[Kieran Shawn]: You don’t need to worry about CC Comics. We can take "First Ruins" down anytime, and terminate the contract with UU. Even without enough evidence, given our influence in the industry, as long as we hint that UU plagiarized, the future is going to be tough for "First Ruins".
With a lift of her eyelids, Nora Scott sees his message, closes the storyboard, and throws it on the desktop.
Easton taught her a saying from a young age: In this world, you can consume anything, but you can’t take losses.
Since Sophie Scott went ahead with it, she had to think ahead about how to bear the consequences.
Without evidence, she indeed cannot hold her legally accountable, but—
She can equally make Sophie Scott’s reputation crumble.
[God Z]: Let the issues in the manga stay within the manga.
She’s just been worried her drawing lacked excitement.
After chatting with Kieran Shawn, Nora Scott goes offline.
But instead of doing other things, she uses her phone to download the CC Comics app.
Millions of users’ Weibo homepages have a new post.
[Zero]: Share Florence Locke’s new work "Eternal Sleep", and help with the ranking. [CC Comics·link]
From nightfall, the topic "Zero appearing at C&K manga convention" stays at the top of the trending list, sparking endless discussions among netizens, eagerly waiting for Zero to speak publicly.
Now, Zero tweets, without directly responding to the matter of attending the convention, instead catching everyone off guard with an advertisement.
Sharp netizens sense they might be getting a unique scoop.
"It’s Florence Locke again, and CC Comics, Uncle attending the convention is confirmed!"
"Does God Z also watch CC Comics? Will it be decided to publish a new work on CC Comics?"
"Florence Locke looks so good, did Uncle fancy her at the convention?"
"Rank, rank, rank, charge forward, Florence Locke!"
"Looks like ’First Ruins’ might lose its top spot, when God Z serialized ’Death Legend’ back in the day, those millions of fans, he defeated all unbeatable rivals on the charts, only White could match him equally, now there are 30 million fans."
"Who predicted ’First Ruins’ will firmly hold first place, hahaha, didn’t expect an uncle who follows manga to suddenly appear, right?"
"It’s not just promoting a new manga, but intentionally mentioning ’the ranking’, with ’Eternal Sleep’ just behind ’First Ruins’. Can we guess: Uncle’s displeased with UU?"
Once the tweet is out, real fans and those simply joining the fun both click on the link out of curiosity.
"Eternal Sleep" is essentially a quality manga; it’s just the genre is somewhat niche. However, given enough exposure, still, many people like it.
Within less than an hour after Nora Scott posts the tweet, "Eternal Sleep", previously suppressed by "First Ruins", surpasses it in all aspects on CC Comics.
Furthermore, all data is continually pulling ahead of "First Ruins".
Fans of "First Ruins" attempt to resist and compete with Zero, but within half an hour realize their combat strength is totally disparate, like an egg hitting a stone, wisely choosing to give up.
Onlookers join the fun, while analyzing and capturing data from both works, then posting on major forum websites, attracting more and more people.
Two hours later, CC Comics is no longer accessible, the website, due to sudden heavy traffic, cannot handle, crashes completely.
"Never thought, CC’s first ever crash would be caused by Zero."
"Hahahahahaha hiccup."
"From now on, everyone sees Zero’s fan influence, and... fan fighting power."
Netizens continually seek amusement.
Naturally, the heat surrounding CC Comics, Zero, and Florence Locke keeps rising.
That night, just preparing to leave work, but forced to work overtime due to Zero’s tweet, Kieran Shawn cheerfully and feeling on cloud nine after notifying the tech department to resolve issues, excitedly opens the company’s main creative team chat.
Those who have already received notifications in the chat are already chit-chatting loudly.
"Uncle signing with our company is true, why did he start promoting now?"
"I thought Shawn was tricking us into being happy."
"Ah, ah, ah, the big shot is coming to our company, should we prepare a special welcome event? Shawn, can you get someone to plan it?"
"How about it, Uncle recommends a manga, and the server crashes. If he announces that he joins CC Comics... Shawn, tech department, get it arranged?"
"Stop chatting in the group! Come on, come on, it’s just nine in the evening, are we doing street food stalls?"