Noob Player

Shen tapped the back of his waist as he entered his apartment. "Am I that old?" He spoke to himself. His waist was hurt from carrying Eunha and Lin Lin together. Despite his backache, he directly went to shower instead of laying down on the couch as he was soaked in sweat.

After having a shower, he returned to the living room and laid down there. It was so comfortable as he closed his eyes. "I am supposed to do some a little working out, but I will pass for now."

Shen reached into the pocket and took out his phone. He was surprised that he had nineteen missed calls. "Ming, Ming, Ming, Ming, Dale…." All nineteen calls were from those two. He did not call them back as he checked their message first.

Ming and Dale were messaging the same thing, asking him what he did with his new video and telling him to check the Forum. He was curious what happened on the forum for them calling him several times like this.

Shen opened the forum through the phone and was surprised to see his new video the first time he opened the forum. Not just that, the most viewed thread was also talking about his latest video. He immediately clicked his profile and was shocked to see his new video's viewers.

"This… This…." He was stunned that his new video garnered a little over eleven million views. It was not even a day passed since he uploaded the video. In fact, he just uploaded the video a few hours ago. He checked the time, and it was five-thirteen now. It was verified by the administrator an hour and twenty-three minutes ago.

The first thing he did was to check the details of the video how many people unlocked it. He was shocked by the number as 9.560.613 users paid to watch his video. He checked his forum wallet and froze to see the number. Never in his wildest dream would he earn this much from uploading one video.

"Hehehe…." He let out silly laughter as the number was unreal. "This…" Shen just did not know what to say at the moment as he had 70,678,266 Yuan in his forum wallet. "Ah, the tax. I have to pay it." He scratched his head and remembered that Sister Mei reminded him to pay the tax.

"But I don't know how to pay tax." He never paid tax in his life as he barely earned anything in the previous game. It was good enough if he could earn like one thousand Yuan a month. He relied on his winning prize from the running competition all this time, so he was being overwhelmed to make this much within just a month.

"I have to call Sister Mei. She should know more than me." Shen closed the forum for the time being. He did not check why his video became number one in trending. He would do that later as he did not want to have an issue with his tax.

The call immediately connected, and Sister Mei picked it up fast. "Yo, Shen. It's rare for you to call me. Do you need something?"

Shen told Sister Mei that he wanted to pay his tax, but he did not know what to do.

"Hoo, I can accompany you to pay your tax for the first time. Now you are quite concerned with the tax finally, huh?" Sister Mei laughed. "So, can you text me the detail of how much you earn this month? I have a friend that can help you to calculate your tax."

"If you have a friend, then you can just introduce me to your friend, Sister Mei. I don't want to disturb you when you are working." They continued the call, and Sister Mei was shocked to hear his income from just one video.

The call lasted for fifteen minutes as Sister Mei nagged him to save the money and advised him to use the money wisely, and so on. She was just like a mother nagged her son.

By the time Shen closed the call, it was five-forty. The tax issue was solved for now, and Shen opened the forum once more. He checked his video and read all the comments. He read a lot of negative comments, and most of them had not watched the video yet. He often encountered it, so he paid no attention to the negativity.

Then he realized that Yue was helping him to reduce the negativity. When a big name such as Yue spoke up, people would back down from flaming him. That was how influential Yue was. He was glad to have such a friend.

Shen surfed the forum and found a thread by Volt. He was the streamer that pushed him into the cliff. Volt included a video as he tried to cut three trees down, but the streamer did not get the skill. This guy called him out that the video was a scam as he failed to learn the skill.

"Oh, I forgot to add the condition as to how I can get the skill," Shen muttered in a low voice. "I use a special ax made by Brother Jiang, and the tree I cut is a fine quality material." He then noticed that Volt did not cut the tree into pieces just like he did. "That too, he does not proceed the tree into woods."

Shen took notes on what he must address in his thread. He must make it clear as the different ax and tree might affect it. Maybe, one needed to cut ten trees or even a hundred trees using an inferior ax. He quickly made a new thread to address the issue before it became too big. He was not going to let this petty streamer defame him.

It took him half an hour to address the issue he did not explain in the video. Many people came to his threads, asking him many questions, such as asking him the details of the ax he used. It took him another half an hour to answer the question, but he only replied to the important one.

By the time he finished it, it was already six-thirty. He raised his hand and stretched out. "I think it's time for dinner." As soon as he said that, he heard knocks as he heard Dale's voice.

As he opened the door, Dale's smiling face came to his sight. "Yo, Mr. Popular. It's your treat, right, tonight?"

"Nope, Uncle Hou promised to treat me a free dinner, so you have to pay your dinner yourself." Shen shrugged and closed the door.

"What? The Shen what I know is not stingy," Dale kept speaking and nagging on the way to Uncle Hou's stall. Of course, all of that was just a joke. Dale came from a well-off family, so he did not lack money. He was someone that was born with a golden spoon, people say.

They had dinner together and returned to the apartment at eight because Eunha and Lin Lin played together for an hour. When Eunha heard he was going to eat at Uncle Hou's stall, she pestered him to join as well.

Shen immediately login into the PVP Server as he had a promise with Yue.. He was ready for another friendly match against her after failing to win a single match previously.