Chapter 2430: The List of Scandals

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

Mag enjoyed the gossip and he experienced the exhilaration of surfing the internet that he hadn’t felt for a long time.

As one of the parties in the story, he didn’t have any awareness of the situation at all. He even clicked on the ‘Like’ button.

Then: ‘Hades Saipan liked the news of Jasper Flagg getting beaten up!’ also got onto the bottom of the trending list.

With this wave of fame, Mag’s newly registered account had already gained more than 1,000,000 fans.

Of course, compared to Jasper Flagg’s 30,000,000 fans, it still had a long way to go.

“So this is the software with 18,000,000,000 users? It’s so scary.” Mag looked at the rapidly increasing number of fans and scanned on the private messages that had reached 9999+.

Half of them were scoldings from Jasper Flagg’s idiotic fans. Mag searched for the keywords and then blocked all of them.

They were all very juvenile and only used those few words to scold people. It was easy to identify them.

The other half was ‘impressive’.

“This is a real handsome man. He has big eyes and thick eyebrows. Isn’t he 100 times better than that sissy?”

“Brother, I love you! A date? Add me, littlesister*****.”

“Handsome, I have two buildings in the center of Tucker City. Are you interested in having dinner with me tonight?”

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Mag turned around to ask Xi, “What is the level of the two buildings in the Tucker City’s center?”

“The property price of the apartments in the city center is 800,000 per square meter,” Xi answered.

Mag briefly calculated inwardly before replying to the message, “I’m not that kind of secular person.”

“What a pity then.” The rich lady sent him another message with a picture of brunch attached. A long river could be seen through the floor-to-ceiling windows.

Mag searched for the picture first and made sure that it wasn’t a stock pic.

Then, he found the river in the Tucker City’s center and ascertained the rough zone of the room whereby the picture was taken according to the photographer’s angle.

Tucker City’s CBD.

The Twin Towers.

According to the information indicated online, the Twin Towers belonged to the Dixon Family, who also belonged to the Top Ten Families together with the McCarthy Family.

“If there’s a chance, I can cook for you personally.” Mag sent another message.

“Haha. Interesting,” the other party replied and then there was nothing else.

“Ha. Disgusting.” Xi rolled her eyes at him.

“Why are you looking at other people’s messages?” Mag flicked a glance at her.

“Do you think people of their statuses will send you that kind of message?” Xi asked.

“What if it’s real?” Mag asked her instead.

“You have a wife and children.” Xi reminded him.

“I am doing this for the mission. Are you actually thinking that I want to be a freeloader?” Mag was amused by Xi’s serious expression.

Xi didn’t reply to that, instead she said, “The Top Chef Competition has two scoring parts, online popularity and the on the spot judges’ score. The contestants have already competed for one month and accumulated a lot of popularity. You are going into the top eight straight of the bat, so your online popularity starts from zero. You have a disadvantage.”

“Why is a professional competition doing the idol competition thing?” Mag was shocked.

He was so engrossed in the gossip earlier that he forgot to read the rules.

Furthermore, wasn’t it too ridiculous? What did being good-looking have to do with being a great cook?

Wasn’t this programming division being too unprofessional?

“Do you think many people will want to watch a bunch of fat cooks cooking together?” Xi asked

“…” Mag.

“Since the preliminary round, this show has been selecting half famous chefs and half home cooks. The professional chefs’ team are responsible for the professional output, while all the interns from the entertainment companies were responsible for the looks and the gossip. The programming division will get the attention while the interns could receive the popularity to debut themselves. They all get to benefit.”

Mag couldn’t help lamenting. No wonder no cooking competition programs were popular in his previous life. This director really knew how to play the game.

According to the competition’s rules, the final score would be the professional judges’ score and online popularity in the proportion of 8:2.

Don’t belittle this 20% proportion. If the on site judges’ scores were close, then this 20% popularity would be the deciding factor.

For example, Mag’s current popularity was almost zero. Pitting against the other party’s full popularity was equal to giving an extra 20 points to them, so how was he going to work against that?

“How much longer will this competition go on for?” Mag asked.

“According to usual practice, the quarterfinal, semifinal and final will take place consecutively. The champion will be decided in three days.”

“Huh?” Mag was full of question marks.

Why was this variety show different from those variety shows that always wanted to drag on for a year and longer?

A competition that was so popular would be over in three days?

“Then, how am I supposed to get my popularity up to the same starting point with those contestants that have had a month’s head start?” Mag asked Xi seriously.

After a moment of silence, Xi said, “I will try my best to help you.”

Mag sized up Xi and sincerely asked, “Are you familiar with the fandom?”

“What?” Xi was puzzled.

“Do you know how to write these kinds of comments?” Mag clicked open a celebrity’s account randomly and pointed to the mushy comments that were pinned at the top.

Xi stared at the screen with a solemn expression for a while before shaking her head.

Mag sighed again before thinking seriously.

Although he was very confident with his culinary skills, this was a variety show and not a proper cooking competition.

He was certain that the onsite scores wouldn’t have a great difference. At least, he wouldn’t be ahead of the second place with a score of 20 points.

Therefore, he had to make up for it in popularity. He didn’t have to be the most popular, but he had to be popular on average at least.

As long as the first place wasn’t ahead of him with 10 points and more, Mag was confident that he could win the competition.

As a famous influencer in his previous life, he knew how to gain followers.

It was usually slow to gain the normal followers who liked him, but there would be an explosive stage after he gained some popularity. For example, the movie stars would gain many followers during the showing of their movies.

Mag was in the center of a giant popularity whirlpool, but he didn’t have any work. Furthermore, other than liking the post accidentally, he didn’t have any other talking points. He only accumulated some fans with his looks from the photograph. Three days’ time was too short and that method was too slow.

He was familiar with the method of gaining fans with infame.

Back then, he got famous on Weibo by attracting hatred before he sent himself away eventually.

However, this method couldn’t be replicated easily. After all, without the enhancement of the identity of the richest man’s son, his account might be banned if he said too much.

“Time is limited. I need some special tactics to gain fans,” Mag said.

“What tactics?” Xi asked.

“A list of scandals from the A-listers in the entertainment industry. To create an idol, we need to pull some corrupted idols down from the altar first,” Mag said.

Although Xi didn’t know Mag’s plan, she still quickly sent a list of scandals to Mag.

The so-called celebrities were simply spokespeople and pets of the plutocrats. Their secrets were simply a joke in certain circles.