At the start, I tricked the school beauty, and ended up with twins?

The very next day after Cai Hui's Naval Company collapsed completely.

The third trending topic on Dou Ying changed dramatically to.

"Summoning Divine Dragon VS Life Restart Simulator"

The all-out online flame war had spontaneously reached a fever pitch, even pulling in many prominent social media influencers.

It's unclear if they're genuinely game fans or just riding the hype wave.

Surprisingly, Jingchuan Xiaoyu came out in strong support of Life Restart Simulator.

"You all are cloud gamers, Divine Dragon isn't even online yet! How can you start comparing the two games?"

"At least the Simulator has been tested by a million players, right? Where's even the installation package for Summoning Divine Dragon?"

A personal video titled "Cloud Divine Dragon, How Can You Compare with the Simulator" was posted on Jingchuan Xiaoyu's alt account, Jingchuan Xiaoyu.

Although the follower count wasn't high, it still went viral quickly due to fan sharing.

Suddenly, news of Jingchuan Xiaoyu backing the Simulator spread throughout the entire web, and Simulator fans found their rallying point.

They all had an epiphany from Jingchuan Xiaoyu's mention of cloud gamers,

Right! Summoning Divine Dragon hasn't even been released; they're all basing their opinions on a few videos from the BiliBili uploader Lao Chuan!

Summoning Divine Dragon? All cloud gamers, not one has actually played the game!

The Simulator faction instantly gained the upper hand.

After all, whether a game is truly good or not can only be known after getting hands-on experience.

Just a few promotional clips and gaming videos aren't very convincing!

Now the Divine Dragon Party was starting to panic.

Indeed! Although they thought Summoning Divine Dragon seemed highly playable from the videos, they didn't have the game on their phones!

Only the uploader Lao Chuan who talks about games had it!

Some of the Divine Dragon Party even began to defect, knowing they were in the wrong.

Just as it seemed the flame war would end in victory for the Simulator faction,

Lao Chuan, the game commentator, made a new announcement after a night:

[Teaser: Summoning Divine Dragon will be released promptly at 2 PM today on the Shengda Mobile Game Platform, available on both Android and iOS!]

"Damn! The game is finally coming out!"

"Lao Chuan, you really made us wait! We Dragon Party members were already being ridiculed as cloud gamers by the Simulator faction."

"Yeah, the thing is the game really hasn't been released; if we weren't your loyal fans, believing in your integrity, we would've unfollowed you long ago!"

"..."

Yu Xiaochuan, seeing the continuously refreshing comments below the announcement, couldn't help but grin widely.

There was even a comment that said, "The world has suffered the Simulator for too long, the Divine Dragon must rise!"

You've got to admit, this generation of netizens really knows how to stir things up.

Just imagine their reactions when they find out Life Restart Simulator and Summoning Divine Dragon are both released by Ideal Paradise.

Yu Xiaochuan was looking forward to it, his first time riding the crest of a public opinion wave.

But he stayed shrewd and impartial throughout this grand battle of words, never making a single comment.

He didn't side with the Divine Dragon Party, nor did he belittle the Simulator faction, only maintaining neutrality would his final words carry weight.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

Otherwise, given the reasoning level of BiliBili users, if he tried to lead the charge, his account would likely be doomed.

After such a long buildup of popularity, the followers of Lao Chuan Talks Games had skyrocketed from three hundred thousand to one point three million!

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It goes to show that in this era where traffic is king, it's all too easy to make a sensation and gain a million internet followers with enough hype.

This is still BiliBili, where the membership threshold is relatively high; if it were on Dou Ying, his follower count could be anywhere from three to five million by now.

But deep down he didn't like Dou Ying, always feeling that place didn't seem like one for patiently making videos.

Whatever was hot, they would do; the self-media people there were too impetuous.

Li Station, although also subtly following trends, at least hadn't yet seen a large volume of imitation videos appear on the homepage.

Working on an account here gave him a sense of security.

So he had to protect this account well.

More importantly, he wanted to do well with this account, and in the future use it as one of his specialties to enter Ideal Paradise.

He had already asked employees of Ideal Paradise, and while Ideal Paradise didn't yet have its own operation department, internally there was clearly consideration for it.

After all, if a company wanted to grow and strengthen, it absolutely couldn't leave all product promotion channels in the hands of others.

Only by establishing a complete operations department of their own could they avoid being at the mercy of others for publicity.

Relying on others for promotion every day, what if one day they refuse to do it, or demand sky-high prices?

It wasn't that cooperation wasn't possible, but the company must have its own!

That was exactly what Yu Xiaochuan saw.

The department would definitely be established in the future at Ideal Paradise, and they would certainly recruit related talents.

And he, Yu Xiaochuan, wanted to be the first!

Just like Cai Hui, but after he shared this thought with his brother Cai Hui, the latter expressed strong support!

"Phew, I need to sleep for a while, who knows what the afternoon will bring."

Yu Xiaochuan closed his laptop and let out a long sigh.

Yet another all-nighter; he found that ever since he took over the first game from Ideal Paradise, every time he worked on materials and posted videos, he would unconsciously pull an all-nighter.

It wasn't that he wanted to stay up late, but the good products and materials just kept him going without pause.

That's when you recall the oft-quoted adage of capitalist bosses: "If not now, when are you going to work your hardest when you're young?"

Then a bunch of young people would get pumped up, volunteering for overtime and sleeping in the office, or working weekends without rest to meet deadlines...

In the end, they would be working to buy cars, houses, and mistresses for the boss.

And the boss would pat them on their shoulders and say, "You're doing great, hardship is essential for youth, stick with it for three more years, and you'll be the next me!"

But in reality, even thirty more years wouldn't turn them into the boss...

Of course, Yu Xiaochuan felt that his hard work was different; he was striving for himself, for his future. It was his own battle.

For his dreams.

He lay down on the bed, looked up at the ceiling light, and reached out, trying to grasp that glaring light.

After so many years, he felt as if he had found his ideal once more.

"I hope to become the most badass self-media personality, to post a video and get a million likes, to say a word and have a million people share it!"

That was the bold ambition he and his friends had shouted out on top of Modu Pearl.

It seemed as if it was about to come true now?

His vision blurred, and Yu Xiaochuan drifted off to sleep.

Meanwhile, at Haidong University, Gu Yu had just woken up.

He talked to his phone by the bedside while getting dressed:

"Manager Zheng, we're relying on you all for the launch of Ideal Paradise's new game today!"

The voice of Zheng Shou came from the other end of the phone: "No problem, everything was prepared days ago, just waiting for today at two p.m."

"The headquarters is taking this very seriously; they told me to give the green light."

Gu Yu: "Alright! Thanks a lot!"