OFR – Chapter 54 The Rich and Powerful 4

Due to the platform-wide push notifications about the hundreds of rockets, the entire Douyu platform was buzzing with excitement.

At this moment, regardless of whether they were top-tier or popular streamers, everyone had stopped their streams. Some noble patrons and regular users also left their original streams. They all clicked into the stream highlighted by the platform-wide notification: the stream of Little Star.

This was an obscure, newcomer’s stream. Normally, if a few rockets were gifted, the streamer would be endlessly grateful. If a few noble users came to watch, the streamer would be overjoyed to chat with them. However, now, this rookie’s stream was seeing one big-name noble and popular streamer after another join in.

“Ding! King Kunshan has entered the stream; everyone cheer!”

“Ding! Emperor Daoge has entered the stream; everyone screams!”

“Ding! Level 85 streamer Xiaole checks in on the stream!”

“Ding! Level 79 streamer Moxue checks in on the stream!”

“Ding! Duke Wenten has entered the stream; everyone welcomes him!”

“Ding! Level 100 streamer Feng Momo checks in on the stream!”

At around 7 p.m., this was peak time on Douyu with the highest traffic, and many of the platform’s top popular streamers were live. Yet now, nearly all the online users and streamers on Douyu have turned their attention to this newcomer’s stream!

“Boom! Emperor Guliang throws 400 dark rockets at streamer Little Star, hitting her hard! Everyone, come and collect the dark mini-gifts. 400 dark rockets have reduced Little Star’s revenue by 2,000,000 fish scales and her stream’s popularity by 2,000,000. The current popularity is -126,000.”

“Ding! Little Star’s stream has been knocked off the front page by Emperor Guliang’s 400 dark rockets!”

Once again, Guliang made his move, causing gasps all around. Even the most popular streamers couldn’t help but remark on the sheer intensity of this battle between wealthy patrons.

There have always been rich patrons on Douyu, no doubt about it. Every time there’s a battle for the top male or female streamer during Douyu’s annual events, many rich patrons emerge. However, most of those are orchestrated by the streamers’ operating teams, who would never push things this far just for the sake of a patron’s pride.

Now, Guliang and A little Cold had each sent over 600 rockets. Whether dark rockets or pinnacle rockets, each one costs 5,000 fish scales, which equates to 500 yuan. 600 rockets amount to 300,000 yuan, leaving onlookers stunned.

“This is incredible; both of these patrons have spent over 300,000 yuan!”

“Terrifying!”

“Yeah, terrifying. I can’t think of a better word to describe it!”

“Why are these two patrons even fighting? And why so intensely?”

“I heard A little Cold used to be the boyfriend of Little Star when she streamed on Huajiao, but for some reason, he offended the family behind Guliang, and the little streamer was forced to switch platforms. However, Guliang didn’t let her off and followed her here, which started this feud!”

“Huajiao? A second-tier platform like that had such a powerful patron? I don’t think even Douyu has someone like him.”

“If you don’t know, stop talking nonsense. Douyu has B-Zong, God of Money, Yuanyangjun, and Luotianshen—any of them could easily match these two.”

“Enough talk, hurry up and grab the mini-gifts! There are thousands of treasure boxes here!”

By now, both Guliang and A little Cold had each spent over 300,000 yuan, and the viewers in the stream were busy grabbing gifts while flooding the chat with comments like “666.” They had never seen such a fierce battle between rich patrons before—this was truly unprecedented.

“Boom! User A little Cold sends 800 pinnacle rockets to streamer Xiaoxiaxing. Everyone, come to the stream to collect the mini-gifts. 800 pinnacle rockets have increased the stream’s popularity by 4,000,000, with the current popularity at 3,886,000!”

“Ding! Congratulations to Little Star’s stream for hitting the front page of the popular recommendations!”

“Boom! Emperor Guliang throws 800 dark rockets at streamer Little Star, hitting her hard! Everyone, come and collect the dark mini-gifts. 800 dark rockets have reduced Little Star’s revenue by 4,000,000 fish scales and her stream’s popularity by 4,000,000. The current popularity is -126,000.”

At this point, the stream was flooded with notifications of pinnacle and dark rockets, drowning out all the other amazed, envious, and frantic comments.

It felt like a war of dark rockets versus pinnacle rockets in the stream, with both sides throwing over 1,000 rockets. By now, Guliang had erased Little Star’s stream popularity once more, but even he, sitting at his computer, was trembling as he gripped his mouse.

He had already spent more than 700,000 yuan. This was not a small amount. In many fourth- or fifth-tier cities, that could buy an entire house. It was the kind of money an ordinary person would work their whole life to save. He had reached his limit.

“Surely A little Cold has reached his limit too!” Guliang couldn’t believe that A little Cold would dare to continue.

They had already spent over 700,000. Last time, A little Cold spent over a million on Huajiao. In total, that’s close to 2 million yuan! Even a wealthy patron should know when to stop after spending nearly 2 million yuan.

But the next notification in the stream left Guliang struggling to breathe.

“Boom! User A little Cold sends 1,600 pinnacle rockets to streamer Xiaoxiaxing. Everyone, come to the stream to collect the mini-gifts. 1,600 pinnacle rockets have increased the stream’s popularity by 8,000,000, with the current popularity at 7,886,000!”

“Ding! Congratulations to Little Star’s stream for topping the front page’s most popular recommendation and becoming the number one hottest stream!”

These notifications caused an uproar in the stream. The phrase Little Star’s fans had been spamming—“Forced the cold hero back into action, one battle will bring peace to the world”—suddenly took over the chat.

Since A little Cold had entered the scene, in just five minutes, he had sent 3,000 rockets in total.

What is a true wealthy patron?

At this moment, every user in the stream looked at the blinding ID on the gift leaderboard and thought, “This is what it means to be a true wealthy patron!”

Two minutes had passed since A little Cold had sent 1,600 rockets, and Guliang still hadn’t made a move.

Did he back down?

Yes, at this point, backing down was the only option.

Just as some were preparing to mock Guliang for backing down, five entry notifications captured everyone’s attention!

“Ding! Emperor Wentian has entered the stream; everyone screams!”

“Ding! Emperor Xiaoyao has entered the stream; everyone screams!”

“Ding! Emperor Zhanfeng has entered the stream; everyone screams!”

“Ding! Emperor Guwang has entered the stream; everyone screams!”

“Ding! Emperor Guyun has entered the stream; everyone screams!”

In an instant, five emperors had entered the scene!

Looking at the five notifications, Guliang let out a long sigh as he sat at his computer. After a brief pause, he regained confidence.

At this moment, the six key patrons of the Dingding family were all gathered together!