Title: Baby’s Breath
Translator: System Yaoi
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Chapter 20 My Girlfriend Can’t Be A Guy
The Visual Kei quickly left his line of sight, and Cheng Yu withdrew his gaze, smiling self-deprecatingly.
Cheng Yu thought it was probably because he had rehearsed too much recently and was dizzy from the sun, otherwise how could he have mistaken a boy for Xue Mimi.
Xue Youka searched for a while, and finally found the inconspicuous Photography Club among the more than 200 booths. He took his student ID card and enrolled, and asked about the club’s activities. The senior sister said that they were recently collaborating with the T University’s Press on a monthly magazine, and that they would be interviewing and featuring photographs of students from the university.
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Xue Youka sat there and chatted with the senior who claimed to be the vice president of the club for a long time, and finally added her on WeChat, as the two of them scanned each other’s QR code, another girl approached beside him: “Junior brother, I am also from the Photography Club, If you don’t understand anything, or need help in buying a camera or something, just ask me.”
“Really?” Xue Youka smiled, “Thank you, senior sister. Can I also ask you about photo editing?”
“Of course!” The senior’s whole heart was infected by his smile, and her motherhood began to overflow, “My photo editing skills are not bad, you can ask me anytime you need help in photo editing!”
After Xue Youka left, the several senior sisters from the photography club gathered together and looked through his moments on WeChat. “Why are there no photos?”
“This junior is so adorable. I really like him!”
In the afternoon, there were two back-to-back sessions of self study and English. In the large classroom, half of the students are doing their own things: some were reading finance books, some are memorising English words, and preparing for the CET-6 exam.
Xue Youka was one of those students playing with their phones.
He had been trading in stocks for two or three years, and had made a small profit in stocks. He withdrew some money a few days ago, sent a part to Xue Tianliang, and also transferred tens of thousands to He Xiaoyou, and told her that the school rewarded him for taking the exam. Actually, the bonus for attending T University—the university only rewarded 50,000, and Xue Youka gave her 80,000.
He Xiaoyou detested speculative activities like gambling and lottery, and that’s the reason she divorced Xue Tianliang.
Xue Youka first got into stocks when he heard Hu Pi’s father bragging to others, saying that he knew a driver friend: “He made a fortune in stocks, and invested a thousand yuan in it! After a month! Guess what, he made a thousand and seven hundred back! I asked him to trade for me and gave him two thousand, and he made me more than one thousand.”
As a result, Hu Pi’s father lost tens of thousands in stocks by himself, the stock trading books were thrown, and the computer was smashed to pieces. Xue Youka picked up those books, studied them diligently, and gained a basic understanding of stocks. Later, he watched TV, went to the library to borrow books on random walk theory, and taught himself advanced mathematics.
But speculative behaviour is like walking on a tightrope. Xue Youka knew that He Xiaoyou wouldn’t like it, so he never told her about it. He knew the risks were high, so he sold almost everything, and now his remaining position is less than ten thousand yuan. The bulk of his investments is in virtual currency, planning to sell it all together at a better time in the future.
After glancing at the stocks for a while, Xue Youka received a message from Sun Wenhao.
“Xiao Ka!!! Your photos got shared by a big V from a marketing account, and your follower count is growing rapidly!”
“Really?!”
“Yes, every refresh gains you over a dozen new followers. Before the comic exhibition, I recorded it—it was just 20,000 followers, but now it’s already over 30,000! At this rate, you’ll have at least 40 to 50 thousand by tomorrow!”
Xue Youka was a bit dizzy, “What level is this? How much do they pay for an appearance?”
“Uh… Your career has just begun, so probably only around 1,000 or 2,000 yuan. But as your followers grow, you can easily make five digits.”
Unable to contain his excitement, Xue Youka went online to take a look.
The phone was a thousand yuan model bought for him by He Xiaoyou using her “school reward.” It had been less than two months, and it already started lagging.
This was his first time in this virtual world, and according to Sun Wenhao, what they were doing now is called “monetizing traffic.”
Yesterday, he posted nine meticulously retouched photos of his cosplay as Nick Wilde, and they had already become popular on his Weibo account. They had over 2,000 likes, more than 1,000 reposts, and many comments.
Casually scrolling through them, he saw many praises for his cosplay.
Feeling even happier, he decided to treat Sun Wenhao to dinner tomorrow.
T University and Y University were not far apart, so Xue Youka booked a barbecue restaurant with an average of 80 yuan per person in advance.
Sun Wenhao brought his roommate with him and introduced him, “Cheng Bin, he’s older than us, call him Brother Bin. This is Brother Bin’s girlfriend.” He pointed to the girl next to him, “Sister Xiao Qiu, she’s the one who stayed up late helping you edit the photos.”
Xue Youka shook hands with Brother Bin and thanked Xiao Qiu. Xiao Qiu said, “Haozi2 This means ‘Bro/Buddy’ in English, System just did not like how it sounded so kept it as Haozi +_+ said you’re only seventeen, you’re amazing! A super study genius, going to T University at seventeen, and you’re even better-looking in person than in photos! Your photos are already good-looking, but I didn’t expect you to be even more good-looking in real life! Kaka, with the speed your followers are growing, in a few days, you’ll have hundreds of thousands followers!”
“Thanks to sister Xiao Qiu for helping me edit the photos, or else it wouldn’t have grown so quickly.”
The four of them sat down and began chatting about their hometowns. Brother Bin said he’s from Guangxi3A very beautiful province right above Vietnam, as Xue Youka replied, “I’m also from Guangxi.”
“Aren’t you like brother, from Hunan4Hunan is an inner province?” Brother Bin asked.
“My mom is from Hunan, but I attended middle and high school there.” He deliberately used the local dialect and asked, “Brother Bin, where in Guangxi are you from?”
Brother Bin said he’s from Liuzhou.
“I really love eating Liuzhou snail noodles.” Xue Youka was a bit surprised, “And it’s so close to my hometown, I am from Shanling!”
When Xue Tianliang fell into debt due to gambling, He Xiaoyou chose to end their long-distance widow-style marriage and took her son back to her family’s home.
After the meal, Brother Bin asked Xiao Qiu and the others if they had any plans. Xiao Qiu said, “There’s a bar nearby, do you want to go?”
Xue Youka said he can’t drink alcohol but would be happy to go and can order soft drinks instead.
Xiao Qiu said, “Actually, it’s not exactly a bar; it’s a well-known livehouse5originally in English called Mew6originally in English. By the way, the owner of that livehouse is also a student at your T University.”
“Our university’s student?” Xue Youka asked.
As they walked towards Mew, Xiao Qiu continued, “There are quite a lot of wealthy people at your school, all local students. This livehouse opened in 2005 and is quite lively and famous. However, the owner has been running it for ten years and has lost millions… Do you know a band named Scorpio?”
Xue Youka shook his head, “Not really familiar.”
“Anyway, it’s a pretty awesome college student band. This livehouse was taken over by the members of this band. Usually, when they have performances, tickets are hard to come by. But since there’s no performance tonight, we might find seats easily.”
“We’re here.”
Xue Youka looked up.
The Mew Bar was decorated in an interesting style, resembling the architecture of the 1930s. There was an old piano placed at the entrance, old posters on the walls, and neon lights displaying information about the shows.
Xiaoxiu pointed at a performance poster and said, “It’s this person.”
Xue Youka glanced at it, but the Scorpion Band was a four-member group, and the person in the poster had a small portion of their face visible, making it hard to recognize.
“He is called turbo, a genius, only sixteen years old and already famous, they call him the Drum King of Macau.”
Xue Youka: “!!!”
“King of Macau Stocks!”7System is kind of lost here, but this is what the raws said “澳门股王！”
He was in awe.
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