27 Chapter 36: What Have You Done?

After the college entrance exams ended and summer vacation began, Ji Zhi took up live streaming on three different platforms to make some money. He ran entirely different content on each one, racking up fans by the thousands. The Top Fans on all three platforms shattered records with their extravagant gifts. These whales shelled out fortunes without a second thought, even though they knew full well he was a guy. Off-camera, though, they were absolutely unhinged. Platform one's top fan kept sending photos of collars in every style imaginable. "Baby, picked up a few more collars today. Which one's your favorite?" Platform two's top fan loved dragging him into private one-on-one streams, sweet-talking him into all sorts of role-playing. Platform three's top fan had him shipping off all kinds of personal belongings... Straight guy Ji Zhi: "..." Dead set on keeping his alternate identities under wraps, Ji Zhi refused every invitation to meet up or share any personal details, no matter how persistent they got. Once the new semester started, Ji Zhi settled into a quiet routine. His aloof campus heartthrob of a roommate hardly ever showed up, leaving Ji Zhi to enjoy the swanky dorm all to himself. He scored an internship at a top-tier company, hit it off with his coworkers, and every now and then caught a distant glimpse of the elite CEO—the kind of powerhouse he usually only read about in the Financial Times. Working with a collaborator even gave him brush-ins with famous celebrities, one of whom boisterously called him "big bro." But Ji Zhi quickly picked up on something strange. These people... they looked an awful lot like his online sugar daddies! Realizing he was rubbing elbows with his top fans in real life, Ji Zhi doubled down on hiding who he really was. Sure, accidents happened, and his cover got blown—they figured it out. Luckily, none of the three knew about the others. Ji Zhi figured he could still pull it off, carefully juggling his relationships with each one. Until the day those three top fans discovered they weren't the only ones in the picture.