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Chen Jincheng watched the chat’s frantic messages and couldn’t help but smile. He then turned the camera toward President Lei and said with a grin, "President Lei, the audience is very enthusiastic. They want to say hi."

As the camera turned, Lei Xiaojun appeared on the stream.

"Hello, everyone," Lei Xiaojun said, greeting the audience.

For a split second, the entire stream froze. The chat went completely blank.

A moment later, a flood of comments poured in like a tidal wave:

"Holy shit!"

"Fuck, it’s really him!"

"No fucking way!"

"It’s actually the man himself!"

"..."

Everyone was shocked to see Boss Lei in the flesh.

Who could have expected this?

Lei Xiaojun had actually appeared on Chen Jincheng’s stream.

He was a tycoon, while Chen Jincheng was just an influencer.

Then it dawned on everyone: the product Chen Jincheng was planning to promote and sell was the Rice Phone.

What were they saying online?

They said that if Chen Jincheng did a sales stream now, all the buzz would be completely overshadowed by Lei Xiaojun.

Because the "Are you OK?" meme featuring Lei Xiaojun was so massive, the entire internet was in on the joke.

Overshadowed? What a joke! They were working together from the start.

In that instant, it clicked for everyone. The whole "Are you OK?" thing must have been planned by Chen Jincheng.

No wonder!

On Tiao Yin, only Chen Jincheng had ever orchestrated a viral event of this magnitude, and he had done it more than once.

Chen Jincheng’s fans went wild:

"Cheng, you’re a freaking legend! You’re actually at the same table with a tycoon like him!"

"Cheng, this is the biggest surprise ever!"

"It’s unbelievable! One minute he’s streaming, the next he’s hanging out with Boss Lei."

"..."

In an office somewhere, Guo Feng couldn’t help but gasp when he saw Boss Lei appear on screen. "Holy shit. This is a massive play by Cheng."

A middle-aged man who had just walked in said with displeasure, "Wasting your time on this nonsense all day? Watching some influencer again?"

Hearing this, Guo Feng frowned. "This ’influencer’ is sitting at a table with Lei Xiaojun right now. Lei Xiaojun is personally hosting and paying for the meal."

"What?" The middle-aged man was taken aback, then scoffed. "Are you daydreaming?"

Just then, Lei Xiaojun’s voice came from Guo Feng’s phone: "Mr. Chen, the food is here. Let’s eat."

Lei Xiaojun’s distinctive voice made the middle-aged man rush over and stare at Guo Feng’s phone.

And who should be on the screen but Lei Xiaojun himself?

The middle-aged man instinctively asked Guo Feng, "Son, what’s this influencer’s name? I want to follow him!"

"Hah!" Guo Feng scoffed.

With Boss Lei on screen, donations flooded Chen Jincheng’s stream as if money were no object. The viewer count skyrocketed, blowing past 500,000 concurrent viewers and then surging beyond his previous record of 550,000.

「Tiao Yin.」

Han Shangyou had been watching Chen Jincheng’s stream the whole time.

Even though he had known all along that Chen Jincheng was going to invite the tycoon to co-stream, he couldn’t contain his excitement when he actually saw him appear.

A tycoon of this level appearing on an influencer’s stream was an absolute first.

’Does this mean we could get other tycoons like Lei Xiaojun to stream on Tiao Yin in the future?’

’We have to promote the hell out of this!’

He hurriedly ordered his assistant, "Give Chen Jincheng’s stream the second SS-Class traffic boost, now!"

If it weren’t for the current limits on daily active users, he would’ve given it an SSS-Class boost.

However, the SSS-Class traffic boost was a tier Tiao Yin kept in reserve.

While the platform now had over 300 million daily active users, at any given time, the number of people just scrolling through videos—after subtracting those already watching other streams—was simply not enough to support an SSS-Class traffic boost.

As a result, this tier hadn’t been activated yet; the system for it wasn’t even complete.

With the second SS-Class traffic boost applied, the viewer count in Chen Jincheng’s stream began to climb at an even more incredible rate.

Word of Lei Xiaojun’s appearance on Chen Jincheng’s stream spread like wildfire.

「OST Media.」

Although the numbers from their latest livestream sale event couldn’t compare to Chen Jincheng’s, it was still a success for them. Promoting and selling several products via video had brought in a huge profit.

They had discovered a new revenue stream.

So, Yuan Peng was holding a celebration banquet for the employees involved in the sales event, even handing out bonuses to celebrate.

In the middle of the meal, Yuan Peng saw his secretary rush over and report in a tone of disbelief, "Boss, Chen Jincheng might be promoting the Rice Phone."

Yuan Peng froze, then asked with a laugh, "Are you kidding?"

The secretary said hurriedly, "Lei Xiaojun is on a livestream with Chen Jincheng right now."

"What?" Yuan Peng was utterly shocked. He whipped out his phone, searched for Chen Jincheng’s stream, and the moment he clicked on it, he heard Lei Xiaojun’s voice. "Mr. Chen, I have to say it again, I’m still amazed. The hype from that video you planned for me hasn’t died down at all."

Back on the stream, as Boss Lei personally confirmed it, the audience erupted.

So Chen Jincheng really was the one who planned that whole thing for Boss Lei.

Yuan Peng was completely dumbfounded.

’Boss Lei is really on a stream with Chen Jincheng... so it seems he’s actually going to promote the Rice Phone.’

After all, it was no secret that the Rice 8pay was about to be released.

’But how did Chen Jincheng pull it off?’

’How did he convince a tycoon like that to let him promote the Rice 8pay?’

’And how did he convince Boss Lei to go live with him?’

Yuan Peng couldn’t figure it out for the life of him.

’It’s just unbelievable.’

’After this stream, every single influencer on Tiao Yin will have to look up to Chen Jincheng.’

He glanced at Chen Jincheng’s stream stats again. He was ranked number one, with a terrifyingly high viewer count.