Jiang Ning left the hospital alone.
It wasn’t until they saw her find her car in the parking lot, open the door, and sit inside that the ever-chattering netizens suddenly realized something was off:
[Did Jiang Ning actually not end the live stream today?]
[Usually, she can’t wait to end the stream, has she forgotten today?]
[Hahahaha, doesn’t this mean we’re in luck?]
No sooner had the netizens finished laughing than they heard Jiang Ning’s light laughter come through their phones, "Ah, I forgot about you all..."
She placed her phone on the car mount, raised her hand to take off the mini recorder pinned to her collar, and disconnected it from her phone.
The Douyin live stream wasn’t turned off, so the netizens in the live room only saw the camera shake for a moment before Jiang Ning’s familiar smiling eyes appeared in front of everyone.
"Hello, everyone." Jiang Ning greeted the netizens in front of the screen with a smile, then casually took off the medical mask on her face, revealing a fair and pretty face to the camera.
The netizens in the live room were about to go crazy with joy.
It really wasn’t easy.
How many times has Jiang Ning live-streamed now? The third time, right?
We’ve finally seen Jiang Ning’s face!
Other streamers, even if they’re just taking a sip of water, make sure to stay in front of the camera, fearing that if they step away, the netizens will lose interest and swipe away.
In other streamers’ rooms, the netizens are the bosses! As long as the money is right, the streamers would do everything they are supposed to without fail.
Jiang Ning, on the other hand, with such high popularity and viewership, streams whenever she wants and ends it whenever she wants, with no face reveals or commentary, showing no sense of being a streamer.
In her live room, the status of netizens plummeted, becoming nothing but Jiang Ning’s tools to be summoned or dismissed at a whim.
And yet, even so, everyone was content.
Perhaps it was because during the previous two streams, Jiang Ning hadn’t interacted with everyone at all, that now suddenly seeing her smiling gently in the live room, everyone felt startled and flattered, as if they were dreaming.
Refresh, and refresh again.
Jiang Ning was still in the live room.
[Ahhh!! It’s really Jiang Ning!!]
[Jiang Ning! I want to have your babies!!!]
For a moment, all kinds of confessions were typed by the netizens’ fingertips, with the comments section scrolling at breakneck speed, one after the other, so densely packed that the one before was swept away before it could be read clearly.
Various gifts also started flooding in, each with different special effects, but all colorful, bursting onto the phone screen, the excitement and fervor from everyone being palpable even through the screen.
Jiang Ning had not expected that just showing her face would cause such a sensation, so she hurriedly stopped them, "Thank you for your support, thank you for your gifts, that’s enough, stop sending them... Keep your money for buying yourself something tasty or fun."
A netizen sent Jiang Ning a sports car, with a message: [For you! Just take it!]
Jiang Ning, who had never been so straightforwardly bombarded with money before: "..."
With this netizen leading the way, many others followed suit.
The gold shimmering barrage was filled with a domineering CEO style of romance.
Jiang Ning told everyone not to send gifts, but they didn’t listen, and instead sent even more eagerly.
Jiang Ning wasn’t very familiar with TikTok live streams. Out of curiosity, she leaned closer to her phone, fiddled seriously for a while, and finally found the feature to turn off tipping and gift-giving.
As soon as she disabled the tipping and gift-giving feature, the live chat suddenly became quiet.
Netizens immediately felt dissatisfied and started to point fingers at Jiang Ning from all angles:
[Sheesh, I actually can’t even spend my money if I want to.]
[I just topped up my account, and you pull this stunt???]
[Lady, I advise you to turn the tipping feature back on pronto.]
[Jiang Ning sis, I wanna send you moneyyy~]
Unable to resist a chuckle, Jiang Ning found the netizens of today quite adorable. "Stop it, behave, keep the money and spend it slowly yourselves."
She reached out and adjusted the phone stand: "Let’s have a chat for a while."
The nearly tantrum-throwing netizens perked up their ears: Hmm? Chatting? Is this woman actually willing to spend time chatting with us? Did Jiang Ning change her ways today?
No wonder the live chat audience was surprised, after all, in her previous two streams, Jiang Ning had ended faster than anyone else, truly a use-and-discard approach.
Jiang Ning also thought about her previous two somewhat rushed live streams and began to speak: "Thank you all for your support in these few live streams. I ended the previous two quite quickly, so thank you for your attention and for speaking up."
[Wuwuwu, Jiang Jiang, it’s okay, we know you’re busy, we’ll always support you!]
[Jiang Ning, Jiang Ning, why are you leaving so soon this time? The results of Le Zhengling’s identification aren’t out yet! Wanna see!]
[Jiang Ning, how did you find out Le Zhengling was in the hospital today? Did you know Le Zhengling before this?]
[Jiang Ning, have you seen the trending searches? Why did you go back to work at Huo Corporation? Have your relations with the Huo family returned to how they were before?]
[Ahh no, Huo Miao vehemently smeared and trampled on you before, the Huo family members were fully aware and yet they ignored you, turning a blind eye; we might as well not want such family members!]
Various questions popped up in the comments, and Jiang Ning simply chose a few to answer:
"I didn’t know Le Zhengling previously, and I didn’t know it was her before coming here."
"The reason I came to see her at the hospital is because I saw a comment online saying that a sixteen-year-old girl who contracted cancer was abandoned by her family at the hospital, spending every day all alone, quite pitiful. And then there was a location tag for this hospital."
"Seeing that the hospital wasn’t far from me, I decided to come and take a look. It was quite a coincidence to stumble upon the scene of bullying, and I didn’t expect her to be Le Zhengling."
"Why leave so quickly? I’ve done what I could, and the rest is up to the police... As for Le Zhengling’s identification results, that’s her personal privacy. Whether she chooses to disclose it or not is up to her. If everyone is interested in the follow-up, you can continue to follow her on TikTok."
"I’ve seen today’s trending searches, oh, and I’m sorry for once again using public resources..."
When she saw the words related to the Huo family, Jiang Ning said earnestly, "Please rest assured, my relationship with the Huo family has not improved; they are still on my blacklist.
And as for why I started working at Huo’s, like every worker in society..."
Jiang Ning suddenly slowed her speech and lifted a hand to her ear, mimicking the motion of counting money with one hand: "He offered so much that it was simply too generous."
The netizens in the live chat were momentarily stunned, seemingly not expecting Jiang Ning to be so bold in her speech, treating them not as outsiders.
But Jiang Ning just smiled lightly: "Hahaha, alright, I should have answered everything you wanted to know, right? I’ve got a phone call coming in, I need to take it, so, that’s it for now; see you next time!"
As the words fell, viewers who wanted to persuade her to stay hadn’t even started waving their handkerchiefs when the live chat went dark, and Jiang Ning once again ended the stream swiftly.