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Chapter 626 - 270: Playing Tough, Aren’t You?_2

Chapter 626: Chapter 270: Playing Tough, Aren’t You?_2

Red Bull dropped to one knee with a "kakaa" sound and was about to start kowtowing again.

"Your Majesty, your son feels unworthy of this great honor and can only wish that your reign lasts for thousands of generations and your empire remains forever solid..."

A bunch of obsequious flattery followed, taking shamelessness to the extreme.

His fans frantically typed to mock him, "Stop! Wake up! Dog Daddy was tipping Yu, not you. Why are your knees so soft?"

The guy immediately jumped up and shouted, "How dare you! My emperor owns a vast empire and has three thousand beauties in his harem, would he care about my petty gifts? I’m just thanking him in advance, you don’t get it, do you!"

Su Huai couldn’t help but chuckle and sent a Barrage message, "Alright, alright, the next headline is yours."

Red Bull was overjoyed, "Look at that! See! What’s wrong with being a grandchild to my emperor? It means nothing!"

Pei Shuyu quietly let him finish his act, then grandly waved her hand, "Family, go and max out the festival tickets for little Niuzi. His track doesn’t conflict with ours, and we can’t let him call Old Buddha in vain!"

With Su Huai’s support, Pei Shuyu now truly had the poise and dominance of the top sister, a spirit that inspired respect.

In the 3 minutes that the headline lasted, Red Bull gained nearly 600,000 festival tickets and soared to the second place among talk show hosts.

When the headline ended, Su Huai jumped into Red Bull’s live room and gave him a huge 588,000-town headline, resulting in a major site-wide traffic boost.

From that point, Red Bull took the throne as the number one talk show host, becoming the Xingyu Guild’s second top category leader.

Whether he could maintain his position wasn’t something Su Huai needed to worry about.

Red Bull was a special type only found in Gou Star— the leading host of dragon slayer games.

This category was unstable but had strong bursts of activity; on days when the players at home were winning, it was easy to earn several hundred thousand in just one day.

However, these good times would last at most until next year; if he didn’t shift gears, he was bound to fail.

After cutting off the eternally grateful Red Bull, Yuji connected with another female host from Xingyu— she could be considered the second sister, going by the name "Little Young One", the tattooed girl with the ’A’ contract, who mixed in the singing track with a Northeastern wild shout style.

Su Huai couldn’t appreciate this kind of act, but she had her own fan base, quite a few young boys and older men liked this style.

This PK had an obvious scripted feel to it.

Little Young One gestured wildly, taunting, "Although you’re my sister, and though your family is the wealthiest on the network, I’ve been getting beat since I was 4 years old. My dad beat me for thirteen years and couldn’t break me, and neither can you!"

Of course, Pei Shuyu wouldn’t stoop to trash talk. She held herself above the fray, giving her opponent the chance to perform.

Then Little Young One continued to demand attention, "Come at me full on, I might not be able to beat you, but I’ll make sure you leave bloody!"

Yuji smirked and waved dismissively, "Child, I’ll let you be twenty!"

It meant that anyone in Yuji’s top twenty ranks wasn’t allowed to contribute, only players ranked twenty-first or below could give their votes.

Such a rule was advantageous for both sides.

The top 20 on Pei Shuyu’s list was made up of big brothers who didn’t need to be asked to contribute. By not taking part, it allowed the potential of lower-ranked players to be fully unearthed, giving them a sense of involvement and increasing their loyalty.

On Little Young One’s side, there was also a chance to win, and the players’ enthusiasm was naturally high— what greater glory than to beat Yuji?

With everyone united in a concerted effort, win or lose, the cohesion in Little Young One’s camp could level up even further.

See, that’s what PKs in live streaming are all about.

Always full of schemes, but they indeed bring immense emotional value to the participants.

Some players really can’t see the truth, while others simply don’t care as long as they have fun. "If you need money, I can provide."

This PK took over ten minutes to prepare and commence.

Frankly, it provided a great experience for average players, no worse than the skit performed with Red Bull, and a lot of newly registered users were howling as they charged in.

But for Su Huai, it was too bland.

He didn’t pay much attention, as he was discussing data with Chen Jie and listening to various reports from the company.

Then, just before the PK was about to end, Cheese called, furious, "Mr. Su, that stupid f*cking Korean company has changed their minds at the last minute and won’t agree to let Tara go on stage first!"

Su Huai’s face turned somber in an instant.

"What’s the matter? Explain."

Cheese succinctly replied, "The Korean agents are demanding to cut their time to 10 minutes, only two dances, and they want to join Yuji first for the ’Free’ dance of Brother Su, then close the show with their solo performance of ’NO.9’, and leave the stage right after their act!"

Got it, they still don’t want to lift Yuji into higher prominence!

Su Huai laughed angrily, "Hah, wishful thinking!"

Cheese was both anxious and disoriented, her voice particularly worried, "Mr. Su, what should we do? The time is almost upon us!"

Su Huai glanced at his watch and also felt it was a very thorny issue.

The background of this commercial performance was incredibly complex, far from as straightforward as it appeared.

For those 15 minutes, Xingyu had shelled out a whole 6 million dollars.

Initially, Wang Si hadn’t planned on charging any money, but in the end, he told Su Huai, "I could only waive the banana’s commission at most, your demands are indeed a bit excessive, after all, they’re not completely powerless puppets."

In Korea, everyone could trample over them, but in Huaxia, even Wang had to coddle them—kicking up even a little fuss would lead to an international dispute, and that’s totally unnecessary.

Therefore, Su Huai didn’t take any petty advantage and generously offered a commercial performance price 8 to 10 times higher, literally smashing the money down, hard.

Otherwise, what did Xingyu count for, to make the arrogant Korean agency agree to letting them support Pei Shuyu?

This group of girls had an extremely low commercial performance price in Mainland, and only had a single game endorsement given by Wang, finding themselves in a situation where they seemed popular but actually couldn’t monetize effectively.

Businesses were willing to pay them at most three to five hundred thousand, but the Korean agency insisted on a minimum of 1 million. Then everyone tacitly forgot about the commercial performances...

That’s why the fans never got to see them doing commercial performances in Mainland.

Wang did indeed offer them a whopping 1.6 million for a birthday banquet, but that was a story for the media. The lowest price the Koreans would accept was around 800 thousand, in reality.

So, Su Huai, who truly smashed down 6 million today, was eating fresh greens.

To be fair, Wang Si did try hard to promote them; he really didn’t skimp on effort, but even Mango TV, which is most obsessed with anything Korean, refused to let them on their variety shows.

The reason was simple: they weren’t valuable enough to make an exception for Mango TV.

This had nothing to do with their situation in Korea; it was primarily because their domestic fans were mainly boys from the gaming and live streaming circles, severely lacking in commercial value.

An even more pitiful example is Girls’ Generation’s Jessica, who got blacklisted all across the board by the Korean agency, but still, didn’t she manage to act, sing, and appear on variety shows in Mainland?

That’s the difference between having commercial value or not.

A couple of months ago Tara held a concert in Magic Capital Mercedes-Benz with over 8000 tickets sold, the proportion of male fans was frightening.

Those buddies, unbeatable when it comes to voting, charting, and quarreling, never won at anything substantial.

Their only game endorsement "Dream Three Kingdoms" mobile game, and their male fans wouldn’t even bother to register, can you believe it?

If only "Dream Three Kingdoms" had a sufficiently impressive registration number back then, fans wouldn’t even have needed to spend money in the game, and Tara’s situation in Mainland would have turned around.

Just look at how Xiao Zhan’s female fans went crazy churning commercial data after his incident?

The difference is too obvious, the gap too wide.

Wang Siming was also out of options, later dragging the most popular Park Jiyan to room 11187 on Panda TV for a live stream, which turned out to be a flop, and after that he didn’t really care much anymore.

So, in reality, Tara had no significant commercial strategies in Mainland. The Korean Company MBK’s idea was to grab whatever money they could, long-term planning, what’s that?

It’s not that they didn’t want it, but they genuinely didn’t have it.

So, this resulted in the current situation—money taken, but I don’t want to fulfill the agreement, can you do anything about it?

There’s also another important reason, that THAAD or whatever, it’s causing the relationship between the two countries to tense up, and the Koreans probably foresaw that Tara had lost the window to break into the Mainland market.

These two points were exactly Su Huai’s dilemma; the other party was clearly looking to go back on their word, and being reasonable or threatening future repercussions had both become meaningless, which made the situation particularly tough to deal with.

After a long contemplation, Su Huai’s eyes suddenly hardened.

Don’t want to play nice?

Then let’s all play wild!

"Call security over, detain the Korean agent, lock them up in any room, for fifteen minutes!"

"Ah?!"

Cheese was dumbfounded.

Su Huai suddenly remembered something, urgently corrected himself: "No, don’t call security, call our female live-streamers over, drag him away, and if he tries anything, bash him for me!"

Cheese’s head buzzed as she went numb.

This this this, can we really do this?

It surely wouldn’t work on others, but against Koreans, it just might work!