Chapter31 The Crazy Live Stream
Elbert looked at the current trending topics again. Unsurprisingly, more than half were about "Imagine" and Paul. One piece of news made Elbert break out in a cold sweat.
"A hundred girls standing on a rooftop, demanding Paul release a new song or they'll jump. Fortunately, the local police persuaded them, averting the crisis. Afterwards, the authorities announced two things: 1. Urging citizens to be rational in their fandom; 2. Urging Paul to release new content soon."
Seeing this, Elbert finally breathed a sigh of relief. That headline almost gave him a heart attack. The two official announcements made him laugh and cry. He thought it might be best to use the Paul account less in the future, hoping people would gradually forget.
A TikTok notification suddenly popped up: "0.2 miles away, streamer: Susan baby, is live streaming."
'Susan, that little girl?' Elbert remembered that the first time they met, Robert had found this information. Susan was now a graduate student at a music academy and a popular online streamer. Elbert gently clicked 'Enter Live Stream.'
The next moment, a beautiful melody came through. On the screen, Susan sat at a table, dressed in a cute princess outfit, passionately singing "Imagine." She truly deserved to be a top student at Wavehaven Music Academy; her singing was superb, sweet, and captivating. Susan was already a true beauty, and with her youthful charm and excellent singing, the livestream had a high viewership, with 10,000 people watching.
When the song ended, the praise was overwhelming.
"Susan baby, I love you so much."
"You're so beautiful."
"You're the girl of my dreams."
"Your cover of 'Imagine' is amazing. Second only to Paul."
Susan sighed slightly at the screen, looking a bit troubled. "You know, my sister and I are adopted. Although our family is wealthy and our adoptive father treats me well, I really want to know where my biological parents are and why they abandoned me."
Hearing this, Elbert was somewhat moved.
'It seemed Mr. Brown hadn't hidden the adoption from them. Although Mary and Susan seemed happy and carefree every day, they must have been troubled deep down. No one wants to accept that they were abandoned.'
'Mr. Brown's business was so successful, he must have been very busy. The Brown Family's daughters were probably raised by nannies. In such an environment, they were bound to develop somewhat peculiar personalities—like Lori's aloofness and Mary and Susan's rebelliousness.'
He pondered.
Looking at the dejected girl on the screen, Elbert couldn't help but feel some sympathy and was about to send Susan some gifts.
But then he heard Susan angrily say, "It's bad enough not to find my biological parents, but do you know the worst part? A stranger recently came to our house. That guy is terrible. He not only wants to marry my sister but also has his eyes on our family's money."
The live stream fans were immediately furious.
"What? This man is such an evil."
"Susan, tell us, who is so bad?"
"I'll help you and beat him."
'You actually hates me so much,' Elbert thought, speechless. Just as Susan was indignantly criticizing him, someone suddenly posted a message in the live stream comments.
"Oh my God, am I missing something? Is that account of Paul?"
After a brief silence, comments flooded in like a tidal wave.
"It's really Paul. He's in the live stream."
"Paul is here; how lucky we are."
"It's really Paul, the 130th viewer in the list."
"Oh my God. I'm in the same livestream as Paul."
"Spotted Paul."
"I need to screenshot this. I'm so honored. I have to tell my friends."
In an instant, the viewers in the livestream completely ignored Susan's presence and crazily tagged Paul.
"@Paul."
"@Paul, talk to me, please."
"@Paul, are you really here? Look at me; I'm your biggest fan."
Susan, who had just figured out the situation, was stunned. Her heart was pounding. She couldn't believe it and immediately clicked on Paul's profile. The account had only one video, the one with over 6 billion views, "Imagine".
"It really was him. He came to watch my livestream. Oh my God, am I dreaming?" she exclaimed.
Susan was instantly shocked and at a loss. Even more unexpectedly, a minute later, the viewers in Susan Baby's livestream skyrocketed: 20,000, 30,000, 40,000... 100,000... 500,000. Countless users entered, flooding the chat with messages like a waterfall, making it hard to see.
Then, people started sending gifts.
Susan's face was soon covered by gifts.
"This is for Paul."
"We all supporting Paul."
"Please release new songs."
"Please do a live stream, Paul."
But their messages were already drowned out by the flood of other messages. The entire live stream went crazy. The network almost started lagging. News of Paul appearing in a live stream spread across the internet instantly. Everyone was talking about it and rushing to watch. Susan Baby's live stream instantly climbed to the top trending spot. The traffic reached unprecedented heights—3.2 million concurrent viewers.
'What happened?'
'Data anomaly?'
The TikTok staff were also stunned.
"No, it's that super account. Paul logged in, and he entered a live stream. This is a great opportunity. Hurry up, allocate more traffic. Let's try to set a new record." one staff said with an excited tone.
"Paul, I love you; reply to me."
"Paul, who are you really."
"Paul, come out."
Countless messages flashed by. So fast they were almost unreadable. In the live stream, the number of tips also skyrocketed. Breaking the million mark in 3 minutes. Breaking the ten million mark in 5 minutes. It seemed to be heading towards a billion.
The viewers were going crazy. It seemed like just entering the livestream brought them closer to their idol. The impact of "Imagine" was just too great, and Paul was too mysterious. Making everyone madly infatuated.
'Network signal delay...'
The live stream content started flickering, and it was on the verge of crashing.
And the one who started all this, Elbert, was lying on his bed, staring blankly at his phone in the basement of the Brown family estate. He had just clicked instinctively and caused such a huge commotion. This was a massive online frenzy caused by Paul's appearance—unprecedented.
"This is insane." Elbert's hand shook, and he immediately exited the live stream channel and logged out of the account.
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