamer sings quite well.]
After sending that message, Mi Douzi threw Xia Zhi a 2888 RMB Dream Castle and made a request: [I’ll pick the next song. I want to hear “Kiss Goodbye.”]
[User Mi Douzi sent Dream Castle x1!]
Xia Zhi, who was waiting for the instrumental to start, saw the comment and glanced worriedly at Dou Dou on the screen.
According to what those viewers said, this “Mi Douzi” was one of the big spenders supporting Dou Dou on the other side.
Was she… stealing someone else’s big spender?
Whatever, she’d just sing her own songs.
Xia Zhi finished singing “Daoxiang,” and amid a flood of compliments, switched the instrumental to “Kiss Goodbye.”
Just as she was about to sing the first line, a Carnival special effect suddenly popped up on the screen again.
[User Nado Empire Major General Axis sent Carnival x1!]
The Carnival gift was here again!
But this time there was only one.
Nado Empire Major General Axis: [So bigger tips get song requests, huh? This major general wants to hear “Counter-Strike” from the song list.]
Another familiar long ID.
Xia Zhi froze for a moment.
Judging from the tone of his message, he probably wasn’t Leona’s alt account.
Since it wasn’t the same person, what kind of mysterious organization was this Nado Empire anyway? How did they have both a Marshal and a Major General?
There wouldn’t be a General too, would there…
Xia Zhi pulled up the instrumental for “Counter-Strike” and was about to sing when two Dream Castles popped up on the screen.
A Dream Castle was a gift worth 2888 yuan, 112 yuan cheaper than a Carnival.
Mi Douzi had sent another gift!