After Rebirth, I Married My Rival - Chapter 12

Chapter 12: Are Our American Brothers Suffering This Much?

Hey, fellow stream buddies!

I was just talking big to stir up some hype, get some gifts, and ultimately boost engagement metrics.

At most, I’m just fantasizing!
But how come you guys are actually going for it?

Brothers, play it safe, play it safe now!

The anchor was just demonstrating counterexamples!

Everyone, don’t try this at home!

Ye Chen hurriedly reassured his viewers—damn it, you troublemakers better not attempt this.

If this matter gets exposed…

These white brothers might get shot!

Those brothers with black skin, you must never go there!!
Never go there!!!
If you go, Uncle America will definitely treat each of you to hundreds of purple eggs!
When the time comes—

won’t your wife and children, your parents come looking for me to demand answers?

They’ll surely say in front of the media,

‘So-and-so Black brother was a wonderful father, always helping the neighbor’s sister fix her plumbing and enthusiastically tutoring high school girls in various subjects. He cared for the elderly in the neighborhood, yet he was lured into crime by some anchor from distant Dragon Country and met a tragic end!’

This announcement has made me famous worldwide, and also brought me dangerously close to jail time.

Live-streaming the production of counterfeit dollars, fake checks, and even fake antiques.

It’s like walking a tightrope—you’d better know how to do it properly!
One wrong step, and you’ll truly be crying behind iron bars!!

【Trofsky】: “Anchor, we get it. If we get caught, we’ll never rat you out!”

【dadawdwa】: “Thanks anchor, for teaching us the way to make money. You’re as kind as Jesus.”

When some viewers started commenting, saying they’d never expose the anchor.

Ye Chen froze for a moment, “Bro!!! This is a live broadcast!”

“It doesn’t matter whether you click on me or not!”

“As long as you do this, if caught, they’ll follow the trail and I’ll be screwed for sure!”

As soon as these words were spoken, some viewers tried to comfort Ye Chen.

The water friends said, hey, we’re all people of America.

Even the FBI and CIA, no matter how badass they are, can they really come to Dragon Country to arrest you?

Go ahead, streamer, go all out!!!
Get some more checks ready, the boys are waiting for your shipment.

Ye Chen was about to respond when he noticed the guys spamming wish gifts, causing his emotional value to skyrocket.

Instantly, another idea came to mind.

This thing can’t possibly backfire on us!

Could it be considered an unconventional way of robbing the rich to help the poor?

Anyway, these old buddies are using my fake checks to bribe the cops in America.

This, this, this can’t really be called bad, right?
As for those ‘get-out-of-jail-free cards,’ might as well wholesale a bunch.

This can be considered as providing the people of America with some ‘indulgences’ to use.

Just as Ye Chen was hesitating, he saw the comments below!

[uhih]: “Thanks, streamer! I won’t have to sell blood to pay off the debt for the groceries I bought on installments recently!”

[uhih]: “Now, I’ll just spend a little money to order one of your checks and go big!”

Buying groceries on installment?

What’s this about?

Ye Chen couldn’t quite grasp it – installments made sense, buying groceries made sense!
But buying groceries on installment? What kind of nonsense is this?

This American buddy—
What topic are you guys talking about?

I don’t really get it!!!
[uhih]: “Streamer, my kid is in elementary school, and the school requires mandatory lunch orders—$560 a month.”

[uhih]: “If you can’t come up with $560 all at once, you can pay in installments.”

[uhih]: “But I work 84 hours a week and only make $600. I still have to pay rent, household expenses, and my child’s expenses. I was originally planning to sell blood to cover my kid’s lunch money.”

What saying?

Is this IP really from an American viewer? Are you telling the truth?

Ye Chen was stunned. Didn’t all his nephews say that in America, you could just wash dishes for three months and buy a villa?

Although it seems a bit fake, surely authentic American folks aren’t this miserable, right?

Old-timers like “Hard Work Pays Off” and “Silence is Golden” immediately jumped in to refute.

The old-timers claimed that “uhih” was just trolling!
And they kept insisting that in America, dishwashers earn $16 an hour.

If someone as capable as me could go to America—

I’d buy a villa in three years, become governor in five, and rule the world in seven!!!
In their eyes, America!!!

That’s heaven on earth, paradise in the mortal realm!
How could the people there be so miserable!!!

A group of old-timers were frantically commenting below. Ye Chen checked their info panels—all were uncles over fifty-five years old.

These old-timers believed the incoming American viewers were all paid trolls hired by the streamer, so they launched relentless attacks!
By now, Ye Chen’s live stream had gained enough traction to attract a flood of foreign viewers.

When the old-timers finished speaking.

Their comments would automatically translate into languages that other foreign viewers could understand.

American viewers were completely stunned when they saw what these old-timers had said, and they frantically responded:

[dadfawda]: “Sixteen bucks an hour for dishwashing? I’d do it for thirteen! Right now, I’m only making $5.6 an hour washing dishes.”

【dawdawd】: “I took out loans to go to college—law school. I already owe $450,000 in student debt, and I might never pay it off in my lifetime.”

【feferg】: “I’m in Pennsylvania. In my neighborhood, we’re allowed to sell blood four times a week. That’s how I pay my rent—$1,230 a month—while my salary is only $2,400.”

【dawda】: “No job lets us work a full eight-hour shift because that would mean they’d have to provide social security benefits. So we have to juggle two part-time jobs every day. If anyone knows of a dishwashing job paying $16 an hour, please contact me—I’ll take $10!”

……

American netizens personally came forward to explain.

They shared a lot of information, like how vegetables are expensive, and ordinary cheap food is full of additives, etc.

It even included details about the three-day workweek system, which actually exists because exceeding a certain threshold would require employers to provide social insurance.

Bosses don’t allow employees to work four full eight-hour days, keeping them at three days and seven hours instead, then making them take on another job.

Working two jobs a day, each seven hours long.

Perfect—no need to pay social security, and the pay is still low!

A flood of American viewers came forward, leaving Ye Chen utterly stunned!

They even left comments, expressing their desperate need for the Pan Am checks Ye Chen made, just to scrape together some money to survive.

Otherwise, I can’t afford to live!

Ye Chen couldn’t believe it at first.

Especially the part about selling blood—it seemed too fake!
He kept the live stream running while checking online, and damn!

With just 4% of the global population, America supplies 70% of the world’s plasma and dominates 94% of the paid plasma market!
This is fucking outrageous!

Other bystanders in the chat were completely dumbfounded when they saw this situation!

Brothers in America, are you really living this miserably?