OVTTGTBE Chapter 22

Happy Wedding

Happy Wedding

The instant Bai Junyi bent down to pick up her phone, the handsome man hidden behind Bai Yao’s phone screen quickly hid his face, and the video screen turned to the ceiling’s fluorescent light.

“Thank you, Mom.”

Bai Yao awkwardly took the phone and said to the person on the phone, “It’s nothing, it’s my mom, I’ll hang up first,” and immediately hung up.

After a while, Bai Yao carefully carried a tray of tea set from the kitchen to the living room and poured a cup of hot ginger tea for his mother.

No matter what, Bai Yao was still very happy that his mother was home—this year he could spend the New Year with her.

His mother had the scent of rain on her, but she wasn’t wet, so it probably just started raining outside.

Bai Junyi sized him up for a while and said, “Don’t bother, sit down first.”

Bai Yao obediently sat down on the single sofa on the side. Bai Junyi took a sip of hot tea and briefly described her experiences these past few days. She and her assistant drove to another city and were rear-ended on the highway. The car was towed away for repairs, and the business trip had to be postponed until after the New Year.

“I opened the door. The facial recognition machine got wet in the rain and couldn’t scan my face. I’ll find someone to fix it later.”

Bai Junyi interlaced her fingers, posing as if she were in a company meeting, and looked at Bai Yao seriously, “Why were you video chatting with a man? Who is he?”

The topic changed so quickly that Bai Yao was stunned for a moment and asked, “How do you know it’s a man?”

“I saw his face.” Bai Junyi said quietly, “He’s quite handsome, but he is definitely a man.”

Bai Yao: “?”

This Liu Yucheng is so bold that he actually showed his face?!

And he just happened not to see it!

“Is he your classmate?” Bai Junyi asked again.

“Mom, are you so interested?”

Bai Yao felt a little surprised. After all, from childhood to adulthood, his mother had never asked who he was close to or who he associated with; at most, when Bai Yao’s toys were snatched away by other children, she would say, “It’s okay, give it to them, Mom will buy you new ones.”

Bai Junyi didn’t reply. She held the cup with both hands, turned her head, and stared blankly at the fish tank on the side.

“Don’t worry, your fish are all alive and well. I didn’t go near them or play with them,” Bai Yao quickly said.

“Okay.”

Bai Junyi nodded.

The two sat in the living room, chatting aimlessly. Bai Yao tentatively asked about her new year’s plans, and after confirming that she would be spending the New Year at home and that they could have New Year’s Eve dinner together, the expression on Bai Yao’s face relaxed. After Bai Junyi went back to her room to take a shower, Bai Yao returned to his bedroom and excitedly celebrated silently in his room.

Great! Finally, he wasn’t the only one at home. This year, he wouldn’t have to spend the New Year alone miserably!!

Back at his computer desk, it was 8:54 PM, and Bai Yao’s game friend information alerts had exploded. In addition to some private messages from players who caught him afk in the main city, there was also a message from Zhang Yifang, and a few words from Honey Peach Milk.

Honey Peach Milk: It’s almost nine o’clock.

Honey Peach Milk: You must have a lot to say to your mom, it’s okay, I’ll wait for you.

Honey Peach Milk: If we can’t make it today, we’ll pick another time.

Bai Yao didn’t reply. He directly sent a team invitation to Honey Peach Milk, who was standing not far from him. The two got on their mounts together and flew to the wedding NPC.

The wedding venue in the game had been reserved in advance and was now open for entry. After talking to the NPC, the two were teleported to the wedding preparation room to continue talking to the NPC and choose wedding dresses.

As soon as the voice chat connected, Bai Yao said directly, “You wear the female dress.”

Honey Peach Milk chuckled softly and said, “It’s not impossible, but I want to hear your reasons.”

“I’m a male character… Your account’s equipment is so tightly covered, I remember it should have been a female character before, right?”

Bai Yao said, “In this game, female characters look better in female dresses.”

“I already switched it to a male character a long time ago, I just made the height shorter.”

Bai Yao turned his head and saw that Honey Peach Milk had actually stripped down to only his underwear, which was a white background with purple flowers.

The height and figure were so small that Bai Yao didn’t care; but after re-customizing the character, Liu Yucheng didn’t max out his character’s muscles. If you didn’t look carefully, you wouldn’t even be able to see that the character had abs.

“Look at the little person I created, doesn’t his figure look a lot like you?” Honey Peach Milk suddenly asked.

“?”

“What do you mean??”

Bai Yao instantly became very dissatisfied, “My abs are much more obvious than that!”

“Hmm.”

Realizing the loophole in his words—Bai Yao hadn’t sent “Honey Peach Milk” any photos of his abs when he bought the account and customized the character, he quickly changed his words, “I meant body proportions.”

After speaking, Liu Yucheng suddenly realized that the loophole in his words seemed even bigger—Honey Peach Milk hadn’t seen Bai Yao’s full body, he had only seen his face from Bai Yao’s selfies on WeChat, and the photo of his abs that didn’t show his face a few days ago…

“You guessed right, haha.” Bai Yao’s tone became very happy again, “I have long legs, do you like them?”

Seeing that Bai Yao didn’t suspect anything, Liu Yucheng breathed a sigh of relief and said, “No matter what you look like, I like you.”

“Hurry up, it’s more exciting for a male character to wear women’s clothing… The NPC is starting the countdown, we’re going to be teleported to the wedding venue in a while.”

Bai Yao said while taking out his phone and writing a note in the memo—he had just helped Liu Yucheng cover up a loophole in their conversation.

“You like women’s clothing? What kind do you like?” Honey Peach Milk asked him.

“My game is suddenly so laggy, is yours laggy?”

Bai Yao’s attention had already shifted to the game’s frame rate. His desktop computer used to run smoothly on max settings, but now it suddenly started dropping frames.

“Why are you changing the subject again.”

Honey Peach Milk said innocently. Saying that, he had also noticed that the game was very smooth when they entered, but now it was lagging.

At the same time, Bai Yao also received a screen recording from Zhang Yifang.

Zhang Yifang: OMG, did you invite everyone in the whole server over here?

Zhang Yifang: My desktop configuration is pretty good, it doesn’t even lag when I’m fighting in a hundred-person guild battle… Look, the wedding waiting room is already lagging like a PPT.

Zhang Yifang: I saw some people saying that you sent out server-wide red envelopes before… Rich man, do you need a little wife? I don’t mind pretending to be a male sister-in-law.

Bai Yao opened the video he sent. Looking around, the wedding waiting room was full of messy game player names, and Zhang Yifang’s game character had been drowned in the colorful crowd.

Bai Yao: Stop shouting, we’re about to appear. Remember to take more screenshots and send them to me.

Just after typing, Bai Yao’s screen switched to loading mode. After waiting for about half a minute, the wedding music rang in Bai Yao’s headphones, and the two were teleported to the wedding venue, which was lagging like a PPT.

The effect of Honey Peach Milk wearing the red wedding dress was even better than the sample picture Bai Yao had seen online. The red veil on his head made Bai Yao couldn’t help but laugh. He couldn’t imagine what kind of expression Liu Yucheng, who always had a bland face, would have if he really wore a red veil.

He himself was wearing a red groom’s robe, and the patterns on the clothes were drawn very meticulously. The achievement for obtaining the new fashion also popped up, and Bai Yao was very satisfied.

However, due to various problems such as perspective distance and network loading, Bai Yao saw that the guests’ equipment and fashion were lagging like a PPT. The only two things that were clear were their two game characters and the guests’ game names.

“This is the first time I’ve encountered such a laggy situation.”

Honey Peach Milk couldn’t help but complain, “I don’t know if the game’s server can handle it.”

He also didn’t know how Bai Yao managed to invite so many people to attend the wedding.

The players of this game, in normal times, are generally not interested in attending the weddings of strangers other than close friends and family. He stood in the main city in the afternoon to send out invitations, and except for those who had already received invitations from Bai Yao who would add him and send him private messages, almost no new people would accept his invitations.

Bai Yao didn’t reply, but was very focused on taking screenshots from various angles, wanting to try to capture earth-shattering wedding scenes, after all, this was the first time he had married someone in the game.

The two moved slowly forward along the path in the venue. When they reached a specific location, the dialogue box began to show the words typed by the guests on the public screen.

[Player A]: Happy wedding, boss!! Waiting for a red envelope rain!

[Player B]: Happy wedding, boss!! The number of people who came must be enough for 100, right? Boss, please fulfill your promise and go live in real life!

[Player C]: I can’t even grab the red envelope rain! I’m also here to watch the live meetup!

[Player D]: My underwear is about to lag off, waiting for the boss to go live in real life, waiting for the meetup to fail.

[Player E]: Get on camera [expression], this scene will probably be on the game’s official news tomorrow, front row selling melon seeds and small benches…

[Player F]: Asking, did the boss say which platform he would be broadcasting on before?

A large group of people were spamming the dialogue box at the same time. Liu Yucheng locked the dialogue box and carefully read their messages. He was completely dumbfounded.

“What do they mean by live meetup?”

Liu Yucheng couldn’t help but ask.

After waiting for a long time without a response, he realized that Bai Yao had hung up their WeChat voice call at some point.

He directly opened Bai Yao’s game friend list and typed again: What do they mean by live meetup?

Who is meeting up with whom? You and me?

As soon as the message was sent, Liu Yucheng was disconnected. He wasn’t even sure if Bai Yao had seen the message he had just sent.

He tried to reconnect, many times, but the system always prompted: [Server is busy, please try again later].

Just as Liu Yucheng was anxious and secretly cursing his own network for being unreliable, he received two WeChat messages from Bai Yao.

Bai Yao: I’m dying of laughter, our server crashed, and the official website has issued an emergency maintenance announcement.

Bai Yao: What did you send me just now? I just opened the friend message and didn’t have time to read it before I was disconnected.

Honey Peach Milk:……

Honey Peach Milk: What’s going on with the meetup they were talking about?