StarryLive — a broadcasting app that allows users to broadcast themselves live.

  StarCredits — StarryLive in-game currency

  Leaving from Jingming district’s east gate and crossing the road, following the pedestrian walkway heading south by 50 meters, then turning right at Willow Lane and at the end of the street is an eatery managed by Master Chen.

  Master Chen originated from Huaiyang. He isn’t a master or professional chef but he is still able to cook up a good Huaiyang cuisine. After retiring a few years back, in order to take care of his children and grandchildren, he and his wife came to the capital to settle down.

  It is difficult to stay in the capital due to the high daily expenses. Therefore, Master Chen rented an old shop at Willow Lane and opened an eatery by relying on his skills and conscience to solicit business and to earn some living expenses.

  A small eatery deeply hidden down the old street, with 5 to 6 wooden tables and dozens of chairs. The eatery was already filled with customers when Lu Chen and Li Feiyu arrived. They weren’t able to find any empty chairs at all — apparently, the business is very good!

  Fortunately, Li Feiyu is a frequent customer and by trying to act cute towards Master Chen’s wife and calling her "Auntie~ Auntie~" with a sweetened voice, along with some honeyed words, he had finally managed to get last minute seats added outside the eatery.

  It was a student writing table and two plastic stools, nothing too fancy.

  However regardless if its Li Feiyu or Lu Chen, both of them were satisfied.

  Master Chen’s eatery was really a prime example of being cheap and a lot of frequent customers would arrive earlier to chop seats. If it wasn’t due to Li Feiyu’s honeyed mouth, how would they be even able to have seats added!

  Lions Head meatball, Santao duck, Sweet and Sour Mandarin fish, boiled shredded dry bean curd plus two Crab meat buns. They were all local cuisine of Huaiyang, coupled with 4 YanDou beer, it allowed Lu Chen who has not eaten vegetates for quite some time to cry while eating.

  After clearing half of the table and 3 bottles of beer, Li Feiyu who is full then started utilising his chatterbox abilities.

  Li Feiyu has been involved with online broadcasting for over a month or so now. He had even specially purchased a good quality microphone and HD camera, hoping to show off his skills and what not, while earning some additional money to spend.

  Initially, he broadcasted in FishTV, and went on the route of a gamer. The most popular web games in FishTV was — CKG, Heroic and StarLord. However, his skills were terrible and after playing for half a month, his viewers were basically non-existent and he even made a loss as he had to pay for his electricity bills.

  He then switched over to StarryLive half a month ago, but did not continue with the gaming route and instead broadcasted himself making jokes and puns while singing and making funny faces. Surprisingly he managed to gain some popularity and earned a total of 0.3T StarCredits.

  0.3T is equivalent to 30000 StarCredits which is worth around $300. However due to the terms of StarryLive, for users like Li Feiyu whom did not sign a contract with them, they can only receive 50% of the money.

  After working hard for two weeks to recoup his losses, he felt that he had rather go out and move bricks for a day to earn money!

  Mentioning about his heart-wrenching broadcasting career experience, coupled with Brother Fei’s tough childhood, Lu Chen unconsciously felt sympathy for Li Feiyu.

  "Xiao Lu, did you know?"

  Downing a can beer and said, "Our company’s Xiao Mei, earned an income of 20 thousand near 30 thousand on StarryLive last month. Compared to the salary here at 4S, she earned 5-6 times more than her monthly salary and she won’t even be coming to work next month onwards!

  Lu Chen had actually known Xiao Mei, the receptionist at the 4S shop Li Feiyu is working at. With features like having big eyes, sharp nose, small face, slim figure, long slim legs, and most importantly she is only of 20 and single! She is considered the company’s beauty and has a lot of suiters and secret admirers!

  The reason why Lu Chen knew that much was not because he personally knew the other party, but instead due to Li Feiyu repeatedly mentioning about it N times.

  Yes, this bloke here is undisputedly one of the members of Xiao Mei’s secret admirers’ group!

  "Is she very talented?” Lu Chen curiously asked.

  Li Feiyu explained: “She doesn’t know how to sing nor dance. The things she usually broadcast would be, doing makeup, eating, acting cute and chatting with the fans……”


  Lu Chen was stumped — it works this way?

  “It really is feasible!”


  Li Feiyu then excitedly said: "Not only acting cute and chatting, there are people who even broadcast themselves sleeping, watching TV, cooking, writing novels on StarryLive! Anything you can think of, it’s do-able there!"

  “Xiao Lu, with your talent and abilities, you will definitely have a future in StarryLive!"

  In all seriousness, he said: ” Currently in StarryLive, the monthly income of the seven most popular broadcasters are worth at least tens of thousands, and rumour has it, based on the sign on fees of the most popular broadcaster Yan Manni, it has reached up to a shocking amount of 5 million yuan and she also took up several advertisement gigs. Her frequent viewers in StarryLive amounts up to 2 million. Can you imagine how much credits she receives?

  Lu Chen nodded, seemly agreeing with what Li Feiyu had said. With Lu Chen just casually loaning the account, he had received quite a number of StarCredits from the viewers.

  Just the thought of having 2 million plus Starry Fans, it certainly is scary!

  Li Feiyu bitterly laughed, "It is impossible for me to be able to have such popularity. However, It’s different for you. Not only do you sing well, you have a handsome face and you can even compose your own songs. You definitely have the potential to be popular in the StarryLive!"

  “Just based on the three songs you sang earlier, I saw a number of credits you receive amounted up to 2.8T, if converted to cash you can instantly get up to $1400. Don’t you think it’s more worthwhile compared to you working at KFC or doing a part-time job at the bar?”


  To be honest, Lu Chen was tempted!

  His family had an enormous amount of debt and just relying on doing part-time jobs and even including the effort of his family members, it would probably be impossible to clear the debt.

  As what others say, although he had a treasure chest, to convert this chest to something worthwhile was not a simple thing to do. For example, the stringent contract that was offered to him by Su Qingmei, one must know that for an insignificant and no-name person like him, to be able to gain popularity, it’s not feasible by just having talent!

  However, if he were to showcase his performance using platforms like StarryLive, it is without a doubt the most efficient money-making solution!

  Li Feiyu then continued, “Xiao Lu, I don’t intend to play around anymore, I shall just gift you my StarryLive account! You can just change the personal particulars, and take my broadcasting equipment since I have no use for it anymore.”


  Lu Chen was surprised and hurriedly declined: “How can I take all these…… ”


  "And, why can’t you?”


  Li Feiyu looked at him and said: “This is called efficiently recycling what can be used! I don’t make a loss too as the existing credits inside that account belongs to me anyway and I wouldn’t be able to get much from the sale of that equipment too!”


  Although Li Feiyu said that, Lu Chen himself knew that those equipment was worth at least a few thousand dollars even if it were to be sold at a discount.

  “Brother Li……”


  “If we are brothers then stop declining!”


  Li Feiyu waved his hands and spoke in a commanding tone: “Then it shall be decided this way! If you really want to repay me, just let me assist you as a runner or assistant in the future when you become a popular celebrity!”


  Lu Chen didn’t know to laugh or to cry, "Brother Li, I think you are drunk!"

  "Choy! How can I be drunk with just two bottles? If you were to add a zero behind then I might be drunk. Alright with the nonsense, we shall go back immediately and change the account information. Bill, please! "

  After footing the bill, he then dragged Lu Chen to the rental room that he is staying in.

  Reaching home, Li Feiyu immediately switched on his computer and logged into his account.

  He cashed out all 3T worth of credits in his account and started changing the account information.

  Starry Live broadcasting platform allows the user to make amendments such as the broadcasting name, password, phone number and payment information etc. Thus, him helping to change the account to Lu Chen’s is quite convenient.

  However, there are rarely users that would casually change their broadcasting name as it would affect their popularity and they would have to send messages to inform their Starry Fans, which is quite troublesome.

  Although it was Lu Chen’s first time using this broadcasting platform, with him taking over Li Feiyu’s account, he still managed to keep the followers he gained in the morning.

  "Xiao Lu, change your broadcasting name first!"

  Li Feiyu rubbed his hands and reminded him, "You must definitely choose an overwhelming username so that you can overwhelm the whole stage!"

  Lu Chen then laughed and used the keyboard to input his own name "Lu Chen". A pop up immediately came out.

  *Username has been used!*

  Lu Chen then typed in "Xiao Lu", and the result was still the same!

  Li Feiyu smiling replied: "The good names have already been used by other people. Initially, I had wanted to register as Xiao Fei Ge but is used by someone else……"

  After pondering for a moment, Lu Chen then keyed in "Lu Fei".

  What surprised him was that the name was still available!

  Without further thoughts, he then pressed enter and successfully changed his username!

  Around 7PM in the evening, Lu Chen arrived in advance to Forget Grass bar

  He did not forget the lessons last night, coupled with the rest he took in the morning, Lu Chen then took the train before peak hours to reach Back Sea, found a random restaurant nearby and had a simple dinner.

  Upon entering the bar, what surprised Lu Chen was that the boss Chen JianHao was nowhere to be seen.

  Instead, it was a bartender who had a slim figure, and a beautiful beard that welcomed him with a smile and nod.

  Before yesterday, he certainly did not enjoy such treatment.

  "David!"

  He went over and they greeted each other. Lu Chen then curiously asked: "This boss didn’t come today?"

  Chen JianHao had invested all his lifetime savings into Forget Grass bar, therefore he was meticulous with managing the operations of the bar. Usually, unless he is met with any unexpected situations, he would be present in the bar every day without fail. During peak periods, he would even personally serve the customers.

  David poured a cup of peppermint water for Lu Chen, and said: "Boss probably had some matters to attend to……"

  David’s mandarin was not perfect, with a hint of westerner accent. Although he is a full-fledged Chinese, he had grown up overseas since a young age and came back only a few years back.

  "Thank you, David!"

  Lu Chen drank the peppermint water in one go and prepared to head to the backstage. He was unaware of tonight’s performance arrangements.

  "You’re welcome …… "

  David kept the cup and said earnestly: "I liked the song that you sang last night, Cool!"

  He then flashed Lu Chen thumbs up and said: "Add Oil!"

  Lu Chen smiled and gave his thanks, and headed towards the backstage.

  What made Lu Chen surprised was, that he was not the first arrive, instead there were already several people inside the room.

  Other than Forget Grass bar’s resident singer – Rainbow Li Hong, brother Ye – Ye Zhenyang and Wang Xiaoshuai, even sister Na is present. The 5 of them are currently seated together and having a chat.

  "Small Lu!"

  Seeing Lu Chen came in, sister Na stood up first with a smiling face and gave him a big hug, "Congratulations you got promoted!"

  Lu Chen embarrassingly replied, "Thank you Na Sister ……"

  Sister Na – Zhang NaNa turned 40 this year, in Forget Grass bar and Back Sea singers circle, her qualifications are the oldest. Rumour has it, she left the house to work and became independent at the age of 17 to pursue her love and passion for music.

  Zhang NaNa is Forget Grass bar’s contracted (or resident?) singer. Despite having ordinary looks, and can be even said that a little ugly, with high cheekbones, thick lips, sagging nose and when she smiles, prominent crows’ feet could be seen.

  However, no one would underestimate NaNa as she has a unique talent for singing. With a great voice range coupled with rich life experience, it had allowed her to easily grasp a wide variety of difficult songs, which can be categorised as a singer with real abilities.

  Chen JianHao once said privately, the reason why Sister Na has yet to be famous despite being in the industry for more than 20 years, other than the fact that she was lacking in the appearance department, she has yet to encounter a song that truly belonged to her nor an admirer that admired her music.

  If not because of that, he would have never been able to recruit Sister Na to perform at Forget Grass bar.

  Sister Na’s personality can be described as open-minded, with no trace of scheming. No matter in the face of the most common server in the bar, or the big shot band, her attitude towards others has always been warm and friendly.

  With these qualities, it leads to Sister Na to have a good rapport with others.

  Lu Chen’s relationship with Sister Na can be considered good, the reason why he could perform in Forget Grass bar, a big portion was due to Sister Na speaking up for him which eventually got the approval of JianHao.

  Thus, based on that, Lu Chen has always been grateful to Sister Na.

  After Sister Na had congratulated Lu Chen, the other singers went up to give their congratulations. They all knew that Lu Chen has officially become a contracted singer for Forget Grass bar.

  Originally Lu Chen’s was the only request singer (Someone who only sang when there are song requests) in Forget Grass bar and his status is undoubtedly the lowest. Whereas currently, he was of equal footing with Li Hong, Ye Zhenyang and enjoying the same treatment they had.

  "Sister Na, Small Lu sang an original song during last night’s performance……"

  Li Hong smilingly said: "Lu Chen’s certainly hit the jackpot! There is even company that has expressed interest in signing him!"

  Although it seemed like a normal conversation, there is a hint of sourness that couldn’t be concealed.

  Other than Sister Na, Ye Zhen Yang and Wang Xiao Shuai’s face were also not natural.

  Forget Grass bar is considered a big establishment; thus, the number of employees and singers can be easily counted, therefore any news would spread quickly amongst themselves.

  Lu Chen’s performance of his own original song "" won over the hearts of all the customers in the bar. Not only that, he had captured the attention of Rain Media who wants to sign him as their idol to nurture and package.

  If it was just like that, at most the others would be envious and jealous as ultimately in this industry, there is no shortage of singers and Lu Chen would only be one of the lucky ones who had the chance to skip stages

  However, what made others dumbfounded was; Lu Chen had rejected the offer!

  This made them unable to understand. A precious chance that many craved, why did Lu Chen not treasure it?

  Ye Zhenyang chuckling replied: "It’s a pity that Small Lu’s too proud, else in the future when he becomes a popular celebrity he could even guide us around the industry!"

  Compared to Li Hong, his attitude towards Lu Chen was even sourer. Without taking a dig at Lu Chen, he wouldn’t be comfortable.

  Others have to know that, two days ago Lu Chen was still a small fry they could ignore, whereas now not only he stood on the same level as him, Lu Chen was even more eye-catching and popular!

  Lu Chen darkly frowned.

  With how Ye Zhenyang spoke, it would not be good if he were to rebuke, but to stay silent would do him no good too, but he didn’t want to act like a hypocrite.

  "Xiao Lu will definitely be a popular celebrity in the future!"

  Sister Na approached Lu Chen with a hand on his shoulder and said, "Last night I came late and did not hear you sing the song you wrote, tonight you must sing it again!"

  Lu Chen hurriedly said:" Sure! Hope that Sister Na could give some pointers too……"

  Compared to others, Sister Na’s attitude towards Lu Chen was undoubtedly sincerer, and helped him get out of the situation with just a few words.

  Even the dissatisfied Ye Zhenyang would not dare to continue.

  Sister Na smiling replied, "I wouldn’t dare to give you pointers, with Xiao Lu’s talent, you should have shown it out sooner, and help your Sister Na write a nice song too! How about it?"

  Lu Chen pondered and positively replied, "Sure!"

  His serious reply made Sister Na surprised.

  She was just joking earlier on and not really asking Lu Chen for a song

  Nowadays creating original songs poses a great difficulty, the domestic atmosphere isn’t suitable for doing so. Other than a few popular ones, numerous professional songwriters weren’t even able to release one or two hit songs after a few years.

  Freelance singers similar to Lu Chen who casually composes, it is great luck to be able to create a good song. It would be hard to repeatedly write another good song, not to mention a tailor-made one!

  She had initially thought that Lu Chen was joking with her, however looking at Lu Chen’s serious attitude, she was inevitably surprised.

  As someone who is experienced, she was only momentarily distracted and immediately replied laughingly, "I shall wait for the song then!"

  She did not continue on this topic but instead garnered attention by clapping her hands and said: "We don’t have much time so tonight’s performance arrangement will be done by me. Small Shuai you shall start the atmosphere with two songs …… "

  The boss Chen Jianhao wasn’t present, therefore Sister Na assumed the role of the one in charge. Other than the Roaming band, even Li Hong and Ye Zhenyang would all have to follow her instructions and no one would raise any questions about her arrangement.

  Even Roaming band’s lead singer Tai Hanyang treated Sister Na with respect.

  Due to it being Sunday, after 8pm there was an influx of customers and most of them were university campus couples.

  There are multiple big universities near Big Sea, including some of the renowned universities.

  Numerous university student, especially couples like to patronise the bars around Back Sea. They would usually walk around and settle their dinner before heading towards the bars to occupy seats and order a few beers or alcoholic drinks while enjoying the live performance and have their couple time together surrounded by the romantic atmosphere.

  Seeing the bar seats that have been filled, the MC hurriedly went out to entertain the customers and quickly followed by Wang Xiaoshuai to start the ball rolling.

  When it was time for Lu Chen’s performance, it was already 9pm

  Just as he sat down on stage with his guitar, one customer immediately whistled with excitement.

  "Small Lu, sing !"

  Lu Chen smilingly nodded. To be able to whistle with such a tone, only one of the frequent customers was able to do that.

  It was a frequent customer who liked to joke and play around with youngsters.

  Therefore, the request must definitely be catered to!

  "Tonight, the first song I will present to everyone, is an original song that I had composed……"

  He softly strung the guitar strings, and said through the microphone: ", hope that you will like it!"

  "Like!!"

  After Lu Chen just finished speaking, immediately people started shouting, "Sing the song twice!"

  The cheerful waves of laughter reverberated around the bar, similar to the ripples produced when a stone hits the surface of the water.

  Several new customers were surprised, as they had never heard of the song before, and furthermore, it was a self-composed song.

  Naturally, they would not understand why the regular customers would be so enthusiastic, and this type of enthusiasm is not commonly seen in Forget Grass Bar; at least not towards such a young singer like Lu Chen

  Lu Chen did not reply any further after playing the initial note but instead begun tonight’s performance

  “Tomorrow would you remember, the diary you wrote last night”


  As if magic was infused in his voice, along with the accompaniment of his guitar, it changed the entire atmosphere of the bar, and Slowly, everyone’s attention was on him.

  Regardless if it’s the frequent or new customers, they were all quietly immersed in listening to Lu Chen’s performance.

  In the ears of the frequent customers, the song sung by Lu Chen was even better. His singing was infused with even more feelings. They had even closed their eyes and used their hearts to feel the emotions contained inside the song; the memories and longing.

  Whereas to the new customers, first time listening to initially felt that this song was fresh (the feeling of first time listening to a song) and subsequently felt that this is a good song.

  Afterwards, they were then deeply touched by it.

  The influence of a good classic song can temporarily ignore the time and space’s limitations, regardless of it even being in different worlds, it can still release its eye-catching quality!

  Just a short 5-6 minutes, the atmosphere in Forget Grass bar was absolutely silent.

  It was only after the song reached its ending, plus a couple seconds later, massive clapping then erupted forward.