Chapter 68

1:30 p.m.

In the email inbox of TAP platform president Dong Guanglin, a message forwarded by his secretary arrived.

The attachment contained the list of award-winning games selected by the GA organization for April.

Dong Guanglin received such an email every month-end; usually, he didn’t bother opening it.

But this month, due to Genshin Impact’s collaboration with their platform and its instant breakout success after launch,

he wondered,

how many awards Genshin Impact might win in this GA list. So he casually opened the attachment to check.

After reading it once, Dong Guanglin initially thought he’d misread—or that his secretary had forwarded the wrong email, sending him last month’s list.

But after verifying again,

he found not a single award on the list mentioned Genshin Impact—and his face instantly darkened.

Best New Game of April—Fantasy Archangel!

Upon seeing that name, Dong Guanglin was stunned. Did TAP platform even have a game called Fantasy Archangel?

Normally, he carefully reviewed the platform’s weekly popular game data.

Any new game that made the top ten most popular on the platform,

Dong Guanglin hadn’t necessarily played them all, but he knew them all by reputation.

Yet Fantasy Archangel—he had zero recollection of it.

This game had defeated Genshin Impact, which had over five million downloads that month, and won Best New Game of April.

This was utterly absurd!

Of course,

it wasn’t that a breakout hit had to win Best New Game.

Some niche games had exceptional storylines and quality.

They just had fewer players or hadn’t yet gone viral.

It had happened before—GA judges favored such games and awarded them Best New Game.

Was this happening again?

Thinking this, Dong Guanglin, seeking confirmation, picked up his phone, opened the TAP app store, and typed “Fantasy Archangel.”

Soon,

a game saturated with heavy browser-game aesthetics appeared on his phone.

He could tolerate the crude production, but the pop-up payment prompts every thirty seconds pushed his temper past its limit!

At that moment,

though he didn’t know exactly what had happened, Dong Guanglin was certain this award list was utterly fraudulent.

Genshin Impact was now the lifeline and golden goose of their TAP platform.

Though they only took a ten percent cut of revenue each month,

that ten percent already exceeded the combined revenue of the next nine games.

Beyond revenue, Genshin Impact’s release on their TAP platform had caused their user base to surge dramatically.

They had now officially entered the hundred-million-user club.

If this award list went public, Dong Guanglin couldn’t imagine the catastrophic consequences.

Thinking of this, Dong Guanglin’s lips twitched twice. He picked up the desk phone and dialed the number of GA’s boss, Shen Nan.

As soon as the call connected, before the other side could speak, Dong Guanglin launched into a furious tirade:

“Shen, after all these years of cooperation, if you want to ruin your own reputation, can you at least not drag me down with you?”