Chapter 138: Human Nature

A Fu asked from the side, "What kind of scheme is this again?"

One second he said he believed her, the next second he wanted to believe someone else.

Lin Sui: "This is called left-brain and right-brain sparring, can you understand that?"

A Fu: "I don't understand."

Lin Sui: "It's not your fault you don't understand, just watch carefully and learn."

A Fu: "……After I learn this, can I still keep this account?"

He always felt that in her hands, he was doing things that didn't fit his persona.

Lin Sui glanced at him sideways, "Then give it to me? I happen to be missing a high-level account to go out and show off."

A Fu: "No."

Lin Sui: "……"

What on earth is he saying tonight!

There really is no time to mess around with him.

Lin Sui's words were meant to first show Colorful Lotus her stance, that she believed in her!

But she was also afraid that what those people said was true, and that she wouldn't be able to protect her.

If the other party could see her hesitation, she might be willing to tell her the truth.

Sure enough, after a good while, Colorful Lotus sent a few words: "That screenshot is real."

Without waiting for Lin Sui to ask more, she gave Lin Sui a voice call, wanting to talk on the phone.

It just so happened that because of tonight's events, she felt stifled and needed someone to confide in.

Lin Sui pressed the answer button without hesitation.

A Fu wanted to stop her, but it was too late.

Looking at the hand he reached out, Lin Sui was full of confusion.

A Fu blinked his eyes and sheepishly retracted his hand, "Sorry, reflex."

People with social anxiety hate it when others call them; their scalp starts to tingle when they hear the ringtone, and they subconsciously want to hang up.

Lin Sui: "……Brother, you have so much drama tonight."

A Fu: "……"

Colorful Lotus was stunned for a moment, "You have a man with you?"

It's so late at night, wouldn't she be disturbing her?

Lin Sui walked from the doorway to the sofa and sat down, explaining casually: "It's the Company's operations manager, this account is also his, you might see him often in the Live Streaming Room from now on."

A Fu: "……" Is he not even worthy of being called a Top Fan Brother now!

"Oh……" Colorful Lotus asked doubtfully: "Then, should I return the money from just now?"

After all, it was the Company that gave the tip, not a real Top Fan Brother, and Lin Sui had mentioned refunds in the Live Streaming Room.

"That's not necessary." Lin Sui turned on her show-off mode, "He has another identity you might not know……"

"He is the Top Fan Brother of my Live Streaming Room, he's rich!"

Sorry, she couldn't bring herself to make a pretty girl give a refund!

Colorful Lotus: "……" That was even more terrifying to think about.

A Top Fan Brother was tricked by her into being an operations manager? Does a Top Fan Brother lack that little bit of salary?

A Fu: "……" Fine, she could be considered to have admitted again that he is her Top Fan Brother!

"Tell me, what's going on." Lin Sui brought the topic back on track.

Colorful Lotus was silent for a while, as if organizing her words.

"That screenshot is indeed real, but it's a bit out of context."

The husband of Xiaoxiong Aichi Ruantang was also attracted by Colorful Lotus's alluring dance, and she called people 'Your Majesty' in the Live Streaming Room every day.

Just like Daji in ancient times, it made people feel itchy in their hearts.

Wasn't that what attracted Lin Sui back then?

And then someone really started thinking of themselves as 'Your Majesty'.

When Colorful Lotus said this, Lin Sui felt she was being alluded to.

After all, she played the part of an earth emperor in the Live Streaming Room every day.

She didn't dare to make a sound.

After the other party thought of himself as 'Your Majesty', he would make some excessive demands of Colorful Lotus; those unsuitable for children won't be mentioned.

There were others, such as having to be subservient when seeing him in the future, admitting in the Live Streaming Room that she only had him as her 'Your Majesty', and even forbidding her from dancing for others.

She didn't want to agree, but the previous Company's operations manager would tell her to agree to some things unsuitable for children to keep the Top Fan Brother stable.

They would even log into her account to chat with the Top Fan Brother.

It was precisely because of this that she fell out with the previous Company and ran away as soon as the contract expired.

However, meeting the Top Fan Brother was something she agreed to herself.

Because the other party said he had a serious illness and was dying, and wanted to see her in person before he died.

Since it was her Top Fan Brother who was in such a situation, she definitely had to go see him.

Not to mention that he had tipped her so much money, the one who usually defended her the most was the Top Fan Brother; setting aside those uncomfortable parts, there was still a little bit of friendship there.

Who knew that only after meeting him did she realize the other party was lying to her; just because she didn't come out when he asked her out normally, he came up with this trick.

As a result, it happened to be bumped into by his wife.

During that time, the Top Fan Brother was obsessed with watching female streamers and neglected his wife.

His wife suspected he was having an affair, followed him out, and caught him red-handed.

From that day on, Colorful Lotus swore she would never go offline again.

That was why she had originally proposed the request to Lin Sui to live stream from home.

She could no longer stand these people.

"But I'm surprised..." Colorful Lotus paused, then continued: "Actually, I had already explained things clearly to his wife that day. She looked at the chat logs I provided and let me go."

"I didn't expect that after so much time had passed, she would come to my Live Streaming Room to settle the score."

Hearing this, Lin Sui and A Fu, who was beside her, exchanged a glance.

Seeing A Fu's naive and innocent expression, Lin Sui knew she had misjudged him.

He couldn't understand a damn thing!

Even if you put a scheme right in front of him, he would think it was a beehive.

She asked Colorful Lotus directly, "Are you sure the person in your Live Streaming Room who claimed to be his wife is actually his wife?"

Colorful Lotus: "I don't know, but aren't we the only few who know about this? There's no one else."

Lin Sui pondered for a moment and continued to ask: "When did you terminate your contract with your former Company? Was it before or after this incident?"

Colorful Lotus: "I terminated it after that. It's been almost two months now. My current account is one I created myself; I left the old account to the Company."

She used to just be called Lotus.

In order to let her old fans find her and to distinguish herself from her previous account, she added the two characters "Colorful."

It's tacky, but very comforting.

After finishing with Lin Sui, she seemed to realize the reason for Lin Sui's questioning and asked with some confusion: "It couldn't be my former Company playing tricks, could it? My popularity is far worse than before since I changed accounts, and it's only recently, after signing with your Company, that there's been a slight sign of recovery. Why would such a big Company target a small nobody like me?"

"Oh?" Lin Sui grasped the key point in her words, "Your former Company is very big?"

Colorful Lotus said: "Hmm... they're considered quite famous in the Live Streamer circle."

"Do you know Twin Flowers? The ones from your Company," Lin Sui asked.

"That pair of twin sisters? I know them, but I don't have any interaction with them." Because the two of them were quite special, they were very easy to remember.

"With such a big Company, why would any Live Streamer want to jump ship?" Lin Sui inquired further.

Colorful Lotus told the truth, "Probably because the Company is too big and the management is too strict?"

"Even a small Live Streamer like me had a dedicated assistant and operations manager staring at me every day, and I still had to listen to them."

"If you run into good work partners, you just work hard, but if you run into bad ones, they make you agree to all sorts of excessive demands. When pushed to the limit, you really want to jump ship; you just can't keep going, and staying for even one more second is torture."

She had also struggled hard to finally make it out.

"..." Lin Sui raised an eyebrow.

It seems it wasn't a Company operation, but rather revenge from someone within the Company.

After all, Colorful Lotus left when her contract expired normally; the Company had no reason to target her.

Then it might be the person Colorful Lotus kept mentioning, the operations manager or assistant who would make her agree to any excessive demand.

"Don't live stream for now; the Company will handle this matter for you."

Lin Sui said: "My people are not allowed to be slandered!"

Because she had been rained on, Lin Sui would hold an umbrella for others!

It's just that she shoves the umbrella into the villain's rear end before opening it!

Colorful Lotus: "..."

She felt inexplicably moved.

"Boss, is this operations brother of yours reliable?" she asked.

Lin Sui glanced at A Fu, "He should be quite reliable, right? It's been so long, and I haven't seen anyone complain about him."

A Fu: "..."

Colorful Lotus: "Then... should I come to the Company tomorrow?"

Lin Sui: "... Sure."

Such a simple soul, starting to trust others again just like that.

But as a boss, she was indeed very reliable; it was only natural for employees to fall for her.

?.??

? I really like to suddenly post a chapter in the middle of the night; there's a kind of thrill in staying up late until you're silly.

? I won't hide it from you all, the plot segment actually happened to the Live Streamer twice, once when I was in my teens, and once last year.

? It was just netizens wanting to meet me, saying they had some illness and were dying, and they were afraid they wouldn't have another chance, so they wanted to meet once. I don't know if they were actually sick, but they're all still alive now anyway.

? I don't really understand why some people like to make up such things; sometimes there's a reason for avoiding bad omens.

? Of course, the Live Streamer didn't go to meet any of them.

? On the internet, I throw heavy punches; in reality, I'm timid and fearful, afraid of getting my kidneys stolen.