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“Princess seems to be in a good mood today.”

“I think so, too. Such a sad piece like ‘Butterfly Lovers’ sounds almost happy with her playing.”

“Sis, did something worth celebrating happen to you today?”

Liu Man smiled as she said, “Indeed. Two good things. Firstly, I made a new friend.”

“A boyfriend? Or a male gender friend?”

“Oh, no! Sis has a boyfriend! I’m the first one to disapprove!”

“Which man has such good luck to catch the Princess’s eye?”

“I’m on the fence. No man on earth can match our Princess.”

“Aye, aye, aye. You guys seem to be thinking too much. The live-streamer never said her new friend is a man. Can’t that new friend be female?”

“Sis, is your friend male or female?”

Liu Man decided to reveal the truth, “A female.”

All the fans sighed in relief.

Daylight, full from her meal, hopped onto the table and attracted everyone’s attention. They all suddenly forgot about Princess Man’s second thing.

The Tik Tok account Liu Man had just registered yesterday during noon, “Hanfu Goddess Liu Man”, had reached 100k fans! Tik Tok had more active users than the live-stream platform!

The Princess Man Wei Bo that Liu Man had been operating had only 110k fans right now, and the live-streaming platform she used every day had 120k fans.

She did not understand this world was all about one’s appearance. Princess Man was known to be ugly, but the Hanfu Goddess was pretty. The fans of Princess Man loved her personality and her morality, but half of Hanfu Goddess’s fans were probably perverts.

However, Coco made huge contributions to how fast Hanfu Goddess gained her fans. Coco was intentionally making her popular. She even uploaded a video during the afternoon, telling her fans where they could find Hanfu Goddess’s account and to follow her.

Coco had 10 million fans on Tik Tok, and if even one percent of her fans go and follow Hanfu Goddess, it would still be a huge number.

It was eleven when Liu Man finished her live-stream, and Zhang Pei still wasn’t back. Liu Man felt a little worried, logged out, and was going to head to the storage space. As she rode the elevator to the first floor, she received a WeChat message from Zhang Pei.

“I’m having midnight snacks at Shaxian Restaurant with Boss Yu. Don’t be worried.”

Liu Man didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

The relationship between her mother and Yu Zhan was getting better and better.

Liu Man came to the Shaxian Restaurant saw, through the French-style glass, Zhang Pei and Yu Zhan sitting face to face, talking and laughing. Both of them had a steaming bowl and a bottle of Pepsi in front of them; it was a simple and austere meal.

“Sis, you’re here,” The daughter of the restaurant owner, Lu Lingling, discovered Liu Man at her first glance and ran out of the shop excitedly, “I saw your Tik Tok and followed you. All my classmates and friends also followed you!”

Liu Man remembered this cute little girl and smiled, “Thank you.”

“Sis, why aren’t you wearing Hanfu these days?”

“The Hanfu was only a costume for a performance, and I don’t wear them normally.”

“That’s not true. Don’t you know that Hanfu is popular everywhere? Many people are wearing Hnanfu everywhere? A few weeks ago, when there were cherry blossoms, many people on Wei Bo showed off their pictures of themselves standing under the cherry blossom trees with Hanfu on. They look so beautiful! I was thinking right then that if Hanfu Goddess was there and took the same photos, she would be the best and be the most prominent! Unfortunately, the blossom season is over.”

Lu Lingling continued to say, “Also, the other female cyber stars all love taking photos of themselves. They edit their photos so much and put on a filter to attract fans, and you are the only one with a low profile. You didn’t even have an official Tik Tok account before. As a fan, I hope to see some beautiful pictures of you in the future.”

Lu Lingling gave Liu Man a suggestion.

Liu Man humbly accepted it,

“Okay, when I get through this busy time, I will be taking pictures.”

As Zhang Pei and Yu Zhan walked out, they heard her words. Zhang Pei asked curiously, “What pictures are you taking?”

Lu Lingling said, “Cyber star pictures. I don’t know how to explain this to you, auntie. You won’t understand it.”

Zhang Pei wasn’t angry and laughed, “You young people just love to do these internet things. I’m getting old, and I can’t follow the trend anymore.”

“I don’t mean it like that, you’re not old,” Lu Lingling knew she said the wrong thing and immediately ran back into the restaurant.

“Since my daughter is here to pick me up, you don’t have to send me back,” Zhang Pei said to Yu Zhan happily. “Since my husband’s accident, she has become very reasonable and has tried her best to make money so she can support this family alone. If it were not for her to sell cat food online, we would have never been able to pay the monthly loan. Now, we have a stable income every month, and there is no need to worry about the house being taken away by the bank.”

Yu Zhan looked at Liu Mand deeply and told Zhang Pei, “You have a good daughter.”

Liu Man was stunned. Zhang Pei told Yu Zhan about what was going on in their family!

The mother and daughter said goodbye to Yu Zhan and walked towards their house. Liu Man asked Zhang Pei, “Did you tell everything to Yu… Boss Yu?”

“I only mentioned a bit, so it’s no big deal. Boss Yu is moral and I trust he is not someone who would spread rumors,” Zhang Pei had an extremely good impression of Yu Zhan.

“Did he take the initiative to ask you?”

“No, no, no. This evening, when Boss Wang treated us to dinner, Boss Yu was there, too. Boss Wang mentioned it first, asking if I got divorced since it’s always been the two of us working.”

It was strange if the father in a family never appeared, “How did you answer?”

“I said that my husband and I have a good relationship, but he has been on business trips for a long time during this period. Boss Wang asked lots of things again and was gossiping; it was very annoying, and I didn’t eat dinner well. After ten o’clock, after I packed up my things and was preparing to come back, I happened to run into Boss Yu, who was closing his clinic. He offered me night snacks. I was a little hungry, so I agreed. During the meal, we just talked about random things, and I accidentally leaked it. When it came to the repayment of the loan, I simply explained the causes and consequences to him.”

Zhang Pei felt it was no big deal for Yu Zhan to know somethings about their family secrets. Boss Yu wasn’t sly like Boss Wang, and he was a vet. He treated animals so kindly, so he wouldn’t be so bad to humans. He wouldn’t be plotting something against them.

However, what Liu Man was mainly focusing on was, “How did Boss Yu react to this?”

Zhang Pei recalled, “He didn’t seem to have many reactions, but only acted as if he suddenly realized something. Maybe he only realized why we are working so hard.”

However, Liu Man felt the only reason why Yu Zhan treated Zhang Pei to a meal was to get information from her.

Credits: Sydney