Chen Jincheng quickly got on stage.
This Crying Bud was an internet celebrity in the other world. Her real name was Chen Xiaoying, and the fact that she had the title "Cutest Face, Wildest Moves" proved just how popular she was.
If her family's bar hadn't gone out of business, causing her to stop clubbing and even abandon her online handle "Crying Bud," then internet celebrity goddesses like Jiang Xiaobai wouldn't have stood a chance against her.
Besides, her whole vibe was a perfect fit for porting over the 'Garage Girl' concept. Combined with her potential for fame, even if she couldn't reach the same level as the Garage Girl from the other world, the effect would still be huge. A single concept might be enough to create a top-tier internet celebrity.
Most importantly, she didn't have the scandals that plagued the Garage Girl from the other world. She wouldn't have all sorts of indecent videos surfacing the moment she got famous, only to then get banned.
In this world, she wasn't famous yet, and it was uncertain if her future would follow the same path as in the other world. Since he'd run into her, he had to make contact. Maybe he could even sign her.
It would be even better if the Life Simulation Game gave him another Internet Celebrity Debut Card sometime soon.
And on the stage of the Extreme Bar, he had a great skill for hitting on girls: King of the Dance Floor, which gave him +100% charm and appeal to the opposite sex when dancing.
'This bar is way more fun than the new one my brother opened,' Chen Xiaoying thought as she swayed her body to the DJ's music. 'At least there are a lot of girls leading the dancing on stage. The atmosphere is great.'
She also noticed that many of the girls in the bar looked familiar. It seemed she had seen them online today in that "Window Wiping" dance video.
As she was swaying slowly with her head down, she saw another guy approach and start dancing in front of her.
She was honestly a little speechless about it, but this kind of approach was normal in a bar. So, she adopted an attitude of ignoring him, respecting the unspoken rules of clubbing.
But when she looked up and got a glance at him, she froze. He was really handsome. And he looked a little familiar, too.
'Right, he's that internet celebrity who sang "Trajectory,"' she realized.
Only then did she notice that he was also a great dancer. His moves were infectious, and she even found him a little attractive. It was her first time meeting a guy in a bar who was this handsome and could dance with so much feeling.
She subconsciously started following his lead, doing the Centipede Shake.
Seeing this, Chen Jincheng gave the girl a slight smile. He knew his King of the Dance Floor ability was working. After interacting through their dance for a moment, he reached out, took one of her swaying hands, and led her into the Window Wiping dance.
The Window Wiping dance didn't actually require a specific song. As long as you matched the beat, many DJ tracks would work.
Chen Xiaoying was clearly startled when he suddenly took her hand. Then she realized he was doing the Window Wiping dance that had gone viral online today. His dancing was truly infectious; even with a simple move like wiping a window, she immediately started dancing along.
This obviously drew the attention of others on stage. After all, the Window Wiping dance was incredibly popular today. One by one, men and women who knew the moves also paired up and started doing the dance.
From the DJ booth, Jiang Xiaobai naturally noticed Chen Jincheng hitting on a girl and dancing with her. 'Why don't these girls ever consider what a scumbag "Scumbag Cheng" is?' she couldn't help but complain internally.
Elephant, on the other hand, watched Chen Jincheng leading the girl in a dance with a face full of envy.
'My big bro truly is the Ancestral Master.'
A short while later, the rhythmic DJ music stopped and was replaced by a softer, gentler tune. Everyone knew the bar's warm-up performance was about to begin, so they all started getting off the stage.
Chen Xiaoying glanced at Chen Jincheng, then pulled him by the hand off the stage. She didn't let go until they reached a booth. She then picked up a bottle, poured two shots, and handed one to him. "Nice moves. Let's have a drink."
Chen Jincheng smiled and clinked glasses with her. Only then did he notice two other girls at the booth, who had clearly come with Chen Xiaoying.
As he drank, the two girls huddled up next to Chen Xiaoying, staring at him in surprise.
"Xiaoying, where did you pick up this hottie?"
"I think he's some internet celebrity."
Chen Jincheng just smiled and picked up a shot glass. "To you two beauties, a toast!"
The two girls each picked up a shot glass and clinked it against his.
Chen Jincheng put down his glass and took the initiative with Chen Xiaoying. "Add me on WeChat?"
Thanks to the connection they'd made while dancing, the girl didn't refuse and pulled out her phone to scan his QR code.
After adding him as a friend, however, she saw the prefix on his username and froze. "Second Generation Star Media Company? Is that an internet celebrity agency?"
Chen Jincheng smiled. "Yep, I own it. Ever thought about becoming an internet celebrity? You've got great potential. Sign with my company, and I'll personally make you famous. You saw the Window Wiping videos today, right? I'm the one who planned that whole thing."
Just then, Lin Qing and the other girls took the stage and began to perform the Window Wiping dance in unison, electrifying the bar's atmosphere.
"I came up with this dance, too," Chen Jincheng added.
"I'll go home and give it some serious thought!" Chen Xiaoying was clearly tempted. Then, she said a bit sheepishly, "Actually... I came to your bar today to scout out the competition."
"Huh???" Chen Jincheng was taken aback.
Chen Xiaoying explained, "You know that new bar that opened on Feifuxing Road? My brother owns it. I'm in charge of scouting out the other two bars for him. I was just at the other one yesterday!"
"So you're my enemy!" Chen Jincheng realized, teasing her with a smile.
'Looks like this world's Crying Bud also comes from a bar-owning family,' he thought.
"And just like that, we're enemies?" Chen Xiaoying rolled her eyes at him, then started doing hand gestures to the music, showing a great sense of rhythm.
Chen Jincheng had to admit, there was a reason this girl had earned the title "Cutest Face, Wildest Moves" in the other world.
After the warm-up act, Chen Xiaoying left, and Chen Jincheng walked her outside the bar.
"I'll think about what you said. See you for now!" Chen Xiaoying said her goodbyes, then got into a taxi with her two friends and left.
The taxi quickly pulled up in front of another new establishment on Feifuxing Road, the Starry Night Bar.
Chen Xiaoying led her friends into the bar, got them a new table, and then hurried to an office where she met a young man.
"You're back. How were things at Extreme Bar?" the young man asked as he saw her, immediately opening a bottle of AD Calcium Milk and handing it to her.
After taking the AD Calcium Milk, Chen Xiaoying said bluntly, "Bro, I don't think you can compete with Extreme Bar. I might even run over to their side and help them take you down in a couple of days. Why don't you just close up shop and call it a day?"
"???" Chen Hong was completely dumbfounded by his sister's words.
Before he could react, Chen Xiaoying had already left the office with her AD Calcium Milk and returned to the main hall of the bar.
In a place like a bar, meant for drinking alcohol, a sweet-looking girl like her drinking from a bottle of AD Calcium Milk drew quite a few sideways glances.
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「The next day.」
When Chen Jincheng woke up and checked his phone, he saw a bank deposit of 800,000 yuan. It was the public licensing fee for "Trajectory" from Tiao Yin. The 20% tax had been paid on his behalf by Tiao Yin.
Soon after, Sister Hong arrived. She handed him a bag of breakfast and said, "The office space is ready for inspection today. Want to go take a look together later? Once we approve it, we have to pay the final balance to the renovation company."
"Yeah, let's go check it out together," Chen Jincheng nodded, breathing a small sigh of relief.
This money from Tiao Yin had come at just the right time. He was also thankful that the Life Simulation Game had given him "Trajectory." Otherwise, after being scammed out of two million by his cousin-uncle, he'd be in a world of hurt right now.
Sister Hong continued her report, "As of this morning, Xiaobai has reached 1.25 million fans. Lin Qing has broken 600,000 fans, and Yinyin is at 350,000. The other girls don't have as many, but their numbers also increased significantly overnight."
"There's one more thing. Bloggers online have already started reporting that Xiaobai, Lin Qing, and the others are all from the same company. After all, their filming locations are basically identical. They're all full of praise for you as the planner, though. A viral plan of this scale is rare, and everyone is saying the final parody version was a stroke of genius."
"This is nothing," Chen Jincheng chuckled. In the other world, there were tons of viral marketing plans, all of which had yet to appear in this world.
Even among the three mass-filming plans he had listed, the Window Wiping dance was the one with the least potential for virality.
So, he said to Sister Hong, "Since everyone has already figured it out, have Xiaobai and the others add the Second Generation Star Media tag to their profiles. We'll film an even better concept today, as a way for the Second Generation Star Media girl group to say hello to everyone."
"Boss, you have an even better plan than the Window Wiping dance?" Sister Hong asked immediately, a little surprised. If it was really better, then they could try to see if they could push Lin Qing and Yinyin past the million-fan mark as well.
If they could do that, Second Generation Star Media would be considered to have made a name for itself.
But a great plan like that wasn't easy to come up with, so she waited expectantly for Chen Jincheng's confirmation.
"The plan is definitely better," Chen Jincheng said with a smile.
'This is the Shaking Bear Dance, after all,' he thought. 'One of the most lamented victims of the platform's bans.'
In reality, the dance's initial appeal wasn't just about the chest. The main focus was the choreography, enhanced by genuine artistry. It was a form of allure born from the art of dance, one that made a girl's "great assets" seem to have a mind of their own, attracting the gaze of perverts without the girl's conscious control.
But later on, it generated too much traffic, and many people jumped on the bandwagon. Not many of them knew the real choreography, so most copycats ended up ditching the artistic aspect, leaving only the "shaking." In the end, it was reported, the whole trend was brutally banned, and the dance was labeled as vulgar.
Many perverts maliciously suspected that it was all because of jealous reports from the "little fairies" of the "airport" faction.
And the plan he wanted to mass-film now was, of course, the original Shaking Bear Dance, complete with its artistic enhancement.
In his past life, several videos of this Shaking Bear Dance had surpassed three million likes. He had specifically sought out good-looking girls who were well-endowed—he refused to believe he couldn't create a viral hit with them!