OFR – Chapter 342 Look at this person who is obsessed with paper and money, who is the romantic one (Part 4)!

【Boom! The winds surge, the waves crash, the chaff is sifted from the gold—just now in the Storm Showdown, Han Xiaoxiao’s negative popularity has already dropped below ten million! Terrifying! Are there any wealthy patrons or god-tier tycoons willing to lend a helping hand to this streamer who is pitiful enough to evoke sympathy? If no one steps in, Han Xiaoxiao will be completely wiped out in three minutes!】

【Boom! The winds surge, the waves crash, the chaff is sifted from the gold—just now in the Storm Showdown, Dai Mei’s negative popularity has already dropped below ten million! Terrifying! Are there any wealthy patrons or god-tier tycoons willing to lend a helping hand to this streamer who is pitiful enough to evoke sympathy? If no one steps in, Dai Mei will be completely wiped out in three minutes!】

【Boom! The winds surge, the waves crash, the chaff is sifted from the gold—just now in the Storm Showdown, Wen Tian’s negative popularity has already dropped below ten million! Terrifying! Are there any wealthy patrons or god-tier tycoons willing to lend a helping hand to this streamer who is pitiful enough to evoke sympathy? If no one steps in, Wen Tian will be completely wiped out in three minutes!】

Just as this small wave of streamers and users who had quietly rushed over from Douyu entered, they happened to see these three blood-red system bullet messages rising up on the livestream page!
These three were all high-profile, flagship streamers of the Dusty World Splendor team on Douyu, so the newcomers were far from unfamiliar with them.

But no matter what, they couldn’t make themselves believe that these three famous anchors—whose real popularity and fan bases were among the absolute top across the platform—had just been defeated like this!

What time was it now?

It was only just past 2 p.m.—meaning that the Storm Throne contest had only been going for barely over ten minutes!
And yet, in just these few minutes, the Dusty World Splendor team had suffered an almost complete wipeout!

Adding to that was the full-screen bullet message—“A Little Cold is defeated! Sweeping Dusty World Splendor!”—which shocked them even more.

Who was A Little Cold?
As veterans of Douyu TV, they knew well.

In their eyes and hearts, this was an undefeated king of the Douyu platform!

Truly—a king.

Maybe “king” sounds a bit juvenile, but with their limited vocabulary, they simply couldn’t find a better word to describe a god-tier tycoon like A Little Cold, who had created so much glory in Douyu’s history.

But what was happening now?
This king in their hearts had been defeated in barely fifteen minutes after the start of the Storm Throne battle!

And defeated in such a one-sided way!

The already overpowering God-Tycoon Alliance was also showing off its overwhelming strength with unrestrained arrogance at this moment.

They hadn’t only crushed several Dusty World Splendor contestants in the Storm Throne battle page; they had also crossed platforms, moving from the battle page directly to Douyu itself, nearly annihilating every member of the massive Dusty World Splendor team!

At this moment, far too many viewers across the platform had their eyes locked onto this rare, adrenaline-filled showdown, with hardly anyone bothering to watch other top-100 auditions anymore. This was a spectacle solely for tycoons and money—a Storm Throne showcase.
A Dark Storm gift cost 100,000 RMB and was the only “dark-type” gift of the Storm Festival—similar to the Fantasy Brick in Huajiao Live.

The idea behind pricing such a dark gift so high was to indirectly protect streamers—since even if viewers disliked a streamer, they’d have to pay a huge financial cost to do anything to them.

Unless there was deep-seated hatred, no one would casually waste 100,000 RMB to send a Dark Storm.

In past years, this high price meant that even in big-team battles, people usually stuck to sending regular gifts, not the Dark Storm—because dark-type gifts were ultimately a double-edged sword: you hurt the enemy by 1,000 but also harm yourself by 800.

But now, Dark Storm notifications were flying across the battle page as if they were free.

Yes—even with its staggering 100,000 RMB price tag, the Dark Storm gift hadn’t deterred the God-Tycoon Alliance members like Guan Zong from their determination to destroy Dusty World Splendor.

At this point, only Zhang Yuyan—who had gathered all the remaining strength of Dusty World Splendor—was still hanging on, while everyone else had already fallen, and fallen badly.
Frankly, with A Little Cold absent, the fact that Zhang Yuyan had held out this long was beyond many people’s expectations.

By rights, Dai Mei should have been the last one standing.

Even before joining Dusty World Splendor, Dai Mei had been one of the top female anchors on Douyu, on par with Xiao Leng, Timo, and Xiao Yuan. After joining, her popularity only soared higher!

Even tycoons like Guan Zong and Luo Tianshen had been wary of Dai Mei’s popularity and terrifying fan army. Defeating such an old-guard top-tier anchor with true Storm Throne potential required paying a steep price.

But that didn’t happen!

Dai Mei didn’t hold out.

She was a smart anchor—when she saw that even Warm Baby was defeated and Cold Hao didn’t show up, she gradually gave up resistance.

She knew that the more fiercely one resisted, the worse the eventual reckoning would be from Guan Zong, Qian God, Luo Tianshen, Yuan Yangjun, and others once Dusty World Splendor was fully wiped.

In the livestream industry, fan support and patronage from god-tier tycoons keep streamers afloat—and no streamer wants to offend such patrons.

Especially after the introduction of dark gifts in 2019, the influence of god-tier patrons had grown even greater.

Even Dai Mei, with her massive fanbase, couldn’t withstand the reckoning from tycoons like Guan Zong and Luo Tianshen.

So she gave up the fight—only symbolically urging fans to support Zhang Yuyan. She assumed Zhang Yuyan, as a promising new talent, would also wisely resist just symbolically.

But unexpectedly, this girl stubbornly—and foolishly—fought against Xiao Leng’s massive fan army and the remnants of the God-Tycoon Alliance.

Even now, with the rest of Dusty World Splendor wiped out, she was still holding on!
Yes—this was almost suicidal persistence.

With everyone else defeated, Zhang Yuyan—rumored to have clashed with Cold Hao from the start—was the one still standing for Dusty World Splendor!
“I can’t lose. Cold Hao hasn’t come back yet. I said I wouldn’t let him down.”

This was the line she repeated most in her livestream.

In the end, when the God-Tycoon Alliance leaders—Guan Zong, Yuan Yangjun, and others—saw she hadn’t yet fallen, they charged into her stream with the might of the entire alliance behind them.

Golden dragon-pattern entrance messages—exclusive to Douyu’s top-tier patrons—flashed across her chat.

Especially when the IDs [Douyu Supreme User Guan Zong], [Douyu Supreme User Yuan Yangjun], [Douyu Supreme User Qian God], [Douyu Supreme User Luo Tianshen], and [Douyu Supreme User eSports Goddess Xiao Xi] all appeared together, no one needed them to say a word—the crushing aura was felt instantly.

Countless viewers following the Storm Throne battle were stunned to see these five IDs in the same room.

Veterans who’d been on Douyu for years couldn’t remember the last time they’d seen such a gathering!

No reasons, no explanations—just these five together was a once-in-a-generation industry spectacle!

Xiao Leng, facing Zhang Yuyan at the time, knew that no matter how capable this rookie was, she couldn’t withstand what was coming.

Even if these five top tycoons didn’t lift a finger, their subordinate streamers alone would be more than Zhang Yuyan could handle.

And that’s how it went.

Yet, strangely, when Xiao Leng saw Zhang Yuyan scraping together her own money to keep fighting, she was moved by the girl’s persistence.

It wasn’t just Xiao Leng—many members of both the God-Tycoon Alliance and Dusty World Splendor, including Dai Mei, were moved.

None of them understood why someone rumored to have had bad blood with Cold Hao would hold on to a promise like this, even at the cost of offending the entire God-Tycoon Alliance.

Especially Dai Mei—clever, with seniority in Dusty World Splendor and the highest popularity—couldn’t fathom why Zhang Yuyan wouldn’t just yield and secure a bright future.

Didn’t this girl know that if she kept going, she’d have no place in the streaming industry?

It was an obvious fact.

But Zhang Yuyan stayed stubborn.

So Dai Mei truly couldn’t understand her—but she couldn’t stop herself from feeling pity.

After a while of these mixed emotions, Dai Mei couldn’t resist opening a private message window to Zhang Yuyan, wanting to offer some pragmatic advice.

But just as she began typing, a golden dragon-pattern entrance message—exclusive to Douyu’s top-tier patrons—flashed again in Zhang Yuyan’s already turbulent chat.

Dai Mei instinctively looked up to see who it was.

When she read the ID clearly after a few seconds, her mind roared like thunder.

And she wasn’t the only one—everyone watching the showdown, upon seeing that ID, felt the room’s already-settled atmosphere explode once again into a raging storm.