mijobooks Chapter 81 An Unexpected Direction
Chapter 81 An Unexpected Direction
Hearing Xiaoya's words, Chen Jiang was indeed a little confused. In his opinion, what Xiaoya said had no direct relation to whether he could become famous.
Besides, he's not a celebrity who needs to be in the public eye, so whether he's popular or not doesn't really matter to him.
Instead of Xiaoya's excitement, Chen Jiang simply frowned, stopped replying to her messages, opened Douyin (TikTok), did a quick search, and found a video.
"It's actually pretty popular!"
The video content is indeed the photo that was secretly taken of him and Xiaoya yesterday. However, compared to the richer colors of the original photo seen from the camera yesterday, the photo in the video has been color-corrected to black and white.
Although this blurs the overall background, making it impossible to pinpoint the location except for the riverbank, it successfully makes the two figures in the photo more direct and noticeable.
It must be said that this may have been a flash of inspiration, but it made this already very different photo extremely eye-catching.
Chen Jiang had no idea where that affectionate look he gave the dog came from. He remembered that he was so sleepy yesterday that he was in a daze, and he had forgotten what he was looking at.
Let's take a look at the data for this video—well, Xiaoya's information is all outdated.
The video has now received over 1.5 million likes and over 100,000 comments... Chen Jiang doesn't know how many users Douyin has now, but he can guess.
Having only been online for a few months and still in the software promotion phase, dy, even though it's currently very popular among young people, only has a few million users at most.
In other words, this video was probably seen by most users on the platform.
"So, I've really gotten angry?"
Chen Jiang shook his head slightly and sighed. He felt that his luck was probably starting to kick in again, but he wasn't really happy. Instead, he was a little worried... Although being praised for his good looks by a group of people was quite pleasing.
But he doesn't need that kind of exposure right now.
He has no shortage of money, and he doesn't want to be an internet celebrity or anything like that.
His wealth came too easily, and although everything he acquired was legal and compliant, if he really becomes a celebrity, it feels like his background will be thoroughly exposed sooner or later.
There are all sorts of people online, and even more who resent the rich. I'll have to worry about that eventually.
What's more... the photo doesn't just show him; Xiaoya is in it too. The key point is that there was nothing between him and Xiaoya to begin with, and there wasn't anything ambiguous between them at the time. But after this photo came out, it made it seem like they were so deeply in love...
He wasn't afraid of Gao Wen seeing it, after all, it wasn't a big deal. Even if she got angry, he would be in the right. The key point was that this was a completely unwarranted disaster, something that didn't need to happen.
"If I had known, I would have deleted the photos for him yesterday."
Chen Jiang sighed, then moved his finger and tapped the profile picture of the person who uploaded the video.
The person who uploaded the video had a selfie as their profile picture, wearing a hat and sporting a small mustache; it was indeed Karl from yesterday.
I glanced at the videos and saw that they had uploaded quite a few in just a few months, but the number of likes was pitifully small. Some only had a dozen or twenty likes, and the most had only a few thousand likes. But this video got a whopping 1.5 million likes, which is an incredibly explosive number.
I glanced at the profile; it only had a personal introduction, but no contact information.
After thinking for a moment, Chen Jiang sent another message to Xiaoya:
"Try to contact this Carl and talk to him about this video."
Xiaoya was a little surprised by his reaction:
"Hey boss, aren't you happy now that you're famous?"
"What's there to be happy about... I'm not going to be a celebrity or internet influencer, and besides, I'm not short of money."
Chen Jiang gave a casual explanation, and then said:
"I just took a look, and this video is indeed very popular. Fortunately, the person in the video doesn't look much different from me in person, so even if people who have seen the video see me in person, they might not recognize me."
"Contact Carl and tell him I can overlook the fact that he uploaded my photos without my permission, but he has to delete this video..."
"Okay, I'll try to contact them later. If all goes well, I should get a response soon, and I'll let you know then." Xiaoya was a little disappointed, after all, she really liked the photo, but what could she do when the boss was in charge?
"Wait... wait a moment, let me think about it."
Chen Jiang originally wanted to cut the Gordian knot, since only he knew his own situation, but he fell silent as soon as he opened his mouth.
He suddenly realized that deleting this viral video would be a waste.
After all, he had thought about developing online before, but he had left it to Xu Ruirui to handle. He hadn't asked about the specifics recently, but if he really wanted to develop Jierui Company into an influencer economy, his suddenly popular video might be a fulcrum.
And whether it was luck or something else, Chen happy also believed that the light industry would develop rapidly in the next few years and was preparing to invest in this area.
Chen Jiang had previously considered recommending Jie Rui Company to Chen Xi, but he didn't rush to do so not only to avoid risks, but also because Jie Rui Company was not currently qualified to be invested in.
Even if Chen happy were to give him face, a modeling agency with obvious potential wouldn't be able to pass R&F Financial's internal review and secure investment.
However, if he can transform Jerry Company and achieve some success through his own efforts, given Chen happy's current development strategy and his relationship with him, he might actually be able to get Jerry Company to take off.
However... we still need to discuss the specifics with Xu Ruirui. And if everything goes smoothly, we'll need to adjust things like the shareholding, but there's no rush. If things really work out, he probably won't even need to bring it up.
"Never mind... let's try to contact this Carl first. We don't need to make him delete the video, just invite him to meet first."
"Hehe, I knew it would be a pity to delete it, boss, it's great that you've come to your senses!!" Xiaoya was quite surprised, but she couldn't help being a little happy, after all, putting everything else aside.
The photo was just too beautiful, and she was the female lead in it, even though only her back was visible... And although she didn't say it, she actually thought that this kind of opportunity to become famous was rare and could be taken advantage of.
Now that Chen Jiang doesn't want to delete it anymore, that's naturally a good thing!
"I'll try to contact this person later... By the way, boss, I don't have much to do today. Are you going to take a look around the company, or maybe do some sightseeing and shopping in Shanghai?"