At this moment, in the basement, Mu Bai closed the chat window with Qian Yiwen, glanced at the time—it wasn’t even ten o’clock yet. He still couldn’t fall asleep, so he opened Huajiao Live again.

He planned to check whether Wang Yuwei was streaming. If she was, he’d send her some gifts to earn virtual coins; if not, he’d browse other streamers to see if anyone like Wang Yuwei needed help. If there was no one, he’d just go to sleep.

After entering Huajiao Live, he clicked on his following page and saw that Wang Yuwei was indeed still live.

“Hm? She’s still streaming? Good thing I caught her.” Mu Bai tapped into Wang Yuwei’s livestream room.

Inside a simple one-story house in the southwest part of the city, Wang Yuwei was still streaming.

Normally at this time she would have ended already, but since tomorrow was the weekend, and after being scolded by “Second Brother” yesterday she’d been feeling awful, the naïve girl kept feeling she owed her old fans.

So today, Wang Yuwei was extra accommodating to those longtime fans.

If they wanted her to dance, she danced. If they wanted to hear a song, she sang. She even played lots of little games with them, streaming all the way from noon until now.

Yet today, she had only received a little over ten yuan in gifts, while “Second Brother,” who used to send her the most gifts, kept sneering at her in the chat.

Wang Yuwei couldn’t bring herself to remove Second Brother’s moderator status, nor could she kick him out of the room, so she endured his ridicule in silence.

She was kind-hearted. She never forgot the fans who had accompanied her for a year.

Especially Second Brother—she was truly grateful to him. If not for his continuous gifts over the past year, she probably wouldn’t even have been able to pay her tuition.

But that gratitude was something Second Brother never realized. He didn’t see how deeply his current mockery was hurting this kind-hearted girl.

Even though yesterday “A Bit Cold” had tipped her over 5,000 yuan, in her heart his weight was far less than that of Second Brother, who had been with her for a year.

But if Second Brother kept hurting her like this, she didn’t know how much longer she could care about him.

“You’re so pretty, streamer.” A new viewer sent a message.

“Thank you for the compliment, new friend. Welcome to Little Star’s livestream. If you like me, feel free to follow!”

Wang Yuwei greeted the newcomer sweetly.

“Hmph, pretty streamer, huh? If you want her to call you ‘daddy,’ just spend 5,000 yuan, and you can enjoy imperial treatment.”

Right after her thanks, Second Brother, with his moderator badge, mocked her again in the chat.

“Second Brother, can you please stop?” Tears welled up in Wang Yuwei’s eyes, but she forced herself not to cry on stream.

“Stop? You know full well what you did yesterday. What are you, anyway? Just a cheap slut selling herself in disguise! Yesterday for 5,000 yuan you were willing to kneel and call someone daddy. Did he even bother to come see you today?”

“Idiot. You don’t even know who truly treats you well! I’ve supported you every day, but I’m still nothing compared to some new fan who just showed up yesterday. Ha, pathetic.”

“You do something like that, you pay the price. Since you buttered up ‘A Bit Cold’ yesterday, you should’ve known you’d lose me. Now go ahead, kick me out—I’d like to see what streamer can survive after kicking out their top supporter!”

Second Brother spammed the chat with bitter comments, mocking Wang Yuwei relentlessly.

He was a paranoid sort of person. Otherwise, with a stable job, he wouldn’t be almost thirty and still single.

Sure, a few thousand yuan a month might not be much in Nanjing, but in the countryside it was a good job. Finding a wife shouldn’t have been a problem.

But he was still alone. Every woman who had dated him couldn’t tolerate him for long.

Suspicious, jealous, obsessive—those traits were all on full display in Second Brother.

Before, when Wang Yuwei treated him well in every way, he thought it was only right. But the moment she cooled toward him a little, or thanked a new fan instead, he believed she had betrayed him—their so-called “online couple” relationship broken.

Yesterday, when “A Bit Cold” sent such a huge tip, he really felt his status was under serious threat.

Before, when faced with other fans, he could always outspend them. But with “A Bit Cold,” he felt powerless.

The more powerless he felt, the more panicked he became. The more panicked, the more he thought his past spending had been wasted—so he tried to claw it back from Wang Yuwei.

“Second Brother, that’s enough, you’re making the streamer cry.”

“Yeah, too much. What’s wrong with her thanking yesterday’s big tipper? You’re the one being unreasonable.”

“Are you crazy? She’s just an online girlfriend once a week, not your wife.”

“Second Brother, we’ve known each other over a year. Don’t ruin that friendship by insulting Little Star like this.”

Several fans couldn’t bear to watch anymore. Second Brother’s words had gone too far. Sure, Wang Yuwei had been extra thankful to “A Bit Cold” yesterday, but that was normal—anyone would treat a fan who dropped thousands generously.

Many other streamers would even do private shows for that kind of money.

So normal fans understood her behavior. But Second Brother, with his obsession, couldn’t accept it. He had given so much and demanded even more, unable to tolerate her treating others better than him.

Seeing the pushback, Second Brother sneered: “Ha, and who the hell are you? If you think you’re tough, knock me off the top supporter board first! You don’t know how much I’ve given Little Star, so you’ve no right to tell me what to do!”

“This guy’s too much.” Mu Bai frowned at what he saw.

Actually, he had already entered the room a while ago, but with the chat scrolling so fast, no one noticed him.

Wang Yuwei meant a lot to Mu Bai. Watching this “Second Brother” bully and insult her only worsened his already foul mood.

He thought for a moment—his two orchids were almost ready to sell, and he still had over 40,000 yuan in his account. So he recharged more than 30,000 straight away and looked for the biggest gift on Huajiao Live.

“User ‘A Bit Cold’ has sent Little Star a Dream Castle! Everyone, join the Dream Castle treasure hunt!”

This announcement appeared not just in the room, but across the entire Huajiao app.

The Dream Castle was the most extravagant gift on the platform. The moment the message popped up, Second Brother froze, Wang Yuwei—hurt just moments ago—froze, and the fans all instantly flooded the chat with “666.”

Before the excitement even settled, more messages followed.

“User ‘A Bit Cold’ has sent Little Star a Dream Castle! Everyone, join the Dream Castle treasure hunt!”

One after another—five more Dream Castles, six in total, exploded across the room and rippled across the entire platform.

Right after the six gifts, Mu Bai sent his own message:

A Bit Cold @Second Brother: Knocked you off the top. Got anything else to say?

OFR – Chapter 18 Come on, I’ll take over

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OFR – Chapter 18 Come on, I’ll take over

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