OFR – Chapter 330 begins.

After thinking for a while, Mu Bai withdrew his thoughts.

He turned around and returned to the quiet villa.

It was already past 9 p.m. When he got back to the bedroom, he casually logged into the Black SkyNet and checked the shipping update of the 30-billion-yuan ginseng order in the black market store.

After handling all that, Mu Bai placed his phone on the bedside table and lay on the bed. While resting, he thought about tomorrow’s livestreaming industry update—specifically the “One Man Reigns” storyline. At the same time, he was also contemplating how to deal with the many real-life issues looming ahead.

While lost in thought, he gradually drifted into sleep.

Late at night, silence enveloped everything. The night passed uneventfully.

The next morning, as soon as Mu Bai woke up, he heard fireworks and firecrackers going off in various public squares and safety zones across Nanjing City—places where firework displays were permitted—to celebrate New Year’s Eve and the coming of the new year.

The festive sounds gave Mu Bai a sense of nostalgia, reminding him of his childhood.

Smiling faintly, he got up and went about his morning routine, washing up just as he did every day.

After he finished washing up, he heard a few QQ notification sounds coming from his phone on the bedside table.

He walked over, picked up the phone, and opened QQ to see who had messaged him.

Even though today was New Year’s Eve, Mu Bai found that many of the old members of the “Mortal Vanity” QQ group—Mi Xuan, Hai Qing, A Wen, Xiao Yue, Jing Bao—had all sent him early morning messages. Aside from holiday greetings, most of the messages were about the Annual Streamer Power Rankings battle.

Mi Xuan: “Mu Hao Mu Hao! The Annual Streamer Power Rankings have started! The event is hosted on Quanmin TV, and Quanmin TV is the main venue. Come and check it out! Here’s the link.”

Jing Bao: “Leng Hao, the rankings event has started! If you have time, please check it out. The team feels insecure without you around.”

A Wen: “Waaahhh! Leng Hao, please comfort me! Hai Qing has turned his back on me and Xiao Yue! He gave all the access passes you won to some little vixens!”

Hai Qing: “Leng Hao, the Annual Streamer Power Rankings have begun. This morning, a hundred of the most popular streamers and several famous tycoon-level users will help select the Top 10 Rising Stars in the industry. You authorized me to handle this whole campaign, so I’ve prepared to have Zhang Yuyan, Nuan Baobao, and Han Xiaoxiao compete for the Top 10 Rising Stars. They’ve got a high chance of making it—after all, their current popularity rivals that of veteran streamers. As for the other entry tickets you gave me, I plan to assign them to streamer Daimei and Wenten. Wenten isn’t great at hosting or fan interaction, but his technical skills and following are exceptional—he has a chance at winning a seat on the Power Rankings. Daimei has even better odds. She’s recently exploded in popularity thanks to PUBG and is our team’s best hope at winning a spot!”

Mu Bai skimmed through their messages, casually replied with some emojis to Mi Xuan, Jing Bao, and A Wen, then focused on carefully reading Hai Qing’s message.

Mu Bai actually didn’t know that much about the livestreaming industry, so Hai Qing often played the role of his assistant in such matters.

This message gave Mu Bai a good idea of Hai Qing’s plan for today.

The Annual Streamer Power Rankings would not only select the Top 10 Power Streamers, but also choose the Top 10 Rising Stars in the industry.

The Rising Stars list brought a strong star effect for teams and platforms, so all major teams were fiercely competing for it.

However, the Rising Stars list was limited to streamers who rose to fame within the past year. This excluded many well-established, ultra-popular veterans—giving new talent a fair shot at breaking through.

Hai Qing’s strategy to push Zhang Yuyan, Nuan Baobao, and Han Xiaoxiao—all of whom had only become popular in the past year—into this list was a wise move.

After all, while the three were popular compared to other rising streamers, they still couldn’t compete with top-tier stars like Douyu’s “Little Leng,” or those big-name streamers like Saobai, Daxian, and Timo, whom Douyu had signed for huge sums. And that’s not even counting the ultra-popular streamers from other platforms.

If they had tried to use all five entry passes to compete for the Top 10 Power Streamer slots, it would’ve been extremely difficult.

So Hai Qing’s conservative approach made sense.

Mu Bai agreed with the strategy.

But after glancing at the rules for the Rising Stars list, he noticed a clause: the evaluation and scoring of rising streamers by the previous year’s Top 100 streamers would weigh heavily in the final results.

To industry insiders, this was a way to assess newcomers’ reputations and character—a reminder to respect their seniors.

However, for the Mortal Vanity team, this rule was extremely unfavorable.

After all, Mu Bai had been clashing with Douyu and their affiliated teams for months.

If his team’s streamers competed for spots on the Rising Stars list, they would likely be suppressed or sabotaged by rival streamers—especially by top-tier veterans from Douyu.

From the last time Mu Bai challenged the Godly Tycoon Alliance that Douyu organized, it had become clear: Douyu’s initial friendliness—hoping to use him to eliminate rival teams—had now turned into growing hostility.

Especially after Mu Bai single-handedly resisted the entire alliance and earned admiration from both users and streamers across Douyu, that hostility became even more intense.

They were just biding their time.

Mu Bai could feel it—Douyu no longer had room for him.

Since even the platform itself had become openly hostile, there was no way they would sit by and watch his Mortal Vanity team grow even stronger through this Power Rankings event.

They would almost certainly instruct their own streamers to suppress Zhang Yuyan, Nuan Baobao, and the others.

Because of this concern, Mu Bai had to weigh things carefully.

It wasn’t about the wins or losses—he was more focused on unlocking and completing the “Who Is King” random system mission.

Once unlocked, it would definitely offer enhanced rewards—likely no less than those from the “One Man Reigns” storyline.

That was why Mu Bai was taking it so seriously. System tasks could be failed, and had been failed before—he couldn’t afford to take this one lightly.

While thinking about all this, Mu Bai casually clicked into the Annual Streamer Power Rankings page on Quanmin TV.

The page was accessible from across the web—no download required.

Even though it was just past 7 a.m., more than ten million viewers had already tuned into the event.

Despite the platform dividing traffic across more than a hundred separate lines, every single one showed as busy!

This made it clear: within the next hour or two, all the lines hitting red-capacity overload wouldn’t be unusual at all.

At the moment, the screen showed two hosts on stage, delivering a typical opening speech—promoting sponsors and welcoming viewers.

More importantly, they were introducing the competing streamers for the Top 10 Rising Stars and Top 10 Power Streamers.

Most fans were idly listening to the hosts, and below the stream, hundreds of streaming rooms from the most popular streamers across the industry were shown. Each was fully prepared for the annual battle—arguably the most prestigious and competitive event in the livestreaming world.

In addition, countless fans, whales, tycoons, and godly tycoons across the livestreaming industry were now flooding into this grand event.

At this moment, this single livestream page had gathered an unimaginable number of top influencers and platform elites.

By 8:30 a.m., as the Rising Stars selection was about to begin, all 100+ streaming lines hit full capacity simultaneously!

• Douyu: Over 7,000 “Emperor” and “King” level nobles had joined, with countless other Duke and Knight-level nobles present.
• Huya: Thousands of Emperor and King nobles, and over 100,000 other nobles!
• YY: Over 10,000 top-tier nobles and hundreds of thousands of ordinary nobles—showcasing the dominance of a former streaming giant.
• Platforms like Quanmin TV, Huajiao, Inke, and Panda TV also had impressive noble attendance.

At this moment, the entire livestreaming industry—along with its most elite and deep-pocketed users—had gathered here.

All eyes were on this event.