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Chapter 371 - 218: Impossible? They Actually Boosted the Data

This was great.

Wang Qiqi said, a look of surprise on her face, "Boss, it seems like a lot of people hate this Master Yu. Why is he still so popular?"

Chen Jincheng chuckled. "There’s no such thing as bad publicity, right? Besides, it’s not like the guy has no talent. Compared to those stars who can’t even get on stage without autotune and lip-syncing, he’s much stronger."

"But he’s so arrogant and puts himself on a pedestal. He can make his niche, experimental music, but he can’t just force-feed people crap. That’s what makes people hate him."

"Plus, he has a habit of doing things that blow up in his face. You probably know about the incidents with Xiaomao and Zhang Jie. And that time King Wu shut him down by saying, ’When it comes to awards, I only take first place.’"

Wang Qiqi nodded.

She had indeed seen all of this online. They were pretty embarrassing incidents, but he always seemed to just forget about them afterward. His mental fortitude was truly something else.

Chen Jincheng continued to watch the music chart. As expected, the rate of likes for Wang Qiqi’s song sped up. In contrast, the growth of likes for Master Yu’s song had slowed to a crawl.

He refreshed the page a few times and noticed that on one occasion, the total number of likes had actually decreased.

This meant that many of the netizens who had previously pushed his song up the chart had only done it for the drama.

Now, those same people had turned on him, unliking his song and giving their likes to Wang Qiqi instead.

Their reasoning wasn’t hard to understand. For one, if they saw that the cover of "Moon Bay" could surpass "Symptom," they would definitely push "Moon Bay" to the top to humiliate "Symptom."

Besides, in this situation, people paying attention to "Moon Bay" would inevitably check out "Symptom" as well, so their goal of embarrassing the Master would be achieved either way.

This just goes to show you shouldn’t attract haters. Once you have too many, they can become a huge problem at critical moments.

He stared at the data for a while longer. When no new developments occurred late into the night, Chen Jincheng knew things had stabilized. A wicked grin spread across his face as he looked at the young woman happily watching her own stats, and his evil hands reached for her.

"Ah! You recovered that quickly?" the young woman’s gasp soon followed. "Boss, are you even human?"

’Oh my god, the Boss’s physique really wasn’t built for nothing.’

’I regret it so much. I regret not making a move sooner.’

...

「Time passed, and the next day soon arrived.」

The morning sun, like nature’s golden key unlocking a new day, streamed through the curtains and fell upon Master Yu’s face.

Feeling a trace of warmth, he opened his eyes and woke up.

The first thing he did was grab his phone. He immediately saw several unread WeChat messages and group chat notifications that @’d him.

He opened them, and his expression changed as he read the messages:

"The stats for your song ’Symptom’ have been surpassed."

"Quick, look at the Tiao Yin music chart! Your stats have been surpassed."

"..."

Seeing these messages, Master Yu subconsciously opened Tiao Yin to check the music chart. The first thing that met his eyes was his own song, "Symptom," with 4.1 million likes, and right above it, Wang Qiqi’s cover of "Moon Bay" with 5.6 million likes.

"No, this can’t be right!" Master Yu was completely stunned, unable to believe what he was seeing.

His team had initially predicted that his stats would trend toward 4 million likes. He had even padded it with an extra 1 million likes himself. How could it only be at 4.1 million now?

And Wang Qiqi’s cover of "Moon Bay"... his team had predicted it might surpass his numbers, but that should have still put it at only around 4 million likes. How did it get to 5.6 million?

He truly couldn’t believe this was the result after he had boosted his own song by a million likes.

This bizarre scene led him to two conclusions:

One, his team members were incompetent.

And two, Chen Jincheng’s side had definitely boosted their stats.

"Damn it! So despicable! They actually faked their numbers!" Master Yu cursed out loud, furious.

This wouldn’t do. He had to expose them. It wasn’t that he had lost; it was that they had resorted to disgusting tactics.