Lu Chen's hometown is Binhai City in eastern Zhejiang, which is a beautiful seaside town.
His father, Lu Qingsheng, started his own business very early. By the time Lu Chen was in elementary school, he was already a well-known local entrepreneur in Binhai. Although Lu Chen could not be said to have grown up with a silver spoon in his mouth, he was still barely rich.
Second generation.
However, something unexpected happened. In Lu Chen's second year of studying at Jianghai University, due to the outbreak of the international financial crisis, the operations of local foreign trade companies in Binhai City were severely impacted. Lu Qingsheng's business suffered huge losses as a result.
Faced with the risk of bankruptcy.
The large amount of payment could not be recovered, and banks and suppliers came to visit one after another, eventually causing his capital chain to break!
The company's assets were liquidated, the family villa was auctioned, and even the car used for transportation was towed away...
Although Lu Qingsheng tried his best to turn the tide, he was exhausted mentally and physically and could not afford to fall ill. As a result, he passed away soon, leaving behind his wife Fang Yun and three children: Lu Xi, Lu Chen, and Lu Xue.
As a result, Lu Chen's fate changed dramatically. He went from a rich family that everyone envied to a poor family. Even his girlfriend abandoned him and he had to rely on work-study to make a living.
When he lost the backbone of his family, his mother Fang Yun, a gentle, kind and strong woman, stood up bravely and shouldered all the responsibilities.
Fang Yun sold all her family property, including her dowry jewelry, moved her children to a rental house, signed a repayment agreement with her creditors, and began to work hard for a new life.
After the initial pain and torture of failure, Lu Chen did not give up and sink. In order to help his family pay off this huge debt, he applied for social practice in advance at the beginning of his senior year, carrying 800 yuan of savings from working part-time.
He went north to the capital alone to work hard.
Until now...
The running water rushed over his body, and little drops of water splashed on the stained floor tiles.
It seemed as if it was sprinkled in Lu Chen's heart, and the difficult memories grew like weeds, occupying his mind!
"You said you cried like a child..."
"Don't love me a little more!"
Suddenly, a burst of singing like ghosts crying and wolf howling penetrated the wall and rushed into Lu Chen's ears like a demonic sound filling his brain.
What the hell!
He was so frightened that he trembled involuntarily, quickly turned off the faucet, and wiped the water off his body with a bath towel.
The singing next door continued, making Lu Chen burst into tears just listening to it!
However, the sad emotions brought about by recalling the past have been diluted a lot.
After wiping his hair and hurriedly changing into clean clothes, he left the small house and ran to the door of the next door house.
He reached out and knocked on the door, but no one answered, but the door was not closed, and the helpless howling sound still came out of the crack in the door.
"Brother Li, what are you doing?"
Lu Chen simply opened the door and walked in, shouting into the room: "Noise pollution will be fined!"
The person living in this room was Li Feiyu, a salesperson at a car 4S store in Beijing, who had a good relationship with Lu Chen.
Lu Chen knew that Li Feiyu liked pop music very much, and would often howl at the top of his tone-deaf voice, but he had never been so "passionate" as he was today - it was so unbearable!
If he continues to sing, the tenants in other rooms will probably come over to protest.
The scene that appeared in front of him made Lu Chen stunned.
Although they are in the same large basement and have the same partitioned dwelling, Li Feiyu's room is undoubtedly much more luxurious than Lu Chen's. The floor is covered with laminate flooring, the walls are all wallpapered, and the Simmons bed and furniture are basically the same.
It's new and there's even a small refrigerator in the corner.
I saw Li Feiyu sitting at the computer desk, wearing headphones and singing into a microphone intoxicatedly. The 24-inch LCD screen displayed the real-time image captured by the camera, as well as several rows of flashing subtitles.
What is this doing?
Lu Chen walked over curiously, reached out and patted the other party's shoulder.
"Wow!"
Unprepared, Li Feiyu jumped up in fright and almost knocked the microphone away.
When he saw it was Lu Chen, Li Feiyu breathed a sigh of relief. He quickly took off his headphones, patted his chest and said, "I'm scared to death. Why are you here, Xiao Lu? Are you attracted by my singing?"
He chuckled, with a proud expression.
Lu Chen said disdainfully: "Attraction? I just came to see how you would be beaten to death!"
At this time, he noticed that his own image appeared on the LCD screen, and the number of barrages suddenly increased!
"Wow! Here comes a handsome guy!"
"Brother Fei, please give me a signal from the handsome guy, please give me a signal, length and size, and photos of your results!"
"Could it be that the anchor's breeder came to feed me?"
"What a breeder, it's obviously engine oil, the anchor's good engine oil!"
"I want to hear singing, but I don't want handsome boys. I want to hear singing, but I don't want handsome boys!"
"23333333333～"
"..."
As the number of barrages increased, shining stars began to appear on the screen, shining brightly and beautifully.
In the information bar on the right side of the screen, rows of system messages pop up at the same time.
System prompt: Crystal Jelly (Bronze II) will give the anchor 100 stars!
System prompt: Crystal Jelly (Bronze II) will give the anchor 100 stars!
System prompt: No masturbation tonight (Black Iron V) will give the host 100 stars as a gift!
System prompt: The New Yorker (Silver IV) gives the anchor 100 stars!
System prompt: The New Yorker (Silver IV) gives the anchor 100 stars!
System prompt: The New Yorker (Silver IV) gives the anchor 100 stars!
System prompt: The New Yorker (Silver IV) gives the anchor 100 stars!
System prompt:……
Lu Chen was a little dumbfounded, but he finally understood.
In the past year or two, a new form of mass entertainment has emerged on the Internet, which is live streaming for all.
At the beginning, national live broadcasting was mainly aimed at online games. Many game masters used the live broadcast platform to live broadcast their own games or game processes to the audience as anchors, in order to earn popularity and reward income.
Since national live broadcasting closely meets the entertainment needs of netizens, it has quickly developed rapidly, and famous live broadcasting platforms such as Sky Live, Whale TV, and Star Dreams have emerged, as well as a large number of genre anchors.
Moreover, the content of live broadcast is no longer limited to games, singing, dancing, playing, talk shows and various outdoor life content have appeared one after another, attracting a large number of netizens to participate.
Lu Chen studied computers in college. Although he has been busy working part-time and seldom surfed the Internet in the past two years, he still knows something about the newly popular national live broadcast on the Internet, but he just didn't have time to get in touch with it before.
Li Feiyu is undoubtedly conducting a live broadcast, he is also the so-called network anchor!
What makes Lu Chen puzzled is that with Li Feiyu's broken voice that can scare away the entire street, how come people come to listen to him sing, and it seems that there are quite a few people listening to him?
The status bar at the top of the screen shows that the number of star fans following the anchor "Xiao Fei Ge ABC" is 1,425, and the online popularity number has actually reached 287 - more customers than the number of customers who listened to Lu Chen singing at Wangyoucao last night!
It’s not that he doesn’t understand, it’s that the online world is changing so fast!
"Hahaha..."
Lu Chen was in a daze, and Li Feiyu laughed loudly, leaned his head towards the microphone and said: "Thank you everyone for the rewards. Let me introduce to you, this is my good friend Xiao Lu!"
"Xiao Lu, say hello to everyone!"
Lu Chen hadn't woken up yet, so he nodded subconsciously and said, "Hello everyone!"
A new barrage immediately appeared on the screen.
"Handsome Guonihao, please date me if you're gay!"
"Little Deer? What a cute name, I like it!"
"Deer! Deer! Deer! Deer! Deer! Deer! Deer!"
"..."
Three black lines suddenly appeared on Lu Chen's forehead.
Li Feiyu chuckled and said: "It's not this little deer, it's Lu Lu, Lu from the Army. Although Xiao Lu is not as handsome as Fei Ge, his singing level has reached one-tenth of Fei Ge's. Do you want to hear him sing?"
Huh? If you want, just get more starlight!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the barrage and starlight floated up at the same time!
"think!"
"I don't want to! I don't want to! I don't want to! I don't want to! I don't want to! I don't want to! I don't want to!"
"Brother Fei is here to trick Starlight again!"
"The anchor sells motor oil and earns millions a month!"
"I want to hear Handsome Guo sing!"
"..."
System prompt: The New Yorker (Silver IV) gives the anchor 100 stars!
System prompt: The New Yorker (Silver IV) gives the anchor 100 stars!
System prompt: The New Yorker (Silver IV) gives the anchor 100 stars!
System prompt: The New Yorker (Silver IV) gives the anchor 100 stars!
System prompt: The New Yorker (Silver IV) gives the anchor 100 stars!
System prompt: The New Yorker (Silver IV) gives the anchor 100 stars!
System prompt:……
The ID New Yorker is probably a rich man, and he actually made a hundred stars in one go and gave away 10,000 starlight points!
Li Feiyu was so happy that he put his hands on Lu Chen's shoulders and asked him to sit in his seat. Then he said with a smile, "Xiao Lu, please watch the scene first, and I'll get you the guitar!"
After saying that, the guy ran away.
Lu Chen really didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but he didn't feel disgusted at all. It was his first time to live broadcast online. It felt very fresh to think of his own image appearing on hundreds of computer screens and communicating with hundreds of people at the same time.
While waiting for Li Feiyu, he briefly researched the anchor platform called [Starlight Show] and found that it had many functions.
But before Lu Chen could study it clearly, Li Feiyu couldn't wait to send his guitar over.
This little Fei brother helped Lu Chen adjust the microphone, turn off the accompaniment music playing on the computer, and even gave him mineral water. He was so attentive that he even made the bed and folded the quilt, pinched his legs and knocked on his back!
Lu Chen sat in front of the computer holding his guitar, facing the microphone and camera, and slowly calmed down.
His idea is very simple, just to support Li Feiyu and satisfy his curiosity by experiencing the online anchor.
At this moment, Lu Chen would never have thought that his life would take a different path!