Chapter 61: Reported

【If wifey won't even let me go to work, that would be even better.】

Touched, Shen Mo's heart was weeping tears of joy.

He truly didn't want to go out and work.

The reason was simple: work was too tiring, the pressure was too great.

Making money was exhilarating—like the "Sheep Eat Sheep" game, which earned Shen Mo two properties in one night.

But beyond making money, Shen Mo wanted even more to just lie flat.

Glancing at Liu Yue sleeping in his arms, letting out little snores, Shen Mo stared at the ceiling and began tallying up the assets under his name.

Thirty percent of Yue Mo Media's shares.

Five percent each in the Shen family and Liu family, but only with dividend rights; any sale had to be offered first to the Shen and Liu families.

Eighteen properties, including little Western-style houses, villas, large flats, and so on, currently bundled together and rented out to Hao Ya Media for filming, bringing in a tidy sum every year.

Baiyin Game Company—Shen Mo held sixty percent of the shares.

Savings: a little over six hundred million.

Shen Mo felt he could call himself a successful man.

So Shen Mo really, truly didn't want to work.

【Sigh, who can blame wifey for being the boss? Listen to wifey.】

Shen Mo gradually drifted off to sleep.

The next day, at the breakfast table, Shen Mo scrolled to a trending search.

Live-stream selling had exploded.

An old-school live-stream seller had been exposed for selling counterfeits, and he refunded the buyers.

But during last night's stream, people still went on a frenzy attacking him, and this big brother went ahead and blew up all the other big streamers.

To sum it up in one sentence: the live-stream selling circle was a rotten circle, full of counterfeits.

Like a certain streamer who sold mooncakes—he'd just set up a temporary mooncake processing factory, then started selling, purely to grab cash.

Once the sales were done, he'd shut that mooncake factory down.

To put it bluntly, he was treating everyone like leeks to be harvested.

This big streamer had even used his real name during the stream to report those counterfeits.

The most crucial part: late last night, a streamer selling eyebrow pencils openly looked down on buyers, saying viewers who couldn't afford a seventy-yuan eyebrow pencil were that way because they hadn't worked hard enough.

Then in the second half of the night, anti-counterfeit investigators revealed that the eyebrow pencil was a foreign brand—from an enemy country, no less.

In just one night—from Liu Yue's birthday to early morning, roughly twelve hours—the entire live-stream selling circle had blown up.

Countless netizens posted their refund orders, and live-stream sellers were left dumbfounded.

Shen Mo was genuinely stunned.

【This wouldn't affect Hao Ya Media and Yue Mo Media, would it?】

Liu Yue glanced at Shen Mo. She had also seen the news about the live-streaming circle blowing up, and she chuckled lightly: "Lucky for us, our company has always gone with genuine materials from the start."

"This wave of buzz—we're officially taking it in."

After saying that, Liu Yue dialed the general manager of Hao Ya Media. It was time for them to make their move.

Shen Mo couldn't help but admire Liu Yue's swift and decisive style.

With the promotional budget released, news quickly spread online that Hao Ya Media and Yue Mo Media sold genuine goods, every single product officially endorsed by the authorities and the two media companies.

The most crucial part: Hao Ya Media and Yue Mo Media sold goods to boost the Northeast economy, only making a small profit for themselves.

Not like other streamers, who were in it just to grab money.

The official platform then stepped in. Countless live-stream sellers' companies were raided—some made to pay back taxes, some banned outright—and the live-stream selling circle was instantly cut in half.

On top of that, Shen Mo watched with his own eyes as Liu Yue organized a batch of traditional national brands to set up their own live-stream rooms for selling goods, and publicly discussed live-stream selling on a financial program.

Liu Yue:

"The essence of live-stream selling should be adding another sales channel for products, not turning into a channel for harvesting leeks." "I think the future of live-stream selling should be companies themselves opening a live-stream sales platform in their own rooms, with prices a bit cheaper than physical stores, because you've cut out the distributors and storefront costs."

"Live-stream sellers won't disappear, but they should serve the public more, picking products that better suit people's hearts, like product testers."

"Not like the current live-stream selling circle, where streamers blow up and then, without a care, immediately start selling, cashing in while the traffic is hot."

"The shameless ones will just sell counterfeits directly, and some celebrities jump in to grab a quick buck and run."

"After all, one stream can earn a streamer tens of millions—money really does come fast. Like me, I personally invested in a hotel, and it only makes a few million a year."

"Of course, what I want to urge everyone even more is that we must be people with professional integrity and a conscience."

"Because only then can the business world survive and thrive."

"Competition isn't a problem—as long as your product is solid."

"But you absolutely must not make money without a conscience."

"Last line: everyone is welcome to review Liu Group's products."

"No fear, no dread."

Liu Yue's confident demeanor won her a huge wave of fans online, and Liu Group's stock popularity shot up steadily.

Even Shen Mo's reputation improved quite a bit.

When Shen Mo later went live and was asked what the luckiest thing in his life was, he answered without hesitation: meeting his wife, Liu Yue.

Fans asked why?

Shen Mo answered: she's too outstanding; following her, you can learn a lot of things.

Shen Mo openly shared the news Liu Yue had given before the New Year about the live-streaming circle blowing up.

Right after that, Shen Mo published all the data Liu Yue had compiled before entering the live-streaming circle.

Watching Liu Yue's tests on live-stream selling, the audience collectively gasped.

Stunned, that's terrifying.

No wonder Liu Yue chose to do real product promotion from the very start — there's a reason for it.

Setting everything else aside, the counterfeit rate shown in the data alone is scary enough.

At the same time, everyone also felt a touch of admiration rise for Liu Yue.

As expected of a strong woman — she's just that impressive.

At the same time, some people asked Shen Mo why, after a whole month had passed, his company still hadn't released a new game.

Whether the next game would still be something like "Sheep Eat Sheep."

Shen Mo's expression turned odd as he said, "No, the next game doesn't torment the mind — it's very simple, it's a parkour game."

"But there's just no finish line…"

"At most there's just a friends' leaderboard."

This is the second game that Xiao Zhi has overseen the development of.

After hearing this, the netizens were a bit disappointed and couldn't help asking, "Brother Mo, aren't you afraid your company will go bankrupt?"

Shen Mo shook his head — he truly wasn't afraid.

"Because my wife said that as long as I don't indulge in drinking, eating, whoring, and gambling, don't cheat and swindle people, and don't do anything illegal or disorderly, she can cover everything for me."

The people watching the livestream instantly lost their composure — holy crap, brother, you've gone too far.

Immediately afterward, Shen Mo's livestream was reported and shut down.

The reason for the report was: involving pornography.

A big brother screenshot the frame of Shen Mo drinking water with his Adam's apple showing, then reported him on that basis.

The instant the livestream closed, Shen Mo was completely dumbfounded, and everyone else was dumbfounded too.

Right after that, the big brother who filed the report posted his own report online.

"I've been single for thirty years, and you flaunt your love every day — don't you think that's going too far?"

(End of this chapter)