This celebrity became even more popular after being exposed of having multiple girlfriends
Chapter 179 So Life, It Is Bitter Like a Song

Chapter 179: Chapter 179 So Life, It Is Bitter Like a Song

Wu Mu chose the Douyin platform for uploading his video, avoiding platforms like Bilibili which require real-name verification before posting videos. On Douyin, real-name verification isn’t needed until you withdraw earnings.

The revenue from one million views on Douyin generally ranges from 300 to 1000 yuan, even if calculated at the maximum of 1000 yuan...

It would require ten billion views to cash out completely...

Even if everyone in Blue Star watched it, they’d still fall short by twenty billion!

But no matter how powerful system marketing is, it’s unlikely to reach that level of exposure, given that system marketing still adheres to practical logic.

And even if it really could achieve such popularity, who knows how long that will drag on... Wu Mu might be dead by the time it gets fulfilled.

Right now, Wu Mu isn’t even sure when the system will boost the popularity, and there’s no timeline for cashing out. Who knows when the system will act?

But it doesn’t matter; it’s just one Performance Card, and he has plenty of them.

Besides, he added an insurance within the video as well.

After uploading the video for a while, Wu Mu checked his phone, noticed no significant changes, tossed the phone aside, and went about his business.

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Zhejiang Province, Hang City.

Like usual, He Junfeng from Sharp Peak Media casually scrolled through Douyin, keeping an eye on the popularity and trends of various videos and checking if there was any noteworthy anchor worth signing.

As an employee of an MCN agency, this was part of his daily routine.

While scrolling, his fingers stumbled upon a new video.

He glanced at the video thumbnail, a screenshot of a forum post, seemingly about online lending.

He checked out the video description and the tags.

"Evils of the Yihai Finance platform."

"So life, it’s bitter like a song."

"#Expose, #FinancePlatform, #Lending, #Debt..."

A video exposing a finance platform?

Uninterested in such content, He Junfeng was about to scroll past.

But just before he did so, his eyes caught the number of likes and comments—70,000 likes, 40,000 comments?

That’s a high engagement rate!

With his deep understanding of platform video metrics, he immediately recognized this alarmingly high engagement rate.

Typically, a video would do well to have 0.3 or 0.4, but this video almost reached 0.6!

Noticing that it was posted just 2 hours ago, he was even more surprised.

70,000 likes—this video must have garnered over two million views in just two hours?

He suddenly became interested. Why did a video exposing a finance platform perform this well?

He clicked play.

The video’s background music started, accompanied by a montage of various images and video clips.

These images and videos depicted various netizens expressing regret for uncontrollably borrowing online, including their forum posts, chat screenshots with family and friends, and some photos they posted.

Watching these netizens’ pain and regret on the screen.

He Junfeng couldn’t help but sigh.

Even though he had never borrowed online, he somewhat empathized with the plight of his peers.

As the mashup video slowly played, a sense of frustration gradually built up inside him, feeling more and more suffocated.

Until the last image of a chat screenshot froze on the screen.

In the chat, a father gave a lengthy lecture about his daughter’s debts.

It was a long talk, and the screenshot of the daughter seemed too afraid to respond, until finally, she just sent "sorry."

Next was a forum post, the top post was the screenshot he’d just seen.

The second post was the final message from the poster, "Goodbye, everyone."

The video slowly faded out, and the text appeared on the screen—"So indeed, life it’s bitter like a song."

He Junfeng felt really choked up.

"Too foolish, it’s just debts; just don’t repay them yet."

He felt it was a pity for the girl at the end.

He also understood why this video had such great data.

The editing was top-notch.

The emotions escalated step by step until the girl’s suicide, which was incredibly moving.

He couldn’t resist feeling emotionally stirred.

He felt compelled to like and leave a comment.

After hitting the like button, he opened the comments section.

As expected, full of others who also felt stifled.

"The girl is just too foolish. What obstacle can’t be overcome, after all, just repay the borrowed money slowly."

"I could only see it was about seventy to eighty thousand; no one should die over such a small amount."

"Sigh, I really understand her. At that point, it’s not just about the money anymore. I also borrowed online in college, and in the end, my dad helped me repay. It wasn’t much, only about thirty to forty thousand, just two months of my salary now, but I still remember the angry and disappointed look on my dad’s face when I told him... My heart was full of guilt and pain, loathing myself for borrowing so much money, which would take my dad two to three years to save."

"Having experienced those days when I couldn’t repay borrowed money, waking up every day wondering where to borrow money to cover today’s bills, always worried about being overdue and having collectors call my home, then my family finding out... I never want to experience that kind of nightmarish life again."

Comments of shared experiences abounded.

But there were also some irritating remarks.

"Ha, so much talk, but at the end of the day, isn’t it money that was borrowed by oneself? If one can’t repay what they borrowed, who else can be blamed, isn’t it deserved?"

He Junfeng glared at this new comment, annoyed by people who always sound off without understanding anything.

He couldn’t help himself and replied to this comment: "Idiot, you probably don’t know that the borrowing rate among young people nowadays has reached 60%. According to your reasoning, do these 60% of young people all deserve it?"

Even though he had never borrowed money, he still saw various news and information about online lending on the internet.

If one person borrowed and couldn’t repay, maybe you could say it’s their fault, but when over 60% of young people are in the same situation, it has become a societal issue.

Blaming an individual in such circumstances is entirely meaningless.

The responsibility of various financial platforms that exploit human weaknesses to make unscrupulous money is far greater.

After arguing with that person and seeing others scolding him too, He Junfei felt somewhat relieved.

He was initially planning to close the comments section and check out other videos from this anchor’s account.

But out of the corner of his eye, he noticed a few comments with fewer likes that seemed largely unnoticed.

"I want to ask the anchor, what’s the background music in the video, haven’t heard it before?"

"Feel like the BGM of this video is really nice."

"Right, not only is it nice, but it fits the video so perfectly too!"

BGM?

He Junfei was slightly startled.

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ps: Chapter one, there’s more