Xia Zhi was already soaking in the bath.
She held up her phone, wanting to withdraw the money she’d earned today from Shanyin.
But the Shanyin app’s screen flickered, and an app recommendation suddenly popped up.
[A brand-new fan interaction software is in closed beta, congratulations on receiving beta access. Want to interact with your fans beyond your livestreams? Download this game to achieve sustained communication with your fans in-game.]
Interacting with fans through a game? That should be fine.
Xia Zhi tapped confirm.
The internet speed was great, and before long the software finished downloading.
Appearing on her phone screen, sitting right next to Shanyin, was an app with a very straightforward name—it was called Interact with Fans.
Xia Zhi opened the app, and another dialog box popped up.
[Your fan Axis requests offline interaction with you. Do you accept?]
The first fan wanting to interact was Axis?
Xia Zhi felt a bit disappointed.
If only it were Leona.
Axis’s chuunibyou level was a bit over the top, and from the way he typed, he had a heavy young-master temper. But he was still the big spender who’d dropped 600,000 on her, and since he was willing to come back, she couldn’t be too picky.
After thinking it through, Xia Zhi tapped confirm.
The game screen finished loading, and what appeared on her phone was a pure white room with a glass door.
She tapped the glass door, and the view kept pushing forward. A white snake coiled into a poop-like shape was inside the room, tapping at the void with its tail.
Seeing the snake, Xia Zhi froze.
The white snake on the screen froze too, actually glancing toward her side, its deep green vertical slit pupils suddenly contracting.
The next second, a line of text appeared above the white snake’s head: [You… Little Female, Zhizhi?]
Xia Zhi saw a text input box appear on her screen.
She typed back a reply: [Yeah, I’m Zhizhi. Are you Axis? What’s a Little Female?]
After she asked, the white snake seemed to freeze, no more text appearing above its head, its eyes fixed intently on the screen’s side.
That sense of being stared at felt especially real.
Xia Zhi smiled a little. This game was actually pretty fun.
Could each person choose their own avatar? Then what would she be?
Xia Zhi looked more closely at the screen and noticed there was a “Me” option at the bottom, so she quickly tapped it. Her avatar was represented by a puff of white mist with the words “Zhizhi” above its head.
[Please set your avatar for interacting with fans.]
A text prompt appeared.
So she could reset it!
Xia Zhi quickly tapped the settings button, and many chibi-style little animal options popped up. Among them was a small white snake similar to Axis’s avatar, with little wings on its back—especially cute.
Thinking this was software meant to maintain the bond between fans and streamers, Xia Zhi selected the little snake.
The “Zhizhi” on the screen immediately changed, transforming from a hazy puff of mist into a winged little snake.
[Set as the special avatar for interacting with Axis?]
[Yes.]
Axis liked snakes, so she’d be a snake in the game too. Maybe that would make Axis’s attitude a bit better?
Sure enough.
After closing the avatar settings page, the little snake representing Axis’s attitude improved considerably.
He even gently swung his tail over, and a line of text appeared above his head: [Why can’t I touch you?]
Xia Zhi: [Because this is a game. How could you possibly touch me in a game?]
After typing, Xia Zhi casually tapped the head of the white serpent on the screen.
Axis’s body trembled.
The spot that was touched was where his dragon horn had just begun to emerge.
When the dragon horn first grows, the skin undergoes changes, and that area becomes especially itchy.
Suddenly touched by something, the itching sensation immediately disappeared.
This strange Female—somehow, she had managed to get right in front of him.
Not only had she deliberately made herself look similar to him, but she could even touch him unilaterally!
What on earth was going on?
Axis’s gaze fell once again on the virtual screen, which still showed only the livestream avatar of the Little Female, Zhizhi.
Because the stream hadn’t been restarted, it still displayed that the broadcaster was offline.