That night, on the Douyin platform.
The news that Coca-Cola signed King of Glory Imperial Emperor as its brand ambassador quickly became a trending topic, causing an uproar among tens of millions of netizens.
Holy crap! The Imperial Emperor has become Coca-Cola spokesperson?!
"Unbelievable! Hasn't the Imperial Emperor God always refused to commercialize his personal brand? How could he be cooperating with capital?"
"I just checked Coca-Cola's official Weibo, and they said they will fully sponsor the Imperial Emperor's Sovereign Dominion Team, to help them become the strongest team in the King of Glory!"
"Brothers, this is going to be really interesting. Pepsi-Cola announced its sponsorship of the Imperial Crown Team, and Coca-Cola announced its sponsorship of the Sovereign Dominion Team. It's a real head-to-head battle."
"I have a feeling a storm is brewing in the King of King of Glory community. With both old and new grudges, Imperial Crown and Sovereign Dominion are likely to go to war!"
"I agree with the comment above. Imperial Crown already sees Sovereign Dominion as a thorn in its side. Only by annexing Sovereign Dominion can Imperial Crown truly dominate the entire King of Glory community!"
While millions of netizens were discussing it heatedly.
The latest announcement from the Sovereign Dominion Team has caused a sensation in the King of Glory community!
The content is as follows: After friendly negotiations and communication, the former captain of the Hundred Demons Team, [ Shura ], along with [ Snow Woman ], [ Zashiki ], and other core members of the Hundred Demons Squad, have officially joined the Sovereign Dominion Team, effective immediately.
Tens of millions of King of Glory players were utterly shocked.
The comment section exploded.
" Shura joining Sovereign Dominion? Seriously, buddy? Shura and Imperial Emperor were mortal enemies back then. Besides, Imperial Emperor despises the Hundred Demons Hundred Demons Team, how could he possibly fight alongside its members?"
"If you don't understand, just ask. Who is Shura?"
" Shura is the captain of the Hundred Demons team. Ten years ago, Hundred Demons and Imperial Crown were known as the strongest twin stars of the King of Glory's team. In terms of game skills, Shura was on par with Imperial Emperor, and was also called [ Ghost Emperor ] by top players at the time."
"If you mention Ghost Emperor, I'll know who he is. He's the first player to get the Major National Badge Ukyo Tachibana, and many Ukyo Tachibana masters still consider Ghost Emperor to be the strongest Ukyo Tachibana."
"I just want to ask one question: the Hundred Demons Team is infamous, the most evil team King of Glory by the Imperial Emperor back then, so why Sovereign Dominion agree to let Shura lead the team to join?"
"Brother, the Hundred Demons are infamous and can't be whitewashed, but the reason it's evil is because of its chief vice-captain [ Nurarihyon ]. That guy is insane, using exploitative contracts to do all sorts of bad things."
Following the official announcement from Sovereign Dominion, more and more netizens began searching for " Nurarihyon, the chief vice-captain of Hundred Demons," and what they found was quite surprising.
Many King of Glory -tier players of the game, who were persecuted by Nurarihyon, posted videos tearfully denouncing Nurarihyon's Nurarihyon contracts. Although the videos were mainly released in 2016, their sheer number was astonishing.
"Holy crap! Daxian, Dehua, and other early King of Glory streamers were also persecuted by Nurarihyon's Nurarihyon contracts, but I've never heard of that before!"
" Douyin was launched in 2016. At that time, Douyin focused on recording the good things in life and pushed positive videos. Negative videos like this would definitely be blocked and restricted, so it's normal that we don't know about them."
"Dude upstairs, your explanation doesn't make sense. Even if Douyin doesn't give them streaming, they can still get exposure through their own live streaming platforms."
"Let me, as someone who experienced it firsthand, explain it. Before Nurarihyon could even persecute these King of Glory streamers, his own Hundred Demons Team was beaten to the brink of disbandment by Imperial Emperor, and then their captain Shura, disappeared without Nurarihyon trace."
" Nurarihyon can't clap his hands alone; he can't support the Hundred Demons Team on his own. He has no choice but to unconditionally terminate his unfair contracts with these King of Glory streamers."
"Furthermore, Daxian and Dehua are currently top-tier livestreamers, and they need to consider the impact on public opinion. There's no need to bring up their dark past, since their interests weren't harmed at the time."
Tens of millions of netizens, upon learning of the evil of Hundred Demons Nurarihyon, immediately flooded the official Douyin account of the Hundred Demons Team, condemning and denouncing Nurarihyon's wickedness and viciousness, resulting in a surge of millions of comments.
They directly insulted the official account of the Hundred Demons under Nurarihyon's control until the account was banned.
The moon is bright and the stars are few; an apartment building near Jiangcheng No. 1 High School.
"That beast Shura betrayed me, fine, but he actually dared to join Sovereign Dominion and help Su Hang! What a traitorous bastard!"
Lin Ying was furious. She smashed the Rubik's Cube to pieces, her eyes bloodshot, and said, "And that Su Hang, he actually betrayed his integrity and chose to collude with capital."
Although Sovereign Dominion's current business valuation is only over 100 million, once Imperial Emperor fully embraces personal commercialization, more and more capital will inevitably come to Sovereign Dominion. Before long, Sovereign Dominion's business valuation will break through 100 billion!
"But this is also an opportunity."
Lin Ying took a deep breath, calming her anger, and reason regained its advantage. "As long as we annex Sovereign Dominion, we can use a domineering contract to imprison Imperial Emperor back in Imperial Crown and ruthlessly squeeze his billions of commercial value."
The alarm clock rang for the Imperial Crown's high-level meeting.
Lin Ying straightened her collar, clicked to jump to the Imperial Crown's Crown core members' group chat, and joined the group call interface.
"Yo yo yo, isn't this Nurarihyon, the Nurarihyon commander of the Hundred Demons Team?" Silver Dragon's mocking voice rang out. "Haven't seen you for a day, how come you've been unilaterally abandoned by the Hundred Demons ' higher-ups, led by Shura?"
Lin Ying said with a half-smile, "Vice Captain Silver Dragon, it's not that Hundred Demons abandoned me, it's that I abandoned Hundred Demons. After all, I'm the Captain of the Imperial Crown now, Hundred Demons has no further use to me."
Mountain Lord was slightly surprised. "What the hell? You're the Captain of the Imperial Crown?"
Lin Ying smiled slyly, "Is there a problem? As the acting captain of Imperial Crown, I wield great power in [legal affairs], [judgment], and [personnel]. I'm sure I'm more qualified to Captain of the Imperial Crown than any of you here."
The implication couldn't be clearer: anyone who doesn't support me, Nurarihyon, becoming the Captain of the Imperial Crown will be expelled from the team on charges of treason, and forced to pay ten times the amount of the breach of contract penalty.
"I've never seen such a shameless person as you." Phoenix sneered, "If the Imperial Crown fans knew that you, Nurarihyon the Captain of the Imperial Crown, then Imperial Crown's reputation would be completely ruined."
Lin Ying said confidently, "As long as no one says anything, who will know?"
Phoenix said coldly, " The Imperial Emperor knows your Nurarihyon identity."
"I know the Imperial Emperor's character; he won't expose my Nurarihyon identity. But if he dares to expose my Nurarihyon identity, I'll retaliate in kind by exposing his Imperial Emperor identity."
Lin Ying said with a forced smile, "If we really tear off all pretenses, the one who will be disgraced won't be me, but the Exalted Emperor used a fake account to livestream and participate in the Overlord Feast, the Clash of Kings... the Imperial Emperor who fooled the masses!"
The people at the Imperial Crown remained silent.
"The three former vice-captains, now Imperial Emperor, have become Coca-Cola brand ambassadors, fully embracing the commercialization of their personal IP. With a future commercial valuation of hundreds of billions, Sovereign Dominion can already be considered a competitor."
Lin Ying smiled and said, "I think it's time to help you take revenge on the Imperial Emperor and annex Sovereign Dominion. If you have a detailed revenge plan, feel free to tell me and let me hear its feasibility."