YM778.TV Chapter 160: Surveillance Footage
“Looks like us, predecessors, will need to give you new fans some background knowledge.”
The old fans all forwarded the long post from “Me, me, me, little Lu Ban” about the stray cat, Moonlight. Initially, this post only spread within Princess Man’s fans and the cat fans circles. After a month, Moonlight’s popularity on Wei Bo was almost completely gone, too.
As a result, everyone made it popular again, “Read it yourself. It is how the live-streamer found Moonlight.”
The onlookers read about stray cat Moonlight’s pitiful background and all commented:
“The cat had such an unfortunate past.”
“The Hanfu Goddess is quite literally the incarnation of truth, goodness, and beauty.”
“Yes. If it weren’t for Hanfu Goddess’s fans, we wouldn’t know these things at all. Yang Huayue is right. Hanfu Goddess was really low-key.”
“I have already turned from a passerby into one of her fans. Initially, I was only watching the farce. I didn’t expect the Hanfu Goddess to have such a good character; whatever Zhang Daqiang said is nonsense.”
“I also have turned into a fan of hers! I want to emphasize that a good person will live a safe life, and I hope that the Hanfu Goddess will not be affected by online rumors this time!”
“Did you not realize? The Hanfu Goddess is very straightforward. If she has any issues, she only says it directly. She doesn’t hide away her secret of having a boyfriend. Some other female cyber stars who only attract fans by their appearance are afraid of their love affairs getting known by others. Because the male fans would not buy it, and they would lose popularity.”
“I think her boyfriend is so happy. I envy this unknown man for having such a wonderful girl.”
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And so, Princess Man’s Wei Bo fan count continued to increase.
Her old fans left a threat, “If anyone else dares to blame our princess here, us, ten thousand loyal fans, will scold your entire family.”
“NANA” escaped, being too scared.
The next day was Friday, and the ensemble concert continued.
Last night, under the supervision of Yu Zhan, Liu Man went to bed early and got up early today. She moved her injured finger and felt that she had no tingling sensation like she had yesterday unless she deliberately pinched the area around the wound.
Zhang Pei fed the two cats, then made a hearty breakfast for Liu Man as a tonic to heal her fingers!
Liu Man’s cell phone on the dining table kept beeping, and Zhang Pei asked, “Who is sending you messages? They must be patient to keep sending you messages.”
“They’re not messages; they’re notifications from Wei Bo.”
Liu Man said, turning on her phone. Before going to bed last night, she posted two videos to Weibo. One was the performance video processed by Peach is a fairy, and the other was her rebuttal to Newsbreaker Zhang Daqiang in her live-stream.
She estimated that those notifications were all responses to the videos.
As soon as she opened Wei Bo, she saw her number of fans at her first glance: 2.04 million.
Liu Man was stunned.
Did she see that correctly?
Yesterday, she clearly only had 180k fans.
She gained almost 2 million fans in just a night.
Zhang Pei saw Liu Man laughing dumbly, and she couldn’t help but smile, “Why are you just standing there like a wooden statue?”
“My live-streaming account’s Wei Bo gained two million fans.”
Zhang Pei froze all of a sudden, too.
Liu Man said, “Mom, we must hire more employees.”
Zhang Pei nodded. From now on, with only her and the other two employees, they surely wouldn’t be able to manage the entire business, “It’s not a big deal to hire people. Later today I will ask Owner Wang to see if there are any unoccupied workers near our storage space; he knows a lot more people.”
“Oh, yes… Are you going to school today?”
“I haven’t thought about it yet,” Liu Man remembered that Wang Nina and Xu Zihan’s performance was on Friday afternoon, but she didn’t want to watch them perform at all.
The concert lasted for two days. The school gave Zhu Xiyang face and gave all Sophomore students two days off. In this period of climax, Liu Man was wondering whether she should stay home to help her mother and give her fingers some rest at the same time.
After breakfast, Li Xiaoru gave her a call, “Man Man, after you have lunch, come to school,” Her tone was full of a sweet kind of enthusiasm.
“What’s going on?”
“Hehe, you’ll know once you come.”
After lunch, Liu Man rode the subway to school. It was the first time she wore a mask and a hat in a public facility since she had gotten recognized by many people last night when they ate at Owner Wang’s restaurant.
The entire campus still contained a warm atmosphere because of the concert. Because Liu Man and Li Xiaoru’s performance was too outstanding yesterday, even more foreigners came to watch the performance today.
The seats this morning were even fuller than yesterday, and it was expected that the last performance this afternoon would be full, too.
Li Xiaoru asked Liu Man to meet her at the practice room, where they went all the time.
At this time, students who had already finished performing wouldn’t come here, not to mention the ones that were going to perform soon. The practice rooms were empty.
As soon as she saw Liu Man, Li Xiaoru pulled her over to the office at the entrance of the practice rooms’ building. She then told the female teacher, “Miss, can you show us the surveillance footage again?”
“No problem,” the female teacher clicked twice with her mouse, and a surveillance scenery showed up on her computer. The angle got aimed right at the piano room, where Liu Man, Li Xiaoru, and Wen Fangfei practiced before.
The time on the bottom left corner showed: April 22nd, 5:44:21. It was in the afternoon the day before they found out Wen Fangfei’s Guqin strings got cut.
After a few seconds, a familiar silhouette went into the practice room. It stayed there for around five minutes and left.
What Liu Man did not expect was:
This person was not Wang Nina; she was Xu Zihan.
The female teacher told Liu Man and Li Xiaoru,
“Although we now have the surveillance footage, you still don’t have a way to prove the strings got broken by this specific girl. Some other students came in and out of this room before and after this girl was here.”
Li Xiaoru had already watched the entire video before Liu Man came, “We don’t know anyone else; we only know her,” Li Xiaoru pointed at Xu Zihan’s face, frozen in the scene, “She’s in our grade and our major.”
“Just this footage will not be able to prove it,” the female teacher said.
“Then we will go find the classmate who last came in before her and the classmate who went in the first right after she left the room. The first student will see a perfect Guzhen, while the latter one would see the strings broken.”
“It’s unnecessary to do all of that. The school’s so big, and it’s still a big question whether you two can find these two classmates. Even if you manage to, how can you ensure they will be willing to suffer the risks and support you?
Besides, your performance yesterday was so successful, so her actions did not influence you at all. Even if you report her to the major, the boss will only have a counselor scold and educate her. There won’t be any actual punishments.”
Translated by: Sydney