This celebrity became even more popular after being exposed of having multiple girlfriends-Chapter 2 - Goodbye, Dead Scum

The Performance Card dissipated into glittering specks and vanished.

Wu Mu held his phone and scrolled through it for a while but noticed no changes.

He simply put down the phone and started to clean up the bloody crime scene in his home.

The person before him had been ruthless, dying by wrist cutting; the bathroom floor was covered in a thick layer of half-coagulated dark red liquid.

...

In a Beijing apartment

Fan Zhang Li looked at the walls plastered with Wu Mu posters and felt disgusted.

When she was a fan, she couldn't wait to see him the moment she opened her eyes; now that the spell was broken, just looking at his face for a few seconds made her feel nauseous.

There was also a stifled disappointment and anger of having given her all for nothing.

She became a fan of Wu Mu back in her college days while preparing for postgraduate entrance exams, stressed out to the max. She accidentally saw Wu Mu in a variety show on a friend's phone.

At first glance, she thought the celebrity was quite handsome, with such a clean smile.

After watching the variety show with her friend, she instantly felt a bit captivated, thinking that this boy who always wore a smile was really sunny, and his presence seemed to lighten the atmosphere.

After becoming a fan, she purposefully dug up the old programs Wu Mu had appeared in and felt even more excited, like she had discovered a treasure-trove of a boy.

Because she realized this boy was not the type who knew nothing but a silly smile; on the contrary, he had a special sense of clarity about him, with his own personal understanding of hardship and life.

World-wise without being worldly, well-read yet optimistic toward the sunshine.

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What a celestial idol.

From then on, she became one of Wu Mu's die-hard fans, and as time passed, she found him to be a person filled with merits.

He was friendly and easy-going with people, never putting on airs with fans, and talkative just like a friend.

He was sincere and straightforward, never shy or fake about his desires, but earnestly and diligently striving...

"What bullshit sincerity and sunshine! A dead scoundrel, it's all an act for the public!"

Zhang Li grew angrier and more agitated as she looked, and in one go, she tore down the posters from the wall.

"With such good acting skills, why are all his movies a total flop!"

After tearing down the posters, her anger wasn't quelled, so she took out her phone and went on a tirade on Wu Mu's Weibo, and even withdrew her likes for Wu Mu's song albums on the music platform, changing the ratings to one star...

Once everything was done, she took a photo of a trash can filled with posters and celebrity merchandise, along with a one-star screenshot of the album "Goodbye", and posted it to the Wu Mu fan group she had joined.

"Goodbye, you dead scoundrel!"

...

After cleaning up all traces related to Wu Mu, Zhang Li put the whole thing out of her mind.

The next day, she automatically opened the Weibo trending list, planning to see the news of the day.

The news about Wu Mu's house collapsing was still leading, and several endorsement companies had announced the termination of their contracts with Wu Mu, demanding compensation.

She looked on with great satisfaction.

On the trending list, the seventh spot, "#Goodbye, you dead scoundrel#"

She was taken aback for a moment, then clicked in to find it was all about support items thrown into trash cans or burnt, paired with one-star screenshots of "Goodbye".

Wu Mu's fans who had un-followed him were expressing their boycott in this way.

"Is this, a trend that I started?"

She was taken aback, and then felt even more satisfied.

"Right, that's how it should be. Does someone like this dead scoundrel even deserve to be an idol?"

Continuing to scroll.

Tenth on the trending list, #Wu Mu's digital album "Goodbye" breaks two million sales#

"Huh?"

Zhang Li's mind went blank for a moment.

Wasn't this crap album only at around a million sales before?

She subconsciously clicked in.

Zhang Li: "..."

"...Seriously, what's wrong with you!? I get people who bought it changing to a one-star negative review, but those who never bought it going out of their way to purchase it just to leave a negative review??"

Not only she couldn't understand this, but the other comments under the trending topic were even more baffled.

"Are you guys sick in the head? Why would you buy this person's album if you're no longer fans? Do you add over a million to the sales by crashing your 'house'?"

"Fan girls' way of thinking is really weird. Is this a farewell or a confession? 12 yuan a piece, one million is twelve million–aren't you just purely giving money away?"

"I'm dying of laughter, they're still adding, tens of thousands more with each refresh, tens of thousands more with each refresh."

"Holy shit, I knew Wu Mu had a lot of fans before, but I didn't realize there could be this many. A million people un-fanning, and they're probably all buying just one, right? No one's buying multiple copies?"

"Isn't it said that the follower counts for celebrities are all zombie fans? A million living, paying people? That's just too exaggerated."

"That can't be right, how could there be that many real people? The sales must be inflated, right?"

"Who'd be crazy enough to inflate sales figures after they've trashed their 'house'? It's probably just that it's become a trend. Normally, people who don't help with the charts and sales are now following the trend."

...

"Tsk tsk, it's awesome to be on a roll like this."

Wu Mu looked at the rapidly increasing album sales on the screen, laughing with particular brightness.

The System's power was truly badass, quietly leading and marketing to create a Farewell event.

Under normal circumstances, even if he was sincerely pushing promotion, it simply wouldn't be possible to mobilize so many people to spend money on him.

But once a hot topic was formed, many people who previously didn't spend money would also follow the impulse to spend.

"However, there seems to be a limit. The rate of increase is noticeably slower than last night."

Wu Mu estimated that, relying on just this hot topic, the sales could increase to three million at most.

But that would mean he had used less than a quarter of his Performance Card quota; to completely redeem sales of one billion, he would need to sell at least eight million three hundred thousand copies.

Adding on the original one million in sales, the total would need to be nine million three hundred thousand.

"Will it guide other hot topics to continue the sales spike, or simply opt for a steady flow of gradual increases?"

Wu Mu discovered a hidden mechanism that the system seemed not to have explained.

The effective period of the Performance Card's bonus didn't seem to be stated, and considering it at the extreme, it was possible that the Performance Card could be completely redeemed on the day he died.

"It probably won't drag on that long, but I'll have to pay attention to the projects I use it on in the future."

The choice of the item project would obviously greatly affect the timing of redemption.

A movie ticket worth a few dozen yuan, which caters more to the general public, would certainly be easier to recoup investment than songs. If he had chosen a movie, he might be able to realize a box office of one billion in just a few days.

Wu Mu had thought of this before. The reason he hadn't added it to a movie was because he didn't have any movies set to release, and even if there was a movie release, he hadn't invested in it.

The Performance Card directly added to the project's results, not his personal earnings.

If he had chosen a movie he hadn't invested in, he would be purely donating money to others.

He chose the songs, picked the "Farewell" album because it was a calculated decision.

This album, produced early in his career leaning towards a commemorative nature, involved no company participation in the profits, no other lyricists or composers sharing the profits, leaving just a thirty percent cut for the music platforms.

For one billion in results, he would be able to pocket seventy million.

"Not bad at all, considering it's just the beginning. I'm sure I can draw more Performance Cards like this in the future."

Wu Mu was quite optimistic.

"Right now, the main thing is to figure out ways to earn points."

He had done some research, apart from the Starter Gift Package given away, the way to get rewards from the system was to use points for lucky draws.

A hundred points for one draw.

And the source of points was through entertainment activities.

Whether it was filming movies or TV shows, or holding concerts and singing, during any entertainment activity, the system would award him points based on his contribution to the footage.

"I need to find myself a job!"