Chapter 735 - 503:

He really couldn’t take it; fine, stepping on someone once in a while is one thing, but he keeps doing it on these super high-traffic shows.

Right now there are already some people in the barrage who don’t know the context asking why Wu Mu is talking like this, what exactly Zhou Yu did that was so immoral, and then other comments are explaining it to them... what Celebrity can withstand being dragged like this all the time.

Zhou Yu’s fans were about ready to explode.

What’s disgusting about Wu Mu is exactly this: he keeps dragging their idol out just to stomp on him; if he didn’t do this so often, they wouldn’t hate him this much.

But the more they hate him, the more helpless they are—no matter what they do, there’s no way to get him cancelled!

After dragging a few names out of his little blacklist notebook for a stroll, Wu Mu felt quite satisfied, then went back to acting human again:

"But thinking about it, you can’t really blame the X platform, maybe they just don’t know the inside story and got fooled by him."

He tossed his sponsor a line to save face.

On the big screen, Zhou Yu and that little starlet had already stepped onto the red carpet; after giving them a bit of camera time, the second pair of guests came on.

Wu Mu didn’t recognize this second pair of guests.

For X Night’s red carpet, the general rule is: the bigger your status, the later you go on; the relatively less popular artists go on first.

Someone like Wu Mu got slotted into the last few groups.

But if the front is all low-popularity artists, the audience will drop off fast.

So at the opening and also in the middle, they’ll occasionally insert some high-traffic Celebrities.

Zhou Yu was clearly one of those.

After him, six or seven groups of artists Wu Mu wasn’t familiar with walked past in a row.

Then another acquaintance of his came on: Xiao Yi.

Huh.

Wu Mu suddenly realized there was an unexpected perk to attending X Night.

Normally, when he wants to drag someone from his little blacklist notebook, he has to look for the right opportunity, and there’s no way he can get to everyone.

But today, the whole thing is one big opportunity, and everyone’s here in one place.

Without even hesitating, after faking two coughs, Wu Mu opened his mouth like he was a live judge:

"Xiao Yi as a person is barely okay, I’d say he does work pretty hard, and he doesn’t have a bad reputation in the industry, but it’s still those same old problems: his professional skills are awful and don’t match his current fame. Oh, and his fans are a huge problem too."

Xiao Yi’s fans: "!!!"

The barrage in the livestream blew up again.

"666, Wu Gou, keep it up, don’t chicken out, go in hard like this!"

"Just realized all of Wu Gou’s enemies are showing up in a neat line today, super convenient for him to step on them. Coming up there’s Qiu Yiyang, Sun Zhichun, Gu Hao, Xu Zhiwen... Wu Gou isn’t going to step on them one by one, is he?"

"I’m dying, Wu Gou’s antis were still dreaming about blocking him from getting X King tonight and stepping on him to climb up, but before X King has even been awarded, Wu Gou’s already stepped all over them first."

The barrage wasn’t the only thing exploding.

Some artist teams backstage were exploding too.

Zhou Yu and Xiao Yi had gone on stage.

But Qiu Yiyang, Sun Zhichun and the others hadn’t gone on yet, and they were all watching Wu Mu’s livestream!

If when they go on later he does the same routine, how are they supposed to survive that!

All those who are rivals of Wu Mu, like Qiu Yiyang and company, had their faces turn instantly dark; they hurried their managers off to contact the X platform, demanding that Wu Mu be stopped.

But...

"Temporarily take down Wu Mu’s livestream room? Not a chance." Fan Wen rejected them outright.

What a joke; right now nearly half the traffic for the entire event is on Wu Mu. If they cut his stream, what happens to their online numbers?

Forget cutting it; Fan Wen didn’t even plan to go talk to Wu Mu about toning it down.

Yeah, because that traffic is just too tasty.

Their total platform-wide online viewership had gone up again; it was already over 19 million!

A lot of viewers who’d heard the buzz had rushed over to watch the drama, just waiting for Wu Mu to keep running his mouth.

Strictly speaking, a major platform pulling stunts like this doesn’t look great; if it were someone else suddenly going nuts on stream like this, then even if it pulled big numbers, Fan Wen and the others would have to grit their teeth and cut it, since the optics would be bad.

But if it’s Wu Mu...

It’s Wu Mu. Is this your first day knowing him? This is just who he is; him tossing out a few harsh lines is completely normal. The guy’s already called someone a "dog bastard" on a show before.

Yeah, Wu Mu’s public persona is already sitting right there; whatever blowback there is, Wu Mu will take it.

So Fan Wen just pretended he’d never heard those complaints; besides, it’s not like Qiu Yiyang and the others would really do anything serious to their platform over something this minor.

They’re not Wu Mu; they might not be able to control Wu Mu, but they can absolutely put the screws to them, right?

More and more people were pouring into Wu Mu’s livestream room to watch the chaos.

By this point, people weren’t just waiting for him to step on his rivals; they’d started proactively asking about each guest going on stage.

"Wu Gou, Wu Gou, what do you think of this Huang Yin who just went up? I watched her drama before and thought it was pretty good."

"Wu Gou, hurry up and curse out Du Yi! He cheated and made the side chick get an abortion and still gets to work in the industry!"

"Wu Gou, people online all say Meng Yihan just counts ’1 2 3 4 5’ when she films, is that true?"

Every time someone walked onto the red carpet, the viewers in the livestream would chase Wu Mu with a question.

But while Wu Mu doesn’t care what others think of him, he also doesn’t have nothing better to do than stomp on people he has no beef with.

He simply ignored those barrage comments telling him to insult other guests.

But there were other comments.

Wu Mu thought back briefly. "I haven’t really interacted with Huang Yin much, but a few of my friends told me she’s a pretty nice person, often helping the crew staff with all kinds of chores."

"As for Meng Yihan, I haven’t worked with her either, but I’ve heard about that. Saying she just counts ’1 2 3 4 5’ when filming is bullshit; she’s actually pretty dedicated on set."

Yeah, no need to stomp on people.

But he doesn’t mind mentioning good reputations.

And honestly, what he says carries some weight; at least the viewers in the livestream believe he’s not talking out of his ass.

After all, this is Wu Gou, the guy who’s willing to stomp on people live at X Night; there’s no way he’d play nice and do mutual commercial praise just to avoid offending someone.

If he’s saying it, it’s definitely what he genuinely thinks.

By the end of this livestream, setting Zhou Yu and the others aside, quite a few Celebrities who’d been viciously smeared before suddenly had their reputations turn around.

And not just them, there were others...

Seeing Wang Xiaotian next to him get up to walk the red carpet, Wu Mu smiled and said, "Xiaotian’s up next. Xiaotian’s a great guy, and his professional skills are seriously strong. Everyone can go check out his new shows."

Wang Xiaotian was slightly stunned for a moment,

And because he was giving quick reviews one after another, the originally boring red carpet segment suddenly became fun.

So instead of dropping, the audience numbers during the red carpet kept going up.

It was basically turning into Wu Mu’s personal live show; most of the viewers across the entire platform’s livestreams had all flocked to his room to watch the drama.

Just like that, time quickly reached the point when it was Lu Yao’s turn.

Lu Yao’s status was already pretty high, so her slot was in the later part of the lineup; once she finished, it would be Wu Mu’s turn not long after.

Lu Yao got the message and started walking out; as she walked, she...

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Yeah, no need to stomp on people.

But he doesn’t mind mentioning good reputations.

And honestly, what he says carries some weight; at least the viewers in the livestream believe he’s not talking out of his ass.

After all, this is Wu Gou, the guy who’s willing to stomp on people live at X Night; there’s no way he’d play nice and do mutual commercial praise just to avoid offending someone.

If he’s saying it, it’s definitely what he genuinely thinks.

By the end of this livestream, setting Zhou Yu and the others aside, quite a few Celebrities who’d been viciously smeared before suddenly had their reputations turn around.

And Wu Mu also

This X Night was really about to be turned into Wu Mu’s personal livestream,

Yeah, no need to stomp on people.

But he doesn’t mind mentioning good reputations.

And honestly, what he says carries some weight; at least the viewers in the livestream believe he’s not talking out of his ass.

After all, this is Wu Gou, the guy who’s willing to stomp on people live at X Night; there’s no way he’d play nice and do mutual commercial praise just to avoid offending someone.

If he’s saying it, it’s definitely what he genuinely thinks.

By the end of this livestream, setting Zhou Yu and the others aside, quite a few Celebrities who’d been viciously smeared before suddenly had their reputations turn around.

And Wu Mu also

This X Night was really about to be turned into Wu Mu’s personal livestream,