Chapter 95
Chapter 95
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 95
Chapter Title: Liar
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The woman's face reveal had come way too suddenly.
Wasn't she the one who'd specifically dragged her friends all the way to a villa in Gangwon-do because she was paranoid about being spotted on the street?
Of course, that had more to do with Lee Jun's massive build drawing eyes or Jeon Woo-seung being so famous everyone recognized him than anything about her own unrecognizable face.
But for her—who never seemed to give a second thought to stuff like that—to suddenly go public with her face?
There was one likely culprit she could think of.
The 30 million won donation that had exploded out of nowhere on her stream.
Maybe seeing the content of that advice, plus the haters clutching their stomachs and losing their minds, had shifted her attitude toward streaming a bit.
'My advice clearly didn't help much. Not that that's surprising.'
Woo-seung said to Seol-a,
that without fans, he wouldn't be where he was today.
That he reminded himself of that fact every morning to steel his resolve.
But their situations weren't the same, and that kind of mindset wasn't something you could just copy lightly.
'Still... isn't this straight-up fraud...?'
Hiding her mouth with a mask? Totally understandable.
But a blonde wig, fake boobs strapped on, heavy makeup to top it off?
Sure, as a streamer, there was always some difference between the show and real life, but at this level? It was basically scamming people.
Woo-seung almost never lied.
Probably because of his job as a pro gamer.
In the endless grind of practice day after day, there weren't many reasons to deceive anyone.
He'd only lied very recently, after ages without doing so.
It was to cover for streamer Jeon Jeonseol.
He'd claimed that on a day with no games, he'd just hung out with Lee Jun in real life.
He got it, of course.
For a streamer—especially a female one—hiding personal info was just common sense for safety.
But staring at this level of elaborate disguise, he couldn't help wondering if she wasn't lying a bit too much.
Could she even handle the fallout if it all came out?
Those kinds of thoughts were just natural doubts, weren't they?
"Jeonseol's face game is insane!"
"Hey! Little bro! How's the inside of that mask?"
"She said 1 billion won to unmask? So we got a free peek at Woo-seung's 1-billion-won face?"
"Was your recent solo queue slump 'cause you kept thinking about that face?"
"She's gotta be drop-dead gorgeous."
"You can tell just from looking up top. All that 'mage scammer' talk? No way she has a fraud face like that."
"Damn! If I were Jeon Jeonseol's friend!"
"Boo! bs!"
"So, things going well? If she's your girlfriend's little sis, do we call her sister-in-law?"
The team members were going nuts.
Since Woo-seung was the team's baby bro, they were all "hyung" to him, and even the usually quiet ones were hyped up over Jeon Jeonseol's face.
It probably didn't feel all that far-fetched to them.
After all, no matter who you asked, the person currently most deeply tangled up with Jeon Jeonseol was Woo-seung.
Maybe they were even hoping they'd get to see her face in person soon.
'Already busted.'
They'd barely cleared the first zero-confession hurdle, and things were still in that awkward "are we good?" phase, but she'd drawn a hard line.
Lee Jun? Was that real, or just a preemptive strike?
Woo-seung was normally the type who didn't doubt people's words and took them at face value.
But Seol-a lied way too much.
The image she showed the world rarely matched reality.
So it was hard not to suspect.
"......"
He knew he shouldn't doubt it, but was that story about nearly getting shot for real?
◇◇◇◆◇◇◇ When she was a very young child, she naturally didn't remember much.
Just looking at baby photos and mixing up "memories of seeing the photo" with "memories of the actual event."
The album was stuffed with pictures of her as a baby.
Sometimes, there'd be mom's handwritten diary entries next to them.
All about how happy she was just from the baby breathing, smiling without crying, babbling words, taking first steps.
Reading those records made her chest ache like she was drowning in how much love she'd received.
Then the photos suddenly dropped off sharply from some point.
Right around when her little sister was born, and got really sick.
Her parents were basically always at work or the hospital, stopping home just to crash for a few hours of sleep—if that. More days they didn't come home at all, probably.
Her first memory of lying.
I'm fine.
Sis is sick, so it can't be helped.
Would not lying have been the right choice back then?
Who knows.
But even if she went back with these memories and mindset, she'd probably lie the exact same way again.
So replaying it wouldn't mean anything.
Everyone lives by lying for something.
To keep from chucking a stack of papers at your boss's face.
You can't straight-up tell your girlfriend she looks like she gained weight.
If they're not real friends, it's healthier to just placate them with feel-good BS instead of practical advice.
Hiding your looks? Obviously.
What if a stalker latched on?
Stalkers didn't only go after pretty people, but being pretty upped the odds.
Hiding your true feelings? Also obvious.
I don't actually appreciate viewers that much, even if they watch.
Life wasn't that hard without streaming...
I never really wanted to get this big.
How'd it end up like this?
No need to say crap like that.
And as a final nod to conscience, she'd even said, "Don't need donations much, only rich people shoot."
Yeah, 30 million won.
30 million won donation and advice.
Logically, highest odds were Dad or Seol-yun.
They had the money and motive.
She'd asked Dad, but he denied it.
Not weird if that was a lie too.
One of her suspects was even Victory.
Though the advice differed from what he'd given at the villa.
Maybe since that hadn't helped, he'd dropped new advice.
Pure speculation, but if Victory really sent her 30 million won...
That'd be severe lovesickness.
Some guy casually dropping 30 mil on a girl he'd met once?
Weird as hell, rich or not.
'Hoping that's not it.'
Unable to rule it out, she'd pulled her ultimate move.
Preemptively claiming she liked someone else.
A lie, though.
A friend she'd only had for a short time.
Shared interests, perfect game skill match when hanging out.
(Ah, "skill match" here meant pure gaming chops, not general human level.)
She didn't want to lose such a precious friend to a confession attack.
She'd lived her whole life lying, so it was second nature—even fooling herself into not hating her sister one bit.
Of course, now she genuinely liked her.
After all that care, hating her still would make her a monster.
💬 Stream Chat [Anon has donated 1,000,000 won.] ─ "I've been faithfully watching your streams. Congrats on 1st place." Man, there were so many rich people in the world.
That was the thought watching 100k and 1m won donations popping off nonstop.
The stream content was nothing special.
Just announcing she'd hit rank 1, masked cam setup.
Reviewing game edits uploaded to Nertube in that state.
"Thanks for the 1 million won."
— Viewer How much has exploded today??? — Viewer Life sure is easy ㅅㅂ — Viewer Fact: Hard to have a face like that — Viewer She's reacting 'cause we're hitting her with cash nonstop ㅋㅋㅋ — Viewer Check that eye smile 퐉스련 — Viewer Reactions getting pro-level — Viewer Totally getting tamed by the money — Viewer 5 trillion won salary myth ㄷㄷㄷㄷ Taking donations without much feeling but pretending to be thrilled and grateful?
Not hard at all.
— Viewer Her haughtiness is crumbling. Face value is no joke — Viewer With that face, 100m won sponsorship a month incoming? -Deleted message. Even with loser trash talk like that, no reason to care.
They'd be way more jealous of her than she'd be offended by their words.
What could they even do?
Besides seething with envy or typing like idiots, what?
"Looks like no 1 billion won incoming. I really wanted to unmask for you all."
— Viewer 무친련 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ — Viewer No big donors fr? — Viewer Coin billionaire, show up! — Viewer Even coin whales think 1b is too much lol "I was this close to saying!"
— Viewer Whew! Almost said it, acknowledged — Viewer Fr thought she turned gold-digger and freaked ㅋㅋ — Viewer ??? : I actually have money, only real rich shoot — Viewer Her saying that but only rich actually donating is legendary ㅋㅋ [1,000,000,000won has donated 1,000 won.] ─ "Here ya go, 1 billion." "Thanks a ton, 1 Billion Won donor, for the 1,000 won!"
— Viewer 1b showed up — Viewer Unmasking? — Viewer It's 1k won idiots — Viewer Whatever, call it 1b ㅋㅋ — Viewer IDK just unmask — Viewer ㄷㄱㄷㄱㄷㄱㄷㄱㄷㄱㄷㄱ — Viewer Will she? — Viewer Just eyes peeking and it's this much, wtf if lower face pretty too?? — Viewer What happens? Just insanely good — Viewer 쎾쓰 -Deleted message. — Viewer Thought she was just good at games but stream sense insane too — Viewer Chaebol beauty, gaming genius, next? — Viewer God of Broadcasting "Screw it, whatever!"
She put her hand to the mask and unhooked the ear straps.
— Viewer Whoa! — Viewer ㅁㅊ — Viewer Big one incoming? — Viewer ㄷㄱㄷㄱㄷㄱㄷㄱㄷㄱㄷㄱㄷㄱ — Viewer I love you Jeon Jeonseol — Viewer Adding Jeon Jeonseol to my bride candidates — Viewer If lower face pretty too, TryitTV doomed — Viewer Stirring — Viewer TryitTV girl cams starting to tremble in fear!