A Blessing in Disguise

"What happened? He was halfway through talking, and the stream suddenly ended?"

"Master Xiao got banned?!"

"Banned? Why?"

"Probably because he was selling talismans. The system might have flagged it as fraud, or some haters in the stream maliciously reported him."

"Fuck, Master Xiao isn't a scammer! Is this platform run by morons?!"

"The system can't tell whether someone's a scammer, can it? If he was reported, the staff could have seen him selling talismans and banned him outright. That's pretty normal."

"Is everyone at this platform brain-dead?!"

"Damn it, I haven't had my fortune told today! This sucks! I want to pull out my family's forty-meter broadsword and storm the broadcasting company!"

A Lifetime Together: "Don't panic, everyone. I'll go have a word with the platform's boss."

Lord Purple: "I'll put pressure on the boss too. I've spent hundreds of thousands on this platform. Surely that buys me a little consideration?"

Yi Shuihan: "Hmph, their boss, Mr. Wei, is my dad's client. I'll handle this. I guarantee he'll apologize and lift the ban!"

"Awesome!"

"The top three donors are all stepping in! Waiting for the good news!"

Eighth floor, Yanjing Tower, Yanjing.

This was where the Yanjing Online Broadcasting Company's offices were located.

Wei Zhuo sat at his computer, considering the company's future development strategy.

Suddenly, his phone rang.

"Hello? Who is this?"

A girl's furious voice came through.

"Mr. Wei, what do you think you're doing? What right do you have to ban Mr. Xiao Yu's stream? Don't you know he's my idol?"

Wei Zhuo found the voice familiar. The call had also come through on his private number, which only important clients knew.

After thinking a little harder, his heart immediately sank.

Wasn't that the Willow Family's little princess?

"Miss Liu, please calm down. I don't know anyone named Xiao Yu. If his stream was banned, there must have been a misunderstanding. I'll investigate right away!"

"Investigate what? I'm warning you, lift his ban right now! Don't hold up my fortune reading! You banned him just as it was my turn. Are you trying to pick a fight with me? If you don't lift his ban, I'll make trouble for you, and you can forget about working with my dad!"

"A misunderstanding, a misunderstanding! Please don't be angry, Miss Liu. This really is a misunderstanding! All right, all right, whether he broke the rules or not, I'll lift his ban immediately! Please don't take it out on me! I didn't do anything!"

Satisfied, Liu Shan hung up. In a panic, Wei Zhuo immediately called his secretary to find out what had happened.

In his mind, he was already cursing the backend staff up and down.

Of all the people you could ban, you had to ban the Willow Family's little princess's favorite streamer? Did a donkey kick you in the head?

"Mr. Wei, I was just about to report this to you. Please do something about those high-and-mighty slackers in the backend data department. They sit around drinking tea all day, banning anyone they don't like. They've worked us to death in customer complaints! We suddenly got a flood of complaints just now, and the phones have been ringing off the hook. Even two big spenders who've each shelled out hundreds of thousands called to complain!"

Wei Zhuo was furious. "Are they complaining because we banned a fortune-telling streamer?"

"Yes. How did you know?"

"Fuck, the Willow Family's young lady called me personally to complain! She even threatened me! Tell those idiots in the data department to lift his ban and apologize immediately... Never mind, you apologize to him yourself. I don't trust anyone else. Be polite, understood?"

"Yes, Mr. Wei."

"Fuck, if that business deal really falls through, I'll lose several million. If that happens, I'm firing every last one of those idiots!"

After venting his anger, Wei Zhuo found himself intensely curious.

Who was the Willow Family's young lady? How could a mere fortune-teller fool someone like her? She had even threatened him with their business deal!

She really was treating that fortune-telling streamer as her idol.

This streamer had to have some special ability.

He would have to check him out when he had time!

Meanwhile.

Xiao Yu frowned. He still had no idea that the ban on his stream had left a certain big boss tearing his hair out, almost in tears.

First, he explained the ban to everyone in the Penguin Group, then arranged the Heart-Clearing Talisman sales and payments.

Although the thirty-day ban had caught him off guard, Xiao Yu stopped worrying about it after submitting an appeal to the platform.

If you won't lift the ban, I'll just switch platforms.

The main purpose of streaming was to increase his strength and earn his initial capital.

Now that he had sold four Heart-Clearing Talismans, the four hundred thousand he had earned was enough to rent a storefront.

He shut down his computer and prepared to cultivate.

It was about time for another breakthrough.

Sure enough, when Xiao Yu opened his eyes early the next morning, he had already reached the fourth level of Qi Refining.

Four streams-or three and a half, to be precise-and he had advanced three levels. That speed was downright absurd!

He was just about to head out to arrange the shipping when his phone rang.

"Hello, who is this?"

"Thank goodness, Mr. Xiao Yu! You've finally answered! If you hadn't, my boss was about to send me all the way from Yanjing to Magic City to find you in person!"

After shutting down his computer yesterday, Xiao Yu had started cultivating and only just opened his eyes.

Whenever he cultivated, he put his phone on silent, with even vibration turned off.

How could he have known his phone had practically been ringing off the hook?

He knew even less about the several people in Yanjing Tower who had been tearing their hair out because he wouldn't answer, calling all night without a wink of sleep!

"What's this about? Was it really that serious?"

"First, please allow me to apologize on behalf of our company. I'm the chief secretary of the Yanjing Online Broadcasting Company, as well as the senior manager responsible for handling complaints and feedback in our customer complaints department. Here's what happened: yesterday, we received malicious reports from viewers, and after the system reviewed them, your stream was mistakenly banned! Our company took this very seriously. We lifted the ban immediately and tried to contact you to apologize, but you must have been busy. You didn't answer all night, until now..."

Xiao Yu hadn't expected the company to be so courteous!

They had spent the entire night calling him.

Honestly, he was deeply touched.

He had no idea that all the credit belonged to his top three donors.

"Since it was just a misunderstanding, let's leave it at that. There's no need to apologize. You're making me feel a little embarrassed."

The secretary didn't dare let the matter end there.

She had been frantic all night.

Her mind had kept racing, convinced that Xiao Yu was refusing to answer because he was furious.

"Mr. Xiao, we're very sorry for the financial loss, mental distress, and emotional upset we've caused you. To make up for our mistake, the company would like to sign a new contract with you and offer you our best terms."

"A contract? Your best terms?"

"Yes, this is a special contract. In short, once you sign it, you'll receive our strongest promotional support and the highest share of gift revenue. With task rewards included, your share can reach eighty percent! After operating costs, the company won't make any money at all. So we do have one condition: you mustn't disclose this, or it will upset the other streamers!"

Before, his share had been sixty percent. Now, after one ban, it had jumped straight to eighty percent. Could anything be better than this?

Wouldn't he be an idiot not to sign?

A blessing in disguise!

"All right, I accept."