Starting from a Bar to Sign Internet Celebrities-Chapter 165 - 145: Dumbfounded! Is This Nailing Him or Helping Him?
But what were the key comments on these videos?
"Haha, this Cheng guy isn’t even afraid of self-destructing, so why would he be afraid of some slander?"
"That’s Cheng for you. It’s rare to see him get accused of using the casting couch, but he just coolly and openly puts on a show for everyone."
"Cheng’s just happily riding this wave of popularity. The person who leaked the dirt on him must be a complete idiot, right?"
Hu Zhicong was, in fact, fucking dumbfounded.
’You can play it like this?’
He’d spent money to hire paid trolls to slander Chen Jincheng and Wang Qiqi, but wasn’t that the same as spending money to give them a huge boost in popularity?
Chen Jincheng had just been exposed for allegedly using the "casting couch" on this Wang Qiqi, yet he was now shamelessly showing off his affection for her. It was something no one had expected. Naturally, the popularity this generated was significant, and it even caught the attention of Jiang Xiaobai, who was out of town for an event.
When her assistant told her that someone had exposed her for being "taken" by the scumbag Cheng, her first thought was to see if the accuser could provide concrete proof.
It would be great if they could. That way, Scumbag Cheng couldn’t keep claiming they were just "ordinary friends." Could ordinary friends be "ordinary" all the way into a hotel room?
If there was solid proof, at least Scumbag Cheng wouldn’t be able to deny that they’d slept together. That would give her some kind of status, right?
But unfortunately, the accuser’s fighting power was pathetic.
Utterly weak.
When she saw the video of Scumbag Cheng and that Wang Qiqi acting all lovey-dovey, she felt that the person targeting Scumbag Cheng must be a complete moron.
If it weren’t for this attack, Scumbag Cheng probably wouldn’t have been so blatant about showing off his affection for that Wang Qiqi.
’I’ve never even gotten that kind of treatment.’
Furious, she immediately picked up her phone, recorded a Tiao Yin video, and confessed directly into the camera: "Chen Jincheng, I love you so much!"
She just wanted to add some fuel to the fire.
Once Jiang Xiaobai posted this confession video, the popularity of the whole affair indeed shot up even higher.
Great. Now the other girl named in the exposé about Chen Jincheng’s casting couch had made a high-profile declaration of love.
So, did this count as solid proof, or not?
Jiang Xiaobai’s move, however, provoked Yinyin, who was also rushing to an event in another city.
The girl wasn’t about to show any weakness. She also took out her phone and posted a love confession video of her own: "Chen Jincheng, I love you!"
Alright, that was like pouring another bucket of oil on the fire.
But it wasn’t over. Ximeng, who had been filming with her boss and Wang Qiqi, thought this was just a standard practice at Second-Life Star. Without hesitation, she also recorded a confession video: "Chen Jincheng, I love you!"
By the time Chen Jincheng found out, he realized that "Confessing to Chen Jincheng" had somehow become its own trending topic.
’This...’
And it wasn’t just him who noticed; some of the other girls at Second-Life Star had noticed too.
Like Lin Qing and a few others.
They decisively recorded their own videos, all with the same line: "Chen Jincheng, I love you!"
And they actually managed to attract a lot of popularity and attention.
After that, things spun completely out of control.
All forty-plus signed female influencers at Second-Life Star got in on the action, each posting a "Chen Jincheng, I love you" video.
Just like that, those four words shot to the top of the trending list.
You could say that just by posting a video confessing to Chen Jincheng, you could gain a huge amount of popularity. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞
Many female online celebrities wanted to ride the coattails of this trend, but they were too embarrassed to post such a confession.
The same went for the other MCNs.
However, there was one exception: Lin Hao.
He was a bit dumbfounded when he saw the trending list. He’d only started paying attention to the matter after hearing that Chen Jincheng had been exposed in a scandal.
But when he saw it was an exposé about Lao Cheng using the casting couch on his company’s female influencers, he was fucking speechless.
’What’s the big deal? The guy is the number one scumbag on the entire internet. If he didn’t use the casting couch on girls, would he even be worthy of that title?’
But when the words "Chen Jincheng, I love you" hit the top of the trending list, that was something he never would have imagined in a million years.
"Could this be a new marketing plan from Lao Cheng?" While still stunned, Lin Hao immediately thought that if it was Lao Cheng’s plan, he had to follow it. He instantly called over the girls from his company and had them also post a "Chen Jincheng, I love you" video.
This pushed the popularity even higher. Finally, other female influencers and MCNs started to jump in.
For a while, confessing to Chen Jincheng became a full-blown trend.
When Chen Jincheng found out about all this, he was completely bewildered and had no idea what was going on.
It was a bit unexpected, but it also felt incredibly powerful. His follower count even increased significantly, breaking through the six million mark.
’Suddenly, I feel like this Hu Zhicong guy, the boss of CYH, is a pretty good person.’
However, he hadn’t forgotten that the purpose of this publicity stunt was to promote Wang Qiqi, so he still had to proceed with the original plan.
But over at CYH, when Hu Zhicong saw what was happening online, his head was truly buzzing from the shock.
He had been monitoring the situation, so he knew that Chen Jincheng’s followers had surpassed six million, that the girls from Second-Life Star had all gained a lot of fans, and that Wang Qiqi, in particular, had gone from under 10,000 followers to 100,000.
This was all a huge gift he had given them by hiring people to leak the scandal.
"Fuck! Can someone please tell me what the hell is going on?" Hu Zhicong couldn’t figure it out for the life of him.
He’d been playing the internet game for a long time, and this was truly the first time he’d ever seen something so damn bizarre.
Just as he was struggling to make sense of it all, his assistant rushed in to report, a nervous look on his face, "Boss, this is bad! Second-Life Star just released a recording of a phone conversation between you and Chen Jincheng. Now the online backlash is about to be aimed at us."
"???" Hearing this, Hu Zhicong hurriedly took out his phone, logged into Tiao Yin to check, and quickly found the recording.
"President Hu, I was just about to talk to you about this. Like you said, there are plenty of women in the world. If Wang Qiqi doesn’t want to accept your casting couch offer, that’s her being ungrateful. She finds you ugly and short. But there will always be someone who doesn’t mind that you’re short and ugly. There’s no need to keep targeting her. How about we let this matter go?"
"Chen Jincheng, what’s that supposed to mean? Are you planning to go against me?"
"..."
CRASH!~
In a fit of rage, Hu Zhicong smashed the computer monitor in front of him onto the floor, shattering it to pieces. He roared, "Bastard! Shameless, despicable bastard! He actually recorded me! Such a petty trick!"
