Chapter 1.2 - The First Sentence Part 2

Translator: tarararawr

The First Sentence Part 2

Pu Tao said: “I’m quickly becoming angered to death by my roommate. Whether I am going to be promoted or not, she is the misfortune I have to go through for it.”

Xin Tian said: “Maybe. There is still a month. Just hang on. Jiayou 1 ! Pu Xiaokui!”

Pu Tao didn’t pay attention to her joke 2 and asked: “What are you doing? Grinding out lesson plans?”

Xin Tian: “Who’s grinding out lesson plans so late? I’ll work on it later.”

Pu Tao: “Radio drama?”

Xin Tian: “Yes, I’m silly.”

Xin Tian’s main job was a language teacher at an education institution. She usually had headaches from those little devil brats. The most frightening thing was that even though she was emotionally exhausted, she could still squeeze out gentleness and patience from her nearly dried up sponge to generate energy for love. This love was her radio drama job.

Pu Tao: “Do you have to do it?”

Xin Tian: “I will quit after this drama.”

Her remark was the same as “Wolf Is Coming” 3 . Pu Tao had heard it a million times.

Pu Tao: “I threw up after listening to it.”

Xin Tian replied: “What can I do? Radio drama is my life/fate/light, the fire of my desire.”

When it came to her hobby, she became a chatterbox. “Do you want to listen to the male lead CV 4 I am working on right now? How can the emotions in the drama be so good? How can the voice colors be so passionate? How can the laugh be so su 5 ? You can dub movies and TV dramas.”

She reincarnated into a third-rate writer and her paragraph was abusing grammatical parallelism.

And Pu Tao did not appreciate it at all: “Exempt me.”

She didn’t have the patience and didn’t even like reading novels. Everyday, she was looking at those red and blue grid lines that made her eyes tired and she suffered from early glaucoma, so don’t even mention listening to radio dramas adapted from novels.

Xin Tian was immediately disappointed and said: “This is your loss.”

Pu Tao changed from lying on her left side to her right side: “If I have that much spare time, I might as well get to know a handsome guy and rely on his voice to imagine love. Tsk, I can’t.”

Xin Tian: “Then you should meet a handsome guy.”

Pu Tao was shocked by her attack: “How do I meet someone? Everyone in our company is a demon or a ghost.”

Xin Tian smiled: “Then what are you? A vixen in Pansi Cave 6 ?”

Pu Tao replied: “For the time being, let’s just think that you are praising me.”

She asked again: “Do you know any good ones?”

Xin Tian: “Do you want one that babbles and runs all over the floor? Some of them are delicate and handsome, and they have good prospects. It will be fine if you wait 20 years.”

Pu Tao was left speechless.

Xin Tian also no longer replied.

Best friends were like this. They could start chatting at any time, but also stop at any time without any hesitation.

When Pu Tao came out of the bathroom after washing her face, she poured herself a glass of water. She was ready to pour some liquid into her empty stomach and cover her ears to steal a bell 7 .

She switched back to Wechat to see if Xin Tian had messaged her again. She realized that she had only sent an audio file and she did not say another word. The file was not big, just a few megabytes.

File name: Good Evening.mp4

It was sent twelve minutes ago.

Pu Tao: “What is this?”

After waiting for a minute, there was no response in the message box. She figured her best friend had gone to sleep.

Pu Tao pursed her lips until it was almost invisible. She raised the cup of water to her lips and put on her headphones with her other hand. First left, then right. Afterwards, she pressed play audio.

“Why don’t you go to bed? I won’t call you tomorrow. “

A clear and deep voice came without warning. It went straight to the bottom of her ears with a smile.

Pu Tao suddenly froze. She even put the cup down slowly.

How can there be such a voice?

It’s so natural, so perfect. It hardly sounds deliberate. It can make people feel how silently pampering themselves with moisturizer feels in a second, and their heart will tremble for this kind of doting.

Please excuse her. For a while, she was incapable of using better adjectives to describe this. Her thoughts were whirling.

It was like being shot. Pu Tao could not make another move. It was hard to control her chest. It was making a commotion, booming and roaring.

It was as if…

The owner of the voice was lying down with her and his arms were around her. He was whispering in her ear, as she was surrounded by his warmth and breath.

They were intimate lovers. Always inseparable.

Pu Tao’s face and ears were red.

In an instant, she understood what Xin Tian had said to her—

Voice control 8 is an underlying gene in everyone. It is dormant until…

Until you meet the voice that will light you up.

Footnotes

加油 (jiāyóu) – literally means add oil, but it’s used to cheer someone on The joke mentioned is the “Jiayou! Pu Xiaokui!” part and it comes from netizens joking about a character called Lu Xiaokui in the drama Yes! Mr. Fashio n. Lu Xiaokui is a newbie in the workplace and she’s a very positive character even though she seems stupid and has problems with her boss. She tells herself “Lu Xiaokui, jiayou” and it became a popular classic line to mock her stupidity. Pic Referring to the fable “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” Means Character Voice Meaning the voice/laugh is so sexy that it makes you feel like your ears are pregnant and that your body has become soft. (๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧ Pansi Cave is a place in Journey to the West where the spider demons are disguised as beautiful maidens to seduce the characters. 掩耳盗铃 (yǎn’ěrdàolíng) – it means to deceive yourself Phonophilia or referring to people who like nice sounds. The control part comes from the Japanese word “con” used in words like lolicon.