The Talkative Late-Game Player Begs for Mercy

I'm no good at writing introductions, so here's the cast list:

Guo Hao: A veteran voice actor in the Chinese audio drama fandom. A loyal, devoted top; a young traffic cop, upright and warmhearted. Has a youthful top voice. Age 23.

Shen Mengzhe: An online voice actor whose secret identity is the Third Young Master of Jian. In real life, he's a professional Mandarin voice actor. His voice sits around 0.5. Age 26.

Lantian: A popular voice actor in the Chinese audio drama fandom, rumored to be paired with Lin Shama. Has a youthful top voice.

Lin Ye: His secret identity is Lin Shama. A bottom with a top-sounding voice, a little sly. His lover is the obscure voice actor Momo Wuming. His voice sits around 0.4 to 0.5.

Zhang Aifeng: A fellow traffic cop. Has a youthful voice.

Uncle Cat: A Mandarin voice actor, Lin Ye's senior, and Shen Mengzhe's coworker and supervisor. Has an upright, youthful top voice.

Jingshui: A planner in the Chinese audio drama fandom. Has a youthful voice.

Luoqi: A writer, planner, and director in the Chinese audio drama fandom, and a friend of Lin Shama's. Has a young woman's voice, ranging from youthful to mature.

Cheng Cheng: Shen Mengzhe's ex-boyfriend. Gets a little twisted later on. His voice sits around 0.5 to 0.6.

Mo Yun: Guo Hao's junior and Mo Li's younger sister. A writer, planner, and director in the Chinese audio drama fandom, later specializing in directing. Has a young woman's voice.

Host: The host of the live voice-acting discussion. Has a youthful or mature woman's voice.

Shen's Mom: Shen Mengzhe's mother, a middle-aged woman with an auntie-like voice.

Mo Li: Mo Yun's older brother and a fan of Lin Shama. His CP is the top voice actor "Qiushui Wuhen" in the Chinese audio drama fandom. He has a short temper. His voice sits around 0.4.

Driver: A male taxi driver.

Shi Lei: Shen Mengzhe's coworker. Has a youthful voice.

Group Admin, Fan A, Fan B, Fan C, Fan D

Note: [ ] indicates post-production cues, { } indicates scene cues, and ( ) indicates voice actor cues.

A fun, lighthearted script with no angst, written straight as a script.

A few things about the story:

1. Shen Mengzhe is 26, and Guo Hao is 23. They first met at Guo Hao's high school.

2. Guo Hao started first grade at age eight, then took a year off for family reasons. When he returned, he repeated the first year of middle school.

3. Four years ago, Shen Mengzhe skipped a grade and was a senior at Z University in Chengdu, Sichuan. When he went to Guo Hao's high school to see Cheng Cheng, Guo Hao was in his final year of high school. Cheng Cheng had joined the club before Guo Hao, so Guo Hao always called him "senior."

4. The year Cheng Cheng cruelly dumped Shen Mengzhe, Shen graduated. He chose to leave Chengdu for Beijing, where, by chance, Uncle Cat took notice of him. He then worked at Uncle Cat's studio doing commercial voice-over work.

5. The melodramatic part is that Guo Hao fell in love with Shen Mengzhe at first sight. They barely interacted, and after Shen Mengzhe went to Beijing, Guo Hao tried to ask around about him but got nowhere. Four years passed, and Shen Mengzhe's face had grown a little hazy in Guo Hao's memory. Shen Mengzhe, meanwhile, barely remembered Guo Hao at all.

6. Guo Hao mentions producing a demo every two days in the script, meaning he spends 24 hours at a time in front of his computer. Jingshui also mentions producing six in a month. Both are possible: there are people in the Chinese audio drama fandom who work that hard, such as CV Duoduo, whose works include Needlepoint Showdown.

7. In the extra steamy chapter, Guo Hao gets an interview after wearing a suit. Shen Mengzhe says, "It feels like a kid sneaking into his dad's clothes," because Guo Hao has a baby face. This isn't mentioned in the script, though.

8. This is part of the same series as Top Voice, Bottom Body Can't Take It, so the two stories happen at the same time. Most of the main voice actors are the original cast, though a few were replaced for various reasons.

9. The scripts for Talkative and Top Voice were written around the same time, so the gags are from several years ago. They may seem a bit overused now, so please don't take them too seriously. Just enjoy a laugh.

10. Top Voice and Talkative are both original scripts with no novel source material. The writer's imagination is limited, naming isn't their strong suit, and the plot is rather simple. Any similarities are purely coincidental.

11. Special note: This script is entirely original.

P.S. Italics in the script can't be displayed here, so please don't hold it against me.

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