Chapter 53: Chapter 53: Brother, Don’t Be Afraid, Let’s Check the Surveillance

Xiao Chen: “Fuck! I’m an open book, there’s no way I’d stiff you! I bet you’re just afraid there won’t be enough gifts from the PK battle and you’ll look bad, right? So you want me to send you a gift to save face!”

His fans jumped in and started cursing her out, with many of them unleashing a torrent of profanities.

Unfazed by the taunts and insults, Shen Zhiyao remained calm and said, “If you don’t agree, I won’t do the reading.”

Xiao Chen certainly wasn’t hurting for cash. As long as the hype was big enough, his fans would shower him with one or two hundred thousand in donations during a single PK battle.

So, he said, “Fine, I’ll pay the divination fee up front. But if your reading is off, you have to give me my money back. It’s not that I care about the money; I just don’t like wasting it.”

With that, he sent Shen Zhiyao a Douyin Number One.

Shen Zhiyao said, “Now, pan your phone’s camera around your house.”

Xiao Chen took his phone and panned it around his bedroom. When the camera focused on the room, his live chat exploded:

[So this is what your room looks like, sweetie! When are you going to move in with me? I’ll decorate my room just like yours!]

[Your bed looks so cozy, sweetie! Just last night, I dreamed we were sleeping in the same bed, and today I get to see your room. Is my dream about to come true?]

[Sweetie, let me see your closet, okay? Oh, I’m not trying to peek at your underwear or anything. I just want to see your coats and imagine what it would feel like to be wrapped up in one.]

[AHHHHHH! Your room is so cute, sweetie! I love it so much! Can I move in?]

Shen Zhiyao had sharp eyes. Even though the stream window was small and the camera was moving quickly, she still caught the explicit comments.

Shen Zhiyao was left speechless for a moment. ’Are all middle-aged and older women this forward nowadays?’

Xiao Chen, on the other hand, was completely unfazed by these comments. In fact, he sometimes deliberately encouraged such suggestive remarks to attract fans, positioning himself as the object of their fantasies.

Seeing everyone getting hot and bothered over his bedroom, he deliberately let the camera linger on the room a little longer.

“Come on, ladies, let’s go! Send in some more gifts! You can’t let your boy lose, or I’ll be heartbroken! Whoa, thanks to ’Building Materials Queen Wang’ for the three hundred Carnivals! Anyone else want to send some? A few more would be great!”

He was in the middle of passionately begging for gifts when Shen Zhiyao suddenly cut in, “I’ve had a look. There are no issues with your room’s feng shui, but there is a ghost under your bed.”

Xiao Chen, who had been enthusiastically begging for gifts, was speechless. “…”

He suddenly snapped out of it. “Xiao Shen, don’t try to scare me, okay? I asked you to check the feng shui, not to perform an exorcism!”

Shen Zhiyao replied, “I don’t intend to perform an exorcism. I’m just giving you a warning. Haven’t you been feeling completely exhausted when you wake up lately? Especially when you sleep with your girlfriend, haven’t you been having constant nightmares, feeling like you want to move but you can’t?”

The moment she said that, the live chat exploded:

[What? You have a girlfriend? Didn’t you say your only girlfriends were us ladies in the stream?]

[You better explain yourself, sweetie! I’ve been giving my husband the cold shoulder for so long because of you. How could you have a girlfriend!]

[You already have a girlfriend? How could you play with our feelings like that! And to think I’ve been eating instant ramen every day just to save money to send you gifts!]

[This is unacceptable! You have to break up with her, or I’m never sending you another gift!]

Sure enough, the fans in the stream immediately stopped sending gifts. His fanbase of older “girlfriend” fans began to bombard him with questions.

Xiao Chen cursed Shen Zhiyao for her big mouth while scrambling to find an excuse:

“I don’t have a girlfriend! I really don’t! Her reading was wrong, it has to be! Don’t believe her, ladies, keep those gifts rolling in!”

Shen Zhiyao said, “I don’t make baseless claims. Not only do you have a girlfriend, you have more than one. Do you need me to be more specific?”

Xiao Chen didn’t dare to challenge Shen Zhiyao on that point, so he quickly changed the subject. “Let’s get back to the other issue! You said there’s a ghost under my bed? How is that possible!”

As he spoke, he walked over and nonchalantly yanked up the bed skirt, revealing the empty space underneath the bed.

Xiao Chen deliberately shoved the phone’s camera up close. “See? Nothing there!”

’If I can prove her reading is wrong about this,’ he thought, ’then everyone will naturally assume she was wrong about me having girlfriends, too.’

Shen Zhiyao said, “It’s not time yet. She only appears at midnight, when the yin energy is strongest. I see you have a security camera in your bedroom. Why not take a look at the playback from last night?”

Xiao Chen started to get nervous. He had, after all, seen Shen Zhiyao’s streams before and knew she was the real deal.

More importantly, he often brought different women home. ’If those ravenous old women in his chat saw that, they’d unfollow him for sure.’

But his fans didn’t know Shen Zhiyao. Seeing a pretty face, they were eager to see her humiliated and spammed the chat:

[Yeah, sweetie, check the footage! Let’s see it! Who’s scared?!]

[Check it! What’s there to be afraid of? We can get a peek of you sleeping, too. You must look so cute!]

[This streamer looks like a total fraud, she’s just spouting nonsense! I believe you, sweetie! You’re innocent! You wouldn’t be running around with girlfriends! And even if you did get one, it would have to be me!]

[Streamer, go check the camera! If you can debunk this fraud, I’ll send you 1,314 Carnivals!]

Xiao Chen was backed into a corner. If he refused to check, his fans would think he had something to hide, and they would stop sending him gifts.

Clinging to a sliver of hope, Xiao Chen opened the security footage on his computer and aimed his phone at the screen for everyone to see.

Of course, he had a little trick up his sleeve.

He set the time to 1:00 AM, to the part of the recording where he was alone, *after* he had finished his tryst with the gorgeous woman from next door.

To maintain his single persona, he even put on a bashful act. “Oh, pointing the camera at my bed like this is so embarrassing… My life is really simple. I don’t have many hobbies besides streaming and making videos. I don’t usually have visitors, so showing my private life on camera all of a sudden… I’m a little shy! Please don’t laugh at me, ladies!”

[That’s our pure and adorable sweetie! He’s even getting embarrassed! It’s making my heart flutter!]

[You must be so lonely all by yourself every day, sweetie! DM me your address, and I’ll come over to keep you company!]

[I can see your bathroom, sweetie. Hey, why isn’t there a camera in there? You’re so selfish! Holding out on us like that!]

[Whoa, he went back to bed in his pajamas! Oh my god! His body is amazing. He’s so sexy even in pajamas!]

[He’s getting back in bed! His blanket must be so warm!]

’This group of middle-aged and older women…’ Shen Zhiyao thought. ’I wonder if they lived such repressed lives when they were younger that they’re just letting it all hang out now, saying whatever they please.’

Some of the comments were downright filthy. It was a real eye-opener for Shen Zhiyao.

Meanwhile, Xiao Chen kept talking about his “simple daily life,” continuing to lead his fans’ imaginations astray.

On the security footage, Xiao Chen had already turned off the lights and gone to sleep.

But the camera was high-quality; even in the pitch-black room, its infrared function made the scene perfectly visible.

Just as the group of older women was drooling over the sight of Xiao Chen sleeping, a pitch-black hand suddenly reached out from under the bed…

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