OFR – Chapter 340 Look at this person who is obsessed with paper and money, who is the romantic one (Part 2)!

[The winds rise and the clouds surge, the great waves wash away the sand!
Xiao Leng and Zhang Yuyan, both top-100 streamers in the Battle for the Throne, entered without going through preliminaries, without evaluation, without matching — just as the two of them agreed moments ago, they launched the second most heart-stirring showdown of the year with thunderous momentum. And once again, both contestants are women! At this moment, who dares to claim that beautiful women are weaker than men?]

[The winds rise and the clouds surge, the great waves wash away the sand!
Xiao Yunyun and Dull Girl, both top-100 streamers in the Battle for the Throne, entered without preliminaries, without evaluation, without matching — just as the two of them agreed moments ago, they launched the third most heart-stirring showdown of the year with thunderous momentum. And once again, both contestants are women!]

[The winds rise and the clouds surge, the great waves wash away the sand!
Ke God and Han Xiaoxiao, both top-100 streamers in the Battle for the Throne, entered without preliminaries, without evaluation, without matching — just as the two of them agreed moments ago, they launched the fourth most heart-stirring showdown of the year with thunderous momentum!]

In that brief instant, over a dozen blinding red bullet comments suddenly surged across the livestream page!
Nearly half of them targeted the Dusty Glamour team and the streamers participating in the competition!

In particular, Zhang Yuyan — the very first to speak up this morning in support of Leng Hao and the Dusty Glamour team — faced the most terrifying targeted pressure!
Not only was her opponent the Douyu queen Xiao Leng, but there were also two veteran top-100 popular streamers reinforcing the other side!
This kind of seemingly unfair — in truth, even more unfair — matchup had never once appeared in the three Battle for the Throne grand events held over the past three years!

Even the morning’s rookie streamer who withdrew directly to enter the Battle for the Throne — that too was unprecedented in the history of the event!
It could be said that this time, the grand gathering had none of the old “orderly” atmosphere.

Today’s industry event had been completely transformed into a breathtaking display of passionate aesthetics by the top streamers, the most elite patrons, and the most powerful alliance teams!

Now, with over a hundred million viewers watching the livestream, many newcomers didn’t even fully understand what was happening!
But when they saw twenty to thirty streamers — nearly half the veteran top-100 — recklessly burning bridges, going all in, and dueling head-to-head… and when they saw the countless peak-tier patrons flooding into every duel room, issuing bold announcements…

Everyone felt the same rush of hot-blooded excitement for this unprecedented, unimaginable spectacle shaking the entire streaming world!

What is the Battle for the Throne?
What is the industry’s most glorious, most attention-grabbing event?
This is it!
This kind of all-out, no-regrets, do-or-die showdown is the answer!

Not those past years’ tame, rule-bound, box-checking routines meant only to attract eyeballs and milk the rich for gifts!
The streaming industry is inherently a stage of immense popularity and money — so why play it safe?

Everything should be like this — the most powerful, most direct, most passionate clash, a true fight to the finish!
So in that moment, countless viewers went wild, spamming support bullet comments for their chosen side!
The barrage was so intense that the livestream page lagged — fortunately, tonight there were hundreds of engineers on standby, ensuring no major technical failures would mar the event.

Meanwhile, in the duel room where Warm Baby and Xiao Yuan had already begun, Guan Zong felt the brewing storm of this Battle for the Throne in the rising tide of red system bullet comments.

Sitting in his luxury villa on a leather chair, watching Warm Baby’s face on-screen — already looking insecure, lacking confidence, even crestfallen — because Leng Hao still hadn’t shown up… he gave a faint chuckle.

Truthfully, he didn’t know what Leng Hao was doing or why he hadn’t entered to steady the Dusty Glamour team’s morale.

But Guan Zong knew exactly what he was about to do.

After that chuckle, he wiped away his simple, honest smile, took on a serious, resolute expression, and once again typed in Warm Baby and Xiao Yuan’s duel room:

“I’ll ask one more time — where is Leng Hao? If you’re here, if it’s as you claimed this morning, then come out and show me what price it takes to make you see reality. If you won’t come out, don’t blame me for forcing you! I said I’d sweep your Dusty Glamour team out — and I won’t break my word!”

From two or three months of observation, Guan Zong knew Leng Hao always responded when called out, so after sending the bullet comment, he calmly waited for him to appear.

But unexpectedly, even after seven or eight minutes, Leng Hao’s ID never appeared!
This made Guan Zong feel slighted — his brows, already faintly furrowed, drew into a tight scowl, and his eyes turned cold as he immediately fired off a black gift barrage:

[BOOM! Douyu’s Supreme-Tier user Guan Zong unleashes ten Dark Storms upon Warm Baby, instantly slashing her popularity by one million and cutting her gift share from the event by the same amount!]

[Current Warm Baby popularity: –938,568. If negative popularity reaches ten million, she will be instantly eliminated without evaluation!]

Though the amount wasn’t huge — Guan Zong still considered Leng Hao his true opponent, and didn’t want to waste too much before he appeared — it was enough to crush what little popularity Warm Baby had left, sparking the Hongmen team’s own patrons into a gift barrage frenzy:

[BOOM! Douyu Emperor-tier user Xiao Longkun sends three Dark Storms, slashing 300,000 popularity and 300,000 event gift share!]
[Warm Baby popularity: –1,238,568]

[BOOM! Douyu Emperor-tier user Wen Zong sends three Dark Storms, slashing 300,000 popularity and 300,000 event gift share!]
[Warm Baby popularity: –1,538,568]

Under the onslaught of Dark Storms, Warm Baby’s beautiful face shifted from dejection to despair — yet she kept softly repeating:

“Leng Hao will come. Leng Hao will definitely come. Leng Hao has never abandoned us. Leng Hao has always been invincible.”

But with her popularity plummeting, the words sounded hollow.
Ten million negative popularity — ten million worth of Dark Storm gifts — could be reached quickly even without Guan Zong lifting another finger.

[BOOM! Unimaginable! In less than ten minutes, Warm Baby’s negative popularity has dropped past ten million! Will any patron step forward to help this pitiful streamer? If not, she will be wiped out in three minutes!]

The system alert flashed red again. Warm Baby, panicked and at a loss, clutched her chest — feeling a sharp, stabbing pain in her heart.

The faint hope left in her expression extinguished completely, replaced by pure despair.
She truly couldn’t believe Leng Hao hadn’t come.
Even now, she kept repeating her first words, refusing to believe it was real.

The truth was, she dared to confidently challenge an industry veteran like Xiao Yuan only because she believed Leng Hao had her back.
He was her faith, her pillar — if he was there, she was there.

But now, on the brink of elimination, he still hadn’t shown.
She could do nothing but keep repeating herself like someone in a daze.

At this moment, Guan Zong — who had been waiting coldly for Leng Hao — also felt a twinge of disbelief.

He hadn’t expected Leng Hao not to come either.
But unlike Warm Baby, he didn’t freeze up.

Swiftly, he left the duel room and scanned the other Dusty Glamour team streamers’ rooms — and then discovered something that made him almost giddy:

Leng Hao still hadn’t appeared anywhere on the livestream page.

Even with his own team’s streamers about to be wiped out, he hadn’t shown!

What did that mean?
Any clever person would see — there was a 90% chance that Leng Hao, the never-defeated patron since his debut, had finally been intimidated into retreat, avoiding the fight entirely!

Excited, Guan Zong double-checked this fact, then — for the first time — spent the money for a voice barrage.

Within seconds, his voice boomed into the God-Tier Alliance’s private comms, into the ears of Zhang Yuyan, Warm Baby, and every viewer:

[Douyu Supreme-tier user Guan Zong voice broadcast]: “Listen up, Douyu Alliance! Leng Hao hasn’t shown — he’s avoiding the fight, he’s already scared! Speed up and sweep every Dusty Glamour team streamer out of the event, then return to Douyu and shut down every single Dusty Glamour-related streamer’s room! We will utterly annihilate Dusty Glamour — because if they survive, Leng Hao will return!”

“Return to Douyu and shut down every Dusty Glamour-related streamer’s room! We will utterly annihilate Dusty Glamour — because if they survive, Leng Hao will return!”

In this moment, Guan Zong’s words carried both excitement and an unshakable determination to completely destroy the Dusty Glamour team.
The message instantly ignited the already-mighty momentum of the God-Tier Alliance — the most powerful force on Douyu — to a towering peak.