Chapter 346 - 345: Lost the Original Flavor

Perhaps he never expected one of his own fans to talk to him that way.

Or perhaps his mind wasn’t clear, and he’d genuinely hypnotized himself into believing this fan had also been bought off by Jiang Qiuqiu. Furious, Wang Henli started arguing with him right there in the livestream.

He and this tenth-ranked fan were adamant, each sticking to their own argument.

He said, "Don’t you know that during the taste test, there were more people talking in my stream than in the one next door?"

The tenth-ranked fan shot back, "I know that, but so what? You don’t seriously think it’s because your food was actually good, do you?"

"Do you know why nobody was talking next door? Everyone over there was eating! Who has the spare time to send live comments? They were too busy stuffing their faces to type!"

Then, the tenth-ranked fan delivered a crushing blow to Wang Henli’s ego: "When food is genuinely good, people are too busy eating to waste time running their mouths."

As a whale, the tenth-ranked fan had his own supporters, and a flame war promptly erupted in the live comments. This was the chaotic scene that greeted Terry and the wave of Jiang Qiuqiu’s fans he led into the stream.

The entire stream was in chaos. The fan was a formidable debater, and he argued so fiercely that Wang Henli was practically steaming at the ears, his body trembling and his face flushed crimson with rage.

Jiang Qiuqiu’s fans asked in their group chat:

"—Is this it? Should we even bother saying anything? It looks like his own fans don’t even believe him."

"—If we jump into this flame war now, won’t it make Juju look petty?"

"—Let’s just watch the show!"

"—Watch the show +1"

So, everyone decided to just watch the drama unfold. Wang Henli, getting desperate from the verbal assault, blurted out, "What do you all know? Do you know the inside story? Jiang Jiujiu’s company president is the young master of the Federation Live Broadcast Company."

"If she’s one of the young master’s streamers, she has even less reason to target you. What good would it do her?" a comment read.

"There’s a special relationship between us. She would definitely target me. I—"

As a thought struck him, Wang Henli abruptly stopped. The matter hadn’t been exposed yet, and he couldn’t afford to speak recklessly. If he did, things would get messy, and the Federation Live Broadcast Company would probably have no place for him.

He refused to continue, but his unfinished sentence captured the audience’s attention. They flooded the live comments, trying to goad him into saying more, but he remained tight-lipped.

He just kept insisting that she had stolen votes and that there was a conspiracy, but few people echoed his sentiment. Some viewers, finding it all very boring, had already left. Jiang Qiuqiu’s fans also found it dull and decided they would never bother visiting his stream again. It was just too trashy.

Just then, the two hours were up.

All the voting had officially come to an end. Both Jiang Qiuqiu’s and Wang Henli’s streams went dark for a moment before splitting. The system announced the winner of the PK battle and promptly revoked the title from Wang Henli’s stream.

The crown for the Number One Streamer in the Federation’s Food Zone now rested on Jiang Qiuqiu’s head.

Her fans couldn’t be bothered to linger in his stream any longer and quickly returned to Jiang Qiuqiu’s.

Even the fans who were originally in Wang Henli’s stream couldn’t be bothered to watch him anymore. In an instant, more than half of his viewers vanished. All that remained was a sparse crowd, some of whom were just AFK lurkers.

His stream was completely empty.

Wang Henli stared at the empty stream, wondering, ’How did it all suddenly come to this?’

’Wasn’t my food delicious?’

’I’ve clearly beaten so many other streamers, so why do I look so pathetic now?’

’Even if I really lost, it shouldn’t be this bad, right? Why did my fans abandon me one after another?’

As he stood there in a daze, a line of text suddenly appeared in the comments:

"Your streams are getting so boring..."

"It used to be about food and family, but now it’s just about fighting with the streamer next door. I come here to eat and relax, not to watch a soap opera."

"Whatever."

Another wave of viewers left the stream.