Chapter 45   - The game is almost done

If they hadn’t mentioned it, Yu Yan would have almost forgotten about the notice. He didn’t expect it to be brought up again.

Yu Yan said, “But…”

Lulu cheered up. “That’s right, that’s right! At that time, banana’s face looked terrible hahaha. He still stubbornly refused to admit his mistake. He said that he didn’t exactly state that Yu Yan was botting and told stream followers to not spread gossip about him. Watching that happen back then, I can’t even begin to tell you how refreshing I found it. I wanted to run over and spam Yu Yan with meteor showers!”

Yu Yan said, “No need…”

Tuantuan interrupted, “So that’s to say, Administrator 03 still lurks in Xiao Yan’s stream every day?”

Yu Yan tried to say, “I’m not…”

“Yes. He even personally takes action to ban people!” Lulu had the final say. “Xiao Yan’s backstage supporter is awesome ya!”

Yu Yan interjected, “I don’t have…”

“Don’t worry, we’re not looking down on you.” Tuantuan said, “This is such a big advantage ah! I’ll properly fawn upon you now, so, in the future, you must protect me if someone tries to mess with me.”

Yu Yan was speechless and wanted to tearlessly cry.

After they stopped talking, Sheepy also sent him a friend request. Yu Yan stared at the request for a long time, not knowing whether to accept or reject it. He was afraid that the other party also thought that he had some backstage supporter, and had specifically run over to beg him for help… Wouldn’t that be really awkward?

Fortunately, after Yu Yan accepted his friend request, the other party just said hello to him and didn’t say anything more.

He exited QQ and switched back to Weibo to look at the post. There were basically two groups under the official StarTV Weibo: one group consisted of banana fans, who were constantly taunting others with their chins pointed nearly at the sky; the other group was shouting “StarTV is a bottomless pit of corruption”, meaning that they firmly weren’t convinced with StarTV’s response and wanted the platform to show evidence from the inspection.

The two sides were even for now. As for the attitude of StarTV’s administration—it didn’t look like they were going to spend any more effort on this matter.

Yu Yan sighed.

If it was as Sheepy had said—that banana had fooled the masses, had a backstage supporter, and had already been designated to win the Best Anchor of the Year award behind the scenes… then laoshu was probably also the same.

Then, his anchor sponsorship program and the Kills King of the Year award were also bottomless pits of corruption.

Although he didn’t have much hope to begin with, he still felt very uncomfortable having this piece of knowledge in his heart. magic

However, this was just the way the world was. It was never fair; he knew that all too well.

It was just, every time he ran into this kind of thing, he was still unwilling to accept it.

Forget it.

He put his cellphone beside his pillow, pulled the quilt over his head, closed his eyes, and forced himself to go to sleep.

Two minutes later, he tossed the quilt off, turned over to pick up his cellphone again, and opened WeChat.

The stickied chat’s last response was still from yesterday. It was the “Okay, then next time ”, which he had sent. Up until now, he still hadn’t received a reply.

He hadn’t played any matches with 1 all week, and they had even chatted less.

He opened the chat box and was about to send another message, when the words below the name at the top suddenly transformed——

[The other party is typing]

Yu Yan’s eyes widened and he stopped his hand from sending the emoticon. He waited quietly.

Two minutes passed.

Five minutes passed.

Ten minutes…

Yu Yan couldn’t resist. He felt that there was something on 1’s mind that couldn’t be said, so he didn’t hesitate to open his keyboard and type—

Yu Yan: ?

The other side replied in about a second.

: ?

Yu Yan: Are you still busy?

: Done.

Yu Yan persisted with his efforts and asked: Then how about playing some matches together tomorrow?

Yi Chen hesitated for a while before replying: May not be free.

He was rejected again.

Yu Yan sighed and replied: Okay .

: Why haven’t you slept yet?

Yu Yan: I’ll go to sleep now.

: En.“Ge, you still haven’t slept yet?” Yi Ran approached him and rubbed the cat’s chin.

“Take this silly cat to get neutered tomorrow.”

“Neutered? Ge, this is basically you killing him ; you’re so cruel ,” Yi Ran said.

“If he goes out and produces more cats, are you going to support those kittens?”

“Then neutering him is for the best . Having one to play with is enough, I couldn’t stand having more,” Yi Ran said. Then, as if he had detected something, he asked, “Ge, why do you keep calling it ‘silly cat’ recently? Doesn’t it have a name?”

Yi Chen put the cat down and let him scurry to the living room. “Changed it.”

“Oh… Why ?”

Yi Chen didn’t answer. He turned away and went straight into his room.

After he left, Yi Ran picked up the cat and clicked his tongue. “My poor kitty. When he likes you, he calls you Yanyan; when he dislikes you, he calls you ‘silly cat’. It’s just how men are, and you have to learn this lesson eventually.”

—

The next day, Yu Yan felt that something was wrong as soon as he entered the stream.

After looking around for a bit, he discovered that the notice from Administrator 03 had disappeared.

[Why is the notice gone ?]

[Could it be that the notice’s time limit has expired?]

[My ass, it’s the StarTV staff who took it back, okay? The anchor’s previous match, where there were no gun spawns, happened because he was running a bot and that messed with the game. This should count as the ban hammer coming down, ??]

[Previous messager, you should try and see if you can replicate that glitch then. If you running a bot messes up the game that badly, BlueHole should probably gtfo.]

Yu Yan said, “Don’t spam the barrage. I’ll ask the administrator about it.”

However, his words didn’t help the situation at all. The barrage was still lively and filled with quarrels.

As today was Wednesday, PUBG was undergoing its weekly maintenance. Yu Yan opened up the mahjong game in QQ. “Don’t quarrel. If you keep fighting, you’ll be banned by the mods. Today is maintenance day, so going to play two games of mahjong to build character.”

For his first mahjong match, he had a good set of tiles. It only took three turns before a notification popped up on the right side of the screen, indicating that he could complete a hand.

He clicked to dismiss the notification without hesitation and continued to play.

A bunch of question marks appeared in the barrage. He played his tile and said with a smile, “Not a winning hand. What’s the point of using a common hand? If we want to declare mahjong, we need to make it a high-scoring hand.”

[Don’t be so greedy ah. Quickly sober up. You’ll get 3000 mahjong beans!!]

“Enough.” Yu Yan said, “Watch me get a hand worth eight to ten times more points in this game.”

He held on until the last wall of mahjong tiles. He was missing the last piece in his honor tile set, the one that would clinch his high-scoring hand.

At this time, someone discarded the tile that was needed to complete his set.

[The game is almost done, just declare mahjong . Don’t wait anymore.]

Yu Yan resolutely clicked ‘dismiss’ on the chance to grab the tile and drew from the wall instead. It was the exact tile that he lacked; he actually completed the honor tile sets for his hand.

[???]

[It seems that the anchor is very good at playing mahjong. Do you accept apprentices?]

[So what if he could complete the honor tile sets? There are so few tiles left that the game is probably going to end without a winner.]

Yu Yan said in an undisciplined way, “I normally play games so well, yet how come I didn’t see anyone wanting me as their master then?”

The mahjong tiles on the screen decreased, until the last one to draw was approaching. Suddenly, a prompt popped out on the right—he would win with the last draw.

The barrage was immediately spammed with a bunch of 666s. Yu Yan laughed and was about to click “draw” when a notification suddenly appeared on the livestream page.

[1 has sent a meteor shower in Little Millet ya’s stream. 50 star boxes will be randomly dropped in the livestream!]

Yu Yan was stunned; his hand suddenly shook and he ended up clicking to “dismiss” the winning mahjong call.

The honor sets that he had been building throughout the course of the entire game had disappeared just like that.

—

Juurensha: Nooooo Boss Yi whyyyy. Don’t be immature just because you’re jealous! (Hopefully there’s a better explanation here for what’s going on…) Also a quick note: the terms for mahjong are a little vague because it seems the author herself isn’t exactly a mahjong player.

Divi: Boss Yi sending a meteor shower to another person sounds sketch!! Yanyan is going to be so out of it…

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