Chapter 291 - 236: Vastly Resourceful

Chapter 291: Chapter 236: Vastly Resourceful

"Chairman Xie, it’s a disaster!"

Lei Yibin’s opening words left Xie Baoquan completely stunned.

"Chairman Lei..."

"What do you mean by that?"

Xie Baoquan asked tentatively, a bad feeling suddenly welling up inside him.

"Chairman Xie, you need to stop, right now."

Lei Yibin said with a sigh, "That Xingchuan International Group... they’re not someone you can afford to provoke."

Hearing this, Xie Baoquan’s expression became uncertain.

He had originally thought Lei Yibin was calling to play the peacemaker and mediate the situation. He never expected the man was here to tell him to surrender.

"Chairman Lei, I can stop."

Xie Baoquan said with a frown, "But you have to tell me—why can’t I afford to provoke this Xingchuan International Group?"

"Xingchuan International Group is Gu Heng’s enterprise. And Gu Heng is the ’Prince Heng’ who splurged over seventy million in a single night on a TikTok live stream a while back."

"He just called me and asked me to pass on a message to you. He said..."

Recalling Gu Heng’s incredibly domineering words, Lei Yibin took a deep breath. "He asked, ’Have I been giving him too much face?’ He also said that if you want to see who has more cash flow, he’s ready whenever you are."

Prince Heng?

Prince Heng!!!

The moment Xie Baoquan heard that title, he was stunned for a few seconds. Then, his eyes flew wide, and he shot up from his executive chair.

Anyone involved in the livestreaming industry knew the great name of Prince Heng. It was impossible not to.

A night cruise on the Huangpu River, a seventy-million-yuan splurge.

That night, he single-handedly forced five Level 75 whales and over a hundred top-tier whales above Level 70 to delete their accounts.

More than three months later, clips from that night still had extremely high engagement and traffic all over the internet.

Prince Heng. He’d reached legendary status in a single battle.

Now, he was unofficially known online by the title of "The Number One God-Tier Spender on the Internet."

After that night, Prince Heng had vanished without a trace, never appearing in any live stream again.

Xie Baoquan had never, ever imagined that he would cross paths with such a figure by such a strange twist of fate.

Thinking of the message Lei Yibin had relayed, Xie Baoquan began to panic uncontrollably.

’Compete with Prince Heng over who has more cash flow?’

’That’s a complete joke.’

Take his Qingcheng Entertainment, for example. At a generous estimate, its valuation was maybe two hundred million. Even if he counted all the money on the company’s books and emptied his own pockets, he’d struggle to scrape together fifty million in cash right now.

The loose change that man dropped was worth more than his entire net worth. How could he possibly compete?

If he truly angered the man, he could also drop fifty million to hire a water army and hackers. They wouldn’t have to do anything but relentlessly target every streamer under Qingcheng Entertainment, day in and day out.

For a man like him, that amount of money would be insignificant, a drop in the bucket. But for Qingcheng Entertainment, an attack like that would be enough to drag the entire company into the abyss.

Most importantly, this Prince Heng was rumored to have considerable influence in the Yangtze River Delta Region.

The only reason he dared to retaliate so recklessly against Xingchuan International Group was that all their businesses were in the north, and they were all brick-and-mortar industries. From his position in the Yangtze River Delta, they were beyond his reach.

But this Prince Heng was different. If he truly got on the man’s bad side, the whip in his hand could lash out and strike him across the face at any moment.

’He’s rich, and he has influence in the Yangtze River Delta Region.’

Even Lei Yibin, who was practically one of the industry’s key players, had to treat the man with utmost respect. So who the hell was he, Xie Baoquan, in comparison?

If he had known such a titan was backing Xingchuan International Group, he wouldn’t have dared to try anything funny, not even if he had ten times the courage.

"Chairman Lei, are you sure you’re not mistaken?"

Xie Baoquan’s voice trembled slightly. "Is it really *him* behind Xingchuan International Group?"

"What are you implying?"

"You think I’m just bluffing to scare you?"

Lei Yibin’s tone instantly turned cold. "Believe it or not, that’s up to you. In any case, I’ve done what he asked and passed on his message."

"No, no, no!"

"I believe you! I believe you!"

"Chairman Lei, that’s not what I meant!"

Xie Baoquan realized he’d lost his head for a moment and hurriedly tried to salvage the situation. "Chairman Lei, for you to help me out like this and stop me from making a terrible mistake... I’ll never forget this kindness."

"Chairman Xie, you have time to say this to me, but you haven’t told your men to stand down yet?"

Seeing that Xie Baoquan was at least sensible, Lei Yibin’s tone softened slightly. "If your people actually manage to get Chairman Gu’s debut group stream banned, there’ll be no coming back from it."

"Right, right, right!"

Xie Baoquan finally snapped back to reality. He quickly pulled the phone away from his mouth and yelled to his trusted subordinate sitting on a nearby sofa, "Ah Hui, quick, quick..."

"Chairman Xie, we’re already moving as fast as we can!"

"I just deployed three thousand more members of the water army! We’re mass-reporting them like crazy right now!"

"The way I see it, we have a great chance of getting their stream banned!"

Zheng Hui shouted back to Xie Baoquan without even looking up.

Already burning with anxiety, Xie Baoquan felt his vision go dark upon hearing Zheng Hui’s response. An unnatural flush spread across his face.

"Stop!"

"I said stop!"

"I said stand down, do you understand me?!"

Xie Baoquan rushed over to them, roaring like a madman.

"Huh?"

Zheng Hui and the others were so stunned by Xie Baoquan’s shouting that their heads were ringing, their faces a picture of utter shock.