“Kaze, are you free to talk right now? If you can wake up early tomorrow, come to my place and have breakfast.” Kaze instinctively declined the invite. “Mr. Yemen, I don’t think it’s appropriate for me to disturb you or your family in the morning.” “It’s no problem at all. You came all the way to Riverbank to visit me and gave us tens of millions worth of herbs, but we wasted them all. I feel like I have wasted your kindness. “Ryna said she wants to make it up to you as a token of apology. You can come over tomorrow morning, we are still staying in the same place. I’ll see you tomorrow.” After the call, Kaze put down his phone and shook his head helplessly. The herbs might be wasted but they seemed to work magically. …On the second morning, Kaze woke up early. This time, he went to Lock’s place without bringing Conan. Lock’s place was located in a residential area and arriving at the entrance brought back some memories for Kaze. He knew the place far too well. Man
“He can give us that much and he doesn’t have any more? Sounds a little too ridiculous.” Ryna rolled her eyes at Lock and then smiled widely at Kaze. “Am I right, Kaze? You must have more of those herbs, right? Can you give us more? You know how weak Lock has always been.” She could not sleep last night due to the frustration. In the end, she and Cyan believed that if Kaze could give them tens of millions worth of herbs in a single meeting, then he must have more of them. She refused to believe that Kaze gave everything to them on the first meeting. Therefore, after a discussion with her daughter last night, she decided to invite Kaze over for breakfast and tried to persuade him to give them more expensive herbs. If they could get the herbs and then give them to prominent figures, they could earn a lot of resources and connections. Kaze looked at the enthusiasm on Ryna’s face and finally knew why her attitude was completely different from yesterday. He said, “I’m sorry,
Lock could not expose his wife in front of Kaze because she would use his in-laws against him. His in-laws used to be government officials and served at a rather high-ranking position, which explained their strictness and temper. If they found out that he wanted to marry their favorite granddaughter to Kaze, they would turn the house upside down and probably skin him alive. “Kaze, I…” Lock looked at Kaze and had a difficult time explaining himself. Kaze gave him tens of millions worth of herbs yesterday. He just invited Kaze to his house and offered a room for him to say but then he had to ask him to leave because of his wife. It was embarrassing for him to spew the words. Kaze smiled and said, “Mr. Yemen, you don’t need to arrange anything for me. I got a place to stay yesterday.” Lock glanced at Kaze’s clothes and they were the same as yesterday. He believed Kaze was just trying to make him feel less guilty. He felt bad for his student. Little did he know that it
Cyan then said with a sigh, “What can I do? I have been going live for two months and I don’t see any growth in my account, or my followers. “People like me who only have looks and no talents must rely on follower’s gifts to be popular. “Money doesn’t grow on trees. Beautiful girls have to sleep with people only then they can get boosted by real money, but I just can’t sacrifice my body.” The girl might have the tendency to be vain but she still had a bottom line. Wesley said, “You don’t need to worry. Don’t forget that the platform that you go live on belongs to Golden Scale Corporation. I, as an insider, have discounts to spend on it. “When you go live later, I will throw in a few million worth of gifts to boost your popularity. People will flock to your live stream.” Cyan’s eyes widened brightly. She sat straight up and asked, “Really? Can you really boost me?” “Of course! It might be a little hard for me to boost you into one of the top influencers but I can guarantee
From the main recommendation page, Kaze could already identify SnapTok’s target audience. Most of the live streamers were beautiful girls who danced and played games. Their main objective was to attract a following. From there, they could earn gifts and rewards from their loyal followers. The Viper’s Den South River Branch operated in the gray area, so they were involved in many different fields, as long as they could make money. It was completely normal for Golden Scale Corporation to develop an app like this. At least the company had the connections and resources to scout beautiful women to stream on their platform. A quick thought later, Kaze texted Hannah. Hannah took over Magnus’ position in Golden Scale Corporation and became the largest shareholder. A while later, Hannah asked her men to upgrade Kaze’s account to a King-level account, only for internal use. The internal King-level account was the most prestigious administration account, used only by the developers
After Wesley typed in his comment and before the others could reply to him, he gifted Cyan ten Supercars as a gift, filling up the entire screen with futuristic effects. A Supercar, or a type of virtual gift, cost 999; ten of them cost around ten thousand. Kaze knew ten thousand was nothing to Wesley given his status. Cyan was just another live streamer with no popularity. Whenever someone gifted her a virtual gift that was only worth around ten bucks, she usually thanked the top giver repeatedly and even gave the person some fan service. Now that Wesley threw in ten thousand at one go, the entire live stream went crazy. “Woah! Rich guy!” “GOAT!” “Go on! More Supercars!” The viewers were displeased by Wesley’s arrogant tone at first but now they sided with him and instigated him to send more gifts. His gifts quickly attracted more viewers from across the platform. Many viewers surged into the live stream. As the chat praised him for being generous, Wesley felt over
“You looked down on my ten thousand? I spend real money to give Cyan gifts, unlike you, you stupid keyboard warrior! You can’t even spit out a penny!” Wesley sent a sticker with the platform mascot digging its nose to mock Kaze. Kaze chuckled. “I know you seek importance in online space but just ten thousand?” Wesley fell for it. He quickly replied, “Useless piece of trash! Bring it on! If you have the money, make it rain for Cyan! We’ll have a competition and see who sends her the most gifts! Whoever stops will have to call the other Daddy before leaving the stream!” “Then you should call me Daddy now because you already lost.” Kaze even gave a friendly reminder. It was also the truth. His account was upgraded to a King-level account, which allowed him to use all the money of Golden Scale Corporation. Wesley might be related to the company and he got a discount in topping up, but there was no way he could beat Kaze. Therefore, the gift war already ended before it even
“Live-in Jerk, I’ve underestimated you, but you shouldn’t be a show-off in front of me with just one hundred thousand. You are full of yourself.” Wesley sent another provocative sticker. “Indeed. Two hundred thousand and one hundred thousand aren’t much different.” Kaze typed as he smiled. Wesley huffed and typed. “Come on, send more gifts, don’t just type…” Before he could finish, the screen was filled with more futuristic effects and ten Spaceships appeared. One virtual Spaceship cost one hundred thousand. Ten of them cost a million. Live-in Jerk spent a million in one go. “A-A million?” The chat was silenced and left speechless by Kaze’s generous spending. Then, comments poured in like a reverse waterfall. Everyone lost their calm. They had seen people who spent a million on gifts before but only on the live streams of popular celebrities. Many of the viewers knew that the so-called gift system was a tactic used by the celebrity agency to boost their populari