How can I justify myself as a Magnate if I don't indulge myself?

Chapter 61 - 59: I Show off My Wealth to Make Money

"Encircle Wei to Save Zhao," these four words...

are quite easy to understand.

It’s roughly like saying Xiang Zhuang Performs the Sword Dance, but his real intent is on the Duke of Pei.

The "Scumbag’s Thirty-Six Strategies" clearly states that when a woman is stalling and dragging her feet with you, this tactic is very appropriate.

The specific operation is to create a third party, pretend to be pursuing that third person, and make the woman who is pulling at you feel a sense of crisis.

Women are creatures with a strong sense of crisis and possessiveness, once you make them feel threatened, they will start to become disorganized, and their rational thinking will quickly diminish...

This is also why, when many a simp ladles out adoration to a goddess, the goddess could not care less, but as soon as the simp decides to stop and finds a decent girl to have a serious relationship with, she will come back, acting as if she’s cheap.

But this tactic is a double-edged sword.

The prerequisite for using it is that the girl indeed covets some trait of yours, either emotional or economic value.

If the girl merely has a slight fondness for you and has no ulterior motives, and you create a third person and start flirting, the likely result is her saying goodbye to you.

However, Gu Heng wasn’t worried at all, because he knew very well that Lin Jiayun was an out-and-out gold digger.

Her purpose in approaching him was solely because he had money. If he had not received the system one day, Gu Heng believed, Lin Jiayun wouldn’t even glance at him, let alone, like now, inquire warmly every day on WeChat.

What he needed to do now was to spend on He Jing what Lin Jiayun wanted most, to let her know who really had the power of initiative.

As for why he didn’t just use money to overwhelm her, the reason is simple: for girls like Lin Jiayun who are waiting for the highest bidder, there are plenty of rich people around her. The reason she hasn’t made a choice isn’t that her conscience awoke, but because she wants to pick the richest one.

If he were to use his tricks for deceiving young girls on her, buying her luxury goods, spending money on her, he would eventually be caught hook, line, and sinker.

Girls with clear goals have bigger appetites than Tam; buy her one bag, and she’ll find a way to make you buy her a car, and once you get her a car, she’ll want you to buy her a house.

By then, what would be the difference between himself and a simp?

At best, he’d just be a rich simp.

Having studied the internet for so many years, Gu Heng was very clear that spending money on women also required technique... it’s just that he had no opportunity to practice it before...

...

If his judgment turned out to be wrong, it didn’t matter.

There are thousands upon thousands of internet celebrities out there; if one doesn’t work out, he’ll just switch to another.

Lin Jiayun may be beautiful, but she is not irreplaceable, so missing out on her is no loss.

...

With this in mind, Gu Heng no longer hesitated; watching the two striving hard for votes in the live stream, he directly opened the Douyin recharge channel...

[Payment Successful: 100,000 RMB.]

He examined it carefully to ensure it was 100,000 and that he hadn’t accidentally added an extra zero; only then did Gu Heng turn his attention back to the live stream.

Currently, there were about 1,000 people in He Jing’s live stream, but the PK health bar didn’t have much, only over 700 votes, which converted to RMB was just about 70 yuan...

And Lin Jiayun wasn’t lying; indeed, there was a so-called big brother in her stream, with the PK health bar having broken ten thousand. At the moment, her beautiful face was full of smiles, thanking the live stream’s big brother with all kinds of heart gestures...

And He Jing? Although she was also canvassing for votes, compared to Lin Jiayun, she seemed much more subdued...

This comparison made it clear that He Jing wasn’t cut out for live streaming; with this kind of attitude, if it weren’t for her God-given beauty, even if she wouldn’t starve, she wouldn’t likely earn much from live streaming.

Lin Jiayun continued to act coquettishly and play cute in the live stream, and her health bar was steadily rising. It quickly broke through 20,000 votes, and all these 20,000 votes were from the same person...

With just over two minutes left in the PK, Gu Heng, seeing Lin Jiayun’s face full of surefire confidence, decided not to wait any longer, immediately opened the gift interface, chose the most expensive gift on Douyin live stream, a Carnival valued at 3,000 RMB each, and sent it out.

[User "Guhen" has sent a Carnival x1]

With just a gentle tap, a hail of special effects exploded on the screen.

The health bar, which had been beaten down to a sliver, instantly surged ahead, pushing past the opponent...

He Jing, who was still trying to get votes, saw a Carnival appear on her phone screen and couldn’t help but be stunned... If she remembered correctly, it had been months since she last received a gift like a Carnival, right?

But no matter what, she still had the professionalism of a host, and quickly expressed her thanks.

But Gu Heng didn’t stop his fingers just because of her thanks...

[User "Guhen" has sent 2 Carnival gifts]

[User "Guhen" has sent 3 Carnival gifts]

[User...]

He Jing was stunned by the continuous stream of Carnivals drifting across the screen, and so were the viewers in the live broadcast room... Lin Jiayun, who had been feeling smug, watched the special effects popping up one after another, and her smile froze on her face.

But as stunned as everyone was, He Jing did not stop expressing her gratitude.

"Thank you, Brother Guhen, for the fifth Carnival!"

"Thank you, Brother Guhen, for the sixth Carnival!"

But the more she thanked, the more He Jing felt something was off...

The more she read the name "Guhen," the more it slowly morphed into "Gu Heng"...

Thinking of this, He Jing couldn’t bother with thanking anymore, she quickly grabbed her other phone, accessed Guhen’s page, seeing the Douyin account without a single work, then glanced at the IP address, "Jiangzhe"...

She was almost certain that the generous person was Gu Heng; she hurriedly asked her live broadcasting phone, "Gu Heng, is it you?"

"Stop sending, stop sending!"

Lin Jiayun had been envious of He Jing’s luck, wondering why a big spender had suddenly appeared in her live broadcast, but upon hearing He Jing’s words, her face changed in an instant, and she too accessed Gu Heng’s Douyin profile...

Gu Heng, however, seemed to have not heard anything, still tapping on the screen...

100,000 RMB seemed like a lot, but for a Carnival valued at 3,000 RMB, it only allowed for 33 clicks...

Very soon.

He Jing’s PK health bar reached 999,000, and Lin Jiayun’s initial big spender, who had tried to struggle by sending another 1,000 RMB, realized the gap with Gu Heng’s Carnival screen floods and helplessly wrote in her live broadcast, "Can’t beat them, the real big spender is on the other side..."

Because of the 33 Carnivals, He Jing’s live broadcast took first place on the hourly chart, attracting a flood of tourists into her room...

"The boss is tossing money around blindly!"

"100,000 RMB just brushed away, without even getting to touch it. What’s the point?"

"That’s why you’re broke. If you could casually spend 100,000 RMB, you’d know if there was any point. You just don’t understand how rich people play."

"Brother Guhen, come check out our Mengmeng, she’s really hardworking!!"

All kinds of barrage comments suddenly assaulted the screen.

Some questioned and mocked, while others were fans of other broadcasters trying to divert viewers.

But most were filled with envy, jealousy, and hate...

Gu Heng watched the barrage in the live broadcast with interest, feeling somewhat pleased with himself.

Frankly speaking, he didn’t feel much about the admiration and flattery in the comments...

What really thrilled him was the rush of displaying wealth...

Those who called him dumb and wealthy, Gu Heng understood well, after all, he came from a poor background.

Different levels of thought, that’s all. In their eyes, 100,000 RMB could be spent on a hundred trips to a bath center, changing a hundred women to play with. Before, he also believed those big spenders in live broadcasts were either wasting money or were paid actors.

But now that he stood in the position of the "big spender," some things were easy to explain—happiness cannot be bought with gold!

Just like the comments in the live broadcast said.

Don’t try to measure wealthy people by your own thoughts, because you don’t understand how rich people play~ Your journey continues on M V L

As for whether spending 100,000 for this brief thrill was a loss?

The system quickly provided the answer.

[Host disregarded the criticism of others and showed off his wealth online, indulging himself successfully. Reward: 300,000 RMB. Balance: 12.85 million RMB]

Others have to spend money to show off and flaunt their wealth in live broadcasts.

I earn money by showing off and flaunting, and not only do I make money, but I also have a very good chance of enjoying some delicacies.

That’s the answer.