The Sleep Streamer Is a Gorgeous Little Introvert

Qi Zhou is a beautiful, socially anxious person, and also a streamer who helps people fall asleep.

By day, he keeps everyone at arm's length with an expressionless face. Everyone thinks he's as cold as ice, but no one knows that simply talking to someone makes him feel like thorns are pricking his back.

At night, though, he transforms into an obscure sleep-aid streamer. His voice is sweet and gentle, and he calls his viewers "big brother" at every turn, leaving them itching for more.

There's no way he can let anyone else find out about this embarrassing contrast. It would be mortifying!

He's always been careful to keep his secret identity under wraps, wearing all sorts of masks whenever he streams.

One night, during a late-night stream, his top donor sent a request in the chat, asking Qi Zhou to go out into the hallway and do a tapping sound segment.

He stepped outside and ran straight into his next-door neighbor, who was also his landlord.

Qi Zhou checked the time. It was two in the morning.

What normal person would be in a dim hallway at this hour?

But his neighbor seemed not to notice him, keeping his head down and looking at his phone.

The top donor was already urging him on in the chat. Qi Zhou forced himself to finish the tapping segment, then turned to go back inside. He couldn't shake the feeling that a gaze was clinging to his back.

After that, the top donor's requests got stranger and stranger.

"Could you do a roleplay sleep-aid session where you help your neighbor fall asleep?"

"Could you have your neighbor play along?"

"Could you help your neighbor fall asleep?"

Qi Zhou: What is all this supposed to mean???

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When Meng Ke first met Qi Zhou, he thought he was unbelievably beautiful.

Fair skin, big eyes.

He was just too aloof, with an adorable face that always gave off an air of keeping strangers away.

Later, he accidentally found a sleep-aid streamer on Douyin whose voice was exactly the same as Qi Zhou's.

The difference was that this streamer wasn't aloof at all, but sweet and well-behaved.

And he was very obedient to his top donor.

Even when it came to some embarrassing things...

Reading guide:

* The gong only starts "flirting" in the chat after finding out the streamer is the shou. He really hates the gong treating other people as substitutes for the shou, even if that "other person" is the shou himself.

* Qi Zhou is socially anxious around strangers. Once he gets familiar with someone, some cute and high-maintenance traits come out.

* Same-sex marriage is legal in this setting.

* Douyin's livestreaming rules are used as a reference, but they don't all apply directly.

* More to be added if I think of anything.

Theme: Lovers will eventually be together.