The Amazing Strike Back: Mommy Wants To Revenge!-Chapter 363: Becoming Anna’s Fan

Anna received a team-up request from "Florian Hollis." Knowing it was him, she accepted it right away.

The duo turned into a trio, and Conrad Sterling glanced at her. He didn’t say anything, but he wasn’t particularly pleased inside.

More of Anna’s friends joined, expanding to a full team of five, and President Sterling was completely out of temper.

Tonight’s livestream ended with Anna achieving an impressive streak of twenty consecutive wins.

The game promotion concluded, but discussions surrounding her livestream remained highly popular.

Four trending topics were nothing; from start to finish, Anna appeared in six related trending topics, outshining even the hottest variety shows. The game promoters were thrilled.

Anna was like a lucky charm with her own viral effect!

The initial two trending topics were related to ’Wyatt Jagger’ and ’standing her up,’ with discussions that weren’t particularly friendly toward Anna, suspected to be someone intentionally buying negative publicity against her.

But eventually, Anna’s own popularity overshadowed those discussions.

One trending topic praised Anna’s impressive gaming skills, while another focused specifically on her appearance.

This had become routine; whenever Anna makes an appearance, her looks are a topic of discussion.

Even when she appeared makeup-free and dressed neutrally today, she still looked stunningly beautiful.

President Sterling contributed a trending topic, and friends who couldn’t be there later cheered her on with screenshots of her twenty-game winning streak on Weibo.

Someone even dug out that "Florian Hollis" was actually Florian Hollis’ game ID, and almost everyone who had collaborated with Anna had made some statement, except Wyatt Jagger.

This sparked a hot debate on how well Anna actually got along with people.

[Those who said Anna had poor relationships in the industry, does it hurt now? People she’s made movies with are still friends. Florian rushed over to help despite being so busy. My insignificant film gathered its seven male leads, truly showing the bond in adversity. Their relationships are so good it makes me cry!] Anna’s movie also had fans defending it due to its box office success.

[People blamed Anna for Wyatt not coming, yet other male actors did. Doesn’t this indicate Wyatt’s the problem? Before filming, he hinted at the female actor’s inferiority in interviews, then did it again after shooting. Anna never said a word, just presented herself as an easy target!] Even bystanders couldn’t stand it and expressed sympathy for Anna.

Not just bystanders, even Wyatt’s fans felt his behavior was inappropriate today, standing Anna up in front of so many viewers during the livestream.

[Wyatt’s behavior today was really lacking in grace. Not only did he stand Anna up, but he also stood up all his fans. Honestly, I’ve been a fan for five or six years, and today I’m really disappointed!!]

[To the one before me, I’ve been a fan even longer and feel not just disappointed, but disheartened. Ignoring the big picture for a white lotus, being in the industry for so long yet still so clueless. I’ve decided to unfollow him now and turn my support to Anna.]

[I’ve just realized that President Sterling is truly a charming man. It’s such a shame his looks aren’t in showbiz; the key is he’s also a fantastic gamer. Oh my god! How can there be such a perfect man? Has President Sterling started a Weibo account? I really want to call him hubby.]

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Wyatt never expected that his actions tonight didn’t leave Anna embarrassed and frustrated, but instead left himself in an awkward, humiliating position.

Numerous netizens felt sorry for Anna and were impressed by her poised, professional spirit. Even if we don’t praise her professionalism, who wouldn’t be in awe of Anna’s gaming skills?

Netizens even started a topic, "Wyatt isn’t Sean Shaw, but Anna truly is Charlotte Lynn!"

Anna gained three million new fans overnight, many of whom defected from Wyatt to support her, and a significant portion were fans from their drama CP who transformed into her solo fans.

It’s well-known that in a hit idol drama, the biggest benefit typically goes to the male lead.

Because their roles are appealing and easily attract young female fans, the entire drama is a buildup to highlight the male lead.

However, this time was an exception. Wyatt’s team never expected that his small act of standing Anna up would actually gain fans for her.

In fact, it’s not that they didn’t expect it, but they didn’t anticipate it being so severe.

They also didn’t expect Anna to have such strong fan-attraction capabilities!

Drama fans and CP fans basically all defected to Anna’s side, condemning the male lead and praising the female lead, a rare spectacle.

Anna’s surge in popularity left Wyatt’s team scrambling, unable to react with public relations strategies in time.

With this incident, during the drama’s peak broadcast period, Anna already became the new traffic magnet in the industry, reaching top-tier popularity.

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Conrad Sterling had a Weibo account, an official company-run account previously managed by Ethan. Conrad hardly ever looked at it before.

Lately, he occasionally checks it, mainly to see posts by Anna’s fans reposting her Moments, after being blacklisted and blocked by Anna in her social circles.

Tonight, President Sterling rarely logged into his account, and found the comments were astonishing, all flooding in from the livestream, calling him "hubby" and saying "I can."

In fact, with Conrad Sterling’s looks and physique, he’s incredibly attractive even within the finance sector.

But he usually comes off as too aloof and unapproachable.

This time, everyone found out that President Sterling actually plays online games, and instantly thought he seemed much more down-to-earth.

Yet, his image as the untouchable male god remained intact, because his gaming skills were top-notch.

Handsome, well-built, money-making, and good at gaming—who wouldn’t want to call such a perfect man "hubby"?

Ethan secretly observed Conrad Sterling’s expression; he knew President Sterling wasn’t much of an internet user and didn’t quite get online lingo.

Now, girls love to post all kinds of flirty comments online, and seeing so many people commenting rooster calls under his Twitter, Conrad’s brows furrowed tightly.

"Delete all these comments!"

Conrad gave Ethan a task that made him regret gloating earlier—delete all the "hubby" comments?

Those two words mean something different to a married man; he still preferred hearing Anna call him that.

Coming from other women, it didn’t quite have the same meaning.

But dear lord, when will Ethan ever finish deleting over thirty thousand comments?

Should he remind President Sterling that Twitter has a function to close the comments section with just one click?

But Ethan quickly realized Conrad hadn’t missed that feature; he had a reason for leaving the comments open.

Because there’s always that smart netizen who knew just how to hit Conrad’s chord.

"Have you guys noticed that President Sterling and Anna’s usernames are couple names? Anna Thornton’s ID is Asthmatic Giggle, and President Sterling is Battlefield Doctor. She says she doesn’t like taking medicine, and he says he’s good at acupuncture!"

It’s not just an subtly heated couple name; there’s even a hidden vehicle passing by with a destination beyond a kindergarten.

Some CEOs appear upright and proper, but in private they’re quite repressed.

"OMG, I just realized I’ve been fed a mouthful of dog food, and I didn’t even know. So, is there something going on between these two?"

"There were rumors before, but they didn’t follow up. It would be great if they were together; their looks and personalities match so well, and their gaming chemistry is brilliant."

"Anyway, they’re so much better matched than Marilyn, let her and Wyatt Jagger huddle for warmth. Anna Thornton and President Sterling are perfect for each other, forget the ’Playful Kid’ ship! Now I’m shipping ’Sterling and Thornton’, like a perfect CEO romance novel!"

"Let me humbly ask, doesn’t ’Florian and Thornton’ also seem quite compatible? I’m all about this gorgeous mature woman with a sunny young guy trope, Florian seems really good to Anna, and he saved the day today too."

"Everyone above, please stop it, don’t genuinely ship any CP! Our Anna even has a child now, why would she need a man? She doesn’t, just disdains them! My sister is beautiful on her own!"

"Delete these!" Conrad pointed at the comments under his Twitter that daringly said Anna Thornton matched with other men.

President Sterling was ruthless; he not only deleted comments but also wanted to ban those accounts.

The key is, he was deleting so many others but even the one saying ’not shipping any CP, Anna is beautiful on her own’ got deleted too.

Ethan, secretly clutching his identity as a true fan, trembled—President Sterling was forcing people to ship a CP!

"Right, President Sterling, may I ask a question?" Ethan suddenly remembered, "Wasn’t there a skill originally to revive teammates in the game? If there was, why didn’t you use it to revive me in the first game, President Sterling? Was it because the skill hadn’t been triggered yet?"

Ethan’s question fully exposed the fact that he was a gaming newbie.

Actually, it was a hidden feature in the game. If there were old users in today’s livestream who played this game, they’d know you need to collect ten soul-repair shards to revive.

But these shards are extremely hard to gather, only players from over ten years ago in the game’s initial batch have ever done it.

This suggests just how disruptive Conrad Sterling’s game play today could be in the esports circle.

The key is, he squandered this rare hidden skill on the preliminary arena, simply a waste, with wealth comes willfulness!

Anyway, if you win, your teammates win too, why revive enemies once they’re all dead?

What’s the point?

Is it just to feed the audience dog food?

Conrad glanced at Ethan, conveying a positive answer with his eyes.

"All right, sorry for bothering you!"

Ethan should’ve had a sense of his own place.

How could he compare to Miss Anna with President Sterling?