Chapter 314: Chapter 314 Declaration of War Chapter 314: Chapter 314 Declaration of War Following Lin Xiaoyun into the conference room, they’d hardly walked a few steps before reporters stopped them—
“Hello to you both, are you also here to attend the summit? Which company do you represent?”
“Would you mind giving us an interview?”
“With the rapid decline of physical comic books this year, what are your thoughts?”
Surrounded by reporters, Lin Xiaoyun’s face flushed with excitent; despite her many years in the industry, she had never been interviewed before! Clearing her throat, she smiled and said, “Hello everyone, I am Lin Xiaoyun, the general manager of Golden Cloud Animation Technology Company. It’s a pleasure to et you all.”
“Golden Cloud Animation?” The reporters looked at each other, then shook their heads together: “Never heard of it!”
Is it really nice to crush soone’s spirit like this?
Suddenly, one of the reporters pointed in a direction and shouted loudly, “Look, it’s the ‘Supre God’! I recognize him!”
“Where, where?!” Supre God, huh? The reporters imdiately abandoned Wang Hao and sward in that direction!
Lin Xiaoyun: “…How hurtful…”
“Supre God?”
Curious, Wang Hao looked in the direction pointed out, and sure enough, a man around thirty years old walked through the doorway. He had an ordinary common face, was about five feet seven inches tall, and looked rather pleased with himself; he was probably the “Supre God.”
“Supre God,” the reporters surrounded him, setting up caras and flashing lights clicked, then bombarded him with questions: “Did you co this ti to discuss copyright adaptation issues?”
“Yes,” Supre God responded with a confident smile, “The novel and comic sectors are inseparably linked, so I was invited here to discuss this matter.”
“No wonder he’s the Supre God,” a female reporter fluttered her eyelashes continuously and asked, “Supre God, the Wind Cloud Chinese Network has had a few really strong new books in the last two months, what do you think about this?”
“As they are newcors,” Supre God didn’t regard ‘Break the Heavens’ or ‘Devouring the Stars’ highly, saying, “Their foundation is still shallow. Just because one book is successful doesn’t guarantee the next will be, and whether they continue to perform well can only be determined over ti. Besides, the sudden success of these two books is quite abnormal.”
Wang Hao: “…”
Indeed, colleagues turn out to be competitors, but is it really okay to speak ill of others behind their backs like this?
“Sister, I don’t like this man!” Lin Xiaoyun, who treated Wang Hao like a younger brother, pouted upon hearing Supre God’s words: “Let’s go, let’s head inside first!”
“Sure,” Wang Hao, sharing the sentint, nodded: “Let’s go in first.”
Upon entering the venue, Wang Hao looked around; there were at least four hundred chairs, divided into more than a dozen areas marked with labels like Jianfu Province, Dongguang Province, etc., presumably organizing seats by region.
“Little brother, over here!” As soon as Wang Hao entered, Lu Wansong greeted him: “Co over!”
“President Lu,” Wang Hao quickly replied and imdiately went over with Lin Xiaoyun.
Just after sitting down, Lin Xiaoyun beca excited again. She lowered her voice and exclaid, “Look, it’s the four major companies of our Jiangnan! Aside from Jiangya dia, there’s Aud Animation, Bright Animation, LeTian Comics! My gosh, to think we could sit with them, I’m so excited!”
They belonged to the smallest kind of company in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province and naturally couldn’t sit at the front. The two found seats behind Lu Wansong, possible only through pulling so connections. At that mont, five or six people already seated nearby were whispering among themselves; they seed quite familiar with each other. As Lin Xiaoyun and Wang Hao sat down, all five or six turned to look at them, and one middle-aged man said, “Why, isn’t this President Lin?” The man, dressed in a suit, was around forty and had a pleasant deanor.
Lin Xiaoyun smiled and nodded, saying, “Mr. Zhang, long ti no see. This is Wang Hao, our company’s new director.” Then she introduced to Wang Hao, “This is Mr. Zhang from Jinhua Animation Circle, under whom De Yun Animation is also quite renowned.”
Wang Hao: “Hello hello.”
De Yun Animation, that sounds so familiar…
“It’s been three years, hasn’t it?” Mr. Zhang smiled and said, “The last ti we t was at that Zhonghang exchange event, how has your business been these past few years?”
“Pretty average,” Lin Xiaoyun sighed, “Things haven’t picked up much in the last two years, and taking the physical route is really challenging these days.”
Lin Xiaoyun had just finished speaking when a man in front turned around and smiled, “Yeah, physical businesses are tough to run these days! Our company is here to explore adaptations of online literature.”
The group chatted idly about topics like the gloomy market.
While they were talking, an old executive from Bright Animation sitting to the left of Lu Wansong stood up and waved, “Over here, Supre God!”
Seeing the executive wave, Supre God imdiately walked over.
The executive introduced Lu Wansong, “President Lu, this is Supre God from our online literature circle. You should really get to know him.”
“Wow, I’ve long admired your renown!” Lu Wansong quickly stood up and extended his hand, “Hello, I am Lu Wansong, Vice President of Jiangya dia.”
Vice President! Supre God’s eyes lit up at the title and he smiled, “Hello, hello, please take good care of in the future.”
“I dare not claim to take care,” Lu nodded and then introduced Wang Hao, saying, “Supre God, speaking of which, this young man next to is your colleague! Do you know who he is?”
Supre God looked carefully at Wang Hao, then shook his head, “I don’t know him.”
“Heaven Thread, the author of Break the Heavens!” Lu Wansong laughed, “I only t him yesterday and found out he’s so young. You are both big nas in the online literature scene, you should keep in touch.”
Hearing this, everyone present was shocked!
This young man was the author of the hugely popular online novel Break the Heavens?
“You are Heaven Thread?!” Supre God paused when he heard the na, then quickly extended his hand, “Oh my, I’ve long admired you! I’ve always been curious about what the author of Break the Heavens would be like, and I never thought I’d et you here!”
“Not bad,” Wang Hao shook his hand and smiled, “You’re the seasoned legend, I should be the one admiring you.”
“Just so-so,” Supre God chuckled subtly, discreetly withdrawing his hand, then asked Wang Hao in front of everyone, “By the way, Heaven, I’ve always been curious about sothing, can you actually break even with your approach?”
As soon as he said this, Lu Wansong’s mouth fell open!
What’s going on?!
He ant well, after all, it’s beneficial for people in the industry to connect.
But who could have expected Supre God to be so blunt?
Supre God was the Supre Elder in the online literature community, and Wang Hao was absolutely the king of newcors. Were they about to clash the mont they t?
“Supre God,” Mr. Zhang carefully asked, “Do you an that his explosive popularity was all fabricated?”
“Absolutely,” Supre God nodded confidently, “A newcor like him couldn’t achieve such amazing success and outperform many veteran big nas unless he was a major manipulator. Even when I launch a new book, I don’t get as much buzz as him, it’s clearly fabricated!”
“So that’s what it was!” At that mont, the executive from Bright dia looked at Wang Hao with disdain and said, “Our company was evaluating whether to adapt his book into a good business prospect, now it seems we need to rethink this.”
“Of course,” Supre God sneered, “Results obtained through manipulation can’t be trusted, anyone who buys the rights to his book is likely set for a loss.”
At that mont, the people around Wang Hao instinctually shifted their positions.
“Alright, you guys continue talking,” Supre God shrugged “just in ti,” then added, “I have a eting coming up and I need to prepare my report.”
“Sis, this Supre God is too bullying!” Lin Xiaoyun stared at Supre God’s retreating figure, angry, “Who talks like that?!” Then she scowled at the surrounding people, “What’s with all these looks?!”
Lu Wansong felt embarrassed: “Bro, I just ant to introduce you guys, didn’t expect this to happen…”
“It’s nothing.” Wang Hao shook his head lightly, then narrowed his eyes slightly, staring at Supre God’s retreating figure.
Supre God huh? Is this a formal declaration of war then?
Fine, you’ve been targeting behind my back all along, let’s settle everything today!
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