Starting from a Bar to Sign Internet Celebrities

Even they couldn’t have imagined the immense potential they would unleash in the future without a boss.

In other words, for three billion, you could buy LeTV’s film division assets and do absolutely nothing. If you just let the employees run the show themselves, you’d still make that three billion back.

Of course, this was all contingent on the employees being talented. You would have to keep them.

That part was simple, too. Right now, those employees hadn’t yet adjusted to the "boss is offline" era; they were still in a panic over their leader having absconded. If he took over and promised stock options, it would surely ignite their passion for their work.

If he could also invest in the hit shows and movies from his past life, he’d make a fortune.

The only problem now was that he didn’t have three billion.

So, it was time to talk to Boss Lei.

When in doubt, go to the big boss. It was never a bad idea.

After all, Soda was already a success. He could secure a round of funding from Boss Lei, then have Second-Life Star take out a loan. With that, he’d have the money for the acquisition.

Critically, getting Boss Lei to invest in Soda had its advantages.

It would increase the brand’s value, and they could get listed on the Rice marketplace.

Most importantly, with Boss Lei’s backing, other liquor brands wouldn’t be able to use underhanded tactics against them when they entered the market.

That would allow them to solidify a larger market share.

As the plan came together in his mind, a smile spread across his face.

’No wonder all the tycoons say the first "small goal" is the hardest one to reach in business. Once you hit it and find the right project, everything else just snowballs.’

At first, he’d felt lost, buried under millions in debt. Now, in the blink of an eye, he was already thinking about a three-billion-dollar project.

’Still, I’m lucky the game system gave me the Soda recipe, and even luckier that Soda didn’t exist in this world.’

’Soda is the right project.’

"What are you looking at so intently?" Lin Leqing asked quizzically as she brought in a cup of tea.

Now that his path was clear, he was in high spirits and felt like relaxing a bit. As Lin Leqing set the tea on the table, he pulled her onto his lap. His hand slid mischievously up her leg, under her stockings.

Lin Leqing immediately grew anxious and resisted strongly, making Chen Jincheng look at her in confusion. "My dear Yueqing, you don’t want to keep me company anymore?"

She quickly replied, "Of course not! I’m doing this for your own good! That Ah Hao today... he had no self-control, and now he can’t... you know... he needs a doctor to prescribe medicine to get his body back in shape. You’ve been just as unrestrained, and I’m afraid you’ll end up like him!"

"What the hell? What are you even worried about?" Chen Jincheng was speechless. ’Is that really something she should be worrying about?’

With that thought, he picked her up and had her lean over the desk.

...

Time passed. After two rounds of "self-discipline" with her, he was satisfied.

The next morning, he was up bright and early for two more "morning exercise" sessions with her.

Constitution Points: 100.

Still 100 Constitution Points, not a single point consumed.

’How am I supposed to make it increase?’

’The key is, without consuming Constitution Points, even with my strong physique, it seems I really can’t be too unrestrained.’

’Without using Constitution Points to restore my stamina and energy, I should probably limit my "self-discipline" to six or seven times a day.’

’Can’t get greedy.’

"Are you sure it’s okay for you to be so... unrestrained?" Lin Leqing was now genuinely worried about this.

After all, she was only 20.

’If he ends up like Ah Hao, needing a doctor just to get by, what will I do then?’

Chen Jincheng had no desire to answer her. Instead, he pulled out his phone to check on Tiao Yin.

The moment he opened Tiao Yin, the very first video he saw was his own shoppable video ad.

This meant Tiao Yin was really pushing traffic to it with full force.

He scrolled through another ten videos and found that five of them were about Soda—all featuring female influencers.

The five videos all featured female influencers from Second-Life Star and Ah Hao Media.

This proved that having over 900 female influencers film with Soda last night had successfully created a bandwagon effect.

He scrolled through a few more and came across two more videos of women featuring Soda.

With the power of over 900 female influencers and videos appearing this frequently, Tiao Yin users were probably going to be inundated with Soda content for the next few days.

Chen Jincheng opened the trending list. Upon seeing its contents, Lin Leqing, who was leaning against him, was the first to gasp. "You’re incredible! You’ve practically dominated the entire trending list today."

She was right. The top trending topic was: "Chen Jincheng’s Shoppable Video Orders Break New Record!"

He clicked on it and saw two sets of numbers from the shopping cart leaderboard.

1. 438,431,656

...

1. 4,215,689

After last night’s hype and bandwagon effect, the shoppable video data had indeed surged.

The number of Soda boxes sold via shoppable video had already reached 4.21 million. The delivery schedule was already backed up into April, and people were still placing orders.

This showed that Soda was truly a complete success.

Exiting the shopping cart leaderboard, he continued to check the trending list. Besides Soda, Cai Xiaoyi, the divorced young woman from Malay, had also blown up.

After all, she was the female lead of the ad. Her charming smile had truly attracted a great many people. Overnight, her followers increased by over 2 million, and she was about to break the 5 million follower mark.

The key was, she was also gorgeous.

You couldn’t find another female influencer on Tiao Yin with such a captivating smile.

Besides Cai Xiaoyi, his livestream from the bar last night had also been clipped, promoted, and hyped up by Yijin and the others, getting it onto the trending list.

The topic "Chen Jincheng’s Bar Livestream" appeared at the #7 spot on the trending list.