Very soon,Zhao Fangsheng understood the whole story.Simply put… "Fate/Zero" was just too popular!
Because of Shang Tao’s sneaky move with that special categorization, the majority of angry readers ended up checking out the two mangas drawn by Tang Yao!And after they finished reading… their reactions were exactly like Su Deqiang’s — they instantly forgot why they were mad in the first place, completely absorbed in praising how good it was, busy searching for the next chapter of "Fate/Zero"!
As for the other early-release works,the readers couldn't care less about Ou Congquan, let alone any of the others!
Ever since so of the Manga Award entries were put online early, Shang Tao had been holed up in his own departnt, monitoring the backend data with his team. He figured if the plan flopped in the end, they could just manage the comnts — delete the ones that were too nasty to minimize the damage.
Yep.Even though the works were released early, each of the twenty-sothing mangas had its own separate rating system and comnt section.But the so-called rating system was a bit crude: readers could only like or dislike, and the website would only display the number of likes and dislikes — no detailed reviews.
After all, there weren’t many mature online manga reading platforms dostically yet.Shang Tao was basically feeling his way through the dark.
But that wasn’t the point. The point was… Shang Tao had initially planned to control the reviews.
But later on, he realized — control what, my *ss!
Forget malicious comnts — barely anyone was even reading the other works!
anwhile, the stats for "Human Head Balloon" and "Fate/Zero" were skyrocketing! Compared to the other early-release titles, their growth could only be described as terrifying!
It was really terrifying!
Not even half a day had passed yet! And the likes for Tang Yao’s two mangas had already broken 100,000!
One hundred thousand!!
While the other works were still struggling in the triple digits, these two just soared above the crowd, blasting their way to six figures!
And the website had just launched!
It was absolutely insane!
Mainly because Shang Tao and Ou Congquan’s operation was so sneaky, it pretty much made the entire manga reader community aware that so Manga Award works had been released early.
Readers — whether they were just looking for drama or, like Su Deqiang, coming for "revenge" — were all curious to check out what the heck Wenxin Press was up to.
And then, because of Shang Tao’s special "heartfelt recomndation" section…
Good lord.
Basically, as soon as readers opened the site, they all clicked straight into the works by the "third-rate artist"…which was Tang Yao, of course.
By the ti Shang Tao realized sothing was off, it was already too late.
He wanted to remove that special category, but there was no way anymore — because "Human Head Balloon" and "Fate/Zero" were already spreading like wildfire by word of mouth among manga fans!Even readers who hadn’t been paying attention before were starting to flock in…
And what’s even scarier!
If both of these mangas were one-shots, that’d be one thing — but "Fate/Zero" wasn’t over yet…
It was a serial! And it ended right as the story was getting really good!
This was insane!
Readers who had their interest piqued were now directing all their frustration at the New dia Departnt.
Their demand was simple: Where’s the next chapter!? Where’s my next chapter!?
Even just telling them when the serialization would continue would have been fine!Don’t just ghost us!Say sothing!!!
Clearly, they refused to believe that "Fate/Zero" had just ended like that.
Such an amazing concept! Such an engrossing story — how could it just stop!? Impossible! Absolutely impossible!
“……”
Zhao Fangsheng, holding Shang Tao’s phone, looked at the Manga Award’s latest social dia post — seeing the comnt count jump to twenty thousand and seeing countless readers asking about the "Fate/Zero" serialization — he was a bit stunned.
Even though he had already read "Fate/Zero
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