You Boys Play Games Very Well

Chapter 16
[System] Your friend Lemon is online.

— Meow meow meow?

— Something seemed to flash by right now.

— I must have opened the broadcast room the wrong way.

— Sorry, Mang God, I can’t watch your live. I’m going to the hospital to see the ophthalmology department.

— This Lemon is the Lemon I know? Does this game allow duplicate names?

“That is the Lemon you know,” Shan Zhu smiled and opened his friend’s chat. “It’s not a duplicate name, no need to see an ophthalmologist.”

— What the fuck, when did you hook up and privately add each other as good friends?

— My Dimensional Wall has been broken into slag. ╮(╯▽╰)╭

— Meng God added Lemon Dad as a good friend to show him how well the boys are playing games?

— 6666666666 The time to show the strength of our boys is here!

[Private chat] Mangosteen: You’re here, baby.

Ling Meng saw at a glance that Shan Zhu was heating the viewers on the broadcast and, in the spirit of exposing him, replied with great seriousness.

[Private chat] Lemon: This anchor, selling rot8 to cheat money, water friends must keep their eyes open, don’t be fooled!

He said no more than that, but after the instant explosion in the broadcast room, the cat food, catnip, and cat cans9 streamed in wave after wave. The water friends said while brushing:

— I like this anchor who sells rot and cheats money!

— Ridiculous, instead of watching Fighting Cat to see the fake gay anchor selling rot, should we just watch the anchor play games?

— Anchor, two pounds of rot, no need to give change!

— This is today’s share of the food, please collect it.

— Today’s cat food is lemon-flavored, meow ^^

Shan Zhu glanced at the unceasing gift notifications and heard nothing of the one was cheating money.

[Private chat] Mangosteen: What to do, everyone suddenly sent a lot of gifts, should I share half of them with you?

— Declined! My share was to brush Lemon Dad only!

[Private chat] Mangosteen: Some people are saying it’s only for you, baby.

[Private chat] Lemon: Don’t call me baby!

[Private chat] Mangosteen: Call you by the other name? ^_^

[Private chat] Lemon: Call me baby! I like to hear you call me baby!!!

The barrage exploded a second time, everyone couldn’t help wondering what the other name of Lemon Daddy was, but Mang God had openly concluded the PY transaction10 with the other party. Despite the barrage exerting enough force to topple the mountains and overturn the seas, he held his peace.

[Private chat] Mangosteen: Come to my broadcast room.

[Private chat] Lemon: Won’t go.

[Private chat] Mangosteen: I’ll make you a housekeeper11.

[Private chat] Lemon: Don’t.

[Private chat] Mangosteen: Didn’t you previously come everyday?

[Private chat] Lemon: I don’t want to go now.

[Private chat] Mangosteen: It’s hard to give up a habit.

[Private chat] Lemon: There’s no end to you!

— Lemon Daddy previously came to Mang God’s live stream every day???

— Has he been lurking in our midst???

— God, we have a traitor!!!!

“Yeah, I just found out,” Shan Zhu laughed. “He was hidden very deep.”

Shan Zhu opened the room and sent a game invite to Ling Meng.

[Private chat] Mangosteen: Baby, let’s duo queue.

[Private chat] Lemon: Haha, you aren’t afraid of me deliberately sending you a pit?

[Private chat] Mangosteen: Feel free, we boys play games very well, not afraid of pits.

[Private chat] Lemon: Don’t regret encouraging my waves12.

Shan Zhu smiled and smacked down the enter button.

[Private chat] Mangosteen: Do as you please.

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Footnotes:

1. pit (坑): common internet slang for a bottomless hole of a hobby, like reading/writing webnovels or playing games↩
2.family instructions (家训): a family’s traditional injunctions passed from generation to generation, recorded with the genealogy, very traditional concept/term ↩
3. weirdo (奇葩): slang, literally translates to rare and exotic flower ↩
4. pigeon (鸽): to stand someone up aka ditch them ↩
5. 草粉: transliterally fuck powder, but the context seems more like implying the fans are thirsty for Mang God ↩
6. turn over face (翻脸): suddenly become hostile, revealing the true face ↩
7. hot (火): to be hot aka popular↩
8. selling rot (卖腐): basically queerbaiting, the equivalent to fujoshi in Chinese is fu nu (rotten female) – so you sell rot to the rotten females to gain powder ↩
9. cat food, nip, cans, etc: the monetary payment levels in the Cat Fighting stream, by my best guess. Viewers give money to the streamer buy giving these “gifts” ↩
10. PY transaction: internet/gaming slang from LOL for a backroom deal ↩
11. housekeeper (房管): real estate management, moderator role in the chat ↩
12. making waves: doing as one pleases without restraint, disrupting others in the process ↩

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