Chapter 78

Edited by: kapekopicoffee

Middle of the night.

Bedroom.

Li Shuoxing, with one hand on the mouse, was moving the scroll wheel, reviewing the Nine Crossings plots that belonged to him and Su Mingqian.

How Su Mingqian and Cunxing lived together.

How Su Mingqian and Cunxing made jokes.

How Su Mingqian and Cunxing…

A moment later, he stopped typing and examined his words.

“It really is kind of gay…”

Li Shuoxing said to himself.

“So they weren’t the ones fooling around before. I was the one who really dropped gayness.”

But he was very calm.

It was just dropped gayness, nothing to make a fuss about, just knowing it was fine.

After reading the text, he turned off the screen and shifted his gaze from the computer to his phone laying on the bed.

There was a double bed in his bedroom. In addition to Li Shuoxing’s usual side, there was a small palm-sized basket on the other side. The small basket was like a miniature bed, with small pillows and blankets inside.

This was originally prepared for Su Mingqian, but Su Mingqian still couldn’t get out of the phone yet. Even if he did, he probably wouldn’t be that small, so this small piece of furniture had become his phone’s nightly sleeping place.

Unable to take care of the cub, he had to take care of the body that contained the cub.

He didn’t know from which night it started, but Li Shuoxing had begun to carefully place his phone to sleep on the small pillow, cover it with a small blanket, then put it on the other side of his bed, so that it felt like the cub was sleeping right next to him.

Actually, come to think of it.

That is too perverted.

But…

Li Shuoxing still wanted to do something even more perverted.

He got into the game.

In the game, the host slept, the lights were dimmed, and only the small decorations hanging across the walls still flickered with a faint, hazy light.

He approached the bed, watching Su Mingqian.

He reached out his finger towards the sleeping person, but it didn’t really fall on him. It fell on top of the blanket and touched the little person through it.

Then, he looked around for Xingxing.

He placed Xingxing down and carefully tucked it into Su Mingqian’s arms, letting Xingxing open its arms to hold Su Mingqian. Only after confirming ownership did he step offline contentedly and go to sleep with his phone in the small basket.

***

After Christmas was New Year’s Day. On New Year’s, Nine Crossings was also going to go VIP.

The day before going VIP, Li Shuoxing was preparing for tomorrow’s burst. Suddenly, the Terminal Food Group appeared in the upper right corner of his computer, and Interfinger Storm in the group had @ him.

Interfinger Storm: “@Caramel Ximu, Eunuch, how much have you saved? Will you burst tomorrow? We’re all there to give you support.”

Li Shuoxing: “180K. Six updates tomorrow.”

The group suddenly fell silent.

Everyone was talking to themselves.

Calm Egg: “The doctor told me to rest well.”

Soren: “There’s still a game video that hasn’t finished recording.”

Ten Zero Mausoleum: “Being a coach is really hard. I’m with the team every day without a break.”

Deer Over Fragrant Grass: “Hello, I’m not online at the moment.”

Only Six Flavour Monk stupidly said what no one else wanted to say. He was very envious. “Almsgiver Ximu actually has that many saved drafts? It really feels like getting rich overnight. Unlike the monk, who struggles every day to catch up on his article, and is unable to sleep at night once he gets writer’s block.”

Li Shuoxing was complacent. “Haha, everything’s the credit of my family.”

Calm Egg curiously gossiped, “Who’s your family? You’re not single anymore?”

Li Shuoxing truthfully said, “Su Mingqian.”

Everyone: “…”

They pulled a middle finger at Li Shuoxing.

At this time, Mulberry Without Ghost emerged from his lurking. He said, “The group is a bit lively. Eunuch, you’re going VIP tomorrow? I’m not going to participate in your activities. Tomorrow I expect to be on a plane.”

Others: “To travel?”

Mulberry Without Ghost: “No, to attend a seminar.”

This word caught Li Shuoxing’s attention.

Li Shuoxing pondered, “I always feel like that word’s been appearing a bit more frequently recently, as if I’ve seen it somewhere.”

Mulberry Without Ghost: “I told you about this two months ago. I’m going to attend a seminar on brain nerves. Have you forgotten?”

Two months ago?

It shouldn’t be that long ago…

Li Shuoxing always felt that he had seen it recently, but couldn’t really remember anything more specific. He could only regretfully drop it.

***

The next day, January 1st, 10am.

Nine Crossings went VIP. Six chapters burst out.

After a wave of bursts, Li Shuoxing felt kind of cool. He silently posted the news of Nine Crossings going VIP on Weibo, and in passing weeded his Weibo that he hadn’t used for more than ten days.

Once he went on Weibo, Li Shuoxing suddenly found that his followers increased from 100,000 to 150,000.

Him: “?”

I haven’t even posted on Weibo before. Even if I didn’t lose followers, how did it go up?

Has Weibo been sending lots of zombie fans ¹ 僵尸粉 [jiāng shī fěn] is used to refer to fake followers on Chinese social media. now?

Li Shuoxing scowled inwardly and decided to do a fan clean up when he had time. He posted new content:

@Caramel Ximu:

Nine Crossings is going VIP. Brothers passing by, come give some support.

He finished the Weibo post then went offline, deciding to take the cub out for breakfast while it was still early.

He also didn’t find out that within a few minutes of his Weibo post being sent out, its forwards silently broke through a hundred…

***

This New Year’s Day was a little different for Terminal readers.

They followed their usual routine and opened a bookshelf to catch up on updates.

After catching up on the first one, they saw that author A recommended Nine Crossings at the end of their article.

After catching up on the second one, they again saw that author B promoted Caramel Ximu at the end of their article.

After catching up on the third one, they once again found that author C directly called on everyone to subscribe and vote for Nine Crossings by Caramel Ximu, which just went VIP today.

Then, having clicked on all the articles in the bookshelf, eight out of ten of them were updated. That book and that author were in seven chapters, and the remaining update was a leave note.

He silently added this book to the direct train ² 直通车 [zhí tōnɡ chē] refers to a train travelling from one destination to another without any stops at intermediate stations in between. This is applied in real life mainly referring to convenience and saving time. on his article page.

Whenever a reader clicked on the direct train, they could directly open Nine Crossings ’s page.

Readers: “…”

Wait a minute.

What’s wrong with everyone?

Why are you all falling in love with Eunuch so sincerely?

1

僵尸粉 [jiāng shī fěn] is used to refer to fake followers on Chinese social media. 2

直通车 [zhí tōnɡ chē] refers to a train travelling from one destination to another without any stops at intermediate stations in between. This is applied in real life mainly referring to convenience and saving time.