Chapter Thirty-Two: Go About Your Business, Just Pretend I’m Not Here

“No problem, jot it down, jot it down.”
The barrage of messages clamored noisily.
Anyone with a discerning eye could see that the excuse of going to take a shower was just a brush-off, a way of saying, “I don’t want to talk to you.”
But Bai Qingming’s move was nothing short of brilliant, shifting the situation in an instant.
He not only dissolved the awkwardness but left the viewers feeling that this display was the pinnacle of showmanship.
The video call request remained unanswered for a long time, just as Bai Qingming had expected.
He was about to quit while he was ahead, end the call and call it a day, when something unexpected happened.
The ringing suddenly stopped, the interface changed—the other party had answered!
The viewers erupted.
“No way, she actually answered? This is too fake, did the streamer hire an actress just to mess with us?”
“Who needs to act? With the popularity of our spiritual leader, there’s no need for hired help.”
“If you dare to call, I dare to answer—respect!”
“Tissues at the ready, waiting for the treat.”
The viewers jeered and bantered.
Unfortunately, for some unknown reason, Bai Qingming couldn’t see anything—only a pitch-black screen and the sound of the shower running in the bathroom.
It turned out she really was taking a shower!
Bai Qingming guessed that the girl on the other end probably meant to hang up, but accidentally pressed “answer,” then, unaware, left her phone somewhere in the bathroom.
Listening carefully, one could even hear her humming an unfamiliar tune.
This was a bit of a letdown.
Nothing to see, only imagination to fill in the blanks, and there wasn’t much to fill.
At this moment, disappointment swept over everyone.
But just then, the phone was suddenly picked up.
In an instant, hope flared anew among the viewers.
Soon, the image showed the bathroom ceiling, but still no sign of the person showering.
Perhaps she just checked the time and turned the phone over, and maybe because of the lock screen, the girl still hadn’t realized there was an ongoing video call.
“Damn! I thought we were about to see something!”
“I already took my pants off.”
“Not saying anything, brothers, I’m going to review some study materials to calm down.”
“Mind lending me a volume, upstairs?”
“Count me in!”
From start to finish, the viewers’ emotions soared and crashed.
It was like enthusiastically opening up treasured study material, only to find it expired and inaccessible.

When you finally find something new and rekindle your hope, your mother calls you to go buy soy sauce from a distant place.
That feeling of expectation, only for it to be denied at the last moment, is the most unbearable of all.
Yet, despite the frustration, no one left; in fact, the number of people joining the stream only grew.
Truthfully, everyone wanted to see, and maybe, just maybe, the moment would happen.
To be honest, Bai Qingming wasn’t personally eager to see.
He actually wanted to end the call long before, but couldn’t bear to dampen the viewers’ enthusiasm, so he kept it going.
Finally, after waiting for more than ten minutes, the screen moved again.
In the viewers’ field of vision appeared a full-length mirror, with the camera moving closer and closer.
It seemed the girl had finished her shower and was walking forward with her phone.
This sight made the viewers even more excited.
Despite having their appetite whetted for ages, the thought that the moment was imminent made the wait almost bearable.
But just then, a line of text appeared at the top of the live stream.
“Welcome Wang Meili (Super Admin) to the stream!”
What caught everyone’s attention wasn’t the name, but the title in parentheses.
Super Admin!
That meant a platform administrator, someone responsible for monitoring all streamers. If anything prohibited happened during a stream, the super admin could use their authority to shut down the offending broadcast.
Bai Qingming’s stream seemed harmless enough, but any further and it would be classified as explicit content.
This super admin was nothing short of a god descending from the heavens!
In an instant, the viewers’ enthusiasm was extinguished.
Damn, couldn’t she have come sooner or later? Why now, of all times?
Just as everyone thought their hopes were dashed, the super admin surprised everyone by sending a few messages.
“Finally made it in time. You guys are something else—how could you not invite me to such a good thing?”
“Hurry, hurry, count me in!”
“Carry on with whatever you were doing, just pretend I don’t exist.”
After that, the super admin stopped speaking but remained in the stream.
Those few words stunned the viewers, but they quickly recovered, and the stream exploded with excitement.
“Scared me, thought the show was over.”
“Carry on, carry on, let me readjust my waistband.”
“Who would’ve thought even the super admin is into this—eye-opening.”
“What are you talking about, where’s the super admin? I didn’t see anyone.”
“Right, right, there’s no super admin here.”
Truth be told, seeing the super admin appear, Bai Qingming instinctively broke out in a cold sweat.

It wasn’t that Bai Qingming feared her, but rather a physiological reaction of this body.
After all, before crossing over, the original Bai Qingming of this world was a small-time streamer, and super admins were figures who held the power of life and death over him.
There were several times when Bai Qingming trash-talked while gaming, only to have a super admin shut down his stream, leaving him barely scraping by that month.
Ever since then, Bai Qingming developed a psychological shadow regarding super admins.
Even after crossing over, with his soul no longer the same, the body’s instinctive reactions remained.
But that psychological shadow was quickly dispelled by Bai Qingming.
Come on, what’s my status now?
The entire platform is promoting my live stream, the operations directors of all five major platforms are begging to sign contracts with me—would you dare to shut me down?
If you dare, I’ll immediately stop cooperating with your platform—now that’s power.
Only after reading the super admin’s few messages did Bai Qingming realize—he’d been overthinking.
Meanwhile,
A blurry shadow gradually appeared in the mirror.
Unfortunately, it was still too far away to tell if she was clothed or not.
People who finish showering usually fall into two categories: either wrapped in a towel or wearing nothing.
If she were wrapped in a towel, it would be obvious, since the color stands out, so most likely she was wearing nothing, walking towards the full-length mirror.
The viewers were growing impatient.
“Good heavens, after so many years of watching streams, I finally lucked out.”
“After years of being single, I’m finally going to see a girl’s body.”
“Are you guys ready? I am.”
“What’s that upstairs mean? Instant?”
At this point, she only needed to take two more steps forward and everyone would see the long-awaited scene.
Beside Bai Qingming, Brother Wang stared at the phone screen, nearly drooling.
“It’s coming, it’s coming,” someone prompted.
The next moment—
Beep~
The video call…
Ended.