Starting from a Bar to Sign Internet Celebrities-Chapter 66 - 64: Can You Live With Yourself?

Seeing Yinyin had reached the elevator, Chen Jincheng had already opened his phone’s camera and was aiming it at the girl.

After he gave the signal, the girl ran toward his car, full of anticipation.

She was dying to know what surprise her boss was talking about.

She was so afraid of missing out on the surprise that she swung her arms and ran with all her might. Her speed didn’t increase, but the arc of the Big Pendulum’s sway became even more earth-shattering.

Nearby, a man who had just parked his car and gotten out was completely captivated. His eyes looked like they were about to pop out of his head.

’Positively sinful.’

Chen Jincheng felt that the girl’s earth-shattering display was just as impressive, if not more so, than what he’d seen in his previous life.

Finally, the girl reached the car. She had run so hard that she was clutching her chest, panting heavily. She kept one hand on her chest as she bent over to open the car door.

"Clutching them so tightly. Afraid I might sneak a peek?" Chen Jincheng asked teasingly.

"I ran too hard, my pasties are about to fall off," Yinyin said with a pout. After getting into the car and closing the door, she paid Chen Jincheng no mind and pulled open her collar to fix them.

Chen Jincheng stared without blinking, sighing inwardly. ’Pasties are a wonderful invention. Sometimes, they really make things convenient for us guys.’

Once she was done adjusting herself, she sweetly handed a can to Chen Jincheng. "Boss, this is for you!"

"What is it?" Chen Jincheng paused. Seeing the golden can, he thought it was a Red Bull, but the Red Bull can was shorter.

"Goji Gain Tea!" Yinyin’s voice held a hint of shyness. "Weren’t you really tired on the yacht today, Boss? I bought this especially for you!"

"Uh!" Chen Jincheng was stunned and subconsciously replied, "You think I need this kind of thing?"

He knew about this tea. Lin Hao used to drink it all the time. Goji berries were supposed to be good for the kidneys, and he’d heard it was very effective. A single can cost over 400 yuan, which most people couldn’t afford.

’This girl really is willing to spend the money,’ he thought. ’I wonder if it’s for my pleasure or her own.’

"Boss, I already bought it. We can’t let it go to waste." Yinyin had already opened the Gain tea and handed it to him, her eyes glistening.

"Mm, wasting things is a bad habit." Chen Jincheng agreed with that sentiment, so he took the Goji Gain Tea and started drinking it.

So as not to pick up the bad habit of being wasteful, he chugged the entire Goji Gain Tea in one go.

’It actually tastes pretty good!’

Seeing him finish it in one gulp, Yinyin gave a cunning smile. "In that case, Boss, I’ll buy you another one next time."

"..." Chen Jincheng had no fucking idea how to respond to that.

’Seriously, if a girl is willing to spend 400 on this kind of drink for you every time, how sincere is that?’

’But it also made it seem like I fucking needed this stuff.’

Yinyin hadn’t forgotten the important matter at hand. She immediately asked in a sweet voice, "Boss, didn’t you say there was a surprise? I ran so hard just now!"

"Mhm!" Chen Jincheng smiled. "I took a video of you. Add some upbeat background music and upload it to Tiao Yin."

Yinyin saw her boss send the video over and immediately watched it. When she saw the video was just of her running over with all her might, she stared blankly at her boss.

In other words, there was no surprise at all!

Soon, the car arrived at the Jinyi Hotel, the same place where they had filmed the transformation video last time.

This type of five-star hotel had a comprehensive range of facilities, including restaurants and private dining rooms.

After coordinating with Sister Hong, several of the video editors had all booked rooms at the Jinyi Hotel. For one, it was indeed the best hotel in the area, and for another, it was close to Second-Life Star and the Extreme Bar.

After getting out of the car in the parking lot, Yinyin ran to her boss’s side and intimately linked her arm with his. Once you do something like this for the first time, it becomes completely natural.

Chen Jincheng led the girl inside. When they reached the private room Sister Hong had booked, he saw her chatting with several young people.

When he walked in, the young people clearly stood up subconsciously and greeted him.

"Brother Cheng, you’re here..."

"Cheng..."

"Brother Cheng..."

"..."

Although they were also called bloggers, video editors like them and an internet celebrity like Chen Jincheng were ultimately not in the same league. They were a downstream product of the influencer industry. Therefore, seeing Chen Jincheng gave them the feeling of fans meeting a star.

This feeling was especially strong the more you edited an influencer’s clips.

Because they had to rely on those influencers’ clips to attract an audience, they had to be attracted to the content themselves first.

It was just like in another world, where the blogger behind the "Jiangnan’s Most Devoted" clip account poured a great deal of his own feelings into editing clips of that Ancestral Master.

Later, when the trend took off, someone offered the clip blogger a large sum of money to buy him out and stop him from editing the Ancestral Master’s videos, not wanting the Ancestral Master to gain any more momentum. But the clip blogger saw money as dirt and refused outright.

Sister Hong immediately stood up to make introductions. "Boss, let me introduce you. They are: FallenLeaf, TearfulSmile, Old Dog, RusticLover, and Yijin."

Chen Jincheng shook hands with all five of them one by one. Naturally, these were their online screen names.

In some circles, many people only interact online and basically just use their screen names to address each other. Even at some events, they introduce themselves by their screen names. They belonged to a group of people that had effectively shed their real names.

There are many such groups, and the early video clip bloggers were one of them.

Sister Hong added, "By the way, Yijin edits three ’Coastal City’s Number One Scumbag’ clip accounts. The traffic is excellent; they all have over 250,000 followers."

Chen Jincheng glanced at Yijin, a rather plump young man.

He smiled at him and said, "Brother Yijin, I think you could change your approach. You might get even better results with attracting followers."

This remark caught everyone’s attention. When it came to attracting followers, no one likely knew more than the man standing before them.

"Brother Cheng, teach me," Yijin asked immediately.

Chen Jincheng said with a very serious expression, "Brother, you could actually stop framing me as ’Coastal City’s Number One Scumbag.’ Change the theme. Frame me as ’Coastal City’s Most Devoted’ in your clips. The results will be even better."

As soon as he said this, everyone at the table exchanged glances, looking at him as if they’d seen a ghost.

’You’re the internet’s officially recognized scumbag, for fuck’s sake. How can you say that with a straight face?’

’We’re not idiots.’

Yijin even wondered if he’d get flamed to death by netizens if he actually did that.

But despite his thoughts, he didn’t hesitate. He immediately took out his phone and changed "Coastal City’s Number One Scumbag" to "Coastal City’s Most Devoted."

’Since Brother Cheng said so, I have to give it a try. After all, the man definitely knows more about this stuff than I do.’