Chapter 276 I am a Prodigal Son
Qin Hao saw her reply and couldn't help laughing; the girl was still as adorable as ever.
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He thought for a moment and replied, "You are indeed beautiful, and I do like you, but isn't it a bit premature to talk about sleeping together?
Or are you trying to hint at something, hoping I'll ask you out?"
Upon seeing this, Xia Qing's cheeks flushed red: "Bah, I didn't think that at all."
Qin Hao: "That's good, if you did, you'd better squash it right away, as I'm not that easy."
Xia Qing, curious, asked, "Uncle? How old are you, anyway?"
Qin Hao: "Why are you so concerned about my age? You don't really have a thing for me, do you?"
Xia Qing rolled her eyes: "Conceited!"
Qin Hao's lips curved upward in a smile, his tone now completely different from usual.
Xia Qing would probably never guess his true identity, and that was enough.
Xia Qing, worried that her words had angered the boss, added, "I'm just curious why you're so nice to me; sometimes, I feel very lucky."
Qin Hao countered, "Is this your indirect way of confessing to me?"
...
Qin Hao checked the rankings for beer gifts, with the top streamer named Yu Mi having received over one hundred thirty thousand.
He deposited two million into his account, believing that should be enough to take the lead.
At this moment, a King-level noble named Fairy Tale [Positioning Yu Mi] entered Xia Qing's broadcast room.
Although Xia Qing's room now had over ten thousand viewers, the highest in the VIP seats was a Duke noble.
"Welcome, Brother Fairy Tale," Xia Qing greeted the King noble.
Fairy Tale typed a line: "Damn, thought you were grabbing weekly stars, just heating up fame, pretending to be badass without any real power."
As he was a King noble, his typed message appeared in the noble's exclusive typing area, very prominently displayed.
He brought quite a few of Yu Mi's fans, who also said on the platform, "This is heating up our boss's fame."
"Shameless, scheming bitch."
"Heating up our boss's fame."
Upon hearing the King's words, Xia Qing's expression froze; what did he mean by that? I don't think I've offended him.
Seeing the words below in the broadcast, she checked the beer leaderboard; these people were almost all fans of the streamer Yu Mi.
Seeing this, Qin Hao's expression turned cold: "Who the hell do you think you are, acting badass here?"
Xia Qing's fans saw his comment and quickly spread it around.
Seeing this, Fairy Tale King disdained: "Oh wow, a few hundred thousand and you think you're the big shot? Look at my honor points before you speak."
Many looked at Fairy Tale's honor points; for every dollar spent after opening a noble account, one receives an honor point.
He currently had over four million five hundred thousand points, meaning he'd spent over four million five hundred thousand dollars.
Qin Hao didn't respond but started gifting beer again.
"Ace of Spades big bro is badass"
"Big bro, are you really trying to take on Yu Mi for weekly star?"
"A man of few words, a real society bro."
"That King Fairy Tale acting all high and mighty, we'll take you down today."
...
Ten minutes later, a super banner appeared across various large broadcast rooms.
"Ace of Spades has given [Dream] Xia Qing 1314 beers x1000 sets"
In the broadcast room of Ruomeng, a top popular female broadcaster from the Entertainment Guild.
Ruomeng exclaimed, "Holy smokes, this Ace of Spades bro is fierce, sending over one hundred thirty thousand in one go."
"Definitely has some strength." Ruomeng's two wealthy big brothers, Xing Mo and Ming Yue, remarked.
"This guy is so dope, another tycoon rising up."
"Seriously badass, this is over a million bucks we're talking about."
"With the earlier amount, it's nearly two million now isn't it?"
Ruomeng suddenly said, "Isn't Yu Mi leading the weekly beer rankings this week? Is someone trying to overtake Yu Mi for first place?"
Someone replied, "Already surpassed him."
"There'll be some good drama tonight, Yu Mi is a well-known major streamer, and if he loses the first place, he'll be totally humiliated."
Broadcaster Yu Mi was also streaming, and seeing the weekly stars overtaken, his face didn't look very good.
He began reaching out to his big brothers and sisters, determined to retain this week's weekly star title.
The persona who left dejectedly returned to Yu Mi's streaming room and without saying a word, also started donating beers.
"Thanks for the gifts, Brother Tonghua," Yu Mi quickly expressed his gratitude when he saw it.
Soon, six or seven royal nobles and an imperial noble who support him, along with other major backers, entered Yu Mi's stream room.
Furthermore, many streamers who were on good terms with him also showed up.
Seeing that almost everyone was present, Yu Mi declared, "We have to seize the weekly star today, this is the glory of our Yu Mi Legion, we cannot lose it. Everyone, please exert some effort; let's show them the real gap."
In an instant, beer gifts flew across his stream room as his fans and wealthy supporters all swung into action.
The number of beers quickly overtook those in Xia Qing's room, and they continued to soar rapidly.
...
The audience in Xia Qing's stream room had now reached fifty thousand, mostly spectators there for the excitement.
They were eager to see who would ultimately be more impressive, Qingtian or the people on Yu Mi's side.
In the chat someone said, "Big bro, their side has so many kings and emperors, all donating."
"Big bro, make your move. Today will be the legendary battle for Qingtian."
"Support Qingtian, support Brother Ace."
"Everyone with money, donate some, and support Qingtian."
"Go screw yourselves, a bunch of trash, still trying to beat our boss to first place."
"You bunch of losers, better give up now."
There were quite a few nasty fans of Yu Mi in the stream room, and they started trash-talking as soon as they arrived.
Xia Qing's moderators were constantly muting, but there were too many from the other side, and they simply couldn't mute them all.
Qin Hao sent Xia Qing a message, "Fame breeds strife, just sing well and forget those slanderers; this week's star is ours."
Xia Qing logged into an alternate account to check the opposing side, and the list of noble titles in the VIP seats was frightening, further boosted by the presence of dozens of streamers.
She hesitated, "Maybe we should just let it go, they have a lot of people on their side."
Qin Hao's tone was dominant, "They're just a bunch of clowns, uncle will protect you, don't worry."
"An emperor, seven kings, and dozens of ducal nobles, and you call them clowns?"
Xia Qing, "I don't want your real life to be affected by spending money here; I stream to make money, but I am not after just any kind of money."
Qin Hao, "Oh dear, you're making uncle like you even more, this amount of money won't affect my real life."
"Kid, poverty limits your imagination. For a spendthrift like me, my monthly allowance is tens of millions."
Xia Qing, exasperated, "Forget I said anything."
...
Qin Hao didn't immediately start donating, but instead coded a small program: a mouse autoclicker.
This meant he didn't have to click manually, and the autoclicker was very fast.
After testing it a few times, in less than a minute, he had donated almost eight to nine hundred thousand from his account.
Now, Xia Qing was in first place with 2,670,000 votes, followed by Starlight Guild's Yu Mi with over 2,400,000 votes. The gap wasn't large.