Chapter 487: Everyone Else Exits, Wang Gang Stays

Bai Liang ultimately couldn't take Rourou to breed for profit.

On one hand, Li Yitong disagreed—she, as this "parent," was overly autocratic and never asked Rourou if it wanted to.

On the other hand, the production team wasn't sure if doggy erotica would pass censorship, so they advised Bai Liang not to go through with it.

Still, they gave Rourou plenty of close-ups; after all, it had nearly been forced into "selling itself," and even if it failed to go through, the footage would definitely be highly entertaining when aired.

The editors will add some funny expressions and subtitles to the dog.

"Technically, there's nothing wrong with it—in fact, on a show my friend worked on, a dog once hugged a male guest's leg."

Hearing this, Chen Chichi's eyes lit up instantly. "I was on that show too! Huang Jingyu and Ruan Miss Jing Tian, right? The one called 'Let's Date, Big Star'—that scene absolutely haunted me for life."

"What?"

"On that show, Huang Jingyu reached out to pet the dog. I don't know if it felt good, but since Ruan Miss Jing Tian had his legs crossed, the dog just climbed right onto his lap."

Chen Chichi described it vividly—and it's easy to find online too, because although the show had little buzz, that moment is definitely one of the most iconic in variety show history.

In simple terms: Ruan Miss Jing Tian got dogged.

And that clip was aired as-is, clearly no problem with censorship.

But after Li Yitong searched for it on her phone and watched, though her smile couldn't hold, she said: "I can't let my Rourou do that on the show~"

What would Rourou even do as a dog afterward if this happened on TV?

How could it ever hold its head up again when it met its friends, like Meng Jie's Chocolate?

Chocolate: Rourou, I heard you went into selling yourself before?

Ugh! How humiliating for the kid!

"Alright then, let's just go work obediently," Bai Liang said—he wasn't determined to drag a good girl into this; the entertainment value had already been achieved, and whether Rourou sold itself or not didn't really matter.

Fortunately, after winning the "Rourou Defense War," Li Yitong kindly offered that she and Dou Xiao Tian would help too—she wouldn't let him shoulder the burden of supporting both of them alone.

But the moment they voiced this attitude, Bai Liang rubbed his chin. "Wait—that's wrong! It should be YOU two supporting ME!"

"Huh?"

"I'm a son-in-law—I'm supposed to stay home and look beautiful."

Before Li Yitong could respond, Dou Xiao Tian eagerly chimed in: "Brother's right!"

"See? Since we're also promoting the drama, we need to do our 'duty'—I'm even going to attend the Male Virtue Academy in the show! Perfectly the wife works outside while the husband stays home—decided! I'll go take a nap now; you two go work hard."

"Alright then, you stay put at home," Li Yitong and Dou Xiao Tian smiled. "We'll go out hunting and bring back good food for you."

Thus, after escaping the fate of "selling itself," Rourou's owner Bai Liang found another way to dodge work entirely.

"I think you're being unfair—how can you let girls support you?" Deng Chao couldn't help but interject.

Bai Liang glanced at him. "Brother Deng, don't speak on family status—you're not qualified."

Deng Chao, out!

One move, instantly defeated!

"This Immortal is truly sinister—open a class, I'll kneel to learn." Chen Chichi laughed.

Deng Chao immediately switched expressions, flashing a flattering smile, quick to pick up the joke: "Brother Liang~~ I want to learn too!"

In that instant, he seemed possessed by "Jiu'er"—everyone around him broke out in goosebumps.

Although they didn't have to go out to work, Bai Liang and Lu Han, who stayed behind with him, weren't idle either.

How many TV dramas can one episode promote?

Answer: four.

"The Son-in-Law," "You Are My Glory," "My Dear Boyfriend," and "Crossfire."

"The Son-in-Law" needs no mention; "You Are My Glory" relies mainly on verbal promotion—by the time this episode airs, "Glory" should have just ended.

As for "My Dear Boyfriend" and "Crossfire," it's even simpler.

Log in! Log in!

"Why do you have two computers in your RV?" Lu Han asked, surprised after boarding.

"What's so new? The car next door is mine too—it's got another one. Same specs, mainly for gaming with friends. Wanna play two rounds of CF? Tencent people said your drama's pretty good—will you really quit acting?"

"I'm not good at acting anyway, so we're really not going to work? Feels kinda embarrassing."

"I was just joking—I'll take you to do game boosting for money later."

"Game boosting? Like, paid gaming?" Lu Han's eyes lit up—he hadn't even considered this possibility.

"Didn't the production team say first, you can't be recognized, and second, you can only do ordinary jobs? Game boosting is an ordinary job that doesn't require showing your face—and it pays well too."

Though the reasoning sounded solid, if they just sat around doing nothing and played games, they'd surely be roasted by viewers when the episode aired.

That's why Lu Han felt embarrassed—but if Bai Liang was going to get roasted alongside him, he was willing to take the heat.

Still, this guy seemed to have found a way to play games without getting criticized.

Viewers now love hunting for "lazybones" in these reality shows.

Especially in labor-intensive ones—everyone watches closely to see who slacks off and who does the most.

A classic example is "Go Back to the Village"—it's practically a full-team hunt for the lazy one.

That show was brutal on Peng Yuchang—he actually worked his ass off, so everything he ate tasted delicious; no matter what dish Huang Laoshi invented, he devoured it all.

He earned the nickname "Chang Wei Bing."

And even earlier, Liu Xianhua—the original labor beast—just look at how much he did and how much he was controlled.

The nickname "Lan Ming Hua" fits him perfectly.

So here's the question: how do you stay relatively unexhausted on a show without making viewers think you're lazy?

Answer: post-production editing.

An episode is only an hour or so long—put in half an hour of real work, and the editors can easily turn you into the hardest worker.

Of course, tasks like rice transplanting, where progress is instantly visible, won't work.

But Bai Liang didn't slack off today—he even thought about giving the audience more program material.

So after thinking it over, Bai Liang decided against taking any boosting jobs and instead persuaded Lu Han to go together as a companion player.

"Companion player? You've got some wild ideas!"

This time, Lu Han was genuinely interested—he might not be able to do boosting, since although he liked gaming, his skill wasn't as high as Bai Liang's.

Going to boost for others might even cost him money.

But companion playing was different—it was all about emotional value; just keeping her company was enough.

Lu Han: I've managed so many female fans—I can't even charm one young lady who hires a companion player?

Seeing his confidence, Bai Liang couldn't help reminding him: "You announced your relationship and offended countless female fans—is that called charming?"

After the other's expression froze on his face, Bai Liang quickly urged him to start figuring out how to be a companion player.

Bai Liang had done this job in his past life—he knew plenty about the process and service.

But he didn't last long; after just a few days, a Bai Fumei who loved gaming invited him offline, and he started eating soft rice.

For him, this job was actually quite profitable—easier to earn than being a male model.

The salary for companion playing wasn't much, but Bai Liang's luck meant the tips he received were outrageous.

Plus, online, behind the screen, people's shame was greatly reduced—things you could never say face-to-face became easy to say online.

It was like wearing a mask, but actually taking it off.

Unfortunately, because cameras were filming beside them, Bai Liang and Lu Han couldn't fully shed their masks—they still had to hold back, and certain wolfish phrases were definitely off-limits.

"So we just wait for someone to pick us now?"

As he said this, Lu Han felt strange, like he was going to a nightclub to be a young master—waiting for someone to pick you?

"Pretty much. Usually you take turns on mic; when it's our turn, we introduce ourselves—if the client is satisfied, they keep us."

Lu Han listened, stunned: "Dude, you actually did this?"

And this is basically the nightclub model—everyone else leaves, Wang Gang stays!

Bai Liang: "The professional term for that is 'screening.'"

After all preparations were done, the two had officially joined the ranks of companion players.

Now they just waited for a fated young lady to pick them and start their big earning mode!

Bai Liang was confident—he said today might even earn back yesterday's dinner.

Lu Han found this strange—could companion players earn this much? A few thousand a day?

But then he thought again: two generations of top-tier "servants" catering to one person—earning more was normal.

Yet looking at their companion player IDs—one "Big Immortal," one "Dou Xiao Lu."

Lu Han couldn't help asking: "Aren't these too obvious?"

"What are Zhao Ge and the others doing?"

"They're going to a mimicry show in Hengdian. Oh—so this is mimicry too, right?"

"Yeah~ Mimicking Bai Liang and Dou Xiao Lu—even their voices sound just like them."

Hmm, Zhan Lao thought the same.

These two really do sound alike.

Zhan Ying, who had tried livestreaming for days with mediocre results and few fans, was still sticking to it today.

But the pitifully small number of viewers in her livestream made her genuinely discouraged.

Still, Go players had patience—her livestreaming career had just begun, no rush.

But playing Go nonstop in the livestream was too dull, so she started learning from other streamers: relaxing by playing games, and hiring companion players for entertainment.

Then she picked "Bai Liang" and "Dou Xiao Lu."

To be fair, their voices really did sound alike—hopefully they'd deliver some entertainment.

But the main reason was they were cheap—the lowest price among all companion players, and they were running a "buy one, get one free" promotion.

Too good a deal! Not picking them makes you un-Chinese!

"Hey hey hey~ Can you hear me? Can you hear me?"

"You really do buy one, get one free?"

"Of course! Miss, picking us is a real steal," Bai Liang said, nudging Lu Han with his elbow, signaling him to say something too—don't be so shy.

"Cough, uh, hi, I'm Lu Han."

"Okay okay, I know you're Lu Han, no need to introduce yourself again—it's embarrassing."

Zhan Ying, while replying, quickly changed her livestream title: Hehe, now it's "Playing Games with Bai Liang and Dou Xiao Lu."

But she cleverly added quotation marks.

Trick one viewer at a time~

"What game do you want to play, Miss?" Bai Liang, as the main attraction, asked again.

"Uh… what games are you good at? I'm not good at any."

"Anything! League of Legends, Honor of Kings, CrossFire, PUBG, Hearthstone… chess, Go, Ludo—we can do it all! We can accompany you in anything!"

"You're full of it~ So good at everything?"

Zhan Ying thought this "Bai Liang" seemed even more suited to livestreaming than she was—total nonsense spouting.

Wait—he just said Go?

"Not boasting—I really can. For team games, I'll lead you to victory; for competitive games… I can lose in all sorts of ways to make you happy. Of course, if you like losing, I can accommodate that too."

Such an arrogant tone made the few viewers in Zhan Ying's livestream suddenly active in the comments.

"Play Go with him! Let this kid feel the level of a professional 2-dan!"

"Eagle, today you've got a soft target—this 'Bai Liang' dares to mention Go? Perfect—he's walked straight into Eagle's strongest and only strong suit!"

"The companion-gaming scene really has all kinds of talents these days. But honestly, these two bros' voices really do sound a lot like Bai Liang and Lu Han~ they've got a bit of that flavor."

"Maybe they really are~ our Yingjiang is about to strike it rich too."

"Not even half-real, it's just sound-card effects. If they're real people, I'll eat my hat."

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Glancing at his own now livelier barrage of comments, Zhan Ying felt the companion gamers he'd hired were indeed doing a decent job.

Mainly the voices really do sound alike. He hadn't really picked up on Lu Han's voice, but he'd recently been watching Bai Liang's drama, and Bai Liang didn't use dubbing either — it was all his real voice. Listening now, it really was exactly the same.

"Let's play other games first, and I'll play Go with you at the end!"

"Sure thing, Young Lady, whatever you say — point and we'll strike." Lu Han, too, was gradually getting into the groove.

This strange feeling of playing himself made him start finding the fun in it.

"I feel like you're not imitating Lu Han very well — let Bai Liang talk more." Yingjiang, as the boss, began getting picky.

Lu Han:???

What do you mean, not very well?

One moment of cheerfulness had earned him over an hour of introversion to follow.

And the next game segment, on the other hand, proved Bai Liang's skills were still top-notch!

He could even sweet-talk guys like Lin and Xin into understanding — sweet-talking girls in a game was even more a piece of cake.

The viewers in Yingjiang's livestream felt it most directly: they could see the corners of her mouth curling up uncontrollably. She couldn't suppress her smile.

"Oh no, this kid really has Yingjiang wrapped around his finger."

"This bro can definitely make a living doing companion gaming. He's not the type to just shamelessly flatter — he encourages you while taking care of you. Just now when Yingjiang took down her first enemy, the way she was happy, it felt even more joyful than her winning several Go games in a row."

"Even I'm a guy and my heart's fluttering. The emotional value is just too on point!"

"Even though I didn't get a single chicken dinner, I acknowledge this 'Bai Liang's' skill — he really made Yingjiang find the fun in this game."

"'Lu Han' isn't doing so well — he only knows how to flatter every now and then, and doesn't even flatter the right spots."

"The scariest part is, I feel like this bro is being completely sincere. Damn, what kind of succubus is this?! Who could resist that?"

"Holy crap! Yingjiang just tipped — stay calm!"

"It's over, she's been hooked and reeled in~"

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Clearly, Bai Liang had already coaxed Yingjiang on the other side of the screen into a bit of a daze — five hundred big ones flung out just like that.

He himself hadn't expected that, when he'd previously agreed on Wild Fox to go be her top donor, now he was the one making her blow her coins first.

At this point, Lu Han, standing beside him, was looking at Bai Liang with a gaze that was already ten parts off, make that twelve.

That admiration seemed to flow like a mighty river, endless and unceasing.

He finally understood why this guy Bai Liang could stir up the entertainment circle and have so many young ladies throwing themselves at him one after another. And this was only online!

He couldn't even imagine, offline with other enhancements added in, what kind of state this guy Bai Liang could work the girls into.

Bai Liang: Not really, I'm usually pretty passive.

But in the end, the finishing blow against Yingjiang came in that final game of Go.

Bai Liang didn't hold back at all — he registered a smurf account and fought Yingjiang to the bitter end.

Then won by a hair.

Hey, I played pretty well today — actually won.

The result successfully stunned Yingjiang. She was a professional second-dan, and she lost at Go to a companion gamer?

In the end, she tipped Bai Liang while crying, acknowledging his skill, but her Dao heart was a little shattered.

At this point, Lu Han was looking at Bai Liang the way you'd look at a ghost — first he made her laugh, then he made her cry, and then she still went and showered him with coins.

This guy, thank goodness he went into the entertainment circle!

Otherwise, if he'd been let loose out in society, he'd probably be a real menace.

Damn, if this guy went into pyramid schemes or scams or something, he'd probably be expanding and growing stronger in minutes.

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One more update later tonight

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