Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
What was going on?
Yang Zhong didnât expect to be attacked by a âwater armyâ as soon as he started live streaming today. The question was, where did this water army come from? Were the guild battles starting again?
In the live streaming industry, guild battles were very common, especially in the entertainment circle on live streaming platforms. In order to consolidate their strength, each guild frequently signed on many singers to create a team, and it wasnât uncommon for different teams of singers to wrestle each other behind the scenes.
Shadow Fool Guild had a lot of rival guilds in the Langya Broadcasting circle, so Yang Zhong guessed that the other guilds were most likely envious of the profit he had made from his live stream yesterday, and hence had hired a water army to attack him.
Wang Situ? Who was Wang Situ? Was there this kind of singer? He had never heard of him!
Just as Yang Zhong was feeling very confused, that President Lang Bei also sent some news in the chat group: numbers in the live stream room had grown abnormally large, and the spectators squatting in the live stream room before the start of the broadcast had already surpassed tens of thousands. A hired water army was usually only made up of several hundred people, and they were the only ones who would repeatedly spam the bullet screen with malicious comments⦠everything would be fine as long as they were all blocked.
But now, the live stream room was besieged by thousands and thousands of people!
Like Li Yunlongâs battle formation when he attacked Pingan countyâ¦
Then the question was, who on earth was this Wang Situ?
In the chat group, Lang Bei asked anxiously, âWhatâs going on, who is this Wang Situ?â
Under the mask, Yang Zhong frowned. A bead of cold sweat rolled down his cheek, and he swiftly replied, âI took a look at the bullet screen just now; Iâm guessing itâs probably the fans of the original owner of that audio whoâve come to demolish our live stream room 1
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Hearing this, Lang Bei was shocked. âSuch a coincidence?â They had only just talked about the audio before the start of the live stream, and after hanging up, President Lang Bei had already specially arranged for a record company to give this song a limited release online.
The number of online users in the live stream room continued to climb, breaking half a million in five minutes, and Yang Zhong suddenly started to panic. âWhat should I do now?â He was just a small live streamer. Because he couldnât sing, he relied on buying raw vocals off other people and lip-syncing them to attract fans. Yang Zhong did think that he might be exposed one day, but he didnât expect that day to come so soon.
In the face of such huge momentum, he felt a little overwhelmedâ¦
âFor now, calm your fans down in the live stream room. Ban what should be banned. Iâll arrange for someone to upload the song as soon as possible. Since itâs never been released online, if we release it first, weâll have the upper hand.â
President Lang Bei thought of countermeasures. âDidnât we have a singer who always helped us before? Contact him and ask him to sing this song raw, then record it⦠lip-sync it in the live stream room; remember to act more like youâre the one singing it, donât get caught with your pants down.â
Yang Zhong nodded. âAlright.â
After talking with President Lang Bei, Yang Zhong got in touch with the singer who had lip-synced for him. He had been flustered just now and had almost forgotten this trump card.
This singer was none other than that online celebrity singer Tang Youning who became famous after singing âOld Boys,â the vagrant singer whom Wang Ling had helped out at Boss Tanâs Midnight Dining Hall!
âBrother Tang? I have a song here, can you sing it raw?â Yang Zhong sent a message to Tang Youning.
On the other end, Tang Youning fell silent when he once again received Yang Zhongâs message.
After a while, he typed one word: âAgain?â
Yang Zhong thought for a moment before replying, âBrother Tang, this really is the last time⦠Iâm not going to sing anymore. Iâm going to switch to becoming a talk show live streamer. You know what my family situation is like, my father is bedridden, my mother died shortly after I was born⦠I still have a brother at home, I need to pay his school fees! Weâve known each other for a while, canât you help me out one last time?â
Tang Youning was silent.
âBut when you were exposed before, you already vowed to all your viewers and fans that you wouldnât steal songs and lip-sync anymore. Were those words⦠all fake?â
âBrother Tang! Your voice is really very similar to the singer of this audio I found recently. As long as we donât say anything, no one will know! This really is the last time!â
Yang Zhong knew that this was very important. If Tang Youning didnât help him this time, his career in entertainment was over!
Apologize? Impossible⦠He had already apologized once in the previous incident. He clearly remembered saying to the audience that from then on, all the songs he performed in his live stream would be his own, that he wouldnât use another artistâs music, that he wouldnât let those who liked him down anymore, that he wasnât a hypocriteâ¦
If something went wrong today and he had to bow to pressure and apologize again, his future path would be destroyed⦠Although he had already contacted Tang Youning before and said that he wouldnât bother him anymore, Yang Zhong now genuinely felt that he was already at the end of his rope with no way out.
âBrother Tang, you have to help me with this!â Yang Zhong pleaded again. âI know youâre riding the momentum now, but Brother Tang⦠Remember, when you were a vagrant singer back then, I especially helped you out financially. Also, I kept some screenshots of our previous deals.â
Tang Youning laughed. âAre you threatening me?â
Yang Zhong: âNo⦠Iâm not threatening you⦠Iâm begging youâ¦â
Tang Youning grit his teeth. âBack then, it was because I knew your family situation was difficult, and I didnât have any money, which was why I chose to help you! If I really wanted your money, I would have directly asked for half of your live stream profits instead of selling that raw vocal to you for fifty HNY!â
Tang Youning was really furious as he never thought Yang Zhong would actually threaten him like this.
Yang Zhong had relied on Tang Youningâs voice to trend on the Internet and to gain popularity and fans⦠now, Yang Zhong actually didnât hesitate to threaten him with records of their previous transactions if Tang Youning didnât continue helping him trick the audience.
This type of person actually existed in the world?
Tang Youning was so angry that he directly closed the chat window and then turned off his phone!
He had many benefactors, but Yang Zhong wasnât one of them!
For Tang Youning, his benefactors were Boss Tan, who owned Midnight Dining Hall, and that youngster and his father who had sold him a song for cheapâ¦
But now Tang Youning had been dragged deep into the mud because of Yang Zhong.
From the moment Yang Zhong had threatened him, Tang Youning realized that things couldnât go on like this.
He had to step forward to uncover the true identity of this hypocrite⦠and get more people to see the repulsive face under that mask!