“Any time, any place, super detective, on the case!”

“Hehe~”

Seeing the chat blow up over the new stream title she’d just changed, the girl let out an embarrassed, sweet little laugh.

“Because we’re in the story-sharing segment right now. I’m helping people analyze their problems. I might not count as a detective, but I can at least ‘work the case,’ right? Okay, okay, Dog Bro, hurry up and tell us. I’m already dying to hear it!”

The girl waved excitedly. The chat started urging Gaoliang on too. He froze for a moment, not expecting the stream’s reaction to be this good.

Hmm...

Where should he even start?

[Watching V Again Is Dog: My deskmate... how do I put it... she’s kind of strange personality-wise. More specifically, she’s bad at socializing, kind of introverted, and pretty isolated in class.]

“Huh?”

Lin Rin blinked. Wait, hearing that description... why did it feel kind of familiar...?

Uh...

“An introverted kid, huh...”

The girl nodded without meaning to, and her tone carried a bit of empathy. The chat seemed to catch the feeling in her sigh and immediately started guessing.

“Ahem...”

Seeing the discussion in chat, Lin Rin quickly shook her head.

No way. I absolutely can’t let people know I’m a socially anxious idiot who’s totally bad at interacting with others in real life. No, no, no. That’d be way too embarrassing!

Um...

I-I-I...

“Actually, I’m the super popular type in real life! I’ve got lots of friends around me! All kinds, too! Hehe~ Pretty amazing, right?”

“Cough, cough, what kind of weird chat messages are those? I’m just saying I’m pretty popular, okay? Dog Bro, keep going! Let me think... an introverted girl like that probably feels pretty lonely at school, right? Hmm... suddenly I’m getting this untouchable beauty vibe~ Is she the cold type?”

[Watching V Again Is Dog: Well, my deskmate looks pretty decent, I guess. But she’s probably not the cold type. The feeling she gives off is more... like a little loli?]

“A little loli?!”

Lin Rin rubbed her chin with interest. A little loli was great. Hmm... a strange little loli, with no friends at school.

That girl must really be craving someone to care about her, right? Well, people with small builds do tend to give off that kind of first impression~ Hehe~

Back when the girl had still been a boy, he’d been especially into that kind of little-loli character type. I mean, who didn’t like someone small and cute?

Even now, just thinking about that kind of moe appeal made Lin Rin want to tell Dog Bro, “Please send me the little loli’s WeChat or QQ. Good deeds bring good karma!”

Uh, but she seemed to have already turned into a girl, so asking for contact info probably wouldn’t do much anymore?

And she also seemed to... fit the little-loli look herself.

Mm...

So.

The girl lowered her head and glanced at her current short, slender little legs, lightly swinging in the air. A faint blush rose on her face. Then she looked up again.

Ah, this...

Forget it. Can’t keep thinking about that. Change the subject, now.

The girl cleared her throat, then asked him,

“Well, if that’s the case, Dog Bro, you could try getting closer to your little-loli deskmate~ She doesn’t have any friends in class, so you could totally be the first one. And then maybe, just maybe~ tsk tsk~”

With the spirit of a true bro helping out another bro, the girl started wildly playing strategist while shipping them in her head.

“A little loli like that would definitely be really grateful that you’re willing to be her friend. And maybe by the end, she’ll even secretly fall for you~”

Uh...

Listening to the little vampire girl’s cute yet slightly sleazy voice coming from the screen, Gaoliang suddenly felt like he wasn’t talking to a female streamer at all.

It felt more like he was talking to a ride-or-die bro helping him chase a girl.

Uh...

Huh? Huhhh?

Watching the chat scroll like crazy, Lin Rin instantly panicked.

Mainly because... she suddenly realized the chat had all thought of something she hadn’t even considered.

Huh. They had a point. Hardly any streamers would actually encourage their top male supporter to go find a girlfriend in real life.

Not throwing themselves at him was already saying a lot, considering he was their patron.

He could spend money, after all. If he got a girlfriend and she kept him on a tight leash, their income would probably drop a lot.

He might even realize how great a real-life girlfriend was, then decide online streamers were some kind of bullshit, and leave for good. Totally not worth it.

So...

Uh...

Had she done something pretty stupid?

Since the whole chat was saying that, Lin Rin actually started doubting herself a little. She felt awkward and didn’t really know what to do.

But...

Thinking about it carefully, she... she was only streaming because the system required it.

It wasn’t like she cared that much about making money. Besides, Dog Bro wasn’t some huge whale patron anyway. She just treated him like a friend.

If he was a friend, was there really any need to be that extreme?

Just like in everyday life, she should just say what she wanted to say.

Mm...

Ahem. Sounding a little wronged, the girl spoke softly, “I was just giving Dog Bro advice as a friend, that’s all. Money or whatever doesn’t matter. Being able to chat with everyone more is enough for me.”

[Watching V Again Is Dog: Ahem, I... I don’t have those kinds of thoughts. Besides, my deskmate... how do I put it... I don’t know how, but it feels like I somehow offended her.]