Chapter 71: This Lady Went Viral

Chapter 71: Chapter 71: This Lady Went Viral

That evening.

Staring at the dozens of gigabytes of study materials, Shu Yao felt like her head was about to explode.

She decided to cook a meal to de-stress.

Half of the small whitefish she had bought at Luoxing Port the other day were still left. Shu Yao decided to make full use of them, preparing a fish soup and some crispy pan-fried fish. This time, she didn’t serve them with noodles.

Her little uncle had bought a ton of eggs, and he had a huge appetite. She made an extra-large omurice, and prepared egg rolls for Xiao Juzi and Shu Xin.

Because of the pressure from her studies, she didn’t say much when she started her stream today.

But the chat room was buzzing with activity.

New streamers only get three tasting slots. Each time a streamer levels up, they gain one additional slot.

Top-tier food streamers are all Level 9, with a total of 12 tasting slots.

The highest streamer level is Level 10, which opens up 20 tasting slots at once.

Currently, no food streamer has reached Level 10.

Shu Yao had received a big donation yesterday, which a whale had used to boost her to Level 1, so she now had 4 tasting slots.

As soon as the stream went live today, some fans started rallying others to donate more to the streamer if they could afford it, to help her level up. That way, there would be more tasting slots available.

Chief Dan, who had benefited before, was also swept up in the moment and sent a donation to [Mommy SY].

He had just recklessly spent his allowance, which he’d been saving for years, and frankly, his heart ached. ’Thinking about my own terrible luck... Heh heh!’

His heart ached even more!

However, one more tasting slot meant one more chance for him.

Thinking of this, Chief Dan used his Light Brain to contact his aunt. "Auntie, could you lend me ten thousand Star Coins..."

Other fans were also busy trying to pull in wealthy patrons.

[Changing name for Sister Bao: Sent you a Super Starship!

Super Starship ×2!

Super Starship ×3

...

Super Starship ×99]

One Super Starship is worth ten thousand Star Coins.

Ninety-nine Super Starships—that’s 990,000 Star Coins!

[LetMeOutspendTheWorld: The guy above is a fake whale. Assessment complete!]

[LetMeOutspendTheWorld has donated 1,000,000 Star Coins to you!]

[Changing name for Sister Bao: Can’t compete, can’t compete. You’re the real flexer, LetMeOutspendTheWorld!]

[Money Control is very thick has donated 1,000,000 Star Coins to you!]

[Changing name for Sister Bao: Brother Hou is still the man—a whale of few words! This little brother is in awe!]

Chief Dan was stunned!

’It’s only her second day streaming, how did so many whales suddenly appear in the new host’s channel!?’

[Changing name for Sister Bao] was the super-lucky guy who had snatched a tasting slot yesterday and casually dropped a 100,000 Star Coin donation. He didn’t have this username yesterday, though.

After being completely won over by Shu Yao’s cooking, he had become a hardcore fan of the new host. LetMeOutspendTheWorld and Brother Hou were two of his buddies that he had just pulled into the stream.

Shu Yao was plating the sliced egg rolls when she looked up and was shocked by the viewership count in her stream!

’Over two million viewers!?’

’This has to be fake!!’

She had clearly used up all three of her free promotional boosts yesterday!

"Huh... how did I get three more tasting slots?"

"How do I get rid of this colorful notification at the top?"

"I can’t even see the chat messages anymore..."

Hearing her string of low mutters, Chief Dan knew the new host was lost in the complicated streaming functions.

He frantically typed out a few tips, but they were quickly buried in the flood of messages.

"Ah, forget it. I’ll just leave it as is," Shu Yao sighed in resignation. "Today’s menu for you all is quite extensive. We have omurice, egg rolls, fish soup, and crispy pan-fried fish. I hope you all enjoy it."

The screen instantly filled with comments saying they loved it.

「Meanwhile.」

Lin Zhenxiang was getting ready for her stream, her meticulous makeup rivaling that of a beauty vlogger.

A few minutes later, she started her stream right on schedule.

The moment her stream went live, she had over nine million viewers. Other than Lin Zhenxiang, probably no one else could pull that off.

Soon, her viewership broke ten million.

"Good evening, my Xiangxiang fans! Have I kept you waiting? I have some unfortunate news for everyone. Today is another no-cooking day."

"You all remember, right? Xiangxiang said here on the stream before that as long as the source of the food safety issue isn’t found, I won’t do a cooking stream for that day."

"Today, I’m going to give everyone a public update. If all goes well, starting tomorrow, I’ll be able to start doing cooking streams for you all again!"

As she explained, she posted a series of purchase receipts, pointing to a certain fishmonger in Luoxing Port as the source of the food safety problem. She adamantly claimed that the batch of small whitefish infected with a fish plague was the one her uncle had cheaply bought from this very vendor to cut costs.

Noticing her viewership had stalled at just over eleven million, Lin Zhenxiang grew distracted.

’Something’s wrong.’

’Something’s very wrong.’

’This wasn’t what she had expected at all!’