Everyone was waiting for Xie Yizhi to come out and make an announcement.
Finally, Xie Yizhi sent a message in the group, an image of a dragon emoji, and the text: “Family, I earned too much yesterday, so I need to spend it today. Taking a day off.”
—【Is he even human?!】
—【It’s so infuriatingly funny. No streamer has ever left me this speechless, hahahaha.】
—【When you’re utterly speechless, you just have to laugh.】
—【Start streaming!! You can take us with you when you go out to spend!】
—【No, he’s already this arrogant just as he’s about to get popular! What will happen when he’s truly famous?!】
Originally, Xie Yizhi had indeed planned to take the day off.
He bought a train ticket for the evening, and by the time he arrived back at his hometown, Xie Feng Village, it would be almost midnight, just in time to celebrate his elderly father’s birthday as the new day began.
He had nothing much to do during the day today, so he planned to go out for a stroll; he hadn’t left the house in many days.
He wanted to visit the mall, buy some gifts to take back.
However, with such high popularity today, Xie Yizhi felt a bit guilty not going live and earning some money.
After all, as the old saying goes, not earning money when you can is a loss.
After much thought, Xie Yizhi decided to start the live stream before heading out, planning an outdoor broadcast for today.
—【Xie Ge: Even if I starve to death today, die outside, or jump from here, I will not stream for even half a ticket!!】
—【Hehe, that smells good!】
Xie Yizhi: “You’re being verbose!”
He hailed a taxi and headed straight for the nearby Wanda Plaza.
It was almost lunchtime, and Xie Yizhi didn’t hesitate, heading straight up to the food court on the fourth floor.
As soon as he reached the fourth floor, his gaze was drawn to a female figure.
The girl was carrying a bag, dressed very casually, tight on top and loose on the bottom, with her waistline perfectly accentuated. She was also wearing a white hat, so it was obvious she hadn’t washed her hair before leaving the house.
If it were anyone else dressed like that, Xie Yizhi certainly wouldn’t have given them a second glance.
But this girl seemed to be a martial artist; her posture was excellent, and her height was estimated to be nearly 1.7 meters. Coupled with her fair skin, her overall aura was even better.
Not just Xie Yizhi, but the Water friends in the live stream were also stunned.
Xie Yizhi and the brothers in the camera exchanged a smile.
This was a unique understanding among men; when shopping together outside, seeing a beautiful woman didn’t even require words.
Just a glance between them was enough to instantly convey what they meant.
—【Does this girl have it (dei)?】
—【Big one!】
—【So beautiful even without makeup, and with such a good figure, she’s clearly a natural!】
—【Streamer, we’re here to eat, stop looking! Eh?? Why is she looking over here too?】
The girl suddenly turned around, startling Xie Yizhi, who instinctively turned away.
Unexpectedly, the girl walked directly towards him, and only when she got closer did she speak: “Xie Yizhi! Is that you? Don’t you recognize me?”
—【So you two know each other! Why were you hiding then?!】
Xie Yizhi hadn’t reacted either, but after a careful look at the girl’s face, he finally recognized her.
“Tan Yuxi?”
Xie Yizhi uttered the name with difficulty.
This girl was his high school classmate, whom he hadn’t seen in many years. He never expected to meet her here today.
If she could call out his name, it would be a bit awkward if he couldn’t recall hers.
“No, wait… I remember you didn’t look like this before.”
Xie Yizhi scrutinized Tan Yuxi from head to toe. Aside from her facial features and eyebrows, her physique and demeanor were completely different.
Xie Yizhi even instinctively spread his hands to gesture; Tan Yuxi’s weight used to be at least two to three times what it was now, and her skin was also dark.
How did she transform so beautifully now?
“After high school graduation, my uncle transferred me to the police academy, and I lost weight with all the training,” Tan Yuxi explained, scratching her head.
It just goes to show that overweight people are all potential stocks; she had completely transformed from her past self.
“So, have you graduated now?” Xie Yizhi asked.
“No, I should be a year behind you guys. I’m currently interning at the city police station,” Tan Yuxi replied. Without waiting for Xie Yizhi to speak, she continued, “What about you? You’ve become an internet celebrity now? Life must be pretty good, right?”
“Your followers increased so much overnight.”
Xie Yizhi was taken aback. He was holding a phone stand, so it was easy to tell he was live streaming, but how did Tan Yuxi know about his follower increase last night?
That part was a bit strange.
It wasn’t convenient to stand there catching up, so Xie Yizhi suggested finding a shop to treat her to a meal, but Tan Yuxi said she had just finished eating.
“Let’s exchange contact info. Next time, I’ll treat you.”
“I have something to do today. I need to go downstairs and get revenge right now!” Tan Yuxi said angrily.
“Revenge for what?” Xie Yizhi asked, puzzled.
Tan Yuxi then explained that before she ate, she had been throwing sandbags at a doll shop on the third floor, but she lost badly, spending fifty to sixty yuan without knocking down a single doll.
This made her, a police academy graduate, feel extremely humiliated. It meant her aim was off, and how could she tolerate that?
“I was so mad that I ate the bullfrog with the bones still in it!” Tan Yuxi grew more and more furious as she spoke, her eyes narrowing and nostrils flaring, her expression management as a graceful beauty completely collapsing.
—【Alright, everyone, disperse. Beautiful women really do play abstract.】
“Mainly, I clearly hit them, but the dolls just didn’t fall down.”
“I think there might be something wrong with that stand,” Tan Yuxi added.
This type of game is very common, often found in parks or arcade centers in shopping malls.
It involves shelves stacked with various plush toys and dolls, and you have to throw sandbags from a certain distance to knock down the dolls on top.
If you knock one down, you get the same doll, and if you reach a certain number, you can play other games or win larger dolls.
The usual target audience is children, and… girls.
“How about… you come with me to check it out? I remember you used to be very good at shooting hoops.” Tan Yuxi thought for a moment and looked at Xie Yizhi.
“Alright, I’ll go take a look.” Xie Yizhi still had plenty of time anyway, so watching wouldn’t hurt, otherwise, he wouldn’t know what to stream.
Although it was an outdoor broadcast, perhaps because the content was far less explosive than last night’s, the live stream only had a lot of people at the beginning.
Slowly, it had now stabilized at around two thousand people.
However, that was still about ten times more than before.
Tan Yuxi’s small frame stomped ahead angrily, full of momentum, charging straight into the doll shop’s entrance like a wild boar.
Seeing Tan Yuxi return, the Bald Head Boss grinned and stepped forward: “Girl, you’re back again, and you’ve brought an outsider?”
After speaking, he looked at Xie Yizhi.
Noticing the phone stand Xie Yizhi was holding, which suggested he was live streaming, the boss’s face subtly changed, and he whispered, “Excuse me, young man, no filming is allowed here.”
Xie Yizhi hadn’t noticed anything wrong initially, but the Bald Head Boss’s words made it seem like he was trying to hide something.
There’s no reason why filming wouldn’t be allowed in a regular shopping mall.
“But aren’t you filming me too?” Xie Yizhi pointed at the surveillance camera in the corner of the ceiling and retorted.
