Chapter 4 he World is Cold, But Some People are Warm

[All The Way North: What a coincidence, I just woke up too.]

[Qingqian: voice message))5s]

Lu Yibei clicked it open.

A calm, even indifferent voice came out.

"I forgot to turn off the alarm, and my head hurts a little."

What good person sets an alarm for 12 noon. Lu Yibei said in his heart, but considering Qingqian's round-the-clock schedule these days... okay, that's normal.

[All The Way North: I woke up naturally. Can you do that? Sleeping for so long and still having a headache, don't get sick.]

[Qingqian: voice message))3s]

"I only slept for four hours."

[All The Way North: I went offline at less than three o'clock, you played alone for that long after that?]

Qingqian: "I didn't play."

Qingqian: "I just couldn't sleep."

[All The Way North: Why are you having insomnia for no reason? I'm the one who broke up, not you.]

Qingqian: "You're not allowed to sleep if I break up?"

[All The Way North: Why can't you sleep if I break up.]

Qingqian: "I'm happy."

Lu Yibei: "..."

This Qingqian, her tone really did have a bit of sweetness to it.

[All The Way North: Building your happiness on other people's pain, you're really something.]

Qingqian: "Are you still in pain? You're even more something."

Hearing a bit of concern, Lu Yibei typed with a smile:

"If I was in pain, I wouldn't have slept until noon."

Qingqian: "That's good."

Qingqian: "If you still can't let go, I'll laugh at you for the rest of my life."

[All The Way North: Have you had some kind of seal broken? Are you planning to say all the words you haven't said in the past few years in one breath today?]

Qingqian used to rarely send emoticons, let alone voice messages.

Today, they were all voice messages.

Qingqian: "Why? Don't want to hear it?"

[All The Way North: Of course not, who wouldn't want to hear such a good-sounding voice.]

[Qingqian: voice message))39s]

"I'm happy, so what, you can control me, people always change. I'll only say a few more words to you when I'm happy, wait until I lose interest and see if I even bother with you. What are you planning to do today? My head hurts, so I might not get on until this afternoon, have you had lunch?"

[All The Way North: Is that because I praised your voice, you're making a point to say a few more words?]

[Qingqian: /smile]

[Qingqian: Get lost.]

[All The Way North: Hahahahaha, I haven't eaten, but there's a lot of KFC left over from yesterday, I won't starve to death, you remember to eat.]

Qingqian: "Hmm, eat something small to hold me over, I plan to order a milk tea."

[All The Way North: I'm going to finish up some work first, I still need to get full attendance at the end of the month, I'll QQ you if I feel like getting on.]

Qingqian: "Hmm~ okay~"

Lu Yibei replayed the last sentence three times, the cold style carrying a bit of lazy tenderness.

Most importantly, it was definitely a girl's voice.

Just, it was quite wonderful.

Lu Yibei sat on the wheeled computer chair, and slid to the desk.

He opened a webpage and started searching furiously.

[I've known my online good bro for several years, and suddenly she confessed that she's my little sister, what should I do?]

There was actually someone on a certain forum asking the same question.

Lu Yibei clicked in.

[2nd Floor: OP, did that good bro confess to you when you were feeling particularly down?]

[OP replying to 2nd Floor: Yeah, yeah]

Lu Yibei thought, doesn't that match up perfectly? Breaking up is a part of feeling down.

[2nd Floor: Is that good bro also particularly nice to you, and particularly pretty?]

[OP replying to 2nd Floor: Yeah, yeah]

Although he didn't know what Qingqian looked like, her voice was quite goddess-like.

Lu Yibei slapped his thigh, the OP was really his own brother from another mother, they had the exact same experience.

[2nd Floor: Judging by how many novels and anime I've seen, I suggest finding a blockbuster to get over it.]

[OP replying to 2nd Floor: How dare you sully my innocence out of thin air!]

[OP replying to 2nd Floor: Then you give me a website!]

[OP replying to 2nd Floor: Huh? Why haven't you replied to me!]

Lu Yibei: ...

Who was this OP? So unfamiliar.

He looked down.

[3rd Floor: Next she'll confess that she has an alcoholic dad, a seriously ill mom, a younger brother in school, and her grandpa's tea, help out the broken her, go her place and buy a few kilograms of tea!]

[4th Floor: Grass, are people just posting novel outlines on the forum now? I'm just gonna copy it.]

Lu Yibei continued to search several websites.

The answers he got were all roughly the same.

Either it was a dream or a scam.

Which made Lu Yibei feel a bit dazed.

He was even starting to wonder if Qingqian was a product of his imagination.

He reopened his phone, clicked on the chat history with Qingqian, and re-clicked on the last voice message.

"Hmm~ okay~"

A lazy and gentle female voice wormed into Lu Yibei's ears.

He listened to it happily.

"It's not a dream."

Lu Yibei said, could it be a scam?

Impossible, he and Qingqian had a years-long relationship where they had gone through life and death.

No one raises fish like that.

Besides, someone was giving him a family bucket, it wasn't him giving someone one, who would scam someone by spending money?

Conveniently, his phone rang.

An unfamiliar number.

"Hello?"

Lu Yibei picked up: "...Oh, delivery... huh? From where? Milk tea? Oh, put it at the door, I'll go get it myself later."

After hanging up, he tapped on the phone screen.

[All The Way North: Did you order the milk tea too?]

Qingqian replied almost instantly.

"Yeah."

[All The Way North: Qingqian, I'm really not human!!]

[Qingqian: ??]

People were feeding him good food and drinks, and he was actually wondering if they were trying to scam him!

What could Qingqian want from him?

Want him because he's old? Want him because he hasn't showered?

Lu Yibei was filled with remorse, and could have slapped himself twice in the middle of the night.

What's wrong with you?

Qingqian: "I filled in the wrong address, you can drink it."

[All The Way North: How much was it, I'll transfer it to you.]

Qingqian: "No need, I'm just getting what I deserve."

[All The Way North: Then pay attention next time.]

Qingqian: "Have you finished working?"

[All The Way North: No.]

Qingqian: "Haven't finished working and you're still talking so much, get to typing."

[All The Way North: Steady.]

Lu Yibei closed all the unhelpful webpages, and put his hands on the Cherry MX Red keyboard, and typed wildly.

If the heavens hadn't given birth to Lu Yibei, the way of the keyboard would have been like a long night!

Keyboard, come!

Lu Yibei's work was writing webnovels, he was a contracted webnovel author on a certain website.

A lot of people, when they hear the word "author", think it's really lofty, really amazing.

But actually, people like Lu Yibei, these little nobodies, basically aren't worth anything, and it's no different than carrying bricks.

Coding webnovel plots is like carrying cyber bricks.

But even if it wasn't worth much, Lu Yibei had his own professional ethics, and the first thing he did after waking up was of course to update his novel, how could he make his readers wait!?

If he couldn't let his readers see the update right away, what kind of professional writer would he be!

Da da da, da da da!

The sound of the mechanical keyboard was like bullets being sprayed.

Work done.

It wasn't possible to add more, there was no way he was adding more, he could only maintain the 4k a day to keep his full attendance.

After updating, Lu Yibei opened the website's backend with flowing water, and checked the comments.

[Reader 1: The author is so short.]

[Reader 2: The author doesn't last long.]

[Reader 3: The author is good at watering, so much water.]

Lu Yibei: ...

He took another look at the data.

[Favorites: -1]

Lu Yibei: "Shit!"

Bad luck, he quickly closed the webpage.

His last book's results had been pretty good, and he had saved a little money, but the webnovel industry is like floating up and down, and just because his last book was good didn't mean that this one would be too.

Lu Yibei sighed sadly, and took a sip of milk tea.

In this cold world, only this strawberry bo bo could give him a little warmth.

That's not right.

Lu Yibei thought about it, he seemed to have forgotten something.

What was it?

Oh, he had forgotten to reply to Liu Jie's message.