Starting from a Bar to Sign Internet Celebrities-Chapter 169 - 147: Reputation Ruined! We Can Expose Their Past, Too
Feihua Restaurant was a very popular restaurant on Feifuxing Road.
Sister Hong had booked a private room. When the group arrived, they caught the attention of the restaurant’s staff, who secretly took out their phones and began filming Chen Jincheng and the girls.
Once inside the private room, Chen Jincheng had just taken a seat when Ximeng and Wang Qiqi sat down close beside him.
He found himself caught between their two fragrant scents.
Sister Hong reported, "Boss, Xiaoliao has finished processing the video, so it’s ready to upload. Also, Little Maru, the one Company CYH is promoting, uploaded her video half an hour ago. It’s picking up some serious momentum."
Chen Jincheng took out his phone, did a quick search, and found Little Maru’s video.
She was a very beautiful girl and looked somewhat familiar. ’This must be another girl I came across while scrolling in my past life!’
After all, he had followed so many accounts in his past life that it was impossible to remember each and every one.
She sang a song called "Contentment," and her sweet vocal style was indeed very pleasant.
Crucially, in just a short amount of time, her video had already surpassed 50,000 likes. It was definitely gaining momentum fast.
No wonder Hu Zhicong was so confident.
"This girl will get popular, and she has potential. It’s a shame she signed with a trash company." Chen Jincheng wasn’t worried. After giving the girl her due, he instructed Sister Hong, "Let’s upload Qiqi’s video, too."
"Okay, Boss. I’ll have Xiaoliao send the video directly to Qiqi." Sister Hong nodded and took out her phone to make the arrangements.
Chen Jincheng then used an Internet Celebrity Debut Card on Wang Qiqi.
A moment later, after Wang Qiqi’s cover of "That Person" was uploaded, he received a notification from the game system:
[Target: Wang Qiqi. Cover song "That Person" uploaded. Internet Celebrity Debut Card effect activated. Video quality optimization successful. This video will gain popularity equivalent to 2.55 million likes from a similar video in an alternate world. The boost is now in effect and will be completed within 10 hours!]
He felt relieved after seeing the game notification.
After the video was uploaded, Sister Hong and Wang Qiqi immediately started monitoring its performance.
After all, the numbers for Little Maru from Company CYH were so explosive that they couldn’t help but worry they wouldn’t be able to compete.
They didn’t know that Chen Jincheng had a cheat that allowed him to view things from a god’s-eye perspective.
But soon, looks of uncontainable joy spread across their faces. The video’s numbers had started to skyrocket the moment it was uploaded, and its momentum was clearly even more ferocious than Little Maru’s.
Chen Jincheng, of course, was also watching the video’s stats. Almost immediately after it was uploaded, the like count jumped by several hundred with every refresh.
He did a quick mental calculation. It was gaining over 100 likes per second.
That’s right, nearly 100 likes per second.
’Thanks to the Internet Celebrity Debut Card, Wang Qiqi’s video was guaranteed a base of 2.55 million likes, delivered over ten hours. That’s 255,000 likes per hour, 4,250 per minute, and over 70 per second.’
’It’s now getting close to 100 likes per second. The rest is from the additional hype generated today.’
In just five minutes, the video had already reached 22,000 likes.
Half an hour later, the food arrived. By then, Wang Qiqi’s video had already hit 130,000 likes.
The rate of growth left Sister Hong beaming. "Boss, Qiqi’s video is about to blow up! The numbers are climbing so fast, I’m afraid it’s going to set a new record for the most likes in the cover song category this quarter."
Honestly, even though she knew Wang Qiqi was a good singer, she had never dared to imagine her numbers would be this incredible.
After all, it was extremely rare for a video in the singing category to break a million likes, and it was obvious Wang Qiqi’s song was on track to do much, much more than that.
Wang Qiqi watched the numbers on her video climb, so excited she was trembling all over.
She had recorded plenty of her own videos—all covers, just like this one—but they usually only got a few hundred likes, a little over a thousand for a good one.
But now, this video her boss had helped her film had gotten so many likes in such a short time. Moreover, her follower count was increasing with every refresh. In just over ten minutes, she had already gained 13,000 new followers.
Reading the comments that were flooding in, she finally understood why her boss had wanted her to show more of her legs.
"These legs are... I mean, this song is amazing!"
"So fair... I mean, so good!"
"Wow, this song is so white, and these legs sound amazing!"
"..."
Seriously, she was singing, but so many people were just commenting on her legs.
She subconsciously glanced at her boss beside her.
’It seems everything went just as he predicted.’
’He’s incredible.’
Then, she immediately hid all of her old videos.
’Those videos didn’t deserve to be on the same page as this one.’
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Meanwhile, at Company CYH, Hu Zhicong was keeping a close eye on the "Contentment" video Little Maru had uploaded.
He intended to use this song to teach Wang Qiqi a lesson. He wanted everyone to know that she had no real talent and had only managed to get signed by sleeping her way into a contract. It would also prove that because he had Little Maru, he’d never been interested in Wang Qiqi to begin with. The narrative wouldn’t be that he failed to sign her because she wouldn’t sleep with him.
And the video hadn’t disappointed him, especially with Company CYH’s promotional resources and hype, not to mention the money they’d poured into paid traffic boosting like Dou+.
In less than an hour, it had already hit 75,000 likes. By tomorrow, it would easily be a million-like video—guaranteed to be the top-performing video in the cover song category this quarter.
With this in mind, Hu Zhicong took out his phone and sent a message to Little Maru: "The video’s performance is excellent. I’m going to throw a celebration party just for you tonight, so be ready to have a few drinks!"
