I’m Really a Superstar

Translator: Legge Editor: Legge

At Yao Jiancai\'s house.

Yao Mi was staring at her computer and typing away furiously.

"Mimi, what are you doing?"

"Dad, I\'m watching a livestream."

"Who\'s streaming?"

"It\'s Uncle Zhang\'s first stream!"

"Oh? I want to watch it too. This fellow can even stream?"

"Uncle Zhang is currently in danger. He\'s getting attacked by a lot of streamers at the moment."

"Haha, that\'s great. That\'s exactly what I like to see."

"Dad!"

…

Rao Aimin\'s house.

Rao Aimin was practicing her kung fu when the clicking of a mouse came from the other room.

"Chenchen, have you done your homework?"

"Not yet."

"Hurry up and get it done then."

"I want to finish watching Zhang Ye\'s stream first."

"He can even stream with his looks? What\'s there to see?"

…

Dong Shanshan\'s home.

Hu Feifei, Yu Yingyi, and a few old classmates had gathered here.

"It\'s about to begin."

"OK, I\'m coming."

"Let\'s see how he\'ll handle this."

"Does he really know how to stream?"

"Who knows!"

…

It was time!

The livestream began!

Zhang Ye\'s relatives and friends, his fans, as well as people from all over the country, had gathered to watch his debut livestream. They\'d seen too much of Zhang Ye hosting a live television show and listened to him sing too many times on television as well. But for him to stream online? It was a first for everyone. This industry had become extremely hot this year, and a lot of big name celebrities had come to test the waters. Some of them did OK, while others got face-smacked. So they wondered how Zhang Ye would do on his livestream attempt. A lot of people were watching out of curiosity and trying to find out how things would go for him.

In the livestreaming channel.

The image flickered and then lit up.

Zhang Ye was already seated in front of the camera, a smile on his face.

Everyone discovered that Zhang Ye was alone, without a host or any of the site\'s staff members. This meant that this livestream would not be one of those interview livestreams that promoted the site directly, but a solo stream by Zhang Ye. It was going to be a proper stream.

Zhang Ye\'s opening was done in a very regular way. Since he was paid by the site, he would have to say whatever was required of him. "Hello everyone, I\'m very honored to be invited by Meihe TV to come and meet everyone in such a way for the first time ever. This is my first time trying out something as interesting as a livestream, so I really don\'t know how to do this in a professional way. If there\'s anything that I\'m bad at, I hope that you all will be nice about it. If you think that I didn\'t do too badly, then please come back next time. I\'ll swing by often, and we can have fun and chitchat about things. It should be rather interesting."

Endless comments scrolled by onscreen.

"—It\'s really him—Wow, so handsome—Teacher Zhang, hello. Teacher Zhang, goodbye—Time to start sending in the presents—Come on people, come and watch this quickly, the stream has started—This feels a little serious, it seems like Zhang Ye has really never watched or tried out a livestream before, haha—Sing us a song—Don\'t be so serious, pump it up—The female streamers are giving it their all on their channels. Their necklines are plunging and they\'re showing so much skin—Really? I\'ll go and have a look—Old Zhang, do your best—The ladies are already starting to strip. If you don\'t give it your all, you\'re gonna lose—"

The number of viewers in the channel was constantly increasing!

500,000!

1 million!

2 million!

It was getting really popular!

XJ86 has sent an airplane 1 .

Xiaoguang77 has sent 999 stalks of roses.

There were some donations sent in, but it wasn\'t really that much. In real money, it was only about 70 or 80,000 yuan or so.

Ha Qiqi, Little Wang, and the rest of the streaming site\'s staff were all in another room. When they saw this, they started panicking a little. Based on the statistics, even though Himi, Hooo, and Sister Yiyi\'s channels did not have as many viewers, their received donations had shot through the roof. The one with the most donations was Sister Yiyi, with two "whales" sending her donations worth a total value of 500,000 RMB. In just a short half hour, Sister Yiyi\'s name was already at the top of the donations chart, followed by Hooo, then Himi, who had previously held off Chen Guang. Zhang Ye was only in fourth place.

An A-list celebrity.

Yet he was held in fourth place by a few streamers?

This didn\'t look too good on him!

Zhang Ye looked at the camera and said with a smile, "Whoa, there are already so many viewers? This is my first time here and I don\'t know what the standard practices are, so what should we do to kick things off?"

The scrolling comments ran by.

"Sing a song—Right, sing us a song—Sing something for us—"

When Zhang Ye saw that, he said, "Sing a line or two? Sure."

Quite a few of the site\'s own streamers also came to watch Zhang Ye on his channel. When they heard him say that, they didn\'t know whether to laugh or cry. Sing? Sure enough, he was resorting to this. These mainstream celebrities who came onto the livestreaming site would either sing, or sing. They were simply too uninteresting. If this were a concert venue or the television station, with the stage and sound equipment they had, one could sing anything and it would sound good. But it wasn\'t so for a livestream, and this wasn\'t the kind of place for singing either. What a stream needed was the pumping up of the atmosphere. It needed to be interactive and driven. He was indeed just an amateur as they thought!

Some people were worried.

Some people were gloating.

But what followed utterly dumbfounded the viewers and site staff!

They heard Zhang Ye say with a chuckle, "The atmosphere hasn\'t warmed up yet. Well then, let me see. Alright, I think this tune should do the trick, let\'s do it!"

A stirring melody suddenly played!

A lot of people were stunned!

What was this?

A DJ tune?

What are you planning to do?

All of a sudden, Zhang Ye\'s expression changed. He brought the microphone closer to him and stuck it right up against his mouth. To the music\'s melody, he said loudly, "Ladies and gentlemen, people come and go. You can walk by or pass by, but you mustn\'t miss out! If you\'re rich, shower me with your money. If you aren\'t, then stay around for the views. Those of you who like what you see, type 666 2 !"

The beat kicked in!

Zhang Ye started singing 3 .

"Solo, I drank myself drunk. (Alone, when I was drunk,)

"Seeing double in my bunk. (My life caught up in a funk.)

"Our eyes are only for each other. (I see you and me as a couple.)

"I just wanna return together. (Inebriated dreams, my vision\'s tunneled.)

"Honey, I caress the zither, (When our eyes meet)

"For fun I go to Zizhulin. (All I want is to be together,)

"I would walk a thousand miles to beseech the king; I\'m just so lovestruck." (But my heart became weathered, swatted down and so much tethered.)

Ha Qiqi was dumbfounded!

Fan Wenli was dumbfounded!

Chen Guang was dumbfounded!

The site\'s staff were dumbfounded!

Everyone who was watching the stream was dumbfounded!

What is this?

Emceeing 4 !

What the fuck!

You even know how to rap?

Zhang Ye was getting more and more into it.

"Speak of you and I grin like a dork, (Your beauty\'s love before pleasure,)

"Playing beautiful sounds. (I want to be with you forever!)

"I was young and stupid, cocky and proud, acting like an orc! (I can\'t imagine us, severed. My heart will follow you, wherever.)

"Running from home, I forgot myself, (I\'m in love with your face.)

"No time to worry about breaking off love. (But I held back when you needed space.)

"\'Twas a tale told through the ages. (I\'ve searched for you for a thousand miles.)

"Just two years of fighting and grey-haired. (Sent you love letters and gifts, by the piles.)

"Who\'ll always fight by your side? (I was cocky, I was making no sense.)

"Who\'s along for the ride and who is tied? (I was too young, my heart was in defense.)

"Who do I struggle all my life for? (A memory, I would like to dispense)

"I shall love and hate my score!" (To get there, I will spare no expense)

The scrolling comments blew up!

"—Damn!—6666666—This is too fucking awesome!—I admit defeat, I totally admit defeat—This is rap—Even a professional streamer wouldn\'t be able to MC so well—Teacher Zhang can really connect well with the people—So cool—Fuckin\' A!—My mom\'s asking me why I\'m kneeling in front of the stream—I thought he\'d be singing either a love song or a rock song—Ah, I\'m so pumped—How exciting—So great—"

A lot of people had the urge to sing along to the song and dance to it!

The donations also exploded in a flash!

100,000!

200,000!

500,000!

On the donations chart, Zhang Ye was leading the way!

The number of viewers watching the stream also jumped like crazy!

3 million!

3.5 million!

4 million!

5 million!

…

Elsewhere.

In Sister Yiyi\'s channel.

She was singing and dancing while saying, "So how is it? Do you guys like this dance of mine? Those who like it, please be generous with your donations. Help me maintain first place and don\'t let me drop down the chart. Eh? Where\'s everyone gone to?" She suddenly realized that something was wrong and quickly sat back down in front of the computer to have a look. She was now only in second place on the donations chart. Then she glanced at the number of viewers who were watching her stream. It had dropped from 170,000 people to only 20,000. With so few people watching, was there any point in continuing to stream?

What was going on?

What the hell was going on here?

She saw some of the comments.

"Sister Yiyi, I gotta go."

"I need to leave the channel for a bit too."

"Motherfucker, Zhang Ye is rapping!"

"Quickly, go and have a look. I heard his channel has exploded!"

"Let me see what Zhang Ye is up to on his channel first. I\'ll come back and donate to you after I\'m done watching him."

Himi\'s channel.

Himi was dumbfounded. "Where is everyone? Why did the number of viewers suddenly drop by so much? Where did everyone go? Is there a problem with the network? Then I\'ll message an admin!"

The viewers left her messages.

"They\'ve all gone to watch Zhang Ye\'s livestream."

"It\'s blowing up over there!"

"Zhang Ye has made a big move!"

"Sister Himi, just stop streaming. There\'s no one left."

There really was no one around anymore!

A channel with over 100,000 viewers was now watched by less than 10,000 viewers!

These popular streamers were going crazy. Rapping? Go fuck yourself! That\'s what we streamers are good at. What could someone like Zhang Ye know about it? How could it be possible!

Himi stopped streaming!

Hooo, Sister Yiyi, and a few other streamers also stopped streaming!

They headed over to Zhang Ye\'s channel in a rage to find out what was going on. The moment they went in, they heard that infectious DJ tune!

They heard Zhang Ye\'s emceeing.

"Like mist, I\'m ordinary.

"This life, I have ambition.

"To see your beautiful smile again, I have sworn this oath of tradition.

"I\'ll bloom among the flowers and vines.

"Looking back, my song ends early.

"I glance back at the sea and play a sad song of the jasmine.

"The general fights outside of the nation,

"Who\'s still here the day I return?

"Brothers talked up the liquid courage weight,

"I\'m looking for defeat on the battlefield!"

At this moment, it felt as though the entire world had gone quiet!

Hooo was left kneeling!

Himi was left kneeling!

Sister Yiyi was left kneeling!

The streamers from Meihe TV and the other streaming sites who had come to watch were also left kneeling!

Emceeing?

You really fucking know how to emcee?

And they\'re even lyrics that we\'ve never heard before?

And you\'re actually rapping much better than us?

Your sister!

Are you the Internet streamer or are we the Internet streamers here?

Aren\'t you being too fucking professional!