Ye Chen, the main person involved, was no exception. He took out his phone and briefly looked at the news about him on the internet.
Then, Ye Chen came to a conclusion - he had really become popular because of the corpse-catching incident.
At the same time, curious netizens had dug up the details of the incident.
After all, Ye Chen had streamed the entire incident live. Even if Ye Chen wanted to hide it, he could not.
When the full footage of Ye Chen's live stream was circulated, countless netizens were shocked.
Reports, gossip, and videos about Ye Chen were all over the internet.
"I can't believe this is the result of a rotten fish's direct bite. This fishing streamer's sick!"
"Despite catching a corpse at night, this fishing streamer actually asked everyone not to call the police in fear of scaring the fish away."
"Horrifying! The young magic arts priest did a ritual by the river late at night and really caught a corpse!"
...
After Ye Chen's identity was exposed, the curious netizens on the internet followed Ye Chen on the QuickStream live streaming platform.
Upon learning how much buzz his live stream footage was generating, Ye Chen opened the QuickStream platform and entered his account page.
As soon as Ye Chen entered, numerous background notifications came one after another.
He had 999+ new fans, 999+ new likes, and 999+ new comments.
Meanwhile, the number of fans was a staggering 1.035 million.
In just one hour, Ye Chen had become a fishing streamer with a million followers.
One had to know that there were a few famous fishing streamers on the QuickStream platform.
The top streamers had tens of millions of fans, and middle-ranked streamers had millions of fans.
While Ye Chen could not compare to them, with his current number of fans, Ye Chen was definitely ranked among the top among fishing streamers.
For instance, East Sea's King of Fishing, who entered Ye Chen's live stream room that day, only had 400,000 fans.
Once East Sea's King of Fishing found out about Ye Chen's follower count, he would probably be so angry that he would vomit blood.
When the live stream had just started today, Ye Chen could still clearly remember that there were 70 to 80 people in the live stream room, and his follower count was roughly 400,000.
After all, not every follower watched all of Ye Chen's live streams.
At the same time, for Ye Chen's latest video, the comments had reached tens of thousands, and most of the comments were posted just recently.
"F*ck, is the streamer really a magic arts priest-cum-fishing pro?"
"God d*mn! This is the first time I've seen someone use an urn a fishing bait box!"
"Praying for this streamer's good luck rub off me. Bless me luck to win the lottery so that I won't be a miserable 9-6 office worker anymore!"
"Streamer, when do you usually live stream?"
"Mr. Ye, when will the live stream start? It doesn't matter if you can't catch a fish. I enjoy watching you catch something other than fish."
"I've seen a few videos of Mr. Ye. It seems like he's never caught a fish. Hahaha. This is hilarious!"
"What fishing pro can't catch a fish? He's probably trolling, right?"
...
Just as everyone had said, Ye Chen was indeed gaining popularity. But Ye Chen only had mixed feelings.
Just then, the barbecue stall owner brought out sizzling skewers and said to Ye Chen with a smile, "You've become famous all over the internet, Mr. Ye. Everyone knows you. But at the same time, everyone now knows you've never managed to catch a fish. Hahaha!"
"F*ck! Exactly!" thought Ye Chen. He finally realized why he didn't feel all that happy about having gone viral.
The other fishing pros also came to their senses and started discussing.
"Ah, the boss is right! If that's the case, wouldn't the entire internet know that Mr. Ye is the Skunked King?"
"What Skunked King? Didn't Mr. Ye say it before? He fishes for inner peace."
"Bulls*it! Isn't that just for the fans to hear? If Mr. Ye could really catch a fish, he wouldn't be saying such philosophical words!"
"That's true. But for real, Mr. Ye, you can't be like this. You have to catch a fish quickly, even if it's just a baby fish. You can't embarrass Jiang City's fishing pros!"
"That's right. You must press on!"
"We can't go to the river bank of Jiang City for now. It might become a popular place for those influencers to film at. Plus, I don't feel comfortable to fish there after such an incident."
"Yes, but... Then where are we going to fish? We have to help Mr. Ye wash away the bad luck of fishing up a corpse!"
"I know a place. Seyves Reservoir!"
"Seyves Reservoir? I've heard of that place before. Some years ago, people even dug up some relics there."
"That's good for warding off evil! And most importantly, Seyves Reservoir has abundant fish. Be it a silver carp or a common carp, you have a chance of catching them all!"
"Let's go there tomorrow. Mr. Ye, what do you think?"
Ye Chen thought for a moment and nodded. "No problem at all. We'll go there after daybreak! Let's gather at 9 a.m.!"
No one had any objections to Ye Chen's proposed timing.
However, someone deliberately teased Mr. Liao, "Mr. Liao, don't forget the bet you made with Mr. Ye today! We're all waiting to attend your granddaughter's and Mr. Ye's wedding!"
Mr. Liao, who was gorging himself, frowned and said, "Shut your trap!"
Mr. Liao found the group of fishing pros unkind for not sympathizing with his worries about how to tell his granddaughter about the bet.
Timing-wise, Mr. Liao's granddaughter would be available - it was Saturday the next day, which meant no lessons at university. Moreover, Mr. Liao's granddaughter attended a university in Jiang City itself.
However, the problem was with explaining the bet to her.
Mr. Liao wondered, "Dear, I lost a bet with someone, and you'll have to be his fishing assistant for a week - carrying buckets, scooping up fish, and so on...? No. It's too humiliating, though she'll probably agree to it. And if my wife and son found out about this... I can't imagine the embarrassment."
However, Mr. Liao already gave his word. If he didn't keep his promise, how would his old friends see him?
Mr. Liao was extremely depressed as he could not think of a good solution.
Was he really going to let his granddaughter be Ye Chen's assistant?
For a moment, Mr. Liao felt as if he had fallen into Ye Chen's trap.
As for what the fishing pros had said about pairing Ye Chen and his granddaughter together, Mr. Liao found it ridiculous.
Ye Chen's family background, appearance, and personality aside, Ye Chen's fishing skills were terrible.