Chapter 13: Protozoa: Flying Dragon Rides the Face, the Advantage is Mine!
Kiana Kaslana stared at the livestream on her computer screen. After Pardofelis ended the broadcast and the screen went black, Kiana's own face was reflected in the monitor, glowing with excitement.
"Wuhu! This is simply... the most successful livestream ever!!"
Just now, millions of people were watching Pardofelis break down in every possible way. It made Kiana feel incredibly high!
"Even though I feel a bit sorry for Pardo, I'll give her a proper apology later..."
Internally, Kiana offered a guilty apology for the torture that "trash game" had inflicted on Pardo. Then, she grabbed a throw pillow from the sofa and started rolling around on the floor in excitement!
"I'm going to be rich! I'm finally going to be rich! Hehehehe!!"
Kiana had hired several streamers for paid promotions, spending a total of 100,000 yuan from her budget. Once that was recorded as a loss, she would immediately receive a ten-fold rebate!
That would be one million yuan!
Although one million wasn't much to a young lady of a great Nordic family like Kiana, that wasn't the point! Right now, she was a destitute "Tuna" exiled to Arc City by her "stinky old man" of a father! More importantly, this was the first sum of money she had earned through her own "hard work"!
"This is the first step on Kiana Kaslana's road to becoming the richest person in the world! This one million is my first pot of gold! When I appear on the cover of *Time* magazine in the future, I will definitely thank that blind, jerk father of mine. If it weren't for his lack of vision, the world's youngest billionaire, Kiana Kaslana, wouldn't exist—"
Immersed in her beautiful fantasies of the future, Kiana didn't notice that someone in the living room was looking at her as if she were an idiot.
"...Second Sister, what are you doing?"
A purple-haired girl wearing a school uniform stood by the water dispenser, holding a large water bottle with "We Workers Have Power" printed on it. She looked at Kiana with an utterly speechless expression.
If Su Mu were here to see this girl, he wouldn't be able to stop himself from shouting: "Holy crap! It's the Pufferfish!"
Indeed. This purple-haired girl was Sirin Kaslana, Kiana's younger sister. Although they weren't blood-related, the Kaslana family had always treated Sirin as one of their own.
Unlike her idiot sister Kiana, the "Pufferfish" was currently a high school student in Arc City. As for her grades... one could only say that despite having no blood relation to Kiana, the difference between them was like heaven and earth.
Siegfried and Cecilia had three daughters: the eldest was Bianca Kaslana, the second was Kiana Kaslana, and the youngest was Sirin Kaslana. The eldest was extremely capable and decisive; at a young age, she managed the family business perfectly, though there were dissatisfied voices behind her back. The second sister, Kiana, was a total "salted fish" with mediocre grades who spent her time "lying flat" at home after graduation.
As for why Sirin had such good grades and was much more elegant and dignified—more like a proper lady than her idiot sister—it was related to her past. Originally an orphan, Sirin was adopted by the Kaslana family and treated very well. Because of this, Sirin wanted to repay them in the best way she could. To a student like Sirin, grades were the best way to show her gratitude.
Strangely enough, Kiana and Sirin got along exceptionally well. Even Siegfried was puzzled: how did an idiot sister like Kiana make Sirin so devoted to her? This question still troubled him to this day—could it be that Kiana possessed an inherent "intelligence-lowering" aura?
In any case, after hearing that Kiana had been kicked out of the house, Sirin followed her and transferred to a school in Arc City. Siegfried had strongly opposed it at first, but Sirin simply sighed and said, "If Second Sister is left alone out there, she'll probably end up eating trash..."
Siegfried had covered his face: "That makes so much sense, I can't even argue. That idiot daughter of mine would definitely do that!"
So, Sirin also came to Arc City. Besides attending school, she handled Kiana's daily meals and living arrangements. For a grown woman to be taken care of by her younger sister... if word got out, people would laugh their heads off.
"Sirin, listen to me! Today is my day!"
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"No, Sirin, I'm going to be rich!"
"...Oh."
Sirin glanced at the somewhat neurotic Kiana. She was long since used to this kind of behavior. "If you're done, go to bed early. I've already prepared the bathwater for you."
She carried her water bottle back to her room without saying another word.
Left where she was, Kiana almost started doing a celebratory dance, but she felt she shouldn't get too ahead of herself. After all, there's a saying...
While Kiana was pondering what to do next, her phone rang. She opened it to find a message from Pardofelis.
Pardo: "Thank you so much, Kiana!!!"
Pardo: "If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have gained so many followers!!"
Pardo: "I received so many gifts tonight! I'm not a stingy person!"
Pardo: [Sent a transfer]
Kiana stared at the 50,000 yuan transfer from Pardo and was completely stunned.
Kiana: "???"
Kiana: "No, Pardo, why are you giving me money?"
Pardo: "The 20,000 for the promotion! You made me go viral, so the promotion is free! The other 30,000 is out of gratitude!"
Pardo: "I'm not the type to forget my friends once I strike it rich! I'll treat you to dinner next time!"
Pardo: "By the way, you can bring that friend of yours who makes games, I want to meet him too!"
Pardo: "I'm going to sleep now, I'm exhausted today!"
Kiana looked at Pardo's grayed-out avatar and typed out countless question marks.
Wait, what just happened?
The 20,000 yuan was refunded, which meant it wasn't part of the "lost budget" anymore. Ten times twenty thousand is two hundred thousand—in one wave, she had lost a whole one hundred and fifty thousand yuan in potential rebates!!
*Calm down, calm down, Kiana.*
Pardo had good intentions. Even if the game was terrible, it really did help Pardo gain followers! But what about the other promotions? No problem, there was still 80,000... no, including Su Mu's 2,000, it should be 82,000!
Besides! This time Pardo's popularity exploded, which would surely let everyone see how terrible the game from Phantom Iron Studio really was! Now that everyone knew it was a piece of trash, the notorious *Getting Over It* was destined to flop!
That's right! Kiana, don't panic! The surge in Pardo's livestream popularity would only help the game fail even harder, wouldn't it?!
However, Kiana Kaslana was too naive. She completely ignored one thing: the modern netizen's capacity for "eating glass" was far stronger than she could imagine.
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