Chapter 95: Fan Shipping, Smelly Lin

Hearing the system notification, Lin Haoren briefly glanced at Fang Ning with silent acknowledgment.

Fang Ning understood his kind intention.

Shortly after Fang Ning opened the GPS on her phone, she quickly found their location in Qingshan Industrial District.

The direction they were taking was adjacent to Old Warehouse Street.

As such, they left the warehouse area and entered the old factory road. Many of these abandoned factories were once the pride of Beichuan Province during the Industrial Revolution.

Now, they could only collect dust and be forgotten.

[Tracking Skill Proficiency +16]

[Tracking Skill Proficiency +15]

Along the way, Lin Haoren discovered more paw prints leading deeper into the old industrial-boom factories.

The farther away from Qingshan Warehouse No.13, the less noticeable the paw prints.

However, there were other traces such as cat feces.

"We are heading towards the old industrial-boom factories. Right up ahead should be the old Qingshan Heavy Machinery Works."

Fang Ning relayed the information she found on her GPS.

"Qingshan Heavy Machinery Works, huh?" Lin Haoren nodded before saying, "The tracks are getting harder to trace. I hope it won’t before it leads to a crucial location."

"Brother Lin, your tracking skills are so good. Did you use to be a hunter?" Fang Ning asked.

The two Camera Operators following them couldn’t help but perk up their ears to listen. In fact, they were also curious about this.

However, Lin Haoren shook his head and laughed.

"Not at all. Forget hunting; I haven’t even gone camping or hiking before."

"Really?! How can your tracking skill be so good?"

Fang Ning stared at Lin Haoren with doubt and surprise. She found it hard to believe that he could be so skilled and knowledgeable without years of experience.

Lin Haoren shrugged.

"Can’t I just learn it by watching hunting or survival shows?"

"You can learn such tracking skills by watching hunting or survival shows?"

"Well, I can’t say that I just picked it up, right?"

Lin Haoren stared at Fang Ning, and she met his gaze with a blank look.

Moments later, she laughed.

[Fang Ning’s Favorability +5]

"You’re quite funny, Brother Lin."

"Really? Maybe you just have a low bar for humor, Sister Fang."

"Hmph! I was praising you. Yet you insult me? Brother Lin, you won’t be able to find a girlfriend like that, okay?"

Fang Ning pouted unhappily.

"I already have a girlfriend. Why would I still need to find one?" Lin Haoren asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Oh yeah, you did say that." Fang Ning remembered, but then smiled cheekily. "However, I don’t believe you~! Who publicizes their relationship like you do?"

"Anyway, I don’t have low standards for humor, okay? If I think you are funny, then it means you are genuinely funny!" Fang Ning argued stubbornly.

Lin Haoren shrugged with a compromising smile.

"Alright, alright. Let’s just say that is the case. As long as you’re happy."

Fang Ning pouted again, seemingly not satisfied with his attitude.

"Haoren, can I call you that? We should be considered friends now, right?" Fang Ning asked.

"Sure...?"

Lin Haoren was slightly surprised by the sudden question. He couldn’t guess her intentions, but there didn’t seem to be anything wrong with her words.

"Great! In return, you can also call me Ning’er." Fang Ning grinned.

"So affectionate?" Lin Haoren raised an eyebrow before saying, "You really want your fans to drown me with their curses."

"If that really happens, I’ll be your No. 1 fan, cheering you on as you curse them back." Fang Ning laughed.

Lin Haoren gave her a helpless look, realizing her true intentions.

"Who treats their fans like you do?"

"Isn’t it great to be unique?"

Lin Haoren didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Fang Ning and her fans shared quite a special relationship.

[Hahahaha, this is too funny. Sister Fang’s fans don’t dare to fight Brother Lin, but Sister Fang is scheming to get them to fight.]

[This kind of love-hate relationship is quite amusing to watch. Are they still doing an animal investigation? Why does it suddenly feel like a dating show?]

[What can I say? The chemistry between Sister Fang and Brother Lin seems great. I almost want to ship them.]

[They do look like a heavenly match... Pah! What am I saying? How can that toad be suitable for Sister Fang?]

[I mean, frogs have married princesses before... It wouldn’t be unprecedented.]

[Hey, hey, hey! Don’t forget Brother Lin is very educated! Even if he is a toad, he is still an educated one!]

[...Are you guys really Brother Lin’s fans? Why do you guys just decide there and then that Brother Lin is a toad? He is actually pretty handsome, isn’t he?]

[I suppose he is not bad-looking. But compared to Sister Fang’s beauty? Smelly Lin is still a fair bit behind in appearance.]

[Hahahaha, Smelly Lin. I love it. From now on, I will also call him Smelly Lin. There’s just something about it; it just rolls off the tongue. Smelly Lin only needs infamy anyway.]

[Smelly Lin: If it’s not infamy, I don’t want it!]

[Hahahaha... I wonder if Smelly Lin will regret it if he found out about the infamy he attracted...]

After the initial heat from Jiang Ruolan’s fans died down, most of Lin Haoren’s viewers had actually become pretty chill.

However, they weren’t the kind of fans most stars would want.

After all, if they weren’t laughing with him, then they were definitely laughing at him. They were more likely to derive their joy from his suffering than his success.

The Production Team didn’t know whether to laugh or cry when they monitored Lin Haoren’s livestream channel.

"Director Chen, Lin Haoren has gained a lot of traffic for our show. However, his infamy is... quite something else. I think we should advise him not to read online comments too much. It would be better for his mental health."

Director Chen chuckled when he heard this suggestion from Assistant Director Han.

"I think there’s no need to worry about that, Old Han. Xiao Ren’s face seems pretty thick. Those online comments shouldn’t hurt him."

Director Chen smiled with overflowing confidence.

Bringing Oreo and Lin Haoren into his show was the best decision he had ever made.

He was a little worried that the show’s traffic would suffer due to Qin Mo’s and Guo Zhenyu’s medical leave.

However, contrary to his expectations, the show’s traffic did not decrease but continued to increase with time. All of Qin Mo’s and Guo Zhenyu’s live viewers transferred to the other guests.

This showed that even without Qin Mo’s and Guo Zhenyu’s star power, their fans were still very interested in the show.

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