Chapter 129: Kind Words Build Good Karma, Cruel Words Hurt the Heart
Yu Wanwan was naturally joking……
Even so, after hearing her calmly mention being drowned into a pond and thrown in a pig cage, Pu Tong still froze for a moment.
How did she awaken a yandere trait?
“I was just kidding.” Yu Wanwan turned back and smiled at the three of them.
“Just trying to scare you!”
“You’d better be.”
Pu Tong felt a little creeped out. They were only friends and deskmates, and she was already like this. If their relationship ever progressed further, wouldn’t he end up losing his lifelong right to befriend members of the opposite sex……
Actually, Yu Wanwan’s thoughts were exactly the opposite. It was precisely because she currently lacked a sense of security that she was being so cautious. The outcome was still uncertain, and anyone could potentially steal him away……but if they really got together, she would instead just let things take their course.
Only having him in her hands would make her feel secure. As for preventing others from stealing him, that was another matter entirely.
“What the hell are you thinking about again?”
Pu Tong directly gave her a cherry-blossom-girl-style flick on the forehead.
“Hey, don’t look at me with that look like I’m some kind of object!”
“Do I?
Yu Wanwan rubbed her forehead, feeling warmth there……It didn’t really hurt; instead, she was quite happy that he had flicked her forehead.
And there was also a strange sense of intimacy.
“Oh no, she’s already evolved to the point where even getting flicked makes her blush……”
Yi Zhi Xuenai studied Yu Wanwan’s expression, finding it hard to understand. It obviously hurt a lot, didn’t it?
Lin Yuxi coughed twice, as if she had something important to say.
Pointing at Yu Wanwan, she said indignantly: “You, don’t rush, anyway, don’t rush, no one is going to fight you for that whatever-it-is, that whatever-it-is will be yours sooner or later!”
No, what whatever-it-is? Pu Tong was having a hard time holding it together.
Could the “whatever-it-is” you’re talking about be me?
“And you!” Lin Yuxi turned her attention back to Pu Tong:
“It’s already known that Tang Luocheng and Chen Siqing were filming a show while playing games with you, so guess whether you’ll still be able to keep pretending after the show airs?”
“Uh……”
Actually, after noticing the problem just now, Pu Tong had thought of this too. From what Tang Luocheng had said, the three of them had played games together all day, and the show would definitely film some footage from inside the game, so those few IDs were completely impossible to hide.
Once the show aired, there would definitely be a bunch of netizens jumping out to say,
“Sure enough, it’s Pu Tong.” And with another wave of publicity from the show, it would be even harder to explain.
This matter had to be clarified quickly……
He really didn’t want to become popular along with the show again. Every time a show aired, he would end up trending instead, as if he were constantly stealing other people’s luck. How inhumane was that?
“Let’s clarify it when we get home tonight.” Pu Tong sighed.
“And explain it clearly to Tang Luocheng and Chen Siqing while we’re at it.”
Actually, life was often more absurd than TV dramas, and all kinds of misunderstandings happened frequently. But the difference between the two was that when misunderstandings occurred in real life, people would just explain things clearly, rather than creating conflicts through information gaps like in TV dramas.
For example, if someone really collapsed into his arms and died before finishing, “The person who killed me was……” Pu Tong wouldn’t mind slapping him twice to wake him up. What the hell, was saying a name really that exhausting?
If there’s a misunderstanding, explain it. We’re not playing those frustrating games.
Lin Yuxi nodded, finally turning the topic to the last person, Yi Zhi Xuenai.
“You!”
“What about me?”
The two people in front each had their own problems, but what had she done?
“Nothing.” Lin Yuxi flicked her forehead. “Just saying it casually.”
Pu Tong no longer had the mind to watch them fool around and began thinking about how he should phrase things.
Telling the truth was definitely the way to go. Lending an account to a friend to play wasn’t a big deal, but the problem was how to make netizens believe him.
Netizens came with a built-in skepticism buff. Sometimes even when the truth was thrown right in their faces, there would still be different voices, let alone something this ambiguous.
Back when the incident about him secretly having a crush on his deskmate Yu Wanwan happened, the two of them had both clarified it, yet weren’t there still a huge number of CP fans now?
No, he just couldn’t understand it. Were the two of them really that well-matched?
“You just need to explain.” Yu Wanwan seemed to have noticed his confusion.
“Dragging it out will only make things worse.”
If temporary silence would cause even bigger trouble, then they should cut their losses in time.
Pu Tong nodded and decided to cut through the mess quickly.
After school that evening, he confirmed things with Liu Neng. Just as he had expected, at the time he had indeed been playing with people called “Chengche” and “Qingge.”
After returning home, Pu Tong immediately messaged Chen Siqing and explained the matter.
Chen Siqing: [So, the person who played games with us was your friend?]
So it really was like this?
Chen Siqing rubbed his brow. Actually, he had suspected this while they were playing. After all, Pu Tong usually studied so seriously at school, so how could he possibly spend an entire day playing games with them? He didn’t think he had that much face either.
If he had lent his account to a friend, then it made sense……
Although he had already guessed it, knowing that this was the situation still made him quite upset. He had gone to all that trouble to curry favor with someone, only to find out that it had all been a misunderstanding.
His efforts had been wasted, and he hadn’t even managed to ride the wave of popularity, only getting his hopes up for nothing.
Pu Tong didn’t know what to say either. After all, they were the ones who had one-sidedly wanted to play games with “him”; all he could say was that their clever plan had backfired.
Chen Siqing: [I understand. It’s fine. Tell your friend for me that, honestly, he’s kind of bad……]
Now that he knew it wasn’t Pu Tong, he wasn’t going to hold back!
Chen Siqing smiled bitterly and wasn’t actually that upset.
There were plenty of cases in the entertainment industry where people tried to ride someone else’s popularity only for things to backfire, and he had seen plenty of them. Ultimately, it was their own greed that had led to this accident.
And looking at things now, it had been right that he hadn’t chosen to ride the wave of popularity when the “Bird Bro livestream” incident was at its peak……If he had done that, not only would he have offended Pu Tong, but once the truth came out, he would have completely become a laughingstock.
Pu Tong: [Uh, well, send me Tang Luocheng’s contact information. I’ll explain it to her too.]
Chen Siqing: [When you tell her, if you can put it tactfully, please be a little tactful……I’m afraid she’ll have a breakdown.]
What was with that concerned tone? Could these two really have developed something while their CP was being hyped?
Pu Tong: [How about you tell her?]
Chen Siqing: [You tell her.]
Got it, this guy secretly cared about her but didn’t want to show it……
He added Tang Luocheng as a friend and explained the matter. As expected, the other party’s mental state collapsed.
Tang Luocheng felt quite miserable. She didn’t even play games at all. She had painstakingly learned just to curry favor with him. She had originally thought that after playing together all day they had become familiar, but she never expected this result.
How was she supposed to accept it?
She was also wondering why “Pu Tong” in the game kept praising how well she played, only for him to completely not recognize her when they met. Now she was both embarrassed and frustrated.
But as for this matter, if anyone was to blame, it could only be her for getting carried away with her own wishful thinking. She couldn’t blame anyone else.
Tang Luocheng leaned blankly against her chair, feeling as if all her energy had been drained away, leaving behind only an empty shell.
What was the point of playing this garbage game! Now she got angry just looking at it and only wanted to feed kills like crazy.
She didn’t even know what she was thinking. Almost as if possessed, she sent Chen Siqing a message: “Get on!”
This time, it wasn’t marketing.
After explaining everything to the two people involved, Pu Tong finally logged into his own Weibo account to clarify things.
Although the essence of this incident was simply a form of entertainment going viral, he still didn’t want anyone to imitate this behavior. Liu Neng had been passively defending himself, but if someone took the initiative to attack others just because these jokes were amusing, then that would be a negative influence on his part as a public figure.
Explaining the incident was only one reason. More importantly, he hoped that everyone could maintain friendly communication while playing games.
Following his train of thought, Pu Tong quickly wrote the post and published it, which could also be considered an explanation to the onlookers.
Yu Wanwan knew that Pu Tong would post a clarification, so she had been keeping watch over his account, planning to take a look as soon as possible.
She refreshed it a few times out of boredom, and Pu Tong’s first new Weibo post in a long while popped up.
A certain ordinary user:
“The gaming incident from a few days ago, the account ‘So What If I'm Arrogant’ is indeed mine, but at the time it was my friend who was playing. The chat logs and account login location information are shown below.
This particular game was a special situation, so I hope everyone won’t casually imitate the things said during the match.
I know netizens are just joking around and have no malicious intent, but I hope everyone won’t attack others in any situation. Civilization in the heart, civilization on the lips.
Kind words build good karma, cruel words hurt the heart; one kind word warms three winter months, one cruel word chills six summer months.”
(End of chapter)
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