They had been at the venue for an hour. It was already past seven, and people had finally started arriving in dribs and drabs.
"This is so boring!" Chu Yu had spent the past hour eating his way through quite a bit of the food. Now that he was full, he looked around and saw that the venue was still much the same as before.
His interest quickly waned.
Even Zhao Qinyin, who had never attended a Mo Yu Annual Gala before, felt the same way. Once the novelty wore off, she realized that everyone at the venue had formed their own little groups, each with its own circle.
Of course, thanks to Zhao Qinyin and Lin Fang's relationship, Chu Yu got along well with Lv Fan too. The four of them had formed a small group of their own.
Before long, some people who knew Lv Fan from Mo Yu spotted him sitting there and squeezed into his group. Half an hour later, the group Chu Yu was with had grown to more than twenty people, all sitting together and chatting about this and that.
As the others talked, Chu Yu gradually got a sense of who they were.
Most of the people in Lv Fan's circle were comic artists whose works ran in Mo Yu's mid-tier magazines.
Of them, Lv Fan was probably the most prominent.
As it happened, he and Chu Yu had something in common: they were both comic artists whose works ran in the same magazine, and both had ranked first in its Popularity Poll.
The difference was that Chu Yu had taken first place, while Lv Fan had come in... dead last.
Of all the works in Man Ying, aside from the three that directly competed with his—Tian Shu, Magic Realm, and Secret Girl—which