Chapter 73: So Real

Liu Yue and Shen Mo were helpless, but who could blame Auntie Wenya for telling the truth?

Under the circumstances, the two finished dinner in a foul mood.

In the evening, the viewers in the livestream room were lucky enough to watch Shen Mo studying management knowledge under Liu Yue's coercion.

Book after book on management was piled on Shen Mo's desk.

Liu Yue sat beside Shen Mo like a teacher, supervising him.

Shen Mo would also ask questions from time to time, for example, what does the phrase "emotional management is a must for managers" mean?

Does it mean staying calm when Mount Tai collapses before you, or keeping joy and anger from showing on your face?

Liu Yue gave a relaxed explanation: in practice, this phrase means when you encounter a difficult problem, don't fly into a rage, don't be irritable, don't be anxious—stop, and think it through slowly.

Some things can't be solved by raging helplessly.

So don't rush, don't panic, keep your emotions stable, and handle things in an orderly manner.

Then Liu Yue told Shen Mo about some companies in the industry that died because of their managers' emotional instability.

For example, when the food-delivery industry was just taking off and countless entrepreneurs rushed into it, there was a delivery company called Shansu.

Their boss had thrown the entire family fortune into the industry.

Perhaps the pressure was too great, so his emotional management was always unstable. After finally building the company up and gaining some market competitiveness, he collapsed because a delivery driver was late with an order and received a bad review, and he wouldn't stop cursing and beating the driver.

As a result, every delivery driver in the entire district quit, and the market they had just captured instantly collapsed.

These are all bloody lessons.

"The matter wasn't a big one, because that company wasn't particularly big either. Back then it was only somewhat famous in Jinghai."

"So the incident didn't spread, but those who knew about it took it as a warning."

Liu Yue spoke lightly, but Shen Mo and the others could clearly sense a wave of bleakness.

At nine in the evening, Liu Yue only called Shen Mo to wash up and rest after finishing reading the company emails.

The livestream also ended here.

The topic hanging on the hot search made many people unhappy.

Especially some带货 livestreamers.

How dare you say the goods we promote are fake.

We admit there are those among us streamers who sell counterfeit goods, but you can't tar us all with the same brush.

Anger was there, but resistance was not.

It wasn't that those product-promoting live-streamers didn't dare to push back; it was simply that they all had shady histories, and they also knew exactly what kind of shoddy stuff the cheap goods they promoted really were.

A few top streamers who occasionally did product-promoting on the side answered calmly when netizens asked about it during their live-stream chats.

"Actually, for top streamers like us, everyone has their own fixed way of making money."

"For example, I'm a gaming streamer. I mainly take ads—one ad is several hundred thousand yuan, taking a few a month is enough."

"And those top streamers who specialize in PK battles, the tips they pocket each month also run into the millions."

"So for us, product-promoting is just something we do occasionally, riding on their popularity and making some quick cash on the side."

"As for what you netizens asked me—how I view the behavior of selling fake goods on live-stream, and how I view President Liu's exposé of the inside story of live-stream product-promoting?"

"I can only say one thing: just look at whether they've publicly denounced President Liu and you'll understand."

"Anyway, as a veteran gaming streamer who's been mixing on various platforms for over a decade, in my view, anyone who was truly in the clear would have blown up by now."

The truthful and direct words made the people in the livestream room burst out laughing, laughing so hard they sprayed.

Immediately after, someone asked this veteran streamer: since taking ads makes so much money, why do you still accept tips?

Why not focus on taking ads, or focus on tips?

The veteran streamer smiled and said helplessly: "Can't be helped."

"The road of specializing in PK battles for tips is too exhausting."

"Take the top one, for example—he PKs at least twelve hours a day, usually fourteen or fifteen, occasionally eighteen."

"The tips I take in each month are only enough to send benefits to everyone."

"So time, money, and my body don't allow me to walk a single path; I have to do both, and occasionally I have to earn some extra cash from product-promoting." "But I can guarantee that the goods I promote are genuine."

"At the very least, you get what you pay for."

Similar answers could be found all over the internet.

Some people also curiously asked whether these top streamers were afraid of Liu Yue, afraid of Ms. Wenya.

After all, Ms. Wenya is the one who holds the giant conglomerate enterprises of the entertainment and influencer circles—San Sheng Entertainment and Hao Ya Media.

Many major events in the influencer circle involve Hao Ya Media's participation.

For example, some large exhibitions, some small-scale tour concerts by influencer-streamers—Hao Ya Media's presence can be seen in all of them.

A fairly famous top female singing streamer, Han Ya, when asked this question, answered with a smile: "Interpret it however you like, but I can only say one thing—Ms. Wenya is an extremely, extremely polite and cultured lady."

"When my previous tour performance went to the Northeast, the company's person in charge once took me to pay a visit to Ms. Wenya."

"I can say she was the gentlest female CEO I've ever met."

"Like a spring breeze."

Another male influencer who had gone viral by shipping CP gave a similar answer.

He said that after meeting Ms. Wenya, he never wanted to ship CP again.

She perfectly embodied a man's fantasy of a wife.

A top female influencer known for her beauty transformations gave a similar answer.

She said Ms. Wenya was as warm and gentle as sunlight.

Once you met her, it was hard to forget.

The most famous incident was this summer when she went to attend a comic convention, and then it rained.

The elegant lady passing by booked a coach bus for them when they were at a loss.

The reason was simple: the elegant lady felt that, as girls, they had to look out for one another.

After a round of questions, by the wee hours the elegant lady had already shot up to the trending searches.

These top streamers basically didn't say anything bad about the elegant lady — all of it was praise.

The incidents they recounted were all verifiable.

This made many people draw a sharp breath, utterly unable to imagine one person's reputation could be this good.

At the breakfast table the next morning, Shen Mo and Liu Yue saw the elegant lady's reply.

"Elegant Lady: I didn't expect I was such a good person in everyone's eyes?

Thank you all for the compliments. I just want to say one thing — whether in how we treat people or how we do things, we should try our best to act with a clear conscience toward others.

So, I hope everyone going forward will rise step by step and strike it rich.

Go go go!"

Below it was also attached an unedited photo of the elegant lady making a fist-pumping cheer.

Seeing this, Shen Mo couldn't help but sigh: "The elegant lady really knows how to chat."

"She knows netizens all want to strike it rich."

Liu Yue shot Shen Mo a look: "Who doesn't want to strike it rich?"

"Money — that thing, you can never earn enough of it."

Some netizens who had just entered the livestream burst out laughing on the spot — too real, too meme-worthy.

Why do we like Liu Yue and Shen Mo?

Because the two of them don't put on airs.

Unlike some rich folks, who every other breath toss out a line like, 'I'm not interested in money, I've never touched money.'

If you're so badass, then don't earn it.

(End of chapter)