The live stream event by Sheng Kuang had been heavily advertised for nearly a week, with the platform dedicating all available prominent recommendation slots and resources to it.
Sheng Kuang's fans had already bookmarked the stream for that night a week in advance. Even though he hadn't broadcasted during that week, many people still frequented his stream, engaging in conversations.
Especially on the day of the live stream, by noon, the stream was already packed.
Perhaps due to the summer vacation, a group of people seemed to have an abundance of free time, tirelessly spamming countdowns in the chat.
At precisely seven in the evening, Sheng Kuang started his broadcast.
Before he even went live, the stream's popularity was already significantly ahead of others. Once he started, the heat surged as if going mad. In just one minute, even before he had fully adjusted his equipment, his viewership had surpassed ten million.
Many people were sending gifts, some of the large ones featuring special effects, from exploding fireworks to a blue sports car zooming across the screen. It was so dazzling that Lin Jing's phone even noticeably lagged.
Two minutes into the broadcast, a small window popped up in the bottom left corner of the screen, revealing Sheng Kuang's face.
The already frenzied comments became even more chaotic.
"Ahhhhh, he's showing his face!"
"For Kuang, I'm infatuated; for Kuang, I'm crazed; for Kuang Kuang, I'll smash into walls."
"Sheng Kuang, a piece of trash that gdt doesn't want."
"Wuwuwu, my baby is so handsome. Another day of working hard to mine for Kuang Kuang."
"Go, kPL Autumn Split! Kuang baby, go for it, yLs go for it!"
Lin Jing, with her sharp eyes, spotted the hater who mentioned gdt amongst the barrage of comments and unhesitatingly gave them a permanent ban, mentally retorting, "You're the trash, the king of trash."
When Lin Jing banned someone, Sheng Kuang would receive a notification.
He heard a 'dong' sound from his headset, looked up at his computer screen.
"Xiao Jing-chan" permanently banned "gfffff03".
The little moderator is on duty...
Sheng Kuang clicked to enter the game, his eyelids drooping as he smiled.
"Kuang baby smiled!!!"
"Damn, that's so charming."
"My god, I actually got hit on by my own friend."
"Ahhhhh, my girlish heart exploded, I'm dead."
"Why haven't you retired yet, when will you disappear? The thought of seeing you in the upcoming matches makes me sick and unable to sleep."
"If you're sick and can't sleep, then don't sleep. Strive to disappear soon."
Amidst the dense stream of comments, Lin Jing banned every hater she found. Su Dan Novel Network.
Sheng Kuang, visible on the phone screen, looked up at his computer again. Seeing something in the comments, he lowered his head and smiled again.
"I feel like my 'mom fan' status is about to change."
"You scumbag, you're doing this on purpose, aren't you? You know I can't have you, yet you still smile at me."
"Damn it, you're clearly smiling at me."
While everyone scrambled to claim Sheng Kuang's smile, Lin Jing banned another hater.
Sheng Kuang didn't look up this time. While collecting the in-game quest rewards, the corners of his lips seemed to curl upwards subtly.
"Stop smiling, stop smiling, this old lady's heart can't take it."
"I can't take it either."
"Me too."
Lin Jing watched the screen filled with "can't take it" and quietly muttered to herself, "+1."
Sheng Kuang, possibly due to some obsessive-compulsive tendency, clicked on every notification marked with a red dot.
Finally, he clicked on friends. Amongst the friend requests, he didn't even look at them before switching to another section. Perhaps by accident, he clicked into the 'intimacy' tab.
In his relationship tab, there were only six close relationships.
3 best friends, 2 close confidants, 1 bestie.
And that bestie, Lin Jing knew, was a female commentator in kPL. She had a boyfriend, but it wasn't Qin Dandan.
The last time she played games with Qin Dandan, Qin Dandan was still his bestie. How did that change now?
Could it be that he had removed Qin Dandan as his bestie because of Qin Dandan's Weibo post?
Lin Jing pursed her lips, her gaze falling on Sheng Kuang's face on the phone screen. His expression was relaxed. It had been a few minutes since he started streaming, and he hadn't said a word. After clearing the red dot reminders in his friends list, he went to his inventory.
He opened all the gift packs and boxes he could, and redeemed all the skin trial cards that could be exchanged for diamonds.
His inventory had far more "Love Roses" than hers. He went through everything in his inventory one by one, processing what he could. For what he couldn't process, he moved on. When he reached the "Love Roses," he dragged the quantity from 1 to the maximum of 50 and clicked 'gift.'
Chen Jing had the highest intimacy value with him, followed by Lan Bowen and Li Ran, and then "Xiao Jing Jing Jing Jiang."
Without even looking, he clicked on "Xiao Jing Jing Jing Jiang" and sent her the Love Roses in front of the entire live audience.
"I waited a week for this stream, and you're just showing me opening gift packs?"
"Kuang baby's OCD is confirmed."
"Kuang baby has so many diamonds."
"???"
"WTF? Why are you sending Love Roses to Xiao Jing Jiang?"
Before Lin Jing could react, she saw someone in the comments asking why Sheng Kuang was sending her Love Roses.
She didn't know why she was so nervous, but suddenly she felt extremely anxious, fearing that others might misunderstand and cause unnecessary trouble for Sheng Kuang.
Just as she was about to type something in the comments to clarify for Sheng Kuang, she suddenly saw a comment.
"I know this one! Boss Jing, God Ran, Coach Lan, they are all Kuang baby's harem. To maintain fairness, he can only send Love Roses to the little moderator."
"So the little moderator is just a tool to avoid harem disputes."
"Poor little moderator."
"Poor little moderator +1."
"Little moderator, don't cry, you still have us."
"Hugs to the little moderator."
"..."
I'm sorry, I was overthinking.
It was her mistake.
Lin Jing watched the chat's sudden shift in tone and silently retracted her fingers from the keyboard.
Sheng Kuang didn't team up with anyone; he started a solo queue.
After the match was found, he finally spoke his first words of the night: "What hero should I play?"
The hero names in the comments were varied.
Even Lin Jing, who was constantly scrutinizing the chat for haters, couldn't tell which hero was mentioned the most, let alone Sheng Kuang who was just casually glancing.
Sheng Kuang cycled through many junglers. Unintentionally, he clicked on Li Bai. It was only for a brief moment before he switched to Jing.
However, that brief moment was still noticed by his fans.
"How did Li Bai's win rate become 99%?"
"How was the 100% win rate broken?"
"When did you lose a game?"
"Didn't you say you were going to maintain a 100% win rate and apply for some Guinness World Record?"
Lin Jing looked at the screen filled with comments and opened her mouth.
In the ranked match that afternoon, Sheng Kuang's team surrendered. She could roughly guess that Sheng Kuang was the one who proposed surrendering.
But she had indeed forgotten that Sheng Kuang's Li Bai had maintained a 100% win rate.
That surrender had broken the record he had maintained since the account was created.