Chapter 16: The Meteoric Rise of the Innocent Girl

While Jiang Yun and the viewers in his livestream were all denouncing the fan who had just joined the mic, that mischievous fan had already quietly disconnected. Clearly, he had anticipated both Jiang Yun’s and the audience’s reaction and dared not face their wrath.

Jiang Yun took a few deep breaths to steady himself, then looked seriously into the camera. “No pranks allowed in this stream! If anyone tries to make a monkey out of me again, I’ll recognize you as my son on the spot!”

His words immediately drew laughter from many of the viewers.

“Hahaha, I’ll recognize you as my dad too!”

“To be fair, Brother Yun’s fans really know how to pull off pranks.”

“You can tell his fans inherited his talent for mischief—each one is more mischievous than the last.”

“Tsk tsk, today’s mic session is as entertaining as yesterday’s with Sister Illusion Dragon.”

Just then, a super rocket animation lit up his stream. Jiang Yun looked closer and saw that it was sent by Little Silly Girl!

The moment he recognized the name, the thanks he was about to utter caught in his throat. With a strange expression, he said, “Little Silly Girl, don’t tell me you’ve been lurking in my stream the whole time?”

Jiang Yun had assumed that after disconnecting, Little Silly Girl had returned to her own stream. He hadn’t expected that she’d been silently watching his the whole time! What’s worse, from the looks of it, she probably witnessed his entire on-air meltdown just now—and who knows how much she was laughing at him.

Just as he was thinking this, Little Silly Girl sent a message in his chat.

“Brother Yun, keep connecting with fans! Watching you lose your cool is way more fun than watching me lose mine. :)”

Jiang Yun’s mouth twitched. And he wasn’t the only one who saw the message; the rest of the viewers in the stream also caught sight of it and joined in on the teasing.

“Little Silly Girl: That’s the good stuff!”

“Little Silly Girl: After getting trolled two nights in a row, finally got to watch someone else lose it!”

“Little Silly Girl: You have no idea how satisfying it was to see Brother Yun break down!”

“Little Silly Girl: Fans, go all out! Break his defenses hard!”

Naturally, some viewers took the chance to tease Little Silly Girl as well.

“That old lady’s been hiding in Brother Yun’s stream all this time—don’t tell me she’s secretly got a crush on him?”

“I think so too. She’s definitely got a crush on our Brother Yun!”

“Old lady, it’s nothing to be ashamed of—just admit you have a crush on Brother Yun!”

Jiang Yun wasn’t one to take things lying down. If Little Silly Girl teased him, he’d return the favor. Glancing at the chat, he raised an eyebrow and said, “Little Silly Girl, you’ve been lurking in my stream the whole time—maybe the chat’s right, and you really do have a crush on me?”

After saying that, he even mimicked a classic rice porridge meme expression: “That’s honestly pretty gross.”

“Get lost! If you’ve got the guts, keep connecting with your fans!” Little Silly Girl fired back in chat.

Jiang Yun chuckled at her reply, then looked at the queue of fans wanting to connect. After that wild round, even more viewers had applied to join him. As he considered who to connect with next, the system’s voice suddenly echoed in his mind.

“Ding! Congratulations, host, you’ve completed today’s check-in. Reward: a luxury riverside apartment in Renheng Bay.”

Along with the notification, details of the reward appeared in his mind. Renheng Bay was known as the most expensive high-rise residential complex within the city’s Third Ring Road, with prices approaching sixty thousand per square meter. The apartment the system awarded him was a five-bedroom unit, over three hundred square meters in size, worth more than eighteen million!

A look of delight crossed Jiang Yun’s face as he absorbed the news. He’d actually toured an apartment in that very complex with a real estate agent earlier that afternoon! Granted, the unit he’d seen wasn’t this one, but a smaller two-hundred-something-square-meter place. He’d liked the neighborhood—both the location and the decor were excellent—but the price was simply too steep. Even if he were to rent, the cost was out of reach for him at the moment.

After all, aside from the million he’d gotten back from the shark fins, most of which he’d already spent visiting the orphanage, he didn’t have much left. Dropping six figures just to rent a place? That would be absurd.

He’d felt a bit regretful at the time, but now, as if the system knew exactly what he wanted, it granted him one in today’s check-in reward! Most importantly, according to the information provided by the system, the apartment was newly renovated within the last two years, and the owner had never lived in it. In other words, it was practically brand new—move-in ready, saving him the trouble of decorating.

Jiang Yun’s smile grew ever wider at the thought. The prank earlier had thrown him off, but now his mood had fully recovered.

He looked at the camera and said, “Alright, everyone, that’s two hours for today’s stream. Let’s call it a night—get some rest, good night.”

With that, Jiang Yun didn’t care what the viewers thought and ended the stream with a click. The screen went black.

“?????”

“Two hours and you’re done? Even civil servants don’t have it this easy!”

“Huh? Didn’t stream all day, and just two hours at night?”

“Alright, fine, you’re getting lazy now that you’re signed with an agency?”

“Damn, a DouShark civil servant—only two hours of streaming a day.”

Though many viewers complained, Jiang Yun couldn’t see it—he was already getting ready for bed and planning to move into his new place tomorrow.

On the other side, Little Silly Girl stared at the suddenly blacked-out stream, blinking in confusion.

“What? He just ended the stream? How long did he even stream for?”

From her perspective, a full-time streamer—especially someone like Yun or herself—should be streaming at least four or five hours a day, right? Four hours at the very least.

But Jiang Yun? Only two hours! And then he ended!

Little Silly Girl was baffled. Fortunately, the chat explained Jiang Yun’s situation for her.

“Brother Yun’s old agency was awful, you know that better than anyone. He used to stream ten hours a day and barely made a dime. Now that he’s finally free, of course he wants to enjoy himself a little~”

Seeing messages like this, she came to her senses.

“Almost forgot…”

Little Silly Girl didn’t say much more. She knew full well that Jiang Yun’s former agency was bad news, but as a top streamer herself, there were some things she couldn’t say on air—otherwise, it would only cause trouble.

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