Chapter 8 - The Eighth Sentence

Translator: tarararawr

PR: soi bean

The Eighth Sentence

After successfully settling down in Cloud Dweller’s Wechat, Pu Tao chatted with him almost every day.

Sometimes the other side responded very quickly, and sometimes it took a long wait for one new line. She figured that Cloud Dweller was a master of playing hard to get, keeping her in a state of suspense every day to be satisfied.

A week passed by quickly.

In her spare time, Pu Tao made a table to record the number of daily chats between her and Cloud Dweller. Overall, she was above the passing score and the content of their conversation went back and forth. But what was quite depressing was that she talked three times more than Cloud Dweller. Plus, she was the one who took the initiative to start the conversation every time.

This revealed a problem that urgently needed to be resolved. It was: Cloud Dweller was not very very interested in her. To say the least, he never came to talk to her first.

Pu Tao shared this table with Xin Tian.

Xin Tian, who was a liberal arts student: “What?”

Pu Tao: “This is a chart of the number of times I have chatted with Cloud Dweller recently.”

Xin Tian: “…”

Xin Tian looked carefully: “This is not very good, you are talking every day.”

Pu Tao: “It’s not good at all. He doesn’t start the conversation first.”

Xin Tian: “You’re the one who won an inch, but want a foot. You bother him every day and he still gives you a reply. That’s already pretty good. You’ve only known him for a few days. Do you want him to be immediately annoyed with you?”

Pu Tao thought, “ What she said was very reasonable.”

But she still decided to stop for a day.

And she decided that day was today, Tuesday. There was going to be a live broadcast at eight o’clock in the evening.

This setup was quite ingenious. Without privately contacting him, she could settle for the second best thing: using his livestream as today’s energy. She will absorb the energy, and use it as the next topic of conversation.

Pu Tao got through the day without racking her brains. That evening, she stopped her habitual procrastination, bathed and changed as soon as possible. She opened a yogurt, sat at her desk and waited for Cloud Dweller to start livestreaming.

The voice live streaming software was directly linked through Weibo, so it did not show more information to the audience.

It was exactly 8 o’clock.

Cloud Dweller entered the livestream room.

It looked like he was a punctual person.

Pu Tao licked the yogurt lid clean and sat up.

The number of romantic rivals in the upper left corner was doubling.

She stared for a moment and covered it with her thumb. What I can’t see, my heart can’t grieve. 1

The close to crazy confessions in the lower left corner couldn’t be hidden.

Is that necessary? Isn’t it just a voice?

Pu Tao scooped a big spoonful of yogurt. She put the spoon in her mouth, and covertly complained about herself.

Cloud Dweller did not waste time, and soon, he asked, “Can you hear me?”

[—I can hear you!]

The on screen comments screamed like incoming waves.

Pu Tao froze all of a sudden.

Cloud Dweller, the male version of Medusa, had a voice with effectiveness in both magical and physical attack.

She slowly took out the spoon and put it down carefully. It was blasphemous to listen to this wonderful voice while eating, and any action would interfere with this mood to listen to him.

“Oh.” He sounded a little cold today, like he was infected with moonlight. “It’s good if you can hear me. I will continue to read private messages today.”

The last syllable was clearly lacking in energy and assertiveness. However, it was completely non-negotiable from the tone that he was going to continue speaking in the next second.

This man was spoiled. His fans were all very, very okay with anything he said. Just look at the reactions in the comments.

“Let me see.” The man seemed surprised. “Wow, there’s so many.”

This “wow” actually had an endearing effect.

Pu Tao unknowingly revealed an auntie smile 2 . Kiyo~ So cute.

In the lower left corner of the screen the fans were being “flopped 3 ”.

“Well…” Cloud Dweller mused. “Wait for me, I will be ready in a minute or two.”

In the livestream room, it temporarily quieted down. There was only the man’s slightly heavy and steady breathing. It was almost inaudible, but her 1,000 yuan headphones could capture it.

Pu Tao could not help but wonder whether every breath of this man had been carefully planned and why such a familiar light noise was so unique and intoxicating.

All of a sudden.

The man in the headphones chuckled.

One noise rolled out of his nose and it was an uncontrollable chuckle.

The comments instantly exploded.

“To make it clear in advance—”

Cloud Dweller’s tone was suddenly serious and the livestream became more intimate. “I don’t mean to bother you—“

“—but my ears,” he enunciated clearly and cleanly. “—have been noisily shouting at me all day and night.”

“They say—” he paused at just the right moment. It was captivating. “—that they want to know you. If you are willing, I hope you can find the time to give them an answer.”

“Thank you.”

Pu Tao: …

She turned dumb and couldn’t react for a moment. She blinked again and again.

If she didn’t hear incorrectly, then this was her private message on Weibo, right?

The fans were in a frenzy flooding the screen:

[AAaaahhhhh! My ears say they want to know you too!]

“It’s polite,” Cloud Dweller said without thinking. “But I have a question I want to ask. Do your ears want to know me, or do you want to know me?”

His tone was mixed with some deliberate perplexity. It was this kind of deliberateness that was the most deadly.

She had been publicly executed, and the executioner was this seemingly casual voice.

Pu Tao’s blushing appeared. It was hard to hide her delight while she was feeling so bashful. She completely changed from a regular grape to a red grape. No, a cherry tomato.

…

…

Pu Tao didn’t know what to do for the next 20 minutes or so.

She only knew that from the moment Cloud Dweller read her private letter and commented on it, she was suffering, it was as if she had been plunged into magma.

As soon as he left the livestream, all her hard work was destroyed and she went to find him.

Her “Extraordinary 6+1 4 ” plan came to an end on the first day of implementing it. She really couldn’t hold herself back.

She had something to ask and with full confidence and bluntness: “Why did you want to read my private message?”

Cloud Dweller reacted within her expectations: “Which one?”

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Pretending, keep pretending.

Pu Tao: “I don’t believe that you didn’t know Pu Pu Grapes is me.”

After all, they were on the same list of names.

Cloud Dweller: “I didn’t know.”

His indifferent response did not hold her back.

Pu Tao: “Since you asked that question sincerely, I am going to give you a formal answer now. Both my ears and I want to know you.”

Cloud Dweller was silent for a moment and asked, “Did you listen to my livestream?”

Pu Tao: “Yeah, I realized that I am more suitable to be a fangirl.”

She said bitterly: “When I am one of your thousands of fangirls, I don’t have to anxiously wait for you to reply and I don’t have to think of topics to talk about. It’s fine as long as you read the private message publicly during your livestream.”

Cloud Dweller: “I didn’t mean that.”

Pu Tao: “What do you mean?”

Cloud Dweller: “Reading private messages is my livestream tradition.”

Pu Tao: “I know, I’m just being unreasonable. Who gave you permission to read mine just now? I’ve stepped into the path of your slow-moving car like a scammer. Since I’ve already bumped into your car hood, you can do whatever you want.”

Cloud Dweller was probably smiling: “Can you stop being so funny?”

Pu Tao seriously: “I’m not.”

Cloud Dweller: “Okay, I’ll trouble you to get off the car first and we will communicate properly.”

Pu Tao was not going to go along with it that easily: “No, you tell me first. Can I get to know you?”

Cloud Dweller: “Sure, why not?”

He replied so quickly. The haze cleared away, and in Pu Tao’s heart, there was suddenly a sunny day in a garden filled with flowers.

Pu Tao pinched the smiling cheek muscles with her fingers and tried to relax them: “How are you going to prove it?”

Cloud Dweller: “You want me to prove it?”

Pu Tao: “That’s right.”

Cloud Dweller asked the same question to her: “How are you going to prove it?”

Pu Tao: “You just said good night before the livestream ended, right?”

Cloud Dweller: “Yeah.”

Pu Tao: “If you say good night to me again in private, then I will believe that you agree to let me know you.”

Cloud Dweller: “Good night.”

Pu Tao: “No!”

Cloud Dweller: [Voice message].

Look, this man was so bad and clearly knew what her demand was. He still wanted to make her go through a hard time before being rewarded.

Pu Tao pressed the headphones with both hands and clicked play.

“Good night.”

After a one-second pause:

“Do you believe me?”

Oh my god.

So serious.

Just like the male leads in his radio dramas.

If Pu Tao was not afraid of her next door neighbor or downstairs neighbor reporting her, she would have definitely stomped her feet and run in circles.

She intentionally reached for her forehead and suspected that she had a fever caused by Cloud Dweller.

Pu Tao pursed her lower lip to stop the smiles that were bubbling up like dissolved effervescent tablets: “I believe you.”

Her attitude suddenly weakened by a hundred degrees, as if the arrogant and naughty person just now was not herself at all: “So… Can I hear it every day from now on?

Cloud Dweller: “I will call the police.”

Pu Tao: “Please don’t.”

She stopped while she could, “Good night.”

In any case, she was not in a hurry for it today. She was going to think of a new way for it tomorrow.

The author has something to say:

Grass (the plant) 5

I really like this ambiguous period.

Footnotes

眼不见，心不烦 (yǎnbùjiàn, xīnbùfán) – idiom equivalent to out of sight, out of mind Auntie smile refers to a silly smile when a girl sees something or someone she likes. So when a fan gets “flopped” it means the celebrity has responded to the fan. So I’m guessing here, but I think she means to talk to Cloud Dweller for 6 days and then not talk to him for 1 day. There’s a talent TV show with this name and the idea is to have ordinary people follow their dreams by practicing for 6 days with professional training and performing for 1 day. Viewers will then pick who they want to win. 草（一种植物）- tdlr: internet thing that means laughing. So this is a Chinese internet thing where you write a character, and then put what you mean in parentheses so it’s not misunderstood. Laughing is pronounced wara in Japanese. It is abbreviated to W, and WWWWW means you can’t stop laughing. A row of WWWWW looks like grass. In Chinese, 草 means grass, but can also be used for cursing. So to not seem like you’re cursing, you put what you mean in parentheses.