Because of My Stupidity, I Became a Timid Vampire

Chapter 42 : Crossdressing Xiyue

Xifeng sat in front of her computer, adjusting the camera for final checks before streaming.

She waved her hand, and on screen a silver-haired, crimson-eyed white cat-girl loli followed her movements, waving her short right arm.

"This thing looks pretty fun." Bei Yaoyue stood behind Xifeng, watching her virtual avatar with interest.

This character's artwork was the result of several days of her hard work. To make the character's face cuter and details more refined, she had spent enormous amounts of time, even delaying some commission deadlines, for which she might have to pay breach of contract penalties.

But watching the adorable cat-girl on screen who was cute enough to cause nosebleeds mimicking Xifeng's every move, Bei Yaoyue suddenly felt it was all worth it.

"This Live2D cost me quite a bit of money." Xifeng said with some heartache. Although the artwork was provided free by Bei Yaoyue, for better streaming effects, she had spent five figures hiring top-tier technicians to create the highest quality Live2D with enough movable bones to pull off all sorts of strange antics.

After a moment of silence, Bei Yaoyue said: "I could have helped pay for this."

"You already helped me with the artwork—having you pay too would be inappropriate." Xifeng smiled. She wasn't that thick-skinned.

If it's for you, I wouldn't care how much money it costs.

Money is just material possession. No amount of money could buy a person's smile.

Bei Yaoyue wanted to say this, but after hesitating, she swallowed the words.

"Alright, everything should be fine now."

After confirming all equipment was working properly without any broadcasting accidents, Xifeng turned to Bei Yaoyue: "I'm about to start streaming. Please go out first."

"Can't I watch here?"

"It would affect my streaming." Xifeng laughed awkwardly. "If the camera picks you up, it would interfere with the model recognition."

"......"

Bei Yaoyue said nothing, just dimmed her gaze slightly, then turned and walked out.

Starting all equipment and programs in order, after entering "Xiyue's FF14" as the room name, Xifeng's maiden stream officially began.

Ichinose Xiyue—this was the name Xifeng set for her virtual avatar.

This wasn't a carefully considered name though, just randomly picking a surname and changing the "feng" in Xifeng to "yue"—very simple and crude.

To match this name, she also changed her FF14 character name to Ichinose Xiyue.

Naturally, not a single viewer was watching her stream, but Xifeng was quite accepting of this. After all, her original intention for streaming was just finding fun outside of gaming. If people watched and chatted with her, great; if not, she'd just treat it like playing games normally.

However, soon a user named "Kuroshita Fubuki" noticed this zero-popularity stream room and clicked in.

"Finally someone came. I thought I'd be playing solo forever." Xifeng said half-jokingly.

"Eh, the streamer's voice sounds really nice." That person replied in the chat.

"Really? But it's falsetto—speaking in this voice is actually quite tiring."

"Why use falsetto?"

"Because I'm a boy..." Xifeng laughed.

This was the persona she had planned from the start—crossdresser.

From what she understood, quite a few people liked femboys—many had this particular taste.

Looking like a cute white cat-girl but actually being an adorable boy—wasn't that thrilling just to think about?

After all, the VTuber market was nearly saturated now, with traffic mostly absorbed by mainstream VTubers. To get a piece of the pie under these circumstances, she could only choose an unconventional path.

"Really? I can't tell at all."

"Of course it's true. But I've always wanted to become a girl, so I chose to crossdress stream. In daily life, I also love wearing women's clothes..." For the persona, Xifeng forced herself to say extremely embarrassing words.

"Kuroshita Fubuki tipped 10,000 gold seeds."

The sudden notification that popped up in the backend made Xifeng pause. She hadn't expected to suddenly receive a tip, so she quickly said: "Thank you Kuroshita Fubuki for the 10,000 gold seeds tip."

"These 10,000 gold seeds are encouragement for your courage."

Then Kuroshita Fubuki commented again: "But streaming FF14 might be hard to get popular—FF14 is quite niche in China."

"Yeah, that's true. But I don't know what games to stream either. I'll try for a few days and see."

"Ah, let me promote you in my group."

"Ah... thank you in advance then."

Kuroshita Fubuki opened QQ, found his VTuber discussion group, posted Xifeng's stream link, saying: "Brothers, found a new VTuber. Artwork is a white-haired cat-girl, quite cute, voice is super soft and sweet. I thought it was a loli at first, but turns out it's a crossdresser. Check it out if you're interested."

"How could there really be lolis streaming? Wake up."

"What? Crossdresser? Holy shit, I'm coming."

"White hair? I'm in."

"You've made me curious. I'll go listen to how soft the voice really is."

The group immediately buzzed with discussion. Soon someone returned from the stream room saying: "Thanks bro, already came. Even if it's a boy, I'd still go for that voice."

This single comment sparked even more heated discussion, immediately drawing more people to check it out.

Of course, Xifeng was unaware of the group's commotion. She only knew that after Kuroshita Fubuki said he'd help promote, dozens of people continuously arrived. In just a few minutes, the viewer count was nearly breaking a hundred.

However, Xifeng didn't notice that a very familiar person had also quietly mixed into the crowd.

"By the way, how old is the streamer?"

"Forever seventeen, of course." As she spoke, Xifeng's cat ears gently twitched twice. "Of course, my real age... is a secret."

"I really can't imagine this voice coming from a boy."

"Wuu wuu, don't say such things. I wish I were a girl too..." Xifeng said in a very dejected tone, lowering her head as her fluffy cat ears drooped listlessly.

While running dungeons and chatting with the chat, occasionally thanking viewers for tips, streaming turned out to be much more relaxed than Xifeng had imagined, and more interesting than silently playing games alone.

Three hours passed in a flash. Xifeng looked at the clock—it was about time to sleep.

The harvest from these three hours far exceeded Xifeng's expectations. She already had over seventy followers, over three hundred viewers in the stream room, popularity had risen to four digits, and tips totaled about forty yuan. For a debut stream with no advance promotion, this was quite good results.

"It's about time to sleep."

"Is the streamer still a student?"

"Yes, I'm still in high school. I have to get up early for school tomorrow." Xifeng sighed lightly.

Just then, the streaming system backend refreshed with a tip notification. Xifeng glanced at it and read: "Thank you Moon Has Dark Clouds Flowers Have Wind for tipping..."

Before finishing, her voice caught. This name seemed familiar—wasn't that...

"...10,000,000 gold seeds."

She finished speaking in a daze, then said rapidly: "Today's stream ends here. Thank you all for your company. See you tomorrow."

After saying this, she immediately shut down all streaming equipment and software, jumped up from her chair, and rushed toward Bei Yaoyue's room, exclaiming: "Bei Yaoyue, are you crazy?!"