The Streamer’s Allure: Top Fans Vying for Her Affection

Chapter 126

Between choosing a gown and getting her makeup and styling done, by the time everything was finished, it was exactly six o’clock.

Jiang Zhouzhou sat beside Yin Yue as the scenery outside the car window slowly drifted backward.

Traffic in Haishi was heavy at this hour. Although the air conditioner was on inside the car, Jiang Zhouzhou still felt a little tightness in her chest.

Her right hand brushed the bracelet on her left wrist. After hesitating for a while… she slowly said, “Brother Yin Yue, during my livestream yesterday, I connected with an antique appraisal streamer.”

She secretly observed the man’s expression. Seeing his eyelids flicker slightly, Jiang Zhouzhou continued, “He said this bracelet is worth 6.8 million.”

Yin Yue noticed how cautious she was, and his voice softened. “In other people’s eyes, it’s worth 6.8 million. But in my eyes, it’s just a slightly prettier bracelet. If you return it to me, then it’s nothing but a worthless stone.”

Jiang Zhouzhou tucked her hand back and lowered her head. “I do like it. I wasn’t thinking of giving it back to you. It’s just…”

“I want to know what Brother Yin Yue likes. I want to give you something in return.”

She had spent ages searching online for gifts suitable for male friends, but all the results were endless lists of razors.

After thinking it over, she figured it was better to ask him in person.

Yin Yue glanced sideways at Jiang Zhouzhou. Seeing the way she hung her little head, the smile on his face deepened.

How could she be this lovable?

“The point of giving a gift is hoping the other person likes it, not thinking about what they’ll give back.”

“Don’t feel pressured. I gave it to you because you deserve it.”

His words were far too direct, and Jiang Zhouzhou’s face heated up rapidly.

There was one more sentence Yin Yue didn’t say out loud.

There was no gift he liked-only a person he liked.

Fortunately, they finally arrived. The moment the car door opened, a cool breeze scattered the warmth from Jiang Zhouzhou’s face.

But when she saw how many people were there, Jiang Zhouzhou grew nervous again.

Yin Yue took her hand and placed it on his arm.

Leaning down close to her face, his warm breath brushed past her ear. “Don’t be nervous. I’m right beside you.”

The lavish banquet hall was dazzling with lights. Jiang Zhouzhou blinked.

Looking at all the expensively dressed people around them, she rose onto her tiptoes and asked quietly, “Brother Yin Yue, I’ve never seen much of the world. Will people pick on me?”

That was how novels always wrote it!

A country bumpkin who had never seen the world entered a gorgeous banquet hall and got surrounded and bullied by a group of rich young masters and young ladies.

Yin Yue froze for a second. Clearly, for once, he hadn’t managed to keep up with her train of thought.

“Ahem. They won’t!”

He lowered his eyes and smiled at her. “If they do pick on you, it won’t be because they look down on you. It would be because they look down on me.”

If anyone dared to bully the person he brought, they would be deliberately slapping him in the face.

Hearing him say that, Jiang Zhouzhou raised a hand to cover her heart, which had started beating a little faster.

She felt much more at ease.

Continuing forward with Yin Yue, Jiang Zhouzhou received quite a few stares along the way.

She couldn’t tell whether those gazes were aimed at her or at Yin Yue.

Instinctively, she tightened her grip on Yin Yue’s arm, her voice trembling slightly. “Brother Yin Yue, I feel like I’m the string tied around a crab.”

Because she was attached to him, in this moment, she had gained the same value.
Yin Yue smiled. “Not at all. You’re far more precious than I am.”

He knew how little confidence this girl had, especially when he thought back to the first time he’d met her…

Timid, evasive, self-conscious, sensitive…

Those damp eyes of hers had been filled with far too many emotions. It had made his heart ache.

Although she had gradually become more cheerful, that lack of confidence still surfaced from time to time.

Yin Yue wanted to become someone she could rely on. He wanted her to know that with him by her side, she didn’t have to worry about anything.

It was just that words like those needed the right moment before they could be said aloud.

Just then, someone came over to greet Yin Yue, and he exchanged a few polite words with them.

Jiang Zhouzhou felt too embarrassed to interrupt their conversation, so she told Yin Yue she was going to get herself a glass of juice.

After temporarily parting from Yin Yue, Jiang Zhouzhou carefully made her way around a few people. But she didn’t know if she was just being too sensitive…

She kept feeling like several gazes were fixed tightly on her.

Suppressing her discomfort, Jiang Zhouzhou picked up a glass of juice from a tray and was just about to drink it when…

A slender, well-defined hand pushed the glass in her hand away. A voice said to her, “That’s fruit wine. Little girls shouldn’t drink it.”

Jiang Zhouzhou looked at the familiar face in front of her. She hadn’t even had any alcohol yet, but her face turned red first.

“Brother… Brother Nanfeng!” she greeted him, stumbling over the words.

Why was he here too?

The moment Gu Nanfeng saw Jiang Zhouzhou appear here, what else was there not to understand?

“Yin Yue brought you here?”

There was the faint, almost imperceptible sound of gritted teeth in his tone.

That cunning old American Cockroach had brought her here on purpose to stake his claim!

Hearing him name Yin Yue outright, Jiang Zhouzhou started to realize what was going on. “The troublesome business partner Brother Nanfeng always mentions… don’t tell me that’s…”

Her voice grew quieter and quieter. Jiang Zhouzhou could only sigh inwardly. What a small world.

“I only found out yesterday too. No wonder he’s so irritating,” Gu Nanfeng said carelessly.

Jiang Zhouzhou awkwardly wanted to scratch her head, but when she remembered she’d had her makeup and hair done, she silently lowered her hand again.

No wonder those two had been acting so weird in the group chat yesterday.

“Come on. Perfect timing. I’ll introduce you to some friends.”

Gu Nanfeng suddenly took Jiang Zhouzhou’s hand, calculation hidden in his narrowed Fox Eyes.

Before Jiang Zhouzhou’s mind could react, her body had already followed him away.

What happened on this side of the hall also fell into the eyes of certain people.

Humans were visual creatures. When they saw someone beautiful, they couldn’t help looking a few more times, and then the impression would stick.

Only…

Hadn’t this girl come to the banquet together with Yin Yue? Why was she with Gu Nanfeng now?

And wasn’t Gu Nanfeng supposed to have no interest in women?

In a corner of the banquet hall, when Lin Chen caught sight of Jiang Zhouzhou, he was unsure for a split second.

He rubbed his eyes and looked a few more times.

The figure before him grew clearer and clearer, and that face overlapped with the one from the livestream room.

His gaze followed her closely. Watching her chat and laugh with other men sent a dense, prickling pain through his chest.

At long last, when he saw her finally separate from that man, Lin Chen hesitated over whether he should go up and say hello. But in the end, someone else got there before him again.