Chapter 26: Likes and Comments

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“You still say there isn’t one. Hmph, do you remember what you promised me?”

Jiang Yang thought for a moment. “Uh… What did I say? Do you mean liking and commenting on your video?”

“Exactly! I posted my video an hour ago, so why haven’t I seen you yet?” Xia Bingbing demanded indignantly.

Jiang Yang was speechless. He hadn’t forgotten, actually. He had checked her account on his way to work that morning, but she hadn’t uploaded anything then. Besides, with two million followers, did a celebrity like her really need one comment from him?

Not wanting to upset his junior fellow apprentice, he quickly apologized. “Junior, I’m terribly sorry. I’ll comment right now.”

“Hmph. Hurry up and watch it. I’ll call you later.” With that, she hung up.

Only then did Jiang Yang open Doudou Videos and search for the account Summer’s Bingbing. Sure enough, she had uploaded a new video an hour earlier.

In the video, she stood in a meadow wearing a white blouse. The pure white fabric made her skin glow like translucent snow, while the short denim skirt accentuated her long, straight legs.

Her long hair had been braided and draped over one shoulder. The ends swayed gently with her movements, as though they were the perfect dance partner for her singing.

The song was Can I Be with You? Her voice was as clear as a mountain spring, fresh and natural like the girl next door, giving listeners the sensation of being bathed in a spring breeze and falling in love for the first time.

Her eyes shimmered with irresistible allure. Every few seconds, they seemed to unleash waves of sweetness—innocent yet seductive. Whenever she looked toward the screen, it felt as if she were sending a hundred-thousand-volt current straight at whoever was watching, instantly filling them with happiness.

It was also one of Jiang Yang’s favorite songs. Watching his junior apprentice on the screen, he couldn’t help humming along.

“Can I be with you?

We have so many memories between us.

There’s no reason for falling in love with you—

It just so happened that, at the very beginning of my awakening to love, I met you.”

He then opened the comment section beneath the video. Her fans were true diehards. After only an hour, there were already two thousand comments, most of them unabashedly adoring:

“Can I? Of course I can! The moment Bingbing opened her mouth, I had already picked out names for our children!”

“My Bingbing is beautiful in every frame. I’m calling her name like crazy!”

“I’ve fallen completely. Playing this on endless repeat.”

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“Bingbing’s killer gaze is simply devastating. One basic attack and my health bar is empty!”

Seeing those comments, the corner of Jiang Yang’s mouth twitched. Just as he had expected, her videos were hardly lacking comments. Why was she still hounding him for one?

After thinking it over, he decided that a compliment was a compliment, and there was no need to be original. He followed the style of the other hopeless admirers and wrote:

“Bingbing’s singing is so beautiful, and those legs are both fair and easy on the ears. Licking the screen…”

The moment he posted it, Xia Bingbing sent him a smiling face on WeChat, along with a beckoning-finger emoji.

“Hee-hee, I saw your comment. You don’t have to lick the screen on your phone. You can always move somewhere else…”

Jiang Yang stumbled and nearly fell in the street when he read the message. He hurriedly replied, “Hey, you’re supposed to be an innocent young woman, aren’t you? Can’t you show a little restraint?”

Xia Bingbing sent another mischievous face. “What are you thinking? I meant that you could lick the screen on a computer. The screen is bigger, isn’t it?”

The corner of Jiang Yang’s mouth twitched. “You little rascal, always coming up with strange ideas. You’re practically begging for a spanking. Anyway, I’ve commented. Can you let me off now?”

“No. I only wrote that comment because I kept chasing after you. You stood me up, so you have to compensate me.”

Jiang Yang asked in surprise, “What? How am I supposed to compensate you?”

“I’m a rather materialistic woman. You must compensate me with something material.”

Jiang Yang thought to himself that he was a married man now. As long as she wasn’t asking for emotional compensation, anything else should be easy enough.

He replied, “What do you want?”

“Drive over to pick me up after work and take me out to dinner.”

As expected, she really was materialistic. She cared so much about appearances. Besides, Jiang Yang wasn’t particularly eager to go home and face the question of whether there might be surveillance equipment there.

So he replied, “I can treat you to dinner, but I’m just a nobody. Where would I get a car?”

“Do you have an electric scooter?”

“Uh… The scooter was wrecked in an accident last time, and I haven’t bought a new one yet.”

“Oh. Then come pick me up on a shared bicycle. Remember, I want one with a rear seat. I don’t want one without it. I’m a very materialistic woman, you know.”

She truly was materialistic. A bicycle without a rear seat could not carry a passenger anyway.

Jiang Yang thought that, just as Yang Xiaoran had suggested, he might as well take advantage of dinner to ask Xia Bingbing about what had happened before he lost his memory. Perhaps he could obtain some clues.

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He would only talk with her and then return. It wouldn’t count as putting cuckoo feathers on Ruolan’s head.

He replied, “All right. Send me the address, and I’ll pick you up after work.”

…

After work, Jiang Yang put the signal detector into his bag and left the company. Downstairs, he unlocked a shared bicycle and pedaled to Dongyuan Road, following the address Xia Bingbing had sent him.

The area was a famous live-streaming hub in the city. Quite a few new-media companies conducted online broadcasts there, so it was presumably also Xia Bingbing’s workplace.

It was dinner time, and plenty of handsome men and beautiful women were coming and going. The luxury cars waiting outside were dazzling enough to make one’s eyes spin.

Mercedes-Benzes and BMWs were so common that they barely stood out. Near the entrance, a Maybach was parked by the roadside.

Some of the people entering and leaving were dressed rather strangely as well. There were men walking on stilts and others carrying enormous broadswords.

Jiang Yang even saw a Taoist priest in a yellow robe, with a peach-wood sword strapped to his back and a bronze mirror hanging from his waist, climb into a Mercedes SUV.

Xia Bingbing did not keep him waiting long. Wearing a pale-yellow skirt suit, she emerged from the entrance like a lark taking flight.

She jogged over to Jiang Yang. “Senior, have you been waiting long?”

Jiang Yang pointed toward the Taoist priest up ahead. “Not long. I was just watching Master Cang Song. What’s this? Taoist priests are livestreaming now too?”

“You mean him? He’s Master Cang Song. If you’re interested, I can send you his account later.”

The corner of Jiang Yang’s mouth twitched. “Taoist priests are livestreaming now? What does he broadcast?”

Xia Bingbing blinked her large, sparkling eyes. “What else would a Taoist priest broadcast? Exorcisms and ghost hunting, of course. Plenty of people like watching him. He has more than a million followers—no fewer than I do.”

Jiang Yang fell silent. As a designer, he suddenly felt that his imagination was somewhat lacking.

“Where do you want me to take you for dinner?” he asked.

“I want…” Xia Bingbing had barely begun when a car horn sounded behind them. A man’s voice followed.

“Bingbing, what’s there to talk about with a deliveryman? I’ll take you to the Cloudtop Restaurant for dinner.”

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