Chapter 46: The Fake Trainee and the Super Model

Chapter 46: The Fake Trainee and the Supermodel

During this period, Gao Yun took the time to visit Yunhai Fitness a few times. All operations within the gym were proceeding in an orderly fashion, and it would be completely ready to open as scheduled in ten days.

To date, the presales for membership cards alone had already reached three million RMB. In the current sluggish macro environment of the fitness industry as a whole, achieving such presales figures meant the outlook was exceptionally promising.

Seeing this, he completely let go of the micromanagement, granting each of his four subordinates a share of dividend-bearing equity to better motivate them.

Interests are the most reliable bonds in the world. No matter how close brothers or sisters are, a poor division of interests will still turn them into sworn enemies. Only through this approach—transforming everyone into a community of shared interests—would they exert themselves to the utmost.

On the self-media front, the newly released series "The Xth Day as a Personal Trainee" was equally popular, causing the follower count of the "Gao Yun" account to grow exponentially. Currently, he had 12 million followers on Douyin and 4.2 million on Bilibili, and quite a few merchants had already reached out to initiate cooperation and partnership talks.

However, Gao Yun found it troublesome and ignored them all, figuring that he would only consider monetizing his self-media presence later when his fame and follower base expanded further and the potential earnings increased. After all, with the system in his hands, focusing his energy on that right now would truly be a case of losing the watermelon to pick up a sesame seed.

The video of his previous move into the villa and the gathering with friends had also been edited.

After cutting out scenes of borrowing money from everyone, taking "classes," and other footage unsuitable for broadcast, he published it on the two video platforms as usual, and it unexpectedly sparked a fierce reaction.

Video metrics such as view counts, likes, and comments were even more dazzling than his previous food video with Daria in Hangzhou.

"A fitness blogger has gone too far down the mukbang path. Unfollowed!"

"I calculated the gifts the creator gave out: eight pairs of shoes in different styles for each person, fluctuating between 16,000 and 20,000 RMB, plus a Huawei Mate 30 RS Porsche Design priced at 13,000 RMB. That's about 30,000 RMB worth of gifts per person. With five people, the minimum estimate is 150,000 RMB. I am speechless; it's so good to be rich."

"(Dog head to save my life) The gifts are still too light. That blogger David on YouTube casually gifts luxury cars to friends and fans—where does this even compare? You still need to work harder! I've already followed you; I'm your fan. If you want to give anything away, you can draw me in a raffle."

Gifting luxury cars to fans?

This netizen with the username "vk" successfully caught Gao Yun's attention. He searched online and found that it was indeed just as the netizen described.

David, a YouTube video creator only 25 years old, primarily made prank and comedic videos. With over ten million followers and an annual YouTube channel revenue exceeding ten million US dollars, he could be considered a top-tier internet celebrity.

In 2018, he broke up with Liza, another well-known female YouTube creator. The two live-streamed their entire breakup process, attracting over 20 million viewers and taking American social media by storm. Eventually, the clips edited from the live stream became so popular that they even trended in China.

Countless onlookers expressed heartbreak over the breakup of these two strangers, leaving men silent and women in tears after watching.

This unorthodox stunt left Gao Yun clicking his tongue in wonder. Foreigners really have wild imaginations; you could even run self-media like this, live-streaming a breakup? Lesson learned, lesson learned!

Of course, the breakup video wasn't the main point. The crucial part was that David was unlike other ordinary prank and comedy bloggers; he was extremely fond of giving gifts to his family, friends, friends' families, and even his fans. The items ranged from luxury cars and other precious valuables to simply and directly handing out cash.

Afterward, David would film the entire gift-giving process into a video, letting everyone witness the various astonished reactions of those who received the gifts. It could be said to be a unique stream in the world of video creators, yet people simply loved to watch it.

One had to admit that this was indeed a very interesting video concept.

If gifting ordinary luxury cars like Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Audi wasn't much of a big deal, David had actually given super sports cars like Lamborghinis to his friends as well.

This compelled Gao Yun to concede complete admiration. Damn it, when it comes to being a modern tycoons among the youth, I lose! I must learn from you.

"Arranged! I'll arrange that for you in the future!"

Casually replying to the comment, Gao Yun clicked to follow the netizen "vk" as a marker, intending to shoot these kinds of gift-giving videos for fans once he earned a few more small goals, and make him the very first recipient to thank him for today's reminder.

"I'm so envious of having a group of friends who are artistic, romantic, and understand both poetry and music. Gatherings went from skewers, alcohol, and foot baths to skewers, alcohol, and singing—the classiness instantly skyrocketed!"

"I'm even more envious that they all have a tycoon friend. Creator, take a look at the fabric of my clothes; is it material fit to be your friend?"

"In your leisure time, invite three or five friends over to drink, eat meat, and sing. This is what life is all about."

"Replying to the floor above: that's heaven. Life is overtime, overtime, and more overtime!"

"Ah哈哈哈, everyone sings pretty well except the creator, especially that uncle and the bald guy. They sing well and the songs they wrote are interesting. What's your Douyin ID? I'll follow."

"Why isn't Daria filming collaborations with you anymore? Are you two filming separately now? Did you break up?"

Seeing this comment, Gao Yun felt a slight twinge of annoyance, thinking to himself that it was coming soon—they were not far from a breakup, so everyone should just wait to eat melons.

Speaking of Daria, the two hadn't broken up yet, but over the past month, the frequency of their contact had gradually decreased. This was not only because Gao Yun was busy upgrading his studies, but Daria was also busy opening a new chapter in her career.

Under Gao Yun's persuasion, she had opened new accounts on video platforms like Bilibili and Douyin to venture into self-media.

She updated videos every day or two, with content revolving around makeup and the daily routine of a model. Because of her peerless looks and a foreigner's fluent Mandarin, her follower count was not much lower than her boyfriend's.

Seeing that Daria had become an internet celebrity with rising fame and massive commercial value potential, Longtong Company planned to cultivate her as a key figure. Not only did her compensation multiply several times over, but they also equipped her with two assistants, and all kinds of commercial, media, and performance resources began pouring her way.

This made Daria, who had always dreamed of becoming a supermodel, ecstatic. Being a workaholic who happened to hit the golden period of her career, she naturally threw herself entirely into her work. As a result, time inevitably became scarce, and she completely neglected her emotional life with her boyfriend.

Sometimes when Gao Yun called her, he would only reach her two assistants.

According to the original plan, the shooting work in Shanghai was only supposed to last a month. But now, catching the opportunity and being valued by the company with redirected resources, once the Shanghai gigs concluded, Longtong Company successively arranged other shooting assignments and professional training for her, requiring business trips to various domestic and foreign cities. Her schedule was already booked three months out.

In other words, for at least three months, unless Gao Yun took the initiative to go find her, the two of them could forget about meeting.

Even if they did meet, Gao Yun estimated that besides going to bed, the two of them probably wouldn't have time for anything else; Daria's daily schedule was currently packed tighter than his own.

"I'm a personal trainee pretending to debut, while she's a signed model truly aiming to be a supermodel!"

"Come on!"

Urged by the newly hired physical trainer, Thomas Keith, Gao Yun shook his head, cast aside all sorts of distracting thoughts, and refocused on his current training.

(The reason for the surge in followers will be explained later.)

Thanks to "Book Friend 161207133658409" for the tip.

(End of this chapter)