Chapter 31: Love Is Not Something You Can Buy Just Because You Want To

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Wang Yao had been pushed over the edge, the audience had emptied their wallets, and the livestream’s viewer count had broken a record. Everyone was delighted.

Xu Qingfeng’s livestream surpassed eight hundred thousand viewers online, proving once and for all that he truly deserved the title of the number-one streamer on the entire internet.

【I’ve gorged myself on gossip!】

【I hereby declare that you’re my strongest connection in the entertainment industry.】

【What a shame you’re not a paparazzo!】

【The Wind God opens his mouth and out comes gossip—if it isn’t his own, it’s someone else’s.】

【Damn, damn, damn. If you won’t let the Wind God have an easy time, then nobody gets to have one.】

【You’re exactly who I dream of becoming.】

【This is hilarious. Of all people, Wang Yao just had to provoke Xu Qingfeng.】

【Why on earth did you pick a fight with Xu Qingfeng?】

The scandals Xu Qingfeng exposed left Lin Qinghe, who was standing nearby, utterly stunned.

Everyone knew the entertainment industry was chaotic, but no one knew exactly how chaotic it really was.

Being able to watch the drama unfold live had Lin Qinghe’s face flushed with excitement.

After finishing his tirade against Wang Yao, Xu Qingfeng took off his glasses.

He had done this twice that day, and the audience had already figured out his habit.

Normally, Xu Qingfeng looked harmless, handsome with a touch of madness. But whenever he put on his glasses, that hint of madness was hidden behind the lenses—which also meant that hunting season had begun.

The audience immediately protested. They wanted more gossip. They had not had their fill yet.

【Put your glasses back on!】

【I said put your glasses back on!】

【Bro, please, keep them on a little longer!】

【That’s enough. Do you really want the Wind God dead?】

Xu Qingfeng lowered his glasses and glanced at the barrage. “Family, don’t worry about me. My eight bodyguards aren’t just for show. If some fool tries to attack me in real life, I won’t mind giving him a taste of my fists and feet.”

“That concludes today’s roll call from the King of Hell. As I said before, I’m an entertainment streamer, not a demolition expert. I just happened to be inspired today, so I have another new song for you.”

Xu Qingfeng turned toward Jackfruit. “Moderator, start the backing track.”

【What the hell? There’s another new song?】

【Oh no. You really have become an entertainment streamer.】

【Dude, you’re making Starshine look like complete idiots.】

【The seal has been broken?】

【I think Jiang the Beast was right. Being placed in the same tier as him really is an insult to you.】

【You’re plagiarizing again, aren’t you?】

【Hilarious. Lying to us would be one thing, but you’re even lying to yourself.】

【Xu the Beast, may your whole family be damned!】

Xu Qingfeng was equally merciless with viewers like that.

“Brothers, some people are just asking to be insulted, and they’ve got filthy mouths on top of that. If your mouth stinks so badly, go make biogas with it. Don’t pollute the environment here.”

【Why is the streamer insulting people?】

Xu Qingfeng laughed. “I insult you because you’re sick. If you weren’t sick, would I insult you? And you insult me because you’re sick. If you weren’t sick, would you insult me?”

“Have a nice trip. No refunds.”

【Holy crap, that actually makes sense.】

【My scalp is tingling. I think I’m about to grow a brain.】

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【Brilliant. What a genius streamer!】

【Hahaha, you’ve made yourself invincible!】

【Go to hell!】

Jackfruit immediately kicked the enraged viewer out of the livestream.

Xu Qingfeng gave her an approving glance. Not bad. She was getting quite skilled at being a moderator.

“I came to FlashLive for three things: fairness, fairness, and damn it, fairness.”

“Whether it’s Jiang the Beast or Lotus Wang, I treat them equally. I’m not taking anyone’s side, so each of you gets one song. No need to thank me too much.”

Xu Qingfeng picked up the microphone and began singing along with the backing track.

【You sold the love I gave you,
You forced me to leave,
And when I finally learned the truth, my tears came falling down.
You sold the love I gave you,
You owe a debt to your conscience,
No matter how much feeling I gave, I could never buy it back.】

At first listen, “Love Trade” sounded like a painfully tacky song. Later, people realized it was the singer who was tacky.

The moment Xu Qingfeng opened his mouth, the audience burst into laughter.

【The perfect finishing touch!】

【What a glorious roast—“you sold the love I gave you”!】

【Holy crap, I’m genuinely jealous of your cauliflower!】

【Starshine: Are you seriously doing this to me?】

Wang Yao, already furious, began screaming at the top of her lungs.

“Ahhh! Kill him! Kill him! I’m going to kill that bastard!”

“You’d better not die peacefully!”

Bang! The computer died a glorious death.

The relentless stream of “You sold the love I gave you” pushed Wang Yao completely over the edge.

Before she debuted, she had had a loving boyfriend. They had been inseparable, devoted to each other, and utterly smitten. Then a talent scout noticed her, and she successfully entered show business.

The first strike after her debut was to cut down the man she loved.

She was the one who got cut down.

Her boyfriend accepted a huge sum of money and sold her to a bald old man.

By the time she woke up, everything was already too late.

It was a wound that would ache in Wang Yao’s heart forever.

【You were the one who wanted us apart,
So apart we stayed.
Now you want to win me back with talk of true love.
Love isn’t something you can sell or buy whenever you please.
Let me break free, let me understand—
Let go of your love.】

The music was still playing when Wang Yao suddenly turned around and shouted hysterically, “Why is there still sound?”

“I’ll turn it off right now!” Her manager hurriedly fumbled with the phone and shut it down.

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Bang!

Wang Yao vented her rage without restraint.

The atmosphere in Xu Qingfeng’s livestream exploded, and gifts had been flooding in nonstop ever since he started singing.

Compared with the gossip, many people genuinely loved the song as well—especially when it was paired with Wang Yao’s scandal. The effect was devastating.

【The streamer is seriously a genius!】

【Bro, you had this prepared all along, didn’t you?】

【Just imagining Wang Yao’s expression when she heard this song makes me laugh.】

【You’re not just twisting the knife—you’re going straight for the heart.】

Lin Qinghe, standing nearby, stared at Xu Qingfeng with an extremely strange expression.

That afternoon, she had told Xu Qingfeng about what was happening on Weibo. He had immediately decided to record two more songs: one to deliver a devastating blow to Jiang Wei, and another to push Wang Yao over the edge.

Could he really be a genius?

Xu Qingfeng had no idea what she was thinking. He was too busy singing his heart out into the microphone.

【Oh, oh, you sold the love I gave you,
You forced me to leave,
Seeing you in pain makes my own tears fall.
You sold the love I gave you,
I owe a debt to my conscience,
No matter how much feeling I gave, I could never buy it back...】

The pure rap delivery made a sea of question marks appear across the livestream barrage.

【Dude, you can even rap?】

【Rap has really made it big if it can get the Wind God to sing it.】

【Holy crap, I’ve always hated rap. I thought only idiots listened to that stuff. Turns out I’d just never heard good rap before.】

【Good lord, what kind of swill was I listening to all those years?】

【A true entertainment streamer!】

【Bro, release an album! I’ll definitely buy it!】

【I genuinely love this song!】

Before long, Xu Qingfeng finished singing. “Family, that rendition of ‘Love Trade’ was pretty good, wasn’t it?”

Lin Qinghe gave him a thumbs-up. “Pretty good” was an understatement. He sounded just like a professional singer.

【It was incredible!】

【Brilliant!】

【Holy crap, ‘Love Trade’?】

【Wang Yao is really getting special treatment. She even got a custom-made song. Hurry up and thank the Wind God.】

The gifts began flooding the screen again.

Xu Qingfeng shook his head regretfully. “To be honest, my performance still lacked a little genuine feeling. After all, I’ve never experienced anything like that myself. If you ask me, ‘The Punishment of Impulse’ has to be sung by Jiang the Beast to have the right flavor. And when it comes to ‘Love Trade,’ who could possibly do it better than Lotus Wang?”

【Good lord, he’s chasing them down and beating them to death! Hahaha!】

【Escape spell activated, no kill × Escape spell activated, still killed ✓】

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