QHM Chapter 81 – Part 1

One hour ago.

In the Horror Chain forum, there was a rather inconspicuous discussion thread titled “Has Anyone Played Horror Orphanage?” The original poster (OP) expressed confusion about how to clear the game, and the following hundred replies consisted of exchanges between them and five or six other streamers.

Small instances in Horror Chain are released quite frequently, and some of them are indeed easy to clear. As a result, most well-known streamers tend to focus on medium-to-large instances. Sometimes, they’d rather replay popular large instances than even glance at a small one.

But the Horror Orphanage was clearly different from ordinary small instances!

This instance was too strange. The thread participants had been discussing it for two days, but when they wanted to reattempt the instance, they hesitated—getting mobbed by a group of NPCs was just too humiliating. No one dared to try again so easily. In the end, OP announced that they had managed to invite the legendary streamer X to test out the instance.

“I knew this small instance would blow up!”

“If X is playing it, it’s definitely going to explode in popularity!”

“When is X going live??”

The thread was buzzing with excitement, eagerly anticipating how the expert would conquer the game. But just as the discussion heated up, three users suddenly barged in, their emotions running high.

“A streamer has already cleared this instance just now! And the method was absolutely bizarre—you guys would never guess!”

“Prince Angel (who’s now renamed as Yin) just cleared the instance! You can check out the replay—it’s absolutely insane!”

“You guys would never expect how… uh… explicit and violent this instance turned out to be, hahaha!”

Everyone in the thread was stunned.

Huh?! They had just invited a top-tier player, and the instance was already beaten?!

Huh?! Prince Angel? Who? …Wait a second—wasn’t that the streamer who was caught up in a BL scandal with the so-called “God of Chuuni” not long ago? Weren’t they chased off the platform by the god’s fans? How were they suddenly back?!

People in the thread rushed to search for Prince Angel’s stream, but they couldn’t find it. Oh—right, they had changed their name to Yin. So they searched for Yin’s channel instead, found it, and clicked on the replay of the latest stream…

Then, just two minutes into the replay, their jaws dropped.

They watched in shock as the streamer in the video ruthlessly dropkicked NPCs and even grabbed their faces directly. The once eerie, grinning NPCs—who had gleefully ganged up on players before—now looked utterly helpless and terrified in front of this angelic powerhouse…

Wait… this is that Prince Angel?!

They distinctly remembered this streamer being ridiculously weak-how did he suddenly become so hardcore?!

But everything happening in the video was too intense and too exciting. Their questions were momentarily pushed aside as they focused entirely on the footage.

They saw the chat telling Prince Angel-no, wait, he’s called Yin now-to go easy on those omegas. The very next second, Yin noticed Zhou Xiao trying to ambush him from behind, and with a sharp flick of his hand, he straight-up flung an omega like a weapon!

Now that was decisiveness!

They couldn’t help but flood the chat with comments:

“LMAO this is too damn funny hahahaha!”

“Yin: What is ‘delicate flower’? What is ‘gentleness’? These words do not exist in my dictionary!”

Then, Yin realized that the NPCs could revive. His expression showed brief surprise, and-he spoke.

This time, his voice had changed!

Before, he had a deep, dominant voice. But now, his tone had become clear and gentle… almost soft.

“Wait… is this Yin’s real voice?”

“Kinda nice, actually!”

“Doesn’t sound like a voice changer-this might be his natural voice!”

“Fvck, I’m in love!”

They kept watching as Yin chuckled, casually saying that his sudden power boost had nothing to do with the God of Chuuni. Which, in a roundabout way, confirmed that he was the same person and hadn’t swapped accounts or identities.

Then, all of a sudden, Yin noticed something. After knocking the NPCs to the ground, he rushed straight into the house-heading directly for the dean’s office at the end of the hallway.

They were confused. What was he trying to do?

Until they saw him pick up a handful of syringes… and stab them straight into the NPCs.

And then all the NPCs…

“??????”

“What the actual hell did I just witness?!”

“THIS IS INSANE.”

“So this is how you’re supposed to play this instance?!”

“Fvck, no wonder every single window in the rooms was shut except for the one in the dean’s office! I actually noticed that before!”

“Holy shit, Yin is insane!”

“That was some god-tier maneuvering—absolutely ridiculous!”

After finishing the replay, the group immediately rushed back to the forum thread and started a frenzy of discussion.

The instance was wild, but so was the streamer. Yin was an absolute legend. The way he wielded those syringes—he was practically a modern-day Rong Mama! Even if they had figured out the secret behind the syringes, there was no way they could’ve pulled off what Yin did!

Because first, he had to take down all the NPCs and find an opportunity to escape—a challenge that would already be too much for most streamers. And second, once he got his hands on the syringes, he had to inject every single NPC one by one. Do they seriously think just anyone could pull off a move like Yin’s Blossoming Rain of Syringes?!

By the end of their discussion, they all reached the same conclusion—this instance was messed up. There was no way a small instance should be this difficult. This bizarre instance needed to be seen by more people!

And because their discussion was so heated, the thread kept floating to the top of the forum. Naturally, this caught the attention of more users…

Among them were fans of the God of Chuuni.

At first, these fans scrolled through the OP and the earlier comments with mild curiosity, intrigued by the discussion. But then—

They saw the name Prince Angel.

What?!

Their expressions darkened instantly. Anger flared.

What the hell was going on?! That Prince Angel, who had harassed their God of Chuuni—why was he suddenly back?!

And they hadn’t even known about it!!

Immediately, the God of Chuuni’s fanbase erupted.

They spread the word like wildfire and stormed into the livestream. And when they saw that yes, it really was that angel…

They didn’t even bother looking at the game’s storyline.

Furious, they slammed their keyboards.

“You disgusting fag[mfn]TL: Fag/Faggot means gay asf haha[/mfn], how dare you come back?!”

And then—enter.

System Notification: You have been banned from sending comments and chat messages.

The God of Chuuni’s fans: “????”

Yep. This was exactly the setting that Xu Yin had adjusted before logging off.

In the Horror Chain app, if a user’s comments or chat messages were either auto-deleted by the system or manually reported and removed a certain number of times, their account would be temporarily restricted. If this happened too often, the account could even get permanently banned.

Some people wanted to unleash their toxic energy online but didn’t want to lose an account they had spent time building. So, they would simply create new accounts to continue their harassment. Streamers couldn’t easily make alt accounts due to real-name verification, but viewers could.

The God of Chuuni’s fans were no exception—they had been cycling through new accounts to continue their abuse.

However, streamers actually had the option to preemptively block new accounts from sending comments or chat messages.

All they had to do was enable the setting: “Restrict accounts registered within the past three months.” The downside? It would also block genuine new viewers, which is why most streamers only resorted to this when their chat had become truly unbearable.

The original Prince Angel could have done this back then, but he had been too soft. When he was relentlessly harassed by the God of Chuuni’s fans, he had taken the abuse until he had no choice but to retreat from the platform entirely.

Xu Yin, however, wasn’t having any of that. Before the God of Chuuni’s fans even realized he was back, he had already set up the restrictions.

Xu Yin actually enjoyed reading chat—bantering with viewers in real time was fun. But as for certain creatures? They could kindly get lost.

…Of course, the God of Chuuni’s fans were furious!

Since when did this coward learn to use chat restrictions?! Now they couldn’t spam hate in his stream! And if they had to use their main accounts… well, they couldn’t go too far, or they’d risk getting banned themselves!

Seething, they ran back to the forum thread to vent.

“That fag straight-up blocked new accounts from chatting, what a sneaky move :)”

“Disgusting faggot!”

“This dumbass is obviously back just to leech off the God of Chuuni’s popularity. Pathetic.”

Ironically, the God of Chuuni’s fans had zero self-awareness.

They had never realized that, to most neutral onlookers, their beloved idol was actually the one who had come off looking bad in the original drama.

With the sudden flood of toxic comments from the God of Chuuni’s fans, the atmosphere in the thread shifted. The original participants frowned, clearly displeased.

“If you’re just here to hurl insults, get lost. This thread is for discussing the game, not for personal attacks on a streamer.”

“The God of Chuuni’s fans are so damn annoying… seriously, when are you going to let this go? Your idol’s stance in that whole drama was already questionable, and yet you’re still going at it? Isn’t that a bit much?”

“Leeching off his popularity? Please. If it weren’t for you guys charging in here, Yin’s stream review wouldn’t have gotten much attention at all. You basically boosted it yourselves.”

“If Yin really wanted to ride your idol’s coattails, he wouldn’t have banned new accounts from commenting. Do you realize how much traffic he’s losing by doing that? Once that restriction is in place, all those new account clicks don’t even count towards his stats!”

“After that drama, the God of Chuuni gained tens of thousands of new followers, while Yin went MIA for a month. His past VODs[mfn]TL: Video-on-demand [/mfn] were bombarded with hate, and he lost nearly all of his 100 or so remaining fans. Claiming he’s clout-chasing is just laughable. If he actually wanted to milk it, he would’ve fought back properly. And honestly, who knows who would’ve ended up crashing and burning then?”

The God of Chuuni’s fans saw these replies… and conveniently ignored the ones they couldn’t argue against. Instead, they zeroed in on whatever they could keep flaming about.

“How was the God of Chuuni’s stance questionable? Go ahead, tell me—what exactly did he say in those WeChat screenshots? What, just calling someone ‘baby’ makes him gay? My bro calls his friends ‘baby’ all the time—guess that makes him gay too, huh? Even though he’s a total straight dude?”

“That idiot Prince Angel still hasn’t apologized to the God of Chuuni. Why the hell should we let him off the hook?!”

“Quit with the passive-aggressive crap. Who are you trying to say is going to crash and burn, huh?”

“Obviously your precious idol. Just a friendly warning—your fandom might want to tone it down a bit before you jinx yourselves. :)”

“You’re all just delusional fans who can’t see your idol’s flaws. No offense, but as a straight guy, even I thought those chat screenshots made him sound super sus. If a guy talked to me like that in real life, I’d definitely feel uncomfortable—like I was being harassed.”

“LMAO, same here. If a dude ever spoke to me like that in person, I’d knock some sense into him with a punch.”

And just like that, the thread spiraled into a full-blown argument. The fun, lively discussion was completely ruined.

The original Prince Angel might have been scared and intimidated by the God of Chuuni’s fans when they came at him like this. But the people who had been discussing the instance before? They weren’t afraid at all.

After all, quite a few of them were streamers themselves. Maybe not big names, but they’d been around long enough to be used to the drama and infighting in the streaming world.

Everyone knew that the God of Chuuni’s fans loved to pick fights. It was practically their brand. Most of the time, people would just watch the drama unfold like a spectator sport.

But when the fight came to them? Yeah, no. That was a different story.

They weren’t saints either—who was teaching who a lesson was still up for debate.

So when the God of Chuuni’s fans kept up their unreasonable tirade, even trying to bait the streamers in the thread into revealing their identities so they could get harassed, someone quietly went and bought a massive batch of new accounts. Then, they ran a bot program—

And just like that, the God of Chuuni’s fans were horrified to see that their own idol’s livestream was now being flooded with insults!!!

What the f—?!

Panic. Rage. Total meltdown.