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Chapter 322 - 201: The Source of All Evil! An Instant Viral Hit

And the original videos for those memes are known as the source of all evil.

And wasn’t "Are You, OK?" the catchphrase of that very same Boss Lei.

It’s normal for people to have a catchphrase, but some wildly imaginative person just had to make a parody edit of Boss Lei’s catchphrase, turning it into one of the famous "source of all evil" memes. However, Boss Lei was magnanimous and didn’t get angry. He even reposted it himself, ultimately gaining a surge in traffic from it.

It’s just that none of these three Heat Cards were usable by him or any of the girls at his company.

The "So High" card, however, could be used for Elephant, since he was going for a goofy persona anyway.

By noon, the online buzz surrounding bride prices and gold diggers had indeed intensified.

’But it hasn’t peaked yet,’ he thought. ’The Guardians haven’t shown up.’

This whole media blitz was aimed squarely at high bride prices and gold diggers. There was no way those women would take it lying down. They would definitely fight back. Plus, the feminist extremists hadn’t made their move yet, nor had the influencers who sell female emotionalism spoken up.

After all, these influencers relied on toxic, feel-good advice to win favor with their female audience. They were the loyal Guardians of simp culture and the ideology of female consumerism in relationships.

Sure enough, by the afternoon, the famous Breakup Master, Tu*, made his move.

He immediately started defending the women from the blind date video: "I think the man in that video is the one who lacks class. A blind date is, after all, a matter of mutual consent. If you think their demands are unreasonable, it’s only because your own abilities are limited. That’s precisely why you have to go on blind dates in the first place—because you can’t find a partner otherwise..."

"Truly, if a man loves a woman, he won’t care about material possessions. If he truly loves a woman, he would crawl out of his hospital bed right after surgery just to cook a meal for her."

Chen Jincheng found the Breakup Master’s rhetoric to be utterly absurd.

However, this move really did attract the support of many women. You could tell just by looking at his video’s comment section, which was filled with remarks like, "The master is so right!"

’Isn’t anyone refuting him?’

’Are you kidding me? In his comment section, any dissenting opinions were surely deleted and the users banned from commenting.’

Chen Jincheng, however, was delighted by this turn of events. The fiercer the argument got, the better. Once he used the Little Sweet Heat Card, the topic’s heat would definitely surpass what it had reached in his previous life.

Just as he was thinking about this, he saw Xiaoju walk in, dressed in a pure and pretty outfit.

This made him frown. "Didn’t I tell you? A pure and pretty style doesn’t suit you. We can’t waste that unique temperament of yours. Do you even want to be famous or not?"

Xiaoju immediately put on an aggrieved expression. "I don’t know how to buy those kinds of clothes. You said you’d take me shopping after you brought me here. You can’t just bring a person back and then toss them aside, can you? How does that make you any different from a scumbag?"

Chen Jincheng chuckled, amused. "Alright, alright, I get it. I’ll take you shopping as soon as I’m done with this project."

Having gotten his promise, Xiaoju left happily.

Time passed, and night quickly fell. The topic of bride prices and gold diggers completely exploded. It was even being covered on the news, and government authorities had specifically criticized the phenomenon of exorbitant bride prices.

Chen Jincheng saw the official criticism, but he knew one thing very clearly: ’It’s completely useless.’

It was only 2018. The phenomena of high bride prices and gold-digging hadn’t even reached their peak yet. By the time he had transmigrated, the non-marriage rate had already reached a terrifying level.

This was also why Uncle Qi’s simp-themed videos could go viral in 2018 but failed to do so later. A "male awakening" had occurred, and simp culture could no longer influence men as it once had. More and more men were realizing that it was better to be single.

To give a simple example, a man earning 20,000 or 30,000 a month could live extremely well on his own. He could even afford to go out eating, drinking, and having fun every day. But the moment he got a girlfriend, he’d have to start limiting how often he went out.

He would be overwhelmed by the endless demands for gifts and cash-filled red envelopes.

The crucial part was that even if he gave his all, his girlfriend would take it for granted, believing she was entitled to that kind of life. The moment something displeased her, the man would have to become her emotional dumping ground.

Often, the man would be exhausted and frustrated. It was one thing to receive no consideration, but he wasn’t even allowed to show the slightest dissatisfaction when she dumped her negative emotions on him. If he did, she would accuse him of not loving her and throw a tantrum...

If that was the case, it was better to just stay single.

Once this realization began to spread, it gave rise to a peculiar social phenomenon: rather than spending hundreds of thousands on a marriage only to be worked to death and left gasping for air, it was better to spend 30,000 to 50,000 to marry a woman from a neighboring country.

Before he transmigrated, he had heard about a small town where over a dozen men had married *etnamese brides en masse.

As for whether the brides would run away, the men didn’t care. In fact, it would be best if she ran away after giving birth. As long as the family line was continued, it was fine. And even if she didn’t have a child, it wasn’t considered a loss to have ’fun’ for half a year or so, especially since many of the brides were attractive and had good figures.

Just save up another thirty thousand and marry a new one.

He had no idea what the ultimate outcome would be once such a mentality took root. After all, he was in this world now.

’Besides, what does a low marriage rate have to do with a scumbag like me?’

Chen Jincheng took out his phone and dialed Wei Weiwei’s number. As soon as the call connected, he said, "Miss Wei, you can upload that video now."

At the Coastal City Publicity Association, most people had already gone home for the day, but Wei Weiwei and the rest of the publicity team had to work overtime tonight.

Although she didn’t know what the final outcome of the interview video would be, she was determined to lead her team and handle it with the utmost responsibility.

Likewise, Director Wu and the association’s president, Fu Zhan, were also in the publicity team’s office, waiting with a takeout order they had placed.