Chapter 22

To Li Ran, this scene was the first and greatest surprise after months of heavy work pressure and constant setbacks.

This made Li Ran continue to wait.

Then, she saw this strange streamer, Brother Shiguang, sprinting up the mountain for nearly an hour.

It went on until one o'clock in the morning the next day.

It started raining.

Only then did the rain-soaked streamer Brother Shiguang return inside the RV.

The viewers began to leave the live room.

Li Ran, lying on her bed in her apartment, kept one phone hanging in the live room.

Instead, she lay on the head of the bed and started binge-watching a series.

The live room of Brother Shiguang was silent.

She didn't look at it anymore; anyway, she just kept it hanging, and the silence of the live room perfectly didn't disturb her binge-watching.

She didn't know what time it was, but Li Ran's eyes were starting to feel a bit sore.

Sleepiness struck, and she was just about to roll over and go straight to sleep.

Suddenly, a few sounds of guitar strings being rubbed and adjusted came to her ears.

Li Ran suddenly turned her head.

On the phone stand.

In the live room of Brother Shiguang.

Online viewers: thirty thousand.

Bullet comments occasionally scrolled by, some still talking about tonight's meteor shower.

Others were talking about this and that.

And in the image, Li Ran saw.

That streamer, Brother Shiguang, he didn't know when, had already picked up the guitar.

This action made Li Ran instantly wake up completely!

She jolted awake and climbed up, grabbed another phone, stared her eyes at the live room on the phone stand, and the other phone had already started dialing the Minister's number!

At the same time.

In the live room of Brother Shiguang, the simple melody of the guitar began to play.

When the music started playing.

The viewers in the live room finally reacted.

【Eh? Is the streamer going to sing again?】

【Wow! Didn't expect a bonus in the late night!】

【This streamer can also sing?】 said a new viewer.

【Of course he can! My Brother Shiguang, that song from yesterday morning was simply stunning!】

【Did he sing before? What song did he sing?】

【I've never heard it, but it was especially good, pity I forgot to screen record it...】

【Stop sending bullet comments, he's about to start...】

The bullet comments, consequently, came to an abrupt halt.

Thirty thousand viewers all stopped their fingers and began to listen:

【What I fear most is the air suddenly going quiet】

【What I fear most is friends suddenly showing concern】

【What I fear most is memories suddenly rolling and twisting painfully without subsiding...】

【If longing had a sound】

【I wouldn't want it to be the crying of sorrow】

【Until now, finally letting myself belong to myself】

【Only tears remain that can't deceive myself】

【...】

【Suddenly missing you so much, where are you?】

【Suddenly missing you so much, suddenly sharp memories】

【Suddenly blurred eyes】

【We are like the most beautiful song...】

【...】.

20. The Wall of Love Monologues of the Viewers, The Sorrows and Joys of a Generation

In the live room.

That streamer, Brother Shiguang.

Holding the guitar in his arms.

Alone, singing.

Starting gently at first, it eventually moved towards a near-hoarse outpouring.

But the melody of this song, paired with those heartbreaking lyrics.

Merged perfectly with his emotional outpouring.

At this moment.

Only the live room remained.

A lonely streamer, singing alone.

He seemed to have forgotten the whole world.

Not a single bullet comment appeared.

To disturb this moment.

Over thirty thousand online viewers, on this sleepless night.

They had originally thought tonight's broadcast was already settled.

But they did not expect.

That a streamer named Brother Shiguang, with his singing, would stir up the long-buried sorrow in everyone's heart—the sorrow belonging to every single person.

One song, ended.

Still no bullet comments.

Li Ran, holding a phone in her hand, had originally been calling the Minister.

But when the streamer's singing began.

She herself was completely, utterly, captivated by his singing and melody.

The Minister's phone rang for a long time before it was answered.

On the other end of the line came the Female Minister's "Hello? Hello? Hello?" and "Why won't you speak, you little brat?" and such sounds.

Yet Li Ran's hand, holding the phone, slowly slipped down, even without her noticing.

In her eyes, only this streamer remained.

This emotional singer.

With his lyrics, with his melody, with his shout-like singing... he successfully made Li Ran, whose eyes had seen only promotion and a raise, fall into complete ruin.

Finally, the first bullet comment appeared:

【In 2017, my boyfriend and I were struggling in Magic City. We rented a place, squeezed onto the subway, and couldn't even afford to eat out once a month. Life was so bitter then, but now, looking back, it was so happy too. Back then, we both firmly believed that if we couldn't get married even after all that, how could we bear it? But... we ultimately.】

Right after, the second, the third, the fourth...

【My girlfriend and I were together for four years in university. After graduation, I wanted to marry her, and she wanted to too. But her family demanded I buy a house, get a car, and pay three hundred thousand in betrothal gifts. Back then, I hoped she would run away with me; I would have used my life to support her. But she retreated. So I said, "Go to hell." It is now 2022, seven years later. Seven years without contacting her. She suddenly contacted me last month. And only yesterday did I learn she still hasn't married.】

【Fell in love with my big baby in 2015. We married in 2017. First baby boy in 2018. Second baby boy in 2021. Five years. He still spoils me. So happy. Thank God.】

【Five years of dating. Five years of arguing. Five years of breaking up and getting back together. He once got dead drunk for me. He once smashed glass, his hands covered in blood. We finally broke up at the beginning of this year. When he left, he told me he would never fall in love again, that it would kill him. I'm going home next month, preparing for a blind date.】

【Chen Junhe, you scumbag dog! Tonight, in this live room, I'm cursing your ancestors! May you die a miserable death this life! You dog-ass scumbag! I curse you so that the children you bear in the future will have no anus...】

【I had a secret crush on a boy since university. Six years. Last week, he got married. I finally made up my mind to delete him from my friends list. Life is short; may we never meet on a narrow path in the future. Yes, I am that shameless female simp. Thanks.】

【A male high school classmate I haven't contacted in ten years. He suddenly contacted me last month. He's still single. So happy. I won't tell you why I'm happy—coming from a reserved female white-collar worker, dog head to save my life.】

【I beg you, can you please stop talking? Why make people cry late at night like this...】