Chapter 81 - Who said we would give them any breaChapter of contract fees
<em>Edited by xiin and Noks</em>
There were many strange things about this Weibo post, and the strangest of all was the poster—Zhou Mi Entertainment.
At first sight, anyone could tell that it wasn’t the name of an e-sports club, but rather seemed to be something more of a brokeragepany.
Sure enough, a lot of doubts soon popped up in the trendingments below the post.
[What’s an entertainmentpany like you doing here…]
This post had just been released, and thements below it were few and far between. This particrizen had just thought that it was a fake <span>melon and somented randomly.
What they hadn’t expected was to receive a reply within a few seconds.
[Zhou Mi Entertainment: Ourpany has changed its name.]
This reply was casual and perfunctory. The stream followers didn’t really care and continued to treat it as a joke.
[Changing a name means you’ve even changed the nature of yourpany? Then yourpany is pretty casual <em>ah</em>?]
[Lololololol, don’t know where this little tier 18pany came from. I’ve never heard of it.]
[I went to check. Thispany only has four artists, and all of them are nobodies in the entertainment circle. Only one of them has actually been in a show… Is the entertainmentpany really sure they’re not kidding? Let me give you guys a suggestion <em>ba</em>—If you want to <span>deliberately provoke someone, go provoke someone big <em>ah</em>, you’ll definitely get onto the trending topics search list that way.]
[The name of this anchor is familiar, did he get pretty popr in the livestream circle recently <em>ah</em>?]
Who would have known that that very afternoon, Zhou Mi Entertainment’s official Weibo would suddenly upload a video.
It was a video of a boy ying a game. The boy was wearing a red long-sleeve shirt with a round cor and had a clean haircut. Since he was young, his facial features weren’t fully developed, but at a nce, he still looked clean and handsome.
In the video, the person next to him said something indistinct, and then the boyughed and said, “En… didn’t train too long.”
“You didn’t sleep against night <em>ba</em>?”
“Slept a little on the sofa.”
“Well, young people are tigers.” The man stood up and patted the boy on the shoulder. “Practice well, our team is counting on you, ha ha. However, you should still take care to take a break, and go to sleep after finishing this match.”
“Okay,” the boy replied, but obviously didn’t take him seriously as he said, “Thank you, 6 Ge.”
At this point, the video ended abruptly.
With just these 20 short seconds, the response the video garnered was much greater than that of the announcement in the morning.
Weibo really red up by dinnertime, which was also the peak time when viewers flowed into livestreams.
At that time, Yu Yan was ying in the final circle. There were only two yers left in his team, while the other team still had a full roster, thus the atmosphere was tense.
Yu Yan heard the sound of crawling and immediately said, “There’s someone in my face.”
His teammate replied, “Coming, give me the coordinates.”
Yu Yan said, “Approximately…”
The barrage popped up at this time, with everyone messaging the same thing. It was as though they had all arranged to do so beforehand.
[Xiao Yan, don’t y games right now, quickly go look at Weibo!]
[There’s apany saying that they were your former employer and that you’re in breach of contract and now wants to sue you…]
[I saw it too! It’s called Zhou Mi Entertainment or something right? It must be fake. Xiao Yan has never yed professionally <em>ba</em>???]
Yu Yan’s words to his teammate were also interrupted by this sudden appearance of the barrage.
“Bro, I don’t see them <em>ah</em>, are they near you? Bro?” His teammate said frantically, “Give me some coordinates bro.”
Yu Yan snapped out of it, and upon seeing the enemy slowly crawling towards him, quickly opened his scope and shot at the grass.
The kill prompt popped up, and his tone was normal as he said, “No need toe, I killed him.”
More messages appeared, and the barrage grew fiercer. The stream followers were all discussing this issue fiercely, and you could see how much trouble the Weibo post had already caused.
[Someone stirring up shit again?]
[You say it’s someone stirring shit up, but the anchor should still give a definitive answer <em>ah</em>. What does silence mean?]
“Don’t argue, everyone.” Yu Yan said, “This match is over, so I’m going to stop and eat. I haven’t looked at Weibo yet today, and I don’t really know what’s going on.”
Yu Yan picked up his cellphone and looked at it. Only then did he find that it had already been stuffed full of messages, and all of them had been sent by friends who were inquiring about the situation. Even Tuantuan and Lulu had sent messages.
Among them, Lu Xiuhe was the one who said the most, and his messages filled up the whole screen.
Yu Yan replied that he was okay before going to Weibo.
At this time, Zhou Mi’s official Weibo had updated with a third video.
Yu Yan didn’t rush in. Instead, he looked at the thumbnail of each of the videos that had been posted, and for a while, all the past events that he had thought had already passed seemed to spring back up in a sh. These memories were also colored with the passion and expectation that he had first felt when he had decided to make esports his career—and all this made his brain ache.
He licked his lips, raised his hand to turn off the microphone for the livestream, and opened the video.
The first two videos were both about the daily training, and it seemed that they had been shot by the life assistant at that time. At that time, they had said that after they won the championship, they could use these short videos to make a very meaningful documentary.
The stream followers wouldn’t have gotten so excited if it was only about these two videos.
Thest one was a video of Yu Yan ying in apetition.
Thatpetition had been held in Lu Xiuhe’s family’s Inte cafe. At that time, they had just opened the Inte cafe, and in order to promote it, Father Lu had smashed money in order to organize many activities. Thatpetition had been one of them.
Yu Yan remembered thatpetition because it was the only one where he had sessfully won the prize— Father Lu had given him the prize money directly at that time and had asked him to share it with the rest of the yers, after which the management hadn’t had the nerve to ask for the yers to give them the money.
A full <span>500—it had been enough to improve the quality of food he consumed for that month.
He scrolled down and saw that there were thousands ofments.
[Although it’s fuzzy, and he looks a little different, I think it’s really yanxyan himself.]
[Even if it is, so what, doesn’t that just mean that Xiao Yan really has skills, and so can p all those antis’ faces?]
[There are so many brain-damaged fans here. Do you know how serious a breach of contract is? It also shows that the anchor has no contractual spirit.]
[A junior high school graduate, how much contractual spirit do you expect him to have hahahaha.]
Yu Yan remained very calm when he read thesements.
After all,pared to the past, these mocking words counted as nothing.
He was livestreaming, and it wasn’t convenient for him to do anything about this issue right now. He used his cellphone to search for Zhou Mi Entertainment, and he indeed saw a familiar name in the list of thepany’s management team members.
He opened a private chat page through thispany’s official Weibo, and it waspletely empty and had no messages. The other side hadn’t even tried to contact him privately, and had instead directly posted these three videos to Weibo. It could be seen that they had been driven to do this by those stream followers who had doubted their ims.
He even suspected that if his stream followers had continued to ridicule them, then this official Weibo ount would straightforwardly even release the contents of their original contract.
Instead of responding while in a hurry, he put down his cellphone and turned on his microphone.
“I’m sorry you guys have waited a long time,” he said, “Let’s keep going <em>ba</em>. I won’t draw any followers tonight. I’ll y solo for a bit, my points have fallen too much recently.”
[Xiao Yan, you’re not going to eat??]
[He means to just y dead again <em>bei</em>. Do you know how serious a breach of contract is? This is the first time I’ve seen a professional yer break his contract, but thest anchor who broke his contract had a im filed against him for 30 million. Well good luck <em>ba</em> lolololol.]
[I personally think that if Xiao Yan really broke his contract, then there must be a reason. Before livestreaming, he had been working as an apanying yer the whole time. Which professional yer would throw their career away and run to be an apanying yer <em>ah</em>? Of course, breaking the contract is also wrong. I’ll wait and see.]
Yu Yan opened the game, entered Manners za, and quietly looked at the barrage assistant located in the upper left corner of the screen, not saying a word the entire time.
Just as everyone was thinking that he wasn’t going to exin, his character boarded the ne, and his voice rang out—
“I really did y professionally once.”
With just that one sentence, the barrage was pulled to the peak in an instant, and many stream followers who hade to join in on the excitement also followed up with lines consisting of exmation marks and big question marks.
Yu Yan pursed his lips, endured the psychological difort, and then said, “But I’m not guilty of breaching any contract.”
——
After ending the livestream, Yu Yan opened a drawer in theputer table and took out a small ck book.
It was his ount book, and it hadn’t been used for a long time, because he hadn’t spent a lot recently, the only exception being the mainframe.
He opened his streaming ount and copied all his earnings into the ck book. He was about to check his debit card ount when suddenly, his cellphone rang.
Yi Chen was video-calling him.
Yu Yan sat up straight and closed the book in front of him before picking up the call.
Yi Chen was sitting in his office chair, and after he tossed thest document aside, he put his cellphone in front of him.
This week, in terms of flights alone, he had already made five trips, due to one meeting after another, and had had many documents to approve. He had been so busy that even 24 hours in a day hadn’t seemed enough.
But even if it wasn’t enough, he wouldn’t miss their video-call every night.
The video-call rang for a long time before he heard a click, and then they were connected.
Yu Yan sat cross legged on the bed. After catching sight of the man on his cellphone, he rxed slightly.
He managed a smile as he asked, “Finished working?”
“En.” Yi Chen looked at him for a moment before he also asked, “What’s the matter?”
Yu Yan was given a start and shook his head quickly in reply, “Nothing <em>ah</em>…”
“Your smile is very unsightly.”
“……” He was too straightforward.
And too observant <em>ba</em>.
Yu Yan said, “It’s just that something happened during the livestream.”
“Is it serious?” Yi Chen asked.
“It’s not serious, just a small thing.” Yu Yan could no longer force himself to smile. He said seriously, “I can handle it myself.”
He wasn’t trying to be brave here. Just now, he had been totalling the amount of money in his ounts in order to calcte how much savings he had. and nning to use this money to hire awyer.
Yu Minyang seemed to be most adept at divorce cases, but there were several otherwyers in hisw firm, so maybe he could get a discount. Yu Yan put together all the money he had earned from gifts, his contractual livestream sry, and the bonus he had obtained from the Kills King of the Year award, and thought it would be more than enough for awsuit.
“En, I believe you.” Yi Chen leaned back, propped up his legs, and rxed. “But I still want to know, what happened?”
The young man at the other end frowned, and it looked as if he was thinking about whether to say it or not.
Seeing this, Yi Chen’s eyebrow lightly ticked up a bit. “I just want to shoulder some burdens for my boyfriend.”
The word “boyfriend” was really an invincible and ultimate weapon.
Yu Yan thought that he would even give Yi Chen the password for his debit card without any reservations at this moment if he asked for it.
He bit his lips and said, “It’s just… I used to y professionally.”
Yu Yan shortened the story to a very simple one: he had joined the team with a dream, yed for the team for nearly a year, had even won several championships, but the sry for one year had added up to less than <span>2000 yuan. Recently, thepany had appeared again and was using him of breach of contract.
On the surface, Yi Chen seemed to be listening to the whole story calmly. He looked the same as he did usually, but only if you ignored the deep anger in his eyes.
“You don’t need awyer.” After a long pause, Yi Chen continued, “You’re an anchor of StarTV. The tform will help you solve this problem.”
Yu Yan hurriedly said, “But I didn’t breach the contract. I don’t need to pay any fees for breaching it at all…”
Yi Chen let out an unclearugh and asked in a cool voice, “Who said we would give them any breach of contract fees?”
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