Possessed No More: The True Star Returns to Claim Her Throne-Chapter 119: Not So Good
Bullet comments: [Hahaha~ That’s right, we don’t believe you either!]
[C’mon, bro, tell us. What kind of messed-up stuff did you do?]
[I’m going to die laughing in this stream! Oh my god, I’m laughing my head off!]
"As a henpecked husband, how can I become the man of the house?"
Riley Perry said with a straight face, "That’s a bit of a tough question. But the difficulty isn’t for me, it’s for you. First off, you’d have to marry a mute."
[Hahaha, bro, I’m giving you some sincere advice. Just stay a henpecked husband.]
[What is he thinking? He’s already henpecked and he wants to flip the script and be the master? In his dreams!]
"After we got married, my husband is always talking about his ex-girlfriend this and that. How should I clap back?"
Riley Perry: "That’s easy. One sentence will shut him up for good. You tell him: among all his buddies, he’s the most... ahem. I guarantee he’ll never mention his ex-girlfriend to you again."
Riley Perry bleeped out the key word herself, but those who get it, get it.
Bullet comments: [Yeah, he won’t be able to say anything anymore, because those two will have already divorced.]
[That solution is a little too brutal. But it’s so satisfying.]
[I suspect a dirty joke was just made, but I’m not sure.]
Claire Lee read the next one, "Can marrying a rich woman let me avoid the grind for five years?"
Riley Perry: "Five years? Not even close! Not even close!"
She held up two fingers to the camera. "Twenty years, minimum! Of course, you’ll also live twenty years less! It’s all exhausting work. It’ll drain the life out of you!" After saying that, she added gravely, "So, cherish your life, cherish your life, cherish your life! You guys get what I mean, right?"
[I’m really impressed with her. She’s just interacting with viewers, but she manages to impart good values while joking around. It’s a real mystery why she wasn’t famous before.]
[That’s right. Young people today are too restless. They’re always looking for shortcuts. Guys want to be toy boys for rich women, and girls want to find a sugar daddy. They don’t realize that when they get certain things, they also lose other things that are just as important. It’s better to live an honest life with your feet on the ground.]
Riley Perry didn’t wait for the staff to read another comment and spoke to the camera, "Comrades, can we please change the subject? Asking too many questions like this might be a bad influence on the kids. How about we talk about something else?"
Bullet comments: [She’s right. Stop asking these pointless questions. I’ll go first...]
This guy was ruthless. He posted a Math Olympiad problem.
Claire Lee felt a little panicked after reading the problem. She might have gotten her idol into trouble. "Hey, whoever posted this, you’re a little twisted, aren’t you? Ria is in the middle of cooking, and you’re throwing a Math Olympiad problem at her to make things difficult. Is she supposed to stop cooking just to solve it?"
The bullet comments were also full of people saying the poster had a screw loose, but the moment Riley Perry opened her mouth, she stunned all the viewers in the stream. "You’re mistaken. The guy who posted this problem really didn’t make things difficult for me. Because you don’t even need to calculate it. The answer is the real number a=1. You just have to substitute the known equality into the equation to get the answer."
[Can an expert weigh in? Is this problem really that simple? Why can she get the answer without even doing any calculations?]
[I’ve participated in two Math Olympiads myself. I can confirm that, just as Riley Perry said, this problem isn’t super difficult. But to be able to state the answer instantly like she did, without any calculation... I can’t do that. Her intelligence is on another level than mine.]
[May I ask where the brother upstairs is studying?]
[Cleremont University, junior, math department.]
[LMAO! I know what you’re all thinking, but you clearly don’t know Riley Perry. Four years ago, she was admitted to Kingsbridge University as the provincial top scholar with a score of 739. And during her freshman year, she signed up for the National Collegiate Mathematical Olympiad Competition—something usually only sophomores and juniors participate in—and won a gold medal. You can look it up if you don’t believe me.]
The people in the stream went silent.
[I’m just sayin’, why would someone with such a super-high IQ make the questionable decision to get into the entertainment industry?]
[No wonder her mind works so fast. Turns out her IQ is actually legit high.]
[Brothers, what are you standing around for? Keep the questions coming! Just don’t ask any more math problems, or you’ll just embarrass yourselves.]
[My turn, my turn! I wonder if her geography is any good?]
Claire Lee read the question out loud as she smelled the meaty aroma wafting from the pot. "Ria, a viewer is asking if your geography is any good."
Riley Perry shook her head. "Not really."
[Great! Then I’ll ask a geography question.]
[Pfft~ Hahaha, the person above is so mean, but I love it!]
Claire Lee looked at the question from the user named "Ding-Dang." "The development of ’green’ air conditioners and refrigerators is to protect what? User ’Ding-Dang,’ are you sure this is a geography question?"
Riley Perry smiled. "If it were a brain teaser, I’d say ’to protect food,’ but it is indeed a geography question, so the answer is the ozone layer. A question like this is too easy. This viewer is a nice person."
A series of [...] floated across the bullet comments.
She had left the viewers completely speechless.
Ding-Dang posted another question: [Where is the largest tropical rainforest on Earth located?]
Riley Perry: "The Amazon Basin."
[Then which is the driest continent?]
"Antarctica. The average annual precipitation there is 55 millimeters, and in the driest parts, it’s less than 5 millimeters."
Ding-Dang went silent. She even knew the precipitation levels. There was no stumping her with this topic.
Just then, another viewer popped up. [Riley Perry, is your history any good?]
Riley Perry shook her head. "I was a science student. History was my worst subject in school."
[Then I can rest easy. I’ll ask a history question: Who was the first emperor of China?]
"Qin Shi Huang, right? Even elementary schoolers know that."
[Then who was Qin Shi Huang’s father?]
"King Zhuangxiang of Qin. His birth name was Yiren, and he later changed it to Zichu."
[What about his grandpa?]
"King Xiaowen of Qin, Ying Zhu, who was on the throne for only three days."
[Who was King Xiaowen’s father?]
"King Zhaoxiang of Qin, Ying Ji." Riley Perry suddenly stood up straight and asked the camera curiously, "Hey, is this viewer from the census bureau or something? Professional habit? You jump right into a background check, asking about several generations of the old Qin family."
Claire Lee really couldn’t hold it in and burst out laughing.
The bullet comments were also filled with "Hahaha." [So is asking about Qin Shi Huang’s direct relatives a history question or a political background check?]
[Hahaha, I’m laughing my ass off.]
Riley Perry slid the marinated fish slices into the pot. "Victoria, watch this pot. The fish slices will be done in two minutes."
"Got it. I’ll start the timer now."
Riley Perry deftly julienned green peppers and pork, then steamed an eggplant and mashed it into a garlicky paste. Her movements were swift and elegant, and the number of viewers in the stream continued to climb.
[Her worst subject is history? Not good at geography?]
When Claire Lee read this comment, she was practically gloating. "Dears, a genius’s ’not good’ is probably not on the same level as our ’not good’."
[Someone else, someone else, give it another try! But no more geography or history questions.]
The comments in the bullet chat started to dwindle. Everyone was waiting to see when this woman on screen would finally be stumped. How could she even remember who Qin Shi Huang’s great-grandfather was? The real question was, why did she even bother remembering that?
