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2024.11.13 - https://weibo.com/l/wblive/p/show/1022:2321325100305527472192

LYN: Hallo everybody, good evening. I am Liu Yuning. Welcome! LYN: Long time no see? It feels that way.

C: Lao-da, you look kind of cute today. LYN: I’m so old, so let me pretend to be young every once in a while. Let’s see if any elementary schoolers can start liking me this way. Because people always say that the average age of my fanbase is on the older side, and I’m not convinced. Lets see if there are any elementary school students who can “win the prize”. C: Lao-da, I’m 54 this year. LYN: Welcome, da-jie. Welcome, welcome. See how sweet your little brother is? :)

LYN: Did you think today was the 4.0 (Carnation Music Festival)? It’s not. It’s still being planned. Yesterday I suddenly had a thought- every time one of my dramas airs I should have a music festival as a way of giving back to my fans: the actor-fan friends and singer-fan friends. There are also the… 20yuan-fans? And the more recent “kill them all” fans.

C: What’s the theme for tonight? LYN: The theme? Wow, you have such a sense of ritual. Im over here just streaming as I normally would, and here you are asking what the theme is. In that case, the theme for tonight is uh… having debuted for six years now. No, no! That’s too heavy of a burden, let’s forget that. I’m just kidding- that’s too heavy. Today’s theme is “Chatting on the Kang (bed-stove).” Now we have a theme. LYN: I think this type of person with a sense of ritual is really great. Because for example, you’d cook a table full of dishes for your family, and say, “This dish is called the “Hall of Gold and Jade. This one is “Snowfall on a Volcano”.” Something very artistic like that. You’re the type of person who would light a candle to eat some sugar-mixed tomatoes. A person with such a strong sense of ritual that even a livestream needs a theme.

C: Ning-ge, I just got into high school and I’m already depressed. What should I do? LYN: It’s okay. I’m depressed, too. LYN: No, just kidding. It’s okay- you can think more of happy things. To live a positive life, you should go to a hospital to get checked out. If you’re in a bad mood, that can also become a psychological illness. I advise you to go see a doctor. Don’t brush it off. Try to see a doctor or something. Get checked out.

C: Ning-ge, I can’t see your eyes. The glasses reflect the light. LYN: That’s exactly what I want. If you can’t see my eyes clearly then you won’t be able to tell what I’m thinking. C: Take the lenses out. LYN: I won’t! These were very expensive, and you want me to take the lenses out?? I’m wearing these mainly because my eyes have been pretty swollen for the past couple of days. The glasses are here to cover up some ugliness. Don’t mind it, okay? Thank you all. LYN: Yes, they’re covering my little eyes. A person’s face is all about how much “empty space” there is. If there is a lot of “empty space”, then your face looks big. My eyes are on the small side, so that means the “empty space” on my face appears larger. If I wear these glasses then they are considered a part of my eyes and that “empty space” gets smaller, so my face will seem smaller. Do you get it? C: The “empty space” on my face is very large- what should I do? LYN: /laughs/ I’m like a cosmetic surgeon. There are a lot of patients here for a consultation, huh? If the empty space on your face is large, the first thing you can do is lose weight. If you are thinner, the space will become smaller. Secondly, when putting on your makeup, you can draw your eyes larger and that will make it look better.

- /claps a bug/ LYN: ?? What season is this? Why are there still mosquitoes in my house? That’s scary.

C: Why are your eyes swollen? LYN: No, they’re swollen because of… sleep. Normally when I wake up and need to get my makeup done I start with swelling reduction. Like using an ice pack to ice my eyelids and putting on some eye cream, and massaging the area to reduce the swelling. But today I came to stream so I was thinking I didn’t need do be so formal with it. I was afraid you’d be anxious to see me.

C: Can you let the female celebrity appear? LYN: Forget it. How about later? I can’t let her steal my limelight.

C: Why are you so pale? LYN: Firstly, I applied a BB cream. That’s mainly to even out my skin tone! And secondly… I turned on the whitening effect! The beauty filters are on and I adjusted the whitening a little, but not too much.

C: I’m a new fan, can you give me your hat? LYN: I cannot. Bold of a new fan to ask for my hat! My old fans can’t even have it, right?! Some of them have been with me for the past five to six years. /trips up on the pronunciation/ Oh- look at my Mandarin; and you’re all praising me for my food lines? /repeats himself, more “clearly”/ The friends who have been with me for five-six years haven’t even gotten a hat out of me. Even if I DID give this hat away, it would be to an old fan first. They’d wear it for a year and then pass it down to you. If you want to wear this hat, you have to line up. Let’s draw a lottery in the group chat.

C: Your nasal tone is very strong. LYN: /sniffs/ Yeah, what’s wrong with me? Why do I have such a strong nasal tone today? Why?

LYN: One friend said something very touching. They said, “Your livestream is the best gift.” Wow. What a romantic fellow, you are!

C: I really like to hear you sing. LYN: Ok, remember to come when I hold my concert next year. C: Is it a tour? LYN: Yes, a tour. We had a meeting the other day to discuss my concert in more detail. We’re predicting it’ll be 10 cities, and we haven’t yet determined how many shows in each. Maybe one or two, depending on the city. But they’ll be the provincial capital cities. Zhejiang and Chongqing-around Sichuan, definitely. Hefei is a possibility. Hangzhou, definitely. For the Northeast we’ll probably do one within Liaoning, and another one will be Xi’an. Anyway, there are ten cities. You can think about it. Wuhan, for sure; two shows there. C: What about Shandong???? LYN: Mostly likely in Jinan, yeah. I don’t know. Shandong… It might be Qingdao. It’s uncertain. We’ll see. LYN: I’m concerning Harbin. Should I go? I don’t know- I’ll think about it later. In any case, it’s 10 cities. At that time I hope everyone can (come)- I predict that I won’t be holding these too regularly. One city every two weeks. Or... two months for three cities? Like that. I’ll have the tour finished in half a year. C: Boss, can you see me? Can you see me, Boss? When will the concert be held next year? LYN: It’ll be held at the start of the year, next year. Around February, after the New Year. Ok?

C: Lao-da, your hat has a loose thread. LYN: Is this a loose thread? This product (quality) is really average. I’m not slandering your brand- but this big of a loose thread feels like an antenna. Or is this a deliberate design element? This hat was quite expensive… You’re done for. You’ve been exposed by consumers on the spot. C: Ning-ge, yours must be a fake then. LYN: A fake?! What fake?? I, Liu Yuning, use fakes??? Are you kidding me?? This is genuine! It’s authentic! /scoffs/ A fake…

LYN: Oh, Kang Ju is here? Welcome, welcome. Welcome, Xiao Hai. (Yu Yonghai)

C: Participate in Hi6 more often! LYN: You’re thinking too much. First of all, Hi6 is not a place just anyone can go to. Secondly, I am not so welcomed that Hi6 would keep inviting me. I’m not that popular. So I’ll go to play on occasion, coincidentally when I have dramas airing. I can show my face a little and through this program let more people know that I have an airing drama, that’s all. It’s enough. LYN: How can I ALWAYS go? People would find me annoying. C: Lao-da, people like you! LYN: Yeah, people like YOU. It’s only you fans and my friends that support me that think that whatever I do is good. But of course, you have to take others into consideration.

C: Will there be more variety shows this year? LYN: Yes, but I can’t say which. Why? Because before- my old fans all know this- there was one time a variety show invited me and I was so happy. I had only just debuted and in my excitement I did a livestream to tell you all about it. Then a few days later I was notified that I didn’t need to show up for it anymore. It didn’t pan out. Anything I tell you about in advance has a tendency to not pan out in the end. :| LYN: I’ll keep it a secret first. Well, it’s not a secret. It’ll be airing soon enough. C: Everyone who steals your work will turn out a flop. LYN: No, don’t say that. You can’t have that kind of mentality. Life isn’t easy for anyone. I’m not that great either. I am also average. We’re all just making a living.

C: Where did you buy the necklace? LYN: I strung it myself. This is an accessory that I put together myself. Two years ago I started liking to play with these beads two years ago, and I did serious research and bought all different kinds. At first it was the baixiang seeds, then when I had enough of those I moved on to the Star & Moon beads (xing-yue), after buying a bunch of those I moved on to Phoenix Eye (fengyan). Phoenix Eye beads are relatively more expensive; so it cost me quite some money. After playing with Phoenix Eye beads, I moved on to walnuts. After playing with walnuts, I moved on to King Kong beads. I played with those quite a bit and as of now the ones that I’ve touched the most are the King Kong and Phoenix Eye beads. C: The smaller Phoenix Eye bodhi beads are more expensive. LYN: Yes, the smaller ones are very expensive. For example, I didn’t understand at first how a string of size 7 wooden beads could be so expensive at 1m+. Of course, I still don’t understand it. Size 7s sell more more than 1million… ??? LYN: But these things can’t be judged. Because if you want to qualify them by their original standards, they’re really just agriculture side products. They’re just the seeds of various fruits that grow throughout the year, nothing special. But a string of King Kong beads can sell for tens of thousands. Of course, there are cheaper ones that are sold for hundreds or tens. It just depends on how good of a quality you want to play with. LYN: We have some insiders here. Someone said that the bracelet I’m wearing looks nice. You can tell what it’s made out of from so far away?? This one was very cheap, less than a thousand. It only cost a few hundred. Just a small accessory.

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C: Ning-ge, is it true that when you’re nervous you start picking at your hands and you made yourself bleed? LYN: You mean I was nervous when filming and hurt my hand? I saw quite a few netizens comment on that, saying “LYN is good. This type of actor is good at getting into the role. Look- when he’s acting nervous he even went so far as to make himself bleed. Where else are you going to find such a dedicated actor? This is too professional, he’s really blended his soul in with the character’s.” Um, well… I saw that comment and I didn’t have the heart to reveal the truth. I was afraid that if I told the truth they wouldn’t think I was a good actor anymore. LYN: It’s like this, friends. Today I will reveal the truth of the situation. /pulls up the Conan theme/ That’s right. The truth is! That hand was injured during filming for a fight scene. But it so happens that I also had to shoot the scene in question on the same day, so I told the videographer that they had to focus on my hand for it. It was a coincidence that made it look as if YZJ was so nervous that he broke skin on his hand. There is always only one truth! LYN: Flowing water has no direction, drifting wind has no trace, and every case is full of confusion. The only one who can see the truth of the situation is who appears to a child on the outside but is beyond ordinary on the inside- Detective Conan! I’m living up to the mood. LYN: It’s really a coincidence. Just coincidence.

LYN: Actually, I always see people analyzing my performance and I think that’s a good thing! People are starting to understand me. Of course, people are also criticizing me, and I accept and acknowledge their criticism. I am open-minded and welcome to learn. Honestly, as an (actor)- What I like is to brainstorm. I like to think about all of the possibilities. For example, recently- I think it’s aired, right? When I fight over the knife. It’s raining and I’m holding an umbrella and need to take the knife away from the FL. /confirming/ It’s aired. Actually, the snatching of the knife and throwing away the umbrella are elements I designed myself. At the time it was raining in the scene, and I thought it wouldn’t look good for me to still be holding that umbrella while walking away. From YZJ’s perspective, it would be right to throw the umbrella to the ground and leave it for DW. LYN: I saw many people saying that YZJ only grabbed the knife in order to hurt himself.* Actually, that’s not true. My concept for this plot element was not to inflict self-harm, nor was it to make the FL feel sorry for me. I was afraid she would hurt herself. She was holding the knife, and I had the thought of taking it away. I took it because, as YZJ, I was thinking “she’s holding this knife, and what if she is so deeply hurt by this situation that she hurts herself”? Even though I KNOW that this FL is not so fragile to the point that she would. But “what if?”, right? I know it wasn’t possible that she would express self-harming behavior, but what if she did? Everything is possible, right? So I took the knife away. That was designed. Some people were saying I was trying to inflict self-harm. YZJ is not that perverse. He had to take the knife away before he left her. - *[t/n: I (and many others) thought he was trying to hurt himself, as punishment for putting DW through so much pain and getting to walk away from her, even though it was ~to protect her~. I know YZJ was also injured in that fight but that’s only physical & he didn’t know that DW thought HE PURPOSELY SHOT HER and then just left her to die. EMOTIONAL DAMAGE.] LYN: I’ll think about these things when I’m acting, but I won’t say too much. I don’t want to come across as- (arrogant)

- 26:45: [t/n: something I can’t make out but that LYN seems to take offense to. :(] LYN: Bah! Such a great act of love, and in your eyes it’s merely _____?? How superficial! LYN: You little girls are really- you’d only dare to be so perverted online. I said, “bah!” (onomatopoeia for the act of spitting) and you said, “Spit on my face, Lao-da.” Does your mother know what you do online?? I’ll take a screenshot of this and send it to your mother- do you feel no shame? Huh?? Sometimes I’ll scroll across a group of- I don’t which genius made the emoji. It was when I was recording for Our Song, and there was an expression like this: /pumps his fist in a “victory” pose/, and there were four words at the bottom: “(I) want to get sexy/horny”. … What are you thinking?!? You bunch of little girls... ohhh my goodness. - LYN: There was an interview yesterday, in which I seem to have exposed some of my shoulder. Oh, my god. All the comments that were popping up on screen were about it. Gosh. It’s like even exposing a shoulder nowadays is too much. If you’re going to be like that, let me tell you- I think that you are all good people. Why? Because there are very many male actors with good physiques who spend days in their drama shirtless. The pecs and abs are all out. They have good figures and can show that off, but I don’t have a good figure. Instead, you’ve gotten “high” (excited) over an exposed shoulder. I really want to adopt the anti’s words for this: “Go eat something better.” You’re excited just to see a shoulder?? LYN: Of course, it’s also like this: Even though people say “eat something better” I want to say this- there’s an old saying in Chinese that goes like this: “That which tastes good is inferior to that which you love to eat.” No matter how rich, delicious, pretty or expensive your feast may be, I still prefer the bowl of jajang noodles that my mother made me. Even though it may taste good, it still can’t win over something you like eating. LYN: So, they weren’t wrong (to get excited over a shoulder). But try not to express your emotions all over the internet like that. The comments people make online these days are terrifying. What if one day you become a celebrity?? That girl earlier- what if one day you become a big celebrity? At that time, people will flip through the comments you’ve made and discover that you once asked LYN to spit on your face during a livestream. This is all your dark history. Be cautious with your words and actions, speak politely, and make kind comments. - C: I don’t care! LYN: /laughs/ Do you mean you don’t care about people digging up your dark past after you’ve become a celebrity, or you don’t care if I spit on your face or not? These two things, both are not very good. I won’t be doing it, ok? Thank you.

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31:25 -- bgm: 足够 (Enough) by 银河快递 (Galaxy Express)

C: Lao-da, do you have an affiliate link for the hat? LYN: I don’t sell good, here. Nothing I wear is due to collaboration (or sponsor). Don’t think I’m trying to do any product placement, because I’m not! Don’t buy it. It’s expensive. It’s not worth it. C: I want to buy it. I have money. LYN: If you have money then you can do what you want. Who cares, then. Go ahead and buy it.

C: Did YZJ die at the end? LYN: Stop asking! Is that something you need to worry about? What does it have to do with you? You’ll know when the time comes. C: If he dies, then I’ll stop watching. LYN: … If you’re going to say that, then he doesn’t die. He’s abducted by aliens. C: Oh, no. You went silent for three seconds. LYN: Oh- someone said that they’d stop watching if YZJ dies, but I paused for three seconds and didn’t answer. You took that to mean that it’s possible that he dies, is that it? Of course, anything is possible, but the problem is- I can’t tell you. Just watch.

C: Have you gotten the last few songs for your album yet? LYN: I’m still choosing- its undecided. I’m hesitating on whether I want the song(s) or not.

C: If I watch an ad, can I resurrect YZJ? LYN: You can bring anyone back.

C: Lao-da, don’t covet other people’s puppies. LYN: It’s just that I feel affectionate when I see other Schnauzers. Sometimes I am away on business and I can’t take Daimi with me, so when I see other dogs I’m friendly towards them. Actually, I don’t really like other people’s dogs. Since I’m raising one myself, I don’t really like touching other people’s dogs. I can hold or pet other dogs, but I don’t really like them that much. C: Why is she called “Daimi”? LYN: Because she’s very dumb (affectionate). When I first brought her home she was a little slow and looked foolish. Looking into her eyes, you can tell she’s not very bright, so I called her “Dummy”.

C: Do some crosstalk. LYN: ? Friends, I’ve discovered that there really are psychos on the internet. People who are mentally abnormal are more bountiful than you might think. Honestly. You might think that you rarely come across someone who is mentally ill or otherwise terrifying, but they’re all over the internet. I’m not kidding. Seriously, there are people who speak total nonsense. You know? It’s scary. I’m afraid of these people. Even though when you see me in my stream I’m arrogant and domineering, when I go out I’m nice and obedient. Because there really are a lot of mentally ill people out there.

LYN: That’s why I think that my fans are so good, and I’m not just saying that to sound nice. There’s no need to say much, because you all already know. Our fans are really good. Why? Because I feel like there are not very many artists who would dare to be so close to their fans. For example, when I go to greet you, and get up close. I used to be confused about that. Why wouldn’t an artist want to be close to their fans? What’s the big deal? The fans are all very good, just standing there and greeting you and taking some pictures. What’s wrong with taking a few photos? It’s fine. Why wouldn’t they dare to be close to you? LYN: But the problem is- let me tell you- my fans really ARE different from everyone else’s. Why? Sometimes when I go to an event, I can tell the difference between my fans and fans of others. Other people’s fans can be categorized into two types. The first, let me imitate for you, they’re like this- /indifferent/ “Who is that? So tall. Who? Liu Yuning?? Who’s that?” That’s the first type. The second type is like this- ”Who is that? Liu Yuning?!” Then they take out their phones and start taking photo/video, but their phones are this close to my face- /puts it right up to his face/. I feel like these fans may have been doctors before, because they keep trying to shove the scope into my mouth. They want to give you a check up with a laryngoscope. They want to see if your teeth are straight or not. The dermatologists want to check if they can see the mites on your skin. Some of them aim at my ear, to check if I have any inflammation or ear disability or something like that. Or, they aim for the head- very close. Like they’re going to give your brain a CT scan. Oh my god, it’s just so close. But my fans basically won’t do this. They’ll stay away from me, maintaining a safe distance of about one meter. Because they know that I don’t like it and I’ll feel uncomfortable, and they respect that. You can take pictures of me, but not too many. They know not to get too close too. Otherwise it’s like you’re trying to jump into my arms. It feels like you want to use your phone to measure my heartrate. LYN: But this actually this the normal state of being, for other people’s fans. They are just THAT enthusiastic. I’ve seen one particularly exaggerated case- and I’m not trying to belittle other people’s fans, just sharing what I saw. I was with another artist in an elevator, and- usually when I go out I don’t have security or anything, you all know this. So this other artist and I are coming down in the elevator, and they have a security guard with them. For example, we were going from the 10th floor to the 1st- it stopped on the 7th. The doors opened- regular guests will need to get on/off the elevator too, right?- there were two girls standing there. They were going to come into the cab, and the security said, “Sorry, please wait for the next one.” And these two girls said, “Why should we? We’re guests here, so why should we take the next one? Who do you think you are? So what if you’re celebrities??” And the guard said, “I told you to get off, did you hear me?” I was standing there thinking, “This isn’t proper, is it? Aren’t you afraid of being criticized if news of this gets out? Isn’t this too weird? How can you do this? They’re normal guests, why don’t you let them ride with us??” The two girls wouldn’t leave so the guard pushed them out, gently, and the door closed. I was still thinking, “Wouldn’t we be over if this gets posted on the internet?” Isn’t this something people get cancelled for?? But here comes the twist, friends- the girl pressed the elevator call button with her left hand and held up her phone with the right, and stood there grinning. She just wouldn’t let us go; she just wanted to record us. LYN: When I encounter situations like this, I’m thankful that my fans are the best. None of my fans have ever done this. In all the years that I’ve debuted, I have never met a fan who has done this kind of thing to me.

- C: Ge, hire me as your security. LYN: Are you the type who can fight back, or who can stand a beating? - LYN: Honestly, there are still a few (“fans”) who aren’t respectful and… yeah… it’s not great. But my fans are very good. For the most part, you’re all very good. Every time there’s an event there are managers who coordinate and take you all out to play and such. As a whole you’re very orderly which is not something you can see with other fans, and for that I’m proud. C: We’re capable of shouting, quite loudly too. LYN: /shouts the fan mottos in a weird voice/ C: What the heck was that?! LYN: What do you mean?!? It’s a portrayal of your “madness”. It’s a kind of passion.

C: Lao-da, you have no work this month. LYN: You can’t hurt me like that, ok? What do you mean? You mean that I’ve flopped, so the only thing I can do now is stay at home and “pick at my feet” (idle)- is that what you mean? You think I’m a foot-picking boy, now? I have so much work it’ll scare you to death. C: Paronychia. LYN: I don’t have paronychia, and it’s not because I have it that I’m “pick at my feet”. The foot-picking I’m talking about and the foot-picking due to paronychia are two different matters entirely. “Foot-picking” means that I have nothing to do. It doesn’t mean we’re trying to treat a disease. They’re two different things. It’s a figure of speech, you know? “Picking one’s feet” is a metaphor, it’s not the act of actually picking one’s foot. You can also say, “picking the ears” but it means the same thing- “having nothing to do.” C: You really don’t have any more work? LYN: No, I don’t. I’m a flop. I don’t have work anymore. I have very very little work to do. LYN: I don’t have a lot of work, so I was thinking about letting Daimi go and get some endorsements. It looks like our female celebrity’s first commercial is about to debut.

LYN: Friends, you don’t need to be anxious or worried for me because you think I don’t have work. Don’t…- I just haven’t joined a film crew, is all. I want to pause, too. I told you this before, I’ve been filming for four years and I pretty much haven’t left Hengdian in all that time. I’ve just been filming and not doing much of anything else. I can’t keep going on like this, so I want to take a short break. I need to settle down, do some thinking, and let it all sink in before I once again immerse myself in this kind of work. Lately I’ve come back into being a singer and doing some more artist-related stuff, such as variety shows which don’t have to do specifically with being a singer or an actor. I can make some appearances, attend some events/programs, work on my album (properly), record OSTs, and etc. It’s about time, because I can’t put off my concert any longer. C: Do more magazine shoots. I love to see them. LYN: /sigh/ I don’t have any plans for that at the moment.

C: You jumped so far in Hi6! LYN: You mean with Xiao Ding? Actually, we didn’t perform as well as we could have. We could have jumped farther. At first I thought it would be hard to jump together, but in fact it was very easy. Those first few stumbling steps baffled me and I thought it would be hard. But actually… it was very simple.

-----53:58 -- bgm: Wish (惟愿) [The Story of Pearl Girl OST] C: This song will be popular! LYN: Whether an OST is popular or not, for the most part, depends on the drama itself. If the drama keeps being broadcast and if people watch it, then the song will more easily become popular. So… I think it’s all good, though. Every song has its own place, function, and a responsibility that brought it into this world. If it fulfills its purpose, that’s enough.

C: I saw the ZLYM promo materials in the subway yesterday. LYN: Thank you everyone. Of course, I hope that you all can continue to support ZLYM. It’s about halfway through now, and I’ve seen that people are enjoying it. They’re expressing their own opinions and suggestions. It’s all good, as long as there’s a discussion. That’s what makes it fun, right? If a drama isn’t even being discussed, then… you know. Then it’s not a good product. LYN: Of course, I don’t dare to say that ZLYM is very good. Honestly- when I recommend it to everyone as an actor, I feel it’s because I’ve done my best to fulfill my duties and I took it seriously and didn’t slack off or anything else. The actors all took it seriously. The final results after broadcast is not something that the actors can control. I really tried my best. I really tried.

C: Ning-ge, if I buy Dandong strawberries from you, can I get a discount? LYN: I don’t know. I don’t know what a strawberry merchant would be. If you go to buy Dandong strawberries, you can ask them if they can sell it to you for cheaper. If they say they can’t, then say you know LYN. Tell them, “LYN is my friend.” You can give it a try. When you buy strawberries, if they don’t give you a discount, tell them that LYN is your friend. Mention me. See if they’ll give you face or not. If they don’t give you a cheaper price, then they’re not giving me any face. If they don’t give me face, then the consequences will be- there are none. You can try. If you ask me, I honestly don’t know. LYN: I’ve thought about it before. I was thinking of getting greenhouse in Dandong for the express purpose of growing strawberries. Of course, I wouldn’t sell them. I would give them to friends or something nice. A lot of people in this industry, and on weibo, and my friends all take good care of me and support my livestreams. This includes all the promotion from various networks and entertainment channels, etc. You’re all very supportive of me. So as a Dandong native the first thing I should do around the new year is to send around strawberries. Even if I can’t mail out that many, at the very least I should give one or two, to try.

C: Aren’t we friends? Give me some. LYN: I can. But you know what this is like? Let’s say your friend has opened a restaurant- would you go there to eat every day? You have friends, right? Let’s say you have a friend in real life who’s opened a restaurant and you go to their place to eat every day. Your friend asks if you could stop, and you reply “Aren’t we friends, though?” Would you just boldly continue to go back? It’s possible that you go to your friend’s restaurant to eat and they give you a slightly bigger portion or a little of a discount. But you can’t say “Aren’t we friends? Can’t I eat for free?” C: Ning-ge, I AM that thick-skinned. LYN: Don’t bluff. If you really were so thick-skinned, there’s no way you could have friends. C: When you’re thick-skinned, you can eat your fill. LYN: Did your parents teach you that?? Since young your parents have told you, “Child, when you go out into the world you must remember one thing. “When you’re thick-skinned, you can eat your fill.”” (•᷄- •᷅ ;) You can’t be like that. C: You taught us. LYN: I can’t teach you. LYN: When you’re thick-skinned, you can eat your fill. If you’re thin-skinned, you’ll never be full. /laughs/ NO!! It has nothing to do with how thick-skinned you are or aren’t! There are quite a lot of rules when it comes to food. Of course, if you’re ordering takeout you can order tens or thousands of dollars’ worth if it will make you full. But if you’re out eating with others, you should maintain some etiquette. C: If you’re thin-skinned, you can’t eat anything. LYN: Wh- where is this coming from?? I was so poor when I was little, but I never heard that phrase before.

C: How bad is your myopia? LYN: My left eye is pretty severe- 5.0. My right eye is 5.1. Yeah. That’s my visual acuity. When I go out on a trip or something I don’t even need binoculars. I see super clear and in high-def. I see in 8k. C: It’s that bad?? LYN: Yes, one’s even at 5.0. It’s not very good… C: The lenses are blinding me. LYN: Stop staring at my eyes, then. You can stare at these ears instead. You can stare at the top of my head. You can stare at the mic, or the background. Stop staring at my eyes. You’ll make me shy.

C: How long have you been streaming? LYN: Let me check- 1h, 6m. Not bad.

C: Was shooting the scene with fire dangerous? LYN: It’s dangerous. That applies to anything. Honestly, if I had to say whether it was dangerous or not, it was actually okay. The threat of danger is definitely there. Our drama pursues realism. With some scenes, when using the camera to shoot, you can’t feel exactly how close the fire is to you. You might feel like it’s flaming, but you’re half a meter away and it’s fine. But the fire has heat. So.. it’s dangerous but you’re an actor, so what can you do about it? You can only shoot the scene. The only thing you can do is pay attention to safety, right? The danger’s in the fact that the hair is so long that if you flip it, it’s possible you flip it into the fire. Because the scene is chaotic and you have to act panicked, so one wrong move could flip your hair into the fire and then it’s all going up in flames. LYN: But we do set up precautionary measures. Do you remember in YNGS, there was a scene by the river and we built up a funeral pyre for all the fallen Six Paths brothers? It looks like we were standing far away, and actually we WERE standing very far away. After shooting that scene, all our eyelashes were gone- every actor there didn’t have eyelashes anymore. Well, the male actors, because we were standing slightly closer. You can feel the fire cooking you. We lost our eyelashes. Mine already weren’t very long to begin with. :| After shooting that scene I looked in the mirror and even I felt like I didn’t look like myself. We were really far away from it but the heat of the fire was too great. Thankfully, none of the male actors present that day were wearing contacts! If they were, they would have melted onto the eye. Very dangerous. - LYN: Lots of people try to give me advice, too. Saying, “Ning-ge, your eyes are small. Why not wear colored lenses?” I have seen people wear colored lenses before, yes. But I forgot what variety show I was watching, but one of the laoshi-s said that actors shouldn’t be wearing lenses, because then your eyes cannot convey emotions. You may LOOK better, but in acting your eyes are important for transmitting information. So if they’re covered with a layer of plastic… what would you be conveying? Right? There’d be no light in your eyes. That’s why I don’t wear any. C: Ning-ge, your eyes are too small. You wouldn’t be able to get any in. LYN: /laughs/ It’s possible. I’ve tried and worn them before a few times. At the time I wore blue ones. I did wear them for a while but later I thought better of it. I’d wear them but shed a bunch of tears. C: What if you can’t see? LYN: You can wear lenses with prescription, just not the colored lenses. Do you get it? I was talking about the colored lenses (for aesthetics), not contact lenses. I’m sorry. Maybe I didn’t describe them appropriately. You can wear contact lens, because they have no color. That’s okay- the transparent ones which serve to correct your myopia. But I was talking about colored lenses.

C: Why aren’t you playing with beads? - /shows that he is/ LYN: You must have just come in. I’m not, really. Why would I need to during a stream?

1:11:35 -- Break #1

LYN: They weren’t fighting. They were watching YZJ’s fight scene. I was wondering who was shouting so fiercely, too. I was wondering whose voice sounded so nice? It turned out to be YZJ’s lines. C: Master, must have really needed to go. LYN: Shut your mouth! You did that on purpose, didn’t you?? - ^ t/n: referencing lines from the drama

C: Is the ending to ZLYM a HE (happy ending)? LYN: Yes, it’s an HE. Very “H”. Very “E”, yes. Very “E”... - C: Dongfang Qingcang. LYN: It’s possible. Maybe the voice I heard earlier was the downstairs neighbors watching LBFaD. I don’t know. In any case the neighbors across the way were watching ZLYM. Very nice. A happy family reunion. A family of five was there, watching. Isn’t that nice? - C: That’s what you said for the last drama, too. LYN: The “HE” I was referring to for YNGS stood for “box”. Last time when you asked if the ending for YNGS was HE or BE, I told you it was “Hé” for “box”. They’re all in a box. I played with a homophonic pun- one is 盒 (box) and the other is river (河). One, everyone is in a small box. The second is... their ashes were scattered into the river. LYN: But ZLYM doesn’t have any boxes, and no one is in the river. It’s just a “hé”. C: Does he die with no final resting place? LYN: … /plays the Conan theme/ The only ones who can see the truth are the livestream viewers! /laughing/ Die with no final resting place…? Can’t you be more optimistic?? You can’t wish for something better? Not even a box?? He’s just thrown out into the wilderness??? You people are so bad. Do you want YZJ to live or die? Even if he dies, he can’t even die well? You must be an anti! Are you an anti?!

LYN: I forgot to thank weibo; my fellows here are very supportive. I’m very grateful. Thank you very much.

C: Ning-ge, can you play any living roles? LYN: /huffs a laugh/ I don’t know why. When I was playing 2ML, I always died. When I was acting as supporting characters I always died. Now I’m playing the lead role and… I still die. I ALWAYS die. I don’t know why; no one else has experienced this before, right? Maybe it’s that I’ve acted too little, still. If I act more then maybe we can shift the probability.

C: What’s that thing spinning in the back? LYN: /plays Faye Wong’s 旋木 (Carousel) in response/

C: Ning-ge, shoot a cooking VLOG for us. LYN: Actually, I shot one before. But… because a lot of other people have already done cooking VLOGS, and I don’t like repeating what others have already done. If I do shoot one- and this includes the Carnation Music Festival 4.0- then my execution will definitely be different from what you’ve seen before. I’ll definitely make some upgrades so that it’s not the same. Only by doing that will it be interesting. Otherwise, I don’t think there’s a point. I’m the type of person who will do something only if I have an interest and if it’s meaningful. I want things to be better than they were the last time. I’m this type of person, yeah. So.. we’ll see. CMF4.0 might have some upgrades… but those upgrades might not be very… “upgraded.” I’ve been thinking about this the past couple of days. I’m planning for when I’m finished with my work, so around the 20th or 25th. We’ll hold another Carnation Music Festival. 20-25th, somewhere around those dates. C: Today isn’t 4.0?? LYN: Today isn’t 4.0. It’s just a normal ordinary stream. It’s already very exciting, isn’t it? That friend was so surprised to find out today isn’t CMF4.0. Today is just a very normal, every day, extremely ordinary stream. LYN: … I need to find another song. -- 普通Disco (Ordinary Disco) LYN: Very ordinary.

C: The person who would make that sort of comment must be a new fan. LYN: Probably, because… maybe some people don’t know what CMF is. It’s a small music festival that we’ve set up ourselves, but it’s just a livestream that uses music as the focus. It’s a band format, and free for everyone to watch. I was seeing people ask where they should go to reserve tickets for CMF4.0. There are no reservations. You just need to follow me on weibo. Follow my weibo and when CMF4.0 is coming up, it will notify you.

C: Ning-ge, have you read any scripts lately? LYN: I haven’t been, but I plan to look them over in the next two days. I’ll take a look at them before going to sleep. There are a lot of projects that have come my way… and I need to look at them first. If I don’t like them, then I need to tell them in advance that I’m not suitable for their role. I should tell them, because it’s not good to just not give them a reply. So I’ll be looking at scripts in the next two days. LYN: Are there rumors about my projects going around again? I haven’t accepted anyl I’ve got nothing going on right now. We haven’t even been in contact with anyone. I already told you- this half of the year I’ve come back to being a singer. Also from filming wrap to today, I haven’t looked at any projects. I’ve read some character descriptions and story synopses, but not an actual script. I don’t have anyplans to pick something up, either. I’m really using the past six months as a break. Well, not exactly a break- I’m making progress as a singer. There are a bunch of things on the music side of my career that I have to take care of.

LYN: The other day someday suggested I act in a double male lead, mystery/crime drama. That is… someone has to come find me to act in these dramas in the first place. I’m not that popular. But I saw something a friend of mine posted, which was nice. One day- I was wearing a suit to attend some event, and someone had gone online to post about who had also worn this suit before. It so happens that Huang Jingyu has also worn it before. So the OP commented that both of us were from Dandong and etc. and someone else made a comment on that post saying they’d like to see it if the two of us were to be in a crime drama together. Because HJY keeps playing these policeman-type roles. At the time I thought that was a creative idea. HJY can act as a cop and I’ll be the criminal. Right? We can be the “Dandong Peerless Duo”. X’D Just kidding. I just thought that idea was pretty interesting, if something were to play out like that. C: That won’t do. You should be the villain. LYN: I’ll be the bad guy. I want to play the bad guy. C: You can’t die. LYN: Friends, you have to remember something- the bad guy always gets punished in the end. The bad guy in a drama will always be punished for their actions. C: Then, Ning-ge, if you play a bad guy in the future could you be punished but end up in a coma instead? LYN: Isn’t that worse?? Don’t you think if in the end the bad guy falls into a coma, this situation… of course, it’s not impossible. But what would be the meaning of his life? He’s done bad things his whole life and he ends up in a coma- what would be the meaning in keeping him alive? Karmic retribution? No, right? I think this is actually not a great way to end things. C: At least you’re alive. LYN: That’s the wrong way to live. You want the villain to face retribution by making him barely living?

C: KSTLB Season 3? LYN: KSTLB3 is in planning and should start recording next year. There should be a season 3, yes. The project is still ongoing, so… there should be a third season. We were just talking about this the other day, too. There’ll be a season 3 and we’ll just do it.

C: What’ll your next drama be? LYN: I haven’t accepted any projects yet. It hasn’t been decided. I already told you that I haven’t even been looking at scripts. I’m planning to take a look at them in the next two days. Originally I was planning to look at them today, if I hadn’t started streaming instead. But I figured I haven’t streamed in a long time, so I came. I can chat with you and stay here a while. It’s nice.

LYN: Someone is saying that “Quan-meimei” is here? Welcome, welcome. She’s also very amazing, I met her last time at the Greater Bay Area event. Very cute and down-to-earth. Because- not being a singer, she still dared to sing live on such a big stage. As a singer, I approve of this approach. Because a lot of singers can’t even pull it off, but she did. It was really great. As a singer, I give you a thumbs up.

1:36:30 LYN: That day she also seemed to mention- can I say this?- that ZSX was so handsome. I felt it deeply as well. What happened was that I had sent ZSX a message, asking him where he was sitting because we hadn’t seen each other in a long time and I wanted to catch up. Then the stage was calling for us to prepare. At this moment, ZSX and I walked towards the backstage together from the break room- it was a whole group of artists walking together. There are also the teachers who give our awards to us, and dancers and staff all waiting to go up on stage. ZSX was walking in front, and all the other actors and teachers /turned their heads to watch him walk past/. “Wow, ZSX is so handsome! ZSX! He’s so handsome!!” They were all like that. And because I was walking behind him, I heard it all. Then, it’s my turn to walk past them. “Oh, Liu Yuning! How… tall.” /sigh/ LYN: I’m kidding! I mean- it actually happened, but I’m telling this to you as a funny story. C: Your dignity! LYN: No, no, it’s true. Based on appearances, ZSX is very good looking. Very handsome. C: Good thing they didn’t say that your eyes were small. LYN: “Wow, Liu Yuning! His eyes… are so small.” /laughs/ IT’S NOT WORTH IT, IS IT?? It’s a nice and respectable big event, and it wouldn’t be worth it to deal me with a blow for no reason. C: He’s breaking down. LYN: I’m not. I already told you that my eyes are my sore spot. It’s a topic you can’t touch on. (心雨 - Heart Rain) C: I’ve actually heard this song! LYN: Why wouldn’t you have heard this song? This is a classic song from my mom and dad’s generation. There’s another song I really liked when I was little- is it called 在雨中 (In the Rain)? C: My mom really liked this song when I was little. She would make me sing the male parts while she sang the female parts.

C: We can sing it together. LYN: Do you know it? Let’s duet it, then. Let’s do something abstract and have an online-offline duet. I’ll sing a song with male-female duet- I’ll sing the male part online, and you can hold up your phones at home and help me sing the female parts. Let’s do it. A song that everyone knows. What male-female duets are there? 广岛之恋, 知心爱人, or 你最珍贵? 因为爱情. 相思风雨中. 纤夫的爱. 最炫民族- that doesn’t count as a love song that’s sung to one another. That’s more of a normal song with added rap. It’s a good old song. Old songs are classics. What else is there? 郎的诱惑? Um. Let’s do 知心爱人, okay? This song should work. 广岛之恋 would be ok, too. -- 广岛之恋 (Hiroshima, Mon Amour) LYN: How could you be typing “I don’t know this song” in the comments?? Are you sure you’re fans of a singer? Maybe you’re movie enthusiasts instead? C: I don’t know this one. Can we do a different song? LYN: Is the key too high? /sings some/ /confirm/ It’s high. C: I AM singing! LYN: See? There are fans who know this song. LYN: Then, how about 和心爱人? Most people should know this song, right? We’re doing “abstract.” You can record your part- ask your mom to help you record it. You should know this song, right? If you don’t then there are no more excuses. -- 知心爱人 (Intimate Lovers) LYN: ?!! (t/n: at the filter, I think? Or maybe the voice that started singing back at him when he stopped.) What is this?? This is weird. C: 恋爱画板 (Love Sketchpad) LYN: That song doesn’t work, because it wasn’t a duet originally but we forced it to become one. // Fine, let’s see if it’s doable. I’ll see if I have the arrangement. Hold on. // Oh, I do. Then, I will sing LYN’s part, and you all can sing DPN’s. -- 恋爱画板 (Love Sketchpad) [LYN: We can even do harmonies!] LYN: You sing so well! LYN: Hey- we can do this during my concert, too. I’ll find a song that we can sing to each other from on/off stage. That’d be fun.

C: Why are you drinking water with a wine glass? LYN: For the sense of ceremony. One must have some sense of ritual in life.

C: Lao-da, do you have some time to teach me about the meatball soup? LYN: The saying goes that in order to make a perfect bowl of beef meatball soup, then of course you cannot be without my instruction. Many of you are curious about how the beef meatball soup was made. Friends, start taking notes! If you would like to make the same style of meatball soup as Yuning- it feels like I’m selling you something. Do you want to make the same beef meatball soup as Yuning? Then, I will teach you right now, for free. First, you must go to the market to buy some beef. How much? Half a pound is good enough. 500 grams. You can have a mix of both fat and lean meat- just lean won’t do. You need some fat in there. When you’re buying the meat, ask the butcher to grind it for you and that way you won’t have to go home and chop it yourself. That’s what I learned from Chinese Restaurant. Don’t try to mince the meat yourself. Then- C: 500g is one pound. LYN: Oh, sorry! /laughs/ 250 grams. /thinking/ No, just buy a pound. Because I believe that you have a lot of people in your families, and for delicious food you can stand to buy a pound. /thinking again/ One pound is a little much, let’s do half. 250 grams. Sorry, I misspoke. // There are five people in your family? Then, buy a pound. If there are only two people, then buy 250 grams. // When we were cooking before, because there are a lot of people in our group, so we bought a larger quantity. Excuse me. C: In my house 2lbs is 2000g. [t/n: ??] LYN: Amazing. So- 250g- half a pound of meat filling. What should you put in it? For starters you’ll need ginger- chop it into a paste and add it to the meat. Green onion as well. An appropriate amount- about a small handful of each of ginger and green onion. Add white pepper powder, salt, and chicken powder. Lastly, add an egg white. Stir evenly, and that’s enough. It’s actually very simple. Now the mix for the meatballs is done. C: How many grams of ginger? LYN: 40g of ginger, 50g of green onion, together with 250g of ground beef, and mix it. C: What if I don’t eat ginger or green onion? LYN: You actually can’t taste it in the meatball. But if you don’t have it, the flavor will differ a lot. You can chop it into finer pieces and when you cook it, you won’t be able to taste that there’s any ginger or green onion in it. So- you just mix it all together and it’s about done. You can also but some light soy in it, if you like, to enhance the flavor. Next, you boil the water. Add a little salt to the water- you can taste it. It’s better that it tastes salty, but don’t make it too salty because the meatballs themselves have salt in them. Make the paste into a ball with your hand and put them into the soup when the water is around 80°. How can you tell if the pot is hot enough? If there are bubbles around the edges but none in the middle, it’s 80°. Start putting in your meatballs and when that’s all done you can toss in some spinach. If you have dried shrimp at home. you can add some of those, too. Then, you can scoop some and eat.

C: Is 81° okay? LYN: That’s fine. 81° or 85° is okay. 90° and even 100° is fine. But if it’s boiling- stop teasing me. I’m telling you properly and here you are provoking me. Why can’t you use 100° water? Because the water is boiling, so if you put in the meat paste it doesn’t have time for the shape to set and will be broken apart by the water. It won’t be meatballs anymore. C: So we add cornstarch? LYN: No need. It’s… it’s not like we can’t afford to eat meat, so why would we need cornstarch (filler)? You don’t need it, just an egg white will do. C: No cooking wine? LYN: No need for cooking wine. C: What if they’re not round? LYN: If they’re not round, just practice more. C: I want to use 105° water. LYN: There’s no such thing, right? I think the boiling point of water is 100°. Maybe putting some salt in it would raise it one or two degrees but there’s no 105° water, right? 105° water…? Use whatever you want. I don’t have time to pay attention to you. XD

C: If I’m putting in dried shrimp (xia mi), can I put in Daimi? LYN: You-! What are you talking about??

LYN: How about this- when I hold my concerts I’ll have a little food stall set-up outside to sell my meatball soup. There’ll be a stall at the entrance and we’ll serve you some meatballs with little skewers and you can bring it into the venue to eat. Most artists go in the afternoon for rehearsals, but I’ll go to make meatball soup for you. I’ll make 18k servings or so. C: I’ll eat you poor. LYN: Oh- you’ll eat your fill of meatball soup until I’m poor? You… have to spend money to buy it, though. It’s not being served for free along with my concert. Have you never been to a concert? If not, you must have been to a theater, right? You go to a theater and have to buy the popcorn- You have to buy the popcorn. I’ve never heard of any theater owner being made poor because of it. You have to buy the popcorn, don’t you?? You’re charged for it! What do you mean you’ll eat until I’m poor? Did you think I would serve meatballs for free because you’ve come to watch my concert?? The meatballs will count as concert merch.

C: Why did Xiao Xiami go offline? LYN: Go ask the scriptwriter. Why are you asking me??

LYN: Friends, you can start using your 5yuan concert vouchers. I had a stream once where I told everyone who helped me get a trending topic that they could get a 5yuan voucher for my concert ticket. That when I had my concert in the future, they could use the voucher to offset the cost of 5yuan. It’s time for you to use it now. C: How do I use it? LYN: Buy the ticket at full price first, then at the venue you can show your ticket and voucher. My on-site staff with return you 5yuan in cash. C: Where can I get a voucher? // Can I exchange my voucher for meatballs? LYN: I don’t think I can afford to do that. C: Exchange my voucher for meatballs. LYN: You wish. It’s like when you have a restaurant voucher, and you go to the restaurant to eat. You can’t use the voucher on alcohol. I came from that industry, so I know. You can’t use vouchers on alcohol. My meatball soup counts as alcohol. You can redeem 5yuan from the cost of the concert ticket, but you can’t redeem it for alcohol. C: Can I exchange it for soybean oil? LYN: The soybean oil is a prize, so you can’t use it there. LYN: Your abacuses are sounding so loudly. (“You sure can calculate.”) It’s not possible, sorry.

C: Is Ding Chengxin handsome? LYN: ... ?__? LYN: Of course he is. Super handsome. LYN: It’s like this- it’s not that I /can’t/ answer, but many people always come into my stream and ask “Is 000 good/handsome/good-looking?” In the face of these types of questions, do you really think I have a different answer?? Do you think I have a second answer? I don’t. C: Can you get me Xiao Ding’s autograph? LYN: I can’t. You’re coming here to ask me for autographs now?? I have one from Liu Yuning, do you want it? Do you? Well, I won’t give it to you.

C: I don’t eat beef, could I have pork meatballs? LYN: You don’t see pork meatballs that often. It should be doable. I haven’t made them before, but I think I should be able to. Yeah, I can make you some. You can choose.

LYN: /sigh/ I don’t think my autographs are very welcome though, are they? Because every time one of my dramas is airing or I’m on some show, I feel like I sign a BUNCH for people! The drama crew asks for 80-100, and the program teams asks for 20-30. All I do is sign them! When they it to me, I look at them and think, “Wow, THIS many??” Everyone wants them. I have to sign them at programs, interviews, and for dramas. When I release a new song, I also have to sign them. LYN: Try not to buy them online, because from what I’ve seen most of them are fake. My autograph has changed a lot in the past few years. I didn’t have to sign so many before, so it was more complicated. Now I’m signing more, so it’s a lot simpler. I saw some people imitating my old autograph- those are all fake. Also, keep in mind, anything that comes out the same day- for example, if I go to participate in a weibo event today and there are autographs being sold by nightfall, those are all fake. Except for the official ones being sold on Weibo- those are real. Any autographs being sold anywhere else are all fake. That is- if a photo was taken during the day-of, and there are already autographs on those photos by night- those are definitely fake. There’s no way I would sign anything on the day of the event. My work habit is to- except for brand/endorsements, which I do day-of- I always sign and mail back the requested autographs later. Because of the day of the event, for example if I have a stage performance, I don’t want to do anything else. I’m afraid that I’d be distracted. So the signatures that come out immediately after an event are all fake, because I don’t do that. C: Are the ones on Taobao real? LYN: Of course not. Also- don’t buy them. They’re not worth anything. And what if one day you unstan me and try to sell them (but can’t)- how embarrassing would that be for me? I always see people unstan others and it looks a little cruel. Thankfully, if my fans unstan me there’s not much they can do away with. Because when I collaborate with brands it’s shampoo or face masks and they should’ve been used up already. I see other fans unstan people and have a stack of autographs, merch, cards, a crate full of magazines, etc and they’re trying hard to get rid of it for cheap. How embarrassing! So, don’t buy my autographs and save me the embarrassment of you having to sell them when you unstan me. I’m thankful I haven’t released any merch or done many magazine shoots, so you don’t have stock piling up in your house. I know you buy the ones that other fans have made, though. /sigh/

C: Can you wish me luck on my high school entrance exam? LYN: Good luck, and I hope you can get into a good school.

- [t/n: ? some comment on something having sold over 9k copies? I’m not sure.] LYN: Just… don’t sell it for very expensive. I feel like if you think this is fun and want to play along with others and sell it for the basic cost of materials, that’s fine. But please try not to make and sell merch in order to make a profit.

C: Is it really Liu Yuning streaming? LYN: ? Actors use body-doubles when acting, and you think streamers need body-doubles too? I’m fake. I’m not Liu Yuning. My name is Liu Yuzhou. I’m an AI.

C: Lao-da, are you in KSTLB3? LYN: I glanced over this and misread it as “Are you in the Sanxingdui?” and thought you wanted me to die. Sanxingdui (burial pits). Because “dui” and “tui” are very similar characters. LYN: I’m not at Sanxingdui.

C: Why did you take your glasses off? LYN: My head started hurting. LYN: Wait for me a sec, I’ll go grab some water from the fridge. I’ll play a video for you. LYN: /trying to pull something up/ I saw a cartoon the other day… Let me share it with you.

2:18:10 --- Break #2

LYN: Hold on, friends, they said- I saw that Tang Zhenchao (character: Zheng Zhiheng) and Kang Ju (actor: Yu Yonghai) are here, so I was wondering if I should open the mic to let them chat and say hello. Hold on, let me look at the software to see if I can open it up and let them chat.

- /connected!/ TZC: There are so many people! LYN: Hello, hello. TZC: Hello! YYH: Hello, everyone! TZC: There are so many people. It’s going to blow up in a minute! LYN: Let me introduce you- this is the actor Yu Yonghai who plays Kang Ju and Tang Zhenchao plays Zheng Wulang. I saw that they were both on, so thought it’d be nice for them to meet everyone. TZC: 30+ million people, wow. So lively. LYN: So what’s up? Where are the two of you? YYH: At home. Let me show you something- LYN: Show us something? What are you going to show us? YYH: I want to gift this to the Boss. /shows off a boat!/ LYN: Wow! Is that the Yan Merchant Ship? Did you put it together yourself? YYH: Yes, I put it together. Yan Family’s Merchant Ship. Let me put it back first, it’s too fragile. LYN: Wow. Thank you! You’re giving it to me? YYH: Yeah! LYN: Okay, don’t break it. XD YYH: I saw someone earlier ask by Xiao Xiami (Little Shrimp) went offline. He was turned into shrimp paste. TZC: /LOL!/ LYN: Hold on- they’re asking where your beard went. Mr. Kang looks very rugged in the drama but actually he’s a very young guy. YYH: I’m alright~ Everyone calls me Mother Kang. LYN: Why is that? YYH: Because in the drama I’m your father and your mother, and I ship you, and etc. I’m really grateful to the fans, really. LYN: Oh, okay. Then, what about Zhenchao- is there anything you want to say to everyone? (to the viewers) If you have any questions, you can ask him. TZC: Hello everyone, I’m Wulang. LYN: You all came so suddenly. I wasn’t expecting it, otherwise I would have prepared some questions to ask you on behalf of everyone. It’s a little sudden. TZC: I just got to Yangzhou, so- LYN: Everyone is saying that your character is too bad- do you have anything to say to that? TZC: My character isn’t bad! He’s a good guy! He gives Su Muzhe money, and spends a large amount of money alter to buy Zhenlang Pavillion, and he’s sincere towards Cui Shijiu. I think from my perspective, I’m a very good person! LYN: TZC acted very well, though. He acted out this character very well. I’m not evaluating his performance, just making a comment as a viewer. I have a few scenes with him- one or two maybe?- and I think that his acting is very good and accurate. He’s great, and I really like this character that he’s played. TZC: Thank you. YYH: I don’t think Ihave any scenes with TZH, do we? TZC: I don’t think we did. I only had that scene with Ning-ge about buying the red coral. I think that episode will come out in a couple of days. It’s so expensive, Master Yan. Your coral is so expensive! LYN: Yes- this scene is when your father first came to me but I turned him away, so you came later, right? TZC: Right. C: Who’s bird is chirping? TZC: It’s mine. Xiao You(?). LYN: Are you in Beijing? TZC: Yes, I’m in Beijing. LYN: Ok. I was thinking we could gather up those of us who are in Beijing and have a meal together or something. I was just telling Xiao Hai yesterday that we should meet up when I go back to Beijing. TZC: Okay, okay. Ning-ge, when are you coming back to Beijing? LYN: I’m in Beijing now. TZC: You are?! YYH: Ning-ge, you’re lying. LYN: Yeah, I just got back yesterday. YYH: Oh, is that so? LYN: I got back yesterday. Where was I yesterday? I was in Changsha, recording for a program. YYH: ZC already made plans with me- we’re going to check out Wenman Mall. TZC: /went to grab his bird/ We can go check out Panjiayuan Antique Market. LYN: That sounds fun. We can shop. LYN: Oh! What a nice bird! YYH: Did you buy this bird to… pet it? TZC: It hasn’t grown up yet. Say hello to everyone. LYN: You can tell that this group of people likes to play. // Can it talk? TZC: No, it can’t do anything. It only poops everywhere. LYN: That’s an impressive ability. YYH: Is it easy to raise? TZC: Very easy- LYN: It’s not Daimi barking- it’s a different dog. // Whose dog is it? Yours? TZC: Ah, yes. My dog. YYH: When we go out we can get your a birdcage. LYN: Bring your dog for us to look at. My stream loves to see small dogs.

TZC: Ok. Hold on a sec. LYN: Right- Kang Ju, we can go shop at the market some time. YYH: Sure. You have time in the next few days? TZC: It hasn’t been washed today, so we’re looking a little worse for wear. LYN: Why’s it look so dirty??? (😭) TZC: Looking a little sloppy… Let me block the private parts. LYN: It looks quite silly! TZC: Ok, next! LYN: /gasp!/ How fun, very cute! YYH: How many do you have? TZC: Another one. Ough- it’s kicking me. Look, look. Hurry! We’re going to debut! LYN: Oho~ What’s this one called? TZC: Bengbeng. It just jumps around every day. YYH: What breed is it? TZC: Maltese. LYN: Their eyes are scary. No- I mean they look like they have fear in their eyes. Malteses. TZC: Ok- we’ve debuted. // The parrot is on my phone- get off of there! My house is a zoo. LYN: Friends- you can pay more attention to and subscribe to Xiao Hai and Tang Zhenchao. They’re both very amazing actors. Very good. TZC: Thank you! LYN: Okay, well I’m in Beijing. The next time I have some time to stream, why don’t I invite you over to play? YYH: No problem. LYN: It’d be fun to stream together. Today was a little last-minuteYYH: All I see is comments asking me to get your autograph. LYN: That’s no good. I can’t help you there. YYH: Boss, can you give me one? I count as a transfer-fan. And, I can tell the viewers- LYN: Someone is asking TZC- Does Wulang really like Cui Shijiu? TZC: Wulang… yes- he really does like her. The plot will continue to become more an more exciting. I hope you all can continue to tune in for the Yangzhou story arc. LYN: Yes, in episode 20s we’ll move over into the Yangzhou story. YYH: We already have. LYN: XD I’m still watching. YYH: In the drama I’m rarely acting- what you see is my real feelings. Whatever feeling Ning-ge gives me, I express for you all to see. Really. LYN: Xiao Hao is really good, and takes care of me a lot since we’ve done the most scenes together. Not only does he take really good care of me in the drama as an aide, but also in real life he’s told me before, “Ning-ge, if there’s anything you need from me, call me and I’ll send it to you. If you’re not feeling well, I’ll come to take care of you.” It feels like he wants to be my assistant in real life. Very sincere. YHY: You’re not wrong. Ning-ge is the type of person who is very charming. It’s something you can feel after interacting with him. You’ll think, “I really like him.” Honestly. LYN: Yes, yes. It’s nice. TZC: /laughing/ LYN: Well, if you’re free in the next two days we can meet up and eat or shop. We can go to Wenwan Mall and shoot a vlog or something. It could be fun. Right? YYH: Sounds good. ^^b Panjiayuan! TZC: Ok, ok! LYN: Ok. Everyone please pay attention to the actors Yu Yonghai and Tang Zhenchao. They’re two very amazing actors and they play critical roles in ZLYM. There are more brilliant acting and story to come, so I hope you look forward to it. YYH/TZC: Thank you, everyone! LYN: I’ll remember to call you in the next stream. I’ll prepare some questions for you then and we’ll chat, because today was a little last-minute. YYH/TZC: Okay, okay. Thank you., Lao-da. LYN: Okay, okay! Bye bye. YYH/TZC: Bye bye.

LYN: It’s okay- it always lags a little after the connection is broken. It’ll be fine in a minute.

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LYN: Am I trending? Really? // I am. Thank you. I’m sure that it’s because of all of you watching, that I am able to have a trending topic. Thank you. I’m so boring; am I worthy of having a trending topic?? LYN: Wait- it’s positive, right? Not cursing at me? /looking it up/ Oh, “LYN_Livestream” - /reading the other trending topics for the fun of it/ C: Everyone who dares to curse at you have all been killed.

LYN: It’s not worth it. It’s all good. It’s better to be discussed, isn’t it? Otherwise, if you’re nothing, then no one will pay any attention to you. The truly sad thing is if no one is talking about you. Really. As an artist, if there isn’t anyone even willing to be your anti, that means you’ve gone “cold”.

C: Maybe you’re just strong-minded? LYN: I’m really not. You may think that I am, because I look like I would be. Since I’m on the older side, you might think, “Ning-ge is really strong.” But in fact I am not strong at all. I’m just pretending to be strong. /”cries”/ I’m just pretending to be strong and at night when I’m in a bad mood I also hide in my blankets to cry. LYN: I’m just pretending to be strong. LYN: But I do want to say that I know I tell you all not to mind those negative comments and you all come to tell me that as well, “Ning-ge, don’t mind those discrediting comments. You should find courage and stand up. Face it bravely.” etc. In order to comfort me. All of these new apps have algorithms that are just built like that. For example, if I click into an article criticizing Liu Yuning and stay on it for some time, it will keep sending me recommendations for articles of the same type. If the only thing you look at are articles promoting LYN, praising him as handsome and kind, then it will keep pushing you articles of the positive kind. That’s just the way algorithms work now, in this era of big data. It will send you related content based on your preferences.

LYN: just want to say that the friends who are out there working against the haters are all working very hard. They’re constantly looking at all of the negative content in order to report it, so that’s all they’re being recommended. It’s tortuous. It’s tiring work; even I could feel it. The other thing that touches me is that they’re looking at SO MUCH negative content about me- whether it’s made up out of nothing or insinuations- and they still choose to silently work for me. I’m really grateful to these friends. Thank you.

LYN: I saw a livestream on a different platform the other day… I forget what the account was, but I think it was a makeup artist (MUA). I think they claimed to be some drama crew’s MUA. But they were streaming and started on some really outrageous topics. I forgot what was said specifically, but they insinuated that I was a kept man by some da-jie. That there was some da-jie out there giving me projects, and that I was a kept man. It was truly ridiculous. Do you want to know to what degree? The first point is that they captured a very good angle- because from their level and culture you can tell that they can’t reach a very high position. If you really think about their claim to be some drama crew’s MUA, you can debunk that lie with one poke. From their words alone you can tell that they aren’t even someone from this industry. The second point is that as a drama crew’s MUA they said they’ve encountered many artists. There are a lot of people who make these claims, but the clever part is that they never indicate a person by name. They said, “There is this person who is very tall, who debuted as an internet-celebrity. They were a singer, and then later started acting.” How many people in this industry fit that description?? Other than “Liu Yuning”, I dare you to name one other person. Tall. Was a singer, now an actor. Debuted as an “internet-celebrity.” Besides LYN, name one other person. Then, in the comments people are posting “Liu Yuning. Liu Yuning. Liu Yuning.” because 1) this person must have back-up and 2) there are a bunch of fools who resonate with this group. So they purposely say, “Oh, don’t type any names into the chat. Yes- it’s that person, but don’t type their name.” And then, “Oh, he-” and then starts making up all sorts of dangerous rumors. They’re outrageous; extremely exaggerated. But it’s so outrageous that people believe it. C: Can you sue? LYN: I’m in the process of contacting the platform to see if they can do anything about the account. No rush. I’m working on it. Because there’s no actual evidence for a cause to sue, but I’m sure there are other means to make them… stop spreading nonsense. C: I saw some producers were praising you. LYN: Is that right? There are producers out there who praise me…? Um… Thank them!

C: Call me. I’l go kill them! LYN: “I’ll go kill whoever criticizes LYN!” OK? NO! This is wrong!! This a society that abides by the law. We must use legal means to exact prosecution. Next question.

C: Why did you suddenly start rapping? LYN: You must not follow my weibo. /referencing a meme/ The logic and stresses are the same. LYN: Sometimes I feel like just letting the antis slide and do what they want. I have nothing to prove, do I? When I first debuted many people thought I’d flop but I didn’t. Many people thought various things of me, but I’m still here. So what’s the problem? I’m acting- I’m still here. I still- /laughs/ When I first debuted, people thought I would be gone in three months, that I was riding a temporary wave of internet fame. They said a bunch of shit about me, but I didn’t try to prove myself because I knew that time would prove it for me. I never tried to explain anything and for all that I’ve had to go through, time will prove it for me. Many people look down on me and say that my acting is no good, my lines are no good, that I have an accent- but I’m still here and time will prove it. Do I need to prove myself?

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2:51:53 C: Change the song. LYN: Is this one too sad? Let’s find a happy one. C: Lao-da, I want to hear you sing 皇上吉祥 (Emperor’s Favour). LYN: /more memes/ That is… I’m a visual-streamer. I can’t sing. C: What is 皇上吉祥 (Emperor’s Favour)? LYN: :) This must be a new fan. You don’t know it? C: If I give you 1m, will you sing it? LYN: /laughs/ Throwing money at me?? You think if you throw 1m at me, I’ll sing for you? You… think too cheaply of me. Sing. I’ll sing. Because I know that there’s no way you’d actually give me 1m, so can’t you rise the price a little bit? To make it seem like I am more of value? For example, in the future you could throw 5m at me instead of 1m. Because I know that you won’t be giving me 1m or even 1k, but just name a higher price to make my market value higher. That way when I go out for jobs I can have a higher starting point. -- 皇上吉祥 (Emperor’s Favour) LYN: This is the song. I sang it in a stream before and everyone seemed to love it. /sigh/ How is the music industry progress like this? C: The scale is grander. LYN: What do you mean? This is normal isn’t it? A scene from one of the dramas. “As long as you are willing to come, it is my compensation. If you don’t come, then it is my punishment.”

C: I want to hear 紅塵客棧 (Hong Chen Inn). LYN: I might not be able to sing it today. I don’t know if the equipment will work out today. -- 紅塵客棧 (Hong Chen Inn) LYN: I haven’t eaten today. I don’t have enough strength.

C: How about one more? :) LYN: You- really know how to flatter. You’re the person at the bar I used to sing at who would say, “Another!” right after I finished a song. - /lags/ LYN: Eh! /taps the mic/ Why isn’t there anymore sound? Can you hear my voice? Why can’t I hear myself?? /adjusts/ Huh?!? I can’t hear myself anymore!! I really can’t hear; I’m not kidding. // My headphones aren’t broken. This was a problem from before I even started the stream. - /troubleshooting/ LYN: Oh, no. How did I manage to break the sound after singing this one song? - /more troubleshooting/ LYN: You can hear me, but I can’t. The playback is broken. // I know YOU can hear me… but I can’t even hear the music like this. Oh, well. Whatever. This happened before the stream started and I restarted and it was fine. LYN: Is it just me? Can you hear the song, friends. C: /confirm/ LYN: Ok, so you can hear the song. That’s fine. It’s probably something wrong with my sound card. // I’ll take my earpiece out, then. But the problem is... I can’t even hear myself. I’ll restart it and see if that will fix it. - /yet more troubleshooting/

C: Raffle it. LYN: I won’t be doing that. Let me see how long I’ve been streaming for- three hours. It’s enough. LYN: Oh- I want to know. If I restart my computer, will the stream break? The interface shouldn’t be interrupted, right? No, it’s okay. If it’s broken then this will count as me logging off for the night. If I restart and it breaks the connection, then I’ll stop streaming. Because the stream is on a different program, so… It’s okay. Three hours is enough. Let’s do this. If it interrupts the connection, then I want to wish every a relaxing, wonderful, and happy night. It was grea tto have you and I hope you had fun. Let’s meet again in the next stream. I you haven’t yet subscribed to my weibo, please do so. Now, I won’t close the stream but restart directly. The stream is running in the background, so it should be okay. Let me restart. Otherwise I won’t be able to keep streaming. I can’t stream if I can’t hear my own voice. I’m deaf right now. Let me restart it. Wait for me. Let’s pray that the connection isn’t lost, ok?

- /connection did not break!/ LYN: /laughs at himself/ Even if I wanted to be lazy (and stop streaming), I can’t. I was thinking of being lazy and- (ending the stream if it didn’t come back.) C: We watched ads to resurrect the stream. LYN: That’s possible. You watched ads and brought my stream back to life. But it’s true that my whole system has been lagging. It’s my computer- there’s too much on it. I haven’t cleaned it up in a long time. LYN: Let’s continue. LYN: Hold on- can you wait for me to return from the restroom? All this trouble has made me need to use the restroom. I’ll play a video.

3:12:21 --- Break #3 LYN: This is a problem- because the sound card I usually use is not this one but a different one. This one only costs a few hundred yuan. So that goes to show you that just because it’s cheap doesn’t mean it’s very good.

C: I saw Daimi. LYN: How?? (from the corner of the screen at 3:17:17)

-- 无心生大梦 (Unintentional Big Dream) [Fangs of Fortune OST] C: Sing this at your concert. LYN: No problem. I can sing it at my concert. I’ll put it in the setlist… because I was thinking that after singing this one (as the last song) I wouldn’t have to sing anymore. I must sing this at my concert, so you all could yell from offstage.

C: 赤裸裸 (Naked) LYN: The problem with this one is that our version (of the track) iisn’t online. There’s only the video. Because this copyright doesn’t allow uploading of the audio file. So.. it’s not suitable.

LYN: Someone came into my stream to tell someone else to stop watching. Let them watch my stream, what’s wrong with that? What’ll happen to them if they DO watch? It’s okay. Let them watch. Don’t be stingy, ok? Are you her boyfriend? Don’t mind what she does so much. Give her some freedom. What’s wrong with watching a stream? Men should be more confident. As a man, don’t do it. Don’t put on that tortured and uncomfortable face when you see your girlfriend interacting with another man, telling her, “Stop looking! D:” Look. Watch a while. Okay? You can watch, too. Subscribe to my weibo. LYN: As your Ning-ge, I have to tell you- you must have a common interest with your girlfriend. If you have something in common you can talk about, then your relationship will last longer. If you talk AT each other but have nothing to say TO each other, then it’s all in vain. If you want to win this person’s heart, and she likes to watch LYN, then you should watch with her. You can do “archeology” together. You can listen to LYN’s songs with her, and watch LYN’s dramas with her. If you have common interests and you can talk about them in your daily life, that’s when you can develop your feelings for one another. I’m serious. If you want a girl to like you, then you have to find out what she likes. If she likes to watch LYN livestreams, then you should watch them too. Later you can say, “I watched LYN’s stream the other day, too! He was wearing a hat with a huge loose thread on it.” At this moment the girl will think “Wow, this man pays so much attention to detail. He even noticed the thread on LYN’s hat. This man must be attentive, and can take care of others if he can even see a loose thread.” Do you understand, bro? I taught you something.

C: I finally caught the real person livestreaming. LYN: Were you watching fake people streaming before? I’ve done brand streams before, and those were all the real me, too. I’m real. C: How can you prove that you’re the real Liu Yuning? LYN: /laughs/ I- I don’t need to prove it. You can believe it or not. Just treat this as watching a stranger. That’s fine, too.

-- 你敢吗 (Do You Dare?) [C-Variety Melody Journey OST] - /? minor technical difficulty, where everything went silent but he got it back/ C: I don’t understand anything. LYN: Just get hyped up and that’s all. // I don’t know what the sound ratio sounds like- let me listen. Hold on. I’m going to log on to weibo (on his phone) and have a listen. LYN: It’s fine. The ratio is good. It’s just that sometimes when I stream- including the last Carnation Music Festival- the ratio wasn’t very good. The track was playing at too low of a volume so my vocals were too prominent. That made the audio-visual experience not very enjoyable. LYN: Let me adjust the sound settings. Wait for me a minute. - /adjusting sound settings/ LYN: I’ll play with you a while longer, though.

C: Change your sound card in time for CMF4.0. LYN: You’re quite demanding. Someone wants me to change the sound card and also clean up my computer in time for the next CMF. Rest assured. I’ll do my best to make no mistakes. I’ll do my best. Don’t worry.

C: 努力的人 (Hardworking People) LYN: ~ Do you want to hear it? If you do, then I’ll sing a bit. ~ /talking to himself/ I need the arrangement… /referencing a meme/ It’s also my dream. C: 偷心 (Stolen Heart) LYN: I haven’t copied the arrangement for these songs onto my computer yet. When I have time I’ll have them copied to my computer and sing them for you. I’ll sing all the songs that I’ve been performing lately.

C: 阿楚姑娘 (That Girl, Ah Chu) LYN: 阿楚姑娘 is a duet; I can’t do the key. LYN: I’m taking notes. Don’t worry!

C: 清花 (Blue and White) LYN: /sings (?) it/ -- 清花 (Blue and White)LYN: Hold on- I haven’t adjusted this. I was getting too excited myself, and I forgot. Sorry. The stream lagged. Pretend just now didn’t happen. -- 清花 (Blue and White) (for real, this time)

C: 惟愿 (Only Wish) // 每当我 (Keep It Up) C: Pinched tone. LYN: I’m only singing it that way because it gives the song more flavor. Did I “pinch”? I didn’t, did I? It just gives the song more feel, that way. C: Nasal tone. LYN: /with a nasal tone/ No! I didn’t use a nasal tone. C: 凡人歌 (Song of Mortals) // 世世 (Lifetime) // 麒麟 (Qilin) // 天下 (The World) LYN: Whoever requests “The World” will be kicked out. You must be doing this on purpose!

LYN: Oh- there’s this amazing thing now. Do you remember when I went to record for a show- The Truth- and we sang “Meteor Shower”, do you remember? Bai Yu and I, and Zhou Keyu, and them- we sang “Meteor Shower” from Meteor Garden. Usually when we’re doing something like this the program team will send out a demo, letting us know who has which lines. When I received the demo I listened to it and was shocked- I was thinking, “Who is imitating me? It’s so similar!” It was 90% synced to how I would sing it. And this “person” could imitate BY, ZKY, and ZLH, and the RB and JJ as well. I was wondering, “Who is it that’s so amazing??” I looked back and studied it- it was AI. I was shocked. AI can sing to the point where you can’t even tell if it’s sung by a human or an AI. That was too awesome. AI technology is too amazing. Even I, myself, thought it sounded so much like me. LYN: It’s true! And it sounded very much like the others, too! It extracts the characteristics of your voice and gives you a track. It’s possible that someone sings it to begin with, and it’s edited based on your tone. I also herald that you can use this technology to dub movies and dramas. They can install your sound and tone, and find a voice actor to “say” the lines for you. It’s your voice, but using the foundation and skills of the voice actor and changed with AI. LYN: Actually, this is normal, because it’s just like the voice selection on a navigation system. For those, they make you record a bunch of set lines. For example, “Tonight” “8 in the morning” “I got off work”, etc. You just need to record some and it will supply your voice for “Right turn ahead” and “Be aware of the red light coming up.” It’s a little like that. So the development of AI really makes you wonder.

C: Then, would you lose your job. LYN: Yeah. It’s entirely possible. Why wouldn’t it be? Everyone in this industry can be replaced. C: Even normal people will be replaced. LYN: No matter who you are- everyone will. Remember this phrase: The Earth will still turn with or without you. You think you’re special/unique/eye-catching/dazzling, but you’re not. Everyone can be replaced.

C: Are you a real person? LYN: Right now, actually AI is supplying all of these replies. The current broadcast is AI-generated. You think it’s me, but actually I’ve recorded it long ago. Depending on what the comments say, I can automatically pull up a pre-recorded answer from the database. LYN: (back to normal) Oh- it lagged a little, just now.

LYN: I don’t really have anything going on today, so I just wanted to come to stream for the fun of it. Initially I had wanted to take a look at scripts, but decided to stream instead. Why? Because when my dramas are airing, I know that my fans are very tired. My fans always say that they look forward to my dramas airing, but when they actually are airing, we all know who’s tired and in pain. Including all the friends who help to promote me- I know that they all work very hard. As soon as my drama is airing, I end up on all sorts of polls and lists and they rally up votes for me. I know everyone works hard when my dramas air. So I will also do my best to give you a little reciprocation. Even though it’s a very average way of reciprocation, it’s all that I can do. So as long as I can do it, I will choose to chat with you. I had intended on stopping, earlier, but you all were asking me not to so I stayed. Honestly, that made me happy too. CMF4.0 which will happen later is also a way to repay you for the happiness and pain that the drama broadcast range brings to us. Painful happiness. Happy yet painful. LYN: /made him think of a song/ Wait- what song is that?

C: 努力的人 (Hardworking People) LYN: I’ll sing it for you next time. I’ll probably sing it during CMF4.0. If you want, I can sing a different song.

LYN: What other songs have I released lately? There are a lot. -- 掉 (Falling) C: 武家坡 -- 武家坡2021 (Wu Jia Po) LYN: ?? What sort of arrangement is this?? Forget it.

LYN: Oh- I heard a nice song the other day. What was it called? Let me see… I looked it up especially. It’s called 谦让 Qian Rang), have you heard it? I’m sure you’ve heard it, but just don’t know the song title. -- 谦让 (Qian Rang) by Wang Jingwen C: I haven’t heard it before. LYN: I’m sure you’ve heard the chorus. It was quite popular a while ago. - /continues playing the song/

LYN: There was a song that I liked VERY much, and I even asked the writer for a song. But they didn’t give it to me. I contacted the program team and a lot of different people in order to add the songwriter’s WeChat and told them that I was working on my album, and to ask if they had any songs for me? And they replied that they didn’t have any. :( Angry. LYN: No, just kidding. They didn’t have any at the moment, but let me know that if I wanted one they could write one for me. LYN: I really like this song, lately. It’s so nice! Let me share it with you. If they had given it to me, I would have definitely put it in my album, although it’s not widely circulated. No, it’s very popular! I’m sorry!! Many people may not have heard this song, but it’s very nice. It’s a collaboration between Galaxy Express and Men Ni. I asked Men Ni if he had a song he could give me, and he said, “Ge, I don’t. I’ll make one for you!” -- 抑人 (e) by Galaxy Express & MONEY (门尼 - Men Ni) LYN: This is a really great song. I liked it as soon as I heard it. So… I listen to it a lot. Sometimes when I’m getting my makeup done, I’ll listen to this song.

LYN: There’s another one I like recently- I don’t know if it’s a new song? It’s one of Hu Yanbin-laoshi’s. I recommend it to everyone. It’s nice. I don’t know if it’s new? What’s it called- let me see… LYN: “The use of this track for covers without permission is prohibited.” I’m not covering it- I’m just humming! I’m not using it for commercial use. I’m not making any money; the livestream is free!! I’m just humming it a little!! -- 我们还会一起走到那里去吗 (Will We Still Go There Together?) by Hu Yanbin

LYN: Oh- am I at 50m viewers? Thank you, everyone. This song is nice, isn’t it? Thank you~ And people are still coming in? That’s okay. If you haven’t yet subscribed to my weibo, please do so. I am Modern Brothers Liu Yuning. Next I have this nice song, as a gift to everyone- Of course, I need to reiterate, that the way I sing during my streams is not reflective of my market value, okay? I usually sing in my livestreams for fun. Please don’t pull out of any of our commissions.

-- 当遇见你 (The Moment I Met You) [Skate Into Love OST]

C: Ning-ge, how would students attend your concert? LYN: I don’t get what you mean. Did you want a discount, by presenting your student ID? There is no student pricing. The prices are all normal prices. I don’t know. You can not go yet, and come when you’ve entered society and are making money and have enough to support yourself. You can come, then. There’s no need to force yourself and make yourself starve to afford a ticket. If you’re thinking of skipping a few meals so that you can afford to buy a ticket, don’t do it. I’m not worth it. C: I’m a student, send me a ticket. LYN: No way.

C: I want to watch your concert, but I’m only 11. LYN: Why can’t you watch when you’re 11? Bring your mom and dad along. LYN: ! If I tell a minor to ask their parents to bring them to my concert, would that be considered as inducing minors to spend money? Would I be suspect of doing that? … Pretend I didn’t say anything. This is terrifying. LYN: Because a lot of kids come with their parents, but of course you cannot come alone, right? There’s the need to take a car, etc. It’s too dangerous. If your parents support you, you can come to watch my concert with your parents, ok? C: My daughter is 11 and I’ll take her. LYN: Ok, bring her along. LYN: I want to sing another song. I don’t think I’ve sung it before. -- 她来听我的演唱会 (She Came to My Concert) LYN: This accompaniment is too romantic. It’s a little too romantic.

LYN: I’d like to thank all the people who are coming to my concert, and I hope you don’t trick me. Because you always tell me that you look forward to it, so I don’t want the time to come around but I end up not being able to sell tickets. That’d be really awkward. I hope you can all support.

C: Trending at #7. LYN: Really? Why do I just not believe you?? LYN: “LYN Accepts All Criticism”. Have I said that I would? Huh? Let me take a look at what’s inside the topic. /plays the clip/ !! Oh, it was today’s stream; I JUST finished saying that! Oh... so I guess I did say it. Of course, that’s what I DO think, but I don’t remember saying it. Because usually I wouldn’t make such deliberate comments. But I was indeed particularly deliberate today. XD LYN: Whatever. It’s not important, anymore. Excuse me. I’m guessing that was the AI talking and when I came online I forgot to fix the settings- no, I’m joking! I do accept all criticisms. Yes, that’s correct. I accept them, I do. Of course I accept all criticism. I do. Criticize me, then. C: Normal people say that they would accept all criticism but abnormal people don’t have to accept it. LYN: Everyone is open to it (criticism). Go ahead, say it. I’ll acccept it all.

LYN: ! I was wondering why there were so many people squeezing in the watch the stream. It’s mountains and seas of people, in here. It turns out that I have a trending topic at No.18 “Quan Hongchan is also watching LYN’s livestream.” Thank you! Thank you, Quan-meimei. Sorry for taking advantage of your popularity. Thank you. LYN: Traditionally speaking when there’s a bunch of people flowing into the stream I will sing you all a nice song. As a gift to everyone who has just come into my stream; for all the newly arrived family members.

LYN: I saw a comment the other day that read, “LYN’s new drama is airing, but I don’t know why I can’t stand to watch his dramas. Because he streams every day and thanks his fans like “lao-tie/666” but it feels like I can’t separate him from the character.” First of all, you’re off course because I don’t say “lao-tie/666” nor do I stream every day. I know what you’re trying to say, very clearly. You want to make it out to say that as an artist, I shouldn’t be appearing in front of the public too often. That actors and artists shouldn’t be on so many variety shows, otherwise it’ll affect how they are perceived. I know what they’re trying to get at, which is that I stream too often and therefore they can’t stand watching when I act. I’ve long thought of this, my friends. That’s why when I stream I don’t speak Standard Mandarin. And I’ve never called anyone “lao-tie/666” in my stream. Thank you, lao-tie. Thank you jiaren-men. So the next time want to attack me with this, try to be a little more accurate and maybe you’ll do some damage. It’s not really effective this time around. LYN: When I stream I try to keep the mood lively so that you don’t think of me as the characters I am acting as. You’ll never think of us as the same person because the tone and accent is different. This is why I never speak Mandarin during streams. I don’t want you to associate me with the roles I’ve played. LYN: I’m a thousands of years old fox, don’t try to play games with me. Got it? Now shut your mouth.

C: Ning-ge, can you sing a Cantonese song? LYN: No problem! Let’s do a Cantonese song. Which one…? My Cantonese isn’t very standard. So friends, listen for entertainment. -- 友情岁月 (Years of Friendship)

C: How about an English song? LYN: :) You- English… I do know a few. But.. I don’t have the track. I wanted to sing “Fly Me to the Moon” for everyone. “Cry On My Shoulder”… how about “You Raise Me Up”? If there are any friends who are good at English, please don’t make fun of me after finding out my real English proficiency. Okay? Don’t make fun of me. Thank you. C: If you sing it, it’ll sound like you know it more than you do when you’re just reading it. -- You Raise Me Up (???) LYN: ! There’s another part?? It’s enough; I can’t sing anymore. Ok. English is completed.

C: Korean. LYN: You all know I only know the one Korean song. C: Kharosthi LYN: 去你的, Khaorsthi??? LYN: Actually I used to know a lot of Korean songs, but I forgot them all. -- If You LYN: Eh? Eh? What do you think? I made it through, right? C: Why is it this song again? LYN: /defeated/ I actually know a lot of BigBang songs. Back then I learned a lot of them. -- Fantastic Baby C: You only know a few lines from each. LYN: No, I used to be able to sing a whole section but I kind of forgot. Rather, it’s been so long since I’ve sung it. In the early streaming days I would always sing these songs.

C: Trending Topic at No 2. LYN: Is it still the same topic from before? “LYN admits”- no, “LYN accepts all criticisms”- is it still that one? // It is. That’s right. But you haven’t really come to my stream to criticize me, have you? I know I’ve said that I’ll accept any and all criticism, but is the topic only so high on the list because people have actually come in to start criticizing me? You’re like my mother. If I tell my mom I want to eat stir-fried pork with garlic then she’ll make enough for me to eat the whole day. Or for the whole week. You can criticize me, but try to make more friendly and civilized comments instead. I mean, you can be critical, but don’t go overboard with it. Based on the popularity of the stream/topic right now, I’m guessing everyone came to criticize me. Don’t try to one-up each other with it, though.

C: I want to hear something in Thai. LYN: [???] C: That’s Hindi. LYN: Oh, sorry! I accept all criticism. If you say that’s an Indian song, then it must be. I accept all criticism.

C: Hokkein. LYN: I sang one before- 无言花 (Silent Flower). I’ll sing this one first, then find another one. -- 无言花 (Silent Flower) LYN: I saw a comment that started “As someone from Chaoshan-” but I didn’t see the rest. What’s wrong? Did I not sing satisfactorily? I used to know- 愛拼才會贏 (Fight to Win). Is 世界第一等 (World’s First Class) also Hokkein? -- 世界第一等 (World’s First Class) LYN: ? Is this the Cantonese version? Is this Cantonese or Hokkein?? Where’s this song from? Is it Cantonese? It’s Hokkein? LYN: Forget it. Sorry! The Hokkein segment can come to an end. I only know a few songs- I only know the one and I sang it.

C: 越來越. LYN: ? Isn’t that the song XZQ sang on the show? (Melody Journey)

- /his topic has made it to No.1/ LYN: The person who thought of this topic really has a brain for marketing. Because even people who don’t know what’s going on would read this topic, think that something IS going on, and click inside to find out more. “What happened to LYN? What bad things did he do that would make him say he accepts all criticism??” They’d be really curious to find out what’s going on. Everyone wants in on this. So they’d come in, only to find out that I said I’d accept all criticism in my stream in regard to the dramas I’ve acted in. They’d think it was a waste of their time and curse me a little on their way out, but otherwise that’s how the topic is becoming popular. LYN: Oh- I don’t think I’ve had this experience before, have I? Having a topic at No. 1 while I’m streaming at the same time? I think the closest I got was No. 2 while I was streaming- that time when Jing Tian came to visit. I don’t think I’ve ever gotten a topic to No. 1 while I am still streaming. Have I? I don’t believe I have… LYN: There are a lot of people who may be watching right now who aren’t my fan and are just passing through. If you’d like, you can subscribe to my weibo. Thank you. When you have free time you can come to watch me stream and gain a little happiness. Please subscribe. Thank you;; This next song- friends, don’t be picky- this next song is especially for those who are coming to my stream for the first time today, whether that’s because you just stumbled in or because you came here because of the trending topic. This song is for you. -- 朋友 (Friends) LYN: I take this opportunity to sing this song for all of you who are coming to my stream for the first time. If you aren’t following me, please do so. Thank you, everyone. From today forward, we will know and come to know one another. In the future, it’s possible that you may end up becoming my fan. You never know. So this song “Friends” is a gift for you, and I hope you continue with me on this road. LYN: /pause/ Friends, sing for me for a bit while I go grab some water. I’ll leave the microphone to you- you can sing it yourself. I’ll go get water. I’m dying of thirst. C: I don’t know the lyrics. LYN: You don’t? But you can hum along, can’t you?? There’s no “can or can’t” about it- it’s not like you’re a celebrity. Don’t put so much pressure on yourself. If you can’t sing along, you can hum too! LYN: Wait for me a sec while I use the restroom, ok? I’ll play a video.

4:57:23 -- Break #4

C: I can’t do it any longer, I want to sleep. LYN: It’s not even 11p yet and you want to sleep? Are you sure you’re a young person?? Are you a young person? LYN: Of course, I want to say- If you want to sleep you should, because sleeping early and waking early is a very goof and healthy habit to have. I know many of you need to go to work or school tomorrow as well. If you need to go rest, then you should. Go to sleep. And next time, when you’re sleepy and you feel like leaving the stream, you can just go quietly. You don’t need to notify me; it makes me sad. This example might be a little exaggerated, but it’s like when you’re at a table having a meal with a group of friends and everyone is chatting and having fun, but you’re sitting at the edge- /looking unhappy/ “Can I leave yet? I’m done eating, so I want to leave.” “Well- you guys have fun. I’m leaving first.” “I’m too tired. I’m going to leave first.” That’s you. LYN: I’m just joking. Everyone knows this is how I am when I stream. But you go, go to sleep. /whispers/ Friends- when this person goes to sleep, I’ll tell you some HUGE gossip from the entertainment industry. Let me tell you, if you’re not part of this industry, there’s no way you would hear about it otherwise. When this friend goes to sleep I’ll tell you a big, top secret, thing happening in the industry. /normal/ But you sleep! Goodnight! Bye bye!! LYN: Are they gone yet? If they’re gone, then I’ll tell you. C: They’re gone. Tell us, tell us. LYN: I’ve decided to leave this matter until I’m 60, that is- when I’m about to retire from the industry- and I’ll tell you all about it. I won’t tell you today because I still have to exist/linger in the industry today.

C: When you’re 60 you can play the male lead’s dad. LYN: There’s no need. I don’t necessarily keep at this until I’m 60. I think it’d be about time (for me to retire). There’s no need. There are lots of other things I should be doing at 60. C: Even when you’re 80 you still have to stream. LYN: … Do I OWE you?? I have to come stream when I’m an 80 year old man?? “Welcome all the old ladies to my livestream. Today I’m bringing to you some elderly care products- they’re especially good for cataracts/liver disease/etc.” “Three generations of my family have specialized in eye disease.” C: Then, sell caskets. LYN: /LOL/ You want me to come sell caskets when I’m 80?!? That’s outrageous! Because when I’m 80, my fans are a little older or a little younger than me, but we’re all close to 100- so it’s the prime time for selling caskets?? You’re a business genius!! I’ll sell inlaid boxes instead of caskets! Red mushrooms (?) and pearls inlays and the like! I’ll sell burial plots- no, just kidding- those aren’t mine. Completely handmade boxes seems like a good idea. You can get a discount on 11/11, too. Wow- what a new venture. When I’m 80 I can start selling… caskets! Wow. C: Can you say something nicer? This is inauspicious. LYN: I’d be eighty! What more auspiciousness could I need?? I think it’d already be a fortune if I were able to live until I’m 80 in the first place. What more could you wish for at that age? C: Ning-ge, when you’re 80 I’ll be 100. LYN: That means you’re older than me by 20 years? Ok, no problem. Let’s meet again when I’m 80 and you’re 100. I’m sure we can make it happen. C: Autograph the casket. LYN: /laughs/ OK! When I’m selling caskets at 80, I’ll dedicate them to you! On each of the boxes I’ll sign “To: ___”! I’ll write “Wishing you a long life! To: ____. - LYN.” Well, I don’t think “Wishing you a long life” will work, because that madam earlier just said that when I’m 80 she’d be 100, so if I write that on her casket (lit. “long life, 100 years”) it will seem like I’m cursing her. How about “Long life, 150 years”?? How is that? That’s fine, right? OMG… I’m reduced to selling caskets AND I need to sign them too?? C: Ning-ge, when you’re 80 I’ll be 50. LYN: ?_? They’re 50 when I’m 80, which means they are younger than me by 30 years… ??? LYN: This person is provoking me. Kick them out. C: Can I give you a deposit? LYN: Are you afraid that when the time comes you won’t be able to get one?? Are my caskets limited in number? I’m only selling 9,999 of them? You’ll give us a deposit first, and each casket will be numbered “0001, 0002, 0003, …” and you want to pick one with a good number, is that right? Wouldn’t that be really weird, to ask for a deposit first so that you can select your number and we’ll make a record of it?? C: The more you talk about it, the more sense it makes. LYN: Really, though. The more we discuss the more feasible it seems. LYN: I’m JOKING, though. We’re having fun chatting with everyone. Have a good laugh, then let it all pass. C: Can I buy one next to you? LYN: 🤨 Do we need to discuss in such detail? The feeling that you’re giving me now is that you won’t let me go, even in death. “Even if I’m a ghost, I won’t let you go!” It’s feeling a little like that! You even want to be buried next to me??? I don’t think there’s a need for that. D: LYN: Let’s change the topic! We can’t keep getting deeper into the current one.

C: Can we see Daimi? LYN: Yeah. We took her to get washed today, too. LYN: /to Daimi/ Say hello to all the uncles and aunties. LYN: /smells her/ Why does she still smell?? D: Did you poop on yourself?? LYN: /to Daimi/ Look at the screen, why are you looking at me? C: Does Daimi watch ZLYM? LYN: Yes. I’ll have her with me when I watch it. So that she can… learn something. - /can’t keep her, so he lets her go/

C: You’ve been streaming for five hours… LYN: No way! Oh, I have? How long have I been streaming for? Has anyone been keeping track? Has it been five hours? 5+ hours?? LYN: Uh… it’s about time, then. Because the system restarted in the middle, so my mind reset as well. I didn’t realize it’s been so long. I started at 6p. /sigh/ Friends. How many artists would be willing to spend time- five hours- to come chat with you? Friends, I did my best. C: Log off when it hits 60m (viewers). LYN: What’s it at now? Ok, soon.

C: Why don’t you sing a song? LYN: I do have stage performances coming up. Let me see… I’ll sing this! Is it ok? It’s called 你说爱情啊, and it’s a song I like a lot. It’s also the OST for the drama Young and Beautiful. -- 你说爱情啊 (You Say Love)

C: What will tonight’s goodnight song be? LYN: Look at how I’ve spoiled you! You even need a goodnight song when watching a livestream?? Do I OWE you??? It’ll be this! I hope you all have SWEET DREAMS! HAVE A GOOD NIGHT’S SLEEP!! -- 无心生大梦 (Unintentional Big Dream) LYN: How’s that? I’m sure you’d be able to sleep now. You can sleep now, right? There’s also this- -- Faded LYN: On this wonderful night, I’ll gift this pleasant DJ song for you all~ When I say “1, 2, 3, 4” everybody dance with me, ok?? Are you ready?! One, two, three, go!

LYN: Goodnight, everyone. I hope you can have a good night’s sleep. You’ve just heard two goodnight songs, so I’m sure everyone can relax and let go of what’s on your minds so you can have sweet dreams. I hope you had a relaxing, wonderful, and entertaining night. It was great to have you and I hope you had fun. If you haven’t yet subscribed to my weibo, please do so. Let’s meet again in the next stream. Goodnight, everyone.

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