“You can press the key shown on the screen to speak directly.” Night Ferry’s voice sounded again in Yang Juan’s ears.
Who lowered his head and typed.
Sheep Curls: [I do not have a mic.]
“Really?” Night Ferry pretended not to believe it. “Do you really not have one or you do not want to talk to me?”
Sheep Curls: [I really do not have one.]
While replying, Yang Juan also added in his head. Even if he was really lying, there was no way he would use it to talk.
Since he would immediately expose himself as soon as he opened his mouth.
Night Ferry deliberately changed into a serious tone, “If you do not say anything, how could I really know if you are a girl or not.”
Feeling stupefied by the question, Yang Juan typed and deleted his response in the input box again and again, trying to phrase out an answer.
Sheep Curls: [Then what do I need to do to prove it to you?]
This was just the response Night Ferry was waiting for. “Go buy a headset with a mic.”
Yang Juan did not panic.
Zhuo Lan often uses his mic in the guild’s YY voice chat. He knew that his friend had a voice changer that could modify the most rugged male voice into a sweet and soft female voice that was able to fool everyone.
If this was to prove his gender and not have to use it often, he was sure that Zhuo Lan would let him borrow the voice changer.
Without much hesitation, Yang Juan agreed to the other man’s request.
Sheep Curls: [Okay.]
There was a moment of silence from his earphones before Night Ferry sent him two links. “These two brands have good quality. Choose between the two.”
Yang Juan clicked on the links and finally picked the one with the highest numbers of sales.
“I heard from Willow Tree Dear that you are a college student attending at A City?” Night Ferry asked in his usual tone.
Yang Juan lowered his eyes and carefully read through the features listed for the headset, completely missing the fact that the other man used ‘Willow Tree Dear’ instead of ‘Willow’. Once he was done reading, he switched to the YY interface and replied to the question.
Sheep Curls: [Yes.]
“Both stores’ locations are a distance away from A City. It will take at least three to four days for the headphones to arrive.” In the heat of the moment, Night Ferry suddenly had a great urge to hear the other person’s voice. “I have headphones that I am not using. Send me your address and I will ship it to you. It only takes half a day to deliver within the same city by express.”
When it came to giving out personal information online, Yang Juan was very against it.
Sheep Curls: [You do not have to, I can buy one myself.]
Not hearing the answer he wanted, Night Ferry changed his tactic, “I will sell it to you for fifty yuan. The package will arrive at your school even without you providing me with your exact dormitory number, you just have to go pick it up. Also, it is useless to give me your phone number, I do not like to make phone calls to people online.”
Hearing this, Yang Juan blinked slowly.
So it turned out the other man was only trying to sell his headphones.
Playing this game was only temporary for Yang Juan, so he did not plan on buying an expensive headphone since it would be collecting dust once he was done, and the price Night Ferry offered was way cheaper than the one listed online.
After weighting the pros and cons, he agreed.
Sheep Curls: [How do I send you the money?]
Night Ferry was not in a hurry to answer the question. “Send me your address first.”
Yang Juan sent him his university address.
When Night Ferry saw the address, there was a subtle change in his expression. After a while, he asked, “You are in A University?”
Sheep Curls: [Yes.]
The little spy is also a bookworm.
“You have 500 degrees of myopia, correct?” Night Ferry asked more.
Sheep Curls: [Yes.]
Night Ferry stopped talking. After sketching through his head for a long time, the final figure appeared as someone with black-frame glasses, thick bangs covering the forehead, shy when interacting with the opposite gender, an uninteresting and stiff female that he had seen in class before.
The small spark that sprang up in his heart immediately diminished by a few degrees as his interest in listening to Sheep Curls’s voice decreased.
“Which campus?” Noticing the omission in the address, Night Ferry pointed out, “A University has two campuses.”
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Yang Juan got up and saw that Zhuo Lan was still gaming. He moved his chair to be beside his friend, sat down and watched the other person gaming without saying anything.
Zhuo Lan took off his headphones, rested them around his neck and took the time to meet Yang Juan’s eyes, asking, “He added you on QQ and YY?”
“Yes, but there is one more thing.” Yang Juan said.
Zhuo Lan used his ultimate ability and controlled his in-game character to kite back, while casually asking, “What is it?”
“Blustery Dead of Night said he wants to hear my voice.” Yang Juan told the truth.
Zhuo Lan was stunned for a split second. During this moment of distraction, he was struck by the monster and fell to the ground. Not in a hurry to have the other party members to help him up, he looked at Yang Juan with surprise. “And you agreed?”
Yang Juan nodded honestly. “He said that he could not really be sure that I am a girl without hearing my voice.”
Zhuo Lan: “…”
“We will talk after I finish this.” Now that a party member revived him, Zhuo Lan did not want to die again from being distracted.
Yang Juan got up, moved his chair back, and sat down to browse on his phone, waiting for his friend to finish the instance dungeon.
Five minutes later, Zhuo Lan moved his chair over. After the two discussed the matter, Yang Juan bought a voice changer online.
Zhuo Lan requested a payment transfer on WeChat, which Yang Juan did not accept.
But he accepted extending the deal of holding a library spot from one month to the whole semester.
The headphones arrived the next day.
Zhuo Lan thought that Dead of Night’s intention to send Yang Juan’s headphones was to take the opportunity to include small gifts to please his friend.
But when the packet was opened, what was waiting inside was only the headphones.
Although it did not come with its original package, it looked brand new.
Zhuo Lan used it around their bedroom for two hours in the afternoon, and found that the sound quality was better than his own. The price of this thing was definitely more than fifty yuan, it could be a lie fed to Yang Juan.
The more he mulled it over, the more he felt resentful.
He and Dead of Night have known each other for a few months, and he had not yet received anything from the other man in real life.
How many days had it been since the other party knew Yang Juan?
He could not hold back doubting his life, as well as his own charm.
In recent days, he kept getting private messages from in-game friends about how they saw Dead of Night’s alt spending time with Sheep Curls alone in the game.
Zhuo Lan found all sorts of reasons to brush away the questions.
However, because of how often he had to explain to them, and how much he found it troublesome, he logged onto his main account less and less as he began to play on a side account that he never told anyone of.
He also had been chatting with Dead of Night less and less, feeling like their breakup was just around the corner.
Each of his online romances seemed to last only for a few months.
It was just that all of his prior online romances ended peacefully, except with Dead of Night. The man already went off to flirt with other players behind his back before they broke up.
In the evening, the first thing Yang Juan did when he got online was to send Night Ferry twenty-five thousand gold through the mail station in Luoyang City.
The one hundred thousand reward money sent by the system was deposited and left untouched in his bank account. Sue San never came back online.
So long that he nearly forgot this bounty’s existence.
After sending the gold to Night Ferry, out of nowhere, an assassin stopped him from leaving the mail station.
It happened to be Sue San who had been radio silence.
[(Friend) Farewell Sue San: Hello there, sorry for the wait. I was out on a business trip and could not get on for days. Little miss, do you still remember me?]
[(Friend) Sheep Curls: I do, I still have your bounty reward.]
[(Friend) Farewell Sue San: It is great you remembered. I knew you were an honest and trustworthy person at first glance.]
Yang Juan went to the mail station, found the NPC guarding players’ bank, withdrew the bounty money, and sent the money through the same way he sent Night Ferry’s money.
Outside the mail station, Farewell Sue San soon received the mail with the money.
When Yang Juan came out of the mail station, he moved the dancer to beside the assassin.
[(Friend) Sheep Curls: Did you get it?]
[(Friend) Farewell Sue San: I did, thank you, little miss.]
[(Friend) Sheep Curls: You’re welcome.]
As he was about to turn and leave.
Sue San suddenly reached out, using a gesture to stop him.
Yang Juan stopped in confusion.
[(Friend) Farewell Sue San: We agreed for an even split. I get fifty thousand, and you keep the other fifty thousand. You did not have to give it all to me.]
Yang Juan thought for a moment. It seemed that the other party did say something like fifty-fifty that night. However, he agreed to help out not for the money.
[(Friend) Sheep Curls: It’s okay, you can keep it.]
After confirming the dancer did not want the money, Sue San did not get pushy.
[(Friend) Farewell Sue San: All right, since you do not want to bounty reward, then let’s be friends. You are still in school, right? Since I am working now, my status is much higher than yours. From now on, you can call me San-ge.]
[(Friend) Sheep Curls: Okay, San-ge.]
The other party was quite expert in prolonging the conversation.
[(Friend) Farewell Sue San: Curly, do you want to join my guild? This San-ge can play this game with you.]
[(Friend) Sheep Curls: No thanks, I joined my roommate’s guild.]
Sue San moved his eyes up—seeing [Smoke Beacon] on top of the dancer’s in-game name, one of a big guild.
[(Friend) Farewell Sue San: Roommate? Does that mean Curly is a college student? Which university?]
[(Friend) Sheep Curls: At A City.]
[(Friend) Farewell Sue San: Oh, A City has good universities. My last business trip was actually at A City.]
The two of them were standing at the entrance of the mail station chatting, when a female bard appeared. She had [Smoke Beacon] on top of her head.
[(Friend) Farewell Sue San: Your friend came looking for you?]
[(Friend) Sheep Curls: No.]
As soon as he replied, the bard began to send messages in the local chat.
[(Local) Apricot Sprig: You think you can block any path?]
Sue San got it immediately. This was no friend, this was a foe.
Yang Juan remembered Zhuo Lan’s advice and ignored her.
[(Local) Apricot Sprig: Are you blind? I am talking to you, Sheep Curls.]
Watching a new friend being bullied, Sue San was unhappy immediately.
[(Local) Farewell Sue San: Oy, the entrance is so wide, why can you not just go around it? Shouldn’t you go lose some weight instead?]
Sensing that this man was with Sheep Curls, Apricot Sprig suppressed her anger and kept silent.
Super coincidentally, this was the moment Errant Wolf arrived at the mail station.
Apricot Sprig immediately turned around, trotted to the other party and stopped.
[(Local) Apricot Sprig: Hubby, they are bullying me!]
Errant Wolf’s eyes first locked on Yang Juan, then his eyes glanced on the white sheep doll on the dancer’s shoulder, then at Sue San, standing beside.
Finally, he moved his camera on Apricot Sprig, while scrolling through the chat history.
Sue San was quite a famous player on this server, and they knew each other.
[(Local) Farewell Sue San: Since we are all friends, this is only a misunderstanding.]
Errant Wolf exchanged a few pleasantries with the assassin, before turning to appease Apricot Sprig.
[(Local) Errant Wolf: Wife, there is no need for you to get angry. We are all friends.]
Apricot Sprig quite reluctantly dropped the subject.
[(Local) Apricot Sprig: Hubby, I am not happy right now, you have to coax me.]
Errant Wolf off-handedly sent a kissing emoji.
Apricot Sprig instantly vented her anger on him.
[(Local) Apricot Sprig: Hubby, you are not putting your heart into it!! I am angrier now!]
[(Local) Errant Wolf: Wife, please calm down.]
Apricot Sprig raised her eyes discontentedly, and finally fixed her gaze on the doll on Yang Juan’s shoulder.
She knew about this little sheep doll, it was super popular when it was released in the marketplace last month.
Speaking of that, she and Errant Wolf have known each other for two months, and the other man never took the initiative to buy her any outfits or accessories.
On the contrary, Sheep Curls had only been playing the game for a few days. She had already seduced a player from another guild, even made the other person buy a little sheep doll for her.
Now Apricot Sprig wanted to try if Errant Wolf would agree to buy it for her when she asked in public, in order to give face.
[(Local) Apricot Sprig: Hubby, I also want that fluffy little sheep doll. If you buy it for me, I will not be angry anymore.]
[(Local) Errant Wolf: Wife, there are so many players with that doll. When the next limited edition doll comes out, I will buy that for you.]
Apricot Sprig immediately felt humiliated and even more resentful.
If it wasn’t for her indirect approaches in the guilds, getting reassured that Errant Wolf is a rich second generation from other guild members. She would have thought this guy was pretending to be a rich second generation in the game with the fact that he had never spent money on her.
[(Local) Apricot Sprig: But hubby, I like this little sheep, and this is the only thing I want. I do not want anything but that little sheep.]
[(Local) Errant Wolf: Wife, be good, let’s wait for the marketplace to refresh next month.]
Apricot Sprig typed like she was wronged and was innocent.
[(Local) Apricot Sprig: Hubby, we have known each other for so long, but you would not buy me a little sheep. However, Sheep Curls only knew that guy for a few days, and she got the little sheep from him. Moreover, with the guild war drawing near, she is secretly in contact with other guild members, one of the core members no less. This does not look good…]
Errant Wolf frowned.
His focus was on her accusation of who was the one that gifted away the little sheep, and directly ignored the second half of her statement.
Sue San could tell that Apricot Sprig was not letting Sheep Curls go.
He took advantage of the situation to confirm he was the one giving the little sheep, without hiding the mockery in his words.
[(Local) Farewell Sue San: It is my own business to give things away. Are you saying that the whole Pacific Ocean is under your jurisdiction? Besides, I gave Curly the little sheep because Curly is absolutely adorable.]
[(Local) Farewell Sue San: Curly, don’t hesitate to let me know what else you like. This ge will buy it for you.]
Yang Juan politely refused.
[(Local) Sheep Curls: San-ge, thank you. There is nothing I want.]
Witnessing their interaction in the local chat, Errant Wolf gritted his teeth.
This little spy did not even blush when telling a lie.
Even though she clearly knew who sent the little sheep.
In addition, his eyes swept over how Sheep Curls addressed Sue San.
It appeared that the little spy knew many ‘gege’ in the game.
The author has something to say:
A’Ruan has Wine:
Gong: So it turns out I am not his only gege, I am just one of his gege.
Hehehhe digging himself into a deep hole
Thanks for the translations!!
Mmm, I smell vinegar!
Thank you for your translation 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗
Uh oh. Little sheep doll draws fire…lmao! Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️🐑👀
Forget love triangles or squares, this is a whole love constellation 😂😂 And the roommate’s bf is probably the only “innocent” star in it.
🤣 excellent point!
Somehow it’s annoying how wolf calls Spring wife. And the funny thing is he still gets jealous over some other gege and totally ignores the spy stuff mentioned from Spring 🤭😆
Thanks ♥️
Oooo how will our jealous gege respond?
Thank you for translating another chapter.