OFR – Chapter 202 Xu Jinhuan’s feelings.

At this moment, the chat group was filled with messages of people shifting blame and making excuses. Of course, there were also a few shop owners who had not participated in this stormy battle.

These shop owners merely made some neutral comments in the group because they did not want to offend either side of the conflict.

As businessmen, following the principle of harmony bringing wealth was not wrong.

However, even though they remained neutral, deep down, they were still shocked by the insane surge in popularity of “Zhenpin Tian.”

They even briefly suspected whether the popularity was real.

But after some careful thought, they realized it was likely genuine.

After all, if it weren’t real, no one would dare to blatantly inflate numbers under such public scrutiny.

Everyone knew that Taobao’s official technical investigation team was no joke.

Of course, it wasn’t just these shop owners who realized this. Even the other store owners who had been working with “Meiwei Tian” became aware of it as well.

However, everyone seemed to feel that arguing was pointless. So, after a few minutes of chaotic discussions, the group chat gradually calmed down again.

On Taobao, however, a group of non-industry users and professional trolls were still trying to stir up trouble in the “Zhenpin Tian” question section.

But their attempts to manipulate the narrative were completely drowned out by the massive influx of new users.

The question section was dominated by messages from these new arrivals.

[Question]: “I came here after hearing about the super premium Red Arowana and Platinum Arowana from the Dragon Fish Forum. I’m new here—when does the auction start?”

[Answer]: “Check the banner advertisement.”

[Answer]: “Wait, are these actual new users? Damn, what did the shop owner just do?”

[Answer]: “Of course! Don’t you know? The first wave of fans all came from the Dragon Fish Forum!”

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[Question]: “Newcomer here! Can someone explain why such an amazing store has so many trash talkers? Requesting permission to verbally obliterate these haters!”

[Answer]: “Haha, permission granted, brother!”

[Answer]: “If you accomplish this difficult mission, you’ll be promoted three levels instantly!”

[Answer]: “Welcome, new ally! You’re awesome! Respect!”

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“Hmm, it looks like those forum sites are still pretty active.”

At this moment, sitting on the sofa in his villa, Mu Bai glanced at Taobao’s skyrocketing follower count, now reaching 3.7 million, and nodded in satisfaction. He didn’t say much.

He just stretched lazily, then reminded Mi Xuan about tomorrow’s auction time and key details before logging out of QQ.

Even with his enhanced physical fitness, playing on his phone all day made his neck and spine feel sore.

Stretching his body again, Mu Bai checked the time on his phone. It was getting late, so he decided not to go out for dinner.

Instead, he took some pure milk, chocolate, and compressed biscuits from the fridge—quick and easy snacks.

As he ate, he focused his mind and entered the Mystical Space.

Tomorrow was auction day.

He wanted to categorize and organize the items inside the space to avoid any last-minute chaos.

Moreover, to ensure an impressive auction lineup, Mu Bai had just used 50 network silver coin exchange privileges.

Originally, the Mystical Space had only reached Level 4, meaning it could barely exchange for super-premium plants and animals. Anything beyond that level was inaccessible.

However, due to the Dragon Blood Jade from yesterday, the quality of the plants and animals in the space had rapidly improved, causing a small loophole in the exchange system.

As a result, some quasi-ultimate-tier species, such as the Platinum Arowana and the Tang Dynasty Phoenix Feather, were still listed as super-premium in the exchange system.

Taking advantage of this rare glitch, Mu Bai immediately exchanged twelve super-premium species.

He also redeemed a batch of saffron.

Now, looking at the over 2 million saffron plants inside the Mystical Space, Mu Bai activated the one-click function to divide them into 10-gram portions.

Starting from 10 grams per order would make the pricing easier for customers to accept.

After about a minute, the system automatically sorted the saffron into:

• 280,000 portions of Grade 1 saffron
• 160,000 portions of top-tier saffron
• 20,000 portions of super-premium saffron

In total, there were now over 400,000 saffron portions available for the auction.

Mu Bai was confident that as long as users put in some effort, they would be able to grab a portion.

This would be the largest quantity of auction items available tomorrow.

After sorting the saffron, Mu Bai reached out to the Agarwood Kyara tree and broke off three branches.

These, of course, would be tomorrow’s high-value auction items.

After all, Agarwood Kyara was incredibly rare and highly expensive.

As for other flowers, ginseng, and various plants, Mu Bai simply counted them to ensure everything was in order. Once he confirmed there were no issues, he exited the Mystical Space.

In an instant, he was back on his living room sofa.

Picking up his phone again, Mu Bai saw that it was already past 8 PM.

Winter nights always felt longer than the days.

Another day had passed in the blink of an eye, and it was already a quiet and peaceful evening.

As he got up from the sofa to pour himself a cup of hot water, his phone suddenly chimed with a QQ notification.

“Hmm? Mi Xuan?”

Mu Bai assumed it was Mi Xuan messaging him, but when he opened QQ, he realized he was wrong.

The message was from Xu Jinhuan.

Xu Jinhuan: “Xiao Mu, I found a promising new game for you. It’s a web game—are you interested in investing? Oh, and I have good news! Our studio’s mobile game ‘Power and Prestige’ is now available on major gaming platforms and channels. In just 72 hours, it has over 7 million downloads, with an 80% 4-star or higher rating, and an average user spending of 8 yuan!“

Seeing the message, Mu Bai nodded.

Even though he wasn’t particularly knowledgeable about gaming, the impressive numbers in Xu Jinhuan’s message made it clear that ‘Power and Prestige’ was making serious money.

However, he wasn’t particularly excited about how much money the game was generating.

For him, this investment was merely a way to advance his game investment side quest.

So instead of celebrating the game’s earnings, he was more intrigued by the “promising new game” Xu Jinhuan mentioned.

He typed back: “Good to hear that the operation is going well. Tell me more details about this new game.”

Xu Jinhuan: “Ohh! Got it, Xiao Mu! This new game is a browser-based title, and it includes…”

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At this moment, in a modest apartment in the northern district of Nanjing, the ever-stunning and graceful Xu Jinhuan sat on her sofa, holding her phone while chatting with Mu Bai.

Now that the game had started making profits, her first thought was to share the good news with Mu Bai, the one who had helped her during the hardest times.

She wanted him to know that his investment was paying off.

But after just a couple of messages, Xu Jinhuan could tell from Mu Bai’s calm and indifferent tone that…

This young man never really cared whether the game made money or not.