When the popularity poll results for Rurouni Kenshin: Trust and Betrayal came out that week, Mo Yu—and, indeed, the entire comics industry in Luo Province—didn't know what to make of the series.
The news that Shui Xin was a teenage boy hadn't spread everywhere yet, but most people in the comics industry in Luo Province were well-informed.
A newcomer, a manga artist, a high school student... All these elements were bound to attract attention.
Everyone had already come to recognize that the boy who went by the pen name Shui Xin, whose real name was Chu Yu, was a once-in-decades genius in Luo Province's comics industry.
And now Shui Xin had given the comics industry in Luo Province another lesson.
More than sixty thousand votes. It wasn't just a record for Mo Yu's popularity poll; across the whole of Luo Province, it was a peak.
More and more people in the comics industry in Luo Province were now referring to Shui Xin as the province's number-one manga artist...
That weekend, all of Long Nation was immersed in celebration. After all, New Year's Eve fell on Sunday.
Compared to the bustling city on Saturday, Ming City seemed a little quiet and desolate on Sunday.
Almost everyone stayed indoors, spending the day at home with their families.
Though he was home alone, Chu Yu still cooked a whole New Year's Eve dinner for himself. After offering incense to his parents, he was quite content on his own.
Zhao Qinyin and Su Ruo had both sent him New Year's greetings on WeChat.
Mo Yu had sent him a New Year's message too. Even several manga artists whose phone numbers he'd exchanged with at the Mo Yu Annual Gala had sent him their greetings.
It was almost as if he'd really become a