PUBG Online Romance of the Century

Chapter 44 - Nearly died on the toilet

Edited by Divetus and Noks

StarTV’s livestream achievement system had always existed. When it was first launched, it triggered a boom of activity. Many stream followers went to send gifts and hang out in streams for a long time, so that based on the achievement requirements, they could then unlock hundreds of steam achievements.

Later on, there were fewer and fewer achievements that could be unlocked. The latest achievement was released half a year ago. It was called “Quickly Call 120”, and the requirement was—that you stayed in a stream for 720 consecutive hours.

The description for unlocking this achievement was: Quickly call 120! This computer is about to explode la!

This achievement had immediately become the new amusing livestream thing, and its popularity had only died down.

[5.2 million?? Where did a new account like 1’s get so many beans? My friend is a guardian in other livestreams and has spent over nearly 100,000 yuan, but the system only sent him a little over 60,000 beans.]

[Where the beans came from isn’t important, it’s the number that matters!! Look beyond the surface to see the truth ah, sisters!]

[This stream’s quiz game payout is only 0.6. The big anchor’s streams can reach a payout of 1.3, which is more than double the rate here ah.]

[Song request: More Than I Can Say]

Yi Chen looked at the achievement description in front of him.

“Risk everything in a single throw—I believe in you.”

The densely packed barrage text passed in front of his eyes. As he rubbed his temples, there was a knock on the door. He said, “Come in.”

His secretary pushed the door open and entered, followed by the division manager of the StarTV division.

“President Yi.” The division manager held a document and seemed nervous.

“En.” Yi Chen paused and suddenly asked, “Who proposed the platform’s achievement system?”

The division manager immediately responded, “It was me. President Yi, this… Is something wrong?”

“… It’s nothing.” Yi Chen asked, “Did you bring all the information?”

“Yes. These are the lists of names that we compiled after holding several meetings.”

After the division manager replied, he suddenly heard a faint gunshot sound coming from the earphones beside the computer. He was dumbfounded and reflexively glanced to the side. He managed to see the platform’s livestream webpage before the computer screen turned black.

Indeed it was true. The platform administrators had recently let him know that the livestream account given to the managing company boss was actively being used.

Yi Chen turned off the computer screen, took over the documents, flipped through them, and frowned. “Why are they all celebrity performers?”

He was holding the annual StarTV gala plans in his hand.

“Doing it this way brings in more traffic.” The division manager continued, “We’ve done it like this for the past few years and received a very high viewership. If we cooperate with the marketing department…”

Yi Chen only flipped through two pages before directly closing the file. He threw it down and interrupted the division manager, “So in the past few years, the gala’s main topic was the celebrities while the platform’s anchors didn’t get any attention.”

“It’s our mistake.” The division manager became tense and said, “Then, your idea is…”

“My idea?” Yi Chen raised an eyebrow. “Since everything will just go according to my idea, what am I paying you for?”

The division manager broke out in a cold sweat.

Although the StarTV platform was one of the best in its industry, its profits weren’t even worth mentioning when compared to the managing company’s profits. The division manager reported the platform’s situation every month, and the big boss was typically perfunctory, responding with just nods or hums; he rarely communicated anything more. The division manager hadn’t expected for the e-sports industry’s popularity to suddenly explode during this period of time. The profits in the third and fourth quarter of last year had visibly soared, and the platform finally attracted the attention of the boss.

At the same time, he finally experienced the “death aura” that the other department employees had mentioned.

“I-I’ll go back and fix it right away.”

Yi Chen asked, “When will it be handed in?”

The division manager thought about it and very carefully asked, “Half a month?”

After redrafting the list, they would also need to ensure that those people on the list could attend. They couldn’t make any mistakes.

“A week.”

“…” You cut the timeframe by so much.

When he didn’t receive an answer, Yi Chen raised his eyes and asked, “Is it possible?”

“It’s possible.” The division manager clenched his teeth. It was just some fucking overtime. He suspected that he would be fired on the spot if he didn’t agree. “I’ll give you the redrafted documents in a week.”

Yi Chen waited for the division manager to leave before he turned the computer screen on again.

The match had just recently ended and the livestream page was showing the lobby interface. Yi Ran had appeared in the game’s lobby.

“My Ge still hasn’t replied to you?” Yi Ran asked.

Yu Yan let out an “en” sound.

“Then let’s just start ba. We can just play with the two of us. By the way, where’s your friend?”

When he realized that the other party was talking about Lu Xiuhe, Yu Yan answered, “He has been playing another game recently.”

As the little anchor spoke, he kept looking down at his cellphone.

Yi Chen picked up his cellphone and glanced at it.

Little Anchor: …

Little Anchor: It’s fortunate that I won, otherwise, I wouldn’t even be able to use my life to compensate you for those 5 million starlight beans.

Little Anchor: But aren’t you at work?

Little Anchor: Do you want to play?

“…”

1: En, I’m at work. Just randomly playing with the beans.

On his screen, the eyes of the person who had just been pursing his lips and peeking at his cellphone suddenly brightened. He took advantage of the match’s loading time and picked up his cellphone, holding it in front of his eyes for a while.

Little Anchor: Next time, you should go play the quiz game in a bigger anchor’s stream ba. The payout there will be higher, since the highest payout rate in my livestream is only 0.6. Also, you bet too much; small bets are fun but big bets are harmful!

Yi Chen saw the message and laughed; he was talking as though it was a real bet.

He had 10 million starlight beans on his account that had been loaded onto it at some unknown time. Originally, he had only wanted to bet 5 million beans, but then a system prompt had unexpectedly popped up at that time. He had clicked yes on the prompt without looking at it carefully.

Now that he thought about it, making the bet the number 520 was probably the work of the achievement system. A system prompt would only pop up if the number being bet was close to a hidden achievement trigger.

There was a knock on the door again and the secretary came in, softly saying, “President Yi, the meeting will start in five minutes. The rest of the staff have already arrived.”

“En.”

Yi Chen gathered up his thoughts, turned off the computer, and left the office.

——

Yu Yan pulled himself together, only to find that he had already flown past his teammate’s marked landing point.

“Xiao Yan? Why aren’t you saying anything?” Yi Ran yelled in the voice channel.

“Sorry, I was just looking at my phone.” He quickly jumped out of the plane. “It’s okay, there aren’t many people where you landed. I’ll go to the fields and get a gun before heading over.”

“Alright.” Yi Ran minimized PUBG, made sure that his Ge was no longer in the stream, and then softly coughed. Finally, he had found an opportunity to ask about the matter that was eating away at him. “Oh yeah, I heard that you asked for leave last night?”

Yu Yan nodded. “En.”

“Did something happen?”

Although Yu Yan felt that the Yi Ran’s concern was somewhat baffling, he didn’t pay too much attention to it. He replied, “I went to a classmate reunion.”

Yi Ran asked, “Where did you guys go?”

He tried to make his tone as casual as possible, but it was still hard to try to mask his gossipy intentions.

Yu Yan replied, “… Went to a nightclub, why?”

Sure enough! The person he saw yesterday was Xiao Yan!

Yi Ran continued, “Then, why did you ask for leave this morning as well?”

Yu Yan finished searching the fields and turned to run to his teammate’s position. Since they were on this topic, he simply used it to explain the reason to his viewers too. “Drank too much, slept very deeply, and the alarm couldn’t wake me up. I also slept somewhere else, so it took me some time to get home.”

Yi Ran was almost certain—the person in his Ge’s room last night was definitely Xiao Yan!

At this very moment, the Yi family’s biggest piece of gossip has come into the world with a bang!

As if he had discovered treasure, Yi Ran excitedly asked, “Then, when you got up this morning, did you feel… uncomfortable anywhere ah?”

Yu Yan didn’t notice his tone and replied, “Very uncomfortable; my entire body felt unwell.”

Yi Ran: “!”

Yu Yan sighed, “I couldn’t even wear my clothes anymore.” His clothes were covered in wine stains and reeked of alcohol. He had just thrown them away.

Yi Ran: “!!!”

When he remembered the scene of him hugging the toilet bowl, Yu Yan added, “And, I nearly died on the toilet.”

Yi Ran: “… !!!!!”

—

A week later, the StarTV administration finally responded to the ‘laoshu slandering others’ incident.

[StarTV’s Official Blog: Hello everyone, we have arrived at the following conclusions for the recent events after an investigation:

1. It has been verified that anchors banana and laoshu have not slandered other anchors in any way.

2. The platform will eliminate any activities of paid popularity.

3. The anchors banana, Sheepy, laoshu, and Hudy will continue to participate in the anchor competition being held by this platform. We hope that all stream followers will greatly support them.

4. Mutual attacks between anchors are the last thing that this platform wants to see. In the future, we will have better management over these types of things. We apologize for the inconvenience and trouble caused by this event.]

Yu Yan was getting ready to go to bed when he scrolled through the Weibo post, but after reading through it, half of his sleepiness immediately went away.

He took a screenshot and sent it to Tuantuan.

Just after sending it, a voice message popped up.

[Tuantuan has invited you to join the “1YanTang” voice group chat]

“…”

He clicked to accept, and his phone immediately switched to the voice chat interface.

“I’m definitely convinced now.” As soon as he joined, he heard Lulu talking. “How much money did banana stuff into the administrators’ hands? To be completely washed clean? Who dares to believe what the StarTV staff say in the future ah? … Xiao Yan, are you here?”

“En.” He said, “Go on, I won’t disturb you.”

“banana is the strongest PUBG anchor competitor. The section administrator wants to push him up to snatch the limelight from that LoL anchor, so naturally, he has to protect him.” Tuantuan asked, “Sheepy, what are you planning to do now?”

“What else can I do?” A male voice appeared. “The Weibo announcement has already been posted, so that clinches it ba. Ugh, I don’t even dare to livestream tonight. I’m guessing that all of the stream followers will come to mock me.”

Lulu said, “And, I’ve been informed that this year’s best anchor of the year has already been decided behind closed doors. It’s banana.”

“Is that actually true?” Tuantuan said angrily, “No wonder his rank had suddenly risen. No, isn’t this just the platform treating us small anchors as nothing ah? Then, what do all of the gifts that my fans tossed to me for the award count for?”

“Can’t do anything about it, banana has fooled the masses.” Sheepy sighed, “It could also count as me overestimating myself. I just had to go up and fight against him. Think about the several anchors who previously fought with him. Which one of them won against him?”

When he mentioned this, the voice channel suddenly became silent for a few seconds.

“… Hey, wait.” Lulu sounded hesitant. “Now that you mentioned it, there is someone.”

Sheepy asked, “Who?”

Lulu replied, “Xiao Yan ah!”

Yu Yan, who had nearly fallen asleep while listening: “…?”

“Yes! Your notice!” Tuantuan slapped her thigh. “When banana implied that you were livestreaming while running a cheat software, the administrator went and hung up a notice—even until now, only your livestream has ever had that notice!”

—

Juurensha: Yi Ran: ….Ge, you beast!

Divi: Such a dirty mind Yi Ran, smh. Time for Yanyan to fight against banana + laoshu again I guess.

Noks: Ah…. Yi Ran is so adorable. He’s going to be that sneaky gossipy cupid who preps everyone for his Ge’s and Yanyan’s eventual relationship, isn’t he?

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