DJ Fish Jelly

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“Hello everyone, this is FM9666, welcome to Midnight Phantom, this is DJ Fish Jelly.” The program officially started, and after she had skillfully read the opening line, she began to broadcast a song.

(T/N her DJ name is Fish Jelly)

“This song is for every person who’s still on their way home. May this song accompany you, so you no longer have to be alone.” A homey song was playing and was sent to every wireless platform tuning in to her program.

“Tonight, it seems that someone finally sent us a message to ask a question.” After a few clicks, the display in front of Yu Dong displayed the message, “This listener friend asked me ‘Why is this program called Midnight Phantom? the midnight phantom is a horror film, shouldn’t you be telling ghost stories?’ ”

Yu Dong smiled and said, “The name of this program has nothing to do with the movie PhantomThe Midnight. This program, as its name implies, features a beautiful figure at midnight. Where’s this beautiful figure you might ask? your DJ Fish Jelly, a beautiful woman, is here ah…”

“Well, I don’t have much else to say, the time has come for any of our listener friends to call. Interested friends can call and chat with Fish Jelly. Any topic, even ghost stories, can be requested!” Yu Dong said, “Of course, I can continue to play songs. If there aren’t any friends in the audience, this  Fish will simply continue to send songs to everyone.”

After that, Yu Dong looked up towards Senior Yu. She thought that Senior Yu would shrug and shake his head like usual, indicating no calls, but unexpectedly the phone rang, and Senior Yu signaled at her.

Yu Dong turned around again: “OK, let’s now answer the phone call from our first listener friend.”

“Hello!”

“Good Sister Fish Jelly!” a crisp female voice came from the other end of the phone, and the voice indicated the caller couldn’t be older than a student.

“What’s the name of this Sister?”

“I…Can I not say my name?” This young girl sounded timid- as if she was afraid fish jelly would get angry.

“Certainly, but for the convenience’s sake, can I call you Beautiful?” Fish Jelly laughed and said, “Beautiful, are you still a student?”

“Yes, I’m in Grade One this year.”

“Freshman, why are you awake at such a late hour? Are you lovelorn?” Fish Jelly guessed.

As she looked down towards her screen, messages piled up, saying that Fish Jelly was irresponsible, butting in on some teenage puppy love.

Senior Yu frowned and waved his hand.

Fish Jelly saw this but ignored it.

“No, no!” Beautiful cried out.

“Ha, I’m joking. Then classmate Beautiful, are you troubled about something?” This was her first ever caller, so Fish Jelly was very patient.

“I… I’m about to transfer again.”

“Transfer? Not willing to part with former classmates?” Fish Jelly guesses.

“No…no!” Beautiful refuted, then burst into tears. “I don’t want to go to school. I transferred so many times already. Every time I come to a new school, my classmates end up bullying me. My parents helped me transfer when they found out, but every new school is the same. I don’t want to live like this…why do they bully me? wuu….”

The girl’s voice full of grievance spread throughout the small booth.

“Beauty! Miss Beautiful!” Fish Jelly had to call out to the little girl twice before she managed to stop crying. Fish Jelly then said, “Beautiful, do you want to know what kind of person isn’t easily bullied?”

“What kind?” The little girl’s voice was like a whisper.

“A person who laughs easily, who’s brave, optimistic, generous.” Fish Jelly said this with a calm voice and continued. “A person who scolds back when scolded, hits back when hit, and when called crazy, crazily runs to the teacher’s office. A person who doesn’t cry, doesn’t show weakness, a person who isn’t afraid of teachers.”

“……”

Numerous messages flooded the computer, some cursing Fish Jelly for teaching bad habits to children, but some were also saying that what she said was good.

“Never cry in front of those bullies, even when you feel sad or hurt.” Then Fish Jelly asked, “Can you be that person?”

“I… me? ”

“Yes?”

“I… I’ll try!

“Beautiful, put on your favorite clothes tomorrow, go to school with a smile, and make yourself queen from tomorrow onward. Noble, beautiful, powerful!” Fish Jelly said, “That’s how you’ll find your knight in shining armor!”

“I… can I?”

“You’re a queen!” Fish Jelly said with conviction.

“Yeah!” The little girl cried out and with confidence shouted: “I am a queen! I’m not transferring!”

After the call ends, Fish Jelly ignores all the other messages coming in and started another song.

When the program finished, Senior Yu rushed to Yu Dong and scolded, “How can you talk like that? This is radio, radio, your words are being broadcasted live. How can you teach bad things to children?”

“What bad things? I clearly taught her to resist school violence.” Yu Dong continued to say, “That little girl was in such a bad mental state that am I not a good person for doing such a good deed?”

“You…I know you meant well, but look at the things you said, this is your first job, so you probably don’t know the horror of public opinion…”

“Well, no matter, only a few people actually listen to our program! based on the messages, you could probably only count up to 100 listeners!” Yu Dong didn’t really care, “If we do get blowback, it just means that our program is on fire!”

“Yu Dong, ah…” Senior Yu wanted to continue lecturing but was interrupted.

“Gee, I’m going to miss my bus…” Yu Dong said this, picked up her bag and ran away.

Senior Yu could only shake his head and sigh.

The bus arrived just on time and when Yu Dong stepped into the bus found that it was carrying one of her listeners.

“I just listened to your show!” The bus driver laughed.

“Ah??”

“Aren’t you DJ Fish Jelly of Midnight Phantom?” The driver searched for the FM of her radio station during his break at the bus terminal. “I recognized your voice!”

Yu Dong nodded with a smile.

"The things you said in your show was perfect. That person needs to be self-reliant and improve on her own so that she can stand up to bullies. Her parents transferring her only cured the symptoms and not the root cause.” The driver sighed.

“I thought so too!”

"Haha, from now on, I’ll be your loyal listener!” The bus driver uncle said happily.

“Do you want an autograph? When I become popular, you can sell it for good money!”

“Haha…”

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