Chapter 821: Chapter 344: Baffling People with Tricks

As the time approached 8:00 PM, the Golden Jade Guild started rolling out their major program.

At 7:50 PM, they kicked things off with a massive 66,600 RMB super red envelope. Not only did they grab the headlines, but they also projected their banner across the top of every live-streaming room on the platform, rallying players to snatch the coins.

Su Huai followed the floating screen’s link and clicked into their live-streaming room, immediately struck by how smooth everything felt.

The visible stats already showed over 5 million viewers, with the actual numbers being at least 200,000, yet the room wasn’t lagging at all.

On Dog Star’s regular live-stream channels, the typical line supports up to 10,000 concurrent viewers before minor lag kicks in.

Bandwidth costs money, after all. It can’t just be distributed wildly.

The sole privileged room on the entire platform belongs to Yuji. Her regular line supports 500,000 viewers, and during the time Tara showed up, it temporarily expanded to 5 million.

And now, a brand-new Golden Jade streamer’s room has a capacity of several hundred thousand. Clearly, Dog Star has temporarily boosted bandwidth for this event, and significantly at that.

But what day is it today?

The birthday celebration Yuji has been promoting for a whole week.

Giving bandwidth to a newcomer to compete head-to-head with Yuji? Looks like Dog Star isn’t all bark and no bite–they’ve got a bit of temper~~~

And from such a small detail, one can infer that the Dog Star platform has aligned with the Golden Jade Guild.

What precise agreement they’ve reached, Su Huai doesn’t know. But they’ve clearly gone deep in negotiations; otherwise, Dog Star wouldn’t tolerate Golden Jade “stepping on” Xingyu’s reputation in announcing their arrival.

“So, I’m no longer your sweet Tiantian, is that it?”

Su Huai found it amusing, quietly observing the show unfold.

From the setup of the live-streaming room, Jin Yucheng didn’t seem like an amateur.

The stage was gorgeously built, offering an ultra-large space of at least 70 to 80 square meters. Four high-definition zoom cameras were utilized, with a surrounding LED giant screen as the backdrop and a banner hanging overhead–

“The Golden Jade Guild Arrives on Dog Star Platform! Join Us at the Golden Jade Stage!”

This was quite an impressive setup, with no hint of stinginess. In the current age of live-streaming, it was considered innovative indeed.

The hosts were a male and a female; the man had slicker speech, hailing from the Northeast, while the woman turned out to be an entertainment host for a capital city TV channel–she had quite the commanding presence.

However, the male host was more professional and seemed experienced in live-streaming, clearly knowing how to stir up the atmosphere.

“Welcome to all the brothers, sisters, bosses, legends, and curious friends here to check out the buzz! You won’t regret stepping into the Golden Jade Stage!

Today marks our Golden Jade Guild’s first official day on Dog Star Platform. Don’t ask me what we’ve brought–it’s so much I can’t even remember!

Too much to list! From the most thrilling programs on the entire internet to the most extravagant gifts–66,600 RMB super red envelopes not enough? Don’t fret, because today’s rain of red envelopes has no upper limit!

66,600 isn’t enough? How about 666,600? Or even 6,666,600?!

As long as you’re willing to draw, we’ll keep giving them away!

Stick with our live-streaming room, show your passion, and every round of programming will have a super red envelope attached to it. After every exciting program, there’ll be all kinds of prize draws for luxurious gifts!

Our basic prizes include smartphones, collectible-grade ceramics, antiques, and gold…

And the one-and-only grand prize, the super luxury reward, is a cash jackpot of 888,800 RMB!

Just one winner–if you draw it, you hit it big. If you draw it, you rise. If you draw it, you’ll instantly own a house in your hometown!”

Listening to the host rambling on, Su Huai found himself slightly dazed.

No way–bro, if you’re rolling like this, the extra, unrecoverable costs alone would likely shoot up to 10 million RMB. How exactly do you plan to claw that back?

This is insane!

Su Huai was the most clear-headed about this. If you exclude his cheat boosts and the contributions triggered by Brother Fu, the “obedient daughter’s” regular monthly revenue stream would max out at 5 million. And that’s only because she’s already achieved stardom and cornered the live-streaming market as the undisputed number one.

5 million in revenue would at most recover 2 million, taking half a year just to settle the books.

The current live-streaming market hasn’t evolved to the point where 10,000 concurrent viewers mean earnings without a single gift transaction–solely relying on traffic and sponsorships to rake in money.

Spending big bucks to buy popularity is a highly risky strategy, unlikely to pay off most of the time, barring rare instances where losses can be offset through other avenues.

Will Jin Yucheng be one of the lucky few?

Su Huai felt doubtful.

Unable to fathom the logic, he continued pondering until Yuyan, representing Yuji, approached with a query. Cheese made a peculiar expression and speculated, “Could it be that this guy genuinely believes Yuji’s wealthy patrons are all wild moneybags?”

“Oh damn! Could happen, right?”

Yuyan suddenly had an epiphany, and Su Huai instantly figured it out too.

Within Xingyu, the higher-ups are well aware that half of those high-spending patrons are Gou God’s secondary accounts. Their understanding is that this money-burning mode serves a dual purpose: strengthening the big platform’s strategy while also keeping Yu’s streams afloat.

After monopolizing a significant portion of the industry, Xingyu can recoup early investments from other sources.

But outside Xingyu, including Dog Star Platform, the perception is that those wealthy patrons are actual cash-spending consumers, neither laundering money nor being fake accounts–just genuine entertainment enthusiasts.

Secondary accounts?

No way–who goes to such lengths with secondary accounts?

The reason why so many of these transactions go through Xingyu’s guild payment channels lies in the stream-specific bonuses and extra coin rewards, which is standard practice across all platforms.

Thus, a misalignment of understanding arises internally versus externally.

“Jin Yucheng might truly believe that Dog Star Platform’s players possess such immense spending power…”

Su Huai shook his head, chuckling to himself. The scenario today felt downright hilarious.

Cheese was grinning ear-to-ear, nearly breaking his face with laughter: “This is killing me. If the guy really throws down 10 million today, then a couple of days later discovers all of our Xingyu members have pulled out, and those big shots and players follow suit–will he find himself furious enough to puke blood?”