Chapter 481: Chapter 500: Sneaking Off to Cook, You Heartbreaker
From the moment Wang Zaozao decided to return to the kitchen, the number of viewers in her livestream skyrocketed.
It all started when one of her fans took a screenshot and posted it in the Federation’s livestream discussion forums with the hashtag: #Haha, my Zaozao’s stream caught today’s most popular star! The best!# Jiang Jiujiu’s fans saw it.
’This was unacceptable!’
A thread instantly blew up in Jiang Jiujiu’s foodie fan community.
[Umm, I thought Juju was tired and already went to bed, but now she’s appeared again! Cooking? *sob* Are you cooking and not streaming it for us?]
[Aren’t you super busy? *whimper* I saw the announcement that you were taking a two-day break for the annual meeting and not even updating on odd-numbered days. I accepted it through my tears, since cooking at the annual meeting would be too random anyway, buuut—]
[So you *can* cook at that hotel! Our Juju has abandoned us to go cook for other people!]
[Link please? What stream? What cooking?]
[#Link 87***# Here. There’s a feed in this streamer’s channel.]
It wasn’t exceptionally late. The young people and office workers who had just gotten off were still awake. They were doing one last scroll through their social feeds before bed when they saw the post.
In an instant, tens of millions of fans flooded into Wang Zaozao’s livestream.
Wang Zaozao’s “store exploration” stream had now turned into a food stream. The camera drone occupied the best possible position, zoomed in for a close-up on the wok. She occasionally chimed in with descriptions of the aroma or chatted with the other food streamers present.
“It’s hard to believe the dish in this wok actually came from the bamboo shoot in my hand,” Wang Zaozao narrated, sounding quite the professional food host. “When it was just a raw shoot, it was unremarkable, very smooth, and didn’t smell like anything.”
“But after Juju stir-fried it, the air filled with a fresh, savory scent. It’s different from the meaty aroma from before. You have to be close to smell this one; it’s more delicate, but it makes your mouth water.”
As she spoke, the white bamboo shoot slices gradually turned a faint yellow as they were tossed in the wok. The spatula moved ceaselessly, but of course, what really got the fans excited was the person doing the cooking.
That! Wasn’t that Jiang Jiujiu, the one who took a three-day leave for the annual meeting?!
[I got a good look! That settles it! That’s Juju!]
[She’s really cooking!]
[Ahh, doesn’t this streamer’s channel have sensors?]
[To the person above, my girl Zaozao is just a store-exploration streamer. She can’t afford sensors yet.]
[…BEEP BEEP BEEP, streamer, are you there?]
[Excuse me, streamer, would it be possible for you to turn on the stream projection? Just project it onto the wall!]
[Yeah, yeah, could you turn on the projector? We have something to say to the streamer named Jiang Jiujiu!?]
There were so many requests that they almost completely drowned out the comments from Wang Zaozao’s own fans.𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦
Wang Zaozao thought for a moment, then tugged on Jiang Qiuqiu’s sleeve just as she was about to plate the bamboo shoots.
Jiang Qiuqiu, having been called over, looked incredulous. “My fans?”
’Weren’t my fans supposed to be asleep? How did they manage to find their way to another person’s stream?’
“Yeah, they said they have something they want to say to you. They want me to turn on the screen projection.”
“Won’t that be an inconvenience?” Jiang Qiuqiu felt a little bad about troubling someone else.
Wang Zaozao immediately shook her head. “Not at all, it’s super easy!”
After speaking, she tapped her terminal to start the projection and adjusted the camera drone’s position so that Jiang Qiuqiu’s face appeared on the screen.
Seeing the star herself, the fans went absolutely wild.
[We all said goodnight to each other in the group chat, so why are you cooking again, Juju!]
[*Sob*, if you’re going to cook, why not stream it for us? I’ve been waiting for your food so long I can’t sleep!]
[We’re not Juju’s favorite little cubs anymore~]
One after another, accusations filled the public chat, instantly turning Jiang Qiuqiu into a heartbreaker who had abandoned her fans.
