You're already divorced, why are you so anxious about him becoming a succubus?

"Ancestor! You've finally arrived!"

Upon seeing Lu Ci, Chen Feng excitedly approached her with a paper contract, exclaiming, "I fucking love you! Do you know how many people were queuing outside our store yesterday? Over a hundred people!"

And the video of you singing is still getting a terrifying surge in views across the internet!

Lu Ci took the contract handed to him, flipped through it casually, and joked with a smile, "Boss Chen, even if you only pay me a salary and don't give me any shares, I'll still come and help."

"With such high daily revenue, are you really willing to give up 30% of the shares?"

"Get lost, you brat! Don't try to act innocent after getting the benefit!"

Chen Feng punched Lu Ci on the shoulder with a hearty laugh and said, "Hurry up and sign it for me, I don't care! Back when we were in high school, we were so poor that we had to break a 50-cent spicy strip in half to eat it!"

Now that I've finally made some big money, how could I possibly mistreat my brother? I, Chen Feng, am not the kind of traitor who would abandon his principles for profit! Besides, you have to trust your boss Chen's business acumen; if I bring you on board, I definitely won't lose out!

Chen Feng shrewdly calculated: "Besides, I've done the math. Even if this wave of traffic only lasts for two or three months, I'll still recoup all my initial investment in this store."

It's like a guaranteed profit; if things go wrong, we can just switch to something else when the traffic drops, right?

Hearing his childhood friend's insightful and loyal words, Lu Ci stopped being coy, smiled, picked up the pen, and decisively signed his name on the last page of the contract.

"Alright then, please take good care of me from now on, Mr. Lu." Lu Ci handed one of the contracts to Chen Feng.

Chen Feng carefully put the contract away, then leaned closer to Lu Ci mysteriously and asked in a low voice, "Hehe... do you want to know what the beautiful Qin was talking about with me just now?"

"I don't want to." Lu Ci shook his head decisively.

"Damn it!" Chen Feng snapped, punching him again in exasperation. "You said you wanted to!"

Lu Ci rolled his eyes helplessly and replied perfunctorily, "Okay, okay, I said I want to. What did she tell you?"

Chen Feng then raised an eyebrow smugly and explained, "She works at that studio, and only takes one day off a week. She told me that she originally wanted to become a teacher, but when she got there, she found that all the students who signed up for her classes were adults with all sorts of ulterior motives, and there was no proper teaching atmosphere at all."

"Well, she saw that our bar's traffic has exploded these past few days, and with that video of you two singing together yesterday, she's become a minor internet sensation as well."

She took time off work to come and sing here, but now she wants to quit her job at that studio, create her own Douyin account, and work full-time as a resident singer here!

Chen Feng clicked his tongue: "However, she asked for a higher salary than before, or even one directly linked to the bar's drink sales. I didn't think her asking price was too high, and it was in line with the market price for those popular online celebrities performing, so I agreed. Judging from her expression, it seemed like she was short of money."

"That's all?" Lu Ci raised an eyebrow slightly. "Why are you being so mysterious and keeping this work arrangement from me?"

"Hey, let me finish!"

Chen Feng lowered his voice excitedly, his face beaming with a gossipy grin: "After we finished discussing salary, she casually asked me about you. She asked me what your relationship was with those pretty girls who were gathered around the booth that night!"

Chen Feng patted his chest confidently: "See! I told you, the way she looked at you on stage last night was weird, wasn't it? There's something going on, bro!"

Listening to Chen Feng's exaggerated description, Lu Ci rolled her eyes in exasperation.

He didn't think Qin Meng, this thorny black rose, would so easily develop any feelings for him.

He had reason to suspect that this was most likely because the purple attribute "Top-notch Pulling and Pulling of a Scumbag" that the system rewarded him with after completing the task last night had begun to take effect passively.

To stop Chen Feng from continuing to ramble on about this pointless topic, Lu Ci decisively changed the subject: "Alright, stop gossiping."

By the way, does your bar have a dedicated team for account management and live streaming? I see even the smallest restaurants on the street are creating accounts on short video platforms for promotion these days.

"Absolutely!" Chen Feng nodded proudly, pointing towards the backstage area: "I hired two professional operators, and they're currently setting up the live streaming equipment backstage."

Lu Ci nodded slightly: "That's perfect. I also want to register a personal short video account. Have them set one up for me later. When I go on stage, while we're live streaming on our bar's official account, have them use their phones to start a simultaneous live stream on my new account as well."

Lu Ci kept the task of gaining 500,000 real fans that the system had issued in mind.

After listening, Chen Feng's eyes lit up, and he slapped his thigh in agreement: "With your current popularity, as soon as you open an account, your followers will definitely skyrocket. Once you're really famous, you can just add a 'GG' (a type of online shopping platform) to your account and make a fortune."

Time quickly came to eight o'clock in the evening.

The nightlife had just begun, and the bar slowly started to fill up. In less than an hour, all the booths and tables in the lobby were full.

In the backstage dressing room, the makeup artist that Chen Feng had specially hired was enthusiastically preparing to apply foundation and contouring powder to Lu Ci's face.

"No, no, no, beautiful lady, you can skip this."

Lu Ci resisted and stepped back, decisively refusing.

He usually doesn't even bother to apply a basic face cream like Dabao, and he simply can't stand having a thick layer of foundation on his face.

The makeup artist held up her brush regretfully, but when she examined Lu Ci's flawless and clear skin up close, enhanced by his eighteen-year-old physique, she could only helplessly admit:

This face truly doesn't need any industrial cosmetic enhancements.

Because it was just the beginning, the guests were still getting excited.

Qin Meng, holding her guitar, was the first to walk onto the stage and sang a few folk songs in her cool and languid voice, which calmed the crowd down.

Time passed slowly, and before we knew it, it was almost nine o'clock at night.

The atmosphere in the bar was already lively.

However, many of the guests in the audience were starting to get impatient.

"Hey waiter! Your bar is posting videos online to scam people, isn't it?"

"Isn't that incredibly handsome guy who sang 'Later' your resident singer? It's already nine o'clock, where is he?!"

"Exactly! We booked it yesterday just to hear him sing! Is this some kind of shameless marketing gimmick?"

Faced with the guests' urgent urging and questions, the waiters weaving through the crowd could only smile apologetically and repeatedly reassure them, "Please be patient, he'll be here soon!"

Chen Feng, who was backstage, kept a keen eye on the movements in the hall.

Seeing that the guests' expectations had been perfectly raised to their peak, he turned to Lu Ci and excitedly snapped his fingers:

"My ancestor! The atmosphere is perfect! It's your turn to go on stage!"

Lu Ci casually straightened his clean white shirt and walked out of the backstage passage with composed steps.

When that tall, slender figure, exuding a refreshing youthful charm, appeared, the audience erupted in cheers.

"He's here! He's here! He's just as handsome in person as in the videos!"

"Holy crap! That aura is absolutely amazing!"

……

Meanwhile, the three professional cameras directly in front of the stage had already locked onto the stage from all angles. The number of online viewers in Chen Feng's popular official live stream room and Lu Ci's newly registered personal account began to skyrocket at an alarming rate!

Despite the exaggerated display, Lu Ci was not intimidated.

He smiled relaxedly and waved casually to the audience. That nonchalant gesture once again triggered a piercing scream from the girls.

Lu Ci walked to the center of the stage, sat down on the high stool next to Qin Meng, and adjusted the microphone height.

Qin Meng scrolled through the music library on her tablet, turned her head, and glanced at Lu Ci.

"What...are you singing?"

"Let's go with this one." Lu Ci looked at the screen the other person was controlling: "Late Marriage."

Qin Meng was slightly taken aback. This song was deeply emotional and restrained, and it was a great test of singing skills and emotional expression.

But thinking of Lu Ci's abnormal voice, she nodded in agreement and skillfully strummed a soothing intro on the guitar.

The crisp sound of an acoustic guitar flowed gently through the noisy bar.

As the last note of the intro faded, he moved closer to the microphone, and his empathetic "siren's alluring voice" resonated through the hall's speakers:

……

"I never wanted to be single..."

"Yet I have a premonition that I'll marry late..."