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Chapter 232 - 169: Is Chen Jincheng a Pervert?
News of Chen Jincheng’s arrogant livestream spread quickly among the dance influencer community.
Even those who had no personal beef with Chen Jincheng were quite pissed off after hearing what he said.
Taikong Sen, of course, was quickly briefed by his assistant. "Brother Sen, Chen Jincheng responded to the matter on a livestream. His attitude was incredibly arrogant, and now a lot of people in the dance influencer group chat are unhappy with him."
Upon hearing the report, Taikong Sen immediately opened the group chat. Sure enough, he saw several major influencers complaining. These influencers had also participated in the "You Jump, I Jump, Dance for Youth" challenge and posted their own videos, but their stats were far worse than his.
But he didn’t dare underestimate them.
After all, being a dance influencer was a purely skill-based game.
Who among those who managed to break through the fierce competition didn’t have solid skills, good looks, and a great body?
He quickly found the replay of Chen Jincheng’s livestream and instantly understood why he had incurred the wrath of the entire dance influencer community.
’What did he mean by making everyone despair?’
The guy wasn’t just responding to him. From everyone else’s perspective, he was treating all dance influencers like they were worthless trash.
How could anyone tolerate that?
’So arrogant. Isn’t he afraid he’ll fall hard? And... this actually creates another opportunity for me.’ Seeing this, Taikong Sen couldn’t help but smile.
He immediately created a new group chat and added the major dance influencers who had a problem with Chen Jincheng.
The people who were added were obviously confused:
"Taikong Sen, what’s this group for?"
"Yeah, what’s up?"
"What’s up all of a sudden?"
"..."
Seeing their questions, Taikong Sen smiled and typed, "I saw what you guys were talking about in the other group. I know you’re all pissed at Chen Jincheng. He’s looking down on all of us in the dance community, isn’t he?"
"So, I bet everyone wants to see Chen Jincheng fall flat on his face, right? But looking at your videos, it’s pretty hard for any of them to break a million likes. That’s why I want to ask for a favor. My video still has a ton of potential."
"Based on the current data, it should break three million likes without any issues. If you can rally your fans to like my video, it’ll give it a huge boost. I’ll throw some money into DOU+ as well. Getting to four million likes wouldn’t be impossible."
"Even though Chen Jincheng got five million likes on a video by riding the line with Yinyin’s cleavage, that was just a fluke among all of Second-Life Star’s dance videos. With a four-million-like video on the board, he won’t be able to surpass it this time." 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞
"Just imagine it. After being so arrogant, how hard is he going to fall?"
His words definitely piqued the interest of the major dance influencers in the group.
Chen Jincheng acted like there was no talent in the entire dance category. If he failed now, he’d become a total laughingstock.
"Alright, I’m in."
"I can help rally my fans."
"I’ll get my fans to boost it in the fan groups, too."
"..."
Seeing this, Taikong Sen couldn’t suppress a smile.
’It’s in the bag.’
...
「Taihe District」
Chen Jincheng was leaving Yinyin’s home with her when he picked up his phone. He saw messages from four girls: Yinyin, Jiang Xiaobai, Cen Ning, and Ximeng.
The crucial part was that all four had just sent him stickers.
’What’s that supposed to mean?’
"Yinyin, why’d you send me a sticker?" Chen Jincheng asked, confused.
"It’s nothing," Yinyin said quickly. ’When the boss said he’d immediately delete and never again contact anyone who messed with his mood, I just sent it out of reflex!’
Chen Jincheng couldn’t be bothered to press the issue, much less pay them any mind. He just went downstairs and drove to the company.
The moment they got to the company, Chen Jincheng took Yinyin straight to the studio to film.
The special lighting and atmosphere would make their "Train Opening" video even more suggestive and alluring.
Yinyin had a solid dance foundation and had long since learned how to leverage the advantage of her Big Pendulum. They nailed "Train Opening" in a single take.
Afterward, he pulled the prepared background music from the Second-Life Star music library, added it to the video, and with minimal editing, it was basically ready to post.
As he and Yinyin left the studio, Sister Hong was already there waiting for him. She handed him a document. "This is the request to expand recruitment. Just sign it. We’re hiring more artists, so the logistics department needs to grow to support them."
Chen Jincheng nodded, signed the document, and handed it back to Sister Hong.
Sister Hong continued, "I saw your livestream this morning. It seems your words have united the dance influencers against a common enemy. I’ve gotten word that several major dance influencers are mobilizing their fans to like and comment on Taikong Sen’s video. The likes on his video probably won’t be low."
Yinyin was shocked to hear this. "Doesn’t that mean it’s the whole dance community against just us?"
"No, it’s us against their whole group," Chen Jincheng replied, not the least bit worried.
While dance videos were a huge category on Tiao Yin, that was just because anyone could dance. Basically, any influencer who relied on their looks would shoot a few dance videos.
But the number of influencers who actually specialized in dance was limited.
Besides, most viral dance videos weren’t even made by professional dance influencers.
"So, no matter how much those people help Taikong Sen, given the quality of his video, the final like count will be limited."
’And on my side,’ he thought, ’I have a Demonic Dance Heat Card.’