Free Web NovelChapter 412: Chapter 233: The Station Plays ’Girl’! Internet-Famous Soda
Coastal City, as a first-tier metropolis, sees a massive daily flow of people. The high-speed rail station is naturally the main hub, with countless travelers passing through every day.
On a high-speed train, Sister Feiye was scrolling through online videos with her assistant.
She was on her way back from Lin City after signing an advertising contract, hence the round trip by high-speed rail.
The assistant was scrolling through videos and, as they neared the station, exclaimed in surprise, "Sister Feiye, the internet is flooded with videos from those publicity associations today. They’re hilarious spoofs! Look, the president of the Coastal Publicity Association is even cross-dressing as Little Dragon Girl and doing a sword dance."
Sister Feiye couldn’t help but gape at the video. It was cringeworthy.
Just then, the station arrival announcement sounded: "Arriving at the next station, the final destination of this train: Coastal City Station..."
Such arrival announcements were perfectly normal; every station had them.
But a song that suddenly started playing took them by surprise: "Girl, my story began because of you, I learned to be patient for you..."
"This song sounds a bit familiar," Sister Feiye said in surprise.
The assistant reminded her, "This song seems to be Chen Jincheng’s ’Girl’."
"His song?" Sister Feiye muttered. She suddenly noticed a stir among the young people in the carriage. Upon hearing the song, many of them started pulling out their phones to record.
"LOL, I can’t believe the Coastal City high-speed rail station is playing the scumbag anthem, ’Girl’!"
"Haha, Coastal City knows how to have fun! The association president cross-dresses, and the station plays the Ancestral Master’s theme song!"
"That’s Chen Jincheng’s ’Girl.’ Is it really appropriate for a train station to be playing a scumbag anthem like this?"
...
These words made Sister Feiye pause.
’So this song isn’t just any song. It has this whole backstory?’
If the song really had that kind of reputation, then it was indeed very strange for a high-speed rail station to play it. No wonder it was attracting so much attention.
Surprised, she took out her phone, opened Chen Jincheng’s WeChat, and sent him a video of the scene.
「Second-Life Star.」
After dealing with a few things, Chen Jincheng was leaning back in his executive chair, engrossed in the game in his mind and accepting one quest after another.
The only problem was that the odds of getting a reward from a normal quest were too low. He had completed several quests in a row without receiving anything.
A WeChat notification on his phone snapped him back to reality. He picked it up to check.
He was surprised to see who it was from. Sister Feiye rarely messaged him; in fact, she practically never did.
He opened WeChat and saw that she had sent a video.
He froze for a second when he saw the video. It was clearly the inside of a high-speed train carriage, and the passengers seemed to be talking about him.
When he listened closer to the background music, he was dumbfounded. ’Isn’t that "Girl"?’
"What’s going on?" Chen Jincheng messaged Sister Feiye.
Sister Feiye: "The Coastal City high-speed rail station is playing your song, ’Girl’."
’Is that even allowed?’
Chen Jincheng was stunned. It reminded him of some viral videos from his past life.
Specifically, the one of a train station in some city playing that other Ancestral Master’s song, ’Girl’.
Even though it was just an edited video, it went viral and got incredibly popular.
But he never expected that in this world, a real high-speed rail station would actually be playing his song, ’Girl’.
It wasn’t strange for a train station to play music. Normally, people would hear it and not think twice.
But if that song was ’Girl,’ it was a completely different story. Anyone in the know would instinctively think of words like ’scumbag,’ ’Ancestral Master,’ and the like.
Therefore, since a train station is generally seen as a formal, official place, playing ’Girl’ came off as a bit cheeky.
Even those who were clueless were surprised once the people around them filled them in.
Sometimes, things are just strange, especially when it comes to filming TikTok videos.
A carefully produced video might not make a single ripple, while a casually shot clip could suddenly go viral.
Take the train station playing ’Girl,’ for example. In his past life, it was clearly just an edited video, yet it managed to get hundreds of thousands of likes.
In this life, it caused an even bigger sensation. The key was that so many people were recording it. As the buzz grew, the story of the Coastal City high-speed rail station playing ’Girl’ hit the trending topics list the very next day.
People who didn’t know Chen Jincheng or his song ’Girl’ were utterly baffled.
’It’s just a train station playing a song. Why is that trending?’
Wei Weiwei herself had never expected such a result. The moment she arrived at the bureau, Vice President Fu called her into his office to praise her. "Xiaowei, that stunt with the train station playing ’Girl’ yesterday was a great move. It hit the trending list first thing this morning and got Coastal City a lot of exposure."
After receiving the praise, Wei Weiwei was filled with emotion. The pleasant surprise had come completely out of the blue.
...
Chen Jincheng arrived at his office at Second-Life Star early in the morning, and Sister Hong came in right away with a document. "Boss, this is the itinerary for the Shanya team-building trip. We leave the day after tomorrow. I need your signature."
Chen Jincheng nodded, took the document, and signed it.
National Day was just around the corner.
Sister Hong took the signed document and left. A moment later, a girl walked in with an unhappy look on her face. It was Jiang Xiaobai, whom he hadn’t seen in a while.
The moment she entered, she plopped right onto his lap without a second thought.
"Hey, watch it. We’re in the office," Chen Jincheng reminded her. "Ximeng will be here any minute."
"Cheng, why did you have to get a secretary? It’s no fun at all," Jiang Xiaobai complained.
But Chen Jincheng teased back, "A secretary? Who says they’re no fun? They can be a lot of fun."
"What’s that supposed to mean!" Jiang Xiaobai seemed to catch his drift and started playfully swatting at him.
Then, she wrapped her arms around his neck. "Cheng, Sister Hong booked so many gigs for me this month. I’m exhausted."
"But didn’t you earn a lot?" Chen Jincheng asked with a smile.
In his previous life, Jiang Xiaobai had been a huge hit as a nightclub DJ. She had tons of offline gigs, music festival appearances, and even got a lot of offers to perform abroad.
It was the same in this world; she had far more gigs than Yinyin or Chen Ning.
She hadn’t had a break all month and had made a killing.
"I earned money, sure, but... I missed you," Jiang Xiaobai said with a pout. "Cheng, didn’t you miss me?"
"Of course I did. I missed you like crazy," Chen Jincheng said, happy to provide the girl with some emotional validation that cost him nothing.
"I missed you too. I bought you a present," Jiang Xiaobai said, taking out an exquisitely wrapped box from her bag and handing it to him.
Chen Jincheng glanced at it—another watch. And this model was even more expensive than the last one, worth over 500,000.
"Xiaobai, you got carried away again," Chen Jincheng said with a frown. ’This girl works herself to the bone all month, and the first thing she does is buy me a 500,000 watch?’
’Wouldn’t it be better to save that money for herself? She’s still renting an apartment!’
"I didn’t get carried away," Jiang Xiaobai shook her head and quickly added, "Come to my place tonight."
Looking at the 500,000 watch, what could he possibly do?
He could only nod.
Only then did Jiang Xiaobai give him a satisfied kiss on the lips before getting up and happily skipping out of the office.
Chen Jincheng glanced at the watch, then suddenly noticed a quest, marked by a golden exclamation point, had appeared in the game in his mind.
He immediately focused on the quest: *A strange bartender has appeared in the bar. He says he wants to craft a special kind of liquor and needs your help gathering the necessary ingredients!*
Chen Jincheng immediately controlled his game character to accept the quest. Material collection quests were generally tedious, and this one was no exception.
It took him a considerable amount of time to gather all the required ingredients. He then found the bartender again, submitted the quest, and in that instant, a new game notification popped up:
[You have completed the bartender’s ingredient gathering quest. You have received the bartender’s gratitude and obtained the recipe for a special, viral Soda!]
