He felt that the female readers were very insightful, very tasteful, and very able to see the essence through the appearance.
He thought about it, and couldn’t help but feel a stirring in his heart for these female readers. So he edited two short videos of interaction between Cunxing and Su Mingqian and posted them on the “One hundred thousand reasons to cheat Krypton” account.
These two short videos no longer focused on the grand and exquisite scenes and modelling.
The focus of this exhibit was on the casual interactions between them both.
For example, the scene when they first entered the game, saw a tank cat, and held hands, shoulder to shoulder, retreating nervously together to the side; another example, the scene when Cunxing used Fog for the first time, changing from human to fog, shuttling around Su Mingqian’s body, and rubbing up against him.
Both of these scenes were a bit gay, but not particularly so.
They fit perfectly with Li Shuoxing’s sultry, hidden show without noise. Everyone who got it had the mindset that got it.
As soon as these two short videos were posted, sure enough, the female readers collectively got it:
“I pick them up and it’s a 100-metre dash. What kind of a couple is this!”
“I’ll come I’ll come I’ll come to nominate tentacle play!”
“So basically, doesn’t this mean they’ve even been in bed?!”
The female readers were so dirty that even Li Shuoxing, who was secretly watching in front of his computer, blushed a little.
He fake coughed twice, switched to his main account, continued to wrestle between the left and right, then forwarded the Weibo post.
@Caramel Ximu: “Fun.”
After the forward, he continued to spy on the reactions of the remaining male readers.
The reaction of the male readers was no reaction.
Anyway, the original book was a bit gay. Anyway, everyone had been teasing Eunuch for a long time for degenerating into gay. Anyway, everyone was gay now. It didn’t matter.
Everyone was a “brother”.
They were joking and laughing, licking videos as they pleased, not caring at all.
Li Shuoxing was very satisfied.
He was fair, first praising the sharp-eyed female readers, and then praising the generous male readers in his heart. Then, he browsed through the recent influx of fanworks.
Ever since the video from “One hundred thousand reasons to cheat Krypton” was released, the powerful fans had also started to show their own strengths, all making fanworks for Nine Crossings .
They echoed one sentence.
The masters are among the common people.
The first thing that Li Shuoxing saw was a paper model reproduction of the enemy’s mechanical moon fortress and battleships during the space battle.
In the vast starry sky, half of the moon’s round surface opened, and densely packed mantis battleships leapt out of it, all fierce and deadly. It was hard to imagine that the raw material for such an exquisite work was actually paper.
Then, he saw a video of Su Mingqian and Cunxing dancing the rabbit dance together.
Of course, this wasn’t his own production, but rather a dance video produced by a master using other software to create similar models based on the Krypton characters.
This video was the most similar and cutest of all the videos Li Shuoxing had watched!
Looking at the rabbit’s ears, falling together.
Looking at the rabbit’s tail, wagging and swaying.
Li Shuoxing kept silent and placed them in his “Favourites” folder.
There were two folders on his computer, hidden in a small corner of his hard drive. These were his most important electronic materials besides his novel files. One of them was called “Favourites” and the other was called “Winter Food”.
Favourites was the folder where interesting and fun fanfictions of Cunxing and Su Mingqian were stored.
As for Winter Food, it contained everything from when Su Mingqian was a cub. Every screenshot, every recording, and every video in it was Li Shuoxing’s precious treasure!
After collecting the items, Li Shuoxing checked the folders as usual and was satisfied after making sure that everything was safely in its original place. Then, he took a look at the cub, who was in the lower right corner of his desktop as usual. He couldn’t help but poke the cub and say again:
“Cub, when do you say we’ll enter the game and dance the rabbit dance together?”
Su Mingqian: “???”
Su Mingqian looked at Li Shuoxing in shock.
Li Shuoxing, who had accidentally spoken from his heart, felt a thud in his heart. He quickly changed the subject, and greeted him as if nothing had happened, “Come on, cub. Let’s look at fanworks on Weibo. They’re very awesome and interesting to look at.”
With that said, Li Shuoxing grabbed the cub with the mouse, moved him to the centre of the screen, and then clicked on Weibo to continue browsing.
The first fanwork they saw this time was a pair of handcrafts of Su Mingqian and Cunxing.
The modeller had created a figure of Su Mingqian fighting. One hand was holding a cane, which was drawn out a little, revealing a bright silver sword hidden inside; the other was holding a pocket watch, which was gently shaking at his fingertips. His hair flew to one side, as if wind was blowing past his ears.
On the other side, Cunxing combined the character’s own fog ability to create an extension of splashing fog around the body. Best of all, the swirling fog had a vague outline of the figure of a person.
When the two models were placed together, there was an impulse to put Su Mingqian’s model into Cunxing’s fog outline.
Both of them were captivated by this pair of models.
Li Shuoxing: “How beautiful…”
Su Mingqian: “It’s really beautiful…”
After praising it, they expressed more or less the same regret: “The modeller is so good. It would be nice if the two of them were a little closer together in the photo.”
When they finished saying that, they didn’t think that there was anything wrong with them thinking the same thing as each other.
They went through Weibo together, and sure enough, they weren’t the only ones who felt such an impulse. Unfortunately, although many people were screaming, the blogger, for some unknown reason, never brought the two models together, but only let them look at each other from a distance…
At that moment, a “beep” sounded. Li Shuoxing’s QQ had rung.
Calamus sent a message: “Ximu, like I told you before, many readers have sent their gifts to the editorial department and asked the editorial department to send them to you. The things should have arrived at your side by now. They said the courier was already delivering them when I called them half an hour ago to ask about it.”
Li Shuoxing was about to reply when the doorbell rang.
When he opened the door, he saw the courier, with a box in his arms and three boxes behind him, standing at the door with a list of items, waiting for him to sign for them.
Li Shuoxing let the courier in so they could put down the things, and then replied to Calamus, “Don’t worry, everything’s arrived at my door. Help me say thank you to the readers who sent them.”
Calamus: “Don’t worry, the editorial team has thanked them on your behalf for their support and love when they sent the things before.”
After that was said, he put down his phone, picked up his tools, and opened all the boxes neatly and quickly.
Su Mingqian was watching from the side.
The first two boxes contained food.
The third box was stuffed with all kinds of small gifts.
The fourth box was small but very solidly wrapped, with a wooden board on the outside, a layer of plastic film inside the board, and bubble wrap inside the plastic film. After removing the bubble wrap, the black leather case placed inside was revealed.
He opened the leather case.
The red-coloured velvet set against the exquisite handcraft jumped into their eyes.
The handcraft of Su Mingqian, which they had seen on Weibo just one second ago, was in their hands in the next.
The cane with some of the blade exposed; the pocket watch hidden under the fingers; and the cold and gentle grey eyes.
Li Shuoxing couldn’t help but hold up the handcraft, which had even the slightest wrinkle of its clothes handled to perfection.
He said with deep admiration, “Cub, look at this handcraft. The temperament of your body seems to have been simulated, not just your appearance. The person who made this is really great… But it’s a bit strange. How could this handcraft come here?”
After the two of them admired it together for a moment, Li Shuoxing couldn’t help but take a photo of it and send the photo to Calamus to ask.
Calamus replied, “All the things you got were sent to you by readers by name. The editorial department hasn’t opened them. There should be letters to you from readers in the box. You can look through them.”
Li Shuoxing searched in the box and sure enough, found a card.
There wasn’t much written on it, just a very simple and sincere blessing from a reader.
“A little handicraft. I hope you like it. Eunuch, be happy every day.”
Li Shuoxing was indeed very happy and liked it, but despite his happiness and like for it, he still felt a bit of a struggle in his heart.
It was just that… originally, the two handcrafts were beyond the horizon, and that didn’t matter; just licking the screen was fine.
But one of the handcrafts was suddenly in his hands now.
So the other one became prominent, and became more desirable to have…
This entanglement existed not only in Li Shuoxing’s mind, but also in Su Mingqian’s mind.
Su Mingqian was a little more entangled than Li Shuoxing.
Because he wanted Cunxing’s handcraft, even more than his own.
Since he wanted…
He silently opened Weibo, without disturbing Li Shuoxing, and sent a private message to the handcraft maker using his own account, asking them, “Hello, I really like the handcraft of Cunxing. Is it possible to purchase it?”
He waited.
The handcraft maker replied quickly, politely declining, “Sorry, it’s a hobby, not for sale.”
Su Mingqian felt a little lost. It was at that time that his QQ rang.
When he entered QQ, he found that the Nine Crossings female fan group he had joined last time was very lively. The group leader, Moonlight Happiness, was talking.
Moonlight Happiness: “Are you guys free these days? How about we have an unofficial Nine Crossings fanwork food production event? We’ll set up a few prizes to attract people to produce their works while we produce our own.”
The group became lively as soon as she broached the topic.
“No problem, I’m free these days!”
“Me me me, I can write, I’ve wanted to write an article for a long time!”
“Then I’ll draw a picture! Huanhuan, let’s draw a picture together!”
“I don’t have time these days, but I can contribute a year’s Weibo membership.”
“I’ll offer a coffee machine.”
“I’ll reward some cosmetics.”
Su Mingqian lurked for a while and understood.
Su Mingqian: “I can’t do much, just sponsor a reward. I’ll pay ten thousand yuan for the best work.”
Once this sentence was sent out, suddenly, no one in the lively group spoke.
It was as if an administrator had cast a great gag order at this moment.
After a few seconds, the people emerged and sent out in unison:
“Worship the big boss!”
After a few more moments, Moonlight Happiness had reemerged. “[laughing with hands on hips] Sisters, I’ve got another sponsor! Do you remember the handcrafts of the two main characters of Nine Crossings with many forwards on Weibo? I’ve just talked to her. She’s already given the author Su Mingqian’s handcraft, and now Cunxing is left. She said she’d like to use it as an Easter egg. If she likes any of the fanworks that come out this time, she’ll give it to them; if she doesn’t particularly like any of them, she’ll transfer it directly to the lottery draw for a lucky person to get.”
Su Mingqian’s ears perked up the moment Moonlight Happiness mentioned “handcraft”.
He looked at his own private message, which had been politely rejected, and then at Moonlight Happiness’s message in front of him. He suddenly began to think:
How do I make a fanwork?
The author has something to say:
So the cub starts to make fanwork.
In the next chapter, I’ll show you how the cub makes fanwork [OK]