At that moment, Li Changlin had already opened his phone to cue the background music for "Heart of Gratitude."
Unexpectedly, many viewers suddenly made such a request.
He paused briefly, then looked up and called out, "Pure Sister, how about I pull you up for a mic share?"
"Not at the moment, I’ve caught a cold recently and my throat is really uncomfortable." Many people had assumed that the former Pure Sister would never reject Li Changlin’s offer, but to their surprise, the former Pure Sister just did reject him outright.
Although she made up the excuse of having a cold, many people didn’t buy it.
After all, how could such a loaded character catch a cold so easily?
And even if she did catch a cold, it wouldn’t likely last several days, let alone cause throat issues.
The world of the filthy rich is incomprehensible to ordinary people!
Helpless folks could only whisper such remarks to themselves, as a way to slightly veil the slight disappointment in their hearts.
Since the former Pure Sister was unwilling to join the mic share, Li Changlin naturally wouldn’t insist.
So, he started the background music on his phone once more and sang "Heart of Gratitude" for the former Pure Sister.
After the song finished, the former Pure Sister once again sent a surge of gifts, 1888×10 rubber ducks, thundering down on Li Changlin’s broadcast.
At this moment, Li Siqi’s private message popped up again, "Brother Changlin, are you available now? The host over there has been waiting for a long time."
Because she had developed some feelings for Li Changlin, Li Siqi’s way of addressing him had grown more intimate.
Li Changlin didn’t think too much about it, noticed that quite some time had passed, and replied, "Okay, I’ll link up with the scholar immediately."
The scholar was a male broadcaster, whose popularity among the hosts of the Wuxiang Legion could also rank within the top ten.
Last time, because of Li Changlin’s incident, he too suffered an uninvolved disaster, having his wealth value zeroed out by one and a half million.
However, he was lucky afterward, as the Wuxiang Legion was unwilling to lose all their elite hosts at once, so they had to take various measures to secure the interests of their hosts.
So in truth, although the hosts of the Wuxiang Legion had their wealth value zeroed by the Feixue Legion’s tycoons, their own interests weren’t actually affected.
On the contrary, because of these events, the popularity of the Wuxiang Legion’s hosts not only didn’t decrease but actually increased a great deal.
As the Director of Operations, Yang Kun had some competence; he knew the reason was actually because of the somewhat tangled existence of Feng Xu.
Now that Feng Xu was obviously becoming a fan of Li Changlin, that was why Yang Kun, with the intent to strike while the iron was hot, decided to have Li Changlin link up with the broadcasters of the Wuxiang Legion.
Of course, the most important thing on Yang Kun’s mind was actually to promote Xiao Rou, whom he had a private arrangement with.
Linking up with other hosts from the legion was merely an appetizer.
Li Changlin quickly caught on to this.
After the scholar, he had linked up with several other hosts, and was honestly getting a bit annoyed.
After all, he needed to interact with his audience, and if he kept linking up with other hosts, it would greatly affect his own popularity.
Moreover, because of the issues with linking up with hosts, it would also significantly reduce the number of viewers in his live broadcast.
After all, some viewers might have taken a liking to a certain host during the co-streaming, and they probably wouldn’t stay in Li Changlin’s room any longer.
Although Li Changlin had indeed prepared for this eventuality, when he discovered after connecting with ten hosts in total that he had lost a whopping fifty thousand viewers, Li Changlin couldn’t maintain his composure.
Fifty thousand viewers, that was the popularity of a second-tier host’s room.
Keep in mind, before it was confirmed that Feng Xu would definitely appear, the Endless streaming platform had only provided Li Changlin with a room for fifty thousand people.
Now that he had suddenly lost so many viewers, Li Changlin couldn’t help but feel utterly frustrated.
However, there was nothing he could do about it, as the co-streaming agreement had been promised personally to Yang Kun, and Li Changlin certainly couldn’t go back on his word at this point.
As a result, all he could do was give a wry smile.
It was his own fault for assuming too much.
Shaking his head in frustration, Li Changlin opened the private chat window that Li Siqi had sent him, "Brother Changlin, this is the last host. Director Yang hopes you can co-stream with her for an hour; Xiao Rou ends her broadcast at 10:30 PM."
Seeing this message, Li Changlin suddenly realized that it was already 9:30 PM, the prime time when the Endless live streaming platform was at its busiest.
"Co-stream for an hour, this Xiao Rou doesn’t seem to be a popular host, right?" Li Changlin squinted and thought for a moment, realizing he had no information whatsoever about this female host named Xiao Rou.
Upon further reflection, he guessed that Xiao Rou might be someone with connections, though he wasn’t sure if she’d used Yang Kun’s influence.
By this time, Li Changlin wasn’t a fool; he had already guessed what Yang Kun was planning.
No matter which high-ranking official Xiao Rou had connections with in the Legion, it was clear that Yang Kun intended to leverage Li Changlin to quickly boost Xiao Rou’s career—an obvious manipulation.
As for such a scenario where one is blatantly used with absolutely no advantage in return, even a fool would be reluctant to go along with it!
Though Li Changlin had no immediate plans to fall out with the Wuxiang Legion, Yang Kun’s blatant exploitation was something he really did not want to tolerate like some foolishly generous dupe.
However, what excuse could he possibly find to decline the co-stream with Xiao Rou?
If he were to outright refuse, given Yang Kun’s temper, retaliation was a certainty, and making his work life difficult would be unavoidable.
So Li Changlin felt he couldn’t be too impulsive; he needed an appropriate opportunity to decline the co-stream in such a way that even if he did refuse, Yang Kun wouldn’t have any excuse to take revenge on him.
"The Prince has arrived, all officials kneel in welcome!" Just as Li Changlin was at his wits’ end, suddenly the mechanical voice of the System blared in the live stream room.
"Wow, it’s the Prince, Brother Feng Xu is here!"
"Oh my God, it’s really Brother Feng Xu."
"Brother Feng Xu, I love you!"
"Feng Xu really is a fan of Li Changlin, and I thought he only became a Crown Protector for Li Changlin out of courtesy!"
"Cut it out, you’re overthinking it on the floor above."
"Welcome my Brother Feng Xu, Brother Feng Xu, I want to have your monkeys!"
The sudden entrant into the live stream room was none other than Feng Xu, arriving on the Emperor’s Royal Horse and immediately capturing everyone’s attention.
There was no helping it; he was just that imposing, just that eye-catching.