Chapter 13

In the live stream, behind Luo Yu, the deep brown wooden-framed glass window was shrouded in a hazy mist, with endless cedar trees piled high with fluffy white snow.

The sky was dim, making it hard to tell the time, and the heavy snow fell continuously, occasionally landing on the windowsill and melting into cool droplets.

But the inside of the house looked particularly warm.

In the frame, the oversized double bed only showed half, with Luo Yu sitting in his puppy pajamas in front of a round, milk-colored pillow, a deep gray plush blanket curled up at his feet.

On the deep brown wooden table beside the bed sat a delicate vintage candlestick, and between the table and the wall burned a bright red fireplace.

“Why is the background different every day? Of course, it’s because the host wants to present more sleeping scenes for the babies. After all, our sleeping culture is very profound.”

Luo Yu hugged his knees and blinked at the rapidly scrolling comments:

“What is today’s live stream theme? Today’s theme is, you will sleep better in winter.”

“Winter is the best season for sleeping throughout the year, though spring, summer, and autumn each have their own advantages… However, the cold season with falling snow is often considered the safest and coziest time to sleep by many.”

“Coincidentally, winter is also the best time to do some romantic activities, perfect for keeping warm…”

Luo Yu’s eyelid twitched when he caught that comment, but fortunately, it quickly scrolled past.

He pretended not to see it, smiling brightly as he picked up the diary he had prepared earlier.

It was a primary relic he brought home from the history research room during the day.

“Today, while organizing the materials on the history of sleep, the host happened to read a passage from an old man’s diary that recorded his winter sleeping experience. Shall I read a segment for everyone?”

“The host sounds like he’s comforting a child.”

“Who would treat you like a child except my wife!”

“Hey, upstairs, are you trying to take advantage of me?”

“Why is today’s live stream so restrained? I’m outta here.”

Better hurry and leave if you can’t handle it!

Luo Yu glanced at the viewer count.

The number had risen to thirty thousand and was stabilizing, which should be effective due to his cautious approach today!

After yesterday’s battle, a large portion of the audience probably came today to see some risqué content, and they would inevitably leave disappointed!

It was better to let go of such viewers.

Luo Yu whistled internally, lowered his eyes, and seriously looked at the diary in his hands:

“The owner of this diary wrote this.”

“On a cold snowy day, after a day of running around, I returned home, took off my heavy coat, warmed my frozen limbs by the crackling fire, had a bowl of hot fish soup, and finally crawled into my fluffy warm bed, listening to the sound of snow falling to sleep… It was the most beautiful thing of the entire winter.”

Luo Yu read the diary in a very low and soft voice, while the wind and snow occasionally blew outside.

The window glass made a whistling sound from the wind, and the fireplace crackled with the sound of burning wood.

【Your voice is so gentle, and the diary is beautifully written; it makes my heart melt.】

【What a healing scene; even the bed doesn’t seem so suggestive anymore.】

“Beds have always been very healing since ancient times.” Luo Yu set down the diary and gently patted the plush blanket. “Where is the bed suggestive? For those who think it is, perhaps you should reflect on whether the problem lies with you—”

Suddenly, Luo Yu paused.

This world doesn’t need sleep.

What is the bed for, then?

Isn’t it just for a bit of pre-sleep fun?!

Luo Yu finally had an epiphany!

No wonder he was called out for being suggestive after sleeping in bed yesterday!

【Okay, okay, not suggestive; I’m going to lie down on my bed at home right now.】

【Wait, you actually have a bed at home? The single dog’s face is turning yellow.】

The bullet comments confirmed Luo Yu’s thoughts!

【I really want to experience how wonderful it is to sleep as described in the diary.】

“Experiencing it isn’t necessary.” Luo Yu snapped back to reality and hurriedly stopped, “Although it sounds wonderful, that’s still an old way of life. Aren’t we more advanced now?”

Luo Yu reluctantly replied, then sincerely added, “Let the host demonstrate the scene for everyone!”

As he spoke, Luo Yu jumped off the bed to turn off the ceiling light in the bedroom.

At the moment he left the frame, he skillfully took the sleep pill from his pocket and swallowed it.

With a “pop,” the room’s light source was reduced to the flickering candle holder and the fireplace, with a bit of blurry snow visible outside the window.

When Luo Yu returned to the frame, the warm yellow light fell on his profile, making him look particularly charming. He rested his face in his hands and sweetly said to the screen:

“Good night.”

He then pulled the deep gray blanket over him, tightly wrapping himself inside, pulling the edge of the blanket to his chin to cover his lower lip, and gently closed his eyes.

Luo Yu’s interaction time during tonight’s bedtime livestream was shorter than the previous two.

It was simply because this “Snowy Day is Perfect for a Good Sleep” ambiance prop made him feel so drowsy!

Luo Yu tugged at the fuzzy edge of the blanket with his hand, thinking that now that he was being so good, he wouldn’t end up trending again as the suggestive livestreamer this time.

In the crackling of the fireplace, he peacefully drifted off to sleep.

…

The little wooden house on a snowy day was so quiet and beautiful that Luo Yu, fearing he wouldn’t wake up, specially set an alarm.

Ninety minutes later, as the medication wore off, the alarm rang at the same time.

Cocooned in the soft blanket, Luo Yu still lazily refused to open his eyes.

After lingering for nearly a minute, worried about showing any abnormalities, he reluctantly sat up from the bed, yawning at the camera:

“Good morning! What I just did is called ‘sleeping in,’ meaning I’m awake but still lying in bed and don’t want to move. This was quite common for people in the past…”

Luo Yu moved closer to the camera as he spoke.

【Audience count: 934,021】

“Haha,” Luo Yu laughed, “The host overslept; I’ll go get some water first.”

He jumped off the bed, hurried into the bathroom to wash his face, dried off, then returned to the bedroom, kneeling in front of the camera, staring at the audience count.

【Audience count: 936,431】

“Oh, it seems all the other streamers on the Xingyao platform have gone on strike, and mine is the only livestream still going, right?”

The bullet comments rolled in too fast, making Luo Yu’s head spin. He blurted out:

“Is it the apocalypse outside, and everyone is hiding in my livestream?”

【Don’t be scared, little brother; we’re all here to support you.🌹】

【Thank you so much for bringing us this sleep performance.🤝🤝】

【Memories from thirty years ago are flooding back to me!】

Luo Yu managed to read a few lines and slowly started to get curious.

Why did the tone of these comments have a hint of nostalgia?

【To explain in one sentence: Host, you’ve gone viral again! It’s too long to explain, just check the trending topics.】

Trending again?

“Alright then.” Luo Yu smiled, “Give the host a moment to find out what’s going on.”

He quickly switched to the trending topics.

Sure enough, the #SleepingStreamer# entry reappeared!

This time, it was even at the top spot, and the search popularity had already exceeded one hundred million!

Luo Yu’s heart skipped a beat.

Could it be that he sleepwalked and undressed?

Or did he talk in his sleep and scold the president of the International Human Progress Association for an hour?

He nervously clicked on the trending topic, slowly scrolling through the entries.

A few minutes later, he finally pieced together what had happened while he was sleeping.

Fortunately, this time, the trending was not due to anything suggestive, nor was it because he did something outrageous in his dreams.

—Initially, a well-known female entrepreneur known by the nickname 【@Lotus】 posted in the #SleepingStreamer# topic:

【I never watch livestreams, but my child accidentally sent me a link to a livestream. I happened to be free, clicked in, and found it was a university student brother performing sleep.

In the snowy black night, he slept soundly and deeply.

Watching it made me feel nostalgic.

Thinking back, it’s been thirty years since I last had a good sleep.

I thought that once I stopped sleeping, I wouldn’t dream again. Looking back now, my thirty years of life have been nothing but a big dream.

I remember when I was young thirty years ago, my biggest worry was getting up early to study during the week, and not being able to sleep in on weekends; I was always dragged up by my parents to have breakfast with a frown.

Thirty years later, I no longer worry about not getting enough sleep or not being able to get up, and without my parents nagging me, life is now full of troubles.】

@Lotus is a highly popular and successful female entrepreneur with over a million followers, whose fan base ranges from ages 20 to 50.

Many of these people have experienced the phase when humans still needed sleep.

【Is there really someone livestreaming their sleep? How unusual! On which platform? I want to check it out too.】

Lotus replied to this comment with the link to Luo Yu’s livestream.

Fans quickly flocked to the livestream, and upon returning, they couldn’t help but express their feelings:

【Watching the streamer sleep reminds me that it often snowed back home in winter. The nights were long, and mornings were late; during snowy days, I could sleep straight from evening to noon at home, feeling like there was nothing to do all day, haha.】

【Back when I was in elementary school, I could take a nap during the summer and winter breaks and wake up in the evening, often being woken by the smell of cooking from the kitchen. At that time, I’d open my eyes and find myself sitting at the dinner table with my parents; that feeling of satisfaction! I shouldn’t say more, or I’ll get sentimental.】

【To be honest, don’t you guys, who’ve gone through this era of sleep evolution, feel like something is missing when it gets late at night? I certainly do.】

The last comment was quietly deleted by @Lotus because she found it sensitive.

However, that nostalgic sentiment spread like a wisp of blue smoke among the middle-aged crowd.

After reminiscing about childhood scenes, the first wave of middle-aged viewers began to share Luo Yu’s livestream in their family and classmates’ groups.

When middle-aged people want to spread something, they can do it much faster than the younger generation!

After all, they are longtime friends who trust each other, often with a sentimental sharing line:

“Thinking back to when we used to sleep, I even dreamed of you…”

Or:

“We used to share a bed when we were kids.”

No middle-aged person could resist opening Luo Yu’s livestream and reminiscing with old friends about the good old days!

In the #SleepingStreamer# entry, some netizens shared recordings of the livestream. The recordings showed that only half an hour after Luo Yu began his sleep performance, hundreds of thousands of middle-aged viewers flooded into his livestream, kicking off a nostalgic reunion!

Someone took the lead in urging everyone to send gifts like【sunflower seeds】【peanuts】【bottled water】to create some atmosphere.

Gifts instantly filled the screen!

As the middle-aged viewers sent gifts, they chatted in the comments about funny stories from thirty years ago regarding sleep.

They reminisced about the beautiful dreams and nightmares they had back then.

Watching the stream of nostalgic comments in the recording, Luo Yu thought to himself, “So I can become popular in this way,” and he found himself feeling the same sense of nostalgia as these viewers.

For the first time, he truly felt that sleep had become a thing of the past.

When Luo Yu switched back to the livestream, he still felt a bit melancholic.

But that melancholy vanished completely when he saw the viewer count.

【Viewers: 1,000,001】

It broke a million!