Chapter 112: This Wave Of Advantage Is Mine
“I’m really sorry, I didn’t expect them to use off-the-board tactics…”
After hearing that her fans had hired Internet Trolls for vote manipulation, Zhou Mumu immediately found Yu Wei to express her apology.
She actually couldn’t control this kind of thing either.
“No need to apologize.”
Yu Wei hadn’t suffered any loss. The Internet Trolls coming to vote also had to subscribe to new chapters. To be precise, he had even made money from it.
The biggest victims in this incident were actually Zhou Mumu’s fans. It was just a fake competition, but they bled money buying votes, which really wasn’t rational.
But they themselves didn’t feel like they had lost. Beating their archenemy was a win, and they gained respect and recognition from other fan circles. In this battle, they made a name for themselves.
It sounded abstract, and that was right. Fan circle group thinking was originally quite different from normal people. Maybe those big fan leaders could even make a lot of money in the name of crowdfunding…
Fei Hong’s fans, as the archenemies, didn’t lose out either. Although the competition had developed to the point where they had no chance of winning, forcing their opponent into a desperate situation was satisfying to think about.
Yu Wei’s Mischief Maker readers lost even less. Even though they sighed and groaned after being sneak-attacked by the Internet Trolls, it was just wise man time.
As long as there was any new fun, they would forget about it right away. For readers, seeing fan circle vote manipulation like this was a huge win.
Brushing the rankings for a fake competition—doesn’t that invite laughter?
It could only be said that most fan circle behaviors were quite entertaining in the eyes of ordinary people. Even for a fake competition, when it involved status and position, there was no room for compromise.
This kind of thing was just like fighting for ranking—meaningless, but you had to fight…
Eighteen hours after voting began, the vote gap between the two sides had already reached double digits, clearly losing any possibility of a comeback.
Regarding this, the person involved, Fei Hong’s evaluation was.
“Losing to Mu Mu, I’m perfectly willing.”
Still showing affection here—go fight in the revival match!
Although the like-giving time hadn’t ended yet, Yu Wei could already prepare Fei Hong’s defeat CG in advance. He could just fill in the specific numbers later.
The loser group was tough to fight in. Killing out from a quarantine zone of thirty-eight people wouldn’t be easy. If it really didn’t work, Yu Wei could only arrange some tough opponent for him…
He didn’t want to use the author’s big hand to interfere with the competition, but providing some props was fine. Ultimately, it still depended on his strength.
However, Yu Wei not only had to wrap up the first match today but also start the second match. He had originally planned to write about Zhang Lingye, but the most suitable opponent for Zhang Lingye hadn’t replied yet.
Zhang Lingye definitely needed to be matched against Qi Yuan. Yu Yuan versus Octopus, fighting from off-stage to on-stage—thinking about it was thrilling.
Most importantly, Yu Wei kind of wanted to see Qi Yuan’s fans forced to subscribe to his novel. If they wanted to vote for their idol, come subscribe.
Don’t want to subscribe? Then they’d be humiliated by Zhang Lingye’s fans…
He just liked seeing them reluctantly subscribe to the novel despite all their disdain, so Zhang Lingye’s battle had to wait for Qi Yuan’s reply first.
He didn’t know if Qi Yuan had seen it and deliberately not replied, or if he was really in seclusion.
“I’ll write about you first today, little bro.”
Su Jian was the one who replied after Zhang Lingye and the other two. When he heard he had a chance to enter the novel, he nearly jumped up in excitement.
A few days ago in the program, his performance had been so terrible that he thought the boss would dislike him. Unexpectedly, things took a turn, and he received an offer at this time.
Enter, he had to enter. Entering Yu Wei’s novel meant a high probability of blowing up, even if it meant dressing ugly, he’d be happy.
But Su Jian wanting to win was really difficult. In the last program, he couldn’t even sing a simple pop song properly. No song was suitable for him.
He was just too bad. To sneak into advancing, he could only go abstract. After thinking it over, Yu Wei decided to have him giao for three hours straight…
Yu Wei didn’t even need to waste a redeem opportunity for this—he could just open his mouth and do it.
He called Su Jian and imitated it twice for him. Su Jian got it after trying a few times—after all, this thing was truly brainwashing.
Why didn’t Yu Wei just send a voice message to teach him? Simple—he was afraid of leaving a black history…
“Boss, can this win?”
“No win guarantee, but fame guaranteed.”
Could he really harm his own little bro?
It would definitely blow up. Netizens nowadays were so abstract—winning votes wasn’t impossible.
Su Jian’s opponent was the internet celebrity Chen Chen from the previous cyber apprenticeship. Although the so-called mentor-disciple was just a gimmick, Chen Chen had connected with Yu Wei’s company because of it.
Entertainment companies also signed some internet celebrities. Chen Chen was one of Ying Huo Hua Wen’s newly selected newcomers. The two words “benefactor teacher” could be called a pledge of allegiance.
Yu Wei specially asked the company, and Chen Chen nodded like pounding garlic when she learned she could cameo in the novel, unaware of the kind of opponent she was about to face…
Internet celebrities lived up to their professionalism. Chen Chen recorded the video quickly. She chose “Invisible Wings.” The program’s second episode had just aired not long ago, and the song’s popularity hadn’t faded yet.
There was a bit of opportunism, but she sang it really well. Although her singing skill still had a gap compared to singers, she was still a bit stronger than actors like Fei Hong and Zhou Mumu.
After all, she was a musician who could write a song—her foundation was there.
[In the explosive gasps from the audience seats, Chen Chen ran forward on the extended stage through the accumulated water, the splashes from her high heels shattering into crystals under the spotlight.
The ending note of “even if badly hurt, no tearful light” carried a choking tremor, completely conquering the on-site audience’s hearts.
It was hard to imagine an internet celebrity singer could have such a performance.
The final lyrics turned into a breathy murmur. When the aftersound faded, she still stood in place. Silence lasted three seconds, then applause swept through the entire theater like a thunderstorm.
On the ring-shaped giant screen, her opponent for this round appeared: boy group idol, Su Jian.]
At the end of this chapter, Yu Wei simply made Chen Chen’s opponent clear. Readers probably had some idea of Su Jian’s strength, but they definitely couldn’t guess what Su Jian would sing…
Qi Luo An received the video as usual but still couldn’t help asking something else.
“Tonight, want to watch the program together?”
Program?
Yu Wei had been so focused on writing the plot for the Top Streamer competition these past two days that he’d almost forgotten about the program. The athlete special’s third episode was airing tonight.
“Gotta watch. If you don’t, you won’t know how much I suffered.”
This episode’s highlights were the inhuman special training, of course, plus Yu Wei’s script and that final rock music mini-battle.
After settling the evening plans, Yu Wei updated the new chapter. Everyone had expected Fei Hong’s defeat, but they didn’t think the second match would come so soon.
“Chen Chen? The internet celebrity of benefactor teacher Yu Wei?”
“Yeah, the singing video from the Easter Egg Chapter.”
“Internet celebrities really know how to shoot videos—good-looking and great-sounding. I don’t believe she can lose this.”
“Direct disciple—this one will get a free pass, right?”
Internet celebrity fans weren’t that exaggerated. The voting atmosphere for the second match should be much more harmonious.
When everyone saw her opponent was Su Jian, they were even more convinced it was a match with no suspense.
A bottom tier idol from a boy group—his leaked singing videos were unbearable, voice not even on pitch. What could this level compete with Chen Chen on?
Internet celebrity singing was bad compared to most singers, but compared to many boy group idols, it wasn’t necessarily worse.
Although internet celebrity singing lacked character, at least it wasn’t unpleasant. Male idols singing sometimes was truly deadly…
Even Chen Chen, who was constantly following Yu Wei’s novel, breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing the new chapter. She didn’t want to be eliminated too early.
Although it was a fake competition, persisting one more round in the book meant a few more chapters of exposure. Popularity was the reason to keep winning.
If she drew someone strong like Zhang Lingye, she might worry, but she really didn’t take someone like Su Jian seriously. A guy who couldn’t even sing—on what basis could he beat her?
This round, advantage in my hands!
At eight p.m., Music Blind Box’s third episode officially aired. Yu Wei wasn’t sure if it was his imagination, but he felt the program’s attention had seemingly dropped.
“It’s not just Music Blind Box—all programs’ attention has been affected these past two days. Guess why?”
Qi Luo An, who had joined the voice chat, sighed lightly. Why? So hard to guess…
It could only be said that people’s energy was limited. Yu Wei’s fake variety show had been hugely popular these two days, attracting many onlookers. This distraction would definitely impact other variety shows.
It wasn’t interfering with others’ playback volume, but the basket was only so big—if you took a bit, someone else would have less.
It didn’t have much impact now, but don’t forget Yu Wei’s program had just started being written. Once the plot formally got on track, influencing the variety show market wasn’t impossible.
“Who would’ve thought Zhou Mumu’s fans were so aggressive, throwing money to kill the competition.”
Top Streamer’s high discussion these past two days was inseparable from Zhou Mumu fans’ extreme behavior. Bad news travels fast—vote manipulation sparking hot debate was inevitable.
But this kind of thing probably wouldn’t happen again. Zhou Mumu’s fans spent money to build fame—they got it. Other fans throwing money later would just be inferior imitations.
Fan circle fans didn’t like being called copycats. If this competition had no other substantial rewards, vote manipulation would basically end here.
“Honestly, how many subscriptions for this chapter?”
Qi Luo An still knew the business. In the web novel circle, 100,000 average subscription was basically top-tier, but Yu Wei’s situation was different. His novel had long broken through the circle—and not simply so.
With so many songs he’d sung, he’d accumulated plenty of fans and song fans. Even two or three percent coming to read the novel was a huge number.
Yu Wei’s own fans, plus the fan circle fans who came to vote, plus the final Internet Trolls—this chapter’s subscriptions should be at least over 100,000.
Compared to the web novel circle, the entertainment industry was still a dimensional strike…
“For the voting chapter, over 300,000 maybe.”
“That few?”
Even though Qi Luo An had some expectation, she was still startled. This data was still too supermodel for the web novel circle.
“Average subscription is just a few tens of thousands. This chapter was just explosive.”
Yu Wei was very self-aware. This power didn’t belong to him. When he was a failure, he wouldn’t have dared to fantasize about numbers like this.
Qi Luo An calculated carefully. The number sounded impressive, but converted to manuscript fee, it wasn’t much for Yu Wei…
Manuscript fees topped out like that—not even as much as a star getting one business deal.
Mainly, although Yu Wei’s subscriptions were high, he updated too little. Squeezing out this bit daily like toothpaste and still wanting to make money?
“The program team knows how to play.”
Qi Luo An was still calculating when she subconsciously glanced at the screen upon hearing Yu Wei. This third episode was actually in flashback.
The program started without opening the blind box, instead directly playing a clip of Yu Wei and Xing Chao’s performance, then perfectly stopping at Xing Chao’s mistake.
The scene paused, and three big red characters appeared on the screen.
Mistake?
The camera cut, and the program restarted from the beginning, as if the earlier performance had never existed.
“The program team learned to tease the audience.”
This was something Yu Wei hadn’t expected. Deliberately moving their performance mistake to the front to attract viewers—it served a fishing purpose.
Had to say, this trick was effective. After the pause ended, bullet comments indeed popped up with a few question marks.
“Why aren’t you asking?”
Yu Wei thought Qi Luo An would at least ask about the situation upon seeing this, since she didn’t know about the third episode’s stage.
Not afraid he’d mess up the performance?
Qi Luo An’s answer was casual, as if the program team’s deliberate editing hadn’t stirred much in her.
“You couldn’t possibly make a mistake.”
Sudden extra update. Recently, writing efficiency feels back a bit—aiming for 8k and 10k daily next month!
