Chapter 49: The Inverted Sky Formation

Hearing the system’s explanation, the frown on Jiang Yun’s face finally relaxed. Calculating it this way, as long as he cleared out the diamonds within seven days, ten million would still be credited to his account. Last night’s ordeal with that woman was not in vain, after all.

If he had only received a million, Jiang Yun would have seriously felt he got the short end of the stick.

Still, thinking of that woman from the night before made Jiang Yun feel a dull ache. He’d always thought he was stubborn enough, but he’d met someone even more unyielding. Clearly, if she’d just admitted defeat, he would have let her go. Instead, she insisted on butting heads with him until the end!

With these thoughts swirling in his mind, Jiang Yun ordered some delivery food on his phone, then headed to the gaming room and powered up his computer. Today, he didn’t plan to stream outdoors—instead, he’d stay home, chat with others online, and rack up some broadcast hours. After all, his first outdoor stream yesterday had thrown him into a confrontation with that rare breed of stubbornness, and Jiang Yun was still wary. What if he ran into someone even more outrageous today?

Glancing at the clock, he saw there were still over ten minutes until midnight. To pass the time and wait for his food, Jiang Yun opened TikTok.

The moment the app loaded, that all-too-familiar lag hit his computer screen.

Huh?

Jiang Yun tilted his head, puzzled. With a computer this high-end, how could TikTok possibly lag?

But the next second, he realized what had happened.

Could he have gone viral again?

The last time this happened, it was because he’d hit the trending page—his followers and messages had exploded, causing the app to freeze.

With this in mind, Jiang Yun restarted TikTok.

Sure enough, just as he suspected—his messages, new followers, and comments all showed 99+.

He clicked on a video he’d posted a few days before, and sure enough, there was a trending tag attached.

Trending Number One: Battle of the Stubborn—Host Versus Scammer

Jiang Yun: …

Seeing this notification, Jiang Yun was speechless.

Following the trail, Jiang Yun quickly found the source of the trending topic. Someone had clipped together highlights from his stream from last night through the morning. Then, a TikTok megastar called “Calling the Net Admin” had turned the whole incident into a viral video.

“The Stubborn Host and the Stubborn Scammer—the most unyielding showdown in history! It all happened just last night…”

Listening to the voiceover, Jiang Yun glanced at the likes and comments. The video had been up for less than ten hours and already had over 1.7 million likes and 800,000 comments!

Clearly, it had gone viral.

With that many likes, the views must be in the tens of millions!

Returning to his own profile, Jiang Yun saw his follower count had jumped several times over, from just over a million to 4.8 million—and the number was still climbing.

Beneath his latest video, countless viewers were demanding he start his stream.

“Open the door! If you’re bold enough to pull stunts, be bold enough to open the door!”

“If you don’t go live, we’re unfollowing!”

“Yun, open up! It’s your daddy!”

“Hey, kid, sneaking over to TikTok, huh? Open the door!”

“It’s time—why aren’t you live yet?!”

“If you’re late again today, I’ll claim you as my son on the spot!”

“Me too!”

…

Staring at the hundreds of thousands of new followers, Jiang Yun fell silent.

So, why hadn’t he become famous before he got the system?

Now, when he didn’t even need traffic that much, he was blowing up…

In less than a week, he’d gained millions of followers, and his live viewership had shot up by tens of thousands. He might not be a top-tier host yet, but he was definitely a big name now. It was on a whole different level from his days grinding away on SharkStream.

Thinking it over, Jiang Yun concluded it was because he finally had confidence. He could pull off all sorts of stunts without worry. In the past, he’d always been cautious, afraid of breaking rules and jeopardizing his streams, always tiptoeing to accommodate his audience’s sensitivities.

Now, with the system, he streamed just for the daily check-in, doing whatever he wanted—and, ironically, that’s when the audience exploded.

Just then, a knock sounded at his door. The food had arrived.

Collecting his delivery, Jiang Yun sat back down at his computer. It was just hitting midnight.

He adjusted his setup, turned on the stream, and began eating his takeout as if nothing was out of the ordinary.

Many of the viewers who’d just joined were stunned by Jiang Yun’s behavior.

“Huh? What’s going on, did you switch to food streams now?”

“Yun, did that stubborn woman drive you crazy? You’re a mukbang host now?”

“Hey, you! Apologize! Late again!”

“Hurry up and apologize! You’re late and you’re eating?”

“Stop eating and apologize first!”

…

Maybe it was the trending topic’s influence, but in less than five minutes, over 80,000 people had poured into his stream—and the number was still climbing fast, about to break 100,000.

Faced with a flood of apology demands, Jiang Yun glanced at the chat and replied with mock disdain, “Apologize? You want me to apologize? You should be the ones apologizing! If you all hadn’t egged me on, would I have spent the whole day locking horns with that woman? In the end, not only did I lose, but I got a fine, too. You owe me an apology! Come on, apologize!”

At his words, the chat erupted in question marks.

“?????”

“You brat, are you trying to turn the world upside down?”

“We’re supposed to apologize to you now?”

“Damn it, hurry up and apologize, or I’m unfollowing!”

…

In the past, threats to unfollow might have made Jiang Yun nervous, but not today.

“Unfollow?” Jiang Yun snorted with disdain, holding up his phone to the camera. “Take a good look—4.8 million followers! Do you even know what a big-name host is? You think I care if you unfollow? Who do you think you are? Hurry up and apologize, or I’ll end the stream!”

With that, Jiang Yun immediately launched a giveaway in his stream, dropping a lucky bag worth 10,000 diamonds. The entry phrase? “Sorry, Host, I was wrong.”

Instantly, the apology messages in chat were drowned out by a tidal wave of viewers vying for the lucky bag.

“Sorry, Host, I was wrong.”

“Sorry, Host, I was wrong.”

“You’re playing dirty, aren’t you?”

“Sorry, Host, I was wrong.”

“Cancel the giveaway if you dare!”

“Sorry, Host, I was wrong.”

“Can’t handle the heat, can you?”

“Sorry, Host, I was wrong.”

…

Though some still tried to demand an apology, their voices were completely overwhelmed by the flood of giveaway hunters.

Seeing this, Jiang Yun raised his eyebrows provocatively at the camera. “As long as you know you were wrong, the host is generous—I’ll let it go this time.”

With that, he tucked back into his food, unfazed.

Though the apology brigade in the chat grumbled at his antics, there was nothing they could do. After all, Jiang Yun’s lucky bag was open to everyone, drawing a massive crowd from the streaming plaza, all spamming the chat.

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