[Baobao, I’m sorry, I have some things to do tomorrow. Another day—I’ll treat you next time.]
Baibai reluctantly declined Yun Long’s invitation.
It wasn’t that she didn’t want to go—it was that she had given the top-tier treatment to Yun Long, so tomorrow she would definitely have to go to the guild headquarters for a meeting to explain herself. Otherwise, she’d be facing her dad’s endless barrage of phone calls.
[Okay, let’s meet up next time.]
Having been turned down by Baibai, Yun Long wasn’t upset at all. Getting out of having dinner with someone she wasn’t close to? She couldn’t have been happier.
Xiami’s Gossip Livestream Room.
“Ladies and gentlemen, did you all notice yesterday’s hourly rankings? A newcomer squeezed into the hourly rankings during the busiest evening hours.”
[Stop teasing us and just tell us who it is! It’s been ages since we’ve seen a new face in the top ten of the prime-time evening rankings.]
[Is Brother Xia talking about That Basket of Xiaolongbao? She’s only been streaming for a little over a month.]
[It must be Xiaolongbao. I clicked into her stream yesterday and saw a big spender sending her exhibition hall gifts.]
The atmosphere in the livestream instantly heated up. A newcomer who could break into the top ten of the overall rankings—the power behind her must be considerable. At the very least, she had to have a super big spender backing her.
Seeing that the mood had been built up enough, Xiami spoke up. “I see some of you viewers guessed right. Yes, it’s That Basket of Xiaolongbao. Can you believe it? She took third place on yesterday’s hourly rankings. And it wasn’t just one big spender—as far as I know, she had three big spenders in her livestream last night. These three big spenders are… Oh my, I suddenly feel a bit hungry.”
As he spoke, Xiami rubbed his belly.
Seeing Xiami’s actions, how could the viewers not know he was fishing for gifts?
They flooded the chat with all kinds of little TikToks and little hearts.
[Qingshan Yizai sent Xiami a Cruise Ship x1 (6,000 diamonds)]
[Stop stalling and just tell us!]
“Got it, bro. Thanks for the feeding, Brother Qingshan. So, as I was saying…”
Xiami wore an exaggerated smile on his face. He genuinely hadn’t expected a big spender to send him a gift.
“Two of these three big spenders are old acquaintances of ours—Captain and Pirate. Anyone who’s been wandering around the livestreams on Yinyin has more or less heard of these two. But neither of them is the number-one spender. The top spot belongs to a rising big spender who goes by Ban Yao Er Sheng.”
At this point, a gloating smile appeared on Xiami’s face. “But this number-one spender isn’t well-liked by Xiaolongbao. Apparently, back when Xiaolongbao was in her old guild, a streamer there picked a fight with her. This big spender was in the livestream at the time, but he just watched her get bullied without lifting a finger. It was Captain who played the hero and saved her.”
“Yesterday, this number-one spender went on a gifting spree, but judging by Xiaolongbao’s attitude, she doesn’t really want this big spender around.”
Xiami made no attempt to hide his love of watching drama unfold.
[Really? There are streamers who don’t want big spenders? Why do I find that so hard to believe?]
[I was there yesterday. The streamer danced ‘Let’s Break Up’ for the big spender—can you believe it?]
[Captain sent Xiami Rockets x2 (10,000 diamonds)]
Watching the discussion on the public chat grow more and more heated, Xiami had been about to share the details of what happened that day, when he suddenly saw Captain’s gift appear on the screen.
“Thank you, Captain, for the big rockets! Don’t worry—what I shouldn’t say, I won’t say.”
[Mm, you two chat, I’m off.]
Watching the gifts Captain was sending, Xiaomi knew how to read the room and didn’t keep digging into Big Brother Xiaolongbao’s past. Instead, she started praising Xiaolongbao, helping drive traffic her way.
Qingshan Yijiu, who had been hoping for gossip, wasn’t annoyed when the fun dried up. He opened the backend, searched for Xiaolongbao’s ID, and hit follow.
He’d been on the platform for over a year and had seen hundreds, if not a thousand, female streamers, but never one with this kind of personality—finding roundabout ways to chase big spenders away.
That piqued his interest. He’d have to check out her stream tonight.
He was the type who loved a spectacle—wherever there was excitement, that’s where he’d be.
Yun Long looked at the clothes in her wardrobe, and the corner of her mouth twitched involuntarily.
These outfits were truly outrageous. She didn’t want to wear a single one of them. But buying new clothes… Yun Long thought of her account balance and instantly abandoned the idea.
At eight in the evening, Yun Long’s stream started on time.
Today she wore a green ombré flowing-sand dress with a pair of oversized butterfly wings on the back. She wore a white wig braided into plaits, topped with a crown. Her makeup had changed too—green colored contacts, a few tiny rhinestones dotted along her cheeks. She looked like an elf who had just stepped out of a forest.
“Hello, my lovely babies, good evening! Has everyone had dinner?”
What Yun Long didn’t expect was that the moment she went live, the viewer count in her stream started climbing like crazy, shooting straight from zero to over ten thousand concurrent viewers.
Yun Long, who had just been getting used to the rhythm of streaming, felt her nerves come rushing back.
Her mind went completely blank. All her prepared lines vanished without a trace, and she could only squeeze out a single dry sentence.
[Xiaomi wasn’t lying, miss really is gorgeous. Haven’t eaten yet—can I eat you instead, miss?]
[So beautiful. Wifey, that outfit today is stunning. Just when I think I’ve seen the limits of my wifey’s beauty, the next day you surpass yourself to a whole new level.]
Qingshan Yijiu, wearing the skin of Mysterious Person 8866, entered the stream the moment Yun Long went live.
Seeing Yun Long’s outfit, he was stunned for a moment. He felt he somewhat understood why Captain and Pirate were in this stream.
Yun Long, feeling a bit awkward, set Little Crocodile down beside her. Just as she was about to speak, she saw an unfamiliar ID—Gao Gaoshou—send a request to connect with her. She rejected it without hesitation.
Unexpectedly, the other party sent another connection request.
Yun Long hesitated, then accepted. She remembered turning on do-not-disturb for strangers.
She just didn’t know who had changed their name.
The moment the connection went through, Yun Long stared blankly at someone dressed as Lady White Snake, with a face painted like Ruhua.
“Sis… Sis Bro??”
“Yep. My name doesn’t change standing or sitting—it’s your Sis Bro, me.”
Sis Bro cracked a joke with Yun Long.
“But you changed your name.”
Yun Long looked at him, puzzled.
Sis Bro choked. “Little sis, that’s not important. Big bro’s taking you to see a real spectacle today. You coming or not? The medical fees there are juicy.”
“Let’s go, go, go!”
Hearing that Sis Bro was taking her to do a PK battle, she agreed on the spot, completely missing the wicked grin in Sis Bro’s eyes that was practically overflowing through the screen.
“Okay, big bro’s gonna hang up now. Once I’m connected, I’ll send you an invite.”
“Okay, big bro.”
Yun Long called him “big bro” without the slightest hesitation—anyone who could introduce her to new people was a good big brother or big sister, no problem at all.
“Babies, Mei-ge is taking us out to earn medical fees. When the time comes, just toss out some little hearts, lollipops, and stuff like that.”