Streaming Life After Paying Off Debt - Chapter 104

As if discussing daily life, a calm voice.

Yet the content was tightening around my neck.

“Uh… uh?”

My pupils dilate on the screen.

A momentary agitation is clearly reflected in the character’s expression.

– Look at those big eyes, hahahaha

– Scary with the four-eyed look,ㅠㅠ

Seeing the chat, I quickly erased any signs of agitation from my face.

Then, pretending to be nonchalant, I opened my mouth.

“Wh-what? I don’t know what you mean? A stand-in?”

However, the trembling voice I couldn’t hide vividly conveyed my feelings.

– Is this really him?

– Hearing the voice, it seems like it is, hahahaha

– Is another controversy being added?

– Please refrain from baseless speculation;

I gazed at the chaotic chat room, desperately thinking about how to resolve this situation.

Various solutions flashed through my mind, and I quietly chose one.

‘For now, let’s deny it. If I say it’s not me, what can they do?!’

While I was pondering excuses, I suddenly realized there was something I needed to do first.

‘I have to eliminate the one who knows the truth.’

The best way to keep a secret is to eliminate anyone involved.

I hovered the mouse over the viewer’s nickname that was tightening around my neck.

With a single click, he would be executed from my broadcast.

‘Goodbye, and you better not speak the truth in the future.’

With a dull farewell, I pressed the button.

However, the voice that echoed just prior stopped my hand.

– Duntang has donated 10,000 won.

[Come on, do you think we can’t tell voices apart? Except for the newcomers, everyone’s caught on, hahahaha]

– Mijoo has donated 10,000 won.

[If you can’t distinguish the liver’s voice, you’re unqualified as a listener!]

‘Huh?’

Contrary to my expectation that only one person knew the secret,

one by one, viewers confessed the truth to me.

– Seriously, it’s not like we’ve only watched your broadcast for a day or two, how could we not know?

– We just found it funny, so we let it slide, hahahaha

– I mean?

– Oh, right, right, hahah (I didn’t know)

– How did you figure it out, you bastards?

With the continuing testimonies, I finally gave up on making excuses.

“Ah, yes, I’m sorry!”

In fact, I hadn’t gone to meet my boyfriend; I just left for a moment due to work.

There was no reason for me to be there like a sinner.

“I thought I wouldn’t be able to broadcast in the morning, so I asked for a favor.”

I confessed the truth honestly.

With a sense of relief, I moved on to another concern.

‘How much should I say? Would it be okay to just say I got cast?’

Actually, it wouldn’t matter if I said what happened today as it was.

But,

‘That wouldn’t be fun.’

Having a lingering admiration for the spy movies I watched as a child,

I felt a strange thrill knowing there was another side that the viewers didn’t know.

‘I’ll keep it a secret until the movie is released later.’

Even then, rather than directly saying it, I would hint at it with something like, “Did you watch this movie?”

‘Surely, some viewers will catch on.’

Then, I’ll have to confess as if I couldn’t help it.

That I’m that Hollywood actor!

Imagining the confused looks on the viewers’ faces made my mouth water just at the thought.

‘Hehehe…’

Once I set a goal, all that was left was to act on it.

Now, what I needed was to find an acceptable balance where viewers wouldn’t realize the important content while being tolerant.

‘Saying it was a casting might give it away, so let’s say I got caught by a religious group while walking down the street.’

I hypnotized myself inwardly.

‘I ran away from the cultists…’

Just as I was gradually immersing myself in the character, the viewers called out to me.

– Expert has donated 10,000 won.

[So, did you sleep well?]

“Excuse me?”

The sudden and random question broke my immersion.

As I looked at them with a bewildered expression, more messages appeared in the chat.

– I knew this would happen since you broadcasted late into the night yesterday.

– There’s no way you’d turn on the broadcast in the morning, hahahaha

– Seriously, you’re always late for regular broadcasts, why would we believe you~

Looking at the chat, I realized.

The viewers were having a ridiculous misunderstanding!

‘These people… think I’ve been sleeping all this time?’

They think I’m just a lazy bum who just sleeps!

I shouted loudly at the viewers who were putting the blame on me.

“Y-yeah! You caught me, haha…!”

‘Sometimes it’s not so bad to be a bum.’

Anyway, it’s a relief if the viewers understand on their own.

I had no reason to clear their misunderstandings.

“Beauties need a lot of sleep because they’re sleepyheads~”

I continued shamelessly, instilling confidence in their speculations.

– Beauty nonsense, hahahaha

– Just show your face?

– If not your face, somewhere else… hehehe…

With the chat flowing according to plan, a smile bloomed on my face.

“Somewhere else, where? Here?”

For a moment, I turned on the real cam instead of the virtual one.

In the dark screen, my legs were clearly revealed.

– Wow, wow, wow, aahhhhh!

– The blue pill is sooo delicious…

– I want to be stomped on those legs…

I turned my gaze away from the satisfying reactions in the chat.

A donation message appeared on one corner of the screen.

– Expert has donated 10,000 won.

[For broadcasting on behalf, the mission is a go!]

A viewer was demanding that I carry out the mission.

Finally, overwhelmed by his relentless enthusiasm, I uttered my acceptance.

“Okay, okay!”

‘For a lie, this is quite… a cheap way to pay the price.’

Suddenly, the article I saw in the gallery last time came to mind.

‘They seemed ready to stab someone if I took a break on Valentine’s, but compared to that…’

The messages that genuinely made me feel a threat to my life.

Compared to that, this punishment was merely a light joke.

‘And it’s not even free.’

Since I’m going to do it, I should do it properly.

“… So, let’s start the First Miju Content Auction Competition!”

– Wow! Clap, clap, clap, clap!!

– Auction?

– What kind of nonsense are you going to do this time…

The viewers expressed enthusiastic support for the new content.

Before starting the content, I decided to get rid of the remnants of the old era.

“First, let’s eliminate the piled-up mission amount.”

– You have failed the mission.

– You have failed the mission.

The alert sound rang out again and again.

In two clicks, fifty million won vanished before my eyes.

“Ha… everyone, did you see that? I am a very honest person who upholds integrity even with such large sums of money.”

– Fifty thousand, whoa!

– Really amazing!

– If it were Miju who had to press success, I’d totally upvote, hahahaha

– But isn’t the streamer supposed to take 10% of the mission amount? (This message has been deleted.)

The viewers couldn’t hide their admiration for my integrity.

With their support, I began to explain today’s content.

“Today’s content is an auction content, just as the name suggests!”

I picked up a mist bottle lying around and banged it on the desk like an auctioneering gavel.

“The rules are the same as in a regular auction! I’ll first announce a bid amount, and viewers who want to bid should raise their hands!”

At the revealed auction rules, the viewers voiced their concerns.

– Hands, hands, hands

– Where are the hands on the chat, silly!

– Are you really going to check all of those?

– What happens if someone makes a false bid?

“Thank you all for your support, but the chat is moving too fast for me to see anything.”

The speed of chats pouring in from over ten thousand viewers was overwhelming.

If I tried to read, they vanished quickly, and it was hard to follow line by line.

In the end, I fixed the chat for a moment and finally grasped the viewers’ worries.

“It seems everyone is quite worried about the bidding method.”

In reality, it was still a struggle to read the chat.

Thinking about the chat speeding up further once the auction started,

the viewers’ concerns seemed somewhat valid.

However,

“Hey~ don’t you all trust me too little? Of course, I’ve thought it all through!”

Such situations were already within my expectations.

I had long thought about ways to prepare for them.

“Doing it through chat would be too chaotic, wouldn’t it? So all bids will only be accepted via donations!”

To the viewers clamoring, I shared an important fact that I had momentarily forgotten.

“Oh, and just for today! I’ve set the minimum donation amount at 10,000 won. So please participate a lot!”

– Crazy money-grabbing piece of trash

– You’re collecting money as a punishment, you shameless one…

– Just go to the bottom of the barrel.

– Are you saying I have to pay 10,000 won every time I bid in an auction, you b*stard, hahahaha

– Please come back with a stand-in broadcast…

Viewers restless to participate in the auction stomped their feet.

Yet sadly, the explanation wasn’t over yet.

– What happens if there are simultaneous bids?

“In the case of simultaneous bids, the one who calls out first will be considered to have bid!”

– So the person who bids later just donated 10,000 won?

I omitted answers to some unnecessary questions for a smooth progression.

Finally, the long explanation came to an end.

“It seems everyone understands, so I’ll wrap it up here.”

– (Fire)(Fire)

– Me

– Rock

– (Fire)(Fire)(Fire)

– Me

With the joyful news that the auction was starting, the viewers revealed their feelings without reservation.

In the increasingly heated atmosphere, I finally announced the start of the content.

“Okay, then let’s start the auction!”