"Wuwuwu~ My wife blamed me for not speaking up for Big Shot Fang earlier, so now she's making me kneel on the keyboard. I shnuagagnbahguagn."
"Holy crap, bro upstairs, are you okay? Tell your wife the keyboard is for dealing with those trolls. Kneel on a durian instead~!"
Zhang Siyu sat in the office. Before posting on the official account, she had already prepared herself to be flamed. After all, the audience had been eagerly waiting, only to be stood up by the official account. No matter how much they liked and supported it, they would definitely vent some of their resentment, right?
But the turn of events once again completely overturned Zhang Siyu's understanding of the world.
"Has the world changed too quickly, or am I the one who can't keep up with the times?"
Looking at the users' comments beneath the official account's post, Zhang Siyu fell into a turbulent crisis of faith in life.
These fans were indeed venting, but their target wasn't the official account. It was that earlier group of malicious antis.
In the eyes of the many A Company users, the only reason the official account had delayed the latest episode of Akame ga Kill! was because those antis had gone too far.
Watching the comments in the forum rapidly increase by the hundreds and thousands, Zhang Siyu couldn't help wondering, Could this have been part of Fang Zheng's calculations too?!
However, today's events were destined to take several twists. Just as the audience had unanimously turned their fire on those earlier trolls, the official account quietly posted an update on Weibo.
"Big Shot Fang will be livestreaming on the A Company platform at seven tonight. Don't forget to come watch~ (According to insider information, there will be beautiful posters to take home~)"
Not long after the post went up, the comments on the A Company forum visibly slowed down. The hundreds or thousands of comments per second became sparse in less than five minutes.
Moreover, the forum comments were astonishingly unanimous.
"The official account stood us up! What?! Big Shot Fang is livestreaming? Then it's fine!"
"The official account stood us up! What?! Big Shot Fang is livestreaming? Then it's fine!"
"..."
Watching the comments from this bizarre generation of netizens, Zhang Siyu's mouth twitched repeatedly as she silently cursed them for abandoning one interest for another.
Just moments ago, they had been righteously indignant over Akame ga Kill! being delayed. The next moment, they had all defected.
Here, Zhang Siyu also saw Fang Zheng's terrifying power to rally people. He could summon a hundred responses with a single call. Fans this orderly and unified in action probably existed only for Fang Zheng~
In fact, these fans were all extremely shrewd. Akame ga Kill! was indeed a very good anime, and they liked it very much, but they clearly understood which mattered more: Akame ga Kill! or Fang Zheng.
Once they finished watching Akame ga Kill!, that was the end of it. But as long as they clung tightly to Fang Zheng's coattails, why would they worry about having no anime to watch?
It was almost seven. Half an hour had passed since the news of Fang Zheng's livestream had been posted, and many A Company users had flooded into the community to wait for him to go live.
Although Fang Zheng was a public figure, aside from showing his face once during an exclusive interview on Modu TV Station, he had never appeared in public again.
The fans were extremely curious about Fang Zheng.
"233, A Company's only livestream room right now. Big Shot Fang has some serious clout~!"
"Doesn't this instantly raise the platform's prestige?!"
"Since that interview, Big Shot Fang hasn't shown his face again. This time, I can lick the screen to my heart's content!"
"Speaking of which, I can't even remember what my husband looks like anymore. I only remember that he's handsome!"
"The whole screen is full of sluts trying to steal my husband!"
"..."
As the video platform under Fang Zheng, A Company was naturally where Fang Zheng would livestream.
But A Company was a new platform focused on anime and naturally had never ventured into livestreaming.
Thus, a highly dramatic scene appeared. To accommodate their chairman's livestream, the clean and tidy A Company interface had specially opened a livestreaming section.
Fang Zheng was A Company's only streamer, and his livestream room was also A Company's only one. This ridiculous scene drew plenty of teasing from users.
"It's seven! He's here, he's here!"
"Big Shot Fang, I love you! (screeching)"
"I heard there's a giveaway later. Big Shot Fang, I think we can make a little deal!"
"Big Shot Fang is the most handsome! The most handsome in Modu! The most handsome in Xia Country and even the whole world! So, about that poster giveaway later..."
As soon as it hit seven, dense bullet comments instantly swept across the livestream room, which was still displaying a black screen. Many netizens subconsciously assumed that since Akame ga Kill! had originally aired at seven, Fang Zheng's livestream, as its replacement, would naturally begin at seven as well.
However...
One minute passed, then two... Ten minutes passed, yet the livestream room was still black.
The previously excited viewers stared blankly at their computers, question marks filling their minds.
"Has it started? Is my computer broken?"
"No, Big Shot Fang, this is going too far! We've praised you to the heavens. At least show your face!"
"Shocking: streamer earns millions a month by livestreaming a black screen!"
"Could Big Shot Fang have stood us up for the livestream too? Tsk~ That's terrifying when you think about it!"
The viewers waiting in the livestream room sent bullet comments one after another. From the comments flying across the entire screen, it was easy to see how worried they were that Fang Zheng had stood them up.
After all, their beloved Big Shot Fang seemed to have a special fondness for standing people up. After the promotional PV for Akame ga Kill! had been released, there had been no news for a long time.
Today, the latest episode of Akame ga Kill! had also been stood up by their Big Shot Fang.
Thinking about it that way, perhaps, maybe, possibly... it really was possible that Big Shot Fang would stand them up for the livestream too!
"Fuck my life! I can't watch the anime, and now the livestream's gone too. What the hell did I skip class and sneak out for?"
"I'm the president of the Modu Big Shot Fang Fan Association. We specialize in sending razor blades, ambushing people, surrounding Qinghui Building, and other services. Due to overwhelming business, we're hiring staff. Interested parties, add me on TT..."
"Pfft~! Bro upstairs, are you sure you're the president of the fan association and not the president of the anti-fan association?"
"Fang Big Shot would want to hit someone if he saw this. I don't have fans like you!"
"Let's form a group! We absolutely have to go to Qinghui Building in Modu and report in! Let's show someone our attitude!"
"..."
The netizens in the livestream room strongly condemned Fang Zheng for standing them up. There was a saying that things shouldn't happen more than twice—so how many times had Fang Zheng stood them up already?
It was only because these netizens were familiar with Fang Zheng's personality and he had recently become much more laid-back. Otherwise, they really might have done something as insane as surrounding Qinghui Building.
"Ah, sorry about that. I ate too much just now, so I went outside and walked a couple of laps to help with digestion."
Just as the netizens were about to explode, the livestream suddenly flickered. The next moment, an unfairly handsome face appeared on the screen.
Who else could it be but the Fang Big Shot they had dreamed of day and night?!
"What's going on? I just started the livestream and heard you all saying I'm handsome?!" Fang Zheng reached out and adjusted his camera, then sat down in his chair, officially beginning the livestream.
He turned his head and glanced at the bullet comments on the computer beside him. Seeing that most of the viewers were saying he had stood them up, calling him a professional pigeon, and saying he was asking for trouble, Fang Zheng was utterly disdainful.
He understood these netizens too well. Despite how fierce they sounded, every one of them was terribly Tsundere.
"If you want to say I'm handsome, just say it directly. Be honest, everyone. Don't be shy. I like fans who speak frankly!"
Hearing Fang Zheng's shameless words, all the viewers in the livestream room were dumbfounded. They felt as if their entire beings had been thoroughly scrambled!
"What the hell do you mean, helping with digestion? What the hell do you mean, saying he's handsome? Can't you read those huge Chinese characters? If there's something wrong with your eyes, go get glasses~"
"No, I'm really curious. Which bullet comment did Big Shot Fang see that made him think we were saying he was handsome?"
"Big Shot Fang, if you're sick, you need to get treatment. Don't try to tough it out~"
"If you don't need your eyesight, please donate your eyes to someone who does!"
"Big Shot Fang, did you forget the lesson from when angry fans surrounded Qinghui Building?"
Fang Zheng didn't care in the slightest about the viewers' teasing. These fans were all Tsundere, so one simply had to interpret their words in reverse.
"All right, all right. A few compliments are enough. After all, there aren't many diligent, punctual streamers like me. You should know I'm very busy."
As he spoke, Fang Zheng counted on his fingers. "As the chairman of A Company, I have to handle all kinds of company affairs every day. I also have to produce anime for you fans. And now I'm even working overtime to livestream for you."
"Alas~ My life is so hard!"
After hearing Fang Zheng, the livestream room fell into an eerie silence. The bullet comments that had been flooding the screen vanished without a trace, as though all the viewers had suddenly left.
At the same time, a certain beauty was working overtime at the ACG company, burning the midnight oil. A computer sat beside her desk, displaying Fang Zheng's livestream.
When she heard Fang Zheng say that he handled company affairs every day, the woman's breathing abruptly grew rapid. Her fair fingers clenched tightly, and the pen in her hand emitted a creak as if it could no longer bear the strain.
Looking at Fang Zheng's shameless smile on the livestream, Zhang Siyu bit her pearly teeth into her lower lip. Her voice seemed to be squeezed out from between her teeth as she said, "Shameless to the extreme!"
At that moment, the bullet comments in the livestream room became unusually orderly.
"Big Shot Fang, where's your face?"
"Big Shot Fang, where's your face?"
"..."
The viewers and fans in the livestream room were thoroughly defeated by Fang Zheng's attitude of believing that the shameless ruled the world. One after another, they felt utterly inferior.
This was a textbook example of messing with people's minds. Faced with someone like Fang Zheng, whose skin was as thick as the corner of a city wall, what could they do? They were desperate too~
They couldn't hit him, and they couldn't outcurse him. All they could do was watch Fang Zheng perform his one-man comedy routine in the livestream room.
"Ahem, I suddenly realized something!"
On the screen, Fang Zheng's expression suddenly grew serious. The rapid change left the viewers who had been mocking him the moment before somewhat bewildered, and they didn't react for a while.
They assumed Fang Zheng was finally getting to the point. One by one, they held their breath and watched the screen nervously yet expectantly, waiting for what he would say next.
"Please, Big Shots, support me as much as you can~~~~~~~~"
Countless fans craned their necks in anticipation and quietly waited for Fang Zheng to continue.
In the livestream room, Fang Zheng's expression was solemn, and his eyes were filled with struggle. He first sighed helplessly, then opened his mouth, only to swallow back the words that had reached his lips.
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