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Chapter 455: Chapter 251: Plotting Against Tiao Yin and Kuaishou

Well, this was a bit awkward.

Zhu Zhen teased, "Have you seen the muscles on Chen Jincheng? Even if you ripped your shirt, you’d still look like a wimp."

Xue Qian, being teased, retorted speechlessly, "Couldn’t I just wear a thinner shirt?"

"Then you’d just be doing it for laughs," Zhu Zhen said, shaking his head.

"Does that matter?" Xue Qian countered, a look of profound wisdom in his eyes.

He felt as if Chen Jincheng had opened his Ren and Du Meridians.

What he didn’t know was that in another world, he often ripped his shirt on stage. It was just that sometimes, even when he wore a very thin one, he would awkwardly fail to tear it open.

However, thanks to his goofball persona, his fans usually thought he did it on purpose.

After ripping his shirt, Chen Jincheng also picked up his phone to check it.

He knew better than anyone that while men were perverts, women were actually even bigger perverts. In private, many girls could be so raunchy in their chats it would make a man blush.

Therefore, providing fan service was easy: just use sex appeal.

Clearly, the scene of him ripping his shirt was incredibly impactful. This was mainly due to his terrifying physique and immense strength, which made tearing his shirt as easy as ripping a piece of paper.

The effect in the video was quite good. He did a quick edit on his phone, adding some music before and after the shirt-rip.

Once it was done, hearing Master Yu’s singing from the stage, he directly uploaded the shirt-ripping video to his Tiao Yin account.

Outside.

The girls in the audience still hadn’t quite recovered after Chen Jincheng’s performance of "Girl." So, no matter how hard Master Yu sang on stage, it seemed few people were paying attention.

Suddenly, the girls started pulling out their phones and watching something, looking excited. They even started discussing it with their friends next to them.

They had seen the fan service Chen Jincheng posted. Watching the video of him ripping his shirt, they were dumbfounded, especially at the moment the fabric tore away to reveal his perfect physique.

It was simply unbelievable.

Backstage, Producer Hu and the leader had long since noticed that Master Yu was failing to engage the crowd.

They naturally understood why. The audience hadn’t yet come down from the high of Chen Jincheng’s explosive performance and was now in a state of post-excitement fatigue.

This was also why, in these kinds of music shows, an unknown performer was usually scheduled to go on after an A-lister, precisely to give the audience a mental buffer.

But they soon noticed something unusual. The audience members were all on their phones, even discussing in small groups, completely forgetting about Master Yu performing on stage.

Just then, the two of them saw that one of the cameras had captured an interesting shot: a close-up of what the audience members were watching on their phones.

The phone screen clearly showed a video of a man ripping his shirt to reveal a perfect set of muscles. Wasn’t that Chen Jincheng?

The girls watching the video all had infatuated looks on their faces.

"Which camera operator is this? Mischievous!" the leader asked immediately.

Producer Hu glanced at the incoming video feeds and said, "It’s camera operator 5!"

"Switch it to the main live feed and the big screens on stage," the leader commanded, then added, "Oh, and give camera operator 5 an extra chicken leg!"

Producer Hu nodded and immediately made the arrangements.

Of course, "give an extra chicken leg" wasn’t literal. It was just a playful expression. But if this video really went viral and attracted attention, there would certainly be a real reward.

Soon, the shot of the girls staring, infatuated, at the shirt-ripping video was broadcast on the big screens for everyone to see, causing an immediate uproar.

This was so embarrassing.

Just as Master Yu’s song reached its climax, he thought he had finally hyped up the crowd. He immediately tossed his hair and struck a cool-looking turn.

But it was that very turn that made him see the giant screen, which showed the girls looking infatuated at Chen Jincheng’s video.

In that instant, he realized the uproar wasn’t for him, but for what was on the big screen.

But his singing, combined with this image, seemed rather ironic.

’Damn it, he’s already off the stage!’

Master Yu lost his composure again. The result was that his voice cracked on the very next line.

To electrify the crowd, he had chosen "King," a song with explosive high notes. But now he couldn’t hit them, and his voice had cracked. His rhythm was completely thrown off, and then his timbre and pitch were totally affected.

The consequence was that his performance devolved to a karaoke-bar level.

Producer Hu and the leader looked at each other, stunned. ’All they did was switch the screen and this happened?’

They didn’t care whether Master Yu’s voice cracked or if he went off-key. After all, the ratings from earlier were already great. He was the last act, so once he was done, the show was over.

In fact, when they looked at the data, they saw the viewership had actually risen again at that moment. This was what they needed.

The leader immediately ordered, "Quick, clip this part with the voice crack and upload it later. The title will be ’Chen Jincheng’s Live Performance Is a Sensation, Master Yu’s Voice Cracks During Music Festival Finale!’"

Producer Hu smiled. The ongoing conflict between the two had already attracted a lot of attention. He believed tomorrow’s trending topics would definitely be very lively.

Still, for Master Yu to bring Sujiang TV so much buzz and footage even after the fact, inviting him really hadn’t been a waste of money.

Backstage, Xue Qian and the other internet celebrities and stars were completely dumbfounded. Listening to the quality of Master Yu’s singing after his voice cracked, they truly couldn’t believe it was him.

Chen Jincheng also hadn’t expected the guy’s composure to be so fragile. ’His singing after that is just... beyond words.’

This actually reminded him of the other world, where on some show, Master Yu had an a cappella battle with someone, tried to show off his high notes, and his voice cracked. That was also karaoke-bar level.