Free Web NovelChapter 185: Chapter 183: 30-Second Countdown Overtake
Bai Su pursed her lips. Her eyes casually flickered toward the camera, but she was actually looking through the lens at Li Chenlin behind the equipment.
As Rosa Meiya’s song began, almost everyone who heard the mermaid sing grew visibly infatuated.
As if compelled by some unseen force, viewers began leaving Bai Su’s stream and clicking into Rosa Meiya’s.
Her voice seemed to have a 3D surround-sound quality, effortlessly immersing them in the experience.
Gradually, the viewers staring at Rosa Meiya on their screens developed looks of frenzied obsession.
[AHHHHHH, I’D RUN THROUGH A BRICK WALL FOR ROSA MEIYA!]
[So beautiful, I can’t breathe! Princess Rosa Meiya! I would give you everything, including my life!]
[Princess Rosa Meiya! You are my god! My one and only god!]
[Princess Rosa Meiya, I’m begging you, just one more song! I swear, just one! I won’t ask for another, just one! Please, I feel like there are ants crawling all over me. If I can’t hear your voice, I’m going to die!]
[Princess Rosa Meiya, you must have been sent by the Beast God to save the world!]
[I can’t take it, I need an oxygen mask! I’m really going to faint! Princess Rosa Meiya, you’re too captivating!]
After Rosa Meiya began to sing, the viewer count in Bai Su’s stream began to plummet, steadily losing ten thousand viewers per second.
Now, only a handful of idling viewers were left.
Rosa Meiya looked at Bai Su smugly. "Miss Bai Su, what do you think?"
Bai Su glanced at the time. "Thirty seconds left."
Rosa Meiya nodded, a wide smile on her face. "That’s right. In thirty seconds, you’re going to lose. As expected of someone from the Snow Country—you’ve never seen anything truly spectacular. For me to compete against you... it’s a bit of an unfair stomp, isn’t it?"
Bai Su glanced at Li Chenlin behind the camera again.
Li Chenlin gave her an encouraging nod.
Bai Su took a deep breath and looked into the camera. "People of the Sea Clan, can you help me? Help me win this competition."
After she spoke, she watched the live stream feed with a hint of nervousness.
’I hope Li Chenlin wasn’t lying to me...’
Rosa Meiya’s sneer could be heard through the broadcast.
A moment later, the viewer count in Bai Su’s stream suddenly exploded.
It shot up to 100,000, then 500,000, one million, two million, three million, four million, five million... ten million, and it was still climbing.
Rosa Meiya and Mirene stared at their own hands in disbelief as they uncontrollably clicked into Bai Su’s stream and began frantically showering her with gifts.
1,000 Carnivals scrolled past.
5,000 Carnivals scrolled past.
Ten thousand Carnivals scrolled past!
Fifty thousand Carnivals scrolled past!
When Bai Su saw that even Rosa Meiya and Mirene had joined the ranks of gift-givers, she was utterly bewildered.
[HOLY SHIT! SU SHEN IS MAKING A COMEBACK!]
[What the hell? What’s going on?]
[Bai Su’s viewer count just exploded!! She’s overtaken her!]
[In just ten seconds! She actually managed an incredible comeback and surpassed Rosa Meiya’s popularity!]
[Wait, what? Even Rosa Meiya is here spamming gifts? What’s she doing?]
[Did this fish click on the wrong stream? She saw she was about to lose, panicked, and tried to send herself a gift, but sent it to the wrong person instead?]
[So Rosa Meiya sent gifts to the wrong person... but did Mirene make the same mistake?]
When the final five-second countdown ended, Bai Su’s stream was in a league of its own, leaving Rosa Meiya’s far behind—with more than double her viewer count!
The other streamers watching the drama were stunned for a moment, then erupted into screams and cheers.
The diners in the restaurant cheered, and the sound of celebration filled the entire street.
An immense number of people were watching the stream. After all, a catfight between two beautiful women has always drawn a crowd.
’I just said a single sentence, and I won that easily?’ Bai Su was baffled by her own victory.
When Rosa Meiya came to her senses, her face turned pale with rage. "Bai Su! Are you trying to humiliate me?!"
No wonder Bai Su had been so calm and unhurried all week!
No wonder she’d looked so indifferent, as if she didn’t care about winning or losing.
No wonder she’d refused to respond to any provocations beyond accepting the initial challenge!
So, this was what she had been waiting for all along!
The people of the Snow Country were so sly! Her fans were sly! And she was the slyest of all!
They deliberately created a situation where she thought she was guaranteed to win, just to make her lower her guard. Then, they snatched victory in the final thirty seconds, making her lose completely and utterly, disgracing her!
Bai Su hadn’t expected this result either.
She looked at Li Chenlin in astonishment, impatient to find out what had just happened.
Bai Su ignored Rosa Meiya’s shouting, ended the stream, and walked over to Li Chenlin. "What was that? Why did I actually win after I said that? Where did all those people in my stream come from? Did you buy bots?"
Li Chenlin chuckled. "Of course not. It’s just that Susu has good luck, that’s all."
He had no intention of telling Bai Su the secret of the key. Because she had signed a contract with it, she had become the master of the seas.
To the people of the Sea Clan, her every word was a divine oracle.
Even a mermaid of Rosa Meiya’s caliber would be compelled to go to her stream and shower her with gifts to help her win the competition.
What’s more, the population of the Sea Clan was more than three times that of the land dwellers.
For Rosa Meiya to dare challenge Bai Su to a so-called popularity contest was simply suicidal.
Even if every single person on land was bewitched by Rosa Meiya’s song and chose to support her, there would still be a population more than three times larger from the Sea Clan ready to help Bai Su.
All she had to do was ask.
That was why, from the very beginning, Li Chenlin knew that it was impossible for Rosa Meiya to win.
「Military Headquarters.」
The three little ones watched until the stream ended before finally letting out a sigh of relief.
Bai Xiaolang dialed his assistant. "Cancel the assassination order on the Mermaid Princess."
"Yes, President."
Bai Xiaoshe shook his head with a hint of regret. "I knew Mom would win for sure, but it’s still a shame we can’t kill that woman for provoking her."
"It saves us the trouble of doing it ourselves, but it is a pity," Bai Xiao Zhu said, idly making a cat’s cradle with spider silk between his fingers as he played with Wen Xiaobao. "No, you flip it like this."
Bai Xiao Zhu’s ten fingers danced, effortlessly forming a beautiful, symmetrical floral knot with the silk.
"Wow!" Wen Xiaobao’s wide, sparkling eyes lit up instantly. "You’re amazing, big brother!"
A smirk touched Bai Xiao Zhu’s lips, a flash of pride in his eyes. "Of course."
Bai Xiaoshe clicked his tongue regretfully. "It really is a shame. If she disappeared in the Snow Country, Second Dad and Li Chenlin would definitely be implicated."
After all, the Mermaid Princess had publicly declared she was coming for Yelias and Li Chenlin.
And since this was the Snow Country’s territory, Lu Tingyan would have his hands full when he came out of his seclusion.
While they were all overwhelmed with the chaos, the three of them could have taken the opportunity to get their mom away!
The three little ones didn’t have much faith in their so-called biological fathers. When it came to protecting their mother, they trusted no one but themselves.
