You Yu hesitated. “No, it’s just…”
[Evan: So you just happen to know someone with the same name as this ID?]
She had indeed once had a big spender with that ID who had kept her company on Voice for a long time.
But never mind four years ago—she had even switched platforms. There was no way it could be such a coincidence.
She suppressed the panic in her heart and swallowed her suspicion.
But his aggressive attitude…
You Yu answered honestly: “I did know a big spender with that name before, but that was a long time ago.”
Although she was ashamed to face her old fans, she hadn’t gotten plastic surgery or changed her appearance. If anyone from back then still remembered her, they would recognize her one hundred percent. Denying it would be pointless.
[Evan: So you still remember. I thought you’d forgotten everything long ago.]
What did that mean?
You Yu’s heart stirred. If she had held onto any lingering hope before, it had now all but vanished.
Clearly, this Evan was that Evan.
The big spender who had accompanied her from start to finish during her year of streaming on Voice, who had helped her so much.
She still probed cautiously: “Brother Evan?”
[Evan: Why did you come back to streaming?]
You Yu wanted to say something, opened her mouth, but couldn’t make a sound. Her eyelashes trembled uncontrollably as she stared at the question on the Public Chat Screen without answering.
Only silence.
[Evan: You cut off your stream without a word. Do you know how many people were waiting for you in your Live Stream Room back then? I didn’t have your WeChat, so I had the Guild contact you. The Guild’s final answer was that you needed to focus on your studies and weren’t streaming anymore!]
[Evan: Once you’d made enough money, you just ran off without even a word of explanation. Were we just tools for you, You Yu, to make money with?]
You Yu said in a low voice, “I’m sorry.”
She couldn’t defend herself, and there was nothing to defend. She had indeed been in the wrong.
Back then, she had been too ambitious, too desperate to break free of every shackle and rush toward a new life.
Money had been the last chain binding her.
Evan was a fairly well-known big spender on Maoya. The moment he started questioning her, Feichang’s fans, who had just drifted over, immediately went off to spread the news.
Feichang’s Live Stream Room—
[Looks like Brother Evan knows that girl.]
[Relay it, relay it, hurry and relay it! Brother Evan and that girl are old acquaintances.]
Feichang exclaimed, “What? Hold on, hold on, let me switch screens so we can all enjoy this drama together.”
Once Feichang’s fans knew, it was as good as every famous streamer’s fans on all of Maoya knowing—including the news-broadcasting Live Stream Rooms.
Xu Sanduo’s Live Stream Room—
[San’er, Brother Evan just ran into an old flame.]
[Fatty, Fatty! Big drama from Brother Evan!]
Shock spread across Xu Sanduo’s chubby face. “Huh? What’s going on? Send me that streamer’s ID.”
[Drunken Fish.]
[Drunken Fish.]
…
Drama like this was rare. Within three minutes, several big-name streamers and gossip streamers had all entered You Yu’s Live Stream Room to broadcast it live.
As a result, more and more people flooded into You Yu’s Live Stream Room. Her VIP Seats jumped from 80 to over 2,000 within minutes—but far more than two thousand people were watching the stream.
[Evan: “Sorry” and that’s it?]
You Yu had always been a rather carefree, thick-skinned person. If she weren’t, she wouldn’t have so decisively followed her own judgment back in college and majored in media studies.
People aren’t born with a conscience or a sense of shame—they learn it slowly over time, coming to feel it clearly through the trials of life.
When the stream cut out, she hadn’t thought much of it, but back then her eyes could see nothing—only what was right in front of her.
More than three hundred days of companionship, along with financial help—anyone would find it hard not to be moved.
Four years ago, You Yu had overlooked it. Four years later, You Yu finally felt the affection that had arrived late.
Along with it came the sense of shame she had never learned to feel in her reckless youth.
She stared at the bullet chat on the Public Chat Screen, eyelids lowered, barely daring to look up at the camera.
She had no experience dealing with a situation like this, and could only keep saying:
“I’m sorry, Brother Evan. I let you down.”
As she finished speaking, tears fell one by one, each one captured precisely by the high-definition camera.
【Evan: What do you have to cry about? When Happy Home was shut down, even I didn’t cry.】
You Yu pulled a tissue from her desk and wiped the tears from her cheeks.
Who could have expected that the tears would gush out like a broken faucet, flowing all the more the more she wiped.
The familiar way of speaking from her memories only deepened You Yu’s guilt.
【Evan: Did you tell Brother Shen you were back streaming?】
You Yu’s eyes were rimmed red as she choked out: “No, I didn’t tell him.”
【Evan: Brother Shen will be truly grateful.】
【Evan: Alright, end your stream.】
You Yu sobbed, “But I just started streaming…”
【Evan: Can you even stream in this state?】
Hearing this, You Yu glanced at her screen. On it, her own face—because she kept wiping her tears with tissues—had eye makeup smudged into rings around her eyes.
“My eye makeup is ruined… I spent so long doing it for today’s stream.”
He told her to end the stream, yet still cared about trivial things like that.
【Evan: ?】
She snapped back to her senses and realized she’d said something stupid. With a red nose, she said in a muffled voice, “I’m sorry.”
Then she ended the stream at lightning speed.
On Maoya, viewers can send gifts and chat in a streamer’s Live Stream Room whether the streamer is live or not—which means a streamer can receive gifts even when not broadcasting.
Even though the screen had gone black, plenty of people were still in the Live Stream Room watching the drama and chatting.
【Evan: Streamers in this room, don’t go spreading this around tomorrow. Especially the gossip.】
【Evan gifted Xiaoyu Treasure Map ×20】 (100,000,000 Meow Coins)
The 20 Treasure Maps shot Evan straight to first place on You Yu’s Weekly Contribution Leaderboard—exactly 100k.
Feichang, who had watched the whole farce unfold, was beside himself with excitement, and seeing Evan drop twenty Treasure Maps on a black screen, he clicked his tongue in amazement.
“Tsk tsk tsk, the way that girl treated him—even just hearing about it, I think it was way too much. But what’s with these twenty Treasure Maps?”
“The girl sheds a few tears and he feels sorry for her, so he just rains Treasure Maps down on her?”
He finally reached a conclusion.
“That’s true love, right there.”
Then he gloated: “Xu Sanduo is going to be hurting now. Big Brother has a female streamer he needs to protect, hahaha.”
【233’s diehards are going to faint crying in the stream room】
【So Brother Evan has this kind of past】
【No wonder he barely ever tips female streamers—turns out he was tricked by a siren and locked his heart away】
【After watching all that, Brother Evan really got done dirty】
【Female streamers are all scammers!】