43: 300,000 followers!

If you don't like this style, there's also the fresh and pure style.

A girl like a "white moonlight" sitting in front of a wall of flowers, singing little love songs to you.

There are also those who play with contrasts, with rooms full of cute pink dolls.

Wearing black stockings, they perform a hot dance that makes the audience howl!

The number of viewers for gaming Streamers and talent Streamers is very high, but for other Streamers, the results are quite bleak.

Tan Jing also started her stream today, perhaps because she didn't turn on her camera.

The number of viewers was very low; even with such huge traffic support, there were only over a thousand people.

The one with the most viewers was naturally Xiao Yi; even though Jiang Chuan had left and the numbers had decreased slightly, she still maintained over 90,000.

Jiang Chuan was quite satisfied with this result; after all, the top company, Deep Sea, only had around a million online users.

With 280,000 online users, they could barely enter the second-tier ranks, and this had only been a little over an hour.

Jiang Chuan exited Starlight and opened Weibo to look at the trending searches; as expected, most of them were about him.

Seeing this, he wasn't angry but happy instead, even wanting to give Old Sun a big kiss.

He summoned the system, and sure enough, the 300,000-popularity blue bubble had lit up, wobbling as if signaling him to click it; his popularity was still steadily rising.

[popularity +1]

[popularity +10]

...Jiang Chuan touched it with his mind, and the light blue treasure chest burst with golden light as it slowly opened!

[Congratulations to the Host for reaching 300,000 popularity. Reward received: 40 million in funds.]

[Congratulations to the Host for receiving Talent Detection Book x1.]

[Talent Detection Book: Can detect one person's potential value, development direction, etc., daily. Minimum one star, maximum five stars.]

[Congratulations to the Host for receiving Mercedes-Benz G500 x1.]

Jiang Chuan immediately looked at the second reward; from the previous two rewards, he already knew that the second one was always the most valuable.

The first and third rewards were likely properties, cars, money, glasses, and other items from his game.

It didn't disappoint him: the Talent Detection Book! Talent is the key to a company's development.

Investment firms sometimes don't even invest in a project, but in the person, showing how important talent is.

Jiang Chuan didn't take it out to check; a crowd was gathered in the Technical Department, so what was he supposed to do, perform a magic trick?

His gaze returned to his phone as he read through all the online news about him, understanding Sunset's tactics.

It was close to what he had predicted, but he hadn't expected the other party to dare to hold an event to challenge them; this wasn't Old Sun's style.

"This must be an idea from Deep Sea's side."

Jiang Chuan couldn't help but laugh; there really are a lot of stupid people in this world. This wasn't just inviting a wolf into the house.

This was packing oneself up, sprinkling on the seasoning, and lying in the wolf's mouth waiting to be eaten.

Whether it was Sunset or Silver Star, they were just pilots; it was impossible for Deep Sea and Competitive Creation to put up so much capital to hold events.

Even if the CEO had the idea, the board of directors wouldn't agree so quickly; the larger the company, the more constraints there are.

By the time the meetings were over and everyone agreed, the opportunity would have long passed.

But there was a way: acquire a small company and use them as guinea pigs.

If it succeeded, they would completely devour the company and integrate it.

If it failed, it didn't matter; just a small amount of acquisition capital, they could afford the loss.

What? Your company can't hold on? What does that have to do with me? I'm not the majority shareholder!

This was why Jiang Chuan thought they were stupid, but he didn't act rashly. Fishing, right?

You have to be patient; the fish has just poked its head out. If it gets scared away, it would be more loss than gain.

At most, he would lose a few Streamers, which he could afford, especially now that he had the Talent Detection Book.

Jiang Chuan looked at the executives around him and gave orders with a relaxed expression:

"All executives, meet in the conference room. Everyone else, get back to work. Worrying over such a small matter, I thought the sky was falling!"

"Yes, President Jiang!"

Seeing the boss acting so relaxed, whether it was real or not, everyone breathed a sigh of relief; this was much better than the boss flying into a rage.

Jiang Chuan led the executives into the conference room, took the head seat, looked around at everyone, and said:

"I was already prepared for this, so don't worry. Everything is currently under control. Qingning, show them the proposal!"

Shen Qingning nodded, took out the prepared proposal, and distributed it to everyone.

She had just finished reading it herself, and the more she read, the more shocked she became. If she hadn't known Jiang Chuan wrote it last night, she would have thought it was stolen from Sunset.

Sunset was following this proposal to the letter; the timing, the methods, and even the defecting Streamers posting videos were all detailed here.

This plan was made by Jiang Chuan in ten minutes after he finished gaming last night. Let alone her, even Jiang Chuan had only seen it for the first time last night... Shen Qingning looked forward to everyone's reaction after reading the proposal, watching their expressions intently.

Everyone read the proposal in silence, their brows furrowing at first; clearly, they also thought this was Sunset's proposal?

But as they read further, they found it was even more complete than Sunset's plan, listing many solutions and the next steps.

Even people like Tang Ke and Shen Jincheng, who firmly believed Starlight could solve the issue, were stunned and speechless upon seeing this proposal.

"Bo... Boss, you didn't sneak into Sunset last night and steal their proposal, did you?"

The others had the same thought and looked at the boss, waiting for his reply.

Seeing everyone's shocked expressions, Shen Qingning sat back in her chair with satisfaction.

She had been incredibly shocked after reading the proposal and was teased by Jiang Chuan for a long time; now she finally felt a bit more balanced.

Jiang Chuan said irritably, "Does Sunset have that kind of ability? This proposal was personally written by me with painstaking effort!"

"Old Third, where's the blood? Let me see it and I'll believe you. By the way, you didn't pull down Old Sun's pants too, did you?"

"Hahaha!"

Seeing the proposal, the worry in everyone's hearts finally dissipated. The executives were all their own people, so Shen Jincheng had no qualms about joking around.

Jiang Chuan glared at him, clapped his hands, and after everyone quieted down, he ordered:

"Wang Jing, prepare some more bait. Let the fish get a bit fatter. We either don't strike at all, or we strike to kill! We're going to catch a big fish!"

Even Wang Jing, an extremely introverted person, joked:

"Yes, President Jiang. What flavor do you like? I'll prepare the seasoning."

Jiang Chuan waved his hand and said, "Stop teasing me. Everyone, get to work. When this is over, you can tease me all you want at the victory banquet!"

"Yes, President Jiang!"

Seeing everyone leave, Jiang Chuan tapped his fingers on the table, organizing his thoughts.

This was a habitual movement when he was thinking, allowing him to quickly enter the zone.

Why not strike back now? The reason was simple: what had Sunset sacrificed so far? Publicity funds, liquidated damages—could these take them down?

These would only cause them pain but wouldn't solve the problem completely. But it would be different once the event started. What do you compete with in a challenge? Capital!

What would happen if he dealt them a fatal blow while they were investing heavily in the event? A broken capital chain!

A fly provoking a tiger—the tiger wouldn't care. But if it gets too annoying, one slap can kill it!