Ling Xi: ......

Ling Xi: You scared me to death, do you know that?!

Ling Xi: Mountain flood?! Are you okay?! Where are you hurt? How serious is it?!

Ling Xi: Your house is gone?! What about your equipment? All buried inside?

Ling Xi: You fainted?? What happened?? A cold? Or were you scared? How about now? Are you better?

Xie Ci: I'm fine, I'm currently living at...

Xie Ci pondered slightly.

Xie Ci: I'm staying at a friend's house.

Ling Xi: I'm begging you to really be careful... I was so anxious I almost wanted to call the police here in the US!

Xie Ci: Sorry.

Ling Xi: ୧(๑•̀ᗝ•́)૭

Then she stopped talking.

Xie Ci stared at the chat interface for quite a while. When no messages came, he turned off his phone screen and sighed somewhat helplessly.

This feeling isn't bad either, even though she's just a stranger online friend across the ocean.

Even though she's already sent me quite a few rather intimate photos.

But Xie Ci always believed that online friends were just online friends. Sometimes distance was also an important condition for maintaining this kind of relationship.

She didn't use WeChat in the US, always preferring to use the video app's private message function.

Communicating only through text and images, separated by a screen, those places that couldn't be felt through the network were filled by imagination.

The things he imagined were definitely the most suitable for himself.

Xie Ci sat on a small stool beside the shelves, looking around. Basically all women.

There were also a few scattered men, but they were all accompanying their girlfriends to pick out clothes.

So his current situation was...

Ding dong!

The chat notification sounded. Xie Ci opened his phone.

Ling Xi: ...Xie Ci.

Ling Xi: Those photos I sent... and those words... don't take them seriously. I... I was just a bit anxious.

Ling Xi: Are you short on money now? Should I transfer some to you? I, I'm very wealthy! You don't accept gifts or donations in your streams... your videos don't have ads either... can you really not be short on money with just that little creator incentive...

Ling Xi: Please, Xie Ci, let me help you. I'm really afraid something will happen to you...

Ling Xi: At least let me give you money to buy a new computer and PS5... that... don't you still need to make videos? And... I'm also waiting for you to carry me in ranked games...

Another long stream of rambling. Xie Ci shook his head helplessly.

Even such sincere and clumsy concern was somewhat hard for him to accept.

If I take so many things from you, how should I repay you? Just keep you company chatting and playing games?

The value isn't equal at all.

No merit, no reward. Accepting others' goodwill for no reason would only make Xie Ci feel like there was a bone stuck in his throat.

Xie Ci: It's fine, no need. I've already bought new equipment. I should be able to continue making videos tomorrow and play games with you.

The blonde girl behind the screen, staring intently at the chat records, had bloodshot eyes. She had barely slept all night watching her phone, typing and deleting in the chat box, deleting and typing again, deliberating over almost every word slowly.

Over these dozen hours, the worry and panic spreading in her heart had almost consumed her.

Seeing this message, her heart felt like it was being viciously squeezed. At first, only thick sourness emerged in her heart. Later, this sourness flowed through her blood to her brain, finally turning into a few unstoppable tears that dampened the pillow she held tightly.

She seemed to finally catch her breath from suffocation, but those fears about being abandoned never dispersed.

She unconsciously rubbed the tattoo on her inner thigh. The strong contrast between black and white formed an eye-catching color difference, incredibly stunning.

This was her habitual action when anxious and restless, also like a ritual confirming something.

Wiping away the tears from the corners of her eyes, she sat on the bedside, pulling her clothes into disarray, revealing more snow-white skin. Her two voluptuous beautiful legs slightly pressed together, arranged in an extremely seductive pose, capturing both legs and the two great sins on her chest in one small photo from a tricky angle.

Looking at that photo that could drive countless men crazy, she seemed more reassured, and clicked send.

Ling Xi: [Photo]

Xie Ci: ?

Ling Xi: This... this is to comfort you... don't show it to anyone else! I only send it to you! Since it's the tattoo you chose, I just want you to see its beauty every day.

Xie Ci: Actually... when I just opened my phone, my friend happened to be beside me. I was anxious to reply to your message and accidentally let her see it, but don't worry, she's female, and I explained it clearly to her.

Xie Ci held his phone waiting eagerly.

......

No reply for a long time. She probably went to do something else.

Just as Xie Ci was about to put his phone in his pocket, the message notification sounded again.

Ling Xi: Didn't you say you had no female friends around you?

Xie Ci: Um... newly made?

Xie Ci: It’s a long story...

Ling Xi: Is she pretty? How's her figure? Has she been with you this whole time? So you'll live at her house from now on? She saw the photos I sent? What did she say?

......

The chat notifications kept ringing. Xie Ci looked at the string of question marks Ling Xi sent with a darkened face, muttering to himself.

What's wrong with her? She wasn't like this before...

Why does it seem like she's jealous?

Just as Xie Ci was getting a headache over how to properly explain all this to her, Ye Li's voice suddenly came.

"Little Ci, come here for a moment. I need your help with something."

Xie Ci looked back in surprise and saw Ye Li with a flushed face, peeking at him from behind the fitting room door that was cracked open slightly.

"I'll go call a staff member."

"Don't!" Ye Li suddenly called out loudly with a red face, stopping him.

"Ah, no, I, what I mean is, this kind of thing is too embarrassing to ask staff for help."

Ye Li's face became even redder, and her eyes began to avoid his gaze.

Xie Ci was somewhat confused but still obediently went over to help.

After all, she had actively requested it. He'd help if he could. It probably wasn't anything difficult.

Just then, Xie Ci's phone in his pocket rang again at an inopportune moment.

"Little Ci, someone's messaging you."

For some reason, Ye Li suddenly had an ominous premonition, and the image of that leg photo appeared in her mind.

"Ah, it's nothing, just the online friend I mentioned to you before, she..."

"She sent you leg photos again?!" Ye Li's amber-colored beautiful eyes flashed with resentment as she asked indignantly.

"Uh, yes, actually it's because..."

Before he could finish speaking, Xie Ci was suddenly pulled into the fitting room by Ye Li. With a "smack," the door closed and the sound of the lock turning echoed.

With a "thud," Xie Ci found himself pressed against the door. He looked in surprise at Ye Li's pretty face slowly turning pink, spreading all the way to her ear tips. She was currently wearing that white women's shirt from before, but differently, several buttons were loosely undone, revealing large areas of snow-white skin underneath and a black lace bra.

She kept her head down, very close to him, almost buried in Xie Ci's shoulder. A few strands of hair swayed in front of her forehead, her facial expression unclear.

She still seemed somewhat indignant, somehow breathing heavily. The rise and fall of her chest drove those two large sins to sway back and forth, occasionally brushing against Xie Ci's chest, unusually alluring.

And those snow-white beautiful legs weren't idle either, directly pressed against the door below Xie Ci. Her fair little feet were slightly tiptoed, bringing them to around the same height.

Xie Ci was shocked speechless, and Ye Li also seemed to regret her impulsiveness somewhat. Her shoulders trembled slightly, not knowing what to say either, frozen there for a moment.

Ding~

The arrival of a message notification broke this strange silence.

"Little Ci~" Ye Li squeezed out a smile and spoke plaintively.

"I think it shouldn't be a problem for you to turn on do-not-disturb for now, just to let that US online friend of yours wait just a tiny bit~"

Xie Ci nervously swallowed and hurriedly took out his phone to turn on do-not-disturb.

"Ye Li, what's really going on..."

"Little Ci," Ye Li said with a smile, looking up, "Actually, I wanted to pick out some pretty bras, but there's no mirror in the fitting room, and I can't see for myself~"

"Ye... Ye Li, you can go find a staff member..."

"I don't want others to see my body!" She cutely puffed up her fragrant cheeks, her eyes carrying a certain stubbornness.

"But the staff are female..."

"Females won't work either!"

Then I'm okay? I'm male!

Xie Ci was very much at a loss.

"So..." Ye Li took his phone from Xie Ci's hands and smiled as she handed it back to him.

"Please help me take some photos~"

Xie Ci: ヽ(・＿・；)ノ

Ye Li: (>ω･*)ﾉ

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