Chapter 222: Chapter 220: Starting with Six Million Fans

Fang Chenyi’s pained expression, as if he had lost all will to live, amused not only the fans in the stream but also Principal Wang and his group.

The stream chat was flooded with "Hahaha."

He shook his head helplessly. ’If I had known this would happen, I never would have started this stream. But since it’s broken, it’s broken. I’m a major shareholder in Apple now anyway. If worse comes to worst, I’ll just have them custom-build me a phone with 500GB of RAM.’ 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

"Hehe, Brother Fang, you can use my phone for the stream."

Bufan, standing to the side, grinned and handed over his phone. But Principal Wang spoke up with a smile:

"No need, Bufan. Go check my bag; I should have a backup phone with me. It’s a custom-made gaming phone with 36GB of RAM. That shouldn’t crash, right?"

Bufan acknowledged and ran off to find Principal Wang’s bag. Meanwhile, Fang Chenyi helplessly took back his own phone, which he had used for several years, and used a SIM ejector tool to remove the SIM card.

Once Bufan brought back the new phone, Fang Chenyi inserted his SIM card.

After turning it on, he found that Bamboo Live was already installed—no download needed. ’Probably because Principal Wang had it custom-made,’ he thought.

He opened Bamboo Live and entered his username and password, but the moment he tapped the login button, the entire phone started lagging again.

Seeing this, Principal Wang’s mouth twitched.

"Damn, this thing has 36GB of RAM! How can it still lag this badly? Just how much data traffic is this pulling?!"

However, this phone with 36GB of RAM was certainly in a different league from Fang Chenyi’s previous, smoke-emitting device. After lagging for about half a minute, it miraculously managed to log in.

Curious, Principal Wang tapped on the profile picture. The fan count displayed underneath gave him a huge shock!

"Holy shit, 5.716 million followers? No wonder the phone was lagging so damn much! Nearly six million followers right after creating the account. This is insane!"

He enabled the live stream function, and in the next moment, over 100,000 people instantly flooded into the stream room.

Principal Wang opened a laptop in front of him to check the current online viewer count. Holy cow, 1.316 million people were watching! Then he checked his own stream room: 233,000 people.

’Did he just pull in everyone currently online on the entire platform?!’

Fang Chenyi was also stunned to see the nearly six million followers. He remembered watching other streamers before, and anyone with 200,000 followers was already considered an internet celebrity. He never imagined he’d start his very first stream with six million followers right off the bat!

He shook his head helplessly. Looking at his stream chat, which was filled with messages of "Hi, hubby," Fang Chenyi was speechless.

’If this had been my old self, having this many fans would have made me wake up laughing in my sleep.’

’But now, I don’t feel that same excitement. After all, for me, scavenging is the real work.’

Thinking about how he hadn’t gone scavenging in the residential complex behind his place for several days, Fang Chenyi grew a bit anxious. ’I need to end this stream quickly and get back to making some real money!’

He smiled warmly at his new phone’s camera and then spoke directly.

"Hello, everyone. This is my first time ever going live. Thank you for following me."

After a brief pause, Fang Chenyi continued, a little awkwardly:

"Um, I’d like to make something clear. I already have a girlfriend, so please don’t call me ’hubby’ and things like that. My girlfriend will get jealous if she sees it."

The moment he said this, the stream chat exploded.

However, it exploded in a way that was slightly different from what Fang Chenyi had imagined. He had originally thought he would lose countless followers the moment he said that.

But in reality, after he finished speaking, the stream chat was instantly spammed with the word "Hubby."

Staring at the screen, dense with the word "Hubby," Fang Chenyi finally understood the meaning of "spectators love to stir up trouble."

Encountering this for the first time, Fang Chenyi turned to look at Principal Wang, only to see the guy staring down at another phone. Taking a closer look, he saw that he was in the stream, frantically typing the word "Hubby."

Annoyed, he subconsciously raised his hand and gave him a sharp rap on the head.

Principal Wang yelped, "Ouch!" then looked at Fang Chenyi with a wronged expression and whined:

"Ouch! Brother Fang, what’d you hit me for? I wasn’t even doing anything to you~"

Fang Chenyi shot Principal Wang a harsh glare, then ignored him and turned back to his phone screen.

But when he looked at the screen again, the wall of "Hubby" had vanished, replaced by a screen full of "Holy shit."

Just now, neither Fang Chenyi nor Principal Wang had thought anything was wrong with the rap on the head, but in the eyes of the fans in the stream, it was something else entirely.

’Holy shit! Who the hell is this Fang Chenyi? He just rapped Principal Wang on the head, and Principal Wang is just taking it with a grin!’

’Oh my god, this is terrifying when you really think about it!’

Having gotten a deep lesson in how his fans didn’t play by the rules, Fang Chenyi decided to stop wasting words. He cleared his throat, gestured for quiet, and then spoke to the fans in the stream:

"Ahem, alright everyone. Yesterday I promised to sing for you, so today I’m going to make good on that promise. But I should warn you, I’m a bit tone-deaf, so I suggest you close your doors and windows before I start. Don’t blame me if a pack of wolves shows up later, haha. Okay, enough idle chatter. I’ll let you decide: should you request a song, or should I just sing whatever?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the stream’s comments did indeed change direction.

Yi’sForLife_BigWifey: "Wow! Is hubby really going to sing? Wait a minute, I need to start my screen recorder!"

MissSunflowerSeeds: "Ooh? The username above is great! I’m gonna go change mine too!"

Yi’sForLife_LilXuanxuan: "Hubby, I want to hear ’Tante’!"

Yi’sForLife_ChenyisWifey: "Hubby, I want to hear ’Two Flapping Moths’!"

Yi’sForLife_MengmengLovesChenyi: "Hubby, I want to hear ’Gangnam Style’!"

...

Looking at all the strange and bizarre song requests in the comments, Fang Chenyi came to a conclusion: not a single one was a song a normal person would listen to.

He shook his head helplessly, then said, "Since you’re all so active, let’s just pick the first song by screenshot!"

As he said this, he turned to Principal Wang.

"Xiaocong, take a screenshot."

Hearing this, Principal Wang froze for a moment, then a wicked grin spread across his face.

[To be continued...]

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