Chapter 1340

This was probably the most embarrassing moment for Luo Quan in many years.

For a female star, what would an embarrassing situation look like?

When walking the red carpet, falling flat on one's face because of a misstep.

When receiving an award, having a wardrobe malfunction because someone stepped on the hem of the gown.

When filming, being mocked by the entire internet for spouting profanities.

Luo Quan had never encountered any of these; except for that "Abyssal Bawang" incident, Luo Quan could hardly find any ugly photos of herself online, so her image could be said to be almost perfect.

But now, she finally experienced a feeling she had never felt in years: social death.

Falling out of bed isn't shameful, and a collapsed bed frame isn't shameful either.

But to collapse a bed frame while trying to get up, and then getting stuck inside and unable to get out, that is what you call shameful.

Because her current body is in an extremely unhealthy state, after falling into the broken bed frame, first her whole body was in pain, and then came a deep sense of powerlessness.

She tried very hard to break free, only to find that her limbs wouldn't listen to her at all.

Originally, she wanted to try hard on her own, but finally found it was impossible, so she could only shout in a mix of tears and laughter: "Help! Help! Is there anyone who can come and save me!"

Because it was morning, the neighbors had basically all gone to work; Luo Quan shouted for a long time without calling for a savior, but instead amused a group of fans in the livestream room:

"The most unbearable episode so far this year."

"Is this some kind of trap for catching wild boars?"

A more critical point was that Li Xiaomiao had cultivation; although movement was somewhat inconvenient, her physical strength and such were not a problem, and she could run for hours at a time.

Later, with the high-tech medicine provided by the system, she lost the weight very quickly.

But she now had nothing—no physical strength, no money, no high-tech weight-loss drugs; all she had was a Xiaomi phone with decent pixel quality.

Luo Quan used her carrot-thick fingers to swipe open the phone screen and looked at Luo Xiaoyuan's social life.

She mainly played on Weibo, Douyin, and Xiaohongshu, posting content that was just ordinary displays of looks and figure.

Luo Xiaoyuan had once been pretty; five years ago, before she was this fat, she had at least a 7/10 appearance, and even higher after makeup.

However, she suffered from depression after her father passed away, and to treat the illness, she took quite a lot of medicine.

Although the illness was cured, she developed a sequela—this extraordinary obesity.

Luo Xiaoyuan had tried many weight-loss methods, but unfortunately, the results were not obvious.

And as a girl who had once been pretty, Luo Xiaoyuan naturally couldn't just display her current appearance like this.

So, whenever she took photos or livestreamed, she would use PS technology to slim her face and body, maintaining her original appearance in the virtual world.

In Luo Xiaoyuan's view, this behavior didn't count as deception because she was originally that pretty; it was just that she really couldn't lose the weight now.

Relying on looks and a figure far exceeding the vast majority of influencers, Luo Xiaoyuan had accumulated over two million followers across several platforms.

However, because she hadn't signed with a studio, didn't like to sell goods, and didn't go on offline dates with top donors, her ways of making money were not many, and she lived entirely on fan tips.

It was quite comfortable for one person, and it was enough for her to change to a decent apartment.

However, Luo Xiaoyuan felt that this kind of room gave her more of a sense of security, so she never moved.

If this PS behavior was never exposed, then Luo Xiaoyuan wouldn't have any major problems; after all, she only appeared online and never participated in any offline activities.

But paper could never wrap up fire.

During a livestream connection one time, she accidentally turned off the PS, displaying her 260-jin physique completely to her fans for the first time.

At this, all of Luo Xiaoyuan's fans exploded on the spot.

They never dreamed that the goddess they were just licking the screen for and calling "wife" would turn into a nearly 300-jin Tiger tank in the blink of an eye.

After the shock came extreme anger; insults and demands for refunds rose one after another.

The name Luo Xiaoyuan was also sprayed onto the trending searches by angry netizens.

Overnight, Luo Xiaoyuan became famous, and her name became a symbol used to describe all fat women.

Countless netizens began to use her for memes and edit "ghost animal" videos, and even more entered her livestream room to mock, insult, and even tell her to go die without restraint.

Luo Xiaoyuan did not argue against this because she knew she had brought this upon herself.

After livestreaming for three days, Luo Xiaoyuan found that she really couldn't withstand the pressure brought by cyberbullying, and finally chose to temporarily withdraw from the internet to escape the abuse.

She thought that perhaps after this wave of the most intense attacks passed, everything might get better.

This was the backstory.

Even with Luo Quan's excellent mindset, seeing this situation, she couldn't help but sigh—this was truly a hellish start within a hellish start.

This was simply the "Qiao Biluo" of this world; after Qiao Biluo withdrew from the internet, did netizens forget her?

Of course not. People say the internet has no memory, but for this kind of phenomenal meme, it could be called "fresh in memory," visible almost everywhere, and the frequency of appearance was quite high.

Just like Luo Xiaoyuan, her name had already become a symbol.

In this kind of super-headwind situation, wanting to turn things around, just apologizing probably wouldn't be of much use; the only way was to really lose the weight.

However, the first month or two would definitely not have obvious results, and she would probably be scolded very miserably.

Fortunately, Luo Quan considered her stress resistance to be quite good; as long as she kept telling herself that they weren't scolding her, the problem wouldn't be particularly big.

In any case, let's check Weibo first.

Logging into the account, Luo Quan discovered she hadn't logged in for ten days; the latest Weibo post was her apology for deceiving netizens, and it now had nearly 100,000 comments.

Taking a look, 80% were scolding her, 10% were mocking, and 10% were fans pretending to like her but secretly mocking her.

In short, there was no one helping to say anything nice.

But that was normal; in this situation, without hiring internet trolls, how could anyone say anything nice?

Those so-called "saints" online were actually fake; without money, who would be a saint?

The situation was very bad, but Luo Quan wasn't discouraged at all; instead, she opened the livestream room and changed the title to "Apologizing for yesterday's deception, starting weight loss today, tomorrow will be better."

To be fair, although she was scolded miserably this time, it also brought her considerable traffic.

Originally, her followers on Douyin were just over a million, but now it had grown to 1.56 million; probably because those who came to scold her clicked follow to make it more convenient to scold her on her account in the future.

Sure enough, as soon as she started the stream, the heat immediately soared to 100,000.

Douyin's heat was different from other websites; reaching 100,000 already made one a big streamer. She was previously just a second or third-tier small streamer, with heat only around 30,000 to 40,000.

If she wore clothes with a lower neckline that night, the heat might be 10,000 or 20,000 higher, but it had never broken 100,000.

No wonder those celebrities in the entertainment industry liked to do controversial things and say anti-intellectual things.

Perhaps they knew that doing so would get them scolded, but doing so brought heat, and not just ordinary heat; it might directly increase their followers by more than 10%.

Luo Quan now recognized the wonders of this method, but the problem was, how could the reputation that had collapsed because of this be rebuilt?

Next, she decided to conduct a complete experiment.

"Yo, you still dare to come out and livestream to make easy money?"

"Among so many pieces of trash, you can be considered the brave one; you even dare to come online."

"I thought you had already withdrawn from the internet. You must hold on; if you withdraw, there will be no one to fill the void of entertainment I'm missing."

"Why isn't the streamer showing her face? It's almost New Year's; let me see what a New Year's pig looks like."

"Haha, you guys are too outrageous. Don't scold so hard right from the start; it won't be fun if you scold her away later."

"Streamer, what's your weight? Is it convenient to talk about it?"

"What are you doing? Can a girl's weight be asked casually?"

"Is this a girl? It's a 'milk child' (a pun on 'girl' and 'suckling pig'); one equals three."

"I feel like Luo Xiaoyuan is about to drop little pearls (tears)."

"Time to kill the pig."

………………

As expected, the public opinion environment was very bad, even worse than she had anticipated.

Often livestreaming on Bilibili, plus her special status on Bilibili, meant she almost never saw any aggressive comments.

Now that she had suddenly changed to a different environment, these aggressive words came one after another, never stopping.

Fortunately, although their aggressiveness was strong, at least they didn't use dirty words.

It was much better than Weibo, which was full of reproductive organs and constantly escalated to family members.

Luo Quan felt it for a while and indicated that she felt nothing; they could increase the intensity a bit more.

Of course, if such words full of mockery were spoken, then she shouldn't think about turning her reputation around.

The last female streamer who mocked fans because of a scandal had already completely cooled down, dropping from the original 10,000 VIPs to a pitiful few hundred, many of which were troll accounts from a guild.

It was equivalent to scaring away all her paying audience just for a moment of pleasure on her tongue.

Luo Quan didn't know how many paying viewers she had left; perhaps none, but at least she couldn't leave a bad impression on the new fans.

Although her predecessor deceiving people was indeed wrong, as long as she apologized sincerely and made up for it actively later, it wasn't impossible to turn things around.

Therefore, every step of the operation now was very critical.

First, she had to keep her cool; second, she must never be stubborn.

Facing the overwhelming scolding, Luo Quan turned the camera to the front, exerted her perfect acting skills, squeezed out a smile that was 70% apologetic, 20% sad, and 10% awkward, and said: "I apologize to everyone for my previous deception."

However, because she was too fat, her face full of fat couldn't show such delicate expressions at all.

This smile was uglier than crying.

"Damn, take your face further away; you scared the baby to death!"

"My mom asked me why a pig appeared on my phone; I said this is the latest heavy tank."

"Streamer, you'd better turn off the camera when you talk; it's really a bit scary."

"Is this expression of yours laughing or mourning? Bad luck."

"The apology is quite sincere, but if you know you did something wrong and only know how to apologize, what do we need the police for?"

"Refund! I feel sick just thinking about having used your photos before!"

"To be reasonable, it was very top-tier when PS-ing; who knew the real person was this pig-like."

"Calling her a pig is an insult to pigs."

……………………

The intensity continued to rise. Luo Quan took a deep breath and continued: "Actually, I really looked like that in the PS photos before, but because I got depression and took medicine, I became fat.

Of course, it was indeed wrong for me to deceive everyone like this, so if you want a refund, you can send me a private message, and I will slowly refund everyone later."

The barrage laughed upon hearing this:

"Classic, I knew there would be depression."

"Family members, who understands? I was cyberbullied into depression."

"About the days I was cyberbullied—I got depression—don't laugh challenge—livestreaming to sell goods; you've entered the second stage now, right?"

"I'm not interested in this kind of crap; I just want to ask how the feelings I had for you are calculated?!"

"Damn, I also had real feelings back then; now I regret it to death."

"Doesn't matter, at least the voice is still quite nice; it's all the same with the lights off."

"Maybe the feel is even better."

"You guys are really not picky."

………………

After a round of apologies, the intensity of the barrage's words decreased somewhat.

Most people actually eat soft but not hard; if you keep apologizing and acting pitiful, they will restrain themselves somewhat.

Conversely, if you dare to be hard to the end, then there is really no saving you.

As for Luo Quan, although the expression on her face was fake, the feelings she wanted to make up for were real, because she really wanted to lose weight.

"First of all, I am really grateful to those fans who still have feelings for me.

I know many of you are old fans who have followed me from the beginning. I want to tell you that your feelings were not wasted, because what you liked was my original appearance, so this is not fake.

And to respond to this love, and to make up for my mistakes, I have decided to start losing weight from today.

Just now, a viewer asked me how many jin I weigh; here I can clearly tell everyone that I am 260 jin, and my weight loss goal is half, which is 130 jin."

Luo Quan paused here, took a breath, and continued: "I know everyone must think I'm bragging, or that it's an excuse to continue making easy money.

Anyway, no matter how I swear now, you won't believe me, so I decided to use action to prove my determination."

Saying this, Luo Quan supported herself on the bed with both hands, deciding to go downstairs and start running.

Who knew that because the movement was too big, the bed board collapsed directly; with a bang, Luo Quan sank right into it.

"Boss, you're foolish; haven't you been deceived enough before?"

"Some fans are really licking; you tipped a goddess created by PS, which is fine, but now that the real person is right in front of you, why are you still willing to tip?"

"To be fair, I think Xiaoyuan still has some bright spots; even after encountering heavy blows, she never cried. This is already stronger than most people."

"I think Xiaoyuan's eyes are quite pretty; if she loses weight, she should be very beautiful."

"You're overthinking it; at most, she's a four or five out of ten."

"Don't you think the host's skin is very good? White and tender."

"The pig at my house is also white and tender, and it has an indescribable fat beauty."

"Hahaha, that stings, old buddy."

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After watching the barrage for a while, Luo Quan found that these viewers were obviously still mainly teasing and didn't believe she really had this determination.

But that's normal; if Luo Quan had encountered those deceptions before, she certainly wouldn't be able to believe it either.

So she didn't refute these disparaging remarks, but said: "I know everyone doubts that I'm putting on a show, but I believe that I can break all doubts with action; everyone just needs to watch how I do it from now on."

After finishing, Luo Quan stood up, fixed her phone to her head with a selfie stick, and then started running.

The park in the city center doesn't have a large area; running a lap is about 300 meters.

Luo Quan originally planned to run three and a half laps to hit 1,000 meters, but she was already panting like an ox after running only one and a half laps.

It's not that she didn't want to persist; it's just that her body was already at its limit.

But even if she couldn't run three and a half laps, she had to at least finish two laps to make it a round number.

So even though Luo Quan was panting more and more heavily and her speed was getting slower and slower, she still forced herself to move her legs and run.

This, however, scared the viewers in the livestream room:

"With your body type, don't do this; weight loss also needs to consider the actual situation."

"Don't die on my phone."

"Run a lap first; weight loss is a gradual process; it's impossible for a person to lose dozens of jin in one day."

"Rest a bit; it sounds truly scary."

"That's fine, host; I recognize your determination; let's leave it at that for today."

"Everyone just wants to watch the fun; we don't really want to see someone lose their life in the livestream room."

"I'm begging you."

………………

Luo Quan didn't look at the barrage in the livestream room; of course, like all the previous barrages, she wouldn't take it to heart even if she looked.

Because she is losing weight for herself, so these remaining tens of meters, even if she faints, she must finish running before fainting!