Chapter 8: The Simple-Minded Girl Is Stunned

Seeing the audience in the livestream teasing him, Jiang Yun rolled his eyes.

“What’s this? You guys really enjoy watching me get played, don’t you? Don’t forget, you all got fooled just now too!”

As he spoke, a sudden chime echoed in Jiang Yun’s mind—the system’s voice.

[Ding! Congratulations, Host, on successfully checking in. Reward: 100,000 Shark Fins (Tenfold Cashback)]

[Reward distribution in progress...]

Hearing this, Jiang Yun couldn’t help but ask the system in his mind, “What does that mean? You can reward something like this? And what’s tenfold cashback supposed to be?”

[Ding! The system’s check-in rewards encompass every item in existence—anything is possible.]

[Tenfold cashback: When the host spends the Shark Fins rewarded by the system, you’ll receive ten times the cash value as a rebate.]

Jiang Yun’s eyes lit up, and he continued to ask mentally, “So you’re saying if I spend it all, I’ll get a million in cash back?”

[Ding! That’s correct.]

With the system’s confirmation, Jiang Yun turned his gaze to his DouShark account. Sure enough, at some point, his account balance had grown by 100,000 Shark Fins.

Just as he was about to shower his own channel with gifts, aiming to pocket an extra fifty thousand, the system’s voice sounded again.

[Ding! Kindly note: spending the rewarded Shark Fins on your own channel will not trigger the cashback mechanism. No self-entertainment allowed!]

Jiang Yun: ...

So many damn rules.

He grumbled inwardly, but didn’t dwell on it. After all, once he spent these 100,000 Shark Fins, he’d get back a million in cash—the loss of fifty thousand didn’t matter much!

As his thoughts spun, Jiang Yun began pondering how best to use up the Shark Fins.

Usually, there were only two ways to spend Shark Fins: either upgrade your own channel status or gift them to streamers you liked. But the system had forbidden self-use, so opening new channel perks for himself was out of the question.

That only left gifting other streamers.

The problem was, Jiang Yun didn’t really have any streamer friends. Although he’d signed with his agency before, he had never proactively reached out to other contracted streamers for collaborations. The agency, worried that the streamers might gang up if pushed too hard, hadn’t demanded inter-streamer interaction either.

Generally, aside from streamers in their own agency, streamers tended to interact most with those in the same content category, since collaborations were easier that way.

But Jiang Yun was a gaming streamer, specifically for League of Legends. As everyone knew, in recent years the League of Legends section had been losing traffic, so established streamers were highly resistant to newcomers, unwilling to let fresh faces split their already shrinking audience. Even veteran streamers fought tooth and nail for traffic and screen time.

Back when Jiang Yun played in high-ranked matches, he’d been ostracized by top League streamers on both DouShark and rival platforms.

Their method was simple: accuse Jiang Yun of being a paid actor, and in such a way that he couldn’t refute it.

In League, nobody could guarantee flawless play. All it took was for Jiang Yun to make a single mistake when matched with those streamers, and he’d be “nailed” for it.

“You have good stats in so many games, but suddenly play badly when you’re with me? And you say you’re not throwing?”

Back then, Jiang Yun was a rookie with less than ten thousand followers. Faced with these big streamers’ “evidence,” he had no choice but to endure in silence.

Eventually, they drove Jiang Yun out of the high-ranked games, forcing him to become an entertainment and variety streamer instead.

Luckily, things had turned out well for him in the end, leading to his current success.

Suddenly, Jiang Yun noticed his follower count had risen from just over 340,000 before the stream to 380,000.

Nearly forty thousand new fans.

And the reason for all this... was obviously because of his recent dual stream session with Dazed Girl!

He couldn’t think of any other possibility.

At this thought, a smile spread across Jiang Yun’s face.

He grinned at his viewers and said, “Brothers, I just gave that old lady a hard time—do you think she’s cursing me out in her stream right now?”

The chat immediately erupted with jokes:

“Cursing you? I just came from her stream—she’s already wishing your instant noodles never come with seasoning packs.”

“So you admit you were messing with her just now!”

“What, you didn’t get enough and want to go again?”

“I don’t know why, but seeing that smile on Yun’s face gives me a bad feeling.”

“Same here!”

...

Ever since her joint stream with Jiang Yun ended, Dazed Girl hadn’t tried to connect with any other streamers.

Jiang Yun had really gotten under her skin.

Just thinking of his grinning face made her blood boil.

At that moment, she was playing Teamfight Swimsuit Mode while chatting with her viewers in the stream.

Suddenly, a message floated across the screen:

“Old lady, Yun wants to know if you’re still mad.”

Reading that, Dazed Girl, who had just managed to calm down, felt her anger rise once more.

“Still mad? He deliberately provoked me, and I’m not even allowed to be mad? Did you hear what he said just now? That was clearly—”

Just as she was venting, a gift animation flashed across the stream.

[User Yun gifted streamer Dazed Girl a Super Rocket x1]

Dazed Girl glanced over and, out of habit, began to thank him, “Thank you, Yun, for the super—huh? Yun?”

Her expression, which had softened at the sight of the gift, froze when she realized it was from Jiang Yun.

After all, she had just been complaining about him moments ago.

Still, business was business for a streamer, and money always took precedence.

He’d just sent her a Super Rocket—what could she possibly object to?

She blinked at the camera. “Yun, when did you pop in?”

Jiang Yun didn’t respond, but the gift animations flared up again.

[User Yun gifted streamer Dazed Girl a Super Rocket x10!]

Watching ten Super Rockets in a row, Dazed Girl’s eyes lit up.

She exclaimed in delight, “Thanks for the ten Super Rockets, Yun! Thank you so much! When do you have time for another joint stream—maybe a riddle game?”

In her mind, a single joint stream for ten Super Rockets was a great deal.

Unfortunately, Jiang Yun still didn’t reply.

He simply kept the gift animations rolling...

[User Yun gifted streamer Dazed Girl a Super Rocket x50!]

Fifty Super Rockets in all! In an instant, Dazed Girl’s popularity soared to number one on the charts!

Completely stunned, she could only gape.

Huh???

Usually, streamers might gift each other a plane at most. Sometimes, maybe a rocket.

Or, if they were doing a collaboration, they’d throw a few Super Rockets around, or unlock a status to boost the event.

When Jiang Yun first sent her a Super Rocket, she assumed he wanted to collaborate and ride her popularity.

For the sake of the money, she didn’t mind helping him out. After all, Jiang Yun wasn’t under any agency contract now, and she wouldn’t say no to bringing another savvy newcomer into her own group.

With a little nurturing, maybe he could even pay her back some day.

But to see Jiang Yun throw down a hundred thousand in one go left her dumbfounded.

Was this what they called savvy?

No, this was just someone with too much money to burn!