Starting from a Bar to Sign Internet Celebrities-Chapter 90 - 88: Not One Trustworthy Thing
Jiang Xiaobai was thrilled when she received the edited gun-sync transition video. She could tell it was high-quality after just one watch.
Tiao Yin didn’t have an innovative transformation series like this yet. It was guaranteed to go viral once she uploaded it.
After quickly uploading the video to her account, she happily draped herself over Chen Jincheng like a koala. "Cheng, you’re the best!"
"If you know I’m so great, then settle down. Stop squirming all over me!" Chen Jincheng huffed, feeling her getting restless again.
"Nope, I’m gonna squirm!" Jiang Xiaobai said, deliberately trying to get a rise out of him.
Outside or at the company, she wouldn’t dare to disobey him. But in her own home, her long-suppressed rebellious streak was starting to act up.
Whenever he was with her, he basically lost the entire next morning.
Jiang Xiaobai gazed at him, her eyes brimming with a Momo-like affection.
Chen Jincheng finished his cigarette, then said to the girl, "Get up and get ready. Time to go to the company."
"Pull me up... I’m exhausted because of you." The girl whined, holding her hands out to him.
"And that’s my damn fault?" Chen Jincheng shot her an exasperated glare, but he still offered a hand and pulled her up. They went to get ready together.
By the time they left, the girl had changed into a short black dress.
Chen Jincheng, still in yesterday’s clothes, deliberately asked her, "Here, take a sniff. Do my clothes smell?"
Jiang Xiaobai leaned in, took a whiff, and said with disgust, "Ugh, so stinky! It’s all smoke and alcohol!"
"So you noticed?" Chen Jincheng said pointedly.
Jiang Xiaobai immediately whined, "Okay, okay, I get it now. I’ll keep some here for you. What color clothes do you like?"
"Nothing too flashy or gaudy." Chen Jincheng wasn’t picky about his clothes. As long as he didn’t look like some punk, he’d wear it.
Once they got to the car in the parking garage, Jiang Xiaobai opened Tiao Yin. Her gun-sync transition video had been up for over an hour, and just as she’d expected, it had blown up. It already had over 100,000 likes.
At this rate, breaking a million likes would be no problem at all, and she’d gain a ton of new followers.
"Xiaobai’s transformations are always so beautiful."
"The queen of transformations, as expected! This sync transition is fire."
"Hold on, didn’t she film this in her bedroom?"
"The video is great and all, but I’m more curious about who was in her bedroom filming it for her."
"Judging by the sunlight, it’s early in the morning. I’m guessing it might be Chen Jincheng."
Jiang Xiaobai obviously hadn’t expected anyone to guess.
’But she couldn’t admit it, even if someone guessed correctly.’
Chen Jincheng took the girl to that beef restaurant again. He felt completely drained by her and figured he needed to eat a few pounds of beef just to recover.
"I’ll go order," Jiang Xiaobai offered sweetly.
Chen Jincheng sat down and saw that the ban on his account had been lifted. He decided to start a stream. He had promised to let her co-host today, so this would placate her and keep her from saying he didn’t keep his word.
Because of yesterday’s "Scandal-gate," his fans had been eagerly waiting for him to go live. So, it didn’t take long for a flood of viewers to pour into his stream.
At first, the bullet comments were just well wishes and greetings, but they slowly started to take a strange turn.
"I know Scandal-gate is real."
"I know Scandal-gate is real."
"I know Scandal-gate is real."
"..."
The fans were all in sync again, spamming the chat in unison.
"Cheng, I’ve ordered." Jiang Xiaobai sat down beside him. Seeing he was live, she wasn’t about to miss a chance for some screen time. She leaned in and laughed when she saw the screen flooded with identical comments.
’The fans really have sharp eyes. They know what kind of scumbag Chen Jincheng is.’
"Uh, guys, stop spamming, please. You’re making me sound like... some kind of monster," Chen Jincheng said, a helpless opening remark in the face of his fans’ unified front.
"Cheng, it’s not that we don’t believe you, but can you tell us about Cenchun? The one you were linking arms with to drink?"
"And who was that junior apprentice?"
"It’s not that we don’t believe you; it’s that you’re just not believable."
"..."
Seeing the fans’ insistent comments, Chen Jincheng could only respond with a veneer of righteousness. "Everyone, please, don’t misunderstand. Am I really that kind of guy? I never mess around with those close to me. My relationships with Xiaobai, Yinyin, and any other girls are all completely pure."
That remark sent the bullet comments flying.
"Cheng, I don’t believe a single word of it."
"I don’t believe it either."
"Only an idiot would believe that."
"..."
*Sigh!* Jiang Xiaobai sighed to herself. Not a single fan believed him, yet he could still deny everything with a perfectly straight face.
’Last night he’d loved her so deeply, and this morning just as intensely. He’d fucked her until she was completely spent, but the moment they walked out the door, it was like none of it ever happened.’
’It’s true what they say. A scumbag will love you to death inside the bedroom, but the second he steps outside, he pretends to have amnesia.’
Her crestfallen expression happened to be seen by the viewers on the stream.
"Cheng, look! Xiaobai looks so sad after what you said."
"Xiaobai’s expression has already betrayed you."
"Cheng, that dejected look on Xiaobai’s face is heartbreaking. For her sake, why don’t you just admit it?"
"..."
Chen Jincheng completely ignored those comments and changed the subject, launching into a new topic. He saw a fan named ’Three Times in the Car’ send a Carnival and immediately gave a thank-you.
’Three Times in the Car’ requested to join the call, clearly another fan in need of relationship advice.
Three Times in the Car: "Cheng, I feel so lost right now. I’ve met two girls, and I don’t know which one to choose. The first girl is gentle..."
Chen Jincheng directly interrupted him: "Choose the second one."
Three Times in the Car: "????, Cheng, I haven’t finished talking about them!"
Chen Jincheng said, annoyed, "Bro, stop kidding yourself. If you really loved the first one, there would never have been a second one."
Three Times in the Car went silent. A moment later, he ended the call himself.
The fans in the chat overwhelmingly agreed with his answer.
"It’s true. If you were really into the first one, a second one would’ve never shown up."
"The fact that there *is* a second one says it all."
"..."
In a hotel room, Yijin, who’d been lying in bed half-dead from a hangover, was watching the stream. Hearing that exchange, he shot up as if he’d been resurrected.
’Fuck, Brother Cheng just dropped another classic one-liner! And it’s so profound!’
’As a clipper, his instincts told him that this simple exchange would attract a huge audience.’
Back on the stream, another gift from a familiar fan caught Chen Jincheng’s attention. It was the "No Longer a Simp" guy, who had sent three "Tiao Yin No. 1s".
This fan was a character. Every time he sent a gift, he’d invariably request to join the call and ask some bizarre question.
Sure enough, right after the gifts, he requested to join the call.
Chen Jincheng accepted the request, and the familiar voice of the "simp" came through. "Cheng, I’ve been wronged! I’m in love with a girl, so how is it a crime if I can’t remember her name?"
"Uh..." Even though Chen Jincheng was prepared for something weird, that one sentence still left him speechless. "My dude, are you talking about five minutes of ’love’ followed by a one-hour police statement?"
The simple exchange instantly sent the chat into an uproar.
At first, no one got it. How could you be in love with a girl, not know her name, and have it be a crime?
But when they heard "one-hour police statement," everyone instantly understood.
He hired a prostitute and had the nerve to call it love!
"This guy is something else, lol."
"What a legend!"
"..."
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(The next Chapter is coming soon!)
