Speaking of Science in a Supernatural Livestream 25

Chapter 25: Praise Her, Praise Her

“Xie Yu!”

Xie Yu hadn’t even finished her incense when she heard Sang Jing call her. She rushed to the bathroom door. “What’s wrong?”

“Come in.”

Xie Yu froze, slowly turning her head to look at the glass door.

Come… in??

Isn’t Sang Jing taking a shower inside? So she’s asking her to go in…?

“This… this isn’t very appropriate, is it?” Xie Yu raised her hand to touch her ear, her other hand preparing to open the door.

“Swish—”

The door was pulled open. Sang Jing was holding a towel in front of her, her head peeking out. “What are you muttering about at the door? Come in.”

Xie Yu lowered her head slightly, then quickly averted her gaze. “You, you’re not wearing any clothes. It’s not right. We’re not that close.”

Sang Jing: “…”

As if she was so angry she had to laugh, Sang Jing directly pulled her in.

Sang Jing leaned on the sink with one hand and held the towel with the other, looking up at Xie Yu in the mirror. “Do you know how to disinfect and apply medicine?”

So it was to apply medicine.

Xie Yu said “oh.”

Taking a cotton swab and disinfectant, Xie Yu lifted the loose towel and damp hair. When she saw the wounds on Sang Jing’s back, she was suddenly stunned.

In an instant, she remembered how these wounds had come to be. She had injured Sang Jing. She had pinned Sang Jing against the stone gate, which was rugged and had many sharp protrusions.

Why is this reserved person so reserved? With so many wounds on her back, all black and blue, why didn’t she just push her away? The reserved person is so powerful, she could have just drawn a talisman or chanted an incantation…

Seeing that Xie Yu hadn’t moved for a long time, Sang Jing asked, “Are you scared of this too?”

The large area of black and blue and the wounds did look scary.

“If you’re scared, then forget it. I’ll go find Cui Wangshu…”

“No need, I can do it.”

Sang Jing raised her eyes slightly and saw Xie Yu in the mirror repeat to her, “I can do it.”

Xie Yu bent down slightly and carefully treated the wounds with a cotton swab. Being so close, she could clearly see Sang Jing’s back tensing up.

The reserved person is enduring it again.

Xie Yu began to disinfect the longest and deepest wound.

The alcohol stung the wound, and Sang Jing uncontrollably leaned her upper body forward, as if to dodge.

As Sang Jing dodged forward, Xie Yu also moved forward. In the end, Sang Jing was half-leaning on the sink with one hand on the mirror. She looked up and saw that Xie Yu was right against her, one hand applying medicine and the other hand around her waist, resting on the edge of the sink.

This posture was really… not very decent.

“Can you stand back a bit?” Sang Jing’s words were punctuated by a hiss of pain.

Xie Yu: “You keep dodging. It’s not easy for me to apply the medicine.”

“I won’t dodge anymore. You stand back a bit.”

“Alright.”

Straightening up again and returning to a safe distance, Sang Jing had just let out a sigh of relief. “Continue.”

The next second, a cold hand was placed on her waist. Without the barrier of the towel, it was directly against her skin.

Sang Jing: “…”

Xie Yu finished disinfecting and was about to apply the medicine. She looked up and saw Sang Jing in the mirror staring at her. “What’s wrong?”

“Your paw, take it off.”

After applying the medicine, Xie Yu was immediately kicked out.

Half an hour later, Sang Jing came out of the bathroom. With the wound on her back, she couldn’t wear a bathrobe, so she put on a loose black shirt and shorts to avoid touching the wound.

Xie Yu and the small black snake had both eaten their fill. One was curled up on the sofa in a daze, and the other was coiled up like a mosquito coil on the table, sleeping.

Sang Jing glanced at the time. It was already past midnight. She couldn’t livestream tonight. She ordered some porridge for herself and then started to look up the Xianling Lake incident.

This matter was quite a hot topic on the metaphysics forum. The whirlpool in Xianling Lake had disappeared, but there were still many people discussing it.

【Let me tell you, I know an old story. That whirlpool appeared thirty years ago, and it was only appeased with a living sacrifice. I heard there’s a snake immortal in that lake!】

【Who doesn’t know? The Xianling Lake post had thousands of replies before, but it was unfortunately sealed later. Otherwise, we could have seen something even more exciting.】

【I heard that this time it was a joint effort between the vice-chairman of the Xuanmen and a team leader from the Special Investigation Team.】

【That’s right, there are pictures to prove it. jpg】

【Oh my god, it’s our Mama Tan Wei! Mama, long time no see! Mama, kisses (muah muah muah).】

【This Special Investigation Team leader is also very young. Hey, who is the person behind them?】

【That’s Young Mistress Wenren, you don’t even know her? Are you new here?】

【I’m asking about the last person, the blurry one.】

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【Sang Jing!!! The last person is Sang Jing!!!】

【Sang Jing? Who’s that?】

【Are you talking about that scammer streamer Sang Jing, who was publicly debunked by Encounter two days ago? How is that possible?】

【Why is it impossible? Sang Sang is also in Xianling City. And Sang Sang had a member of the Special Investigation Team with her during her livestream last night.】

【Who knows if it’s true or not? Maybe she’s just trying to leech off the Xuanmen and the Special Investigation Team.】

【Just ask the young mistress, and we’ll know.】

Sang Jing hadn’t expected someone to have taken a photo. Although there were many discussions and many people who didn’t believe it was her, it was a good thing for her now.

Black traffic was also traffic. The first step to becoming bigger and stronger was to have traffic and popularity.

Opening her White Whale Live account, Sang Jing found that the number of comments on the video she had posted was more than ten times the number of likes.

She opened the comment section, and the first comment was very provocative—

【Come on, streamer, are you scared? You ran away because you couldn’t argue with me?】

Scrolling down, many of the top-liked comments had her replies, which were very arrogant, unrestrained, and venomous.

She didn’t have to think to know who had done it. The comment section even had people pointing it out.

【Friends, I’ve found the truth. All the comments on this video were replied to by Assistant Xiao Xie.】

【A cold beauty with a fiery temper, and a voice similar to Encounter’s. Oh my god, why doesn’t White Whale Live have a voice comment feature? I really want to hear Assistant Xiao Xie curse at me.】

“How do I sound like Encounter?”

Xie Yu’s voice suddenly exploded in her ear. At the same time, the doorbell rang.

Sang Jing threw the phone to Xie Yu and got up to get her takeout.

Xie Yu looked at that comment and replied to her—

【Heh (eye roll)】

What damn Encounter? How can she compare to me?

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In the darkened room, the person on the bed was half-prone, sleeping soundly. A faint snoring sound came from the small round table at the foot of the bed.

A thin blanket on the sofa was propped up by a blurry, transparent mass. Suddenly, the blanket slid to the floor as the mass turned over.

“Mom… Mama…” Xie Yu murmured, her brow furrowed tightly.

“Mama! Look, I got a perfect score on this test,” Xie Yu ran home excitedly after school, took out the award certificate she had received, and held it in front of the woman sitting at the dining table, wanting a word of praise or recognition.

But the woman just sipped her afternoon tea with a cold expression, her fingers holding a spoon and stirring slowly.

“Mama, look…” Xie Yu went forward and pulled on the woman’s skirt.

The woman suddenly slapped her hand away fiercely, her raised eyebrows filled with anger. She glared at Xie Yu, saw the award certificate in her hand, and directly snatched it, tore it to shreds, and stomped on it. “Are you very proud? Do you think you’re very amazing?”

Xie Yu was so scared she stood there, not daring to move, tears welling up in her eyes but not daring to cry. “No, no, I just…”

“No dinner tonight. Pick up all this trash and throw it away,” the woman said coldly, not looking at Xie Yu again.

Xie Yu nodded with a muffled cry. With her schoolbag still on her back, she squatted down and picked up the award certificate she had just received, which had been torn to shreds, piece by piece.

After personally throwing the award certificate into the trash can, Xie Yu was about to go back to her room to do her homework. As she passed by the garden, she glanced sideways and was stunned.

The woman who had just been so harsh to her was now gently holding another girl, kissing her face and forehead, her eyes filled with love.

“Darling, happy birthday,” the woman said, holding her beloved child. In front of them was a carefully prepared birthday cake, sweet and beautiful.

Xie Yu clutched her schoolbag straps, tears rolling down her face silently.

Today was her birthday too.

“Xie Yu! Xie Yu!?”

A familiar voice made Xie Yu suddenly wake up and sit up. She gasped for breath and looked up at the person by the sofa. “Sang Jing…”

Xie Yu’s voice was choked and stifled, as if she were crying. But as a ghost, she had no tears. Sang Jing only saw the deep sorrow hidden in her eyes.

“Did you remember something?” Sang Jing raised her hand and stroked the corner of her eye. The long eyelashes brushed against her fingertips, but they were not wet.

Xie Yu lowered her eyes. “…No.”

Sang Jing looked at her quietly for a long time before finally saying, “Alright.”

Xie Yu glanced at the sky outside. It was still dark.

The nights were short in summer. It was still early in the morning, and Sang Jing had just fallen asleep not long ago.

“You… why are you up?”

Sang Jing straightened up without answering her, then turned and lay back down on the bed.

Xie Yu looked at the lump on the bed and a sarcastic smile appeared on her lips.

How ridiculous. A person she had only known for a few days could be so sincere to her, while her closest and dearest had never given her a single good look, and even detested and hated her.

Xie Yu walked to the balcony and looked up at the starry sky. The memory from just now began to replay in her mind. Although she couldn’t see the woman’s face clearly, she could clearly know what kind of look she had given her, and what kind of attitude she had towards the other child.

It wasn’t until dawn that Xie Yu returned to the sofa to lie down. She even used Sang Jing’s phone to order breakfast for her, a light meal that she liked.

A while later, Sang Jing woke up. She saw Xie Yu and said nothing, just went to the bathroom to wash up.

When she came out, she smelled the aroma of food. She looked at the small round table, where there were several boxes of breakfast, the boxes already opened.

Xie Yu was standing by, watching her. “Hurry up and eat. I’ll apply medicine for you after you eat.”

So diligent?

Sang Jing walked over and sat down, just as she was about to pick up her chopsticks.

Xie Yu saw the wound on her hand and blurted out, “Do you want me to feed you?”

Sang Jing: “…”

“No need,” Sang Jing said as she ate her breakfast. She then asked, “What did you remember last night?”

She hadn’t asked last night because she was too sleepy and her mind was not clear, and also because Xie Yu didn’t want to say, so she had let her go.

Xie Yu said vaguely, “It has nothing to do with my death.”

Sang Jing: “Is it related to your family? Who did you remember? Do you remember what they look like?”

Seeing that she couldn’t avoid it, Xie Yu had no choice but to confess honestly.

“But I can’t remember what they look like.”

Sang Jing hummed in response, then added, “Very good.”

“What?”

“You’ve remembered something. Very good.”

Xie Yu was slightly stunned.

Is this… praise?