DLRC – Chapter 12 A Huge Sum of Money

Flowers were a 10-cent gift—cheap, yes, but if enough people gave them, a little added up to a lot!

The feather was a 1 yuan gift. Both were things most viewers were willing to send. Anything more, and that meant you had real fans—like FishHead, who loved sending her those 20 yuan little rainbows.

In the bottom right corner of the livestream, the total value of the gifts was displayed. She glanced at it—about five yuan so far. Even ants are meat, she consoled herself with the old saying.

More and more people were entering the livestream. Though she didn’t have money to buy promotion slots, she’d deliberately chosen a clickbait-style title. That curiosity-driven bait had pulled in plenty of netizens.

As the gifts came pouring in, the voices of skepticism climbed right alongside them.

【I have every reason to suspect the streamer is on a film set.】

【I agree!】

【Yeah, sure, the setting looks realistic, but saying she time-traveled? That’s a bit much.】

【I’m just here for the show—some of you are taking this way too seriously. Time travel? C’mon, get real.】

By now, Yu Wei had arrived outside a hardware store. There were a few customers inside shopping around. She quietly walked up to the entrance without speaking, holding onto Yu Hui’s hand with one hand and raising her phone with the other.

The screen clearly captured the scene of people making transactions inside. Yu Wei looked around constantly, staying alert to people coming and going.

The cash in the customers’ hands, the simple clothing, the hardware store soaked in a vintage atmosphere, and the shelves overflowing with goods from a bygone era…

Forget finding such an old-fashioned store in the 22nd century—you could tell just by looking at what was being sold that these items didn’t belong to her time at all!

Many of them were hardware goods that had been phased out decades ago. Even the power strips hanging on the walls were the kind you only saw in old internet photos.

A viewer who recognized some items chimed in:

【The lock in the glass case in front of the streamer was phased out in ’99. There’s still a bunch of them here!】

【Exactly! It’s all just props.】

【Yup, I’ve worked with prop teams before—this kind of stuff is easy to make. But I gotta say, this crew has money. These props are seriously accurate!】

Yu Wei wasn’t paying attention to the comments. She held Yu Hui’s hand and stepped into a department store.

It was peak shopping hour, and the narrow hallways of the store were packed with people.

The noise, the sluggish flow of footsteps, the vibrant and crowded scene—everything screamed 1980s.

Now it wasn’t just the viewers who were shocked—Yu Hui himself was so stunned by the dazzling array of goods that his little mouth dropped open slightly.

“Mama.”

That word made Yu Wei freeze. She instinctively snuck a glance at her phone screen. Everyone was still busy debating the authenticity of the livestream. No one had noticed Yu Hui’s soft “Mama.” Only then did she breathe a sigh of relief.

She was wearing a long-sleeved light top today, and the phone was tucked neatly into her sleeve, with only a tiny bit of the camera peeking out—just enough for the audience to see everything clearly.

“What is it?” she bent down and asked him softly.

Yu Hui tugged at the hem of her shirt and pointed toward a man standing not too far away. He looked very familiar. She squinted and stared for a moment—ah, it was Luo Dongshen.

Well, well. Just yesterday he’d said he wanted to marry her, and today he was out shopping at the department store with a pretty young lady. No wonder he’d dumped her first thing in the morning—he’d found a replacement.

And not a bad-looking replacement, either. While she didn’t quite match up to Yu Wei in terms of beauty, she was petite, charming, and clearly very young. Standing next to Luo Dongshen, she looked more like his daughter, but her sweet smile and gentle demeanor were exactly the kind of obedient, delicate type that perfectly fit Luo Dongshen’s straight-man taste.

The two of them strolled through the food section arm-in-arm. The woman leaned close to Luo Dongshen’s ear and whispered something, making him laugh heartily. With a grand wave of his hand, the smiling shop assistant took a package from behind the counter.

Yu Wei couldn’t see what it was. Holding Yu Hui’s hand, she walked out of the department store.

She definitely didn’t want to run into him.

【Why isn’t the streamer saying anything?】

【Where is she? The camera seems blocked. It’s gone dark.】

Looking at the comments flooding in on her phone, Yu Wei took a deep breath:

“So, does everyone believe me now? The streamer really has time-traveled. That ancient department store wasn’t some set built by a film crew, okay? There had to be at least a hundred people inside, maybe even two hundred. Where am I supposed to find that many extras?”

She walked into a secluded corner. Yu Hui looked up at her with wide eyes. Though he didn’t understand why his mom kept talking to a rectangular thing, today had been such a happy day for him.

He had gone to so many new places and seen so many things he’d never seen before. Everything felt so fresh and exciting. So this is how big the world was. So children’s clothes came in so many colors!

Would he be able to go out again tomorrow?

Yu Wei continued, “Besides, you all heard the noise inside, right? I didn’t mute anything. That was real—definitely not a staged set.”

【Okay… I think I kind of believe it now】

【Honestly… this feels a bit creepy】

【I’ve been following the streamer since she had just five fans. I always trusted her character. Even though time-travel still seems kind of spooky, I’ll wait and see】

【Right? But how did a normal person just randomly time-travel? I’ll wait too】

【Just saying—finding a thousand extras is doable if you have the money. So is the streamer just going all-in for views?】

Yu Wei sighed helplessly.

Alright then, being skeptical is still better than unfollowing. One day, they’d believe her!

But…

“Here’s the thing: after I time-traveled, I ran into some trouble. My family’s not doing well financially, and I want to move out. But since I’m new here, I didn’t know how to make money. That’s why I started streaming. I hope you’ll all keep supporting me!”

【Oh right—did we forget the most important thing? How does the streamer still have her phone if she time-traveled!?】

【Are you dumb? She just said her phone time-traveled with her】

【Wait… was there internet in the ’80s? Was there even a signal?】

【Okay, now this is really stretching it】

【Why does this feel like: “I, Qin Shi Huang, demand your money.”?】

【Is this some new livestream gimmick?】

Time-travel was one thing, but the phone came with her too?

Yu Wei’s mouth twitched. She also found it ridiculous. What a tragic life.

She explained helplessly, “I don’t know how it works either, but the phone can stream even without a network. The battery has stayed at full charge, no power loss at all.”

【I believe it now. If time travel is possible, then anything is】

【You believed that this fast? I still call BS】

【+1】

【+10086】

A rather absurd and boring livestream dragged on for half the morning. Although most viewers were skeptical or just watching for fun, Yu Wei still ended up receiving a whopping 40 yuan in gifts!

After bidding farewell to her viewers, the final view count when she closed the stream read: “1003”, and her follower count jumped from 1,600 to “1899.”

Well then. Looks like she really could make a living off this. No more fear—she had support now. Time to get food!

After that, she’d need to find a better place to live. She was definitely moving out of this dump!

Excitedly, Yu Wei closed the stream and tapped “Withdraw.”

Two seconds later, her pocket suddenly bulged.

She reached in—and pulled out a full 4 yuan!

A fortune!

A giant fortune in the 1980s!