“With such a low level of education, you still dare to apply for a job here? Go back and find a man to support you!”
Jiang Zhouzhou’s carefully prepared resume was crumpled into a ball and thrown into the trash. Her palm-sized face flushed red, and she sat awkwardly in her chair, picking at her fingers to hide her embarrassment.
“Still not leaving? Our time is precious. Can you not hold up the next interviewee?”
The stern-looking interviewer stared at her coldly, harboring an inexplicable hostility toward her.
“S-sorry.”
Jiang Zhouzhou quickly stood up, lowered her head, and hurried out of the interview room.
After she left, another interviewer asked in confusion, “That girl is very pretty. It’s just an interview for the company’s front desk. Why were you so hostile?”
The woman rolled her eyes and said disdainfully, “Tsk, I rejected her precisely because she’s too pretty. There are plenty of young girls like her who rely on their looks, hoping to work the front desk to seduce the boss and clients.”
…
Jiang Zhouzhou returned to her rented apartment like a frost-bitten eggplant, completely listless and devoid of spirit.
Having just graduated from university, she never imagined that the adult world would be so cruel. Her former classmates had all found their desired jobs, while she… had just been brutally humiliated at an interview for a company’s front desk position.
“What should I do… If I can’t find a job soon, I’ll be eating dirt!”
Jiang Zhouzhou lay on her bed, her mind filled with the humiliating words from the interview.
“Go back and find a man to support you…”
She rolled over and then abruptly sat up in bed.
In university, she was the publicly acknowledged campus belle. Her roommate had once coaxed her, saying that with a face like hers, if she started streaming, a crowd of men would shower her with rewards even if she just sat there without saying a word.
However, Jiang Zhouzhou wasn’t one to seek the limelight, so she hadn’t taken her roommate’s words to heart.
But now…
She was so poor she could barely afford to eat. What was the point of saving face!
So, Jiang Zhouzhou decided to give it a try. If streaming didn’t work out, she would just continue looking for other jobs.
Jiang Zhouzhou quickly downloaded the most popular streaming app of the moment—Shark—on her phone.
Following the on-screen instructions, she linked her ID card and bank card, then registered as a streamer and gave herself the name—Pidanshourouzhou.
Looking at the streaming interface, a flicker of nervousness crossed Jiang Zhouzhou’s watery eyes. After all, she had watched some streams and knew it was a world filled with beauties. She had no talent or skill, only a reasonably good-looking face…
After some hesitation, Jiang Zhouzhou couldn’t resist turning on the beauty filter. She sharpened her rounded chin, elongated her almond eyes, and cranked up the whitening effect by several degrees.
Finally, looking at the face in the camera, so beautiful she could barely recognize herself, Jiang Zhouzhou silently nodded in approval—perfect.
Click: Start Stream.
After adjusting her phone’s position, Jiang Zhouzhou nervously faced the camera. Perhaps because it was a newcomer’s first stream, viewers trickled into the stream room one after another, most of them being accounts without names.
[User 3077585321 has entered the stream room]
[Delicious Crab Roe Bun has entered the stream room]
[Vote for Bear has entered the stream room]
Jiang Zhouzhou’s eyes lit up. Just as she was about to welcome the viewers, she saw the viewer count drop from 5 to 1…
As expected, the streaming industry was so competitive now. It was incredibly difficult for a newcomer to break through!
Jiang Zhouzhou idly picked at her fingers, her mind already wandering to what kind of job she should look for tomorrow…
[Sexy Female Cockroach has entered the stream room]
[Sexy Female Cockroach: I don’t get it, so I’ll ask. Is the streamer performing meditation?]
Seeing that someone had finally spoken in the bullet comments, Jiang Zhouzhou quickly responded, “No, I’m not. This is my first time streaming… I’m a little… unsure of what to do?”
Her voice grew quieter and quieter. Although she was interacting with the camera and the audience, she felt like she was talking to herself.
[Sexy Female Cockroach: Do you have any talents? You can perform something you’re good at.]
Jiang Zhouzhou blinked. “I’m pretty fast at mental arithmetic. Does that count?”
The bullet comments went quiet for a moment.
[Sexy Female Cockroach: 158082 + 5640738 = ?]
Jiang Zhouzhou said seriously, “6589407.”
After answering, she didn’t forget to give a playful wink. “See? Wasn’t that fast!”
[Pfft, watching the streamer answer so seriously, I almost thought she got it right.]
[Sexy Female Cockroach: 6]
[Sexy Female Cockroach has gifted the streamer Love Heart * 1] (0.1 Fish Ball)
[Sexy Female Cockroach has followed streamer Pidanshourouzhou]
Seeing that she had been followed and received a gift for the first time, Jiang Zhouzhou’s eyes sparkled.
She made a heart shape with her fingers for the camera. “Thank you, Cockroach-baobao, for the Love Heart and the follow.”
Jiang Zhouzhou’s voice was sweet and soft, not deliberately made like others. It had a hint of a coquettish charm that was very pleasant to listen to.
[So happy over a single Love Heart. New streamers are so easy to please.]
[I’ll gift the streamer a Sports Car. How about you dance Spade A for me, streamer?]
On the Shark platform, there was a dedicated currency for top-ups called—Fish Ball.
100 RMB top-up = 100 Fish Balls.
A Love Heart was worth 0.1 Fish Ball, which was ten cents.
A Sports Car was worth 100 Fish Balls.
Zhouzhou frowned as she read the content of this bullet comment. She said honestly, “I’m sorry, I don’t know how to dance.”
[Then you can at least wiggle your waist, right? The streamer can stand up, put her hands on the back of the chair, and wiggle her waist for the camera.]
[Wiggle for a full minute, and I’ll gift the streamer a Sports Car.]
[Tsk tsk tsk, it’s so easy for female streamers to make money.]
[Wiggle, wiggle!]
Unconsciously, more than a dozen people had entered the stream room.
Even if Jiang Zhouzhou was slow, she could tell that these people who were egging her on were deliberately teasing her.
Her face flushed slightly, and she lowered her head whenever she felt at a loss.
[Sexy Female Cockroach has gifted Pidanshourouzhou Sports Car * 1] (100 Fish Balls)
[Sexy Female Cockroach: Still dawdling over a single Sports Car. If you don’t have the money, don’t act rich.]
Seeing Sexy Female Cockroach suddenly gift her something, Jiang Zhouzhou’s small mouth fell open. She quickly expressed her gratitude, “Thank you, Cockroach-baobao, for the Sports Car.”
[Sexy Female Cockroach: Are you a pushover, streamer? Just kick people like this who are causing trouble out of the stream room.]
Jiang Zhouzhou suddenly felt that Sexy Female Cockroach was like her elementary school homeroom teacher, giving her the feeling of being harshly criticized through the screen.
She lowered her head and couldn’t help but say in a small voice, “I… It’s my first time streaming, I didn’t know I could kick people out.”
[Sexy Female Cockroach: …]
[Sexy Female Cockroach: Forget it. Give me a Room Admin role, and I’ll kick them for you.]
Jiang Zhouzhou looked at Sexy Female Cockroach’s bullet comment and fumbled with her phone for a while before finally finding the function to set a Room Admin.
A moment later, she had set Sexy Female Cockroach as a Room Admin for her stream room.
But no sooner had she set it up than a PK request suddenly popped up.
It was Jiang Zhouzhou’s first time streaming, so she didn’t know what this PK was. She subconsciously clicked “accept.”
The stream screen immediately split into two. A reasonably good-looking male streamer appeared on the screen and said to the camera, “Newbie?”
His tone wasn’t particularly polite, and the background behind him distorted slightly with his movements.
Jiang Zhouzhou could tell at a glance that this male streamer, like her, had his beauty and face-slimming filters cranked way up.
She clicked on the male streamer’s profile and found that he had over a hundred thousand followers. His name was—Chenguang, and his homepage was mostly filled with special effect videos of gift rewards.
“Mhm, today’s my first day streaming.”
Jiang Zhouzhou exited the male streamer’s homepage and began to interact with him.
Perhaps thanks to him, as soon as they connected, more than thirty new viewers entered her stream room.
[Chenguang is bullying a new streamer again.]
(New Book Guide: 1. The live streaming platform settings are based on a certain ‘Yin’ and a certain ‘Yu’.
2. The live stream PK and game punishment sections are based on real-life streaming.
3. All streamer names are chosen randomly. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Please do not make unnecessary connections.)