"Congratulations," Zhang Heng said.
"Thank you." Xu Qian accepted someone's congratulations, took two more sips of tea, then set down her cup. "As for competitors, I can give you plenty of names. After all, anyone with popularity close to mine is a potential competitor, and there are countless smaller streamers waiting to rise up beneath us. But the competition between us isn't all that fierce. The ones who really compete with me are streamers with a similar style and similar popularity. I can give you a few names."
"Hmm?"
Xu Qian opened her wristband and quickly selected several contact cards from her address book, sending them to Zhang Heng.
"I considered that possibility before too. The more I thought about it, if someone really was following and watching me, they could only have been hired by those women. Probably private investigators or something, trying to dig up dirt on me and spread it online to make my popularity fall. Sometimes, there really are people in this line of work who will stop at nothing to get ahead."
Zhang Heng opened the email and glanced at it without comment.
"Is there anything else you want to ask?" Xu Qian said.
"That's all for now. I'll look into the names you gave me first," Zhang Heng said.
Xu Qian's eyes widened, seemingly surprised. "Besides protecting my personal safety, do G7Z bodyguards also investigate who's following me?"
In fact, Xu Qian had already begun to have doubts while Zhang Heng was questioning her. It was her first time seeing a bodyguard gather information in such detail. He hardly seemed like a bodyguard at all, more like a private investigator. At the time, though, she had assumed it was necessary for drawing up a security plan. She hadn't expected him to truly intend to