The Rumours

Looking back at the history of the animation industries on Japan Island and the Mainland over the years, there had been plenty of big-budget animated productions.

Some had budgets close to a hundred million, while others had investments of over a hundred million—even several hundred million.

But those cases were almost always projects from established industry veterans. They might have spent years preparing, carefully selecting everything from the script and production staff to the management team before finally convincing investors to fund the project.

And productions like that usually came with plenty of warning before they began, giving all the 2D fans ample time to brace themselves!

But with CNNAD... even now, the entire Dragon Country Animation Industry knew nothing about it except that it was a romance anime.

It wasn't adapted from a popular novel, manga, or game. And although GT Animation Company seemed to have strengthened its production team, it didn't look like they'd assembled an all-star lineup...

All right, people on the outside had analyzed it from every angle, and they all came back to the same question: Zhao Qinyin had graduated from university less than a year ago, so why would GT Animation Company be willing to spend so much money on her work?

Was the company's boss an idiot? Or did he have some kind of improper relationship with Zhao Qinyin?

But that was ridiculous. Even if the malicious rumors were true, nearly a hundred million... that was still outrageous!

Or did the animation company's boss simply have that much faith in Zhao Qinyin's abilities?

Everyone in Dragon Country was touting Zhao Qinyin as a genius girl, but any seasoned investor knew that genius was unpredictable. There were countless examples in Dragon Country of someone ruling the industry one year and becoming a laughingstock the