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Chapter 160 Variety Show Confirmed
Jiang Che saw the last comment and turned to ask Sunny:

"So you got yelled at by your teammates at the start of the game?"

Sunny chuckled, completely unconcerned: "Isn't it normal to get criticized for not following the usual path?!"

"So you've successfully slapped them in the face now."

Sunny, who was completely focused on the game, nodded excitedly and said, "Of course! I'm a gaming genius!"

Looking at her smug little expression, Jiang Che could almost see an invisible little tail wagging happily behind her. He smiled and chimed in:

"Keep it up, and when you reach a higher rank, the day the truth comes out—'Shocking! The mysterious mushroom king in high-elo League of Legends is actually Sunny from Girls' Generation!'—that'll be an absolutely explosive show."

“Right! Right!” Sunny was completely ignited by the scene he described, her tone exuberant:
"I can already imagine what the trending topics will look like then! #sunnyTeemo #GirlsGenerationHiddenGamingPro #sunnyEsportsHiddenGems ...Wow! Just thinking about it is exciting!"

Looking at her almost materializing fantasy bubble, Jiang Che couldn't help but remind her:

"Alright, alright, stop daydreaming. Don't let your huge advantage be turned around by the opponent. Otherwise, how will you get revenge on the professional players?"

"Ah! Right!" Sunny was instantly pulled back to reality, quickly regaining her composure and focusing even more intently on the screen:

"No slacking off, no slacking off, we have to win this game! Now I can brag about beating pro players."

In the following games, their advantage snowballed and grew larger and larger.

Sunny's mushroom formations, scattered across key intersections, severely restricted the enemy's vision and movement. Combined with her Q skill's blind effect, which consistently harassed the enemy's core damage dealers at crucial moments, and the excellent teamwork of her own teammates,

Finally, after winning a team fight, Sunny's team, with a huge minion wave advantage, advanced triumphantly and destroyed the enemy's base crystal in a crushing victory!
Seeing the victory sign pop up on the screen, Sunny jumped up from her chair in excitement, turned around and gave Jiang Che a big hug, patting him hard on the back:

"Yay! We won! We won! We even beat a team with a professional player!!!"

Jiang Che was taken aback by this sudden "attack," then chuckled and gently patted her back, offering his sincere praise:
"Mmm, mmm, mmm! Our Sunny is the best! No wonder she's a gaming genius!"

Sunny bounced around in his arms a couple of times before calming down a bit, but her face still beamed with a bright smile.

“However,” Jiang Che reminded him:

"Sunny, are you going to continue your live stream? Or are you going to say goodbye to your fans?"

"Oh right! I'm done playing, I'm already very satisfied with today!" Sunny quickly sat back down, cleared her throat, turned the microphone back on, and said excitedly:

"Um... that's all for today's live stream. Thank you for watching, everyone. The earnings will remain the same as always. See you next time."

After saying that, without even looking at the dense barrage of "666", "the streamer is awesome", and "I'll come again next time", he quickly clicked the end-of-stream button and closed the live streaming app.

After turning off the live streaming app, Sunny let out a long sigh of relief, feeling completely satisfied as she slumped back in her gaming chair.

"How are you feeling?" Jiang Che poured a glass of warm water from outside and handed it to her while she was talking.

Sunny took the water glass, gulped down a large mouthful, and exhaled a satisfied breath.

"It feels so good! Especially when I think about those people who initially called me an actor and accused me of slacking off, and then they successfully proved them wrong, wow, that feeling..."

"To finally get my revenge?" Jiang Che replied with a smile.

"Yes! It's about finally getting our revenge!" Sunny nodded vigorously, but after the initial excitement wore off, she looked at Jiang Che with a troubled expression.
"But the pressure is really immense... There are just so many skilled players at this rank, with such strong awareness and mechanics. I can't keep relying on luck and weird tactics, can I? To be honest, I've been losing more than I've won lately..."

"What's there to be afraid of?" Jiang Che said casually and matter-of-factly.
"When you really can't keep playing, just show your face. At that point, who cares what your rank is? You're Girls' Generation's Sunny!"
If you play well, that's icing on the cake; if you don't, that's perfectly normal, after all, you're an idol. Transitioning directly from a technical streamer to an entertainment... uh, an idol technical streamer, isn't that great? If you're worried about losing face, I can stream like you.”

Sunny rolled her eyes at him speechlessly.
'I clearly wanted to be a tech streamer, but this guy just taught me to slack off.'

Just then, her phone rang. She picked it up and saw it was her agent calling.

"Oh no!" Sunny composed herself and answered the phone.

Seeing this, Jiang Che wisely got up and prepared to leave the study so that she could handle her work calls in peace.

But just as he reached the door, before his hand even touched the doorknob, he heard Sunny's voice suddenly rise in pitch behind him:
"Huh?! Really? It's confirmed over there? I can participate?!"

Jiang Che paused, turning around curiously to look.

Sunny confirmed a few more things on the phone, her smile widening until she nodded repeatedly.
"Yes! Yes! Arasso! Thank you, Oppa! Kamsammida!"

After hanging up the phone, Sunny looked at Jiang Che, who was standing at the door watching her, and a bright smile bloomed on her face:

"Jiang Chexi"

This sickeningly sweet address sent a chill down Jiang Che's spine, and he instantly had a bad feeling.

"You, get ready, soon you'll be able to help me at work! Aren't you happy? Unexpected? Surprised?"

Jiang Che: "..."

He was silent for a few seconds, then asked weakly:
"So, now you can tell me what kind of variety show it is, right? Cousin, please stop being such a riddle-maker."

“Hehe,” Sunny stopped being mysterious, “It’s ‘Little TV Station’!”

“Little TV Station?” Jiang Che was taken aback. The name sounded strangely familiar, as if he vaguely remembered it from a past life… He tried to recall for a moment, then asked uncertainly:
"Is it that...the one who does live streams and shows with weird and strange themes?"

Sunny looked surprised: "You've seen it?"

Jiang Che's heart skipped a beat. He couldn't very well say he knew in his past life, could he? He immediately chuckled and mumbled:

"Ah... I think I caught a glimpse of it once. When are you going to participate?" He quickly changed the subject.

"The exact date hasn't been set yet, but it'll probably be around mid-to-late November," Sunny estimated.

"Mid-to-late November..." Jiang Che silently calculated in his mind. This timing... seemed a bit sensitive. A few blurry fragments of memory flashed through his mind as he tentatively asked:
"Who else is participating? Besides you and Yoona."

“And then there’s your little sister Chou Tzu-yu, whom you met for the third time by fate.” Sunny looked at him teasingly.

"As expected..." Jiang Che muttered to himself, his suspicions confirmed to some extent. He continued to press for answers:

"Are there... three more members from island nations?"

Sunny's eyes widened in surprise:

"How did you know? Have you been secretly following TWICE?" She looked Jiang Che up and down, as if she had discovered a new continent.
"You even know the nationalities of the members in their group? Jiang Chexi, I didn't know you had this hobby?" "Eh! What are you talking about!" Jiang Che quickly waved her hand in denial, making up an excuse:
"This is basic reasoning, okay! Chou Tzu-yu is Chinese. Since she's participating, this episode might be some kind of 'foreigners special.' If the other three foreign members don't participate, who will? Are they going to make Lim Na-yeon pretend to be a foreigner?"

Sunny looked at him with a mixture of belief and doubt:
"Isn't your focus a bit strange? You even remember which countries the members of that group are from?"

"That's not the point!" Jiang Che forcefully steered the conversation back on track.
"The point is, I'm going! I can't just stay silent the whole time on a variety show, right? So here's the thing: won't I suddenly become four people?!"

Sunny wasn't worried at all when she heard this.
"Anyway, you've transformed into quite a few people already. Besides, you were able to transform into Chou Tzu-yu before, weren't you? As for the other three, they're all from Japan."
You can just speak Japanese with them then. Don't you want to know if speaking Japanese will trigger a transformation? What a great opportunity to experiment!

Jiang Che looked at her with an expression that seemed to say, "Do I look like an idiot to you?"
"If you don't want to go, just say so! Why make up such a high-sounding excuse?!"

Sunny's eyes flickered, a hint of embarrassment at being exposed, but she quickly regained her composure:
"Ani! Am I that kind of person?!"

She paused, her voice lowering, with a hint of roguishness: "Besides... it's time for me to rest at home and experience the joy of being a substitute."

Jiang Che was speechless: "Others are forced to fill in for me, but you actively asked me to fill in for you, so the nature of the situation is different, okay? Besides, if I speak Japanese the whole time, are you going to have to learn Japanese in the future?"

Sunny nodded with certainty:

"Yes, that's right, I can learn."

Seeing that she had gone to such lengths, and considering that he hadn't actually covered her shifts before, Jiang Che nodded in agreement, but held up one finger with a serious expression:

"The usual rule, you know what I mean."

Sunny's face broke into a sweet smile:
"I understand! I know the rules, don't worry."

Jiang Che looked at her like that and waved his hand helplessly:

"Okay, I got it. I'm going to sleep now, boss, you should get some rest too."

"Mmm-hmm! Take care, cousin!" Sunny replied in a sickeningly sweet voice behind him.

Jiang Che helplessly turned around and glanced at this cousin who called him "cousin" when there was something to do, but otherwise just called him "Jiang Che." He really had no way to deal with this girl.

The next morning, Jiang Che brought breakfast out of the kitchen and saw Sunny sitting listlessly at the table with obvious dark circles under her eyes, nodding her head absently.

What's even more striking is the familiar, faint dark circles under her eyes.

Jiang Che set out the breakfast, pulled out a chair, sat down, and couldn't help but ask:
"What's wrong with you now? Were you too excited to sleep last night?"

Sunny looked up, gave him a resentful look, and yawned widely.

“Ani… I had a dream last night that Riot Games approached me to be their official spokesperson…”

"Oh? Isn't that a good thing?" Jiang Che raised an eyebrow.

"It's not over yet! They also said they'd make me a Teemo skin! And!" Sunny's voice was filled with excitement:
"They even said... they wanted to put my face on the game launcher icon! To replace that classic 'L' logo! And then... and then I woke up laughing..." She finished speaking and scratched her already messy hair in frustration.

"Pfft—hahahaha!" Jiang Che finally couldn't hold back and burst out laughing.

"Hey! Jiang Che! What are you laughing at!" Sunny, with messy hair and dark circles under her eyes, glared at him angrily, looking like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.

"No, Sunny," Jiang Che finally managed to stop laughing.

"Imagine that scene—tens of thousands of players, turning on their computers every day, and the first thing they see isn't the classic 'L' logo, but your face... Wouldn't Riot Games be sued into bankruptcy? Hahahaha!"

"What?! What do you mean by suing someone into bankruptcy?!" Sunny argued forcefully.

"If you can't speak properly, then just eat your food."

"Okay, okay, it's my fault, it's my fault." Jiang Che pushed the plate of fried eggs toward her.

"Alright, eat it while it's hot. You'll have the energy to dream bigger dreams when you're full."

Sunny angrily forked the fried egg, took a vicious bite, and mumbled indistinctly:

"...It was just a good dream after all..."

Meanwhile, inside JYP's practice room.

The manager told Chou Tzu-yu and the other members that they would be appearing on the variety show "Little TV Station," which they were about to participate in. Senior artists would also be appearing on the show.

"Senior? Which senior is it?" Everyone couldn't help but feel a little nervous. Appearing on a show with a senior requires attention to etiquette and boundaries; if you encounter a senior with a different vibe or who is strict, the pressure can be immense.

The manager revealed the answer: "It's Girls' Generation's Yoona and Sunny."

"Huh?! Really?" A chorus of exclamations erupted in the practice room.

"It's Yoona and Sunny! That's great!"

The slightly worried atmosphere was instantly ignited, filled with suppressed whispers of excitement. The other members also cast envious glances at the group who were going to participate in the recording.

Nayeon excitedly moved closer to Tzuyu, nudged her gently with her elbow, and whispered with a mischievous smile:
"Tzuyu, do you think... Yoona and the others agreed to participate because of you?"

"Unnie! Don't talk nonsense!" Chou Tzuyu quickly waved her hand and retorted hastily:

"The seniors must have participated because of the show's invitation, what does it have to do with me..."

Lim Nayeon shook her arm:

"Ziyu, isn't this a golden opportunity?"

"What...what god-given opportunity?" Chou Tzu-yu was a little dizzy from being shaken.

"Of course, I'll treat you to a meal!" Lim Nayeon gave her a look that said, "Why can't you understand?"

"Didn't you already have a dinner date? You haven't properly thanked each other for all the things you've done before, and this is a good opportunity to ask for advice on filming variety shows."

"An invitation to dinner..." Zhou Tzuyu, remembering the unfulfilled promise from last time, was also somewhat tempted. She glanced at Lim Nayeon, who was giving her a pleading look, and hesitantly nodded:

"Okay... I'll try."

(End of this chapter)