In a convenience store not far from the Douhu Entertainment building.
A young man held a cup of coffee, staring coldly at the Douhu Building for a while.
Then he got up, left the convenience store, and walked off in the opposite direction.
Some ten-odd days later, the few new streamers Douhu Entertainment had signed finished their half-month training period. They officially began streaming on the platform under the Douhu Entertainment banner.
From their very first streams, these new personalities gained a massive number of fans.
As a result, Douhu’s fame skyrocketed.
Among Douhu’s current streamers, the most famous was, without a doubt, Chen Jiang.
To be honest, Lin Feng hadn’t been very optimistic about him at first.
After all, for someone whose career relied on youthful looks—even a gaming streamer with waves of young fans—there was no guarantee that most of them weren’t just looks-based fans.
But after several consecutive days, it was Chen Jiang—the very person Lin Feng had underestimated—who performed the best.
His gaming skills were even better than some professional players.
Paired with his striking good looks, great disposition, and cultured manner of speaking, every little thing just added to his appeal.
His fans were young people, specifically young people who loved to play games. And when these youngsters played games and watched streams, they weren’t stingy with their money; the donations came in one wave after another.
So, in just a few days, Chen Jiang had already earned a great deal of money for himself and for the company.
Of course, it wasn’t that the other streamers weren’t making money, but by comparison, Chen Jiang was making much more.
Chen Jiang’s sharp rise to prominence also brought Douhu a fair bit of trouble.
The higher his commercial value soared, the more audacious people became, with an increasing number daring to try and poach him from right under Lin Feng’s nose.
However, without exception, Chen Jiang rejected all of them.
If he had wanted to go to another company, he wouldn’t have chosen to interview with Douhu in the first place. So, all those people trying to win him over were just wasting their breath.
Naturally, Lin Feng found out about this quickly, as Chen Jiang told him personally.
"You’re telling me all this... aren’t you afraid I’ll become wary of you, stop investing resources into promoting you, or even just blacklist you entirely?"
Lin Feng looked at the man before him and raised an eyebrow.
’I never would have guessed. Chen Jiang is quite principled.’
Putting down his coffee, Chen Jiang cleared his throat and countered, "I’m just informing you, I never said I was planning to leave. In a situation like this, shouldn’t you be thinking of ways to win me over and convince me to stay?"
He was well aware of his own value. With his stock so high right now, and since Lin Feng wasn’t a fool, how could he possibly let a cash cow like him go?
"Oh?"
Hearing this, Lin Feng looked at him with great interest.
"Well then, why don’t you tell me? How should I win you over?"
The question was thrown back at Chen Jiang. He blinked, suddenly at a loss for words.
’I was just making a point. I’m not Lin Feng, how would I know how he plans to win me over?’
But he had already brought it up; it wouldn’t look good if he couldn’t suggest a single thing.
So, Chen Jiang’s eyes darted around for a moment before he said hesitantly:
"How about... letting me have weekends off?"
He had been streaming so diligently lately that he was, in all honesty, getting a little tired.
So Chen Jiang had been thinking about when he might also get to have weekends off to get some proper rest.
Lin Feng: "..."
’That’s it?’
He had thought Chen Jiang harbored some great ambition, but it turned out he just wanted weekends off?
Lin Feng was speechless for a moment.
He remembered that when the company first signed Chen Jiang, the contract stipulated one day off every ten days, which Chen Jiang himself had agreed to. As for how long he streamed each day, Douhu didn’t interfere.
Douhu’s management style with its streamers was relatively lenient. As long as they were people the company had chosen, it wouldn’t meddle too much.
After lowering his gaze in thought for a moment, Lin Feng looked up.
"You can go back for now. I’ll have someone revise the contract."
’If that’s the case, I’ll change it to one day on, one day off.’
’He’ll have to stream on either odd or even days.’
Of course, if Chen Jiang wanted to stream on his days off, he had no objection.
Hearing Lin Feng’s words, Chen Jiang froze for a second, but he quickly realized what was happening, and his eyes lit up.
Maintaining his composure, he gave Lin Feng a deep bow.
He had just said it offhandedly, never expecting it to actually be approved. This was a wonderful, unexpected surprise!
Seeing how happy he was, Lin Feng was a little surprised. He hadn’t expected Chen Jiang to be so easily satisfied, beaming with joy just from the promise of a revised contract.
However, whether this happiness was genuine, Lin Feng couldn’t tell.
...
As it turned out, even with the change in his streaming schedule, Chen Jiang was still able to stand out from all of Douhu’s other streamers, with his legion of fans eagerly awaiting his content.
All in all, his skills were truly formidable.
And so, thanks to these newly signed internet celebrities, Douhu Entertainment spent a solid month as a leader in the domestic entertainment industry, outshining even many companies that specialized in training idols.
With Douhu’s level of fame, there were many who were envious, and many who were aspiring.
And Bao An was one of the most envious of all.
What Douhu was doing now was indeed impacting Little Broken Station from all sides, but it wasn’t enough to have any substantial effect in such a short period.
But some things couldn’t be viewed in the short term.
If this continued long-term, the impact on Little Broken Station would become more and more obvious. By the time they decided to take action, it would be too late.
For a whole month, Little Broken Station issued a punctual apology every single day, allowing countless netizens to see Bao An’s "sincerity."
As a result, many people, having short memories for transgressions, forgave him in the blink of an eye.
When the month was finally over, it wasn’t just the employees—who had been tearing their hair out trying to write new apology letters every day—who breathed a sigh of relief. So did the secretary who had already arranged the next phase of the plan according to Bao An’s instructions.
After Little Broken Station had been suppressed for so long, Lin Feng wasn’t surprised when, a month later, it announced under Bao An’s name that it had signed an internet celebrity who was about to start streaming.
He just hesitated for a split second.
He had long predicted that Bao An was envious of how much money could be made from celebrity streaming. Sooner or later, he would inevitably find a way to cultivate his own "secret weapon" to make money for Little Broken Station.
He just hadn’t expected Bao An to arrange it so quickly.
This streamer was the first one Little Broken Station had ever officially signed.
Before, Little Broken Station had never had a streamer who truly belonged to them.
Of course, their focus had always been on ACG culture, not streamers.
Therefore, the moment this person appeared, he attracted the attention of countless netizens.
They were all curious about who this big shot was that could make Little Broken Station "break its own rules" to sign an internet celebrity.
And once their curiosity was piqued, many of them fell for him, becoming die-hard fans in the blink of an eye.
The reason was simple: a man with striking looks, who sounded very cultured when he spoke, and had an excellent demeanor.
No matter where he was, he could easily attract people’s attention.
Within three days of his debut, this person, relying on Little Broken Station’s promotion and some of his own skill, had managed to siphon away a large number of fans from Chen Jiang.
Just as Lin Feng had said before, some fans like a person solely because of their looks.
The moment a new internet celebrity appeared, they would immediately jump ship and start fawning over someone else.
Chen Jiang usually streamed games, but many of his fans didn’t like or understand gaming at all. The only reason they were fans of Chen Jiang was because of his face.
However, he himself didn’t care about this at all. If people wanted to leave, he wouldn’t try to force them to stay. He just maintained his own style, doing what he always did.
But just because he didn’t care didn’t mean others felt the same.
The people at Douhu responsible for tracking Chen Jiang’s viewership numbers noticed something.
In the last few days, Chen Jiang’s viewership had suddenly dropped by a small but puzzling amount.
They immediately reported it and launched an investigation, which quickly led them to Little Broken Station.
They discovered a "knockoff" Chen Jiang streaming over there.

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