Zhou Keyu quickly wiped away her tears and looked in the direction of the sound.
" Exalted Emperor?"
Su Hang, holding two 500ml bottles of Coke in both hands, walked into the dressing room with a smile. "Long time no see, you child prodigy who can finish a bottle of Coke in 6 seconds."
"It's six seconds to get into character!" Zhou Keyu suddenly stood up, his face full of vigilance. "What are you doing here?"
"I should be asking you that," Su Hang said, placing his cola on the table, pulling out a chair, and resting his chin on his fist. " The Clash of Kings the Arena are publicly demanding to see me."
Zhou Keyu was slightly taken aback. He had only given it a try, but he hadn't expected that Exalted Emperor would actually keep his promise.
"You're Su Hang, right?"
Su Hang said lazily, "If you want to catch up, please hurry up, I have a team victory celebration banquet to attend later."
" Su Hang, I know your hidden identity!"
Zhou Keyu's pupils contracted, sweat trickling down his cheeks. There was no mistake; being so close to Exalted Emperor, the last vestige of uncertainty gradually vanished. "You are the Captain of the Imperial Crown of the Imperial Emperor Tieba?"
Su Hang looked surprised. "How did you know?"
Although he did not deliberately hide his identity, the Imperial Emperor and the Exalted Emperor had long been separated into two people. Even if he claimed to be the Imperial Emperor, no one would believe that his old friend, whom he had not seen for ten years, would recognize him at a glance!
"As expected of Imperial Emperor."
Zhou Keyu's heart sank to the bottom. Until just now, he still held onto a glimmer of hope that as long as Su Hang didn't give him a verbal confirmation, there was still a 10% chance that Exalted Emperor and Imperial Emperor were the two of them.
"Why did you change your Captain of Sovereign Dominion Exalted Emperor? Do you know that your actions are fooling the public?"
"A series of coincidences," Su Hang said dismissively, "But I cannot agree with your accusation that you are fooling the public."
"Liar! I've figured it all out." Zhou Keyu said sternly, "You made a deal with someone: as long as you open a new account to stream King of Glory of Glory, that person will give you what you want!"
"His logical reasoning ability remains as strong as ever."
Su Hang narrowed his eyes slightly.
It's a shame that Zhou Keyu, given that he can deduce the existence of the "system" just by reasoning. But it's precisely because of this that he came to keep the appointment.
Zhou Keyu pressed on. "What exactly did that person promise you that made you go to such lengths, hiding your identity and using the Exalted Emperor identity to turn the gaming world upside down? What exactly are you trying to do?"
Su Hang Tanran replied, "Before answering your question, I'd like to answer your first one: why did you lose when you performed the Emperor Hero back then?"
Zhou Keyu was stunned. "Why?"
Su Hang snapped his fingers. "Your props and costumes are a perfect recreation of the Emperor Hero, and your lines, actions, and performance are flawless. But just as you played the King of Glory and Imperial Emperor in the short drama, you were ultimately just playing myself."
Zhou Keyu's fingernails dug deep into the crevices of his palms, causing him inner Citong.
Su Hang smiled and said, "Just like I am the Captain of the Imperial Crown Imperial Emperor, I have never doubted that I am Emperor Hero."
Zhou Keyu gritted his teeth and said, "Are you showing off to me?"
"Being overly emotional is not what I remember—that child prodigy who could drink a bottle of Coke in six seconds!"
"It takes only 6 seconds to get into character!"
Zhou Keyu gradually calmed down, "Aren't you afraid I'll reveal your identity as the Captain of the Imperial Crown to the public?"
Su Hang shook his head and said, "You wouldn't do that."
Zhou Keyu sneered, "Is it because to prove that Captain of the Imperial Crown, you need to cross-verify with the [ Imperial Emperor's Game Account] and the [ Imperial Ring ] that you are so fearless?"
Su Hang threw his phone away.
What are you going to do?
Zhou Keyu hurriedly caught it, looked down, and saw that the screen displayed the Honor of Kings game lobby interface, with the avatar ID in the upper left corner clearly showing [ Imperial Emperor ]!
" The Imperial Emperor's game account!"
Snap!
A crisp sound of a box being opened rang out.
Zhou Keyu looked up, his pupils dilating in shock.
On the nearby table, there was an open ring box containing a ring with twelve exquisite gemstones set around its edge. As the person playing the role of King of Glory or Imperial Emperor, he knew very well what this ring was called.
" The Imperial Ring!"
Su Hang's eyes flashed as he said, "Now you have two choices: one, immediately start a live stream and announce to the entire internet that I, Su Hang, am the Captain of the Imperial Crown; two, become the only person in the world who knows that Su Hang is the Captain of the Imperial Crown!"
Zhou Keyu's body trembled, and he slowly lowered his head.
Su Hang smiled and thought, "Your obsession with becoming [1] is too deep. It was the same when you were in the final of the Shining Child Star competition ten years ago, and it's the same now that you have the Imperial Emperor account and the Imperial Ring."
"Ha, Su Hang."
Zhou Keyu threw the phone back, saying, "Do you know how dangerous your actions were? If I had taken your Imperial Ring and the entire internet had declared me Imperial Emperor, how would you have handled that?"
"This is a replica of the Imperial Ring," Su Hang said with a strange look. "You don't actually think I carry around Imperial Ring worth 120 million RMB, do you?"
You bastard!
Zhou Keyu's facial muscles twitched violently.
"We're all Qiannian veterans, let's not play these ghost stories. Showing off the Imperial Emperor account and bringing out the Imperial Ring, it can't just be to prove my identity as the Captain of the Imperial Crown, can it?"
Su Hang joked, "Or maybe he's a child prodigy who can finish a bottle of Coke in six seconds? His mind just works that fast."
Zhou Keyu's face darkened. "It's six seconds to get into character! You know!"
Su Hang's smile faded, and his eyes turned serious as he said, "I hope you can do me a favor."
Zhou Keyu smiled slightly and said, "Why should I help you?"
"Sigh." Su Hang rubbed the back of his head, looking up at the ceiling, and said, "You became an overnight sensation with ' The Imperial Emperor's Counterattack Glory,' becoming a top actor of the new era, and the second installment is already in active preparation."
"If I order Imperial Crown to revoke the license for the show and remove it from all online platforms, your thriving acting career will likely suffer a severe blow."
"It won't go out of style, but it'll be enough to give you a hard time."
Zhou Keyu's face darkened. "Are you threatening me?"
"How can you call it a threat?" Su Hang said with a charming smile, "It's a sacred right granted to me by national law."
" Su Hang, I don't remember you being this despicable."
Zhou Keyu's eyelids twitched. What the other party said was right. As the Imperial Emperor himself, he had the right to request the cancellation of the short drama's authorization and its removal from all online platforms.
He wavered.
Su Hang pressed his advantage, speaking rapidly, "I can guarantee that if you agree to help me, not only will the short drama license not be revoked, but I will also have Imperial Crown fully support your acting career."
A short while later.
Zhou Keyu relented and said, "Tell me how you want to help."
Su Hang breathed a sigh of relief. If Zhou Keyu didn't agree, he really had no choice. After all, he simply couldn't bring himself to ruin his old friend's future.
"Have you heard about the story of Silver Dragon, the vice-captain of the Imperial Crown, seizing power from the Imperial Emperor and attempting to become the second-generation captain of the Imperial Crown?"
Zhou Keyu frowned and recalled, "When we were filming, one of your core members from the Imperial Crown mentioned to me that the ending seemed to be that Silver Dragon failed to seize power and was expelled from the Imperial Crown Team by you."
"Yes."
Su Hang said with an icy gaze.
"But I only learned today that the one who seized power was not Silver Dragon, or rather, Silver Dragon was merely misled, just like Yuan Ge manipulated puppets. The one who truly wanted to seize power was hiding behind Silver Dragon, secretly controlling everything."
Zhou Keyu was stunned. "Who is the one who bewitched the Silver Dragon?"
"This is the matter I need to ask of you: I hope you can join the Imperial Crown under an assumed name and secretly investigate who is bewitching the Silver Dragon!"
Zhou Keyu frowned. "Your Imperial Crown main team plus the nine Imperial Alliance sub-teams total over a thousand people. The range of suspects is too vast. Even if I work myself to death, I still won't be able to find the person who bewitched the Silver Dragon!"
"You only need to investigate the core members of the Imperial Crown, excluding the Wangsun!"
"Core members of the investigation?"
Zhou Keyu's eyes widened suddenly. "You mean..."
"Yes!"
Su Hang's eyes flashed with a fierce light, "The one who bewitched the Silver Dragon is hidden among the eight core members!"