Chapter 127: Being Friends
Afterwards, I found another partner through my family’s introduction. I no longer believed those female streamers online. I grew up a lot after those experiences. Although I still held resentment in my heart, I didn’t want to affect his current life because of Seventy-Six.
The boy told her it was best to live her own life; dwelling on past events only brought her pain. How could someone who deceived you understand your suffering?
She said she never wanted anything to do with Seventy-Six again and only wanted to continue her relationship with her current girlfriend.
After everything with Seventy-Six was over, she contacted the boy as promised, saying she wanted to be friends.
The boy felt baffled and asked Ru Yue, “Why do you insist on being friends with me? You know, I don’t really like being friends with people I’ve dated.”
“There’s no reason, I just thought we had a good time together for so long, I simply want to be friends with you.”
The boy laughed, “Do you remember when we broke up? I had someone else make that phone call to you, and you lied to me saying it was your mom. You’ve known me for a long time, if you had just told me the truth, I wouldn’t have blamed you. Most of my male fans called you, and after you told me, when did I ever criticize you?”
Ru Yue explained, “I don’t know what was wrong with me back then, I didn’t even listen to what you said. Sigh, I actually said it was my mom because I was afraid you would misunderstand. I didn’t know you had him call me…”
“Forget it, just live your life well. Even though we had so many arguments, I still hope you live well, after all, when we were good, we were genuinely good.”
“Then can we be friends? I want to be friends with you,” Ru Yue continued.
“Okay, but I won’t bother you, and I won’t talk to you as much as I used to.”
“It’s okay, as long as I can be friends with you.”
The boy was somewhat baffled and speechless. He couldn’t understand why Ru Yue insisted on being friends with him. They had loved each other deeply and treated each other well. The breakup was baffling, and then those unpleasant incidents happened, so why did she still insist on being friends with him?
Although he had doubts, the boy didn’t think too much about it. Anyway, he just needed to avoid too much contact to prevent being exploited.
While the boy was live streaming, the younger sister named Mu Zi came to see him and said, “Brother, if in a few years you get tired of all the scheming and intrigue, and if you’re still single, will you marry me?”
Hearing this, the boy was deeply moved and his eyes welled up a little. He knew this younger sister was just trying to comfort him. Also, Mu Zi’s mother had recently passed away, so to leave her with some hope, he said, “Okay, but on the condition that you live well.”
“Okay, brother, I promise. You also need to take care of yourself.”
It was originally an act of mutual encouragement, wishing for a little beauty in each other’s lives.
Who knew that Ru Yue told the boy that this younger sister, Mu Zi, had also spoken ill of Ru Yue to the boy, saying the boy was after her family’s money and that he wanted to marry her.
When the boy heard this, he also repeated what Mu Zi had said about Ru Yue. Mu Zi said Ru Yue wasn’t as good-looking as her, nor as wealthy, and it was better to be with her than with Ru Yue.
With both of them saying these things, it was infuriating! The boy was so angry. Before, he hadn’t paid much attention to how Mu Zi tried to sow discord between them, but now that everything had fallen apart, why was she still endlessly interfering?
She acted incredibly obedient in front of him, protecting him and speaking ill of Ru Yue, and she was the same with Ru Yue. Clearly, what kind of person was she?
The boy, enraged, sent Mu Zi a message directly.
He reprimanded her, “You’re really something. I always treated you like a sister. When I was with Ru Yue, you were always stirring up trouble between us, saying you wanted to be with me. After we broke up, you’re still interfering. Is there no end to it? You really don’t care about me at all! And you even said I was after your family’s money? Damn it! You really don’t understand me! If I were after money, I would have been with you long ago! I hate guys like you who are so self-righteous the most. Get lost, we don’t need to contact each other anymore.”
It was unclear whether Ru Yue deliberately told the boy this or not, but with the boy’s straightforward personality, he didn’t spare Mu Zi at all.
He had already been somewhat disgusted with Mu Zi. When Mu Zi had previously tried to cause trouble between him and Ru Yue, he had been very unwilling. Later, when Mu Zi helped him give Ru Yue a gift, the boy had grudgingly accepted her. Hearing this now, the boy knew without a second thought that Mu Zi was indeed capable of such a thing.
At the very beginning, Mu Zi was wandering on the platform after a breakup. When she came to the boy’s live stream, he always sang her favorite song, “Betrayal”: “Your affection betrayed my love and cost me my life, I sold a world and only got ashes in return…”
He spoiled her to no end. This person who stabbed him in the back endlessly made him detest her to the extreme, and from then on, he never contacted her again.
Ru Yue also said she deleted her and never wanted to speak to her again.
Later on, because many of the boy’s friends were heavily deceived by female streamers, many people began to quit the internet. After they left, the boy regrouped his people, met some benefactors, and a group of friends. Just like life, people come and go; they gather when fate brings them together and disperse when it ends.
However, he did not forget the friends who had once helped him. He would check in on them from time to time and see how they were doing. The boy didn’t expect them to help him again, but rather hoped they wouldn’t get lost again due to infatuation, and he always remembered their past help in his heart.
In the live streaming industry, the boy had seen too much change and people drifting apart. Some streamers didn’t understand anything when they first started live streaming; it was the boy who taught and guided them, and helped them along. Once they became a little better, they would poach the boy’s fans for their own benefit and badmouth him.
He no longer felt the initial joy in the live streaming industry; all that remained was a forced smile and pretense.
He could feel like an old friend upon first meeting a stranger, yet also feel like a stranger to someone he had known for a long time.
His foolish loyalty had caused him to suffer many, many losses, and his soft heart and kindness also made him feel the profound sorrow of human wickedness.
After finishing his stream, he began reciting the Heart Sutra at his computer. He wasn’t seeking anything or asking for anything; he felt no pain. He had just heard that reading scriptures could calm the mind.
He liked Guanyin Bodhisattva because the Bodhisattva was kind, and he had always liked Guan Erye because Guan Yu was righteous.
Yet, his kindness and loyalty had only brought him bullying and deception. His heart had grown somewhat cold, not towards people or things, but towards the concept of human nature itself, which he couldn’t comprehend. He couldn’t understand why people who got along well would turn against each other for profit, nor why his genuine sincerity was met with such melodramatic outcomes.
