That night, the city lights began to twinkle.
Apartment buildings near Jiangcheng No. 1 High School.
"The betrayal of the entire Imperial Crown team, coupled with the second betrayal by Silver Dragon Phoenix Mountain Lord, Senior Su Hang, even if you didn't commit suicide out of despair, you should have been unable to withstand the blow and suffered a severe mental breakdown, right?"
Lin Ying solved a 4x4 Rubik's Cube, a smile more pronounced than an AK's, "I still greatly underestimated the hatred of the Silver Dragon Phoenix Mountain Lord. I didn't expect them to lead their team back to the Imperial Crown in revenge against you."
The original plan was that the recording of the Imperial Emperor acknowledging Exalted Emperor's identity was only to get Silver Dragon Mountain Lord Phoenix Nurarihyon Sovereign Dominion, and then he would use his silver tongue to persuade the three of them to return to Imperial Crown.
The primary objective was to incite the Three Champion Emperors to betray and severely damage Imperial Emperor, while the secondary objective was to leverage the Three Champion Emperors's influence and appeal to gain favor from capital and propel Imperial Crown's commercial valuation toward the 100 billion mark.
Unexpectedly, the recording quality was surprisingly good. The Three Champion Emperors not only angrily announced his withdrawal from Sovereign Dominion, but also announced the next day that he would lead the team back to Imperial Crown. Imperial Crown's commercial valuation directly exceeded 100 billion.
Lin Ying twisted the Rubik's Cube, calming her agitated emotions slightly. "Although Imperial Crown now boasts over 100,000 members, a commercial valuation exceeding 100 billion, and 1 billion fans in the King of Glory community, I cannot afford to be complacent."
The Imperial Crown's rapid growth into such a behemoth in just a few days was entirely due to the return of the Three Champion Emperors Imperial Crown.
Therefore, the most urgent task is to use an exorbitant contract to firmly bind the Three Champion Emperors to the Imperial Crown Team.
Once the commercial value of the Three Champion Emperors has been fully exploited, they can be thrown into the trash can like garbage.
"Tonight's meeting of Imperial Crown executives has many objectives, but the Jim is only one: to get the Three Champion Emperors to sign a sky-high contract with Imperial Crown 'Imperial Crown, deeply binding them to this giant ship."
Just as Lin Ying was about to solve the Rubik's Cube, with a snap, the three corner pieces—blue, red, and yellow—suddenly flew onto the table. "A thousand-dollar collector's edition Rubik's Cube with this poor quality?"
"What bad luck, it ruined my good mood."
Lin Ying, looking displeased, casually tossed the Rubik's Cube into the trash can. Just then, her phone rang with an alarm for a high-level meeting at Imperial Crown.
"Nine years later, the twelve core members of the Imperial Crown reunite for a meeting. Each of them is a criminal, a traitor to the Imperial Emperor. What will it feel like? I can't wait to find out."
Lin Ying's eyes gleamed with barely concealed excitement. She switched to the QQ interface, clicked to enter the Imperial Crown's Crown Core Twelve-person group chat, and joined the group call.
"You son of a bitch, you little bastard, I'm talking to you, Ganglie, do you have any shame? Are you starving or what? You betrayed the Imperial Emperor for a few hundred thousand dollars worth of protein powder."
The microphone on the Mountain Lord slammed shut as someone cursed, "I'm so ashamed of you, don't you even care?"
Ganglie blushed, his voice lacking conviction, "What right do you have to insult me? Didn't you also betray the Imperial Emperor?"
"I betrayed the Emperor nine years ago! Unlike you, you shameless beast, who betrayed the Imperial Emperor in secret and still shamelessly stays in the Imperial Crown, deceiving yourself every day by chanting the slogan of loyalty to the Imperial Emperor."
Ganglie was so ashamed he wanted to disappear, and he stammered, "..."
Huranlang coughed twice, "It's almost time to catch the Mountain Lord."
"And you, Huranlang, who the hell do you think you are?" Mountain Lord said arrogantly, "You son of a bitch, do you even have the right to speak?"
The Huranlang's forehead veins bulged as he angrily said, "Watch your mouth! I am now the vice-captain of the Imperial Crown team. According to the Imperial Crown's rules and regulations, I have the right to initiate a vote to expel you from the team for disrespect!"
The Mountain Lord glared angrily, his imposing aura terrifying, and said, "Come on, try starting a poll. I'll see tonight who the hell dares to vote in favor. I'll cut off their head and use it as a football."
"Enough, Mountain Lord!" Shejun shouted angrily, "In a society governed by law, you're resorting to gangster tactics? I think you're tired of living."
"Who the hell do you think you are? You traitorous rat who betrayed the Imperial Emperor!"
The Mountain Lord roared, "You're a fucking one-eared dog, and I'm the fucking Black Cat Detective! Say another word, and I'll shoot you, you son of a bitch!"
The Shejun immediately fell silent, angrily muting his microphone.
One wave subsides, another rises.
"Haha, embezzling a million in team funds, Wangsun of Wangsun, you're going to make me laugh to death." The Silver Dragon dragon microphone flashed, and someone burst into laughter. "You and Ganglie could sit at the same table. Betraying the Imperial Emperor for a million."
"No, no, that's hilarious!"
Wangsun gritted his teeth in shame and said, "I had no choice. The cash flow of our real business had broken down, and I had no other option but to embezzle team funds."
Silver Dragon laughed until tears streamed down his face, "If you were to embezzle a billion or two billion of the team's funds, I would give you a thumbs up and admire you to the point of prostration. But if you embezzle only a million, that's laughable."
"If you just explain to the Imperial Emperor why you need the money, let alone a million for working capital, even if it's 10 billion, the Imperial Emperor would sell everything he owns to scrape together the funds for you. Do you believe me?"
Chou Ox, speaking up for the emperor, said, " Silver Dragon, you need to speak from your conscience! Nine years ago, you failed to seize power from the Imperial Emperor and absconded with the funds, taking with you hundreds of millions of yuan in reserves from the Imperial Crown's coffers."
"If Imperial Crown hadn't been short of money and unable to pay the salaries of its core members, would Wangsun have needed to embezzle team funds to cover the financial hole?"
Silver Dragon said sarcastically, "Oh, you're just a cow lice who lives off the Imperial Crown, never participating in team matches, never handling team affairs, and even missing Imperial Crown internal meetings without reason, and now you're lecturing me?"
"I'm not saying this out of spite, but if the core members of Imperial Crown were to follow the promotion and relegation system of the early KPL League, you, a cow lice who does no work and contributes no effort, would have been demoted to a regular player long ago."
"You, Niu Shizi, are the least deserving person to be a core member of Imperial Crown!"
The Chou Ox, its sore spot touched, retorted angrily, "That's still better than you, you ungrateful wretch who usurped the Imperial Emperor."
The Silver Dragon looked down at him condescendingly. "I, this young master, at least have a glorious record of seizing power from the Imperial Emperor, and am still the Champion Emperor Dragon Emperor admired by millions of King of Glory players. What do you, you lizard, have besides the title of an Uncrowned Overlord?"
"You..." Chou Ox trembled with anger.
Hanlu's microphone flashed, warning, " Silver Dragon, you've gone too far. This is the Imperial Crown, not your Twilight of the Gods. If you want to teach someone a lesson, go back to your own team."
"You're a piece of trash!" Silver Dragon scoffed, picking his nose. "Back when I was bewitched by Nurarihyon disguised as Wangsun, at least I had some brains. You, on the other hand, have absolutely no brains at all."
Suppressing his anger, Hanlu said, "My intentions were good; I just wanted to help Imperial Crown eliminate the Hundred Demons Nurarihyon of the Infiltrator Team."
"And then?" Silver Dragon said with a sneer, "He handed over the stinking rat's [legal power], along with his own [judicial power], to Nurarihyon, allowing him to successfully seize power and become Imperial Emperor."
"You call this having good intentions? Betraying the Imperial Emperor's trust, helping Hundred Demons Nurarihyon complete the consolidation of power in the Triple Ultimate positions, and eliminating the Imperial Crown, the founder of the Imperial Emperor, in one fell swoop—you're so awesome~"
Hanlu was furious. "I was forced to admit that I was used as a Nurarihyon by Nurarihyon, and I also admit to indirectly betraying the Imperial Emperor, but I have never abused my power."
"You're quite proud of yourself, aren't you? Wangsun and Niu Shizi, one embezzled a million yuan of team funds early on, and the other just lazes around with a fixed salary every day. They've used their positions to reap the rewards."
Silver Dragon, with a gun in his hand and a stick in his mouth, said, "You lapdog, you can't even keep up with the latest developments."
"You..." Hanlu was so angry that he spat out a mouthful of blood.
"Alright, Silver Dragon." The Phoenix microphone flashed, and it said indifferently, "We'll talk about Yin and Yang later. Let me ask the Yuejing something first."
Yuejing tightened. "What is it?"
Phoenix smiled and said, "In the nine years I've been away from the Imperial Crown, have you managed to turn Imperial Emperor gay?"