Chapter 120: Fight monsters in women's wear?
The ID of the OP of this thread was "GuIdolIsGood[1]," and was clearly a CP fan. Lu Heng usually didn't pay much attention to the trends on the platform after finishing his live streams, so this was the first time he found out that a group of CP fans related to him was actually active on the forum of the OhMyMy platform.
These fans even requested to open a small sub-forum under the main section for "Idol," where they created their own cute couple SovereignGu x Idol. The post in question was first published in this GuIdol sub-forum.
In the main post, the OP originally intended to stir up trouble under the video of EternalMoon. As a loyal CP fan, she was outraged when she found out that the local tyrant fan "SovereignGu" had displayed their loyal tyrant style for someone else.
She immediately stormed off to see who this hussy was that dared to fool around with Idol's person. As a result, she was obsessed with EternalMoon at first sight. Before the OP realized what was happening, she had already left a comment under the video: Please face me, male god!
Once she snapped out of it, the OP couldn't believe her own eyes. Her moral integrity must be in the negative to have been bewitched by this hussy! Determined to find some flaws, she ended up watching the video twenty times, over and over.
After watching it, she didn't find any fault, but she sure stumbled upon a bombshell!
During this time, Idol's live streaming frequency had significantly dropped, so his die-hard fans could only repeatedly watch his old streams. After watching so many times, they naturally kept some of Idol's little habits in mind. Now upon careful reflection, the OP realized that many of EternalMoon's small gestures were identical to Idol's.
After the OP discovered this shocking secret, Idol's die-hard fans flocked to watch. The thread grew rapidly, and more and more evidence proving that the two were the same person started piling up. Basically, fans from both sides had essentially stamped their approval that the two were indeed the same person.
One was a new super popular male god at the National Ancient Martial Arts Exchange Conference, the other was the wildly popular "goddess" male anchor on the OhMyMy platform. And the two people were actually the same person?
This wasn't just a bombshell, it was a nuclear explosion!
This post instantly shot out of the sub-forum and perched on the top of the OhMyMy platform's trending topics.
The two-in-one male god Lu Heng was in an extremely complicated mood at the moment. In his original plan, after embarking on the Martial Path and starting streaming on the Exorcist Martial Artist Livestream platform, he would gradually stop streaming on the OhMyMy platform and fade out of the public eye step by step.
After all, the trauma of being controlled by women's clothing in the previous world left him unwilling to carry the reputation of a "cross-dressing enthusiast" any longer. However, Gu Lingjun's latest move nipped his plan in the bud.
Yep! After reading through the ultra long post, Lu Heng discovered another vest of Gu Lingjun: SovereignGu.
Sure, SovereignGu[2] and the Junlin vest shared the same word "Junlin," but given "Junlin's" immense popularity, vests with the "Junlin XX" format were everywhere on the Internet.
Besides, based on what Lu Heng knew about Gu Lingjun, this person was laser-focused on Martial Arts and had zero interest in any other forms of entertainment. And that SovereignGu appeared before the two even met. With Gu Lingjun's personality, there's just no way he was the type to go asking for hugs, kisses, and lifts on the OhMyMy platform.
That being said, in retrospect, Gu Lingjun had actually exposed quite a few flaws. For instance, that lone OhMyMy platform livestream app sitting on his phone. But with so much going on lately, Lu Heng hadn't given it a second thought, and that's how he ended up "capsizing in a ditch[3]" today.
When his own video made it to the official homepage, Lu Heng had repeatedly told Gu Lingjun to not use the "Junlin" account to vote for him or send little red flowers. After all, Junlin was a member of the competition's judging panel, and gifting red flowers to a newbie like him was simply inviting trouble.
At that time, Gu Lingjun very obediently said, "I know."
Little did Lu Heng expect that Gu Lingjun would immediately put on a vest and go on a red flower gifting spree. Lu Heng was both infuriated and amused. Why am I stuck with the "King of Cross-dressing" title? It's got to be a curse, Lu Heng mused to himself.
He glanced up at Gu Lingjun, who was sitting across the dinner table from him. It was just after eating, and while waiting for the next dish, Lu Heng had casually scrolled through his phone, only to stumble upon this explosive piece of news.
"SovereignGu?" Lu Heng asked.
Gu Lingjun nodded.
"Why are you so intent on giving me little red flowers?" Lu Heng didn't quite understand his persistence.
Gu Lingjun read out the official description of the little red flowers' function in a matter-of-fact manner: "Little Red Flower: Used to express your fondness for the contestant. Please don't carelessly drown the contestants in little red flowers to make them feel your love."
That blunt declaration of love[4] made Lu Heng blush. No matter how irritated he had been, his anger evaporated on the spot. All he could do was purse his lips and slide his phone across the table toward Gu Lingjun.
"What is it?" Gu Lingjun asked.
"My vest has been stripped off," Lu Heng sighed helplessly. "Given the current situation, the netizens are already convinced. Avoiding the issue will only cause fan backlash. After dinner, I'll go live to explain things. But the real problem now is... what excuse do I use to explain my cross-dressing streams?"
"Isn't the reason because you like cross-dressing?" Gu Lingjun asked, genuinely puzzled.
"...No, I don't like it," Lu Heng said as he retrieved his phone and quickly posted a livestream advance notice on the platform.
After returning home, he prepared himself mentally and connected to the livestream platform.
The moment he logged in, he was startled by the crazy influx of viewers. In just a few minutes, the number of people flooding into the stream was almost on par with his all-time peak viewership.
But it wasn't surprising. The official website of the Ancient Martial Arts Exchange Conference had hundreds of times the traffic and attention of the OhMyMy livestream platform. So, besides Idol's fans, most of the new viewers flooding in now were followers of EternalMoon.
"There are so many people here today, you almost gave me a scare," Lu Heng said as he began the stream.
The comments began to scroll crazily, and Lu Heng casually read some of them. Most were asking the same thing: whether or not he was really EternalMoon.
Lu Heng laughed softly: "I didn't expect to be found out so quickly."
"My ears are pregnant~"
"Idol, please laugh more often! I can reach the great harmony of life just by listening to your voice..."
In his usual livestreams, Lu Heng maintained a cold and aloof persona, never laughing. So hearing him laugh had sent the fans into a frenzy.
Then, suddenly, a flood of gift notifications swept down the entire barrage.
SovereignGu: Why stream in women's clothes?
The fans' attention immediately snapped back from his soft laughter to the burning question at hand.
Vinegar jar. Lu Heng was very clear about Gu Lingjun's intention, but he was used to it by now. So, he calmly went along with it, continuing, "I believe many friends have seen my video on the official page of the conference. Due to some personal reasons, I don't intend to appear before the public with my true identity."
"Some viewers have previously asked why my cross-dressing makeup always leans toward the exaggerated and mysterious, hiding my real appearance. Well, I think now you can all guess—my cross-dressing streams were an experiment."
"The results of this experiment are quite good. I've been livestreaming on OhMyMy for quite some time now. In fact, just the other day while I was eating, I saw someone at the table across from me watching one of my stream replays, and they didn't recognize me at all. So, it's safe to say my disguise skills are pretty solid," Lu Heng calmly explained the reason for streaming in women's clothing.
Hearing this, the online audience suddenly recalled that in EternalMoon's video, the makeup style was exactly the same as that of Idol's—an androgynous beauty. If the EternalMoon in that video were to appear in women's clothing, there really wouldn't be any sense of incongruity.
After saying all that, Lu Heng secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He thought that he had finally managed to free himself from the cross-dressing whirlwind. But to his surprise, after a moment of silence to process what he had said, the viewers began to post comments crazily again.
"Begging EternalMoon to hunt in women's clothing!"
"Sob sob sob, Idol, you deceived my feelings. So you're not really a xiao gege who loves cross-dressing. But if you fight monsters in women's clothing, I'll forgive you!"
"+1"
"I wanna see you hunt in that Miao tribe sister outfit from last time!"
"I'm a EternalMoon fan. I just checked out some of Idol's past videos. Now that I think about it... hunting in women's clothes could actually be kind of epic!"
To Lu Heng, these comments were like a bolt from the blue. He felt that the audience seemed to have opened a door to something disastrous.
This is all that pig teammate's fault! In a fit of rage, Lu Heng kicked "SovereignGu" out of the livestream and swiftly added him to the streaming room blacklist.
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Gu Lingjun's message on WeChat came in almost instantly.
“Look at what you've done! Stay in the small dark room and reflect on your actions!"
Regardless of whether the audience had opened the door to a new world or how Lu Heng himself felt, this little storm actually ended up boosting EternalMoon's popularity even further.
Sure, a few trolls popped into his contestant page to spam comments about how "EternalMoon is a cross-dressing pervert," but the effect was mostly positive. The skyrocketing votes on the rookie leaderboard were proof of that.
EternalMoon's sudden burst of popularity naturally sparked resentment among many contestants.
Among them, the one who took it the hardest was probably Zhou Yishu, who was trailing right behind EternalMoon on the rookie leaderboard.
Zhou Yishu had been silently brooding over EternalMoon. That viral video of him hunting the mutated snake felt like a ruthless slap in the face. Even though Zhou Yishu managed to find a suitable prey later and secured a seeded contestant spot before the registration deadline, it still left a bitter taste in his mouth.
To make matters worse, EternalMoon consistently outranked him in popularity ranking on the "Most Anticipated Rookie" list. This particular leaderboard was bulletproof against vote manipulation, as each vote was tied to a verified ID, with camera authentication required to match the voter to their ID—making it impossible to fake votes.
Zhou Yishu gripped his phone tightly, wrestling with his thoughts. After a long hesitation, he finally dialed a number: "Is this Deep Sea Network Studio? I have a job for you. Are you interested?"
Footnotes:
[1] 顾教大法好: Gu Jiao is good. 大法好 is a humorous way of saying "XX is good!" Jiao is from jiao zhu daren which I've translated as Idol. Interestingly, 君临一顾 which I translate as SovereignGu can also be interpreted as Junlin is Gu, depending on context. Is Gu Lingjun even serious about hiding his identity? Dropping so many hints…
[2] 君临一顾 (JunlinYiGu) which I translate as SovereignGu and 君临(Junlin) have the same two characters.
[3] problem in a place where one is sure of success.
[4] 一言 不合 就 表白 actually means confessing at the first sign of discord, but I think this fits better.
Translator:
We're halfway through the arc~
Have fun this Halloween🎃👻
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