Chapter 15#
Xingyun Live Broadcast#
Xingyun Live Broadcast is currently the largest live broadcast platform in China, with main sections including Star Show, Games, and Outdoors. The Outdoor section is particularly popular, with the top 100 live broadcast rooms basically all being supernatural exploration live broadcasts.
Xia Wenshi is just an obscure salted fish mixed in the vast ocean.
He has been interested in supernatural events since he was a child. He joined the Ghost Research Society in college, and after graduation, he ignored his family’s opposition and started a haunted house. After the haunted house business was sluggish, he resolutely picked up his mobile phone and ran towards the “broad road” of supernatural anchors. However, fate was not on his side. No matter how he followed the trend or selected materials, he just couldn’t become popular.
He even shamelessly brought out the name of his alma mater, and the name of the live broadcast room was called.
“Huaian University graduate senior takes you to explore the truth of the haunted house”.
Then he was complained about by a group of people.
[Some people really take pride in their alma mater for a lifetime]
[If a person still talks about graduating from a certain university many years after graduation, it can only be said that this is the only thing he can show off in his life :)]
[Don’t you think it’s shameful for a Huaian University graduate to be an anchor.]
[What kind of trash, I’ll give you fifty cents, change the school name to the one next door]
Xia Wenshi: QAQ
What can he do!
He doesn’t want to rub off on his alma mater’s popularity either!
…But after changing to this name, the popularity really increased a lot.
In the haunted house, a girl who was traveling with him packed up her things, saw her dismal increase in subscribers, and let out a sour sigh.
“Sigh, the cake of the supernatural section has been divided up now, and we can only drink soup behind the big anchors.”
Xia Wenshi comforted her: “Accumulate over time, water drops pierce stone! If we increase by ten subscribers every day, it will be 360,000 subscribers in a hundred years.”
The girl looked at him with complex eyes and nodded perfunctorily. Looking at Xia Wenshi’s delicate face and cat-like eyes, she couldn’t help saying: “Brother Xia, you look okay, why do you want to wade into the muddy water of supernatural live broadcast? Isn’t it good for you to do Star Show? Or at worst, you can do Weibo self-media. I heard that your family background is also okay. You can imitate Xie Wenci, who doesn’t know anything but takes pictures and shows off his wealth every day, and has a lot of traffic.”
Xia Wenshi smiled bitterly: “How can my family compare with the Xie family.”
The girl didn’t care: “You are too naive. Nowadays, whose photos of internet celebrities are real? It’s all persona.” She took out her mobile phone, opened Weibo, pointed to Xie Wenci’s refined photo of playing the piano, and said in a tone without any jealousy, just plain narration: “Look, with Xie Wenci’s looks, he can still be blown as the ceiling of pure fishing type. Are netizens blind or living in the basement? This is called the ceiling. I can only say that it’s good to be rich. The essence of internet plebs is to admire the strong and worship money.”
Xia Wenshi was not interested in internet celebrities but also knew Xie Wenci. After all, the Xie family in Huaicheng was indeed a wealthy family. Moreover, the Xie family donated a building this year and sent Xie Wenci to the Acting Department of Huaian University. Unsurprisingly, he will probably take the entertainment circle route in the future. He is his junior.
“Forget it, I’m not in the same world as him.” Xia Wenshi wiped his camera and said sincerely: “I’m not interested in the exaggerated life he shows on Weibo—compared to receiving a yacht on my birthday, I hope to meet a ghost on my birthday.”
Girl: “…”
The girl changed the subject: “Brother Xia, I heard that you also opened a haunted house?”
Xia Wenshi nodded: “Yes, it’s at No. 444 Huaian Middle Road. Come and play when you have time.”
The girl frowned and muttered: “No. 444 Huaian Middle Road? Why does this name sound familiar to me? Is it called ‘Scare You Jump’?”
Xia Wenshi was shocked: “Damn, how did you know.”
The girl was also stunned and said in disbelief: “Brother Xia, didn’t you see today’s hot search?”
Xia Wenshi: “What hot search?”
The girl lowered her head and turned out a hot search for him.
#Handsome guy holding a rag doll in the haunted house#
The topic rushed to the third place on the hot search with just one photo.
The person who posted the blog was a not-so-famous store exploration blogger. She came to Huaicheng for tourism with her best friend. When they played near the university town, they stopped by a newly opened haunted house. Unexpectedly, while waiting, a handsome guy accidentally entered the camera. It was taken with the rear camera of the original mobile phone, without any beauty filter or photo editing. Even the composition was not exquisite, as if it was really just a casual shot.
As a result, this shot captured a temperament that beat a crowd of stars in the entertainment circle.
The overall design of the front hall of the “Scare You Jump” haunted house is black and red. The young man walked over from a corridor holding a rag doll, and the light and shadow illuminated his facial features perfectly and exquisitely. His legs were long, straight and sharp. When he looked down and frowned at the yellow dress doll in his hand, he had a bored expression of “what is this thing”. The doll in his hand was well-behaved and cute, but the young man’s tightly pursed thin lips exuded low pressure in every sense.
Contradictory and interesting.
The hot comments on Weibo were also a flood of ahhh and hahahaha.
[Whose drool flowed down, oh, it’s mine. Gasp too handsome, too handsome, a new husband has appeared.]
[Why do I feel that this handsome guy’s eyes are full of disgust, hahahahaha so cute!]
[The rag doll is aggrieved, helpless and pitiful]
[Within three minutes, I want all the information about this haunted house!]
Xia Wenshi clicked on the blogger’s original text in disbelief.
[Cancan plays all over the world V: Unexpected joy at No. 444 Huaicheng Middle Road. Today I clocked in at Huaian University with my best friend. When I went out and saw this haunted house, I wanted to go in and play. Before going in, I actually didn’t have any expectations, because the appearance of this haunted house is really rough and fake [laughing]. Unexpectedly, the effect is very good. Currently, only one scene is open. Although the plot is simple, the atmosphere is really amazing. Anyway, I felt chilly as soon as I went in, and held my best friend’s hand the whole time looking for clues. Of course, the most unexpected joy is this handsome guy who “accidentally” entered the camera! Too handsome, really too handsome, wash your eyes. Apologies for intrusion, will delete if requested.]
No. 444 Huaian Middle Road!
This is his haunted house.
Xia Wenshi was dizzy as if hit by a surprise from the sky, unbelievable—he he he he is popular?
*
—“I haven’t opened this box either, your grandma said the key is in your hand”.
Ye Sheng, who became popular all over the internet with just one photo, is now studying that purple box in the dormitory.
The box is simple, old, solid, and mysterious.
Everywhere reveals weirdness.
He didn’t think that such an ordinary old woman like his grandma would own such a thing, but this thing was indeed left to him by his grandma.
When Ye Sheng touched it with his fingers, a very strange feeling surged in his heart.
…He knew that the things inside were very important to him.
He wanted to open it.
Not only for grandma’s will, nor because of curiosity, just wanted to open it.
Strong, urgent, impulse to open it,
Ye Sheng contacted Huang Yiyue on his own initiative for the first time.
“Before grandma died, did she mention any other information about this box?”
Huang Yiyue received his call, her voice trembling with excitement: “That purple box? It seems so, she mentioned quite a lot.” But she stopped there, and then hemmed and hawed and refused to say more, obviously for Ye Sheng to agree to the request of that banquet.
Ye Sheng lowered his eyes, turned the shell-shaped lock with his fingers, and didn’t speak for a long time.
*
Huaicheng, Rose Empire Hotel, top floor suite.
“Mr. Andrew said that your emotional control is perfect, and you can stop taking medicine for this period of time.”
Butler Li said respectfully.
Ning Weichen sat at the table, holding a rose in his hand and trimming it.
Butler Li said again: “The day after tomorrow is Mrs. Qin’s birthday banquet. I have prepared a gift for you. You can just go there directly then. There are many children in the Qin family. If you find it annoying, you can just go through the motions and come back.”
He has worked in the Ning family for decades and knows this young master better than anyone else.
Ning Weichen is very good at socializing, but it doesn’t mean he likes socializing.
Ning Weichen said: “When will I go back?”
Butler Li said: “The master means to give you a month’s vacation. You should take a good rest during this time, no need to rush.”
Ning Weichen asked casually: “Did the Unnatural Bureau not report my actions?”
Butler Li was stunned, then said: “They reported it, but the teratoma was your task, and your handling was not wrong.”
Ning Weichen chuckled lightly.
Butler Li said: “Of course, I think they are just being polite verbally. The Unnatural Bureau plans to send Luo Xingyan to Huaicheng. Although it is said to follow the guidance of the Prophet to prevent accidents here, I think he must have a hidden mission, which is to monitor you.”
Ning Weichen said “Oh”.
Butler Li said: “Luo Xingyan is an S-level executor, and he is irritable and warlike. You are still in treatment and recovery. Do you need me to arrange a few people to come over?”
Ning Weichen smiled: “No need.”
He cut off the thorns on the rose stem, picked up the rose, fiddled with the layers of petals with his slender fingers, and said lazily: “The Unnatural Bureau always thinks that as the heir of the Ning family, I have been illegally implanted with an uncontrollable S-level heresy. If they want to investigate, let them investigate slowly.”
Ning Weichen blew gently, cold and calm.
“I hope after the investigation, they can apologize to me.”
He was holding a rose in his hand, but his posture was like holding a gun.
Butler Li smiled beside him and didn’t speak.
*
On the sixth day of working, Ye Sheng finally met his boss. For Ye Sheng, life has not changed in these few days. He didn’t even know that he was popular on the internet.
Because those people who came for him basically couldn’t see him.
He is neither the front desk nor an NPC. He is either in the utility room or cleaning up after the show.