Wang Yaoxue continued telling funny stories about his childhood with Wang Yi.
Like the time they went to an abandoned kiln cave to roast corn and sweet potatoes. They stayed for half the day, and when they came out, they all looked like coal miners just off their shifts.
Or the time they went scorpion hunting as kids, and Wang Yi fell into a ravine. Everyone was terrified, until they discovered that he had gotten caught in some trees halfway down the slope.
And then there was the time he and Wang Yi went looking for birds' nests as kids, only to find a snake. They were so scared that they jumped right off the ladder.
The tactic really worked. The viewers stopped demanding so insistently that Wang Yi show up.
At last, the ten minutes were up, and Wang Yi appeared on screen.
He didn't hurry to greet the viewers. Instead, he first looked up at the gloomy sky.
Then he turned to look at the comments.
After that, he checked the backstage data.
Meanwhile, TikTok headquarters was keeping a close eye on Wang Yi.
The moment they saw him appear on screen, a mid-level TikTok executive spoke into a walkie-talkie:
"Put Wang Yaoxue's livestream on the homepage, and push a notification to all users saying Wang Yi is livestreaming in Wang Yaoxue's room. Hurry!"
For more than thirty seconds after appearing on screen, Wang Yi busied himself checking the backstage data and reading some interesting comments without saying a word.
The number of viewers in the livestream room shot past two million in an instant, and kept climbing at a crazy pace.
Wang Yaoxue felt his blood rush to his head.
He couldn't help exclaiming, "Holy crap, is this what it means to be a global superstar? This