Rise and Slay: From Scandal Queen to Academic Genius - Chapter 201 - 182: Did Ji Xizhi Hire a Ringer?

Chapter 201: Chapter 182: Did Ji Xizhi Hire a Ringer?

This game streamer doesn’t have many fans yet and has just started not too long ago. The previous videos were mostly a mix of various styles of battles, swearing, and complaints, which many people online enjoy.

Usually, long game videos are updated.

This time, however, an update was a short three-minute video with the cover title: “Boosting is Disgusting!”

There’s not much in the video, just two segments, one in the front and one at the back.

The first segment shows the streamer dominating the opponent, and the latter segment shows the streamer being chased and killed, clearly swapped to another person, intentionally losing. When the video was posted, the ID was deliberately left unblurred throughout.

Many fans of the streamer were instantly pissed upon seeing this!

[I’ve noted down this ID, going to add her now and curse her to death!]

[Where the heck did this little mad dog find a booster? @Streamer, next time bring me on! Let’s crush her!]

[That last line in the video, about analyzing insult crimes, why does it sound so much like a certain recent celebrity?]

[Who was it again, Ji Xizhi?]

[Yes, yes, sounds like her!]

Someone in the fan group mentioned this offhand, and it wasn’t long before screenshots were posted by various marketing accounts on Weibo.

Ji Xizhi is gaining tons of traffic, and the major marketing accounts have already had their eyes on her for a chance to profit.

The moment they saw this piece of news connected to Ji Xizhi, the marketing accounts swiftly posted screenshots and videos, with the captions uniformly stating: “Whether it’s true or not, I still quite believe in Ji Xizhi.”

After taking many losses, one learns; not standing by Ji Xizhi poses the risk of litigation or backlash. With risks everywhere, it’s better to stand by Ji Xizhi to earn some safe traffic.

With a few marketing accounts posting, the rumors about Ji Xizhi venting her anger and deliberately creating hype in the game began to spiral.

As the rumors spread, Ji Xizhi happened to be chasing a variety show live.

A lot of people flocked to her live stream to inquire.

In the “Life Experience” drama chase live room, everyone had just watched a mesmerizing erhu song, laughing until they rocked back and forth, only for someone to begin inquiring in Ji Xizhi’s live room.

[Is Ji Xizhi getting a game endorsement? Is this hype?]

[Probably, Ji Xizhi couldn’t play in the beginning, later she likely hired a booster! Just to craft a public persona~]

[I feel that video is quite odd too, it’s all clipped together, looks like haters!]

[What is this? Are there haters of my Zhi Zhi? Where where?]

The intellectuals were quietly following the variety show.

Looking down at the live room, they saw someone trying to smear Ji Xizhi and immediately began to question in the barrage.

Upon hearing Ji Xizhi was playing games, the intellectuals’ first reaction was, how could my Zhi Zhi play games when she’s busy studying? She’s never even touched a game!

After watching that clip on Weibo.

Following that, they saw the video reposted on Weibo, especially with the line, “What crime constitutes insulting others?” at the end.

The intellectuals were dumbfounded: …This seems like her!!!

Zhi Zhi can play games now?!

The intellectuals immediately switched back to the live room to shower praises.

[Turns out Zhi Zhi is so good at games~ I’ve fallen for her even more!]

[This is obviously boosting! The first phase was Ji Xizhi’s real level, can the fans sober up!]

[You’re the ones not sober! We always believe in Zhi Zhi!]

[…Do believe, then could Ji Xizhi please come out and respond, is she the one in the video?]

Ji Xizhi, along with Director Xu and others, were still watching the variety show.

Ji Xizhi maintained the habit of checking the live chat questions periodically to answer fan inquiries, diligently fulfilling the job of “chasing variety shows with fans.”

The variety show had just reached the part where everyone entered the market when Ji Xizhi happened to look down at the barrage.

But this time, unlike all the previous questions wanting to learn anti-fraud erhu songs or sleep tips and running tips, this time, the discussion was all about some game.

With only text in the barrage, Ji Xizhi didn’t quite understand, so she asked, “Which video is it?”

As soon as she spoke, someone in the barrage posted about checking the trending searches.

Ji Xizhi opened the trending search and found the video related to her.

She just took a glance at it.

Frowning, she said, “It’s me.”

With Ji Xizhi’s personal reply, netizens immediately came alive.

[Isn’t it a bit too much for you to hire a booster in the later stages?]

[Tsk, the one you found was at least a champion, right? No fun~]

[Sigh, excelling in one profession is enough, no need to market a champion persona in games too!]

The live room visitors started criticizing from preconceived ideas.

After the criticism, Mo Anxia weakly poked his head from behind Ji Xizhi.

Mo Anxia grinned: “Sorry, I was the one playing in the beginning, Ji Xizhi was the booster later.”

The visitors: “???”

Mo Anxia: “My hands are a bit rusty, haven’t touched for months, sorry.”

“Getting Ji Xizhi to help boost was my doing, everyone should blame me rather than her!”

Mo Anxia guessed that their gaming thing got out when he heard Ji Xizhi talking about games with fans.

He glanced sneakily at Weibo, and the instant he saw Ji Xizhi on the trending search, he stood up to explain himself in the live room.

Mo Anxia only explained the boosting part, not mentioning any person’s insulting, mainly because he’s a public figure, and outing them would affect himself as well.

Mo Anxia had already planned to go back, apologize with his manager, and then uninstall the game.

His explanation had just barely finished when the live room’s tone suddenly shifted.

[Someone dug up the complete battle record, go check it out!]

Some fan from somewhere posted this in the live room, and countless people went to watch the original video.

The original video wasn’t posted at that time but earlier, even earlier than the game streamer’s post.

It was on a fan’s homepage life record.

Around seven tonight, she updated with a Weibo post.

Pang Ju’s house’s springtime: Mouthy people will always be disciplined. My Zhi Zhi personally took care of it, exciting and hilarious, recorded together, though on opposing teams~

Below was the complete battle video.

Fans clicked in, immediately met with a barrage of foul-mouthed swearing voices.

The game had barely started for less than ten minutes, and the opponent’s curses grew more and more vile.

Even bystanders coming to spectate felt the urge to dive in and chase him.

[Damn it, see him once in the canyon, I’ll fight him once!]

[Support Mo Anxia to find ten Ji Xizhis to beat him to death!]

[Speechless, because of people like this in games, I don’t even want to play anymore~]

Fans watched, seething with anger, then heard Ji Xizhi’s line.

“Just you wait.”

From that sentence on, the entire battle rocketed forward.

The foul-mouthed streamer never had a chance to curse again, while Ji Xizhi killed an opponent every ten steps, sweeping them away with one wave.

Then came a team fight, another wipeout!

Then another team fight, another wipeout…

The foul-mouthed streamer was killed dozens of times consecutively; even staying by his base’s crystal didn’t prevent Ji Xizhi from attacking him in his home.

The fans: ………

They looked up again at the “Life Experience” variety show live broadcast, seeing Ji Xizhi leap up heroically and skillfully subdue a vendor boss.

Fans’ minds were completely cleared.

They couldn’t even tell whether the game mirrored reality or the reality was storming into the game.