As soon as the live stream opened, the heat skyrocketed instantly.
After all, with the double gimmick of "Missing Person Returns" and "Suspected Hiding a Beauty in a Golden House," countless viewers were already thirsty and impatient.
A screen full of bullet comments washed over like a waterfall, all of them interrogations, so densely packed that the image was almost invisible.
"Brother Su, you finally appeared! Leaving in such a hurry last time, you must have a guilty conscience!"
"Speak quickly, did you betray our Single Dog Alliance or not?!"
"Brother Su, I beg you, say something! Wuwuwuwu! My electronic husband is gone!"
"Leniency for those who confess, severity for those who resist! Whose voice was that?! Which little vixen was it?!"
Looking at the indignant viewers, Su Yu coughed calmly and skillfully used the "Subject Changer Technique."
"Cough, cough, good evening, everyone. Regarding the last incident... actually, the cat at home knocked over a water cup, so I went to deal with it. It really was just a cat."
He spouted nonsense without his expression changing, his tone sincere enough to run for Best Actor.
"Let's not talk about that. Today, we continue playing games with Elysia. Everyone knows, Elysia's skills are..."
Before he could finish speaking, the bullet comments instantly exploded.
"Cat? Your cat can talk? And it can say 'I want...'?"
"You're already Hiding a Beauty in a Golden House and you're still thinking about Elysia? You really deserve to die, Brother Su!"
"Screw you! Brother Su is an otaku, I'm an otaku, why don't I have a beautiful girl taking care of me?!"
"Wuwuwuwuwu, this isn't real! My youth is over!"
Su Yu wisely shifted his gaze away from those resentment-filled comments and quickly connected to the voice chat with Elysia.
"Good evening, Su Yu-chan~"
Elysia's signature smiling voice came through the headphones, instantly healing the wailing and howling in the live stream.
"I heard you were injured? How is it now? Does your leg still hurt? Do you really not need me to go over and take care of you?"
"Much better, thanks for the concern, really no need."
As Su Yu spoke, he skillfully opened Star Counter-Strike.
"Come on, I'll carry you up the ranks tonight and use my skills to prove my leg isn't broken."
"Yay! Then I'll leave it to you, Su Yu-chan~"
The game began.
It had to be said, in this world, Su Yu's gaming talent was indeed top-tier. Coupled with his experience from his past life, playing this kind of FPS game was simply a dimensionality reduction strike.
A fierce endgame scenario.
Teammates were all dead; the opponent had three left.
Su Yu held a sniper rifle, squatting behind a box, breathing steadily, his eyes focused.
The audience in front of the screens also held their breath, temporarily forgetting the gossip from earlier. Elysia stopped talking too, quietly watching Su Yu's operation.
Bang!
First shot, wall-bang headshot.
Bang!
Second shot, quick-scope instant kill.
Just as Su Yu was fully concentrating on finding the position of the last enemy, there was movement on the sofa behind him.
Kiana felt her mouth was a bit tasteless.
She had eaten too many potato chips and felt cloying. As a standard Kaslana, studying (even if it was just reading the Encyclopedia) required sugar replenishment.
She glanced at Su Yu and found him wearing headphones staring at the screen, with absolutely no intention of paying attention to this side.
Moreover, the countdown for that so-called "Absolute Freedom Time" still had over ten minutes left. Getting a snack should be fine, right?
Anyway, as long as she didn't make a sound.
That camera... it was so small and looked silly; it shouldn't be able to film such a far distance, right?
Harboring such a fluke mentality, Kiana went barefoot, slipping off the sofa like a graceful cat.
She was wearing a loose white T-shirt—that was Su Yu's old clothes. Her silver-white long hair was draped casually over her shoulders, appearing exceptionally dazzling under the dim lighting.
She tiptoed toward the refrigerator, her path passing exactly through the hallway behind Su Yu.
Just then, inside the game, Su Yu heard footsteps.
He jerked the mouse violently, the crosshair instantly locking onto the enemy jumping out from the corner.
Bang!
Third shot.
Triple kill, victory.
"Handsome!"
Su Yu couldn't help but shout, taking off his headphones, ready to accept the cheers of the comments and Elysia's praise.
"How was that, that wave of operation..."
However, when he raised his head to look at the secondary screen, his whole body froze.
The comments weren't spamming "666."
The comments weren't spamming "God Su is awesome."
The screen full of bullet comments was all spamming the same character—
"Ah?????????"
"Am I blind????"
"That person just now... that... that white..."
"Holy shit!!!!!!!!"
Immediately following was a burst of heart-rending wailing and howling.
"Ahhhhh!! There really is a girl!"
"I'll kill you, meow! I'll kill you, meow, Brother Su!!"
"Who is that?! Who is that?! That hair, still white hair, a foreigner... I'm dead! This is too top-tier!"
"Animal! Brother Su, you animal!!"
"I can't take it anymore! I really can't take it anymore!! This is definitely not a normal relationship! She's wearing a boyfriend shirt!! That's basically your clothes, isn't it, Brother Su?!"
Su Yu's brain went blank for a second.
He turned his head abruptly, just in time to see Kiana holding a bag of potato chips and a bottle of Happy Water, standing innocently at the refrigerator door, still biting on a straw, looking like a cat caught stealing fish.
Seeing Su Yu turn around, Kiana froze for a moment, then as if realizing something, she quickly—
Whoosh.
She darted back into the camera's blind spot.
But it was already too late.
Elysia's surprised scream, filled with gossipy delight, came from the headphones.
"Wow—! Su Yu-chan! That just now! Was that just now..."
On the other end of the screen, Elysia's entire face was pressed up to the camera, her eyes wide, shining with the light of "eating melons" (gossiping).
"So beautiful! That hair color, that figure... truly a top-tier beautiful girl! And she's wearing Su Yu-chan's clothes? Oh my, oh my, what kind of development is this? Cohabitation? Grooming? Or... hehehe."
Cold sweat seeped out of Su Yu's forehead.
He turned his head stiffly, squeezing out a smile uglier than crying at the camera, feeling like he was frantically testing the edge of Social Death.
An underage girl appeared in an adult man's home, wearing a boyfriend shirt.
This would really get the water meter checked, fellow countryman!!
"That... Elysia, everyone, listen to my explanation."
He tried to salvage this situation that had already collapsed (Honkai'd), his brain overclocking to the limit.
Okay, okay, okay.
Is this the so-called "Murphy's Law"? Whatever you worry about happens.
"Actually... there is no girl."
"You guys saw wrong, right? Hallucination, this is definitely a collective hallucination. You know, lately I... um, I've been quite lonely, the magnetic field at home isn't quite right, so..."
His brain spun rapidly, trying to fabricate a reasonable excuse.
Hallucination? Holographic projection? Or...
Just then, the excuse he had casually spouted earlier popped into his head.
"I keep a cat at home."
Su Yu said with a face full of righteousness, his tone so sincere he wanted to slap himself twice.
"Just a white cat. It's relatively big, has long fur, and... uh, it can walk on two legs. A new breed, particularly rare."
The live stream instantly fell into a brief deathly silence.
As if everyone was rendered speechless by this excuse that was outrageous to the extreme.
Then, a barrage of comments erupted, even more violent than before.
"Cat???"
"What the hell kind of white cat!"
"Is this the legendary 'Catgirl'? I haven't read many books, don't lie to me!"
"Brother Su, to brush us off, you can even make up this kind of excuse?"
"Calling a deer a horse? Calling a sister a cat?"
"I want to raise this cat too! Where can I buy it! I'll buy it even if I go bankrupt!"
Elysia laughed until her branches trembled, even unable to resist slapping the table.
"Hahahaha! White cat? Su Yu-chan, this excuse can't even fool a three-year-old child~"
She wiped away the tears from laughing, her face full of teasing.
"However... since it's Su Yu-chan's 'cat,' it must be very cute, right? Does it have a name? Does it scratch people? Can you bring it out for us to see next time? I want to pet the cat~"
Su Yu covered his face in despair.
He knew that starting today, his reputation was completely finished.
The meme of "raising a big white cat" would probably accompany him for a lifetime.
And the culprit—
He didn't need to turn around to know that the "white cat" was definitely hiding behind the sofa right now, eating potato chips while watching his joke with schadenfreude.
Su Yu's clumsy "white cat" theory not only failed to calm the situation but instead acted like pouring a bucket of oil on dry wood, causing the atmosphere in the live stream to boil over completely.
Now, even jumping into the Yellow River wouldn't wash him clean.
Facing the screen full of the word "Animal" scrolling so fast it seemed to overflow, and the teasing in Elysia's eyes that seemed to pierce through the dimensional wall on the other end.
Although Su Yu's battle-hardened otaku heart was still beating, it was about to stop.
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A normal excuse? Don't be kidding. That's for tricking three-year-olds, not these old slickers who grew up soaked in ACG culture.
Since that was the case, he could only unleash his ultimate move—defeat magic with magic.
You guys want a web novel development? Then I'll give you the most orthodox, most kingly, and most irrefutable web novel setting.
Moreover.
He indeed needed to pull some "stunts" to increase Kiana's recognition.
Being discovered was a done deal; regretting it was useless, so he might as well go with the flow.
Su Yu took a deep breath and adjusted his facial expression management. The "panic of being caught" on his face instantly vanished, replaced by a kind of...
Three parts helplessness, three parts vicissitudes of life, and four parts deepness of "since you discovered it, I won't pretend anymore."
Don't ask why one person's face can make so many expressions; if asked, it's because Honkai is omnipotent.
What? This world has no Honkai?
Then a Honkai Face is omnipotent.
He bit his lip, as if making some extremely difficult decision that went against his ancestors.
"Actually..."
Su Yu's voice went low, carrying a sense of story from having experienced the vicissitudes of life.
"That person just now is my Junior Sister."
"The kind who just came down from the mountain."
The air solidified for a second.
"Eh—?"
Elysia let out an extremely high-pitched exclamation. Those beautiful eyes instantly widened even more, pupils seemingly burning with a raging fire named "Gossip."
"Junior Sister? For real? Since when did Su Yu-chan have this kind of setting? Are you a cultivator hidden in the city? Or an heir to ancient martial arts?"
Although he had tipped off the Pink Piggy-Cat before, the other party probably thought it was a joke.
The bullet comments also exploded along with it.
"Junior Sister?!! Did I hear that right?!"
"What the hell kind of Junior Sister! Do you think you're filming a martial arts movie? or acting in Dragon King Son-in-Law?"
"I don't believe it! Unless you let the Junior Sister show her face and call you Senior Brother! And it has to be soft and sticky!"
"Good lord, in this day and age there are still rare creatures like Junior Sisters? What kind of ancient version setting is this!"
"If you don't believe it..." Su Yu's expression remained unchanged as he pointed to the mobile phone placed to the side. "You can verify it with Sister Himeko. She has seen her."
This was a risky move.
But strictly speaking, this wasn't a gamble. After all, Himeko was truly a loyal audience member of the Golden 8 PM slot; she really believed many settings.
And with Himeko's carefree personality that feared nothing more than the world not being in chaos...
Plus, that night Kiana had indeed solemnly asked her to "please take care of me," so she would highly likely help with this favor.
Most importantly, Himeko had truly seen Kiana lift him up like a chicken. The foundation for the "Junior Sister" setting had long been solidly laid.
Elysia was obviously a fighter jet among men of action.
Without saying a word, she pulled out her phone on the spot, her speed so fast it was like snatching special-offer eggs at the supermarket.
She dialed Himeko's number directly, but purposely muted her mic. The audience in the live stream could only see her mouth opening and closing, not knowing what she was saying.
Meanwhile, on Elysia's side—
Beep— Beep—
After a few waiting tones, the call connected.
"Hello... who is it... Hic..."
Himeko's voice rang out, carrying a heavy drunkenness and laziness.
The crisp sound of wine bottles clinking could still be heard in the background.
Obviously, this big sister was having a solo party at home.
"Sister Himeko~ It's me, Elysia!"
Elysia greeted sweetly.
"Sorry to disturb you so late. I wanted to ask something. Is there a girl living at Su Yu-chan's house?"
"Mmm... Su Yu?"
Himeko muttered in a daze.
"Oh... you mean that little white hair with quite a lot of strength..."
She let out a wine hiccup.
"Yes... she's his... that... that Little Junior Sister... quite cute... Hic... can even run carrying him on her back..."
"Is it really a Junior Sister?!"
Elysia's voice raised an octave, so excited she almost jumped up.
"Yeah... follows behind his butt all day... inseparable... said something about wanting to repay a kindness... Oh, I forgot..."
Himeko seemed to turn over, her voice becoming muffled.
"Anyway, their relationship is incredibly good... like conjoined twins... so sleepy... hanging up..."
Beep— Beep—
The phone hung up.
The live stream fell into a deathly silence.
Although they didn't hear the specific content of the call between Elysia and Himeko, seeing Elysia's playful expression and those sparkling eyes...
Many things were already clear at a glance.
The silence in the live stream was like the sea surface before a storm.
Immediately after, the bullet comments refreshed at a speed crazier and more unreasonable than before, simply about to break through the server's limits.
"Holy shit!!!! There really is a Junior Sister?! Official certification?!"
"Inseparable? Repaying kindness? What kind of Light Novel development is this?! There are still plots like this these days?!"
"Brother Su! You still say you aren't a normie?! You are a fighter jet among normies!!"
"Junior Sister... White hair... Cohabitation?? Putting these elements together, I'm sour, I'm really sour!"
"I want a Junior Sister too! I want to be repaid too! Brother Su, can you open a class to teach us how to pick up Junior Sisters?"
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