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Chapter 457: Chapter 252: Oh My God! Kuaishou Is Poaching Chen Jincheng

The next day.

Chen Jincheng woke up bright and early. After two "morning classes" with Suwan, they washed up together and headed down to the restaurant for breakfast.

When he and Suwan arrived at the restaurant, Xue Qian and Zhu Zhen were already up, along with Cai Xiaoyi, the divorcée from Malaysia.

Seeing him arrive, Cai Xiaoyi quickly stood up. "Mr. Chen, let me get some food for you."

Chen Jincheng watched the Malaysian divorcée fawning over him and decided to let her be. He sat down directly across from Xue Qian. "Old Xue, you’re up pretty early."

Xue Qian chuckled. "Of course. I was eager to get up and watch the show. Your live performance of ’Girl’ yesterday went viral, and so did Master Yu’s awkward silence and off-key singing. The key thing is, the news that Master Yu tried to pull a fast one on you only to shoot himself in the foot got exposed online. Now tons of people are mocking him. It’s quite a scene."

Hearing this, Chen Jincheng also took out his phone to check Tiao Yin’s trending topics for the day and immediately saw the ones related to him.

The first, naturally, was the "stripping on the beach" topic. He clicked on it and, sure enough, it was the trending post generated by the 30 girls from Second-Life Star filming their beach stripping project. And it was getting a lot of attention.

After all, it was a project with over 30 pretty girls showing off their figures.

The second was the live video of his performance of "Girl" at the music festival. He clicked on it and, as expected, it was a video of the explosive performance. There were clips of girls looking at the stage with dewy eyes, completely smitten, and another of a girl rushing the stage...

"Girl" had blown up because of this music festival, and at the same time, it was shocking people.

"I can’t believe a song like ’Girl’ could have this kind of live effect!"

"You have to admit, when Chen Jincheng sings ’Girl,’ it’s completely different from when anyone else sings it."

"It’s like this song is exclusive to Chen Jincheng. I tried singing it to some girls on the street, and they called me an idiot!"

"I sang it to my girlfriend, and she said it was terrible!"

"..."

Chen Jincheng chuckled as he watched the videos. ’Without the exclusive attribute, it wouldn’t matter who sang "Girl".’

He then looked at another trending topic: "Master Yu’s Awkward, Off-Key Music Festival Performance"!

This topic was even more popular than the other two. It couldn’t be helped. The "eternal god of the music industry" bombing on stage *and* singing off-key was a source of endless joy for countless trolls.

Crucially, the person who edited the video had deliberately cut together only the parts where Master Yu was singing off-key.

He opened the comments, and sure enough, they were all from trolls.

"Haha, this is a ’god’? My buddy sings better than this at karaoke."

"Strange, how come the ’god’s’ fans aren’t coming out to claim it’s a malicious edit?"

"He tried to mess with Chen Jincheng, only to get his face slapped again!"

"Go look at Master Yu’s accounts. He’s closed the comments on Tiao Yin and Weibo."

"Playing dead again? Is that his only move?"

"..."

While Chen Jincheng was looking at this trending topic, so was Master Yu. Every single comment made his face flush with anger, so much so that he felt like he could cough up blood.

’Seriously, why do these online trolls have it out for me? Why do they always have to drag me through the mud to get me trending?’

’So what if my voice cracked and I was off-key?’

’What singer can go their entire life without ever being off-key?’

His assistant whispered a reminder, "Boss, you should probably avoid Chen Jincheng from now on. You never come out on top against him. If this keeps up, it’s going to affect your popularity."

"You think I’m scared of some internet celebrity?" Master Yu was instantly displeased, but a moment later, he sighed. "From now on, keep an eye out for me. If Chen Jincheng is at a show or an event, I’m not going."

"Understood, boss." The assistant nodded, breathing a sigh of relief.

Master Yu immediately clarified, "I’m not scared of Chen Jincheng. He’s just... weirdly jinxed. I can’t be bothered with him."

The assistant immediately nodded. "Yes, yes. There’s no need to stoop to his level."

...

「The hotel restaurant.」

Chen Jincheng and Xue Qian were eating breakfast when Producer Hu arrived. "Teacher Xue, Teacher Chen, sorry to interrupt."

Seeing him rush over so early in the morning, Xue Qian smiled and said, "Producer Hu, you must be here for Lao Cheng. If you were looking for me, you would’ve just called."

Producer Hu smiled and nodded. "Teacher Chen’s stage performance yesterday was truly astounding. So, we were hoping to reserve some of Teacher Chen’s time. We’d like to invite him to our New Year’s Gala."

Chen Jincheng knew, of course, that these television stations held a New Year’s Eve Gala every year.

’But it’s only the beginning of October. Isn’t it a bit early to be booking for the New Year’s Gala?’

However, since they had come to him personally about it, he agreed.

After all, it was an official television program. When the time came, he could bring some of the girls from his company on stage for some screen time.

If he built a good relationship with Sujiang TV, he might even get a chance to put some of his company’s girls on their other shows.

Internet celebrities appearing on television programs was a common occurrence after 2020.

Seeing that he had agreed, Producer Hu chatted with a broad smile for another moment before leaving.

However, this was just a verbal agreement. New Year’s Day was still a long way off, and no one knew if things might change before then.

After breakfast, Chen Jincheng got Cai Xiaoyi’s passport information to book their plane tickets together.

Now that business was concluded, it was naturally time to return to Coastal City.

Li Suwan, on the other hand, was returning to Ganjiang City. Because her flight was more than three hours apart from his, only the Malaysian divorcée was with him when Xue Qian drove him to the airport.

During the ride, Cai Xiaoyi was clearly hesitating, wanting to say something but holding back because Xue Qian was there.

After getting out of the car, he put on a face mask. Otherwise, he would be easily recognized now.

Once they were through security, Cai Xiaoyi couldn’t help but ask, "Mr. Chen, where is your assistant?"

"She had other things to take care of, so she’s not heading back just yet," Chen Jincheng replied casually.