The next day, before dawn had fully broken, Chu Yu was jolted awake by a phone call.
Still half-asleep, he glanced at the caller ID.
Su Ruo?
What was she calling him for so early?
"Hello? It's New Year's Day, and it's still so early. What's up?"
"Why are you still asleep?" Su Ruo sounded impatient on the other end.
"Why can't I sleep..." After a couple of sentences, Chu Yu began to wake up.
"..."
Su Ruo fell silent.
"I suddenly feel like an idiot for getting so worked up."
"This really is a case of the eunuch being more anxious than the emperor..."
"Enough of that. Hurry up and log in to the Dragon Star Award Official Website and take a look!"
"The results for Rurouni Kenshin: Trust and Betrayal are... a little unexpected."
After hanging up, Chu Yu yawned.
After Su Ruo had woken him up like that, he had no interest in going back to sleep.
He got up slowly, washed his face and brushed his teeth, then cooked himself a bowl of noodles. After washing it down with a bottle of cola and eating his fill, he finally went over to his computer.
The Dragon Star Award Official Website...
Chu Yu clicked in. The first thing he saw was the great number of comics entered from all the different provinces.
The first comic to catch his eye was one called Blazing Feather. After all, it was currently in first place on the paid-readers chart.
On the Dragon Star Award Official Website, whenever someone paid to read a work, that work gained one fan point.
At the end of the four-week first round of the Dragon Star Award, the ten works with the highest fan-point totals would advance to the second round.
At present, Blazing