UGB Chapter 342 - 344: True Love is Money
Chapter 342 - 344: True Love is Money
Maybe he was just trying to act tough, or maybe he wanted to prove he really didn’t have anyone to love, but he stubbornly turned on the speakerphone.
His little assistant’s panicked voice came through the phone.
"This is bad, this is bad, Brother Erzhu! The stocks you bought have all crashed! We’ve lost so, so much money, and now we’re deep in debt! What do we do, Brother Erzhu!"
[Huh? Brother Erzhu, so your real name is actually Li Erzhu?]
[I thought your name was Lance?]
[I figured even if he didn’t use an English name, he’d at least have a normal one. I can’t believe he’s really named Li Erzhu!]
[Are you guys focusing on the wrong thing?]
Li Erzhu was stunned. It had taken him only three minutes to go from a millionaire to a pauper drowning in debt.
At the same time, his phone buzzed with a flood of pictures from his assistant.
He rubbed his eyes and looked again and again, finally staring at the screen with his mouth agape in disbelief.
’It’s over. I’ve truly lost my beloved now.’
He looked dazedly from his phone to Su Nian. At this point, he no longer cared whether his name was Erzhu or Lance. He just stared blankly at Su Nian.
’To forever lose my beloved... so this is what she meant?’
Su Nian shook her head. "Who said your beloved had to be a person? I know that money is your one true love."
[??????]
[!!!! That’s one love you definitely can’t lose!]
[Who says Hua Country can’t produce a good horror movie!!]
[This one really hits you where it hurts!]
[Accidentally clicked into this stream. Bad luck, be gone! (hands pressed together)]
[So ’losing his beloved’ meant losing his money!?]
His dry hair hung limply. He looked at his phone, then back at Su Nian.
Finally, he couldn’t stop himself from slapping his own face twice.
’Good! I’m not dreaming. I’m awake!’
’I’d rather be dead! Goddammit, "lose my beloved" my ass!!’
He saw the audience’s mockery and looked at Su Nian’s face. His lips trembled, and for a moment, he completely forgot what he was going to say.
His mind went blank. This was the most terrifying thing in the world!
’I’d rather have run into a real ghost!’
Li Erzhu’s lips trembled, and he was terrified.
He stood up, wanting to walk around. Maybe this was all just a dream!
But he couldn’t even stand steady. He staggered and fainted.
In the end, it was Su Nian who called an ambulance for him.
[He really took a massive blow!]
[They weren’t kidding when they said whoever gets the streamer’s lucky bag is in for some bad luck. I’m getting a little scared now!]
[I really wanted to win one, but after seeing him, I’m kind of scared too. I can live without a lot of things, but money... I really can’t live without money!]
The viewers filled the stream chat, expressing their fears.
Su Nian paid them no mind, a small smile playing on her lips. "Alright, today’s final lucky bag is about to be released. For those of you who want it, please get ready."
[Me! Me! I’m definitely gonna get it!]
[Me, me, me! Please, it has to be me!]
[Hey, you up there! I remember your ID. Didn’t you just say you weren’t going to try for it?!]
[Yeah, exactly! I remember it clearly. Didn’t you say whoever gets it is an unlucky bastard?!]
[Hah! I was just kidding. You actually believed me?]
Amidst the clamor, Su Nian sent out the third lucky bag of the day.
The moment she released it, viewers scrambled to grab it, and the result was announced shortly after.
[Congratulations to ’Deceased’ for winning the streamer’s lucky bag!]
Seeing this ID, Su Nian frowned. An inexplicable heaviness settled in her heart.
The viewers also broke into a flurry of discussion.
[Why have a name like that? It feels so unlucky!]
[Come on, people can choose whatever name they want, okay?]
[I was just stating my opinion, what’s wrong with that?]
[Why do you care what name someone uses? Even if it’s unlucky, what’s it to you?!]
Several viewers started arguing over the lucky winner’s name.
Then, Su Nian directly contacted the user named ’Deceased’.
The moment she sent a message, the other party replied immediately, agreeing to a call.
Su Nian initiated the call. Once the connection was established, the stream’s screen split in two, with the feed from ’Deceased’ on the left.
It was ten o’clock at night. On the left side of the screen was a woman in her mid-twenties with her hair unbound and a deathly pale face.
She was sitting by a river, and her movements were strangely eerie. She tilted her head and looked at Su Nian.
"Hello..."
Her tone was stiff, with an indescribable eeriness.
Her face was actually quite beautiful, but her hair was so thick that it obscured most of it, even covering much of her eyes. Only the general outline of her features was visible.
[This beauty is gorgeous, but what’s her gimmick?]
[The ’scare people’ gimmick!]
[I’d say it’s the ’vicious ghost’ gimmick.]
Su Nian narrowed her eyes at the woman and nodded in greeting as well.
"Hello!"
The girl smiled, revealing blood-red gums. Her teeth weren’t very nice—they were too short, so when she smiled, a large portion of her gums was exposed.
Su Nian asked, feigning casualness, "Why are you still out so late? Aren’t you scared, being by the river all alone?"
"Oh, no. I live here."
she replied, which only made the viewers in the stream chat more confused.
[Why does this feel a little creepy?]
[Maybe it’s her hometown, and she just came out here to clear her head.]
[My family’s old house is kind of like that, right by a mountain and a lake. I used to go play by the lake all the time.]
[But it’s still pretty rare to see someone out this late at night.]
Only Su Nian’s expression turned grim. She could tell that the young woman in front of her was not a person at all.
Her complexion was deathly dull and frighteningly pale. Looking closer at her neck, Su Nian could see some bluish blotches—the signs of a corpse. This woman had been dead for several days.
Su Nian didn’t say this out loud. Instead, she frowned and asked, "What do you want?"
Su Nian’s tone was rather blunt. She was known for being sharp-tongued and using witty sayings, but she had never been this impolite before.
The girl, however, seemed not to care. She glanced at Su Nian, then at the riverbank, and said with a sigh,
"My house keeps flooding. I really can’t take it anymore!"
She wasn’t looking at Su Nian as she spoke, but staring intently at the river, as if talking to herself.
As she said this, the expression on her face became even more ferocious.
[Damn, is she just putting on an act to scare people?]
[Why does this feel so scary? She’s definitely just trying to scare people for clout, leeching off the streamer’s popularity. I can’t believe this.]
[And with a name like that, doesn’t she think it’s bad luck?]
[So what’s she talking about? Does she want the streamer to teach her how to fix her house?]