Chapter 92: The Accidental Livestream

Here is how it actually happened. After the site’s section operations noticed that Guan’er’s livestream traffic had suddenly exploded for no clear reason, they quickly gave her a front-page banner spot.

They didn’t know exactly why, but that level of traffic was enough to raise a streamer of considerable weight.

It would obviously give the site a huge advantage in its war with other livestreaming platforms. In an era where traffic was king, whichever platform had more phenomenal streamers was the boss. At ordinary meals, no one dared breathe until he picked up his chopsticks.

He might even be promoted to section director for cultivating a phenomenal streamer.

Of course, the guild operations guy wasn’t idle either. He immediately contacted section operations. The two of them put their heads together and said, bro, it’s time to do something big.

But before the two bros could settle on how to swallow this wave of traffic, people from the Xuanhuang Chronicles production team came knocking.

There were moles in the production team too. One senior planner was a Qinglin fan, supposedly an old-timer who had followed her since the first game. This planner snuck a look at his phone during a break and immediately blew up.

He scrambled to whisper into chief planner Liao Cao’s ear that Guan’er’s livestream traffic had exploded because Qinglin had appeared. Liao Cao, the bald middle-aged man, clapped his hands on the spot. Wasn’t this a perfect warm-up opportunity?

If there was already this much traffic before the Developer Direct began, he didn’t dare imagine what explosive traffic the Direct livestream itself would bring. If they seized this wave, player conversion could reach at least seventy percent.

Many were rich guys who threw money around without blinking. Take the guy who renewed two months of Governor and spent forty or fifty thousand just to let Bai Ling eat a two-yuan bun.

Once people like that got into the game, they were walking KPIs.

So he waved his hand and contacted the platform to label this livestream as a Developer Direct warm-up. He also directly ordered a few people from the film crew to hook up the livestream signal. Phone livestreaming was too low-class. If they were doing this, they were going high-end!

Weren’t the film crew bragging about some movie camera they had just rented, some Le-something that was super awesome? Bring it out! Bring it out!

The guy from the comic convention happened to be the film crew leader hired for today. When he heard there was more work, he immediately rolled up his sleeves, hoisted the movie camera, and flew backstage. He looked like he wished his parents had given him two extra legs.

And so the situation became what it is now. Bai Ling had just changed into her cosplay costume and come out of the changing room when a camera was shoved in her face. She didn’t dare breathe, staring eye-to-eye with the camera’s image sensor.

“Hey, hey!” Guan’er saw things going badly and hurried up to grab Bai Ling’s arm. She tried to smooth things over. “Let me introduce her. This is Lady Qinglin, and also the official cosplayer for the Snake Demon Swordswoman at today’s Xuanhuang Chronicles Developer Direct!”

“Doesn’t it feel like the Snake Demon Swordswoman from the game has walked into reality?”

Bai Ling, who still had no idea what was going on, could only nod awkwardly at the camera.

“Sorry. I didn’t want things to turn out like this either.” Guan’er leaned over and whispered, “Just now, my livestream was full of your fans…”

She summarized what had happened as concisely as she could, and Bai Ling listened in a daze.

‘What did she, Bai Ling, have to deserve this kind of influence?’

The moment she thought about the two hundred thousand people on the other side of the camera watching her, she wanted to turn and dive into the changing room. She even wondered if there was a washing machine she could crawl into.

Guan’er felt Bai Ling wanted to slip away and immediately tightened her grip on Bai Ling’s arm. She could smooth things over now, but if Bai Ling ran, even if she had incredible skills, there would be no show to save.

Besides, she didn’t have incredible skills. If she did, would she still be a small streamer with a regular audience of one or two hundred?

Bai Ling wanted to break free but was afraid of hurting Guan’er, so she stayed trapped in front of the camera and dug through her guts for a few words to make the scene less awkward.

Meanwhile, the one who had started the whole escalation, Xuanhuang Chronicles chief planner Liao Cao, the bald middle-aged man, was staring at the livestream backend data on his computer and stomping his feet in excitement. The number of viewers in the livestream had reached a terrifying four hundred thousand, and the growth rate showed no sign of slowing.

The second Guan’er said Qinglin was the official cosplayer for the Xuanhuang Chronicles Developer Direct, the number of reservations for the Direct livestream jumped sharply.

This Direct was originally a warm-up event for the new version. At this rate, the new version’s player growth would probably exceed expectations several times over.

With the money for just one cosplayer, he could achieve such explosive promotional results. Liao Cao even wanted to veto the operations department’s plan to hire a top celebrity as a spokesperson. How much better would it be to use Bai Ling?

Of course, he couldn’t pay her the normal cosplayer rate. With the traffic Bai Ling brought, even paying her ten times more would make Liao Cao feel guilty.

He had to give her the spokesperson spot. Besides, the people in the operations department spent every day chasing celebrities on the company dime. Whoever they liked, they hired as a spokesperson. When others negotiated business, they pushed the endorsement fee down. These people were the opposite: the spokesperson they found could not be said to have little connection to the game itself, only no connection at all. They offended both sides’ fans, kept drama going, and still insisted on reporting an inflated endorsement fee.

They were a bunch of parasites! As if making trouble for people who actually did work was their life’s mission.

The spokesperson spot alone wasn’t enough. It would be best to fight for some profit sharing, and even tailor a fashion skin just for her. When the skin sold, they could give her a cut.

That was a win-win! That was exactly what Liao Cao loved to do.

But Liao Cao was happy. What about Bai Ling?

Bai Ling was now sitting on a chair at the makeup table, stammering answers to fan questions while bullet comments scrolled wildly.

“What have you been up to lately…? Because of an accident at school, I couldn’t stay in the dorm, so I moved to a friend’s place… You’re asking what friend? Is that something I can tell you?”

As for those asking whether Bai Ling was actually a femboy, she chose to pretend she hadn’t seen them.

“Why haven’t you posted any work? … Busy, no time…”

“Updates? I don’t have a habit of posting updates every day…”

A few bullet comments scrolled by: [I heard the Lin’an University dorms were recently destroyed by a gas leak.] The moment Guan’er caught them, she scrambled to mute those users.

“You can chat and joke, but don’t try to doxx her!”

She quickly stopped the bullet comments that were getting more and more dangerous. Bai Ling, the silly girl, answered whatever people asked. In a little over ten minutes, she had almost stripped herself bare.

She whispered to Bai Ling, “You don’t have to answer some of these comments. Don’t expose your personal information.”

Compared to Bai Ling, she at least counted as a veteran streamer. She knew what could be said and what absolutely must never be told to others.

As for Bai Ling, the bullet comments had pushed her into stream-of-consciousness mode.

‘Blind Xu! Come save this old lady!’

She screamed in her heart. Still in stream-of-consciousness mode, she didn’t notice that in her mind she had subconsciously started using “this old lady” as a self-reference, and she had no intention of correcting it.

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