My aunt is a magical girl, and so am I.

Chapter 18 Do you know what a Vtuber is?

The secretary finally couldn't hold back and chuckled.

The chairman gave him a cold look, and the secretary immediately put on a stern face.

Chu Sheng pressed his advantage: "Chairman, I really have value! I have an account, I can do makeup, I know how to edit videos, and I can even create entertaining content! I already had quite a few followers from my previous videos!"

The chairman asked coldly, "How much?"

Chu Sheng's voice was a little softer: "One hundred and forty-three."

The chairman, expressionless, asked, "How many people are alive?"

Chu Sheng looked away: "This data is rather complicated."

The chairman narrowed his eyes, and Chu Sheng said with a forced smile, "At least one hundred and eleven."

The chairman stared at her, standing there with Chu Sheng hanging on his lap, looking down at the magical girl whose makeup was ruined by crying.

Beautiful, there's nothing more to say about that.

Her face is indeed very photogenic, with her silver hair and red eyes making her highly recognizable.

Although her performance today was a disaster, every mistake could easily be turned into a viral video. Especially the part where she hugged her legs and cried – it was embarrassing enough, but also incredibly eye-catching.

There are plenty of idols who care about their image, but it's rare to find one who is shameless yet still beautiful.

What's even more wonderful is that she also has a simple, rustic charm, which makes her all the more precious.

This kind of person wouldn't work in the traditional idol industry, but if you put them in a different context...

The chairman's eyes flickered slightly, and he suddenly said, "Let go first."

Chu Sheng raised his small face warily: "You won't run away if I let go, will you?"

The chairman laughed angrily: "If I really wanted to leave, could you hold me back?"

Chu Sheng glanced at the plump thigh he was holding, then at the chairman's frighteningly tall figure, and silently let go.

The chairperson raised a hand to smooth out the wrinkles on her dress, then lowered her eyes and asked, "You just said you can edit videos?"

Chu Sheng quickly nodded: "Yes! I edit all my short videos myself. Although the data isn't ideal, it's mainly due to the platform's throttling of content that touches on the edge, and it has little to do with my personal abilities."

This isn't just shameless, it's utterly shameless. The chairman silently gave it the highest rating in his mind.

"Will you be able to control the live stream?"

"Yes!" Chu Sheng nodded again. "I can talk to thin air for two hours straight and still be able to continue my own thoughts."

Do you like being scolded?

Chu Sheng was taken aback: "Huh?"

The chairperson leaned forward slightly, her ample bosom pressing down, casting a powerful shadow over Chu Sheng: "Being insulted, mocked, turned into memes, and having your embarrassing past repeatedly posted online—can you handle that?"

Chu Sheng opened his mouth.

She wanted to say that of course she could handle it. But as soon as she said it, she suddenly remembered the sympathetic looks she had received backstage.

But as long as someone can see it...

Being criticized is better than not being found at all!

Chu Sheng gritted his teeth: "Yes!"

"Very good." The chairman straightened up and turned to his secretary, saying, "Take out the file number 37 and send it to my office later."

The secretary nodded immediately: "Yes, Minister."

Chu Sheng couldn't believe his ears: "Chairman, does this mean... I passed?"

"It didn't pass," the chairman said calmly.

Chu Sheng's eyes, which had just brightened, dimmed again.

The chairman added slowly, "But I can give you another way."

Chu Sheng raised his head with a pitiful expression.

The chairperson parted her red lips slightly: "Do you know what a Vtuber is?"

When Chu Sheng returned to No. 13 Junhai Road, it was already dark. He didn't dare to go through the main entrance, so he tiptoed in through the side door.

The living room was quiet. A dinner was covered with a glass dome on the dining table, with a sticky note next to it.

"Xiao Chu, heat up your food before you eat. Put your reading notes on my desk; I'll look at them tomorrow morning. Don't stay up late. —Gu"

As Chu Sheng looked at the note, a sudden sense of guilt welled up inside him.

Aunt Gu left him food at home, but he went to participate in a magical girl audition and even tried to seduce other mature women.

"I had no choice; I was just trying to survive."

Chu Sheng muttered a self-justification to himself, picked up his dinner and ate a few mouthfuls haphazardly, hurriedly washed the dishes, and then sneaked back to his bedroom on the second floor.

He locked the door, drew the curtains, and silenced his phone. Once he was sure it was safe, Chu Sheng collapsed onto the bed.

Today was too long.

In the morning, he was an ambitious new king of Haicheng's idol world, ready to ascend the throne; by the afternoon, he had become a stray dog ​​on the roadside.

Chu Sheng reached into his pocket and pulled out the business card. The card was made of a stiff material, with black background and gold lettering, and felt like it was made of metal.

Shangguan Fengyi

Chairman of the Shangguan Group

[Head of the Public Relations Department, Haicheng Branch, Magical Girl Management Bureau]

Below is a private number and a small phoenix emblem.

Chu Sheng held up the business card, staring at it under the ceiling light for a long time: "Shangguan Fengyi..."

The image of her before she left reappeared in his mind.

Shangguan Fengyi took a business card from her secretary and tucked it between her two slender fingers.

"Go back and look up Vtubers," she said.

Chu Sheng's eye makeup made him look like he'd been beaten up from crying. He blankly took the business card: "V...what?"

"Vtuber." Shangguan Fengyi looked at her like she was an idiot, and then changed her wording to "virtual streamer."

"A virtual YouTuber?" Chu Sheng realized. "Isn't that those sexy things that wear leather suits and moan and groan into a microphone?"

Shangguan Fengyi simply smiled and said, "Your understanding of the industry is very limited."

"You have a good-looking face, but that's not important; there are plenty of good-looking idols out there," Shangguan Fengyi continued. "But you have a strong desire to express yourself, and you also have the kind of awkwardness and vulnerability that audiences love to see."

Chu Sheng asked in a low voice, "Is that considered a good point?"

"In the traffic industry, being remembered is an advantage," Shangguan Fengyi said. "As for being shameful, that's a matter of price."

Chu Sheng had been pondering this question the whole way. But what exactly is a Vtuber?

Chu Sheng had occasionally seen the virtual streamer section when browsing Bilibili before, and it seemed like a paper doll standing there motionless.

[New clothes are back! I've got some good stuff for you tonight!]

[The endurance song will continue until someone boards the ship!]

[Random Thoughts: Why I Left an Idol Girl Group?]

Chu Sheng saw it and swiped it away.

The reason is simple: he feels that he is a real-life beautiful girl after transforming, and watching live streams of anime-style beautiful girls is a form of downgrading his consumption.

But now, the path of the paper doll seems to be laid out before him, and the more Chu Sheng thought about it, the more uneasy he felt.

What if Shangguan Fengyi was just giving him a perfunctory answer?

Chu Sheng turned over, stared at the business card for a few seconds, and decided to check it out first.

Of course, you have to check the boss before you can check the project. He opened his phone and typed "Shangguan Fengyi" into the search bar.

As soon as I clicked the search bar, a whole bunch of results popped up on the screen.

Chu Sheng, who had been lying crookedly, sat up straight quietly after watching for two seconds.

The first entry is encyclopedia. As we all know, those who have encyclopedia entries are all remarkable figures.

Shangguan Fengyi, female, is the current chairperson of the Shangguan Group and the general manager of the Xinghe Mall project in the Haicheng Bayfront Commercial Complex. She previously served as the executive director of Shangguan Entertainment and a special advisor to the external publicity department of the Haicheng Magical Girl Administration Bureau...

Chu Sheng scrolled down, becoming more and more engrossed in what he read.

When Shangguan Fengyi was twenty years old, she took over the almost completely ruined entertainment sector of the Shangguan Group.

At that time, Shangguan Entertainment had twelve loss-making projects, three idol boy groups collapsed, two short drama platforms failed before they even got off the ground, and a children's enlightenment app was reported by parents because its opening screen was too gloomy.

In her first week in office, Shangguan Fengyi cut seven projects. In the second week, she summoned the heads of the remaining five projects to the meeting room and asked them one by one whether they could make a profit within a year.

Anyone who couldn't answer the question was immediately sent to the group's property management company for further training.

In short, it means delivering express mail.

In the third week, she changed a girl band variety show that no one had high hopes for into a live-stream ranking system, and had the contestants live in a completely transparent training apartment, with cameras on 24 hours a day to edit footage.

Within three hours of the first episode airing, it trended on seven different social media platforms. On the final night, pre-sales of merchandise for the winning band exceeded 100 million yuan in just two minutes.

Holy crap.

He continued scrolling down. Further down, there was the Bayview Galaxy Mall project.

Chu Sheng had just visited this place today. It's Haicheng's consumer mecca, a top-tier shopping center in the country, whose annual sales could buy hundreds of Chu Sheng's hometown towns.

Just five years ago, that bayfront area was an unpopular district in Haicheng, surrounded by old warehouses, parking lots, and a few struggling seafood stalls.

After Shangguan Fengyi took over, she first transformed the abandoned docks around the site into a nighttime light show, and then introduced a water stage, regular magical girl tours, a youth market, and an e-sports arena.

On opening day, she invited three magical girl groups to the event and arranged for a live stream to accompany the entire event. Online viewers watched the light show, while offline viewers snapped up limited-edition merchandise.

Now that place has become a must-visit spot for fans of celebrities in Haicheng and even across the country!