The Empress’ Livestream

“What’s the matter, Jingrong? You and Bogao know each other?”

Jiang Pengji could see that something unusual was going on between them. She seemed to think that the situation not awkward enough and wanted to add fuel to the fire.

Yang Si looked down and said, “Chief Huang, you have mistaken me for someone else. My surname is Yang, and my name consists of a single word, Si.”

It really was Yang Si!

The smile on Huang Song’s face appeared even more cheerful, but his rage was secretly building up in his chest.

“Oh, so you are Mr. Yang Si.”

Feng Jue frowned in secret and asked, “Are you working under Lanting now?”

Yang Si answered, “Yep.”

The atmosphere was even more awkward.

“Even now, I still feel regret for narrowly missing the opportunity of having you work with me back in the day. Now that I know you have found your place, I can finally take the load off my mind.”

Huang Song’s words were intended to both provoke and alienate Yang Si and Jiang Pengji from each other.

Yang Si was unwilling to be outdone.

“Since fate has been predestined, I hope that Chief Huang won’t dwell on it. But things like fate are really hard to figure out. Had I not seen Chief Huang in this tent today, I wouldn’t have known that you are close friends with my lord also. Pardon my rudeness, but I’d like to ask whether you ever got a new porter or not.”

Had the porter not behaved like a dog, threatening people on the strength of its master’s power, and put Yang Si’s letter on the bottom of the pile, Yang Si wouldn’t have had to wait for three futile days.

Talented people were all prideful. Only a fool would hang around waiting after three days had passed without any reply being given.

Yang Si’s reply made Huang Song even angrier.

Jiang Pengji looked at the two, then said to Huang Song, “Bogao, what you’ve said makes you sound like an aggrieved woman who is confined at home and has been cheated on by a playboy.”

Yang Si’s mockery and Jiang Pengji adding on dealt an impressive amount of critical damage to Huang Song.

Huang Song recalled his words just now, and his expression turned darker. His face was beginning to look like the bottom of a frying pan.

Yang Si smiled and explained, smoothing things over, “My lord, you are wrongly accusing me with your words. If someone here has been cheated on by a playboy, it isn’t Chief Huang.”

“Oh?”

Jiang Pengji put on an expression of interest in the gossip between them. Yang Si objectively narrated what happened in the past.

His words were not only targetted at Jiang Pengji’s ears, but at Huang Song’s as well.

At first, Yang Si hadn’t wanted to swear loyalty to Jiang Pengji. He’d simply gone over to see Wei Ci and get back the money he owed him. However, he hadn’t known that Jiang Pengji would be so high-handed and use both hard and soft tactics on him. And so, Yang Si had fallen into her trap. He didn’t go into many details, but the listeners could imagine the situation in their heads, and they couldn’t help but laugh. Huang Song’s expression improved too, his anger gradually subsiding.

Huang Song was angry over the fact that Yang Si had gone to work for Jiang Pengji after leaving him. His personality had always been a sensitive and mistrustful one, and the matter with Yang Si had bothered him for many years. Furthermore, Yang Si had even mocked him, so how could he not be angry?

Now that everything had been explained, he accepted it calmly as well.

If he didn’t accept it, what could he do? Make a complete break with Liu Xi just because of Yang Si?

Or rather, get Liu Xi to alienate Yang Si because of him?

Huang Song felt that his relationship with Liu Xi was not that strong, and he would rather not embarrass himself by trying to do that.

The alliance meeting was set to begin at dusk, the site being provided by Xu Pei.

As their tents were near each other, Jiang Pengji, Liu She, and Huang Song set off together and arrived as a group.

Even though they were father and child, Jiang Pengji’s and Liu She’s forces were counted separately, meaning each of them would be counted as having their own army.

Including Jiang Pengji’s, there were 23 armies in the alliance ready to save the king.

Jiang Pengji had only arrived two days prior, and those two days had been full of thrills. Naturally, she hadn’t had time to get to know people from the other forces.

Every army consisted of about 10,000 to 50,000 men. Other than the major armies, there were still a couple of small armies that had only several thousand men with them. They stood by each other and formed small blocs so that they could also occupy a place in the alliance and have some say, however little it may be.

As the organizer, Xu Pei sat on the main seat.

Other than the main seat, the seat to the right of it was for the most distinguished person in the room. A middle-aged man wearing fancy reddish-brown clothing was already sitting there.

It went without saying that this person was the county chief of Hu County, Wuma Shang.

Seeing him, Liu She gave a slight laugh and sat nonchalantly in the seat to the left.

Jiang Pengji followed and sat beside him.

Since ancient times, right had always taken precedence over left, so the seat on the right was always slightly more valued than the corresponding seat on the left.

Since Jiang Pengji was sitting next to Liu She, the second seat on the right was empty. Xu Fei sat there discourteously.

The alliance meeting hadn’t even started, yet one could already smell the tension in the air.

Jiang Pengji hadn’t brought Feng Zhen and Yang Si along this time. Instead, she’d brought Li Yun and Dian Yan with her.

The alliance meeting was a place that required both brains and brawn. If they couldn’t reach a consensus through words, they would have to fight each other in a showdown.

Li Yun sat in the second row and quietly looked around.

He kept his voice low as he said, “My lord, there are so many people here…”

The site of the alliance meeting was extremely large, and the decor made it feel not like a crude campground, but more like a luxurious palace.

On the flat ground was a layer of animal skin with no variegation. One wouldn’t feel the slightest hint of cold even if one were to step on it barefooted. Quite a number of bronze lamps with the designs of Chang’e ascending to the moon, ladies washing clothes by the river, and birds worshipping the phoenix were placed all around. Expensive spices were mixed into the lamp oil, causing their fragrance to linger in the air as the oil burned. It was very bright in the tent as if it was daytime. Every detail reflected one word — opulence!

“There are many people indeed.”

Li Yun still dared to look around, but Dian Yan was sitting up straight in a proper manner as if he was facing a formidable enemy. He balled his fists up loosely and put them on his knees, looking straight ahead with his eyes opened wide. Dian Yan looked fierce, his build sturdy and his dark skin tone. His stance almost gave the people sitting opposite him a scare.

Xu Fei, sitting opposite, was silent.

The agenda of the alliance meeting was basically as follows…

Eat, drink, watch dances, and start discussing proper business after several rounds of drinking. If a consensus was reached, everyone would be happy and continue eating, drinking, watching dances, and, if one happened to have good luck in their adventures with women, one could possibly bring back one or two dancers for the night.

However, word of Jiang Pengji almost being assassinated by a dancer had just gotten around. The warlords probably dared not put their fortunes and lives on the line by taking the risk.

If no consensus was reached, they might either continue quarreling or just end up parting on bad terms.

All of the possible outcomes had nothing to do with Jiang Pengji.

She and Liu She were simply there as bystanders.

She opened the livestream channel, causing the 150,000 members of the audience to immediately flood the viewing room.

A Thousand Premature Deaths Can Hardly be Compared to a Strand of Moonlight: What’s the situation now? I feel like the alliance meeting is really slack. There was a banquet yesterday, now another banquet today?

Begging on My Knees for Monthly Tickets: Wait, something’s not right. There are so many people today, and their looks vary greatly. I’ll just continue to admire our boy Li Yun.

Begging on My Knees for Recommendation Tickets: *shocked* The streamer’s summonable beasts for today aren’t Feng Zhen and Yang Si? How can the game be played without ranged mages?

The Dolls that Won the Whole World Over Although she did not bring mages, she brought two violent fighters.

Jiang Pengji shook her head.

Why did she feel that the bullet-screen comments had changed drastically after just a few hours of not opening the livestream?

She didn’t know that in the world where the audience of the livestream lived, a studio had created a mobile game of their own based on other games.

To put it simply, the player would create a character and choose a “lord” to serve while summoning various “summonable pets” (their subordinates).

The game studio even imitated a certain mobile game and came up with different characteristics and stats for each subordinate… Because of how popular the livestream was, the number of times the game was downloaded was shockingly high, despite it being newly launched…

The most popular summonable pets right now were “Wei Ci”, a mage, and “Li Yun”, a fighter.

As for the reason?

They had good looks!