Chapter 103

After eating and drinking his fill, Sun Cheng took the initiative to take on the chore of washing up. He first took out his own IBM laptop, which he no longer used, for Ye Qi to use for surfing the internet, and then immediately tidied up and went to the kitchen to get busy.

After some washing and scrubbing, it took seven or eight minutes to finish.

Coming out of the kitchen, he had just stretched when he saw Ye Qi sitting cross-legged in front of the coffee table in the living room, having already opened the computer and started working.

"What are you busy with, Sis..." he leaned over and asked.

"Just browsing the live streaming rooms..."

She answered without even looking up. Both of them could handle spicy food well, so they had used quite a lot of hot pot base earlier. Perhaps the spicy heat had not yet faded, as her pretty face still appeared flushed, looking exceptionally alluring.

Hearing that she was going to browse live streaming rooms, Sun Cheng frowned slightly but said nothing.

Ye Qi was two years his senior. Having graduated from St. John's Women's College in Shencheng, she had majored in English and minored in Japanese in university, making her a genius capable of skillfully reading, writing, and singing in two foreign languages.

Sun Cheng was not very clear on why, after graduating from university, she did not choose to return home and have her parents help pull some strings to get her a position at a school in their hometown.

Or perhaps she was truly captivated by the prosperity of Shencheng, that magical metropolis that was the largest in China. In any case, not long after graduating from university, Ye Qi signed a contract with the largest live streaming platform in the country—Yuegui Network—and became a moderately famous internet streamer.

To be honest, Sun Cheng did not have a very good impression of live streaming platforms.

Because of Ye Qi, he would occasionally browse Yuegui Network. Looking around, there were those who flaunted their sexiness, those who posed provocatively, and those who were full of dirty jokes; there was no shortage of people who challenged the bottom line, making Sun Cheng very unaccustomed to this new social mode of the Web 3.0 era.

However, as long as Ye Qi liked it, that was fine!

Back at his residence, it was naturally impossible to keep wearing sunglasses.

Ye Qi had noticed the bruise on his face while eating, but she had held back until now to ask: "A-Cheng, what happened to your face?"

"It's nothing, I had a bit of a disagreement with a classmate and got into a fight!"

He answered casually. Because he did not want to continue discussing this topic, Sun Cheng took his phone out of his pocket, preparing to download a couple of small games to pass the time.

Ye Qi was very skillfully fiddling with his IBM laptop, downloading the Yuegui Network live streaming client.

Looking up and seeing the new phone in his hand, she couldn't help but frown and ask: "You changed your phone?"

"No, the screen on that phone cracked. Since it's an older model, I have to wait a few days to get an original screen replaced. This phone is just something I borrowed from the repair shop to use for now..."

Spouting a casual excuse, Sun Cheng waved his hand without looking up. His Apple phone was still inside the Base Laboratory in the other world.

Although he had considered bringing back the Apple phone he had upgraded several times using the Decepticon's abilities during his previous few returns to reality, he had rationally chosen things more useful to himself in reality every time.

"However, the next time I return to reality, I really should bring it back..."

Thinking of that phone, which had performance no worse than a high-end business laptop after being upgraded with Decepticon abilities, it might actually be a real help.

Ye Qi clearly did not know this. As she was drinking a glass of juice, her eyes suddenly lit up and she said: "I was still worrying about what birthday gift to give you this year. This works out well; tomorrow, Sis will accompany you to the Apple store to get you a new phone..."

Although she was only a second or third-tier internet celebrity on Yuegui Network, she was still somewhat famous, and she did have a monthly income of twenty or thirty thousand.

However, Sun Cheng had always been too embarrassed to ask her for money in the past, and now it was even more impossible to accept. He shook his head like a rattle-drum, "No need. After all, that was a gift you gave me when I entered university. I've used it for years and have an attachment to it. Besides, I don't really play games on my phone; it's more than enough for making calls and sending texts..."

"Well... alright then..."

The Yuegui Network client finished downloading quickly. Sun Cheng was attracted by the notification sound of the software finishing its download and looked up, only to find that after she logged into her streamer account, she wasn't browsing other streamers' rooms, but had gone directly from the backend into her own live streaming room.

"... A-Cheng, come over..."

She waved her hand, signaling for Sun Cheng to come over.

Sun Cheng looked at the computer in front of her and frowned slightly, "Sis, it's so late, are you still going to stream?"

"The daily streaming time required by the contract has already been met for today, but before I came over, I mentioned to the fans that I was going to celebrate my younger brother's birthday, so everyone asked me to have you show your face tonight..."

She smiled sweetly and proudly, "There will be tips, at least two Gardens!"

Sun Cheng looked at her with some surprise. He occasionally browsed Yuegui Network, so he naturally knew that a 'Garden' was the highest-tier tip on this live streaming platform, worth one thousand. Even if the streamer and the platform split the tips at the lowest rate of fifty-fifty, she would still receive five hundred.

He did not really want to expose himself, but seeing her look of anticipation, he had no choice but to nod reluctantly.

Only then did Ye Qi stand up, take her luggage bag from the sofa next to her, open it, and take out a small Bluetooth headset to put on. After fumbling with the headset and the computer for a while and quickly connecting them, she sat back down in her original spot, turned on the camera, and began adjusting the angle.

Glancing at the screen, Sun Cheng's eyes flickered. He hadn't expected that at this hour, and in a room that hadn't even started streaming yet, there would be hundreds of people lurking and idling. One could only say that the shut-ins of the internet age were truly not to be underestimated.

"Qi-mei is online, come and watch..."

"Streamer, sing quickly, I want to hear Hese's sexy!"

"Qi-mei said she was going to Nandu to celebrate her brother's birthday, ah ah ah ah ah, so envious of having a sister who is a brother-con!"

"Licking my beautiful Qi-mei, if it wasn't for the brother-kun, I would unfollow..."

Perhaps receiving the notification that the streamer was online, the live streaming room quickly became lively. Soon, it reached a scale of four or five thousand people, and the barrage of comments began to scroll frantically, among which there was no shortage of remarks that made one frown.

"Sis, why did you want to become a streamer..."

Sun Cheng asked in a low voice.

Ye Qi had just adjusted the lens and was preparing to interact with the fans when she was suddenly taken aback by his question.

She hurriedly pressed the Bluetooth headset to turn off the sound.

She tilted her head and thought for a moment before saying: "Perhaps it's because I didn't want to be a translator for others, and even less did I want to go home and be some teacher... Besides, I can sing here... how nice..."

She smiled, then pulled Sun Cheng to sit down next to her. With one hand holding his arm, she turned the headset sound back on, "Hello everyone in the live streaming room... Qi-qi mentioned to you all today that I was coming to Nandu to celebrate my younger brother's birthday... Look, this is the handsome young man... Don't underestimate him, my brother is a top student at Nandu University of Technology... Come, A-Cheng, say hello to everyone..."

Sun Cheng squeezed out a smile and nodded at the camera, "Hello everyone..."

He quickly noticed that the various lewd jokes and obscene comments on the screen were increasing, and he couldn't help but frown slightly. He turned his head and said to Ye Qi: "Sis, you guys have fun. I still have some work to handle, I'll go get busy first..."

Having said that, he gently pulled away from Ye Qi, nodded slightly at the camera as a gesture of greeting, then stood up, picked up his ultrathin laptop, and walked toward the master bedroom next door!

PS: Chapter One.