After Clearing the Infinite Flow, I Tamed the Mad Dog Boss - Chapter 13

Chapter 13

Annie was sweating bullets, but she reacted quickly. “Oh my, it looks like our classmate Qin Yi really is sharp-eyed! The product selection issue was a mistake on our staff’s part. We’ll verify it immediately. This item will also be taken down, so it won’t be available for purchase anymore!”

As she spoke, she picked up the product on the table and moved it straight out of the camera frame.

“Everyone, please rest assured. We would absolutely never sell you counterfeit or shoddy products. Babies, look, the moment we discovered the problem, we handled it right away and stopped listing it. We do have a conscience. Unfortunately, our product selection checks weren’t strict enough this time. Annie apologizes to everyone here.”

With that, she bowed solemnly in apology.

It had to be said, this move of hers was far more skillful than the male streamer they had run into outside earlier. Not only might she keep some of the audience, she had even shaped herself into someone who corrected her mistakes and refused to make money against her conscience.

She would definitely lose some fans, but at least the account was saved.

Still, there was no way she could keep selling products tonight.

Annie had lost all interest in streaming, but she still smiled and said, “Then tonight’s livestream will become a chat stream. Come chat with our handsome little Qin Yi.”

After saying that, she turned and walked away. Before leaving, from an angle the camera couldn’t capture, she glared viciously at him and said, “Stream properly for me, or you’re dead.”

Leaving behind that casual threat, she strode off in her high heels and left the room outright.

The comments in the livestream room actually became even more active than they had been at the start. Everything that had happened so far was far more interesting than a product-selling stream. Many viewers who had come just to watch the drama stayed and began flooding the chat with questions for Qin Xian and Huang Quxie.

[Little brother is so handsome. No beauty filter? I don’t believe it.]

Qin Xian had absolutely no intention of streaming properly, so he answered casually, “Oh, it’s on. Turned all the way up.”

[So there is a filter? But why doesn’t it look like it? If it’s on, why is the person next to him still so dark? Is he Black?]

Huang Quxie: “…”

So what if he spent too much time in the sun and really was dark? He was clearly good-looking in a proper, upright way, tall and packed with muscle. Even his wife praised him for being super reliable and making her feel safe, okay!?

[Hahaha, Huang Er is speechless. You’re handsome too. I love muscular uncle types like you. Want to rub up a little?]

Huang Quxie caught sight of that comment. “Thank you, my friend Guagua123, for calling me handsome, but what does ‘rub up a little’ mean?”

Qin Xian couldn’t help laughing.

Huang Quxie immediately got even more worked up. He turned his head toward Qin Xian and said, “Hey! You’re laughing at me, aren’t you? Don’t think you can do whatever you want just because you’re good-looking.”

Qin Xian’s face went expressionless in one second, and he didn’t reply.

But his smile had still been caught by the netizens.

[Holy crap, so pretty! I’m a man and even I think he’s kind of pretty.]

[Little brother Qin Yi, are you dating anyone?]

[Handsome guy, how tall are you? What’s your zodiac sign? How old are you? Any hobbies? What kind of clothes do you like me wearing for you?]

Qin Xian: “…”

[Sigh, such a good-looking guy. Too bad he doesn’t have a mouth.]

[Don’t try to create some aloof persona. You’re already livestreaming, so what are you acting cold for? Speechless.]

Qin Xian: “…”

Huang Quxie glanced at Qin Xian, wanting to see what he would do. In the end, he saw that the handsome guy’s attention had already drifted outside the window, as if he were listening to the conversation coming from beyond it.

Wasn’t this guy here to learn how to livestream? That attitude didn’t look like it at all.

Seeing dissatisfaction start to appear in the comments, Huang Quxie had no choice but to take everything on himself and began relying on his gift of gab to joke around with the netizens.

Qin Xian focused more and more of his attention outside the door. He vaguely heard Annie call Aunt Zou over and complain to her.

“Aunt Zou! Where did you find these people? You’ve ruined me!”

“What? What’s there to make such a fuss about? Have you completed your task for this month? If you haven’t, you should know what the consequences are, right?”

“I… I know. I’ll complete it… But those two newcomers nearly destroyed my livestream room!! The moment they came on, they said there was a problem with the product and directly caused a livestream accident. I can’t sell this item today. I can only take it down…”

“…There was actually something like that? I’ll enter the livestream room and see what the hell is going on. Once the stream ends, bring the two of them to my office.”

“Okay, Aunt Zou. These newcomers don’t know any better. You have to punish them properly. Um… I didn’t manage to sell anything today. Could you be a little lenient with my task?”

“Impossible. You can keep streaming after midnight. Just switch to another product.”

“Aunt Zou, I’ve already been streaming for sixteen hours straight…”

“Don’t waste my time! Get lost!”

…

“Damn it, damn it, damn it! If I don’t complete the task, I’m not going to be sent back to the Borderline Group again, am I!? It took me so much effort to climb up to the product-selling group… Those two bastards should be sent to the beggar group!”

Listening to Annie’s curses, Qin Xian successfully obtained a useful piece of information.

This livestream factory seemed to have groups and rankings. The product-selling group appeared to be one of the better-treated groups, while the beggar group was the worst.

The content each group streamed was easy to guess as well. The Borderline Group should specialize in suggestive, borderline content, or even pornographic livestreams. As for the beggar group… it was very likely made up of those supposedly disabled or critically ill people, whether genuine or fake, who sold misery to profit from netizens’ sympathy.
The client’s older brother might be in this group, and this group was definitely the most dangerous place to be.

With that thought, Qin Xian doubled down on slacking off. He leaned back comfortably in his chair and chatted with the viewers whenever he felt like it. When he got thirsty, he walked off-screen to pour himself some water. When he got hungry, he stuffed snacks into his mouth. He might as well have written “actively refusing to work” across his forehead.

Huang Quxie talked until his lips were practically flying, his mouth dry and his throat parched.

Then he turned around and saw Qin Xian lounging there so leisurely, and instantly lost all motivation too.

“I want water and snacks too! I want to slack off too!”

He tossed that line at the audience, then ran off-screen as well and came back with two bottles of water and a pile of drinks. Then he started a mukbang.

But after all that fussing around, the livestream actually grew even livelier.

[Well damn, slacker streamers. Followed. This is exactly my mental state at work.]

[This is so fun. Will it still be you guys tomorrow? If yes, I’m following.]

[Qin Yi, Qin Yi, I sent you a gift! Say something!]

Qin Xian: “…”

What were netizens into these days? How had messing around like this brought in even more viewers?

But he had no intention of helping this livestream gain followers.

“You guys chat. I’m going to the bathroom. It’ll probably take a while. Over half an hour.”

With that, under Huang Quxie’s stunned gaze, he stood up and walked straight out the door.

Huang Quxie was dumbfounded. Wasn’t that a little too free-spirited?

But honestly, he admired it. The courage to just drop everything and quit working the second you were unhappy with the job-any wage slave would respect that…

Still, doing stand-up comedy alone in the livestream would be way too boring. Huang Quxie looked at the screen, then at the door. Finally, amid a string of question marks flooding the comments, he simply said goodbye and ended the stream.

“Hey, what the hell are you doing?! Are you insane?” The man guarding the door immediately started cursing when he saw it.

“There are still two hours left before you’re supposed to end, and you just shut the stream off? If the account loses followers, how are you going to pay for it? Fuck! Don’t know the rules, do you? I’ll kill you!!”

The man furiously rolled up his sleeves and lunged straight for Qin Xian’s face.

Qin Xian was just about to make a move when Huang Quxie charged out from behind him first. His massive build blocked Qin Xian completely.

The man’s fist landed on his chest. Huang Quxie didn’t make a sound. Instead, he clenched his own fist and, pressing forward against the man’s arm, forced him back two whole steps.

Huang Quxie lowered his voice. “What do you think you’re doing? Want to fight?”

The man looked at Huang Quxie, who was a full two heads taller than him, and carefully backed away.

His own fist had gone numb, but the other guy looked completely fine.

“Fuck, you two remember this. As long as you want to make a living here, I won’t let you have an easy time.” The man spat out a few vicious words, then grudgingly stepped aside.

But Annie suddenly appeared in the doorway, her face caked in heavy makeup. Standing in the shadows, she looked like a ghost.

Her shrill voice rang out. “Heh. They won’t be having an easy time. Aunt Zou told me to take you to her office.”

The man immediately broke into a delighted grin. “You’re in trouble now. Hope you die a little slower. Bye-bye.”

Qin Xian gave him a sidelong glance. The look made the man shudder outright, and he swallowed all the filthy curses he had been about to say.

Huang Quxie snorted coldly and followed Qin Xian toward Aunt Zou’s office.

Led by Annie, the two of them slowly climbed the stairs.

Starting from the third floor, the villa’s decor changed. Everywhere was filled with lavish decorations and furniture.

A red carpet stretched up the middle of the staircase. The owner seemed to be trying to turn the villa into some kind of European castle, but the villa’s stairs were nowhere near as broad as a castle’s. Once carpeted, they instead looked like a KTV hallway.

Even so, the owner’s personality was obvious at a glance: a nouveau riche parvenu with limited horizons and a desperate need to show off.

That parvenu was currently standing on the fourth floor, watching them. There were two more rings on her hand than before, but they still couldn’t hide the marks left by years of hard labor.

Annie was very afraid of Aunt Zou. After bringing the two of them over, she immediately left.

“Oh my, you two really do know how to stir up trouble. Did you come here just to make a mess?” Aunt Zou wore a chilling smile. “On your very first livestream, you went and offended several of my bosses?”

Qin Xian returned her smile and said calmly, “I’m helping you, aren’t I? If you sell counterfeit, shoddy products, what happens when the viewers realize they’ve been tricked and it blows up online? Wouldn’t your reputation be ruined then?”

“Heh.” Aunt Zou’s smile didn’t reach her eyes. “Then are you going to compensate me for the revenue from this stream?”

Qin Xian replied, “I checked. That account gained at least two thousand followers tonight. With more followers, won’t future product streams make even more money? Didn’t you know? Netizens these days like authentic personas.”

Aunt Zou’s smile vanished. She stared at the two of them with a dark, ominous gaze.

After a long while, she finally spoke. “Fine. Then I’d like to see just how far you can go. If you two don’t sell eight million in orders this month, I’ll have you try taking over another livestreaming job.”

As she spoke, she smiled again, baring a mouthful of yellow teeth.

“Someone, take them to the dorms. Oh, and while you’re there, you’d better not wander around. Don’t look around, don’t ask questions. If you see something you shouldn’t… you may end up feeling very uncomfortable…”