Chapter 579 - 301: Reward: Deceased Wife’s Memoir Gift Pack
Seeing this, she also uploaded the video her boss, Chen Jincheng, had helped her film to her account, with the caption: ’Will a Miss Cheng like this do?’
At almost the same time, Chen Jincheng also received a game system notification:
[Sun Yifan’s Internet Celebrity Debut Card’s first video popularity effect has activated. The video will gain the popularity of a similar video from a past life, to be fully distributed within 10 hours!]
Almost as soon as the game notification appeared, Sun Yifan, on the other end, discovered that the video she had just uploaded was starting to grow at a rapid pace.
Moreover, the speed of its growth left her dumbfounded; it was gaining over 100 likes in a single second.
That’s right, over 100 new likes every second.
If she hadn’t seen it with her own eyes, who would have believed such a thing was possible?
In just one minute, it had 7,000 likes.
Ten minutes, 90,000 likes.
There were also over 4,000 comments.
"A New Miss Cheng?"
"Holy shit, Chen Jincheng did it again, out of nowhere!"
"Cheng’s eye for talent is as sharp as ever!"
"The most solid fact: there are no ugly Miss Chengs."
"..."
Sun Yifan read the comments, finding it all incredible. The video she’d filmed herself didn’t seem any different from the one Chen Jincheng had shot.
Yet the one she filmed got no likes and no comments, while the like count on Chen Jincheng’s video was absurdly high. It seemed that just adding the two words "Miss Cheng" was enough to draw in so many people’s comments.
He had filmed it so simply, too, finishing the final cut in less than five minutes.
’Could it be that his video-making skills have reached that state of ultimate simplicity you read about in wuxia novels, where the simplest methods achieve the most perfect results?’
For the rest of the day, Sun Yifan was in a state of excitement, constantly refreshing the stats. Every time she refreshed her video, she would find that the numbers had jumped again.
Within an hour, her video had reached 380,000 likes, and she had 140,000 followers.
「Five hours later, Sun Yifan was at Beijing International Airport.」
Little Su Fei’s flight was about to arrive.
At the arrivals gate, she took out her phone again to check her video’s stats.
2.03 million likes, 640,000 followers.
She was an internet celebrity now.
Reaching 650,000 followers was a feat many people could never achieve.
With the numbers still climbing this fast, she felt her video could easily gain her a million followers.
Seriously, she had never imagined that becoming an internet celebrity could be this easy. She also finally understood why so many girls wanted to be a Miss Cheng.
Becoming a Miss Cheng was a guarantee of fame.
She was living proof.
Her phone rang. It was Little Su Fei.
After answering, she saw a girl in a mask walking out of the arrivals gate and immediately waved at her.
Little Su Fei saw Sun Yifan, too, and immediately pulled her suitcase over. "Ningning, give me a hug! Quick, take me to the hotel so I can shower. I was suffocating on that plane."
The two girls hugged, then headed outside together.
It wasn’t long before they were at the hotel.
Sun Yifan helped Little Su Fei check in.
Once in the room, Little Su Fei closed the door and, without a second thought for Sun Yifan, unbuttoned her "defenses" and ran into the bathroom.
Sun Yifan looked at the unlocked door and heard the sound of running water. ’I should really grab my phone, take a video, and send it to the boss.’
A short while later, Little Su Fei emerged, having changed into a short, white, one-piece dress with a slit, holding the hem of her skirt.
Sun Yifan couldn’t help but admire the girl before her—delicate features, snow-white skin that looked dewy and tender.
She went forward and hugged Little Su Fei. "Sweetie, why the slightly mature look? Did you ditch the cute style?"
Little Su Fei complained, "It’s Black Cat. My traffic has been low lately, so I have to switch up my style every so often. Right now, it’s the slightly mature look."
Hearing this, Sun Yifan immediately comforted her. "Don’t worry, Black Cat will soon be a thing of the past. It’ll be fine once you join Second-Life Star. Sweetie, let me show you a video."
She conspiratorially passed over her phone with the video Chen Jincheng had filmed.
Little Su Fei looked at the video on the phone, confused. A look of shock instantly spread across her pretty face. "Ningning, is this you? Over two million likes! When did you film this?"
Sun Yifan explained, "Right when you were getting on your flight."
"Huh? But that was only five hours ago!" Little Su Fei’s face was a mask of shock.
Although she was a livestreaming host and her contract prevented her from posting videos on Tiao Yin, that didn’t mean she was clueless about the platform.
Forget two million likes; even getting 10,000 was something many people struggled to achieve.
Even for internet celebrities with millions of followers, a video that didn’t get traction might not even break 100,000 likes.
But Ningning was just a normal person, and a video she shot had hit two million likes in just five hours. Even Tiao Yin’s top-tier internet celebrities would find it hard to produce those kinds of numbers.
"How did you do it?" Little Su Fei couldn’t help but ask.
Sun Yifan explained, "Chen Jincheng helped me film it. I’ve really seen how incredible he is this time. Can you believe he just casually shot this video for me? He edited the final cut in less than five minutes."
"As soon as I uploaded it, the stats just exploded. I’d heard he was good at making videos before, but now I know. He can basically turn trash into treasure."
Little Su Fei felt like she was listening to a fairytale. From this story, she got a profound sense of just how formidable Chen Jincheng was. No wonder he was known as the king of Tiao Yin.
She couldn’t help asking, "Ningning, when do you think Chen Jincheng will film a video for me? Will he write me a song?"
"Sweetie, getting all that is actually pretty easy," Sun Yifan said, suddenly serious. "Do you know how I got him to help me shoot this video?"
"Tell me, quick!" Little Su Fei asked eagerly.
They were both aspiring internet celebrities; how could she not be envious of Jiang Xiaobai and Little Maru?
One "Can’t Help Falling in Love" and one "Little Dimples" had earned them a place in the music industry. After all, their names were listed on the original tracks.
She’d heard both songs had been nominated at the Music Awards and were set to win Best Sweet Song and Best-Selling Song.
She also wanted an award-winning original song like that.
Sun Yifan said bluntly, "I sold you out for this video!"
"What?" Little Su Fei stared at her, completely baffled.
Sun Yifan explained, "I sent your photo to Chen Jincheng. The one we took last time, where you weren’t wearing any ’defenses’!"
"Ah!" Little Su Fei was stunned. "Ningning, how could you? That’s going too far!"
Sun Yifan coaxed, "Do you want to get famous or not? Do you want a song or not? I could tell he really liked that kind of picture of you, so... I asked him if he’d like to see the real thing..."
"???" Little Su Fei was truly flabbergasted now. People always talked about selling out their best friends, but she’d never seen someone do it quite like this.
Sun Yifan continued, "And then I told him I could arrange it. Sweetie, just tell me what you think. If you’re not willing, I won’t mention it to him again."
"What did he say?" Little Su Fei asked subconsciously.
...
Back in his room, Chen Jincheng sighed as he looked at the game notification that had appeared in his mind. He had received another Internet Celebrity Debut Card.
He had just used one on Sun Yifan, and now one had been returned to him.
He had fifteen of these cards now. He was just waiting for the hosts from Black Cat TV to join Second-Life Star so he could pick fifteen people to use them on.
But with his current level of popularity, he didn’t necessarily need to use these cards to make someone famous anymore.
He continued playing the game until evening, but had no further gains.
But as the saying goes, it’s always darkest before the dawn. Just as he was about to stop playing and rest, a golden exclamation point quest appeared in the game in his mind.
This was a quest with a guaranteed reward, so he definitely had to do it.
[A down-and-out man has appeared outside the Life Entertainment Company. A thief has stolen an important package from him. It contains important items, seemingly related to his deceased wife. Please help him retrieve the package!]
Chen Jincheng accepted the quest. It was an exploration quest that required him to find clues and use them to catch the thief.
The quest was a bit tedious, taking him a full half-hour to complete. It was the longest one he’d done so far.
He clicked "Complete," and a game notification appeared:
[You have completed the down-and-out man’s quest. He has given you some things as a gift. Congratulations on receiving the reward: Deceased Wife’s Memoir Gift Pack!]
He stared at the reward, stunned for a moment. He almost subconsciously looked at the description for the Deceased Wife’s Memoir Gift Pack, and then the shock on his face became impossible to hide.
This was a huge score!