Chapter 221 Food Stories
The assistant was so anxious that he scratched his head and said, "Brother, what nonsense are you talking about? You don't want the money anymore? What are you going to do?"
Zhuge Song, however, showed no intention of backing down, but still kept most of his attention on Qing Yatou.
Xu Youyou shook her head: "Can you ask her for advice at any time? This matter requires her consent. I can't make the decision."
The green girl said, "I cook as I please, and I don't know how to teach others."
Zhuge Song did not force it, but said: "A good student will find his own way to learn."
Hearing this, Qing turned to Xu Youyou and said, "Sister Youyou, you can agree to him."
Zhuge Song breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Since she agreed, you can bargain now."
The assistant was so anxious that she kept calling him brother, fearing that Zhuge Song would suffer a loss: "Brother, Miss Xu didn't even mention it, why are you lowering your status?"
Zhuge Song glanced at him and said, "This is the condition I agreed with her in advance, and she should comply with it."
Seeing that the assistant seemed to be about to explode again, Xu Youyou didn't keep the secret any longer and said directly: "If you keep your promise, I will not change my conditions. After all, it wasn't me who convinced the little girl."
The assistant said first: "Ms. Xu is generous, we are following the right person!"
As for how to choose between the two contract terms, Zhuge Song was too lazy to care and just threw it to the assistant: "Just choose it, and I'll sign if there's no problem."
Xu Youyou was amazed at how he decided on his agency contract so casually. She felt that it was a good thing that the assistant was a good one, otherwise Zhuge Song would have been sold out several times.
Zhuge Song got the contract so easily.
Subsequently, the system refreshed the mission rewards.
Perhaps because this time's task of picking up bargains was particularly simple, the reward given was quite perfunctory, and Xu Youyou was only rewarded with five training classes.
Xu Youyou turned around and spent all the training hours on the jade.
Zhuge Song and Qing Yatou jointly shot three food videos. The first one was themed on mushrooms, and the representative ingredient was black truffle.
The second issue is dried fruits, and chestnuts are the representative ingredients.
The third issue is vegetables, and spinach is the representative ingredient.
The first video that was released immediately caused an uproar on the Internet.
"Are my eyes blurry? How did the goddess team up with the violent demon? Isn't she afraid of a sudden blow from Zhuge's fist?"
"I unfollowed him. I thought I found a treasure blogger, but I didn't expect he was just a money-making scumbag who actually endorsed such a scumbag."
"Qingqing is still too young. She has been tricked by someone else."
At a glance, the video's comments section was full of curses, with only a few comments saying "Am I the only one who thinks they are particularly pleasing to watch when cooking together?"
As soon as such truthful comments appeared, they were accused of being posted by water army by angry viewers.
Qing Yatou's operations manager also immediately fed back the investigation results to Xu Youyou.
"Boss, the company's Internet department checked and found that 80% of the viewers who made radical comments in the comment section are fans of other food bloggers, and half of them are Chef Liu's fans."
Xu Youyou already knew that the Internet was a deep water, and that the track of self-media bloggers was extremely competitive. Seeing this result, she couldn't help but think that it didn't seem to be much different from the entertainment industry.
"What are you going to do?" Xu Youyou asked.
The operations manager also knew that Xu Youyou had signed Zhuge Song, and because the two bloggers lived very close to each other, their operations teams overlapped.
"I also asked Zhuge Song and tried to clear his name, but the investigation turned up nothing, and he was unwilling to explain what happened back then."
Xu Youyou frowned slightly. Zhuge Song, the person involved, didn't want to explain, and there was nothing others could do.
Xu Youyou didn't make things difficult for his subordinates: "If that's the case, let's just ignore it for now."
The operations manager hesitated for a moment, but finally spoke up: "If he is still unwilling to explain and lets the comments section ferment, I am afraid it will affect Qingqing. In the past half day, Qingqing has lost 20,000 fans. Can we not release the remaining two joint videos for the time being?"
Qing Yatou's number of fans was real, without any inflated number. It dropped by 20,000 at once. Naturally, the operations manager was heartbroken. He did not think Zhuge Song had any particularly high commercial value, and at this moment he just wanted to do his best to protect Qing Yatou.
Xu Youyou firmly believed in the system's choice and said, "No, let's release it as planned. Don't worry too much. Maybe things will turn around."
Since the boss had said this, the operations manager had no choice but to release the second joint video two days later.
Such a stubborn move naturally caused a huge uproar, and the fans who had originally firmly supported Qing Yatou could no longer sit still.
"I really like Qingqing and think she is a breath of fresh air in the self-media industry. She has not released any advertisements since she started filming the video. I thought I would always firmly support Qingqing, but now I really can't hold on any longer."
"Did Zhuge Song put a curse on Qingqing? Or are they in love? Why do you have to help this scumbag?"
Along with these disappointing remarks came an avalanche-like loss of followers.
The operations manager was heartbroken. The fanbase lost 150,000 followers in just two videos, and there was no sign of the speed of loss stopping.
Black Cat Pangpang, a female food blogger who originally regarded Qing Yatou as her archenemy, couldn't help but smile when she saw this scene.
“Miss, Chef Liu’s contact said that he wants to shoot a joint video with you.” said Black Cat Fat’s assistant.
Although Black Cat Pangpang is known for her friendliness on the Internet, she actually has a bad temper. She requires all staff to call her "Miss" and to use honorifics to address her in daily life.
At this point in time, Chef Liu asked for a collaboration, and Black Cat Fatty naturally understood his intention and readily agreed.
In order to catch the attention, the two of them worked hard, shooting a joint video in the shortest time possible, and then worked overtime to edit it into a film.
The release time set by the two was also extremely clever, as it happened to be released at the same time as Qing Yatou’s third joint video.
"Old-school food bloggers like Black Cat are trustworthy. They won't backstab their fans or hang out with scum." Black Cat's fat fans praised their host highly.
Fans of Chef Liu also jumped up and down: "Our chef has good taste. The atmosphere when cooking with Black Cat Fatty is really good. It's as warm as a father and daughter."
But they didn't feel happy for long, as a post suddenly appeared on the Internet.
"Chef Liu loves to cook, do you really know the food stories behind him?"
In less than an hour, the post became a hot topic.
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