After an entire morning of it, Li Mubai felt as though his body no longer belonged to him.
To complete the challenge as quickly as possible, Li Mubai had extended his streaming hours and even set up impromptu challenges for himself during the broadcast. Whenever new followers joined, he would complete a small challenge, such as push-ups or squats.
Just a moment ago, Li Mubai had reeled off five hundred push-ups in one go, drawing endless praise from the fans in his livestream chat.
Taking a massive gulp of electrolyte water, Li Mubai checked his viewer count. It had already broken five thousand, and the bullet comments were scrolling by in a continuous blur.
"Is this a fitness stream? The conversion rate on viewers is way too high!"
"Just walked into the stream. May I ask the five thousand-plus viewers currently online what exactly you're all looking at?"
"What am I looking at? Look at Mubai's physique, those massive pecs! Who wouldn't be captivated looking at that?"
Seeing new netizens enter the chat, Li Mubai's veteran fans had already started enthusiastically filling them in.
When they learned that Li Mubai had been a chubby homebody just two months ago and had now transformed into an oppa with an eight-pack, the chatroom's popularity completely exploded.
After resting a bit to recover his stamina and checking the time, Li Mubai turned to the camera and said:
"Vocal class is about to start. Let me get ready, and we'll head out together!"
During Li Mubai's brief absence, a newcomer asked out of curiosity: "Total newbie here, just wondering—isn't the streamer a fitness streamer? Why is he going to study vocals?"
Fool Doesn't Say Sarcasm: "Let me enlighten you. At the suggestion of the sisters in our chat, Mubai is now taking three classes a day: singing, dancing, and acting. It won't be long before our Mubai debuts in the center position!"
"Holy shit, the streamer actually listens to advice!"
The chat screen flooded instantly!
In a university girls' dorm:
"Oh, sweet mother of mine! Mubai actually took my suggestion!"
Inside the dorm, four girls were glued to Li Mubai's livestream, occasionally bickering and playfully shoving one another.
Watching Li Mubai arrive at the vocal class on screen, Liu Rui's face was filled with a motherly smile.
"Not bad, not bad. Brother Mubai is evolving again. I've got to go cheer Brother Mubai on!"
Picking up her phone, Liu Rui tapped the gift button without a moment's hesitation.
[Lamborghini × 10]
"Holy crap, who is this? Dropping ten Lamborghinis right off the bat—are they that rich?"
"Good grief, ten Lamborghinis! I've never even seen this kind of scene in major streamers' rooms. This is way too much prestige!"
The comment section erupted instantly. Liu Rui watched the comments with a radiant smile and, wanting to continue sending gifts, her dainty little nose wrinkled up.
What is this? Her living expenses were gone again! Without gift support, how could Brother Mubai keep getting better and better?
With that thought, Liu Rui directly dialed a phone number.
"Daddy, I'm out of living expenses!"
The person on the other end paused for a moment before asking, "My precious daughter, I just gave you one hundred thousand this month, and it's already gone? Dad will transfer it to you right now. Don't you dare eat any of that junk food in the dorm. Tell Dad whatever you want to buy..."
Listening to her old man's nagging voice coming through the phone, Liu Rui pouted and hung up directly.
Before long, Liu Rui's phone received a transfer notification from her bank card starting with three and six digits.
Meanwhile, in a luxury office in Beijing.
A series of beeping tones came from Liu Jian'an's phone.
The middle-aged man drinking tea with him smiled and asked, "Old Liu, must be Rui-rui, eh? As the saying goes, raise sons in poverty, raise daughters in wealth. A daughter is such a thoughtful little padded jacket—if you don't spoil her, who will?"
Liu Jian'an nodded in deep agreement, smiling as he said, "Indeed, indeed! If her mother didn't keep such a tight leash on her, I'd hand my black card right over to Rui-rui to spend."
"By the way, Old Qian, give me a few more inside details when you bid on that billion-dollar project!"
The middle-aged man nodded and smiled, "Don't you worry, Old Liu, everything is arranged!"
In a luxury mansion in Modu, a woman in her thirties was watching the television, which was mirroring Li Mubai's livestream directly onto the screen.
Watching someone in the livestream drop ten Lamborghinis on Li Mubai right out of the gate, the woman instantly felt displeased.
Inside Li Mubai's livestream:
[Spaceship × 1]
Only after doing this did a satisfied smile finally surface on the woman's face as she cozily reclined on the sofa.
"I have to say, this feeling of raising a son in the cloud is really quite nice. I need to tell my sisters to join in too!"
At a little past nine in the evening, Li Mubai dragged his exhausted body back to his rented apartment.
Attending three interest classes a day, each requiring serious and earnest study, meant it was a lie to say he wasn't tired.
Yet, thinking about how he could constantly improve himself, Li Mubai found the pain sweet.
After simply washing his face, Li Mubai returned to his livestream room and couldn't help marveling, "Ten Lamborghinis again!"
"Thanks to Hide and Seek for sending ten Lamborghinis! Thank you so much!"
"Thank you all for the support. Everyone's grand rewards have caught me completely off guard. I'll work even harder to improve myself, and I ask you all to keep me accountable!"
Over the next three-plus months, Li Mubai used a portion of his income to buy various nutritional supplements, and even the daily meals he ate were portioned out scientifically based on nutritional components.
Naturally, his daily life followed a strict routine: livestreaming his workouts, attending three interest classes, and then returning to his rented apartment at night to interact with the fans in his livestream and share fitness and skincare knowledge.
It was worth noting that although Li Mubai's total follower count wasn't massive, the number of permanent residents in his livestream every day consistently hit over five thousand.
From time to time, they would offer him suggestions and toss out gifts to show their support for Li Mubai.
In a short span of over four months, Li Mubai's follower count grew at a visible rate.
Finally, one evening, the number of followers in Li Mubai's livestream successfully broke one hundred thousand.
[Host has successfully gained one hundred thousand followers. Challenge completed.]
[Host's vocal cords are undergoing modification...]
[Modification successful!]
Hearing the crisp electronic voice in his mind, Li Mubai instinctively touched his Adam's apple. His throat felt cool and wonderfully comfortable.
Even the vocal cord fatigue caused by practicing bel canto during this period vanished instantly.
A sudden urge to belt out a song welled up inside Li Mubai.
Coincidentally, a comment popped into Li Mubai's field of vision.
Rui Rui Is No Fool: "Brother Mubai, I suggest singing 'A Place Called Wind'."
Li Mubai smiled and said:
"Alright, the next song is 'A Place Called Wind', dedicated to Rui Rui Is No Fool!"