Chapter Ninety-Nine: This Lovely Young Lady by Your Side—Aren’t You Together?

Inside the elevator, faced with the burly man standing before her, Jiajia was on the verge of tears.

To the flood of viewers in Brother Wang’s livestream, though, the sight only made things even more thrilling.

“Sir, please don’t misunderstand. I’m actually a streamer. If you don’t believe me, look!”

As she spoke, Jiajia hurriedly pulled out her phone and held it up in front of Brother Wang.

He froze for a moment, then quickly understood.

“So even ghost girls can livestream now?”

At that, Jiajia fell silent.

She had every reason to believe that the man before her was doing this on purpose.

“Sir, I’m not a ghost. This is just the content of my stream.”

Jiajia explained the whole story again from the beginning.

By the end, Brother Wang had only a hazy understanding.

So she wasn’t a ghost after all. Fine. That was fine too.

“Little sister, what are your rates?”

Brother Wang asked.

Jiajia did not think twice before blurting out, almost reflexively, “A thousand for the night, three hundred for one time.”

The moment those words left her mouth, the viewers in Brother Wang’s livestream were stunned.

“Damn, such a pretty girl and only three hundred per round?”

“A thousand for the whole night? Honestly, that’s really not expensive.”

“I’m new here, sorry, but what does ‘the whole night’ mean?”

“The whole night means staying up all night playing mahjong. Got it now?”

“I can’t play mahjong. How about cards?”

Meanwhile, Jiajia also realized what she had just said and hurriedly clapped a hand over her mouth.

Unfortunately, the price had already been heard clearly by the viewers in her own livestream.

The chat exploded at once.

“So the streamer takes private jobs on the side?”

“You’d never know from her looks. She seems so innocent, but she’s actually very open.”

“No wonder I saw the streamer in the adult section last time. I wasn’t mistaken after all.”

“So this can be settled with a thousand yuan, and you tricked me into sending you tens of thousands in gifts? Are you even human?”

Many of Jiajia’s genuine fans were completely devastated.

Especially her top supporter. He had sent gifts worth several tens of thousands of yuan in total, and yet all he had gotten in return was the addition of her on WeChat, along with daily good-morning and good-night messages. Nothing else had ever happened, let alone any special perks.

Like some fool, he had been strung along this whole time, and even on holidays he still had to send her red-packet money.

Without another word, the top supporter unfollowed her at once and filed a report.

But after thinking it over, he suddenly felt that no one is perfect and everyone makes mistakes.

Even if he had been treated like a fool, it was not impossible to give her one more chance. So he quickly opened WeChat and transferred a thousand yuan to her.

The note contained only two words.

Whole night.

Ding.

The elevator doors opened.

Jiajia was the first to dash out.

This was the first time she had ever blown up so badly during a livestream.

The persona she had carefully maintained for so long had collapsed in an instant. If she could not handle it properly, the fans she had painstakingly built up might all be gone.

She found a deserted corner, took out her phone, located a group chat on WeChat, and explained the situation.

Small internet celebrities like her all had teams of their own, and the people in that chat were exactly that team.

Whenever trouble arose, they would step in at once and help her salvage her image.

Very quickly, Jiajia’s team sprang into action.

Old Wang stepped out of the elevator, but Jiajia was already nowhere to be seen.

To be honest, he thought the price she had given was genuinely fair.

He had even been thinking of adding her on WeChat so he could support her business sometime later, though he had no idea why she had run off.

Not thinking too much of it, Old Wang bought what he needed and went back home.

By then, Bai Qingming was nearly there as well.

At that very moment, the team behind Jiajia moved swiftly and covered up the material she had accidentally exposed.

The earlier barrage of comments was replaced, and the topic was redirected toward the college entrance exams coming up soon.

“Brothers, I’m taking the exam tomorrow. Which multiple-choice option has the highest hit rate?”

“When there are three long answers and one short one, choose the shortest. When there are three short answers and one long one, choose the longest. If there are two long and two short, choose the one in the middle. If they’re all uneven, choose C.”

“Choose what? The exams are all open-book now. Just bring your books, talk to the classmates around you, and if you can’t solve the essays, ask the invigilator.”

“Sweetheart, I suggest handing in a blank paper. The score doesn’t matter. Being handsome is a lifelong matter.”

“Handing in a blank paper is useless. Better beat up the invigilator instead and make the news. Bring honor to your ancestors!”

“Seriously, with the exam this close, you still have the heart to watch a livestream here?”

“You can’t put it like that. The day before my exam last year, I was still gaming all night. Now I’m moving bricks at a construction site and still making three thousand a month, aren’t I?”

“Blue Sky Technical School welcomes all candidates to enroll!”

If anyone tried to bring up the overnight rates again in the chat, they were instantly muted.

After a few rounds, the stream returned to normal.

As for the top supporter, the transfer had been accepted.

No need to say more. Those who understood, understood.

And just like that, Jiajia went live again and returned to the scene.

Tonight’s broadcast was not over yet.

Unwilling to give up, she thought that since she had fallen here, she would rise again here. So she came back to the same elevator where she had just crashed and burned.

She refused to believe that a person could fall twice in the same place.

Standing inside the elevator, Jiajia waited and waited.

At last, the doors opened.

A man so handsome it was almost unreal appeared before her eyes.

…

The elevator doors opened.

Bai Qingming immediately saw a girl in ancient-style clothing standing inside.

Without much thought, he stepped in and pressed the button for Old Wang’s floor.

As always, the prank was about to begin.

Jiajia looked at Bai Qingming and somehow felt that he was oddly familiar, as if she had seen him somewhere before.

A little impatiently, she wanted to see what such a devastatingly handsome man would look like once he became frightened.

But at that moment, Bai Qingming suddenly turned around and started staring at her.

Earlier, when he was almost there, Bai Qingming had spoken with Old Wang on the phone.

That guy had excitedly told him that he had run into a girl in the elevator pretending to be a ghost and trying to scare people.

Now that he actually saw her, Bai Qingming immediately remembered.

Then he glanced at the sleeve of the girl in front of him and faintly made out the outline of a phone.

He understood.

The real one was right before him.

It looked like she had decided to make him her next target.

Thinking of that, Bai Qingming could not help but want to laugh.

Interesting. Very interesting indeed.

Just as he was thinking this, the girl across from him spoke.

“Can you see me?”

Her voice was still eerily cold, and her face wore a strange smile.

In an instant, Bai Qingming had an idea.

The next second, he immediately put on a frightened expression.

“You-you-you... are you a person or a ghost?”

He did his best to look panicked.

“Hahaha!”

Jiajia was delighted this time and quickly dropped the act. “Don’t be scared. I’m just joking with you. I’m actually human.”

At that, Bai Qingming let out a breath of relief.

“That’s good, that’s good. You scared me to death.”

Then Bai Qingming shifted his gaze to the side of Jiajia and spoke again at the empty air.

“Are you twins? You look exactly alike.”

Jiajia froze.

“You?”

She had caught the oddness in Bai Qingming’s words.

“Yes. That beautiful sister beside you. Aren’t you together?”

Bai Qingming said with complete seriousness.

As soon as he said that, Jiajia felt a chill run down her spine, and her whole body prickled with gooseflesh.

Slowly, she turned her head to look, but saw nothing.

Then she looked back at Bai Qingming, only to see that he was still talking to the empty air.

The next second, Jiajia burst into tears.

“Help! There’s a ghost!”