After eating their meal, Xie Yunfan and his older brother returned to their residence together.

The place Xie Xinghe lived in the Imperial Capital was the same apartment building next to the Qihang Building where Xie Yunfan lived when he was the chief planner here. Going to work was very convenient.

After entering the door, the two changed their clothes respectively.

Xie Xinghe was somewhat confused: “Yunfan, since your class monitor is so talented, why didn’t you let him come to Yangfan Studio to work with you? Doesn’t our studio also lack people?”

Xie Yunfan asked: “Brother, if you ranked first every year for your four years of university, and you had a classmate in your class who ranked last every year, would you be willing to work under that classmate and call him boss every day?”

Xie Xinghe thought about it and reached a conclusion: “That would indeed be a bit awkward, haha!”

Xie Yunfan: “Exactly. He gets scholarships every year; calling a terrible student like me his boss, he definitely wouldn’t feel comfortable inside. Besides, Qihang also lacks people. Letting him go to Qihang’s Fighting Master project group is quite good.”

Xie Xinghe agreed: “Mhm mhm, you’re the one who thought it through thoroughly.”

While they were chatting, Xie Yunfan’s phone suddenly rang. The caller ID was very unfamiliar. Xie Yunfan answered the phone and said: “Hello, may I ask who this is?”

A friendly and gentle male voice came through the earpiece: “Classmate Yunfan, hello. I am Su Yi, the Operations Director of Cool Play Mobile Games. I saw your work Soul of Music at this National College Student Game Design Competition. I really like this game and want to talk to you about cooperation.”

Xie Yunfan: “…”

Did information not sync between departments within Cool Play?

Xie Yunfan remembered during the winter vacation last year when Underworld Maze blew up in popularity, Cool Play’s HR headhunters had come to poach him, offering him a compensation package of a million-yuan annual salary to work at Cool Play, which he ultimately politely declined.

During the summer vacation, his Ghost Realm, co-developed with Qihang, hit the market, exactly clashing with Vampire Legend 2 published by Cool Play… Since their HR had called to look for him back then, logically speaking, Cool Play should know that he was the head of Yangfan Studio.

As a result, now, President Su, who was in charge of mobile game operations, seemingly completely didn’t know him?

It seemed that the internals of a large company like Cool Play were also divided into many factions.

Xie Yunfan said: “Hello President Su, how do you want to cooperate?”

Su Yi: “It’s like this. We want to modify the game Soul of Music to a certain degree, adding more rich gameplay such as online multiplayer competitions and multiplayer entertainment rooms, building it into a competing product against Rock Band. I want to invite you to take a position at Cool Play. After graduation, we will directly give you the compensation of a project deputy director.”

Xie Yunfan: “…”

I’ll gift you a single word: 6 (awesome/ridiculous).

This meant “We will bestow upon you a position, you bring your game to our company to be a deputy planner, modify the game according to our opinions, and then launch it”.

Saying “freeloading” in such a fresh and refined way?

Xie Yunfan held back his laughter and said: “President Su, I’m sorry, this game isn’t mine alone. I can’t make the call, and I have no way of bringing the game to work at your Cool Play.”

Su Yi said: “This is easy to handle. Your team is all university students. I know your grand finals prize money is 1 million. Our company can give another 4 million to buy out the copyright of this game.”

…Fine, it was slightly more generous than Wings of Dream’s 2 million back then.

Xie Yunfan said: “Sorry, we are not selling this game.”

Su Yi said: “You should still carefully consider it. Rhythm games are relatively niche. If made into a single-player game according to your train of thought, there won’t be much profit. You study game design, you should know that the lifespan of single-player games is very short. After players clear the game, it won’t have much popularity left.”

“I know.” Xie Yunfan paused. “I made this game not to make money, but only to promote traditional music.”

“You have money and don’t want to make it?” Su Yi’s voice rose slightly, feeling very puzzled inside. University students with little experience in the world truly weren’t sensible at all, putting things like “dreams” and “sentiments” in first place. Wait until you truly work and step into society, you’ll know that the money you get in your hands is the most fragrant.

“We can adapt Soul of Music into an online game, and we can still promote traditional music,” Su Yi tried hard to persuade. “Making money while promoting it, isn’t that having the best of both worlds?”

“No need.” Xie Yunfan emphasized, “No matter how much money is offered for this game, I am not selling it.”

“…Alright then.” Su Yi was almost angered into laughing, and directly hung up the phone.

Xie Yunfan’s expression was actually calm.

Winning an award at the national competition, he had already guessed someone would seek him out to buy the copyright.

If the right to speak about the game wasn’t in his hands, who knew how they would change it? Today a “Music Soul Fragment Gift Pack × 128 yuan,” tomorrow a “Guzheng Valentine’s Day Outfit × 128 yuan”…

There were plenty of methods to harvest the leeks (fleece players), but Xie Yunfan didn’t want to do that.

Right from the start when holding a meeting with his teammates, he had said that there were only two goals in making the game Soul of Music—first was to lead his classmates to complete their graduation project; second was to promote traditional music.

He didn’t make this game to make money.

Although the major game companies were all engaging in toxic competition over gross revenue, for this fresh-styled rhythm game, he wanted to preserve a piece of pure land here, letting players play the game without burdens.

There were no extra charges within the game, nor any tedious daily tasks.

Perhaps, many years later, players would have long since deleted Elf Kingdom because they couldn’t afford to pay, and deleted Rock Band because they couldn’t endure the grind, but they would still leave Soul of Music on their phones. When free, casually playing a round, or having an online ensemble together when gathering with classmates and friends, wasn’t that quite nice?

Xie Xinghe heard his younger brother’s conversation with Su Yi the whole way through, and cursed in a low voice: “Do these major companies really think people are idiots? Letting you bring a game to join their company, them directly picking up a ready-made bargain?”

Xie Yunfan smiled helplessly: “University students indeed don’t have much say in the workplace.”

Xie Xinghe patted his younger brother’s shoulder, feeling very emotional: “It’s a good thing you decided to start your own business. If it were someone with poorer family conditions and no ability to start their own business, they would probably just have to grit their teeth and sell the game!”

Xie Yunfan said: “Yes. I estimate that the runners-up of this year’s competition, Zookeeper and Happy Child, will both be sold, modified, and then launched.”

It was the same in previous years.

Outstanding works from the national competition would be favored by major companies. Many university students would sell their games in exchange for a job; this was a very normal choice.

It was impossible for Xie Yunfan to sell his games. As long as it was a game he made, he would firmly grasp the right to speak and take responsibility to the very end.

**

At this time, in the Operations Director’s office of the Cool Play Mobile Games Demon City (Shanghai) headquarters building.

Su Yi frowned, stared at his phone, and said in a low voice: “This Xie Yunfan, the conditions I offered were already very good. Having money and not making it?! What is he thinking in his brain!”

He truly couldn’t understand this classmate’s train of thought.

Not for making money, only for promotion? How naive did a person have to be to say these words?

This wasn’t called naive, this was called stupid!

He had just called the captain of the Happy Child graduation project team. The other party was very excited and very decisively agreed to sell the copyright to Cool Play. Hearing that they could come join Cool Play, the few students were all very happy.

Didn’t design department university students all want to find a good job after graduating?

A job delivered to the door, rejected. Money delivered to the door, rejected.

What do you want, Xie Yunfan? To go to heaven?

Not knowing whether to laugh or cry, Su Yi rubbed his forehead and said: “I’ve truly never seen such a silly student. Rong City University isn’t even some prestigious key school, yet getting one championship makes him not know the immensity of heaven and earth. To tell the truth, with your academic background, if you truly came to submit a resume to our company, you’d be eliminated by HR in the initial screening.”

Su Yi shook his head and said: “Forget it, I won’t lower myself to a little brat’s level.”

A knock rang out on the office door. Su Yi lifted his head and said: “Come in.”

His assistant walked through the door holding an envelope: “President Su, the invitation letter for the Game Gala, I’ve placed it on your desk. Tomorrow night at 7 PM, Demon City Esports Center.”

Su Yi nodded: “Understood, leave it there.”

---

At the same time, the Wings of Dream Rong City branch building.

Copyright Director Ye Teng held his phone, hesitating for a long time—should he call Xie Yunfan?

As an industry insider, he paid attention to every year’s National College Student Design Competition. In case there was a particularly outstanding good seedling of a game, of course he had to act quickly to poach it for Wings of Dream.

He originally wanted to see if there were any highlights in this year’s competition, only to see that the rhythm game Xie Yunfan made unexpectedly took down the championship!

Others might not know who Xie Yunfan was, but did he not know?

Recalling the two highly unpleasant negotiations within a single day back when trying to acquire Fighting Master and Underworld Maze, he felt a wave of stuffiness in his heart.

Sigh, back then he hadn’t agreed to Xie Yunfan’s conditions, and ultimately Qihang picked up the bargain.

The Ghost Realm that Xie Yunfan adapted based on Underworld Maze—it was said that on the day of the Ghost Festival event last time, the daily gross revenue broke 200 million… Too awesome.

Ye Teng was both covetous and regretful. He made up his mind right then that no matter what game Xie Yunfan made in the future, he had to hurry and snatch it over!

But this time… a rhythm game?

Wings of Dream already had the rhythm game Rock Band. If they bought back Soul of Music, having two similar games felt unnecessary. Moreover, Soul of Music was a single-player game; its profitability was far inferior to something like Rock Band, which was online multiplayer and sold items and outfits.

If you wanted to adapt it into an online multiplayer game, selling Music Soul fragments, portrait outfits, and the like, with Xie Yunfan’s stubborn temper, he definitely wouldn’t agree.

So, why buy it? To earn word of mouth?

Xie Yunfan had Yangfan Studio; why wouldn’t he earn word of mouth for himself instead of gifting the fruits to Wings of Dream?

This stubborn fellow definitely wouldn’t sell it, right?

Ye Teng actually thought it through very thoroughly this time. After hesitating for a moment, he proactively dismissed the idea of contacting Xie Yunfan—forget it, ignore the rhythm game. Next time, whatever game Xie Yunfan makes, he’ll go to his door the very first moment to beg for cooperation, and bring enough sincerity with him.

Ye Teng made a call to his assistant and said: “Hello, Little Zhang. Help me book a flight to Demon City tomorrow at noon, and a hotel near the Demon City Esports Center. Stay one night, return the day after tomorrow.”

---

At 8 PM that night, Luo Hang sent a WeChat message to Xie Yunfan: “The flight tickets are booked. We’ll go together tomorrow, 11 AM flight.”

Xie Yunfan: “Okay, thank you President Luo.”

Luo Hang continued asking: “After the Gala ends, it will be two days until the New Year. Do you plan to return to Rong City with your brother, or stay in the Imperial Capital to celebrate?”

Xie Yunfan looked at his brother: “Brother, for the New Year this year, are we going home to celebrate?”

Xie Xinghe said: “Of course!”

Xie Yunfan replied to Luo Hang: “After attending the Gala tomorrow, we’ll stay one night in Demon City, and fly to Rong City the day after tomorrow. After the holidays, my studio also has to prepare for recruitment, there are still a lot of things to be busy with.”

Luo Hang said decisively: “Alright, I’ll have my assistant book the tickets flying to Rong City for you guys the day after tomorrow.”

Xie Yunfan sent a “Thank You” sticker.

Luo Hang: “Sleep early, see you tomorrow.”

Xie Yunfan: “Okay, my brother and I will directly go downstairs to your company to wait for you tomorrow. Goodnight President Luo~”

---

Xie Yunfan returned to his bedroom, took out his phone, and searched the keywords: Hua Xia Game Annual Gala.

As soon as he opened Weibo, there was a splash-screen ad reading “The Hua Xia Game Annual Gala will grandly open at 8 PM on February 4th at the Demon City Esports Center.”

Clicking into it, he found that the promotional Weibo pinned by the host had announced many participating organizations.

Wings of Dream Games, Cool Play Entertainment, Qihang Games—these three giants needed no explanation. Every year they would send people to attend the Gala, and they frequently won awards. In addition, there were also Dream Games, Hip Hop Entertainment, Red Leaf Studio, Agile Games, and other game production companies, big and small.

Xie Yunfan scrolled down and saw a familiar LOGO.

A cute little sailboat, sandwiched among a pile of company icons, wasn’t very conspicuous.

But in the comment section, many people were cueing him.
[Wow, I see the little sailboat!]
[Is the little sailboat going to the Gala tomorrow too?]
[@YangfanStudio, what have you been doing disappearing for half a year? Still not quickly releasing a new game?]
[Little sailboat, hurry up and release an event, the players are so bored grass is growing on them!]

It was clearly a quite inconspicuous studio, and the games they produced were only two in number, yet the appearance rate of the “little sailboat” in the comment section was extremely high. It was evident there were a super large amount of “active fans” (real people, not bots).

Many people were looking forward to their next game.

There were also many players dying over and over in Underworld Maze, or traveling everywhere and unlocking achievements in Ghost Realm, even to the point of being bored enough to go to the Ghost Village every day to play cards with NPCs.

It was truly… there were a bit too few fun games.

Everyone was howling to be fed, hoping Yangfan Studio would drop another big ultimate move.

This Gala not only invited representatives of over 80% of companies in the gaming industry, domestic large-scale websites, and TV station media reporters, but also invited a few professional singers to sing game tracks; it was held extremely grandly.

After briefly understanding the Gala’s process, Xie Yunfan took a shower and went to sleep.

The next morning, the three of them set off together for the airport.

On the way, Luo Hang proactively said: “I chatted with HR this morning. Liao Meng is temporarily arranged to go to the level design group. Annual salary 500,000; combined with project commissions and year-end bonuses, it should surpass a million. What do you think?”

Xie Yunfan said: “For a university student, this salary is already very high! The class monitor should be very satisfied.”

Luo Hang said: “I won’t let someone you recommended suffer a loss, don’t worry.”

Xie Yunfan smiled: “Mhm, with him going to Qihang I am indeed relieved. Your company’s work environment is very good. It’s a bit busy, but the bonuses are high, so everyone is more motivated when they are busy.”

Last year, the mid-term bonus for the Ghost Realm project group issued over a hundred thousand, and for the year-end bonus, he heard Luo Hang issued everyone another hundred-something thousand; just the bonuses alone could easily buy a car.

The salary of Liao Meng’s job was worthy of the effort he put into ranking first every year.

In the future, Xie Yunfan and he perhaps wouldn’t have too many interactions.

Whether his brother’s game Fighting Master could rise up still depended on Luo Hang’s team; Xie Yunfan also didn’t want to interfere too much.

---

Three hours later, the plane landed at the Demon City airport.

The assistant had arranged for a pick-up vehicle in advance, and the three headed straight for the hotel together.

While Xie Yunfan was checking in at the hotel front desk, he suddenly saw a familiar back figure. The man’s figure was slightly plump, wearing a pair of silver-rimmed glasses, smiling and seemingly easy to get along with, but in reality, he was an old fox.

Wasn’t this President Ye from Wings of Dream?

The other party turned his head and suddenly locked eyes with Xie Yunfan.

Xie Yunfan smiled slightly and proactively greeted: “President Ye, what a coincidence.”

Ye Teng paused, hurriedly walked over with a smile, and said: “Aiya, Little Xie! Long time no see!”

Little Xie? Calling him so affectionately?

Xie Yunfan held back a smile and said: “The last time we met was the winter vacation last year, it’s indeed been a year since we met.”

Xie Xinghe had no good impression of this President Ye. Constantly talking about “acquiring for 30 million” and “Fighting Master is a failed work” was annoying!

Meeting Xie Xinghe’s gaze, Ye Teng smiled thick-skinnedly: “President Xie, you are here too. Are you… accompanying your younger brother to attend the Gala?”

Xie Xinghe casually brushed him off: “Mhm, I’m not at ease with Yunfan going out alone.”

While they were chatting, Luo Hang walked over towards this side and asked in a low voice: “You guys know each other?”

He had just let the bellboy take the luggage and came a step late, seeing the Xie brothers and Wings of Dream’s President Ye chatting, he couldn’t help but wonder how they knew each other.

Xie Yunfan turned his head and explained: “We met once in Rong City before.”

Luo Hang smiled in understanding. It seemed President Ye had also been interested in the adaptation of Underworld Maze or Fighting Master back then and sought out the Xie brothers to discuss cooperation, but the talks fell through.

Sorry, both of these games are in my hands now.

Luo Hang proactively reached out his hand to greet: “President Ye, what a coincidence, you are staying at this hotel too?”

Ye Teng smiled without the smile reaching his eyes: “Isn’t it though? Sometimes, our tastes are quite aligned!”

This was implying that they had both set their eyes on Underworld Maze.

Unfortunately, you have the eye for it, but not enough boldness. Giving up a bigger cake for a little bit of minor profit; you’re probably very regretful now, right?

Both sides had a tacit mutual understanding. After greeting each other, they went upstairs.

After Ye Teng returned to his room, he hurriedly called his assistant: “Check for me right now whether Xie Xinghe has been in the Imperial Capital during this period?”

After a moment, the assistant sent a message: “Mr. Xie has indeed been in the Imperial Capital in recent months, and frequently goes in and out of the Qihang Building. As for what specific project he is working on, Qihang’s internal confidentiality is strict, and no rumors can be dug up.”

Did he even need to ask what project? That was definitely Qihang having a pleasant cooperation with Xie Yunfan, and thus buying Fighting Master back to remake it too!

Ye Teng’s face turned slightly pale. He had been quite optimistic about this fighting game back then. The reason it was taken down wasn’t because the quality was poor, but because there were too many bugs. If they fixed the bugs and the numbers, relaunching it would definitely be profitable.

The Xie family had already gone bankrupt, and Xie Xinghe still owed the bank 200 million. He originally thought Xie Xinghe would be willing to sell the game to alleviate economic pressure, he hadn’t expected Xie Xinghe to be so stubborn, refusing to sell it even to the death…

Ye Teng’s heart suddenly felt somewhat uneasy. He always felt that this game, Fighting Master, in Luo Hang’s hands, might actually be brought back to life?

Over this past half-year, the sales of Qihang gaming cabins had surged all the way up. If another explosive game came out… he simply couldn’t dare to imagine! No, he had to report this matter to his boss; he couldn’t keep it hidden anymore.

Thinking of this, Ye Teng immediately made a phone call.

---

At 7 PM the next night, the Hua Xia Game Gala officially opened on time at the Demon City Esports Center.

Luo Hang’s seat was in the first row, alongside high-level executives from Wings of Dream and Cool Play respectively. Since Xie Yunfan had shallow seniority after all, he sat low-profile in the third row with his brother, surrounded by planners and bosses of many small companies.

By 8 PM, the venue was already completely full.

Besides representatives of major game companies, there were also many invited gaming big-Vs, well-known gaming streamers, uploaders, player groups, etc. In addition, some audience members bought tickets to come watch the award ceremony.

In a corner, two young boys were quietly discussing: “Say, did the little sailboat come today? Ghost Realm should win an award, right?” “I saw Yangfan Studio on the invited list, he definitely came.”

The two searched the entire venue with their eyes, wondering: “I don’t know which one is the little sailboat. I feel the little sailboat should be relatively young, after all, his thinking in making games is very unconstrained!”

The other person said: “Right. Actually, I like Underworld Maze more. I’m timid and don’t dare to play holographic games! I haven’t really played Ghost Realm.”

A girl walked in, handed them each a cup of hot milk tea, and said: “My treat.”

The two said in unison: “Sister Hui is generous!”

The girl sat down and said: “Speaking of which, I didn’t watch the live broadcast of the design competition the day before yesterday. Did Xie Yunfan really take the championship?”

The boy said: “Yeah, it was too unexpected!”

The girl had an expression of disbelief: “Our class monitor didn’t win an award, but he actually took the championship? My god, I heard he’s a rich second generation. Could this game of his have been bought with money?”

The boy said: “I suspect that too. How did he suddenly get so awesome, I can’t figure it out.”

…

These three people were exactly students from Rong City University’s Design Department.

Because their homes were in Demon City, and they were bored at home during the winter vacation, they came here to watch the award gala.

Tickets for this kind of gaming industry award ceremony only sold for one or two hundred, which wasn’t expensive. As students from the design department, coming to the venue to look at the big shots in the industry was quite worth it.

Just as the three were discussing the Xie Yunfan award-winning incident that shocked the whole school, at this moment, the lights in the venue suddenly went out. The host, wearing an exquisite formal dress, walked onto the large stage and said loudly: “Guests, good evening! The 10th Hua Xia Game Annual Gala is about to begin!”

“Please ask all audience members to adjust your phones to silent mode. Let us look forward together to see which wonderful and fun games from the past year have received the love and support of the players!”

“First, please welcome Mr. Zhu Yuan, President of Hua Xia Games, to the stage to deliver a speech!”

Enthusiastic applause rang out below the stage.

Old Mr. Zhu’s speech was concise and clear, ending in just half a minute. After the president’s speech, a singer was invited on stage to perform a program.

For award ceremonies, small awards are presented first, and the big awards are saved for the grand finale.

In the beginning, they presented individual category awards like “Best Art,” “Best Music,” “Best Plot,” and so on. This was closely followed by genre awards like “Best RPG Game,” “Best Combat Game,” etc.

Xie Yunfan sat below the stage, offering applause for these outstanding peers.

An hour passed, and the audience below the stage gradually became somewhat impatient.

The big awards still hadn’t come out yet!

In the online live broadcast room, the number of online people at this moment had already broken 10 million, and there were also an extremely large number of viewers turning on their TVs to watch the live broadcast. Many players who liked playing games were paying attention to this Annual Gala.

The host: “Next to be awarded is, Annual Best Mobile Operated Game—Elf Kingdom operated by Wings of Dream!”

Director Fang Jiming of Wings of Dream’s Operations Group C went on stage excitedly to present the award.

The bullet comment area was a sea of ellipses.
[Just this? Best Operation = Best at Fleecing Money, right!]
[Damn, I deleted this trash game ages ago, the dead memories suddenly attacked me]
[Grinding dungeons there every day when it launched last winter vacation, almost threw up grinding]
[I smashed thousands into re-rolling pet skills, re-rolled a whole lot of nothing~]
[If best operation is comparing gross revenue, then indeed, this game’s revenue is awesome]
[There are many big-shot whales, don’t even think about playing this game if you don’t spend twenty thousand!]

Although the players’ complaints filled the roads, it had to be said, Elf Kingdom‘s gross revenue was indeed formidable. Back then, it had continuously dominated the charts for several weeks during the winter vacation.

Someone in the bullet comment area suddenly brought up Underworld Maze.
[I remember Underworld Maze and Elf Kingdom were games from the same period, right?]
[The mobile game awards are almost finished being given out, where is my Underworld?]
[The annual review looks at the entire past year. Little Underworld is so awesome, doesn’t it deserve to get an award?]
[Underworld Maze is the little sailboat’s maiden work, he should at least get a Best Newcomer award, right?]
[The Best Newcomer award was given to Red Leaf Studio, the little sailboat didn’t come to just accompany the run, right!]
[My poor little boat, do small studios with no background not even deserve to get a Best Newcomer award?]

Just as the bullet comment area was frantically flooding the screen, the host came on stage, smiled, and said: “Next to be awarded is, Annual Best Mobile Independent Game!”

Independent games, which meant single-player games. Single-player games had no requirements for network servers, so every year there were dozens, or even over a hundred, large and small single-player mobile games launched for sale.

Annual Best Single-Player Mobile Game—this award had a lot of weight!

Who would it be awarded to?

Everyone looked at the large screen with anticipation.

The host began reading the award citation with impassioned fervor: “This is a game with a special style, a unique art style, and bold design. The game’s gameplay is very innovative, and the level designs are also extremely rich and interesting!”

“This game is a maze game with a relatively niche theme, yet with the posture of a dark horse, it charged out from the encirclement during last year’s fiercely competitive winter vacation period! It boarded the Mobile Games Home Best-Seller List for two consecutive months, demonstrating a significant long-tail effect, outstanding word of mouth, and received a high score of 9.3 given by two million players!”

“To date, the number of downloads for this game has already broken through 10 million!”

Speaking of this, the bullet comment area excitedly went crazy flooding the screen.
[Damn, it’s our Little Underworld!]
[Little sailboat has succeeded, I thought he would get a Best Newcomer award at most]
[He actually skipped the Best Newcomer award and directly took Best Single-Player? The results are too brilliant, right!]
[Shouting loudly: Underworld Maze is awesome!]
[Little Underworld won an award ahhhhh, I was just waiting for Underworld watching the award ceremony]
[I don’t dare play the holographic one, but I’m already on my seventh playthrough of the mobile game]
[Best Single-Player Mobile Game, thoroughly deserved]

On the screen, the four red characters for Underworld Maze slowly emerged from the depths of the darkness.

The host raised the decibel level of her voice: “Congratulations to the winner of the Annual Best Mobile Independent Game, Underworld Maze! Let us welcome with enthusiastic applause the chief planner of Yangfan Studio, Mr. Xie Yunfan, to the stage to receive the award!”

In a corner below the stage, the three Rong City University students who were excitedly applauding for Underworld Maze’s award win instantly had sluggish expressions on their faces.

What? What?

Xie Yunfan?!