Chapter 12

Act II: Hairspray (5)

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Xiang Cai proceeded to accept Wang Qingyun's friend request, and watched the system prompt: "You have become QQ friends, now you can chat!"

To chat with……

To chat with…………

He-he-he-he-he could chat with the great god?

Xiang Cai sat there in a dazed, holding onto his cell phone like it was a timed bomb that would explode in any minute.

"I did not expect Yun Da to add me in person!" "Yun God, what are your orders?" "Wang Qingyun-sama, have you eaten?" "Yun Da, you are my favorite CV!!"

[T/N: Da is the opposite of Xiao, da is big and xiao is little. Also old and young.]

Countless greeting sentences swept through Xiang Cai’s brain. His fingertips tapping on the screen of the mobile phone, and repeatedly deleted and re-wrote sentences.

Qi Ji looked on anxiously and nudged him: "Don't leave the great god hanging! Send an emoticon!"

"Yes, yes, yes. Emoticons." Xiang Cai felt like there was a clockwork on his back, and he would only act if someone wound it up.

He hurriedly searched the system's built-in emoticons for a workable expression and selected an energetic penguin.

He clicked to send.

On the screen, a cute penguin waved to Wang Qingyun.

Special effects burst out with a line of small print: Welcome the Spring Festival.

Xiang Cai: "..."

Qi Ji: "... Is it still the Spring Festival?"

Xiang Cai: "No, no, it’s not."

Qi Ji screamed: "Then what are you doing in a daze!!!! Are you not withdrawing?!!!"

But it was too late to withdraw at this time, and Tan Yiming, who was far away on the other side of the ocean, saw the fireworks special effects explode on the screen.

He looked up at the calendar on the wall hesitantly: "..."

When looking down at the screen again, the penguin who just waved to him had disappeared without a trace, leaving only a sentence "Your friend withdrew a QQ message."

guess: [Doggie].jpg

[T/N: guess is English in the RAWs]

guess: Yun-sama is good ~

Yiming Qingyun: Hello

Yiming Qingyun: This child is very energetic

Yiming Qingyun: [Touch head].jpg

guess: [Doggie].jpg

guess: Great god, why did you add me on QQ?

Yiming Qingyun: I note you hadn't joined the work group yet. I was afraid you hadn’t seen the email, so I decided to notify you myself.

guess: No no no, I’ve seen it! !! !!

guess: But I still can’t believe it until now, I was really accepted! !! !! !!

guess: [Mastiff nodding].jpg

guess: [Barking, crying, crying].jpg

When Xiang Cai spoke, he sent a series of expression packs of the silly husky, the stupid Shiba Inu, and the empty-headed Corgi.

He hesitantly asked his friend beside him, "Are you sure these emoticons are cute?"

Qi Ji said confidently: "Is it not cute for me or you? I certainly will not pit you, no one does not like the expression pack of the mentally retarded dog !!"

It turned out that after the Voice of Jiuxiao sent a notice for him to join the group last night, several new members who were recruited also immediately joined the group. The vice president of the troupe held a short voice conference for everyone. After the voice connection was over, he discovered that one new person was missing.

Each year, only a fixed quota of newcomers that could join the group. Since only Xiang Cai was recommended to join the club by Tan Yiming, the second son simply assigned the task of welcoming Xiang Cai to Tan Yiming.

Because of the time difference, it was almost late at night for Tan Yiming. He straightforwardly asked Xiang Cai if it was convenient for them to talk now because he wanted to briefly explain things about the company to him.

In the classroom, the class bell had sounded, and the maths teacher was holding the teaching plan under his arm and elbow, slowly walking up to the podium with a mug of tea in his hand.

Gently biting his lower lip, Xiang Cai quickly glanced at the teacher on the podium, typing with both hands on the keyboard.

guess: You can talk now.

guess: But please wait for five minutes.

After speaking, he threw the mobile phone into his sleeve, raised his hand and got up, asked for sick leave, and ran outside the classroom while covering his stomach. A set of actions were smooth and flowed, all in one go.

Qi Ji could only help explain for him everywhere: "You know, boys have such days every month."

Xiang Cai pretended to be sick, but he was absolutely afraid to go to the infirmary. If he went in the men's toilet, he might meet the teacher that checked for smoking students. After a pause, he stepped in another direction, subconsciously turning to the piano room.

Fortunately, there was no class now, and the piano room was empty. Xiang Cai rushed in flexibly, closed the door, and locked it. After all this was done, he sat panting on the bench and realized how crazy he was to do this.

— He actually skipped school!

Xiang Cai, an excellent model student since childhood, had skipped class!

It was just that he skipped class, not to go online, date, or fight like other boys ... but hid in the piano room secretly, just to say a few more words to Wang Qingyun.

Xiang Cai: [Take a piece of this dog's life] .jpg

The chat dialog stayed silent since a few minutes ago, where Wang Qingyun sent the word ‘good’ without an emoji.

Xiang Cai bent down, leaning his forehead against the piano cover, and slid his fingers, slowly reviewing the chat history of the two of them once again.

This time, he read it word by word, thinking about each punctuation mark or another punctuation mark, and the more he looked, the more his heart thumped.

Was his tone too naive?

Was he using too many emoticons?

When he didn’t join the group yesterday, did the Great God feel that he was too irresponsible?

He thought about it a lot, and felt fear, nervousness, and concern that he had never experienced before.

But at this time, Xiang Cai mistook the root of this feeling for the adoration of his idol.

Xiang Cai did not move for a long time, and Tan Yiming took the initiative to send an inquiry.

Yiming Qingyun: Is it convenient to chat now?

guess: Convenient!

Xiang Cai bounced up in his seat instantly and sat up straight, as if he was an elementary school student holding a book.

He thought that Wang Qingyun's "chat" was a "chat" in text—however, a call notification just jumped up in front of his eyes!

Your friend [Yingming Qingyun] is requesting to connect with you

Xiang Cai thought that he would lose control and scream, but in fact, his chest just swelled and collapsed quickly, and made a puff deep from his throat like a pup craving love.

His finger was a step ahead of his sanity and pressed the accept call.

The next second, the male voice that accompanied him for countless lonely nights, was like an intoxicating spring breeze, smooth and gentle, blowing into his ears.

"Hello guess, I'm Wang Qingyun, the head of the CV group of Voice of Jiuxiao Radio Dramas."

"Here you will find an interesting big family and a harbor where every dream can set sail."

The sound of Tan Yiming’s voice was really good, and it was not enough to describe it as ‘pleasant to the ears’.

When he broke away from the character setting of those radio drama characters, his voice had a wonderful change beyond words. He was no longer a symbol across the two-dimensional wall, but a living person who appeared in Xiang Cai’s life.

This feeling was indescribable, like waking up from a great dream, but then the dream came a reality.

When the school piano room was built, the walls were soundproofed. When the door was closed, it was like a huge echo room. When a sound of the piano hit the wall, and there would be a short echo.

Now, all these echoes had all become Wang Qingyun.

The voice of the man was like a pool of cool spring water, and the speaker on the mobile phone was that spring. The wave of water spread unhurriedly, hit the wall slowly, came back, and splashed on the boy's heart.

Xiang Cai was speechless. For the first time, he felt that his voice was awful and was ashamed to speak.

He secretly turned on the recording function of his mobile phone. He wanted to treasure every word that Wang Qingyun spoke, so that when winter came he could play it back and slowly linger in the aftertaste in the warm nest.

"Here, on behalf of the Voice of Jiuxiao Radio Drama Troupe, I would like to welcome you. Thank you for your love of radio dramas and your willingness to devote your spare time to the production of radio dramas. I hope we can achieve our dreams together here."

The man's voice dropped, and after a few seconds, he asked again, "Guess, are you there?"

[T/N: I don’t remember if I mentioned it, but the Cai in Xiang Cai’s name means guess, and so does Caixiang. However, here, Tan Yiming is saying guess in English.]

The layer of invisible barriers blocking Xiang Cai’s throat finally disappeared, and he blurted out: "Yes! I'm here! I ..."

He wanted to say that he didn't really like radio dramas. He had joined the troupe just because he liked Wang Qingyun's voice.

But when the words were about to come out, he suddenly changed it to, "Thank you, Yun Da! I will keep it in mind and work hard !!!"

"Don't be so nervous." Tan Yiming thought the child was very interesting. Even through the radio waves, he could hear his nervousness and astringency, which was the opposite of the person with expressions flying around on QQ. He said: "Actually, I just followed the original script: the welcome was written by our president. Was it too official when I read it out?"

"No no no!" Xiang Cai clenched his fingers subconsciously, "It sounded good!"

He wanted to blow some beautiful rainbow farts, but he was mesmerized by his idol, his speech seemed demented, and he could only repeat the words ‘good’, ‘really good, and ‘especially good’ that children in kindergarten would use.

But at least the children in kindergarten had the courage to say ‘I like you’ boldly.

On the other hand, Xiang Cai didn't dare.

Tan Yiming first briefly introduced the basic situation in the company, and specifically introduced the cover group.

"In recent years, there has been a high turnover in the cover group. Every year, there are people retiring from the group. We rarely have people joining the group. During the graduation season last year, we couldn't find anyone from the cover group. They were busy taking exams. After graduating, they changed jobs so the president decided to simply disbanded the cover group."

Xiang Cai was surprised: "Then I ...?"

Tan Yiming said: "Although you signed up for the CV group, after listening to your work, I could feel strong emotions in your singing. So, I proposed to the president to re-establish the cover group, and you are the first member of the team." He paused, "Of course, this is just my personal opinion, and you should still follow your opinion. If you don't want to join the cover group, then ... "

"No!" When Xiang Cai heard that it was Wang Qingyun who listened to his work and recommended him, he was ecstatic and immediately yelled, "I do!"

His voice was too loud. He was afraid that the bride would answer that the groom shouldn’t be so arrogant at the wedding.

Tan Yiming was stunned by the child's enthusiasm. Somehow, it reminded him of the mentally retarded dog expression pack Xiang Cai had sent earlier.

It was a gif emoticon package where the owner threw the frisbee into the distance. As a result, the dog simply ignored the frisbee, wagged its tail like a propeller and chased after the owner instead.

Tan Yiming thought that Xiang Cai was like that propeller dog.

He equated the two in his heart, and Tan Yiming smiled, seemingly in a great mood.

It was great that the child had high energy.

Tan Yiming pulled Xiang Cai into a large noisy work group. There were nearly a hundred people in the group, and each person has a different title prefix to their name.

[CV] [later stage] [artist] [planning] ...

And Xiang Cai was the only [cover].

When he entered the group, they were discussion things in a heated manner, but someone still sharply noticed him.

They gave him a warm greeting, and Xiang Cai received countless hellos for the first time, that, in a panic, he hurriedly sent an expression pack.

guess: [Mighty dog Kaimai].jpg

In the picture, a vigilant Shiba Inu barked into a microphone.

Xiang Cai was told that everyone liked the dog emoji package in the two-dimensional world. The microphone was also painted on this emoji package, which fit the theme of this community!

When he sent out his emoji, the group suddenly cooled down.

...This expression pack is so weird that we all don't know what to say to guess...

Xiang Cai suspected that he had messed up, and went to ask the great god uneasily.

guess: [whisper] .jpg

guess: Doesn’t anyone like my doggie ​​expressions?

Yiming Qingyun: No.

Yiming Qingyun: Continue to use it.

Yiming Qingyun: Very cute.

It was pretty cute.

The Shiba Inu's eyes were big and round, and a pair of triangular ears stood alertly on his head.

Tan Yiming thought, ‘Look at the silly expression on this dog, it really looks like the kid over in the chat.’

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The author has something to say: Who doesn’t like dog emoticons? (I promise)

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