Chapter 74 Climbing Mountains
It turns out that An Jin didn't suddenly decide to become a live-streaming e-commerce host; she just opened a shop window and posted a link.
Lisa: Sure, if it's just opening a shop window, you can decide for yourself.
The platform manages more than just that.
After receiving confirmation from Lisa, An Jin immediately told the viewers in the live chat about it.
Viewers who were completely confused while watching the live stream finally realized what An Jin had just gone to do.
: Yay! Open the shop window! I want to buy the same clothes as the streamer!
Damn it, this is obviously a shop window aimed at female fans, Mom, my money is going to be lost!
But I'm really curious, after An An opens the shop window, will anyone actually buy anything?
An Jin's fans are mostly male. When she said she was going to open a shop window and hang out clothes, cosmetics, skincare products, etc., the comments section was full of doubts about whether anyone would actually buy anything after she opened the shop window.
The person who was most open-minded about this was actually An Jin.
"It's okay if you don't buy anything. I opened the shop window to let everyone know what clothes I've bought recently. I'm afraid I'll be restricted from replying if I post links in the group every day."
An Jin has a great figure; she looks good even in rags, which leads to female fans asking for links every day.
She would post links in the group every day, but the replies were restricted the next day.
Fortunately, it was an official live stream, and after Lisa informed her, her account was unblocked the next day.
Female fans are generally more emotional and soft-hearted than male fans. The reason they can keep watching An Jin's live stream is that they really like An Jin's outward greed and ambition.
Unexpectedly, An Jin also does things that don't make money, but only to benefit her fans.
Although it was just talk, the female fans didn't care about all that and started popping popcorn.
West Wind Blows Through My Home: Popcorn for my lovely An'an baby, mwah An'an~
[West Wind Blows to My Home - Luxury Cruise Ship*1] (Value: 5000 Diamonds)
Xiaochi landed: Popcorn for An'an baby~ May An'an be happy every day~
[Xiaochi Lands - 2 Sports Cars as a Gift] (Value 1998 Diamonds)
82-year-old Lafite: Opening the granary~ Which teams is An'an playing practice matches with today?
[1 Romantic Fireworks Gift Set with 1 Year 102 Raffia Grass] (Value: 1314 Diamonds)...
Looking at the screen full of gifts, An Jin smiled and thanked her female fans.
This is what a normal live stream should be like. Big gifts like those at the Carnival are rare; what's common are gifts worth tens or hundreds of yuan from fans' support.
An Jin recognized all these female fans. They weren't just active in the live chat; they were also on An Jin's WeChat friend list and in her boss's group.
In other words, although there are fewer female fans, each of them has given more gifts than An Jin's male fans.
After An Jin thanked her female fans, the male fans on the screen became unhappy.
This is sexism! I don't accept it! Why do female fans greet us with lovey-dovey messages when they give us gifts, but male fans just give us a dry "thank you, boss"?
As everyone knows, our male fans' money comes from thin air.
I'm angry, I'm not sending any gifts to the streamer today.
They don't care~ After giving a gift, they want to kiss and cuddle all the time~~
There are five seats short of first class in Thailand. Anyone want to go as a group?
:ah?
I won't go, I have something to do, I'll go first.
Hahahahahahahaha.
An Jin rolled her eyes at the male fans in the live chat who were defending her, which was anything but elegant.
"Those female fans are so cute, they call me 'my darling wife' every day and tell me to take care of myself. Who the hell treats you guys like that, asking me every day if I'm going to wear black stockings tomorrow? You're all a bunch of perverts."
An Jin spat and pointed at the camera, saying, "I despise you!"
The male fans just chuckled when they were being scolded, showing no embarrassment whatsoever. When they saw An Jin pointing at the camera and yelling, they all jumped up and chimed in.
: You're welcome to scold me, but here's the question~ An'an, will you wear black stockings tomorrow?
So what if my wife scolds me? I'm An'an's husband now, I'm born to be scolded.
No, An'an has been making too much money lately, so her attack power has decreased a bit.
What kind of masochistic team-building event is this? I suggest An'an not reward them.
An Jin stared at the screen filled with comments from male fans, and was unusually speechless.
She muttered and cursed, "The more I curse you, the more excited you get."
After joking around with the viewers in the live stream for an hour, An Jin ended the stream on time at 3 PM to go play a training match.
An hour later.
An Jin stared at the screen boredly and complained in YY (a voice chat platform): "What are they doing? We've been waiting for ten minutes already."
"They seem to have had a fight."
The speaker was a man from a truckload of bread vendors; he was the oldest in the group and also the one with the widest network of connections.
As soon as the bread man mentioned that the other people had argued, An Jin immediately became agitated.
"Hahaha, they're really arguing? What are they arguing about?"
An Jin's lively yet wicked laughter echoed throughout the YY channel. Jiang Jinhan looked up at the staff who had been squatting in YY recording materials, and helplessly reminded them, "An An, don't be so obviously gloating."
There are outsiders in YY (a Chinese online chat platform).
An Jin didn't care about any of that. She had been spending a lot of time with Jiang Jinhan, which made Jiang Jinhan lose his authority in front of her.
Ignoring Jiang Jinhan's reminder, An Jin grabbed the silent jungler, Cripple, and kept saying, "They must have started arguing because Cripple did a good job ganking. I told you, if you gank the bottom lane, they'll definitely collapse, hahahahahahahahahaha."
Her gloating laughter brought smiles to the faces of the four people in the YY chat room.
The group of people in the van confirmed An Jin's guess: "Pretty much, Xiao Zhang told me they need to switch seats."
Xiao Zhang is an official staff member of Tadpole (a gaming platform), responsible for organizing An Jin and his teammates to play training matches.
An Jin laughed loudly: "You want to replace Nakano?"
The bread man hummed in agreement, then said uncertainly, "It should be."
Seeing this, Youbao Pipa, who had been holding back her words, immediately followed An Jin's gloating steps and said, "It must be a change of mid-jungle, their mid-jungle has been completely destroyed by us."
Breadman has years of experience in major competitions, Cripple is taciturn and aloof but obedient, plus Jiang Jinhan with sharp skills, and An Jin with excellent ability to find opportunities, who keeps clamoring for the mid and jungle to gank the bottom lane.
It wasn't just the mid and jungle that got crushed on the opposing team; the bot lane suffered the most, but the blame and pressure were all shifted onto the opposing mid and jungle.
After all, An Jin's mid and jungle were in place, but their own mid and jungle weren't. They were ganked from start to finish, and no bot lane could withstand that kind of ganking.
The key is, if your own team can win, then if the bottom lane gets ganked, so be it, it's okay to feel wronged.
Unfortunately, they can't win, and after ten minutes or so, the bottom lane has to defend the high ground. Which bottom laner can stand this kind of injustice?
After several such incidents, the morale of the hastily assembled team naturally began to waver.
The ADC and support were grumbling and complaining during scrims, and the mid and jungle players also felt wronged.
They've ganked the bot lane before, so why do they yell at the ADC and support when they get ganked, but can't the bot lane just play more cautiously?
That's really not possible.
The bottom laner, surrounded by four opponents under the tower and facing the enemy mid and jungle, despairingly chose to die.
Even the taciturn cripple felt that the mid and jungle players should switch positions. He played the jungle position and naturally knew how bad his actions were.
Seeing that everyone in the group was gloating, Jiang Jinhan stopped pretending and started dropping bombshells.
"I heard that the mid laner has been replaced by an AD carry, and the jungler has gone to play support."
An Jin's eyes widened as she burst into laughter: "The mid laner went to the bot lane, and the bot laner went to play the mid laner?"
Jiang Jinhan: "Yes."
An Jin: "Isn't this just a desperate attempt to find a cure?"
Breadman agreed: "They've been playing practice matches for so long before changing positions, they're going to have problems in the official matches."
One more quiet, lame guy.
The sly-looking Pipa said smugly, "This is perfect, we have one less opponent now."
The official training time is already limited, and five days of the week's training matches have already passed. Now the opponent is going to change positions, so when the official matches come, the team's coordination will definitely not be as good as Anjin's team.
An Jin pulled up the official lottery results posted in the group chat and laughed, "Great! We can easily beat them on Saturday."
The preliminary rounds of Tadpole Video use a best-of-one format. This Saturday and Sunday, the eight teams will each play two matches each day, for a total of sixteen matches.
The winning team will not only receive 50,000 points, but will also receive a quarter of the points of the losing team.
After sixteen matches, the four teams with the lowest scores were eliminated, and the remaining four teams advanced to the semifinals next week.
The semi-finals and finals adopt a best-of-three format similar to the official competition. After the champion, runner-up and third place are determined, the champion team and the runner-up team can use 200,000 points to revive a player from another team to serve as a substitute player for their own team. They will participate in the streamer cup competition jointly organized by three live streaming platforms and the official organizers.
An Jin's team was unfamiliar with each other's strengths, but they worked out very smoothly. Unlike other teams, they never had any instances of players not following orders.
As the team captain, Jiang Jinhan rarely expresses his opinions in the game. Even if An Jin, who is in charge, makes a decision-making mistake in the game, he will only review the game with An Jin in private after the game.
With Jiang Jinhan setting an example, the others in the team naturally followed suit when dealing with An Jin.
He was incredibly obedient in the game, but once he left the game, he started cursing and arguing with An Jin.
An Jin was very pleased with this, as she could always make the stubborn Youbao Pipa, who was still talking nonsense even after leaving the game, shut up.
As for why it was "oil-fried pipa," it's mainly because the bread man has a lot of experience, and he was calm and collected when he reviewed the situation.
The cripple was always a man of few words. Except when someone made a crucial mistake, he rarely spoke during debriefing sessions, serving as the straight man.
Jiang Jinhan, needless to say, was called the captain in the team, but in reality he was just a bricklayer, much like a bread maker, specializing in mixing mud.
An Jin has the worst temper in the team, but also the most generous heart.
Every day during the review, I would argue with my parents about the fried pipa, but by the next day I would have almost forgotten it. I would then take a video that I found somewhere and post it in a small group chat with a few people every day.
The idea that "a top laner who follows instructions will succeed," "a qualified top laner should do the following," and "harmonious relationships are a key secret to a team's long-term success"...
An Jin would post something in the group chat, and Pipa would immediately hurl a curse.
One message after another was met with insults. Other members of the group were streaming their own streams when they occasionally glanced at the smaller group chat and saw that the message count was 99+. They thought it was something important, but when they clicked in, they found that the top laner and the support were hurling insults at each other.
The other three viewers were both annoyed and amused.
Jiang Jinhan and the bread man were alright; one was used to An Jin's irritability and talkativeness, and the other had seen all sorts of people and had gotten used to it.
Only the silent cripple was numb.
He is the kind of person who is a bit obsessive-compulsive. He doesn't have many people or groups on WeChat, but when he looks at his phone every day, he can't help but take a look if he sees 99+ group messages.
Then the more I looked at it, the more numb I became.
After this cycle repeated for two or three days, the lame woman directly took screenshots of the argument between two elementary school kids in the group and posted them in her live stream, attempting to use the weapon of public opinion to make the two talkative kids in the group talk less.
Unfortunately, it was of no use.
One of them is shameless, and the other simply doesn't care.
After learning about this from the bread vendor, An Jin went to the lame man's platform account, liked it, and then personally attacked Youbao Pipa in the comments.
The fried pipa player was very dissatisfied and chose to retaliate on the spot.
The cripple was speechless as he watched the two argue from the group chat to the comments section of his own post.
He stared blankly at his increasingly lively comment section, silently screaming in his heart.
Clearly, the lame man's cries were useless.
Pipa and Anjin are arguing every day. The only benefit of his posts is that they have gained a lot of exposure, and many of Anjin's fans have also flocked to his live stream.
The good news is that the cripple made money.
The bad news is that An Jin was only tormenting the cripple in the group chat, but now the cripple can't escape being tormented even during his live stream.
An Jin's fans sent him gifts. He often couldn't help but glance at the WeChat group after receiving gifts from An Jin's fans during his live streams.
This was bad news. For the cripple, having red dots that wouldn't disappear was torture. He clicked into the chat box to remove the red dots, and in doing so, he saw a bunch of curses.
After finishing today's training match, the cripple started a live stream. Looking at the gifts sent by viewers with An Jin's fan badge in the background, he uncontrollably turned on his phone and began another day of torment.
Anjin's team won the training match again.
For once, she didn't ask her boss to log in when she started her live stream. Instead, she opened a music app that she hadn't used in ages and tortured the 50,000 viewers who had just opened the live stream with her off-key voice.
Did someone mute the streamer's microphone?
Instead of muting her mic, we should smash her voice.
Karthus used his ultimate, let's retreat, bro, we'll be back later.
: Hey streamer, stop singing! Your boss is online. Stop torturing the viewers.
Keep singing, it sounds great and I love listening to it.
It's like hearing celestial music and temporarily losing your hearing.
An Jin was in a good mood, and even the uproar from the viewers in the live stream couldn't stop her from doing anything.
After singing happily for half an hour, tormenting the viewers in the live stream with a barrage of involuntary "Bravo!" comments, An Jin finally stopped, still feeling unsatisfied.
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