Chapter 2.2 - The Second Sentence Part 2

Translator: tarararawr

The Second Sentence Part 2

Pu Tao sat up with her heart pounding and picked up her cell phone.

She opened up Weibo and searched for the username “Cloud Dweller”.

She didn’t expect the first username to be the real one.

His avatar was very simple: a lonely black pagoda in the middle of water. His profile description was even simpler. Like his name, there were only two words: free agent.

Free agent.

Pu Tao had heard of this term from Xin Tian. It was when a CV was independent and had not joined any dubbing associations.

When she swiped down, there were less than 200 posts. Most of them were radio drama announcements or forwards of events. She didn’t see anything that shared his personal daily life, not even holiday wishes. There were no trace of his third dimensional 1 world.

The only slightly human presence there was a stickied post. It had his email address, and a notice that there was a live broadcast on some audio software every Tuesday night at 8pm.

Yet, even though the blog was so monotonous, he still received seven to eight, maybe even tens of thousands of likes on each post. There were a considerable number of comments—which must be rare and precious in the eyes of 120,000 fans.

It’s over.

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Pu Tao leaned against the headboard and didn’t realize the edges of her lips were turning downwards.

What was with this person? How was it that each of his characteristics were at her su point? He was mysterious, aloof, and indifferent, but his voice could transform a person into a princess and become his exclusive young mistress.

It didn’t take long for Pu Tao to scroll to reach the end of Cloud Dweller’s Weibo.

His Weibo was modest and he should have more content about himself. But because he had not revealed a trace of himself, he was like a book whose contents were even more intriguing and worth exploring.

Pu Tao clicked follow, and she thought that this should be the second time their paths have crossed.

She had to find a way to create a third, a fourth, and an infinite crossed path.

Pu Tao was a very hardworking woman.

While she was brushing her teeth, she read through the comments for Cloud Dweller.

All of his fans should be young girls. They were like a large nest of young birds, feathering and crying for food, as they hungrily waited for him to produce food and relieve hunger.

She imitated the way they showed their affection for him in her mind and discovered that she was not weak in this area. It was the opposite. She could do better with the right conditions.

In the afternoon, Pu Tao went to work as usual. She worked for a surveying and engineering company and was a role model in the department. She was very efficient in drawing, and there were almost no mistakes or omissions.

She liked this job a lot. She would wear her 3D-glasses and headphones like she had put on camouflage. She was so immersed in the process of recreating and integrating a miniature world that she would cut off any excessive social interaction.

The lines needed to be drawn patiently and meticulously, but day after day, the stuck in a rut feeling from the content of her work would also bring monotony and boredom to her that could not be ignored.

Usually, Pu Tao would draw designs and listen to songs at the same time.

Today, she changed to a new way of doing things. She began to listen to Cloud Dweller’s radio dramas.

During this time, she had to keep covering her mouth so that she would not make herself look like a strange laughing melon skin 2 suffering from madness. The man’s voice seeped into her body and mind, and gave her a sense of immersion that was too strong.

On one hand, she was a company slave 3 ; and on the other, she had become the favorite female lead from a popular novel. Pu Tao never thought that there would be such a fun thing to do in the world.

The past her was so foolish that she was willing to be an impenetrable iron wall. No matter how many times her friend had wasted her breath in recommending things, she had stood firmly on her ground and almost missed a hidden treasure that shocked her world.

Pu Tao’s face warmed up as her heart was jumping around. She continued smiling like a fool until it was the evening when a colleague asked her if she wanted to order takeout together. She broke away from that dream country and returned to the real world.

“Huh?” Pu Tao took off her headphones.

The male colleague glanced at her. He was surprised and suddenly forgot what else he was going to say.

Pu Tao had a pretty face and slim figure that Chengdu girls were known for, but she had a bit of a cold aura and would never give any face.

At this moment, she had a rare expression that was full of spring 4 . It was so moving that it made her colleague absent-minded.

Seeing that he was silent, Pu Tao controlled herself. “I will eat Hexin’s tonkatsu meal.” She always spoke bluntly, without making other comments and automatically avoided having to talk more than she had to.

The male colleague nodded without thinking. “Okay.”

And then he left her work station.

Pu Tao transferred the money for the meal to the colleague. She waited until she was on a break to use her cell phone again to check on Cloud Dweller’s Weibo. There was no new content as expected, but through her research this afternoon, she had a better understanding of him.

She realized that in several romantic radio dramas that Cloud Dweller joined, the female leads all had cute and positive styles, with a pure and beautiful voice.

This might be his type.

But Pu Tao was extremely different from them.

Her voice was not touching. Even if she deliberately lowered it, it still wouldn’t be connected to any softness. This had always been her inferiority complex. It was why she only dared to speak up in front of her friends, who jokingly called her “Chengdu’s Zhou Xun 5 ” and “Sichuan Province’s Wang Ruolin 6 ”.

But it didn’t matter.

She could take the initiative.

When Pu Tao thought of this, she tapped the private message button with her finger and started typing quickly.

These words came rushing from her mind:

“To make it clear in advance, I don’t mean to bother you, but my ears have been noisily shouting at me all day and night. They say that they want to know you. If you are willing, I hope you can find the time to give them an answer. Thank you.”

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Footnotes

三次元 (sāncìyuán) – Another way of saying real, offline world 瓜皮 (guāpí) – In Sichuan, it means a fool 社畜(shèchù) – comes from a Japanese internet term to ridicule employees who obediently work for the company at the expense of their private lives. 眉目含春 (méimùhánchūn) – an expression full of affection or sentimentalism Zhou Xun is one of China’s Four Dan Actresses. Link to a song called “You’re Good”. Wiki . Wang Ruolin is also known as Joanna Wang. She is a Taiwanese-American singer. Link to a song called “Wild World”. Wiki .