Su Ping frowned slightly as he looked at Wang Zhenyun onstage, somewhat speechless and helpless.
He understood the man's good intentions.
He had to admit that Breeders who researched pet beast cultivation were a remarkably pure-hearted bunch.
Their thinking was often quite simple.
Or rather, Professor Wang himself believed that the Regression Potion really could affect Su Ping's chances of winning what might be the most uncertain award.
So he had simply chosen to withdraw.
The Most Popular Breeding Achievement Award carried relatively little weight, but being willing to withdraw at a time like this did indeed demonstrate his goodwill and resolve.
But the outside world would not necessarily see it that way.
With Su Ping's current reputation in the Dragon Nation and around the world, outsiders might very well speculate that Dragon Nation officials had exerted internal pressure to make Wang Zhenyun withdraw from this Most Popular Breeding Achievement Award, allowing Su Ping to complete this unprecedented achievement.
Yes, Su Ping never shied away from considering malicious interpretations.
Because that was how the world worked. He rarely did such things himself, but that could not stop some people from thinking that way.
And he had to admit that, if he could not be certain Wang Zhenyun was not that sort of person, even he might have started thinking along those lines.
So Su Ping sighed helplessly, but there was little he could say.
His relationship with Professor Wang was fairly good.
More importantly, it was not merely a personal friendship. They genuinely had shared business interests.
Much of the funding for Demon City Academy's Breeding Research Institute also came from the Pingyun Group.
At the same time, both the earlier Time Potion and this Regression Potion were distributed and sold by the Pingyun Group.
Given their relationship, Professor Wang