Celebrity Neighbor: My girlfriend is a big star?
Chapter 282 - 219. How Can I Not Show Off a Gift! (Please subscribe, request for monthly tickets!)_2

Chapter 282: 219. How Can I Not Show Off a Gift! (Please subscribe, request for monthly tickets!)_2

The price wasn’t exactly cheap for artists like them.

It was less than those truly exorbitant haute couture pieces, but this gift was indeed substantial.

Artists from Korea certainly weren’t as expensive as those from China.

Liu Xin’an actually didn’t feel that the gift was too generous, because he often saw online that some luxury brand had sponsored some celebrity.

The dresses and jewelry that female stars wore at award ceremonies were truly astronomical in price.

Giving Bae Juhyun a piece of jewelry worth almost a hundred thousand, he even felt it was a bit on the cheaper side.

This was the most pleasing to the eye he could find, and the price satisfied him too.

After all, in front of Bae Juhyun, he wasn’t just representing himself, but also the pride of Chinese men!

Would he let a foreign girl laugh at him for giving cheap jewelry? What a joke!

Of course, this was actually a miscommunication between Liu Xin’an and Bae Juhyun.

Suddenly, Bae Juhyun felt her arm had become much heavier.

She had mentally prepared for the price of the bracelet, thinking it might be worth a few million or at most ten million.

Converted into RMB, it would be around fifty or sixty thousand.

But this 17 million...

It was a totally different concept from the luxury items she endorsed.

She had worn jewelry more expensive than this before, but those were never given to her; usually, they were returned after the promotional shoot.

This time, it was a heartfelt gift from her own boyfriend.

"Juhyun, what do you plan to give in return?"

After feeling envious, Kang Seulgi entered spectator mode.

She changed from squatting in front of the computer watching dance videos to sitting cross-legged on the floor—she was only short of grabbing a handful of sunflower seeds.

"Uh... a watch?"

If she had to think of expensive accessories for men, the only thing Bae Juhyun could think of was a watch.

Belts and ties weren’t out of the question either, but apart from that awards show in Shanghai, she hadn’t seen her boyfriend dressed up even once.

If he didn’t wear formal attire, then ties and belts definitely wouldn’t be of much use.

A watch was a very good choice.

"That could work, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen Liu Xin’an wear a watch."

"Hmm... I don’t think he has even one; no, that won’t work, pass, next!"

While she was pondering, someone pushed open the door of the practice room from outside, and Son Seungwan rushed in frantically. Seeing Bae Juhyun and Kang Seulgi sitting on the floor, she hurried over.

"I’m done, I’m done, I’ve finally finished recording... What’s this?"

She excitedly announced the conclusion of her song recording, but her speech was cut short as the noticeably shiny bracelet attracted her attention all of a sudden.

Son Seungwan’s question made Kang Seulgi smack her forehead.

Oops, another one took the bait.

As for Bae Juhyun, who was just contemplating what to give Liu Xin’an in return...

No rush, no rush! Showing off the gift from her boyfriend to her sister was the top priority!

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"Um... that’s good."

This morning, Liu Xin’an put his workout routine on hold for a bit.

He couldn’t cut back on his live streaming time, and since he was worried about Bae Juhyun getting impatient at night, he decided to temporarily shorten his workout time.

Working out in the evening wasn’t impossible.

In less than three hours, Liu Xin’an finished editing the video footage he shot in the supermarket and at home yesterday.

Since it was a life vlog, the video didn’t need to be too long.

Moreover, it was obvious that the trend on the small streaming site was changing; it was becoming increasingly difficult to retain viewers with fragmented watching time for longer videos.

The days of forty-minute videos per post were becoming less common.

It’s not that video creators were getting lazy, but such videos were a lot of effort for little reward.

With the impact of short videos, the market for long videos was narrowing, and as a game live streamer, Liu Xin’an was also feeling the impact.

Fortunately, he was currently trying to transform as best as he could.

After asking Bae Juhyun on the phone and getting a positive response, Liu Xin’an sent the video to Bae Juhyun.

It was still better for Bae Juhyun to carefully watch the video again herself, to make sure there was absolutely nothing that could expose her, before sending it out.

He was just a video creator; how to hide an artist’s identity wasn’t his forté.

It was better to let the professional handle it themselves.

After waiting for about ten minutes, Bae Juhyun called him directly.

No sooner had he pressed the answer button than his girlfriend’s excited voice filled the air.

"Is this edited by you, Xin’an? You’re so talented! It’s as good as the professionals our company hires for editing!"

He could hear the excitement in his girlfriend’s voice on the other end of the phone.

But how should he say it? This praise somehow made him want to laugh.

"You see if there’s anything that needs to be changed, and are you okay with your voice being processed this way?"

Bae Juhyun’s voice was naturally on the higher-pitched side, giving off a youthful, milky quality when heard.

Unless she was anxiety-stricken and yelling, just listening to her voice could make one’s heart flutter.

After processing, Bae Juhyun’s voice became more ordinary, and unless someone was particularly idle and extracted the video’s audio to then adjust the pitch, Bae Juhyun’s voice would definitely not be recognized.

"It’s totally fine, when are we posting it? Now?"

"Yeah, I’m logged into the alt account in the background here, so I’ll just post it now."

"Great! When will I be able to see it on my phone from here?"

"That depends on the review speed, I can’t promise anything, but it shouldn’t take too long."

The video was just a vlog documenting life, with no hard or soft ads and no sensitive topics involved, so passing the review was not difficult.

"Lunchtime?"

"Yeah, it should be ready by then. You can check it out at that time. I’ll post it now."

"Go ahead."

With a few clicks of the mouse, the video submission status changed to "Under Review."

Liu Xin’an casually closed the minor platform’s backend, turned on the speakerphone, and set it aside.

"Calling me directly like this won’t affect your work, will it?"

"No, I’m in the practice room, I’m alone here now."

"What about the other members?"

"Seungwan got pulled away for a recording session, Seulgi is busy choreographing with the dance instructors, and I’m here exploring song lyrics on my own."

"Sounds interesting, writing lyrics."

"Umm, it’s hard to explain clearly. Oh dear, I’m getting busy. Remember to have lunch, and don’t exceed the streaming duration we agreed on, got it?"

"Mhm."

"Bye-bye!"

With Bae Juhyun’s cheerful "Bye-bye!" from the other end, the call ended, and Liu Xin’an, sitting in his gaming chair, lazily stretched and casually started up the recently addicting XCOM 2.

As a fan of old-school strategy games, XCOM 2 filled the void after he had finished playing through Fire Emblem: Three Houses.

Sticking to Bae Juhyun’s streaming duration rule was no hard feat.

Couldn’t he just sneak in some gaming now?

But Liu Xin’an had forgotten a serious oversight.

He had forgotten to set his Steam online status to invisible.

Almost the moment he launched the game, fans in the live stream chat group immediately noticed that he had started the game.

Seeing Liu Xin’an fire up a game, everyone’s first instinct was, of course, to head to the streaming room.

Sometimes the live stream notifications bug out, not pushing the notification even though the stream had started, so apart from waiting for notifications, checking Liu Xin’an’s Steam status was also a way to tell if Liu Xin’an was streaming.

However, a black screen in the streaming room left visiting fans completely baffled.

About a few minutes later, some of the more perceptive fans seemed to guess something.

Last time, the stunt with the "headless couple" did reveal a bit of information—that "Sister-in-law" Bae Juhyun didn’t really want to see Liu Xin’an pushing himself so hard in his streaming.

Not just Bae Juhyun; fans in the chat room were also worried about Liu Xin’an’s health.

There were no shortage of streamers these days who had overworked themselves to the point of damaging their health, and if possible, they too hoped that Liu Xin’an would take good care of himself.

In fact, their feelings were the same as Bae Juhyun’s; in other words, when it came to monitoring Liu Xin’an’s streaming duration, the fans’ interests were actually completely aligned with hers!

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