Finally making it through a dinner gathering, full and satisfied, Brian Clark stood up, took the bill first, and headed to the front desk to pay.

Eric Clark saw this and hurried to stop him: “Little Brian, leave it, Uncle will pay.”

“Uncle, we agreed that I’d treat tonight.” Brian Clark smiled. “If you go back on your word, I won’t come next time.”

Watching the young man’s departing figure, the middle-aged woman sighed softly: “You’re right, your little nephew really is quite well-behaved. Since he won’t come over, forget it. At worst, I’ll just make some nourishing soup every few days and bring it to him.”

Eric Clark held his wife’s hand, finally giving up on the idea of having Brian Clark move in with them: “…Alright, thank you for your trouble.”

They had come to a restaurant Eric Clark frequented—a small eatery with affordable prices. Brian Clark stood at the front desk, watching the cashier tap away on the calculator: “Two hundred and fifty.”

What a lucky number.

It happened to be the exact earnings from the little star the boss had given him that day—five hundred split in half, he got two hundred and fifty.

Paying the bill didn’t hurt at all. After settling up and saying goodbye to his uncle and aunt, Brian Clark hurried home.

He logged into his streaming account and, seeing the only friend on his list, suddenly remembered something.

yanxyan: There?

Admin03: Here, what’s up?

yanxyan: How did my previous report get handled?

Admin03: …

Admin03: We checked, he didn’t violate any rules.

yanxyan: Are you sure? Did you watch the stream replay??

Admin03: Yes.

yanxyan: Then did you ban his stream room?

Admin03: That streamer has been live all day, it’s inconvenient for us to ban him. We got all the recordings from enthusiastic fans.

yanxyan: I personally heard him verbally attack me in the stream.

Admin03: Maybe you remembered wrong.

Like hell he remembered wrong.

Seeing the perfunctory tone, he understood—the admin never intended to do anything.

So why did they ban his stream room before?

Although it hadn’t affected his own streaming, thinking about it still left him annoyed.

But being annoyed was useless; he didn’t have the leverage to argue with the admin yet.

Not wanting to upset himself and risk affecting the quality of his upcoming stream, he closed the chat window and started his stream.

He glanced at the time—19:42. He’d made it back before eight.

Although he’d only been gone a little over an hour, most of the viewers had already left, with just over a hundred people idling in the stream. However, his follower count was high, and since he’d promised to play with viewers today, over a thousand people joined as soon as he went live.

【Hurry, hurry, hurry! While there aren’t many people, streamer, start the giveaway!】

【Quick, stop talking!!】

【The streamer always gets matched with girls. If you get picked, not only can you win, you might even get to play with a wild girl!!】

“Don’t rush, let me start the game.” Brian Clark started the game while watching the chat, and soon one message caught his eye.

【How much starlight value does it take to get a mod badge in this stream? If you get the badge, can you skip the line?】

Brian Clark didn’t quite get it, so he took a screenshot and sent it to Henry Grant, asking what it meant.

Mr. Grant: They’re asking how many gifts it takes to get a room mod badge. One starlight value = one yuan. How do you not know this basic stuff? Skipping the line means you don’t have to join the giveaway; as long as you’re playing with viewers, they can jump in directly. Lots of streams set the mod badge at 2,000 yuan in gifts.

Brian Clark: I see… Got it.

He switched back to the stream and glanced at the chat: “Boss, here it’s 2,000 yuan to get mod. Once you’re a mod, you can skip the line anytime.”

He didn’t hide his conversation with Henry Grant; the viewers saw it all.

【Disgusting rules, takes away the fun of the giveaway!!】

【Bosses, if you’ve got guts, don’t top up! Let’s compete fairly!!!】

【Haha, that ID asked and then ran!!】

【Acting cool and then running, what a man.】

Brian Clark laughed too. Gifts were great, but he wasn’t upset if there weren’t any—after all, he’d originally come for the base salary and bonuses from Starry Sky TV.

He opened the giveaway page: “Same rules as always, picking two viewers…”

Before he finished, his computer screen suddenly lit up with starlight, and an over-the-top meteor shower effect flew across the top of the screen, followed by a line of colorful text—

【1 sent a Meteor Shower in yanxyan’s stream, and 50 Star Boxes will randomly drop in the stream!】

Chapter 9

Brian Clark was stunned for a long time. Only after the effect disappeared and the chat started spamming did he snap out of it.

【Boss is so generous!】

【Boss, you go first.】

The gift from 1 was exactly a 2,000-yuan “Meteor Shower.” Because of its high price, the “Meteor Shower” not only brought him earnings, but also another bonus buff: a platform-wide broadcast, and the streamer’s room would get a rain of fifty Star Boxes.

Inside the Star Boxes, you could get experience points and free gifts. If you were lucky, you could even get paid gifts worth up to fifty yuan. It was one of the tricks to attract viewers.