The Streamer's Allure: Top Fans Vying for Her Affection - Chapter 89
Chapter 89
The skewers Jiang Zhouzhou had ordered had just been brought over when the phone on the table buzzed with a notification.
She lowered her eyes and glanced at the screen, surprise flickering through them.
She hadn’t expected Zhou Xian to suddenly message her on WeChat.
Zhou Xian: “Streamer, what are you up to?”
Jiang Zhouzhou’s brows drew together slightly. She couldn’t understand why Zhou Xian was messaging her on WeChat.
Her finger tapped across the screen as she replied, “Eating.”
She was just about to put her phone down when another message came through in the WeChat chat window.
Zhou Xian: “What a coincidence. Me too.”
Zhou Xian: “Photo.jpg”
Jiang Zhouzhou opened the photo and saw that it was a shot of the signboard of this very barbecue restaurant. Her face instantly flushed red, and her gaze swept around her surroundings on instinct.
“What’s wrong?” Gu Nanfeng asked in a low voice when he saw her expression change so suddenly.
Awkwardly, Jiang Zhouzhou said, “A friend seems to be nearby too.”
Gu Nanfeng’s eyes narrowed. Seeing how red her face was, he guessed that this so-called friend was probably a man.
A faint, hard-to-detect danger gleamed in his upturned fox eyes. He smiled faintly and said, “Then do you want to go say hello?”
Jiang Zhouzhou quickly shook her head. “No, let’s not! We’re not that close.”
They might be very “close” in the livestream room, but meeting offline… was way too awkward!
Jiang Zhouzhou couldn’t help grumbling inwardly. Haishi was getting smaller and smaller. Why did she keep running into people everywhere she went?
Gu Nanfeng said, “Mm. It’s not safe for a girl to live alone. In the future, don’t casually agree to meet men you don’t know well.”
Jiang Zhouzhou was just about to nod along when she suddenly felt that Gu Nanfeng’s tone sounded exceptionally familiar.
That Family Head-like way of speaking…
She blinked and, pretending to be puzzled, said, “Does Mr. Gu mean… I shouldn’t casually agree to meet you in the future either?”
Gu Nanfeng raised a brow. He had meant to remind her to stay wary of men, but he hadn’t expected her to turn the tables on him first.
Without the slightest change in expression, he said, “I’m different from other people.”
Jiang Zhouzhou looked at him with a bright smile. “How are you different?”
Gu Nanfeng said, “What do you think?”
He had suddenly thrown the question back to her.
Jiang Zhouzhou froze for a moment, then seriously sank into thought.
Resting one hand against her cheek, she said slowly, “I think Mr. Gu looks aloof and unapproachable on the surface, but he’s actually a very good person.”
“If it’s Mr. Gu, then you really are different from other people. I believe you wouldn’t hurt me.”
Her gaze was sincere, making something deep in his heart tremble faintly.
Just then, an ill-timed voice rang out.
“Yo, what a coincidence!”
A tall, slender figure took the initiative to sit down beside Jiang Zhouzhou. The faint scent of alcohol lingered around him, pressing toward her.
The instant she saw that Zhou Xian had actually come looking for her, Jiang Zhouzhou’s brain completely short-circuited.
But Zhou Xian’s next sentence snapped her right back to her senses.
“Brother Nanfeng, that’s not very decent of you! Meeting the streamer behind our backs? If that kid Lin Chen found out, he’d cry himself to death.”
With one sentence, he directly exposed Gu Nanfeng’s identity.
Jiang Zhouzhou had already had her suspicions, but when she heard Zhou Xian confirm it himself, it somehow felt unreal instead.
“Mr. Gu, you’re really… Nanfeng!”
Her voice trembled. Because she was far too embarrassed, a thin mist of moisture gathered in her eyes, and even the way she looked at Gu Nanfeng became evasive.
Gu Nanfeng first shot Zhou Xian an icy glare, then took the initiative to admit his identity. “Mm. I was worried you’d feel uncomfortable if you knew, so I kept it from you at first.”
Zhou Xian, sitting off to the side, said in sudden realization, “Huh? So the streamer didn’t know Brother Nanfeng’s real identity? I thought…”
He deliberately paused, his tone instantly turning innocent. “I hope Brother Nanfeng won’t blame me! I didn’t mean to expose you.”
The corner of Jiang Zhouzhou’s mouth twitched. It seemed… Zhou Xian was this annoying with everyone. He wasn’t the least bit afraid that one day someone would throw a sack over his head.
“It’s fine. Actually, I’d wondered if Mr. Gu might be Nanfeng, but I didn’t expect… what a coincidence!”
By a twist of fate, Gu Nanfeng had helped her twice. In a way, that counted as fate too.
And he had helped her even more in the livestream room…
She wasn’t going to take this tiny bit of concealment to heart. After all, Jiang Zhouzhou wouldn’t develop anything further with him just because she knew his identity.
Gu Nanfeng’s brows drew together slightly. Jiang Zhouzhou’s utterly unconcerned attitude left him feeling faintly irritated.
The reason she didn’t care could only be… that in her heart, he was insignificant.
With Zhou Xian joining them, the rest of the time passed in absolute torment.
Even the barbecue Jiang Zhouzhou had been looking forward to no longer tasted good. She only wanted time to hurry up and pass so she could go home sooner.
Noticing Jiang Zhouzhou’s awkwardness, Gu Nanfeng said, “It’s getting late. I’ll take you home.”
Before Jiang Zhouzhou could answer, Zhou Xian said with a cheeky grin, “Brother Nanfeng, give me a ride too. I drank today, so I can’t drive.”
Gu Nanfeng’s icy gaze collided with Zhou Xian’s, and Zhou Xian deliberately arched a brow.
Jiang Zhouzhou didn’t want to get swept up in the strange atmosphere between the two men. Bracing herself, she said, “I’ll just take a cab back.”
Gu Nanfeng said, “No.”
Zhou Xian said, “No.”
The two men refused in unison.
In the end, Gu Nanfeng was the first to compromise. “It’s not safe for a girl to go back alone. I’ll go bring the car around.”
After Gu Nanfeng left, only Zhou Xian and Jiang Zhouzhou remained.
A soft laugh fell into Jiang Zhouzhou’s ears. Zhou Xian walked closer to her, his deep, dark eyes looking down at her from above, as though he had locked onto his prey.
“So the streamer was secretly meeting another Big Brother behind my back?”
Jiang Zhouzhou felt there was something odd about his words, but she still instinctively explained, “It wasn’t secretly behind your back. Mr. Gu helped me twice before, so I invited him to dinner to thank him.”
If she had known earlier that Gu Nanfeng was Nanfeng, she definitely would have kept her distance.
Because when a streamer had too much offline interaction with a Big Brother, certain things could easily change in nature.
Someone immediately seized on the key point. “This is your third time seeing him?”
Jiang Zhouzhou let out an “ah,” unable to keep up with his train of thought.
Was that really the key point that needed to be circled in red?
“This is only the second time we’ve met, but you’ve seen him three times. That’s not fair.”
In Zhou Xian’s tone, Jiang Zhouzhou heard resentment and… a hard-to-detect trace of grievance.
The man in front of her had been an untamed wolf cub just a moment ago, but now… he was like a pitiful little wolfdog with its ears drooping, waiting to be comforted.
Suddenly seeing this other side of Zhou Xian, Jiang Zhouzhou couldn’t help saying, “Then what should we do?”
Zhou Xian seemed to have been waiting for exactly those words. The corner of his mouth curved up. “Since you’ve seen someone else three times, we have to meet one more time too. Next time we meet, I’ll arrange the time.”
Only then did Jiang Zhouzhou snap awake. She had been tricked by Zhou Xian again. She puffed out her cheeks and was just about to refuse.
Zhou Xian suddenly leaned closer. “Can we?”
That aggressively handsome face enlarged before her eyes, and his slightly drunken voice was low, husky, and enticing.
Jiang Zhouzhou took a step back and said dizzily, “O-okay.”
She regretted it the moment the words left her mouth, but the man before her gave her no chance to take them back.
“Then it’s settled.”
Having gotten the answer he wanted, the curve of Zhou Xian’s lips deepened.
The streamer was much more fun offline. All it took was a little teasing to make her blush.
