Chapter 39: Chapter 37: Damn It, I’m Watching Someone Else Choose His Concubines

At night, once prime time hit, whether people were out and about or at home, their go-to form of entertainment was increasingly scrolling through Tiao Yin.

Tonight, many people opened Tiao Yin and, after swiping through just a few videos, came across a transformation ad featuring a girl named Jiang Xiaobai.

The video was very creative. The girl was beautiful with a great figure, and the post-transformation look was explosive, making many people unable to resist liking it.

Moreover, many people noticed a new shopping cart feature in the bottom-left corner of the video that they had never seen before.

Lin Nan was one of them. Seeing the girl in the video being carried towards a large bed, along with her ecstatic expression as she kissed the man, almost got him worked up.

When he discovered that clicking the shopping cart led to a store selling that very same sleepwear, he immediately shouted into the other room, “Honey, let me buy you a set of sleepwear.”

“Don’t buy it yet! I saw a really sexy one. Buy this one instead.” A young woman ran out of the room and handed him her phone.

Lin Nan stared at his wife’s phone screen, stunned. It was also the video of that girl, Jiang Xiaobai.

She had stumbled upon it too.

“Hubby, this sleepwear from Jinghong Women’s Clothing is so sexy. Buy it, and I’ll wear it for you,” the woman said coquettishly, snuggling into Lin Nan’s arms.

“Buy it. We have to buy one in every color.” Lin Nan didn’t hesitate for a second and decisively placed the order.

It wasn’t just the two of them. After opening Tiao Yin, many people came across Jiang Xiaobai’s video after scrolling through just a few posts.

In a private room at the Jinyi Hotel.

Chen Jincheng and the others had mostly finished eating and drinking.

Just then, Sister Hong suddenly received a call. After hanging up, she excitedly reported to Chen Jincheng, “Boss, the people at Tiao Yin said our video quality is excellent and the shopping cart function is testing very well. They’re going to boost our traffic.”

Jiang Xiaobai’s voice also piped up, “The view and like counts are climbing even faster than before.”

Chen Jincheng was pleasantly surprised by the news, but not shocked.

Tiao Yin needed good data for testing its shopping cart feature. When a video’s quality was high enough, it was normal for the platform to push the numbers to make them look even better.

He had previously planned to create trending topics for “Transformation Show” and “Jinghong Women’s Clothing,” then use the Clothing Series Heat Card’s 3 million likes as a base to try and push Jiang Xiaobai’s video past 5 million likes.

Now, it looked like 5 million likes was a sure thing, and it might even go higher.

Li Ya had been personally monitoring the order data on a phone. Her face filled with delight, she said, “Mr. Chen, the orders for Jinghong Women’s Clothing are coming in much faster than before.”

“President Li, this is just the beginning. Once ’Jinghong Women’s Clothing’ becomes a trending topic, the orders will grow even faster.”

As he spoke, Chen Jincheng also instructed Sister Hong, “Have the other girls upload their videos too. Tiao Yin is already boosting our traffic, so other MCNs will start imitating us soon. We have to be the ones to create this trending topic ourselves.”

Sister Hong nodded, knowing this was inevitable. She immediately told the girls to upload their own transformation show videos, adding the hashtags “Transformation Show” and “Jinghong Women’s Clothing” to their titles.

Lin Qing, Yinyin, and the other girls didn’t hesitate, uploading their videos at once.

They had all seen how viral Jiang Xiaobai’s video had become and were sure that their own videos would gain a lot of traffic after being uploaded.

With the release of these girls’ videos, there were now enough creators. Combined with the popularity of Jiang Xiaobai’s video, the topics “Transformation Show” and “Jinghong Women’s Clothing” quickly emerged. They rapidly became trending topics, complete with a little flame icon, and appeared on the trending topics list, swiftly climbing Today’s Trending Topics chart in a landslide victory.

Just as Chen Jincheng had predicted, as Jiang Xiaobai’s transformation video exploded in popularity, influencers and MCN agencies quickly took notice.

Lin Hao was one such person.

Seeing the two trending topics, “Transformation Show” and “Jinghong Women’s Clothing,” he clicked on them one after another. What popped up was an endless stream of transformation videos featuring girls in sexy sleepwear.

Seriously, watching all the girls in the topic’s transformation videos, all dressed in sexy sleepwear, really felt like he was selecting concubines for an emperor.

“How is that guy Lao Cheng so good at this?” Lin Hao muttered to himself as he watched girl after girl act cute for the camera before transforming to seduce him. “I have to get in on this.”

You could tell how fun it was just by looking at the comments on some of the videos:

“One minute! I want all the info on this guy! I want to… become his disciple!”

“What did I do to deserve this? At first, I thought I was the one picking concubines, but then I realized I’m just watching someone else pick concubines!”

…

“HOLY SHIT, that animal Chen Jincheng is a master at this.”

“This is the 17th girl’s video I’ve watched. To be a man is to be Chen Jincheng!”

“Cheng, I’m begging you, let me be in the next one!”

“…”

Just then, an assistant came in and said to Lin Hao, “Young Master Lin, the artists are all gathered. We can start filming.”

“Coming,” Lin Hao said, getting up with great enthusiasm.

He had seen the light now. All his previous talk about surpassing Lao Cheng was just bullshit. That guy was a planning genius; there was no way Lin Hao could outplay him.

It was better to just follow in his wake, drink the leftover soup, and ride his coattails.

He’d go to Lao Cheng’s livestream, drop the 1 million he’d promised to gift, then invite him out for a meal. He’d pretend to casually ask for some good planning ideas. Would the guy really have the gall to hold back then?

While many MCN agencies, like Lin Hao’s, were hastily starting to imitate the transformation videos, Chen Jincheng and Li Ya’s party was breaking up.

Li Ya had had a lot to drink and was sent home by her secretary.

The mood of President Li was excellent. Especially after “Jinghong Women’s Clothing” became a trending topic, she could even feel her company’s brand value rising. She pulled everyone into round after round of toasts, essentially taking on the entire Second-Life Star crew by herself, a truly magnificent display of spirit.

As Chen Jincheng was preparing to leave with the girls, Sister Hong reported, “Boss, a major influencer has already posted an imitation of the transformation show. It’s getting some traction, but their transformation is different from ours.”

As she spoke, she handed the phone to Chen Jincheng to show him the video.

In the video, the influencer was getting out of bed. At first, she was bare-faced with messy hair. But with a flick of the blanket, she instantly transformed into a stylish beauty with exquisite makeup.

Seeing this, Chen Jincheng was reminded of the many different kinds of transformation shows from his past life. He instructed the girls, “The hype around these transformation videos is going to be huge. When you get back, each of you should film and upload your own unique transformation show. Having two videos out will help you gain more traffic.”

“Boss, how should we film them?” Yinyin asked, swaying her Big Pendulum as if afraid he wouldn’t notice them.

Chen Jincheng described some of the more popular transformation methods from his past life. “It’s not that hard, is it? You could wipe a mirror and transform in the instant your hand passes. Or walk through a doorway and have your transformed self emerge from the other side. That would work.”

“You could even just duck out of frame and then suddenly pop up transformed. Yinyin, this one’s perfect for you. When you stand up, make the movement bigger, get that Big Pendulum swinging wildly. It’d be hard *not* to attract attention.”

’The boss is telling me to make good use of my assets. I’ll definitely make them jiggle with more force, create a bigger arc.’ This immediately made Yinyin eager to try.

The other girls’ minds started racing as they began discussing ideas with each other.

They were truly impressed with their boss; it seemed like he could come up with these marketing ideas effortlessly.

Chen Jincheng added, “Oh, right. If any of you don’t know how to edit, just film the before-and-after clips and send them to Xiaoliao and Xiaohai. They’ll edit them and send them back to you.”

Xiaoliao and Xiaohai shot each other a miserable look.

’We have to work overtime for this shit?’

As time passed, the trending topics “Transformation Show” and “Jinghong Women’s Clothing” grew hotter and hotter online.

At Jinglan Women’s Clothing Company, however, Liu Qing’s expression grew increasingly grim.

Her company’s ad video had already reached 160,000 likes. Under normal circumstances, this would be considered excellent data for such a short amount of time, not bringing any shame to the second-tier celebrity Li Yueling.

But compared to Second-Life Star’s video, which had already surpassed a million likes, 160,000 was clearly nothing. The gap was a chasm.

For the first time, her inherent perceptions about influencers versus celebrities had been completely overturned.

But what made her feel most helpless wasn’t that. It was the trending topic “Jinghong Women’s Clothing.” Li Ya’s company was now being discussed and discovered by more and more people.

In this regard, their Jinglan Women’s Clothing was being completely suppressed.

Liu Qing finally understood what she had missed out on this time. Her preconceived notions had been her downfall. Perhaps she should find some time, humble herself, and go to Second-Life Star to get in touch with them again.

Meanwhile, at a high-end cocktail party, Li Yueling began complaining the moment it was over, “A bunch of disgusting old men. If you want to drink, then drink, but they couldn’t keep their hands to themselves.”

After getting into the car, she remembered the ad from today and asked the girl next to her, “By the way, how is the ad video I shot for Jinglan Women’s Clothing doing?”

The girl immediately reported, “The numbers are great, it’s already at 160,000 likes. But a monstrously successful clothing ad video came out tonight. It was uploaded around the same time as yours, and it’s already broken a million likes.”

“That amazing? Which top-tier star’s ad is it?” Li Yueling asked, shocked. She immediately took out her phone to search for it. A video like that must have some outstanding qualities; she needed to study it.

But when she saw Jiang Xiaobai’s viral video and Chen Jincheng’s face in it, her own face suddenly twitched. “How is it him? On what grounds does an influencer get to do this?”

…

Time passed, and the night was soon over.

Chen Jincheng groggily woke up in a bed at Jiang Xiaobai’s house. He looked at Jiang Xiaobai lying on top of him and was rendered speechless. “Fuck…”

’What happened last night?’

’Right, after leaving the hotel, we went to the bar to check on the scene. This girl insisted on ordering an extravagant set of Martell Cordon Bleu for me, saying it was to thank me and celebrate the video’s success.’

’My employee was being thoughtful, so I believed her. But she was just pretending to be drunk. The moment I got her home, she dropped the act and just latched onto me, dead set on getting me all hot and bothered, and ’finishing’ the part of the video we couldn’t film.’

Chen Jincheng sighed, took out his phone, logged into Tiao Yin, and first checked the Tiao Yin trending chart.

The moment he looked, he cursed out loud, “FUCK, are you kidding me?”

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