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Chapter 385 - 223: I Kneel Before You! An Invitation

"Okay, I’ll send you a private message," Xue Qian said before also disconnecting from the joint stream.

Just then, Chen Jincheng glanced at Little Maru. She understood immediately, left the main stream, and went back to the streaming room her company had prepared to start her own broadcast.

’The boss is going to send some viewers my way in a minute.’

Chen Jincheng resumed chatting with his audience. The platform’s promotion for his SS-Class stream had ended, and the viewer count was no longer rising. It was time to send some of that traffic to the female streamers in his company.

After bantering with his audience about some memes for a little while longer, Chen Jincheng got the signal from Lao Chen that Little Maru had started her stream.

He nodded and said to the more than 500,000 viewers in his stream, "We’ve been chatting for a while. It’s time to do a little event. How about I take you all to ’select some concubines’?"

His words clearly left the audience a bit baffled.

’Select concubines? What concubines?’

Chen Jincheng simply smiled and clicked the button to start a joint stream with Little Maru. The next moment, everyone saw Little Maru’s stream connect to his.

This clearly surprised many people. After all, after hearing "Little Dimples," many of them had been wondering where to find Little Maru’s stream.

As a result, viewers immediately started flooding into Little Maru’s stream.

Little Maru had streamed on the CYH platform before, but her broadcasts never attracted many viewers. It had been the same just now on her own Second-Life Star channel—practically no one was there. But the moment the two streams successfully connected, she saw the viewer count in her own stream begin to skyrocket.

And it was happening incredibly fast. In just a short time, her viewer count shot past 50,000, then 100,000.

Chen Jincheng soon noticed that his own viewer count had dropped by 150,000 in that short span—they had all flocked to Little Maru’s stream.

This was exactly why, in his previous life, smaller streamers would scream with excitement when top-tier streamers featured them. After those top streamers invented raid-style events like "Expeditions," "Dao Heart Cultivation," "Room Inspections," "Jungling," and "Selecting Concubines," being featured meant a massive influx of viewers would be sent their way.

If they seized the opportunity, a streamer with only a dozen viewers could, after receiving a boost like this, potentially break a thousand concurrent viewers in their future streams and reach the pinnacle of their careers.

His "Selecting Concubines" event was meant to do just that: send his 500,000-plus viewers over to the female streamers of Second-Life Star. This would be a massive boost in their push to become a 3-star Guild.

The main reason was that he didn’t stream daily and had already cultivated a persona of not fleecing his fans—his "bros," as he called them. Donations were entirely voluntary. Therefore, he had to let the female streamers of Second-Life Star be the ones to cash in on this audience.

With over 500,000 people participating in this "selection," how many viewers each streamer could retain would all depend on the talents of the Second-Life Star girls themselves.

So, Chen Jincheng said to Little Maru with a grin, "Little Maru, with all these bros tuning in to your stream, don’t you think you should show off your talents? Sing a song for us!"

Little Maru nodded and said immediately, "I just sang ’Little Dimples.’ How about I sing one of the boss’s own songs, ’Trajectory’?"

As she spoke, she started the backing track. Given her skill, her rendition of "Trajectory" was naturally excellent, drawing cheers from the audience.

When the song was over, Chen Jincheng looked at Little Maru teasingly. "Little Maru, you have a great voice. But I bet the audience is curious. You’re pretty, you sing beautifully... what do you look for in a partner?"

Hearing him praise her for being pretty and singing beautifully, Little Maru couldn’t help but smile.

She immediately replied, "Well, he definitely has to be handsome, and have muscles. And he has to know how to write songs and sing, be fit, in good shape..."

"Wait a second..." Chen Jincheng immediately cut her off, asking suspiciously, "Why does that description sound so much like me?"

Little Maru said with a straight face, "Boss, didn’t I just say it? I’m willing to help you cure your illness. I don’t mind your Symptom of having difficulty breathing whenever you’re with a woman."

Her comment immediately sent the hardcore fans in the chat spamming "666."

"Seriously, Little Maru is the first to confess to Cheng so bluntly."

"666, Little Maru is savage! She’s about to pounce on the boss!"

"Haha, Little Maru is putting him on the spot again, in front of more than 500,000 people!"

"..."

Chen Jincheng immediately declared with mock-righteousness, "Little Maru, besides my illness, I also have a rule: I don’t mess around with my own employees. I am the boss you can never have!"

With that, he immediately disconnected the joint stream.

Time was limited, and Second-Life Star had quite a few female streamers. He had to go through them one by one, so each girl wouldn’t get much time to showcase herself.

Seeing the disconnected stream, Little Maru huffed to herself. ’The boss I can never have? I’ll bite you next time.’

However, she also saw that as the boss disconnected, the hundred-thousand-plus viewers in her room began to rapidly disappear, obviously returning to his stream. In the end, she was left with a little over 40,000 people.

This was a pleasant surprise for her. Over 40,000 viewers had stayed behind, all thanks to her performance of "Little Dimples."

’If I can just keep a few thousand of them for my future streams, I’ll be set.’

She had taken a solid first step.

’So this is the power of a boss worth getting on the inside track with,’ she thought. ’He barely lifts a finger and gets these kinds of results. CYH is nothing compared to this.’

After disconnecting from Little Maru’s stream, Chen Jincheng began scrolling through his friends list. Sister Hong had already made sure he and all the female streamers at Second-Life Star were mutual followers.

He started from the top of the list, randomly picked a streamer, and sent her a request for a joint stream.

Liu Jiajia had started out as a go-go dancer. A graduate from a dance academy, she entered that line of work at eighteen—or rather, she had been tricked into it.