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Nowadays, live-streaming e-commerce is one of the major emerging marketing methods in China. The realization of live-streaming platform traffic depends on how to correctly enhance followers' purchase intention. Scholars have been studying this issue ever since the introduction of the live-streaming e-commerce mode. Researchers have found that as an important part of dealing-making in live-streaming e-commerce, Internet celebrities are an important reason influencing consumers' purchase intention. Therefore, it is very necessary to explore the factors of how Internet celebrities influence consumers' purchase intention. This study aims to explore the factors influencing Chinese TikTok users' intention to purchase products recommended by Internet celebrities. The study takes product discounts, entertainment, and expertise as independent variables and takes user trust and perceived value as intervening variables in a mediator model to explore the direct and indirect impacts of Internet celebrity characteristics on the purchase intention. Using a quantitative research method, the study issued online questionnaires to 265 users who have experience in purchasing products from live-streaming marketing on TikTok; then using the SPSS 25 and AMOS 23 software, the study analyzed 209 valid questionnaires and found that entertainment and expertise have a direct and significant impact on the purchase intention, and they also influence the purchase intention by influencing the intervening variables, namely user trust and perceived value. In addition, according to the findings, for the live-streaming platform of TikTok, product discounts are just an insignificant variable that does not have any significant impact, either direct or indirect, on the purchase intention. The results of this study will help deepen our understanding of how live-streaming e-commerce and Internet celebrity characteristics influence users' mentality and behavior. From the perspectives of people in the Internet celebrity live-streaming marketing industry, besides maintaining positive interactions between Internet celebrities and followers and improving Internet celebrities' popularity, Internet celebrity live-streaming marketing should focus more on improving Internet celebrities' expertise on the commodities they sell, thereby boosting the healthy development of the commercial ecosystem. Moreover, marketing personnel need to learn about the factors influencing live-streaming platform users' purchase intention, so as to better supervise this marketing channel.