But no secret could stay hidden forever!
The news that Chu Yu planned to acquire Tianxing had finally leaked through various channels! Of course, Chu Yu's acquisition team had played a part in spreading the word. They'd been planning to let the industry know about it from the start!
At first, Dragon Country's anime fans thought the news was a joke!
After all, in everyone's view, although Chu Yu was a boss in his own right, he only managed his own works. He was still a far cry from a true capital tycoon!
It was like the film and television industry. Plenty of stars started their own companies and became bosses, but most of them still depended on a handful of industry giants to survive!
When had anyone ever seen a star in any country turn around and acquire the industry's leading company?
Wasn't that ridiculous?
Stars relied on those companies for resources. They didn't earn as much as the companies did, so what gave them the right to buy them?
But Chu Yu—
He hadn't just made one or two hit anime. Over the past seven or eight years, he'd created more works than a top anime creator might produce in an entire lifetime. That was how he'd amassed such an enormous fortune.
Once fans calmed down and thought it over, they realized that Chu Yu's publicly known assets might actually be enough to buy into Tianxing!
Even so, most fans remained skeptical!
But the next day, when a Tianxing shareholder told a friend outright that he planned to sell his shares to Chu Yu, the Animation Industry was thrown into an uproar.
Of course, in truth, this was also the work of the PR team Chu Yu had hired to spread the news!
The goal was to drive