Chapter 13: So He Is Cheng Xun
Qi En plugged his phone in to charge and went to take a shower.
When he came out, freshly washed and hair still wet, he saw the Little Cat waiting at the bathroom door with the phone in its mouth. The screen showed an incoming call.
Only then did Qi En realize that the faint ringing he had heard inside the bathroom wasn’t a hallucination.
Blame it on the amnesia. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be so insensitive to his own ringtone.
Balancing a towel on his head, he walked over quickly.
“Thanks, Little Cat.”
Qi En picked up the phone and saw an icon for an unknown black app flashing.
He immediately answered Dashās call.
But he was too late; the call automatically disconnected.
Before the next call could pop up, he clicked open the encrypted software. Next to Dashās name was a pile of red dotsāa total of 50 unread messages.
Only then did Qi En remember he had forgotten to report in to Dash.
Dashās messages were still popping up incessantly: Where are you? Itās been five hours.
Dash: You didn’t go find Cheng Xun, did you?
Dash: You haven’t made a move yet, right?
Dash: Thereās no rush for this mission. Don’t act yet.
Dash: Itās impossible for Cheng Xun to trace you. Even if he really wanted to dig you out, it would take some time. Did something happen with him? Did you go find him? Answer me.
Dash: Iām really going to call the police.
Dash: Qi En En En Baobao, answer me.
Dash must be using voice-to-text; his speech speed was way too fast.
And who is “Cheng Xun”?
Before Qi En could finish typing, messages from the other side kept flooding in, causing his phone to lag.
enn: Iām here. I mwui
Dash: Youāre still alive?
enn: Mn-hm.
enn: o(ā^ā)o
enn: I came back from M Club, and I got the weapons, but something happened afterward. My phone died, thatās why I didn’t message you.
Dash: So it just died. If Iād known, I would have hacked your phone and charged it for you.
enn: You can do that? Then I won’t need to buy a power bank in the future.
Saved another expense.
Dash: Why do you agree to everything I say? Don’t you know how to protect your privacy?
enn: I trust you.
Dash: Okay.
One sentence, three words, and the nagging Dash was silenced.
enn: By the way, Brother D, who is Cheng Xun?
Dash: Wait a second, let me look at you.
Before Qi En could figure out how the other party intended to look at him, a video call popped up.
Qi En was a bit flustered. He tried to cover the camera but covered the wrong spot, his hand only blocking the screen.
Instead, this action brought him even closer to the phone.
His expression was magnified and completely exposed:
(āoā)ā¦
A lock of wet hair stuck to the side of his face, like ink spreading on damp rice paper.
Water droplets from his hair tips created dark water stains on his collar; the light-colored fabric turned translucent against his skin, revealing a hint of pink.
Behind Qi En, the half-open bathroom door was visible. Standing in the center of the steam, water droplets still clung to his eyelashes. With a blink, they slid down his cheek.
The whites of his eyes were slightly redāperhaps water had gotten into them while washing his hair. Not just the whites, but his entire eye sockets and the corners of his eyes were red.
He looked as if he had been bullied.
Qi Enās face occupied most of the screen, while a smaller box showed Dashās face.
Dash was the opposite of Qi En.
He wore a mask and a baseball cap, covering himself tightly, revealing only a pair of eyes.
His background was very dark, with only a few small points of light visible in certain spots.
Qi En clicked the small box to enlarge Dash.
When he saw those eyes, Qi Enās own eyes lit up, and he couldn’t help but bring the phone closer.
“Is this you?” Qi En asked.
Sensing Qi Enās mood, Dash momentarily forgot why he had made the video call in the first place.
His brow raised slightly, his tone lifting, hiding a trace of inadvertent pleasure. “Yes, what about it?”
“Your eyes are so pretty, and your eyelashes are so curled.”
“Cough, they’re alright.” Dash lowered his eyes, avoiding Qi Enās direct gaze.
But Qi Enās next sentence caused Dash to lose his composure.
“So cute.”
“?”
Dashās eyebrows froze in mid-air, the arc of a smile from the previous second still lingering on his brow, as if he could feel his concealed lower face collapsing.
“What did you say?” Dash asked in disbelief.
“I said you’re cute. Your eyes are big and beautiful,” Qi En said, giving him a thumbs up.
“……”
Dash couldn’t smile anymore.
Afraid that Dash would scold him for his work error, Qi En desperately looked for topics unrelated to work to divert Dash’s attention.
He found that when the topic focused on Dashās appearance and features, Dash seemed happy.
Look at him now; Dash was so happy he couldn’t even speak.
So, Qi En praised him even more vigorously.
He shifted the topic to Dashās voice. “Brother D, can I hear your voice? This voice changer sounds too awful; my ears hurt after listening to it for so long.”
“……”
“Is it an organization rule that you can’t use your real voice? Does that mean I shouldn’t use my real voice or show my face either?”
“There is such a rule, but as long as you don’t tell anyone, no one will know.”
“Then since you’ve seen what I look like, shouldn’t you let me see you too? That would be fair.”
Dash couldn’t handle Qi En talking to him like this.
His hesitation and indecision only made Qi En more enthusiastic.
“Brother D, pretty please.”
He didn’t feel like he was acting coquettishly toward Dash at all. Even if he knew, paying this small price to avoid being held accountable was worth it.
“Alright…” Dash couldn’t resist.
“Do you want to see my face or hear my voice?”
“Can I have both?”
“I haven’t prepared myself yet…”
Dashās words, paired with that deep, cold mechanical voice, created a strong sense of dissonance.
Qi En was actually quite interested in what Dash really looked like.
After all, Dashās eyes were exactly the type he liked.
They looked very much like his own eyes.
Both were cute.
Big and round.
However, Dashās double eyelids weren’t as wide as his, and the corners of Dash’s eyes drooped slightly, whereas his were flatter, sometimes even tilting upward a bit.
When Qi En found out he had amnesia, he had looked in the mirror for a long time.
He spent quite a while studying his own appearance.
Because he was afraid that one day he would forget his own face.
“Then let me hear your real voice first, okay, Brother D?”
Qi En called him “Brother D” with every breath, sounding very sweet.
Dash couldn’t hold out.
“Okay.”
The deep voice unexpectedly carried a hint of doting affection.
“I’ll turn off the voice changer now.”
“Okay, okay.”
“Wait, you can’t say my voice sounds bad.”
“I won’t, I won’t!”
Qi En was getting a little excited, even more excited than when he got the eight hundred yuan.
“What about now? …Can you hear me?”
Qi En froze for a moment, his expression stalling for a second.
Dash frowned. “Forget it, I’ll just use the voice changer. I’m used to it.”
“Your voice doesn’t sound bad. Why would you say it sounds bad? Talk to me like this from now on. I like your voice!”
“…Really?”
“Yes, it’s so cute, so crisp.”
“……”
“It feels like biting into a piece of hard candy. It sounds very nice.”
“…Let’s leave it at that. I’ve confirmed your safety. I’ll type the rest to you.”
“Hm? Why?”
Qi En sensed that Dashās mood wasn’t very high.
Just as he was about to ask why, Dash hung up the video call.
Qi En had no choice but to type and ask him.
enn: Whatās wrong, Little D?
Dash: Have you looked at your assassination target’s profile?
enn: Not yet, haven’t had the time. I’ll look at it in a bit.
Dash: I spoke to the Guild President. Considering your special circumstances, the one-billion commission isn’t suitable for you. So, you can have one penalty-free chance to cancel the mission.
Dash: Cancel the one-billion commission. I’ve already opened the authorization for you. Once you cancel it, I’ll close the permission.
Qi En didn’t reply to Dash.
Give up? He had just made up his mind to start.
The cat asked: [Don’t you want to give up?]
“No. Does he think I’m very weak and can’t accomplish big things?”
[Probably.]
“Why do you have to be so direct? Can’t you be a little euphemistic?”
Qi En lay on the sofa in distress, propping one leg up. His shorts slid down, revealing the soft flesh of his thigh.
[I don’t know how to be euphemistic.]
[Since you don’t want to give up, then refuse him.]
But Qi En was also a little afraid of death.
So conflicted.
“There’s no helping it, one billion is simply too much.”
Qi En thought of a way out for himself.
“Even if I quit this one and find other commissions worth twenty or thirty million, I could pay off the debt. But I’d still have to do several jobs to earn living expenses, otherwise, I’ll have to go back to livestreaming.”
[Even though there are many ways to make money, your feelings toward the one billion are different, right? I understand, the word for this is ‘White Moonlight’.]
Qi En snorted lightly. “It’s not a White Moonlight, it’s one billion. It’s money that ordinary people couldn’t earn in several lifetimes.”
Because of his amnesia, he had lost some perception of the outside world.
Including the perception of unknown dangers.
Dash gave Qi En plenty of time to think. Only now did he ask:
What do you think?
enn: I won’t cancel it. Let me try first. If it doesn’t work, I’ll quit then.
Dash: Alright.
Dash: I have to warn you. If you get scared, or feel something is wrong, ignore everything and leave immediately. Run right away.
Qi En nodded, taking Dashās words to heart.
enn: By the way, are you D?
Dash: Is this question important?
Dash seemed a little angry. Did he upset him during the video call just now?
enn: Didn’t you want my photos and videos before?
Dash didn’t reply but sent a picture instead.
Qi En clicked open the screenshot.
It was a screenshot of a Miro user profile, and the username on it was “D”.
Qi Enās eyes lit up.
It really is the Rank 2 donor.
After seeing Rank 2ās fierce comments in the livestream, he thought Rank 2 was a pervert.
Unexpectedly, he was a man of contrast.
enn: It really is you, Little D.
Dash: Can you call me like you did before?
[His fan club level is 60, which is the max level. The badge is always lit, which means he comes to watch your stream often. His platform membership level is 99, meaning his cumulative tips have reached eight million. That’s eight million without counting the platform’s cut.]
So much money!
Eight million, thatās more than two thousand Carnivals!
enn: Do you like me a lot? You spent a lot of money on me.
Qi En also liked people who treated him well.
Giving him money meant treating him well; he liked all such people.
Qi En wasn’t stingy either. Keeping his promise, he sent out the photos he had taken recently from his album.
However, when clicking through the album, he was selective.
He only sent those conservative close-up selfies.
They didn’t look like carefully posed shots, but rather photos taken while washing his face or showering, suddenly feeling vain and snapping a few in the mirror.
Sometimes, compared to refined photos, these unretouched photos where you could see skin texture and flushed areas were more comfortable and natural.
Qi En also conveniently changed Dashās contact name.
At first, he changed it to “D”, then later it became “Little D”.
Little D: Save my phone number. I called you just now.
Qi En opened his call log and indeed saw a string of red missed calls.
He saved the number and also named it “Little D”.
Little D: Add my private contact? Do you have WeLink?
It seemed he wanted to add all of Qi Enās contact methods right now.
Qi En first checked his phone to see if he had the WeLink app, but he couldn’t find it.
It was the Little Cat who reminded him.
The mechanical cat paw tapped on his phone screen, making a clack-clack sound.
It was an app called “WeLink”.
His head was a bit dizzy; he didn’t know if it was because he hadn’t dried his hair or if this app reminded him of something.
Qi En rubbed his temples and opened the app.
WeLink was similar to LMAās internal communication software, but with richer functions.
Without the cat needing to remind him, he naturally knew how to operate it.
It was just that before, he couldn’t recall whether he knew how to use it or not.
Qi En saved his QR code and sent it to Little D.
While waiting for Little D to send the friend request, Qi En scrolled through his contacts list.
But it was extremely clean; there wasn’t a single friend.
At this moment, a friend request popped up.
“D requests to add you as a friend.”
And in the box below, it displayed the other party’s remark:
“I am Dai Mu.”
Is this Little Dās real name? Sounds nice.
Qi En clicked accept.
Unlike Qi Enās clean list and Moments, Dai Muās Moments were very rich.
There were photos of trips to various places. These travel photos were posted in batches, clearly taken during vacations.
The rest, which took up the most space, was content related to Qi En.
“How did he send this out…”
The latest Moment was a photo of Qi En, along with a screenshot of a chat with Qi En.
It was the screenshot where Qi En sent him photos and asked if he liked him.
And Dai Muās caption was:
Like.
Qi En blushed a little.
Qi En could also see the friends’ comments below; they were friends on Dai Muās side.
K: ?
K: I have some too.
K: Look at what I posted.
This K must be Kai Xingwen.
There was another person Qi En didn’t know.
S: You like men?
Qi En was a bit confused. He scratched his face with his finger and continued to scroll down.
Mn, they were all clips and screenshots from the livestream room.
And Dai Muās Miro account balance.
So many zeros.
Qi En looked at the cat. “My handler is my fan.”
[Mn-hm.]
Obviously, the cat didn’t know how to handle this situation either.
Just as Qi En was worrying about how to start a topic with Dai Mu without it being awkward, the next second, he could no longer see Dai Muās Moments.
[He blocked you.]
“But I already finished looking at them all.”
“I’d better pretend I don’t know anything.”
At this time, Dai Mu sent him several documents.
Little D: Compared to the information on the website, the ones here are more complete.
Little D: I’ve already categorized and organized them. You take a look first. If anything is unclear or there’s anything else you want to know, ask me.
Little D: I’ve marked the important content for you. Those are the key points to memorize; just browse through the rest.
enn: Thank you, Little D.
Little D: From now on, work-related content will be discussed in the Little Black Boxāthat’s the nickname for LMA’s shared communication software. Other daily life matters can be chatted about on WeLink.
enn: Does that mean I can chat with you?
Little D: Yes.
Little D: I will reply when I see it. If I don’t reply, I’m busy.
Little D: If it’s urgent, it’s better to find me on the Little Black Box.
enn: Okay, Little D.
Little D: Can you call me Brother?
enn: Brother Little D.
Little D: ……
enn: Little D, I’m going to read the data first.
Little D: Itās very late. Not going to rest first?
Qi En glanced at the time; it was already past three in the morning.
But he wasn’t sleepy at all.
If he didn’t read the information on the One Billion, he wouldn’t be able to sleep.
enn: I’ll sleep after I finish reading in a bit.
Little D: Goodnight.
Qi En lay on the sofa, legs raised and resting against the sofa back and the wall. His neck rested right on the edge of the sofa, letting his head hang back upside down.
He clicked open the document Dai Mu sent. One of them was “Basic Information.”
The phone screen was relatively small, and the ID photo was in the top right corner of the data table; it couldn’t be seen clearly without zooming in.
He looked at the name firstā
Cheng Xun.
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