Starting from a Bar to Sign Internet Celebrities

Zhang Ruonan was completely baffled. ’How did a nobody like me suddenly get famous?’

Seeing the message from her agent, she replied with a string of question marks: ????.

Her agent replied a second later: "Ruonan, you don’t know yet?"

Zhang Ruonan was even more confused. "Know what?"

The agent explained, "It’s Chen Jincheng! Didn’t he film a video with you? That video blew up! It got over two million likes in no time. It’s unbelievable."

Zhang Ruonan remembered the video and immediately opened Tiao Yin. She stared in astonishment at her account’s backend, which was flooded with system notifications.

9999+

The notification count had hit the maximum limit.

She subconsciously clicked on the comments:

"Came here from Chen Jincheng’s video. Followed!"

"This girl is gorgeous! Chen Jincheng’s taste is as good as ever!"

"Same, came from Cheng’s video. Following! Following!"

"..."

Zhang Ruonan immediately understood it was because of Chen Jincheng’s video. She searched for it and saw that in just a few hours, it had indeed surpassed two million likes.

Those numbers were just too insane.

She had filmed a few videos before, and her most popular one had only gotten a little over 10,000 likes.

Two million in just a few hours—that was a full 200 times more. And the numbers were clearly still climbing.

No wonder everyone was messaging her saying she’d gotten famous.

’With so many likes, how many people must have seen me?’

Soon, she noticed that Chen Jincheng had actually @’d her in the caption.

People must have found her profile through that @ tag.

She clicked on it and was taken to her own profile. When she saw her follower count, her jaw dropped slightly.

690,321!

Over 690,000.

In such a short time, she had gained over 600,000 followers just because of one video Chen Jincheng had filmed. Once the hype from his video ran its course, breaking a million followers would be a piece of cake.

Another message came from her agent: "And I have more good news for you. Remember those production crews that went silent? Well, three of them have now decided to cast you in minor roles. Also, a major production thought your performance in Chen Jincheng’s video was spot-on and is willing to give you an audition for the third female lead. This show is going to be a hit, so you have to seize this opportunity."

Zhang Ruonan froze. She hadn’t actually been acting in Chen Jincheng’s video. She hadn’t known it was him and had genuinely thought he was some kind of lunatic.

’Who knew a director would think I was acting in coordination with Chen Jincheng?’

’This...’

But the third female lead in a major production was a role countless people would fight for. A nobody like her would normally never get such a chance.

’Who would have thought that after a chance encounter with Chen Jincheng, a single video he posted could have such an impact?’

She was truly grateful to him.

She immediately took out her phone, found Chen Jincheng on WeChat, and sent him a message: "Thank you!"

「...」

「Coastal City Airport.」

As the plane came to a stop, Chen Jincheng returned to his senses. He had spent the entire flight playing the Life Game in his mind, completing tasks, and felt a bit mentally drained.

However, the journey had been quite rewarding. Two of his normal tasks had triggered the low-probability reward, granting him two Internet Celebrity Debut Cards.

Chen Jincheng got off the plane, turned off airplane mode, and saw he had a few new messages.

The first was from Zhang Ruonan.

’A thank you? I probably know what it’s for. The video blew up and she benefited from it.’

There was also a picture and a message from Sister Hong.

The picture was a screenshot of the video he’d filmed with Zhang Ruonan, showing that the like count had already exceeded two million.

The speed was a little fast.

’But considering my own popularity these last two days, especially with the news about the 5 billion in sales, this kind of velocity for likes isn’t surprising.’

The message from Sister Hong was an inquiry: "Didn’t this girl email us about the Huawei Phone ad? Are you planning to use her for the commercial?"

Seeing this, Chen Jincheng replied: "For the Huawei Phone ad, I’ve only received a verbal commitment myself. But I did invite her to the Hanfu excursion day event on November 22nd."

"Later, I’ll send you a list of other people. Invite them as well. It will be helpful for our Hanfu excursion day event."

Some of the young starlets born after ’95 from the other world also existed in this one.

Since he had a plan, he naturally intended to invite all of them.

The key was that they weren’t as famous yet as they were in the other world, so they were easy to invite. They were the type to jump at any commercial appearance, paying gig, or opportunity for exposure.

Just as Chen Jincheng was putting down his phone, he received another WeChat message. It was from Lin Leqing.

He tapped it open and saw a photo of her looking sweet and pretty in a pink-themed outfit, along with a message: "Senior Brother, I just finished filming a video. Do I look pretty in this?"

Chen Jincheng looked at Lin Leqing’s photo and couldn’t help but sigh.

’Look at how sweet and cute she is.’

This was her at twenty, with the Innate Young Housewife Sacred Body.

But looking at her now, he really couldn’t understand how she would transform and awaken that Sacred Body in two years.

Right now, there wasn’t a hint of a ’young housewife’ about her. She was the polar opposite of her 2022 self, who exuded a mature and sexy ’young housewife’ aura from head to toe.

This was what really puzzled him. Seeing her like this, it made perfect sense that the planning department had designed a "sweet girl" image for her.

But he still wanted to recreate the game from the other world, "Oops! I’m Surrounded by Beauties." Haohao’s Mother was an indispensable and also the most popular character in it.

In the other world, that game was made by a low-budget team with no famous actors, and it was easy to pirate, yet it still managed to earn a hundred million in profit.

’If I was the protagonist, with the girls from Second-Life Star as the female leads, and I named it "Chen Jincheng Simulator" or "Ancestral Master Simulator"...’