Xia Liang kept smiling.

"Does Mr. Han Jie think I'm being unfriendly when I smile?"

Friendly? The corner of Han Jie's mouth twitched. All he could see was endless mockery!

Since he wasn't streaming anymore, Han Jie had no mood to continue shopping. Xia Liang also didn't bother tangling with him; he just drove him straight back to the hotel.

If the guy didn't want to walk around, perfect—he could take a break himself.

"Mr. Han Jie, I'd be very happy to continue serving you tomorrow. Do you need me to help extend your tour guide time?"

At the hotel entrance, Xia Liang asked with a smile.

"No need, I'm going back home tomorrow."

"Don't, our Dragon Country still has lots of places you haven't seen. I can take you around. If you think a tour guide is too expensive, I can guide you for free."

"I said, no need!"

As soon as Han Jie finished, he slammed the door heavily. Free? Even if you paid him, he wouldn't want it. Otherwise he'd be killed by Xia Liang's smile before he even made it back home! Staring at the tightly shut door, 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

Xia Liang finally put away the smile on his face, a teasing look appearing instead.

With that mental fortitude you still want to act arrogant in Dragon Country? This Master doesn't even need to lay a finger on you to piss you to death!

"Wow, my first time ever taking the initiative, and I got rejected."

Xia Liang shook his head, a bit of disappointment in his eyes. It's just that he hadn't prepared anything today. Otherwise, if he'd had one more day to plan properly, he probably could've pissed this guy into coughing up blood!

With a trace of regret, Xia Liang also returned to his own room. Although the other party probably wouldn't be using him as a tour guide anymore, as a professional tour guide, since the client's booked time wasn't over yet, he wouldn't actually leave.

Meanwhile, the matter of Han Jie streaming in Dragon Country was also exposed on foreign platforms, and the heat shot up fast.

[Stick Country man caught red-handed as a thief in Dragon Country.]

When this title popped up, foreigners everywhere were curious and clicked in one after another, only to find it was actually a livestream recording.

When they saw a food delivery guy from Dragon Country easily take down a thief in the video, all the foreigners' eyes lit up.

"Damn, Dragon Country people really do know kung fu. Those moves just now were sick."

"I heard before that Dragon Country people all know kung fu. I didn't believe it, but looks like it's true. Even a delivery guy knows kung fu, let alone everyone else there."

"Dragon Country really deserves its thousands of years of cultural heritage. If you visit Dragon Country in the future, you definitely shouldn't provoke Dragon Country people. They might look skinny, but they could probably take us down in one move."

Just as the foreigners were all obsessed with Dragon Country kung fu, they realized the video wasn't over yet, and soon they saw the scene where the thief admitted he was from Stick Country.

"So that's what Stick Country people are like, huh? This anchor obviously wanted to go to Dragon Country to stir up trouble, but who knew a thief would show up—and he's from Stick Country too. That's some serious face-slapping."

"Stick Country people are amazing, huh, even running all the way to Dragon Country to steal. Is their country really that poor?"

"This anchor is such a double-standard clown… If it's someone from his own country, he defends them; anyone else, he trashes. Guess all Stick Country people are like this."

Comment after comment popped up, and the image of Stick Country people in the eyes of foreigners around the world was completely wrecked.

Seeing these comments, people from Stick Country were extremely upset and immediately started a war of words with the foreigners.

But facts were right there on screen. No matter how they argued, the only response they got from the foreigners was:

You Stick Country people are thieves!

Seeing they couldn't do anything to these foreigners, a lot of people from Stick Country shifted their anger onto Han Jie.

In not even half an hour, the comment section on Han Jie's page completely blew up. Quite a few people even dug up detailed info on him and started a full-on cyberbullying campaign.

Back at the hotel, Han Jie, who'd been mulling over how to deal with Dragon Country next, suddenly got a call from the streaming platform.

"What? You've already banned my account? On what grounds?"

Getting this news, Han Jie was dumbfounded. What had he even done? Why would the platform ban his account?

He tried to ask, but the other side wouldn't give him any explanation at all and just hung up.

But right after he hung up, still full of confusion, another call came in—it was from an advertiser he'd taken a deal with two days ago.

"What? You want to terminate our partnership? And you want me to compensate you for your losses?"

A few minutes later, Han Jie hung up again, staring blankly as he sat in the chair.

What on earth had happened? Why had the platform banned his account, and why were advertisers all terminating their contracts?

Just as he was thinking, the phone rang again. Han Jie checked it and found it was a strange number, but it was from Stick Country.

Curious, Han Jie answered the call again, but before he could speak, the person on the other end unleashed a torrent of abuse at him.

"Shut the hell up. Who the hell are you, why are you cursing me out?"

Han Jie was pissed too. He'd already been holding back all day; first his account got banned, then the advertisers were demanding compensation, and now someone was calling just to cuss him out. He couldn't hold it in anymore.

"Why? Go look at the foreign platforms yourself. You've made us Stick Country people completely lose face!"

With that, the caller hung up as well, while Han Jie hurriedly opened his laptop and checked the foreign platforms.

Very quickly, he discovered that his stream had actually hit number one on the trending list. Under normal circumstances, he'd be thrilled, but now, when he saw all those comments in the comment section mocking Stick Country, he couldn't feel happy at all—only panic.

He knew things had blown up. He wasn't the thief, sure, but he'd streamed the whole thing.

He glanced at his fan group and found that half the fans had left the group, and the remaining half were all in there cursing him out nonstop.

"It's over, completely over!"

Han Jie slumped into the chair, his eyes slightly vacant.

He'd finally made it onto the trending list once, only for it to be for something negative. He felt like crying but had no tears.

He never imagined that just a normal stream would cause such a huge mess.

The streaming career he'd worked so long to build had been destroyed in a single day. Forget making money—he might even end up deep in debt.

And as for streaming in the future, that was basically impossible. The moment he went live, he could already imagine the entire barrage filled with people flaming him.

"If I'd known it would end like this, I wouldn't have come to Dragon Country even if you beat me to death."

Han Jie was full of regret. If he'd known, he should've just stayed in Stick Country and kept trash-talking Dragon Country there.

The hype would've been lower, yeah, but that would've been a million times better than being outright canceled now. What's more, he didn't even really dare to go back to Stick Country at this point, afraid he'd get torn to pieces by his own people. And as Han Jie was trembling in fear,