Fortunately, Yang Juan had taken a shower already. Closing his laptop, he fumbled in the dark towards his bed.
Complaints began to fill the corridor outside the door. How could anyone sleep in this hot summer night without power?
Yang Juan lay on his bed without covers, closed his eyes and internally chanted, a calm heart keeps you cool.
As he slowly fell asleep in a daze.
The next morning, he woke up before his alarm clock due to the heat.
His back that was pressing against the mat was hot and sweaty, and his wet pajamas were stuck on his body, a very uncomfortable feeling. He climbed out of bed to take a shower.
The power had long returned. After taking a shower, he sat at his desk and blew his hair. As he was blow-drying his hair, his phone beeped as he received a new text message, informing the status of his delivery.
This was in regards to the voice changer; it had arrived.
He sent a message to Zhuo Lan, updating his friend.
Zhuo Lan replied on a beat, saying how he was on his way to school on the subway, as well as telling Yang Juan to send him the pickup number. He would pick up the package on his way back to the dorm.
After sending the pickup number, Yang Juan changed shoes, ready to leave the dorm.
But when he glanced at his laptop on the desk, he suddenly remembered that he disconnected from the game due to the power failure last night.
After two seconds of hesitation, he sat back in his chair, turned on his laptop and logged into the game.
The dancer materialized at the entrance of the instant dungeon, but on the friend list, Night Ferry’s icon was black.
It might be too early right now for the other party to be online.
Yang Juan exited out of the game without a second thought and took his things to the lab.
In the evening, after dinner, Zhuo Lan happened to be back in the dormitory. He was sitting in front of his desk, fiddling with the newly arrived voice changer.
Hearing Yang Juan’s return, Zhuo Lan turned around and beckoned him over. “Come and see what kind of voice you like.”
Being in an unfamiliar territory, Yang Juan walked over and said, looking at the device, “Any female voice would do.”
Zhuo Lan simply helped him adjust the data himself.
After the adjustment, Zhuo Lan sent Yang Juan a video call request with his phone, and motioned for his friend to accept the request. “Now, try talking to me by speaking through the voice changer’s microphone.”
Yang Juan lowered his head and asked, “What do I say?”
The microphone took in his voice and automatically converted it into a girl’s voice that was as soft as cotton candy.
He gawked at his friend.
Zhuo Lan beamed smugly at him. “This is the soft sheep voice, all the rage on the internet currently. What do you think? Do you like it?”
Yang Juan fiddled with the microphone and answered solemnly, “I do.”
“Let’s use this then.” Zhuo Lan patted him on the shoulder, ended the call, and turned back to his desk to turn on his computer.
At the beginning, he relied on the voice changer to improve his relationship with Dead of Night by leap and bound. He firmly believed that no way would Dead of Night not reveal his true colors after hearing such a gentle and soft sheep voice.
Originally, Yang Juan planned to spend the rest of the night gaming as usual, but a fellow graduate classmate suddenly asked him to borrow a book.
He went out to deliver the book to the female student.
While He Lang continued to count the time, waiting for a certain someone to get online, but the person he was waiting for never got online.
He camped patiently at the entrance of the instance dungeon, then he received a private message from Shao Ye.
[(Friend) Blustery Dead of Night: Get on your main account for an instance dungeon?]
[(Friend) Night Ferry: Not now, I am waiting for someone to get on.]
[(Friend) Blustery Dead of Night: Well, what if someone noticed that both of my main and side accounts are online at the same time?]
[(Friend) Night Ferry: It will be fine. I will just say I am from the playing service.]
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[(Friend) Blustery Dead of Night: Are you really not coming?]
[(Friend) Night Ferry: Not coming. I thought you were going to see a movie with that belle tonight? Why are you online right now.]
[(Friend) Blustery Dead of Night: Something came up so she stood me up.]
[(Friend) Night Ferry: If I remember correctly, the third year in the Department of Fine Arts are moving back to the old campus. Undergraduates from the Department of Science and Technology will not be moving between campuses. Even if you managed to date her, I doubt the relationship would last for more than a few days.]
[(Friend) Blustery Dead of Night: She is a first year right now and will be second year next semester. It will be one more year before she has to move. How about you? Why are you also online? I thought Lao Chen invited you to dinner. You did not go either?]
[(Friend) Night Ferry: Something came up so I told him I could not make it.]
[(Friend) Blustery Dead of Night: Is it related to something in the game?]
[(Friend) Night Ferry: It is a serious matter.]
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Unexpectedly, not only did the other party go offline without saying a word last night, but also failed to show up at the usual time tonight.
Quite temperamental.
He Lang raised his eyes, feeling unhappy, but he still turned around to buy fireworks from a player stall in the market.
A few moments after he left, Yang Juan went online after he was back from delivering the book.
Almost at the same time, he also received a private message from Night Ferry.
[(Friend) Night Ferry: Stay right where you are. I will come and find you.]
[(Friend) Sheep Curls: Oh.]
Listening to the other man’s words, Yang Juan did not move from where he logged off. During his time waiting, he received a private message from Zhuo Lan.
[(Friend) Willow Tree Dear: Come to Chang’an City’s gate, I have something for you.]
[(Friend) Sheep Curls: Oh.]
Yang Juan decided to meet Zhuo Lan first.
On his bard account, Zhuo Lan was waiting for him outside the city gate. Seeing that his friend was here on his chestnut horse, he went forward and requested a trade, putting a set of dancer equipment in the trade window.
[(Friend) Willow Tree Dear: I suddenly remembered that I got some equipment you can wear in my storage. Put them on.]
Courteousness was not needed between them as Yang Juan directly accepted the trade and put on the new equipment.
This platinum equipment was very popular when it came out two years ago during the release of new instance dungeons.
It was just the attributes were lower compared to the newer sets. However, it was still miles better than what Yang Juan was wearing.
After Yang Juan equipped the set, his hair and appearance also changed as the white was taken over with platinum.
Without checking out his new outfit, he rushed to the Underground River Forest after bidding goodbye to Zhuo Lan.
Not soon after he left the gate, he received a message from Night Ferry.
[(Friend) Night Ferry: Where are you?]
[(Friend) Sheep Curls: Outside of Chang’an City.]
[(Friend) Night Ferry: Didn’t I say to stay where you are?]
[(Friend) Sheep Curls: I am going there right now.]
[(Friend) Night Ferry: Stay still, I will head where you are now.]
[(Friend) Sheep Curls: Oh.]
Yang Juan stood at the edge of the grove, waiting for him.
Being so close to the big tree, the dark branches happened to cover his in-game name above his head, which he did not bother to correct that.
A moment later, Night Ferry flew over from a distance on his phoenix mount.
After approaching the woods, the phoenix carrying Night Ferry slowly decelerated and hovered nearby in a low altitude.
However, before Yang Juan walked forward, the phoenix swept right over his head and continued to fly ahead.
He Lang was busy looking for a dancer with white dress and long hair, not recognizing the dancer with new hair style and appearance.
[(Friend) Night Ferry: Where have you gone to now? Are you playing with me?]
[(Friend) Sheep Curls: I am not. You passed me.]
Feeling dubiously, He Lang maneuvered his mount to turn around and scanned around the wood, seeing only a player in the platinum outfit under the tree.
[(Friend) Night Ferry: Where?]
The dancer in the platinum outfit came out of the tree, revealing the familiar ID.
[(Friend) Night Ferry: …]
He controlled the phoenix to descend from the sky and zoomed in on his camera to get a better look at Yang Juan.
After changing into a new outfit, the dancer’s facial features became much more delicate and enchanting.
The soft platinum ponytail hung loosely down to the waist, and the plum blossom makeup was gone, in its place was a head chain jewelry of matching color. Her new appearance consisted of a white outfit with gold thread and gauze skirt, and ankle boots. In her hands was still the same umbrella with a goldfish pattern.
He Lang could not resist taking another look.
At the same time, Yang Juan was also observing Night Ferry’s mount that he had never seen before.
The fairy-feathered phoenix was lazily resting on the ground with its beautiful and long tail feathers curled around it on the ground. It was brightly sparkly, looking more expensive than the white tiger.
After examining the dancer’s new appearance, He Lang thought of something and frowned again.
Where did the little spy get this platinum set?
He had mixed emotions on this.
[(Friend) Night Ferry: Which of your nice gege gave this to you?]
[(Friend) Sheep Curls: ?]
Seeing the question mark from the other party, He Lang came to his senses, having almost exposed himself.
[(Friend) Night Ferry: Who gave you the outfits?]
[(Friend) Sheep Curls: My roommate.]
Seeing the simple answer, He Lang scoffed quietly.
Without taking into account how Willow and Sheep Curls were not close friends, why would Willow give Sheep Curls free outfit, platinum set on top of that. Moreover, Willow plays bard, so there was no way she would go out of her way to collect dancer outfits.
Maybe it was from another gege that the little spy befriended in game.
Sue San was the first one that came to mind.
At the end, he felt somewhat disapproving. Out of how stingy the other man was. He could have sent anything, why give away an outdated outfit from two years ago?
He Lang redirected his attention from the outfit and pulled the dancer up on his phoenix.
The phoenix ascended into the sky, turned around and flew back to where He Lang came from.
[(Friend) Sheep Curls: Where are we going?]
[(Friend) Night Ferry: Snow Town.]
Snow Town is usually deserted, so he did not have to worry about being seen by other guild members.
Vaguely remembering that this location was brought up last night, Yang Juan lowered his head to type his reply.
[(Friend) Sheep Curls: Oh.]
[(Friend) Night Ferry: Get on YY, I will move you to a room.]
Yang Juan tabbed out of the game and logged in to his YY account.
He Lang soon moved him to a room and connected to the voice chat.
“Little Sheep?” The other party’s husky voice sounded in Yang Juan’s ears.
Yang Juan switched to the game client to type.
[(Friend) Sheep Curls: Yes.]
“Can you hear me?” He Lang asked.
[(Friend) Sheep Curls: I can hear you.]
There was a second of silence on the other end of the earphones as the other person suddenly asked, “Did you get the headphones?”
Yang Juan’s heart was racing, getting a faint sense of what was to come as he answered truthfully.
[(Friend) Sheep Curls: I got it.]
He Lang went straight to the point, “Then should you not let me hear your voice?”
[(Friend) Sheep Curls: Okay.]
Yang Juan silently switched back to the YY window and turned on his microphone.
His heart was pounding against his chest, and his palm holding the mouse was sweating with tension.
When he was about to speak, he opened his mouth awkwardly, but no sound came out.
He did not know what to say.
Seeing that he was not speaking, He Lang asked in a casual manner, “What’s wrong? A problem with the mic?”
[(Friend) Sheep Curls: No problem.]
“Then hurry up, say something.” He Lang urged.
[(Friend) Sheep Curls: What do I say?]
He Lang paused, before his voice was filled with a hint of teasing, “Why don’t you just say ‘okay’.”
Yang Juan did not know where this urge to laugh came from.
He curled his fingers, digging his short, clean fingernails against the keycaps, trying desperately to ignore the heartbeat that was growing louder in his ears.
Two seconds later, he stiffly opened his mouth and said, “Okay.”
The soft female voice entered He Lang’s ears, with some obvious nervousness.
Not very sweet and seductive, but clean and like music to his ears.
Like a gummy bear.
Just by listening to the sound of the voice, he could draw a faint outline of a delicate girl in his mind.
It was totally different from those girls in his class.
The chord in He Lang’s heart was plucked very gently.
Unable to help himself, he subconsciously replied, “Okay.”
The translator has something to add:
Normal: Huo/好 (yes) => translated as ok
Special: Huo o/ 好哦 (yes oh) => translated as okay
Teo: The ‘okay’ is just for visual, so readers can easily distinguish them. I know ok sounds the same as okay, but it’s (imo) smoother than ‘ok oh’ or ‘yes oh’. The ‘oh’ is like an interjections that add tone/ emotion into the word. Oh is usually a way to describe uplift tone. You can see me talked about it in chapter 11 of After I Flopped on My Crush.
Pfft. Okay? Okay. Okay! Hahahahaha! Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️🤣
Caught up to this and findkng it hilarious so far xD can’t wait to see how they resolve all the misunderstandings 😂
Hope ZL will get some required love too. Thank you for translating!!
I think girls in your class are also cute and pretty, but our JuanJuan just had another type of charming
Thank you for your translation 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💕💕💕
One word and he is over the moon???? How sweet can that voice be, to be so much better then all the girls in his class. Awwww he will get so disappointed once he learns that’s not his real voice. Let’s hope Juan Juan has an even better natural voice. 😁
Hahahaha! So cute! Thanks for the chapter ❤️
Honestly, it seems a bit unnecessary for him to bother getting the voice changer, since it’s already pretty obvious (on the presumption of believing that ‘Night Ferry’ is still the boyfriend’s account) that the boyfriend is untrustworthy. At this point, continuing the act is already redundant.
poor zhuo lan.
I hope he will like little sheep’s real voice even more…
Thank you for the chapter.
i feel bad about disseving this guy