Chapter 48: The Last Straw That Broke the Camel's Back
However, although the female con artist was now eating faster, no one seemed to notice. Even Jiang Yun, who had been watching her all night, was too tired to pay attention to such details. While she was eating the bread, Jiang Yun took the opportunity to order himself some food delivery with his phone. The woman had been eating the whole night, but he himself had barely eaten anything.
It wasn’t long before the deliveryman arrived, carrying a large order—nothing fancy, just a generous portion of wontons, more than a pound’s worth, so much that it wouldn’t even fit in one container. As soon as the food arrived, Jiang Yun opened it and started eating right in front of the con artist.
The aroma of the wontons drifted over, causing the woman to pause mid-bite with her bread. She set it down and looked at Jiang Yun.
“I want some of that too.”
Jiang Yun: ????
Lady, do you even realize what you’re saying? Are we that close? You want to eat this too? Can you even handle it?
It wasn’t just Jiang Yun who was stunned; the viewers in the livestream were taken aback as well.
“Damn, does this woman even know what she’s saying?”
“She’s actually being picky now?”
“Unbelievable, she’s actually being choosy?”
“Incredible! This is the most thick-skinned and stubborn scammer I’ve ever seen!”
“Give her some! I want to see how much she can actually eat!”
After a moment of surprise, Jiang Yun handed her a box of wontons. It wasn’t a huge portion—about 150 grams—but even for most women, that’s a lot, especially given that she’d already been eating bread all night.
She took the box without another word, calmly opened it, and started eating again.
And so, the livestream took on an absurd and surreal air: Jiang Yun and the female con artist sat across from one another, eating wontons in silence, surrounded by a mountain of unfinished bread.
Her pace didn’t quicken. Jiang Yun finished three boxes—about 450 grams—while she still had more than half her first box left. But she never stopped eating.
Reinvigorated after eating, Jiang Yun resumed his earlier tactic: he stared at her motionless, matching her endurance.
Over an hour passed. The wontons had long gone cold and congealed before the woman finally finished her bowl. Afterward, she hesitated, covering her ears and thinking for a moment, then opened another packet of bread and resumed eating.
She had no idea that her momentary hesitation had electrified Jiang Yun and the tens of thousands of viewers.
“Damn! She’s still eating?”
“Was she a pig in her past life? How can she still eat?”
“Guys, I’m starting to doubt if she’s even a scammer.”
“Me too—maybe she’s just genuinely hungry?”
“No way! If she was really that hungry, she wouldn’t be eating this slowly!”
“Exactly! She’s clearly just stubborn and won’t give in to Brother Yun!”
2:27 PM.
This would be a time Jiang Yun would never forget. After thirteen hours of this high-stakes standoff, the woman actually finished every last piece of bread!
Staring at the now-empty bags, Jiang Yun fell silent. Not only him, but the 50,000 viewers in the chat were quiet as well.
“I take back everything I said before. She really was starving.”
“Incredible, I can’t even eat twenty buns myself!”
“And she had a full serving of wontons in the middle...”
“Sis, with this talent, why be a con artist? You should be a mukbang streamer!”
“She’d be a superstar in the eating show world!”
“I don’t know if Brother Yun’s been traumatized, but if she switches to livestreaming her eating, the whole Douyin scene would be shaken.”
“The Pigsy of Chunxi Road, I’m not even joking!”
As Jiang Yun sat silently, the woman looked up at him, a hint of provocation in her eyes.
*Burrrrp—*
A massive, long belch erupted from her lips.
She said nothing, but that belch said it all!
After burping, she slowly stood up, wiped off the chalk marks from the ground, and left.
Watching this, Jiang Yun’s silence deepened. He only got to his feet after the woman had walked away entirely.
Gazing at the scattered bread bags, Jiang Yun suddenly lost it.
“Damn it! Seriously, damn it all!”
He flailed his arms wildly like a man possessed. Passersby stared, but after a glance, they kept walking.
After all, Chengdu is a city that embraces all kinds of oddities—nothing is out of the ordinary here!
Viewers watching couldn’t stop laughing.
“Hahaha, no one warned Brother Yun that she could eat so much!”
“Brother Yun’s gone crazy—wasted the whole night for nothing!”
“He’s almost been boiled down to an eagle, and still lost the endurance battle!”
“Brother Yun’s breakdown is just as intense as any old lady’s!”
“Aww, the most stubborn guy in Chengdu finally met his match. Tough luck~”
Ignoring the teasing comments, Jiang Yun said nothing. He just scowled and cleaned up the trash, then headed to where he’d parked his car, ready to drive home.
But when he spotted the parking ticket on his windshield, Jiang Yun broke down all over again.
“Damn it!”
He threw his head back and roared at the heavens, numb with frustration.
Compared to Jiang Yun’s misery, the viewers in the chat were having the time of their lives.
“Ha, lost the girl and the battle—double whammy.”
“Maybe Brother Yun will stop being so stubborn from now on?”
“He’s not going to be able to sleep tonight!”
“Is this going to make Brother Yun quit streaming entirely?”
“Sorry, I know I’m laughing too loudly, but I just can’t help it, hahaha!”
Only then did Jiang Yun realize he’d left the livestream running. Without saying a word, he shut it off, denying the audience any further chance to mock him.
He drove home, washed up quickly, and collapsed onto his bed.
By the time he woke up, night had fallen again.
It was already 11 PM.
After another round of washing up, he sat on the living room sofa and asked the question that had been lingering in his mind: “System, what was my sign-in reward earlier?”
He’d completed his daily sign-in during the face-off with the female con artist, but had been too caught up to check what the reward was.
[Ding! Today’s sign-in reward: 10 million Diamonds (Douyin virtual currency)! (Equal-value cashback!)]
Jiang Yun frowned slightly. Diamonds were Douyin’s new virtual currency, previously known as Dou Coins; he knew they’d simply changed the name. But diamonds weren’t quite like Shark Fins, which had a one-to-one exchange rate with real RMB. Diamonds were exchanged at a rate of ten to one.
In other words, 10 million diamonds was actually just 1 million RMB.
He wasn’t sure if this so-called equal-value cashback referred to the 10 million diamonds or the 1 million RMB.
“System, how much cashback do I get after spending the 10 million diamonds?”
[Ding! After spending 10 million diamonds, you will receive 10 million RMB cashback. Valid for 7 days.]
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