Chapter 32: Pure Tool of a Husband

Shen Mo let out a breath of relief.

When Shen Mo and Liu Yue arrived at the company, they received a report from Auntie Chen that the video accounts of Xiao Bai, Li Zi, and Lan Lan had gone viral.

To strike while the iron was hot, Auntie Chen suggested poaching people from Hao Ya Media to assist with subsequent content creation and traffic generation—after all, they were all one family.

And then...

The elegant Ms. Wen tossed Hao Ya Media directly to Liu Yue, and from that moment on, the employees of Hao Ya Media successfully lived the life of doing two jobs but receiving one and a half salaries.

Perhaps some people were simply destined to go viral, perhaps they caught the wave of the times, or perhaps it was the brilliance of the operations team.

Auntie Chen teamed up with the professional operations staff at Hao Ya Media, and the production team designed a collaborative content model for Xiao Bai, Li Zi, and Lan Lan.

Xiao Bai's short drama portraying Wang Ma was spun off on its own, and then a new series was launched featuring a domineering female CEO visiting restaurants.

Xiao Bai visited restaurants and tasted the dishes outside.

Li Zi caught chickens, farmed the land, and raised livestock, focusing on an all-natural, rustic lifestyle.

Lan Lan was responsible for cooking the dishes and letting everyone taste them.

One assembly line later, the three successfully linked up.

Next, the professional operations team at Hao Ya Media drafted a seven-day video script based on the online buzz about Northeast dish portions.

Xiao Bai went to visit a restaurant and eat iron-pot stewed goose.

Li Zi performed a beauty-versus-goose battle.

Lan Lan livestreamed making iron-pot stewed goose with flatbread.

When out-of-town tourists followed Xiao Bai's livestream to the restaurant to taste the iron-pot stewed goose, they were stunned the moment they saw the huge steaming pot of goose.

A strange kind of beauty slammed into everyone's head.

When they saw the gorgeous Xiao Bai acting out awkward skits, complaining that it tasted terrible, while gnawing on goose meat straight from the pot and dipping flatbread into the broth, everyone burst out laughing.

Then they sighed that Xiao Bai had the makings of a food-streamer—she ate so well that everyone got hungry.

The trio's videos rode the Northeast dish-portion topic straight to the trending searches, and Erbin was pulled into the spotlight along with them.

Shen Mo and Liu Yue were forced to start working overtime, coordinating, liaising, and communicating with all parties, and escorting interests along the way.

Erbin ultimately gave the title of Tourism Ambassador to Yue Mo Media.

This was a big piece of cake.

Liu Yue waved her hand grandly, and Yue Mo Media and Hao Ya Media swallowed it down together.

Some livestreamed Northeast cuisine, some livestreamed snowball fights, some livestreamed Northeast square dancing, others livestreamed bathing culture, and still others livestreamed raising dogs and pigs.

Liu Yue even coordinated with Erbin and booked an entire package of Northeast tourism projects.

As Erbin blew up, Shen Mo also got to see exactly how Liu Yue made money during this Erbin viral extravaganza.

For example, during the livestreams, Grandpa's free-range pig farm became wildly popular, and they immediately launched feeding experiences, Killing Pig Dish restaurants, and live pig slaughtering for the tourist crowds.

There was also the bathhouse center and farmhouse resort that Liu Yue had personally invested in, all raking in money hand over fist.

And that didn't even count the money made off the streamers themselves.

This made Shen Mo, who was by Liu Yue's side, unable to help sighing—truly worthy of a female CEO, her way of making money was different from everyone else's; she was treating the media company as a promotional channel.

After deducing that Erbin's tourism industry was about to take off, Liu Yue immediately contacted a number of small Northeast workshops, negotiated partnerships with them, and put together a Northeast specialty mega-market.

Inside, they specialized in regional products—Wuchang rice, corn flour, corn noodles, potato starch, potato noodles.

The whole pitch was pure, natural ingredients.

Right after that, Liu Yue went and contracted a huge stretch of black farmland.

"Northeast grain is where the real money is." "Once our streamers blow up a bit more, we'll sell authentic corn, flour, and rice."

Liu Yue's move of eating from the upstream all the way down to the downstream made Shen Mo exclaim that she was badass.

Moreover, because Liu Yue's maneuvers also brought benefits to the farmers at the grassroots level, Erbin became even friendlier toward her, even showing signs of wanting her to serve as an economic advisor.

But Liu Yue declined. In Liu Yue's words, she was making money too, so she wouldn't take the credit—she just had to give Shen Mo a Tourism Ambassador title.

This left Shen Mo utterly speechless—why was she giving him yet another job?

In Shen Mo's view, coordinating shoots with Xiao Bai, Lan Lan, and Li Zi, and filming videos of himself and Liu Yue was already exhausting enough.

Most importantly, why did the Tourism Ambassador title also require dancing?

When Shen Mo learned that Liu Yue wanted him to dance and sing for the visiting tourists, he nearly blew up—on what grounds?

Liu Yue, meanwhile, said with a sweet smile: "Not showing off your finery when you return home is like wearing brocade at night."

"Hubby, your figure is so great, your voice is so pleasant—if I don't let others see how outstanding you are, how will they envy me?"

One sentence, and Shen Mo's anger was successfully doused.

Wife, you make a good point, I'll do as you say.

The day before attending Zhu Kailan's birthday party, Shen Mo sang and danced on the stage Liu Yue had prepared, loudly unleashing his own excellence.

When sweat soaked through his shirt, revealing that perfect physique with eight-pack abs, a bulldog waist, and mantis legs, Shen Mo once again shot to the trending searches.

Down below, Liu Yue gave a fierce thumbs-up and shouted loudly: "That's my husband, my husband!"

This made many women shriek and say, Liu Yue, you girl are eating way too well.

Envy and jealousy, but not a shred of hate.

No choice—because Liu Yue publicly declared under Shen Mo's video that she was beautiful and rich, and a perfect husband like this was just right for her; those jealous women should hurry and take a look at their own figures and wallets.

In one stroke, it spurred plenty of people to get serious about self-improvement.

For Zhu Kailan's birthday gift, after much deliberation Shen Mo still chose to listen to Liu Yue and have two free-range pigs shipped over.

Shen Mo felt this would be very distinctive.

After wrapping up the work in Erbin, Shen Mo and Liu Yue flew back to Jinghai the day before Zhu Kailan's birthday.

They had just landed and walked out of the airport when they saw Shen Jiajia.

This shocked both Shen Mo and Liu Yue.

"No need to be surprised. I guessed you'd be coming back today, so I came specifically to intercept you." Shen Jiajia explained with a grin.

Shen Mo and Liu Yue, who hadn't arranged for anyone to pick them up, chose to follow Shen Jiajia.

In the car, Shen Jiajia decisively exercised her elder-sister privilege, making Shen Mo drive with the destination set for the Shen Family Old Residence, while she sat in the back chatting with Liu Yue.

Shen Jiajia kept calling Liu Yue "Sister Liu Yue" one after another, making Liu Yue feel embarrassed.

In the end, Shen Mo stepped forward to interrupt and asked Shen Jiajia the reason she'd come to intercept the two of them.

With nothing to hide, Shen Jiajia stated bluntly: "Two reasons. One is that Mom's birthday is today, and I came specifically to invite you two. The second is that Mom thinks it's time to give Liu Yue a gift from mother-in-law to new daughter-in-law."

Shen Mo and Liu Yue felt a bit awkward — the two of them had forgotten to visit Shen Yilong and Zhu Kailan after the wedding, which was their fault.

After all, no matter how you look at it, Shen Mo grew up eating the Shen Family's food.

Shen Yilong never shortchanged Shen Mo.

On the road, Shen Jiajia explained the reason Zhu Kailan was celebrating her birthday a day early.

In Zhu Kailan's eyes, the birthday banquet wasn't really about celebrating a birthday — it merely provided an excuse for the wealthy families of Jinghai City to gather.

(End of Chapter)