[Is the streamer crazy or what! She can really say anything! That’s a golden python, you know! It’s already impressive if you can get close without being scared, and she even tries to force-feed it!]
[The person upstairs probably doesn’t understand golden pythons’ temperament. They’re actually very gentle and generally don’t attack people unless they’re molting or being provoked, in which case they might get irritable.]
[Even so, that doesn’t mean what the streamer said is true! Do you guys really believe such a cute girl could harm a golden python?]
[Well, I for one don’t believe it!]
Seeing the live chat siding with her, “I’m the Best at Making Money This Year” felt quite pleased with herself.
Putting on a pitiful face, she said to Ruan Xingyao:
“Streamer, I don’t know if you’re targeting me on purpose, but from the moment we connected, you’ve been acting strangely toward me. I’m just like everyone else here—I only wanted to ask for your help. If you can’t solve my problem, then forget it.”
As she spoke, her voice even choked up, as if she had been gravely wronged.
Ruan Xingyao raised a hand to rub her brow.
Honestly, she didn’t like people who act like a Green tea bitch at every turn.
And for that, she decided to fight tea with tea.
She said, “But I heard it saying that you keep trying to make it eat, and when it refuses, you shock it. It said it hurts so much that it doesn’t dare refuse, but it really can’t eat anymore.”
Frowning slightly, Ruan Xingyao continued with an innocent expression: “I trust my ability doesn’t make mistakes, so there’s only one possibility—it’s telling the truth!”
As soon as she said that, “I’m the Best at Making Money This Year” visibly froze.
After a long pause, she finally stammered:
“What nonsense are you talking about! This is my precious pet that I went to great lengths to bring back! How could I possibly abuse it?”
Ruan Xingyao’s voice and expression became even more guileless.
She said, “But it also told me that you originally wanted to raise it to become a top influencer, but when that didn’t work out, you kept cursing at it, calling it useless, and saying that if it couldn’t make money for you anymore, you’d kill it.”
The color instantly drained from “I’m the Best at Making Money This Year” face.
She panicked, fumbling for an explanation, and for a moment even looked like she wanted to end the call.
But Ruan Xingyao deliberately added, “If you don’t believe me, turn your camera and show everyone whether it’s nodding or not.”
She glanced sideways at the golden python—only to see it lifting and lowering its head in a way that really looked like it was nodding in agreement with Ruan Xingyao’s words.
The live chat immediately exploded again.
[No way? Could the streamer actually be telling the truth? Did this girl really abuse the golden python?]
[That’s brutal! Seriously brutal! If I remember correctly, the golden python is a national second-class protected species, right? If she abused it like that, wouldn’t she be facing jail time?]
[By the way, can someone tell me whether you can privately keep a golden python? If not, then how did she even get it?]
[No clue! Let’s keep watching!]
[I have a feeling something even more explosive is coming!]
“I’m the Best at Making Money This Year” looked at the barrage of comments that had already shifted in tone, her heart filled with mixed emotions.
She never imagined that there would actually be someone who could understand what small animals were saying—and not only that, but could even understand what the golden python she kept was saying.
She had originally planned to step on this streamer to boost her own popularity, but now it was the opposite—she herself was about to be ruined.
“I’m the Best at Making Money This Year” wanted to hang up the call.
It was as if Ruan Xingyao knew exactly what she was going to do, because at that exact moment, she spoke again.
“Even if you didn’t become a big influencer, you didn’t lose out, did you? Didn’t you film thousands of videos of you abusing that golden python and upload them to overseas websites, giving those mentally twisted, perverse people the ‘thrill’ they wanted? Their tips alone have filled your pockets to the brim,” Ruan Xingyao said.
“I’m the Best at Making Money This Year”’s fingers stiffly curled around her phone.
Such a secret—such a deeply hidden secret—was being exposed so brazenly.
How could she not panic?
She turned her phone’s camera back toward herself, locking eyes with Ruan Xingyao through the lens.
She asked, “Are you saying… it told you all this?”
Ruan Xingyao nodded and said, “It also told me your slogan on those overseas sites: ‘Hurting cats and dogs is nothing compared to the thrill of hurting pythons.’ That slogan is exactly why you became the undisputed number one on that animal-torture website.”
The color had completely drained from “I’m the Best at Making Money This Year”’s face.
She just kept shaking her head, mumbling over and over, “No way… impossible…”
Seeing her nearly deranged state, Ruan Xingyao said, “You can only blame yourself—why did you flaunt your cruelty right in front of it? Every time you boasted, it was like driving a knife into its body.”
“I’m the Best at Making Money This Year” suddenly burst into laughter.
“Hahahahahaha! So what? It’s just a little beast! I raised it—that’s its blessing! If it makes me money, that’s what it’s supposed to do! It owes me that!”
Ruan Xingyao frowned, unable to comprehend such twisted thinking.
“I’m the Best at Making Money This Year” continued raving, “Even if I’m exposed now, it doesn’t matter. Worst case, I’ll just kill it, go somewhere else, and start over! Anyway, I have money!”
As she spoke, she stepped closer, her eyes filled with venom as she stared at the golden python meeting her gaze.
It was all its fault!
It made her lose face in front of so many people!
It was all its fault!
It deserved to die!
“I’m the Best at Making Money This Year” reached out to twist a knob.
With each turn, the electric current in the glass enclosure containing the golden python grew stronger.
“This is for disobeying me! For not cooperating! It’s all your fault, all your fault, all your fault!”
Her eyes were bloodshot now, consumed only by the thought of killing it.
Just then, her front door burst open.
A squad of police officers rushed in, accompanied by veterinarians.
“What are you doing?! Let me go!”
The woman known as “I’m the Best at Making Money This Year” was pinned to the ground, still cursing and shouting that she was going to kill the golden python.
The golden python, which had just been shocked with electricity, was now in an agitated state, and the veterinarians couldn’t get anywhere near it.
Even though they had already turned off the current and tried to show friendliness toward it, there was still no way to make the golden python lower its guard.
It could attack them at any moment.
Ruan Xingyao’s voice came from the phone that had been dropped to the ground when “I’m the Best at Making Money This Year” was tackled.
“Let me talk to it.”
Hearing the voice, the veterinarians and police officers picked up the phone.
On their way there after receiving the call, they had been following the livestream.
However, they didn’t believe the streamer’s claim that she could communicate with animals.
Especially at this moment — they didn’t trust her at all, thinking she was just another internet celebrity trying to hog the spotlight.
— The end of the Chapter–
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