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Starlight Entertainment.

The meeting room was very silent.

Everyone was staring at the big screen.

The faces of the company’s top executives were full of suppressed excitement.

Even those who are usually able to hide their emotions couldn’t stay calm when Admirable Fish unveiled himself.

Even Li Songhua, the chairman, couldn’t hide his unrest at this moment!

Prince of Lanling, Admirable Fish!

Who would have guessed!

This little Maestro, behind the company’s back, had created such big news!

He finally revealed his face!

In the most shocking way!

At this moment.

A senior executive said with a trembling voice: “Admirable Fish’s value is now immeasurable. The revealing of his identity has caused the company’s stock to skyrocket. It’s like we’re in a frenzy of stock price increases…”

Thunderous.

The silence was broken.

A high-level executive coughed: “Isn’t Admirable Fish’s office a little small?”

“Indeed.”

“We need to improve Admirable Fish’s treatment.”

“From now on, whatever Admirable Fish requests, don’t even bother reporting it, just satisfy him straight away.”

“Let him do whatever he likes.”

“As long as he doesn’t break the company, let him do whatever he wants. He’s just a kid.”

“Don’t we have to indulge a child however he behaves?”

“But now, other entertainment companies must be green with envy. We must do something about it…”

“Our Starlight Crown Prince, is not for outsiders to meddle.”

“…”

The phrase ‘Starlight Crown Prince’ is often used in a teasing manner by the company’s employees, but never uttered by the execs.

This was the first time.

But everyone, in this very moment, nodded in agreement.

Indeed!

He is our company’s Crown Prince!

Ours!

Starlight’s!

Anyone looking to meddle, break their fingers!

No one would dare to underestimate the determination of the Starlight execs at this moment.@@novelbin@@

For Admirable Fish, they would wage a war against any company!

“I am considering inviting Admirable Fish to hold some shares in the company. We can discuss the specific shareholding ratio later.”

Li Songhua’s words, spoken while tapping his fingers on the table, suddenly silenced the conference room again.

“I agree, let’s hold another meeting to discuss that later.”

Finally, a senior executive with real power nodded seriously, his gaze fixated on the grand conclusion celebration image on the program.

There on the stage, Admirable Fish was shining brightly.

“I have no objections.”

“Agreed.”

“Let’s do it.”

The other executives nodded in agreement after a slight pause, acknowledging Admirable Fish’s worth.

“Oh right…”

“What about Yuan Xi…”

A high-level executive angrily interrupted: “Not just Yuan Xi.”

Someone couldn’t hold back anymore and wanted to take action.

Didn’t know Prince of Lanling was Admirable Fish, you can slander him freely.

But after knowing Prince of Lanling is Admirable Fish, taking everything into consideration, Starlight is furious!

“No need.”

Li Songhua spoke again: “You’ve all been paying attention to Admirable Fish, you should know his character, these fans who are ignorant are not at fault, they will know what to do next. As for Yuan Xi…”

Li Songhua paused, and said with a complicated tone: “Is there really a need for us to take action?”

Everyone was taken aback for a moment and then laughed.

Admirable Fish’s influence has risen to another level with the stage of The Masked Singer, there’s no need for Starlight to punish anyone under these circumstances.

Li Songhua said nothing.

In fact, given Admirable Fish’s personality, he probably wouldn’t hold a grudge against Yuan Xi, he may even forget about it.

Li Songhua has privately concluded this from studying Admirable Fish’s character countless times.

The truth is, this matter has nothing to do with Admirable Fish anymore.

Some insiders decided to stir up some trouble on their own.

That’s the entertainment industry for you.

How big a mistake did Yuan Xi make?

It was nothing more than tacitly allowing, or even inciting fans, while secretly using small means not making it to the table, in order to climb on top of Prince of Lanling.

This is a common “backstabbing” behavior in the entertainment industry.

Many celebrities have done similar things, what’s a little backstabbing?

There have even been cases where the other party was slandered until their career was ruined, and they could no longer show their face in public.

Starlight doesn’t take action, in order to protect Admirable Fish, and not to leave the impression in the industry that Admirable Fish is too domineering.

But Starlight is not an old good person who returns gratitude with resentment.

The precondition to this matter is that someone will take action for Admirable Fish, for Starlight.

While Li Songhua has been able to steadily control Blue Star, a top music company for many years, secretly his teeth have been poisoned.

…

The show had already come to an end.

The audience left the stage, reluctant to part.

Lin Yuan went backstage, and on seeing Tongtong gazing at him absentmindedly, he couldn’t help but laugh:

“Thank you.”

Tongtong had been defending the Prince of Lanling during the competition. Lin Yuan was vaguely aware of that.

“You are…”

Suddenly, Tongtong pulled out a small notebook. “Can you give me your autograph?”

“Sure.”

Lin Yuan penned his name for her in standard script – two graceful characters spelling out “Admirable Fish.”

“Thank you!”

Tongtong was overjoyed.

Knowing the real identity of the Prince of Lanling, Tongtong was profoundly shocked!

Now it all made sense.

She completely understood!

Why the Prince of Lanling dared to critique other singers without hesitation, why the Prince of Lanling never cared about the uproar from the fans…

Because he was Admirable Fish!

Whatever he said was golden words of wisdom. If he wanted, he could sit in the judges’ seat.

Around the corner…

Sun Yaohuo and Xia Fan, among others, emerged out of nowhere, excitedly calling:

“Junior Brother!”

“Lin Yuan!”

“Teacher Admirable Fish!”

All sorts of things were being shouted.

Lin Yuan looked at the singers he was most familiar with, chuckled and said: “We’ve embraced enough already. Go and have some well-deserved rest. I will get in touch with all of you later.”

“Okay!”

People like Sun Yaohuo instantly nodded.

Zhao Ying Ge’s eyes widened, feeling faint from the sudden onslaught of happiness…

“Them!”

Not “you”!

“You all,” including herself!

Alright then.

Zhao Ying Ge was aware of it.

She knew, in terms of closeness, her relationship with Admirable Fish didn’t match that of Sun Yaohuo and others. But this competition made her stand out in Admirable Fish’s eyes!

What competition…

What top twelve…

None of these could compare to the last sentence from Admirable Fish!

From now on, she was truly going to belong to the Fish family!

“Not bad.”

Xia Fan stepped forward and patted Lin Yuan’s arm.

As childhood friends, she knew much more than others did, like the matter of Lin Yuan’s damaged vocal cords and his poor health since he was little…

Now that Admirable Fish’s voice had recovered, she was too happy for words!

“By the way.”

Xia Fan suddenly said,”Jian Yi was cursing at you in the group chat just now.”

“Cursing me for what?”

“For being an emotionless liar.”

Lin Yuan: “…”

He glanced at his phone’s group chat. Sure enough, Jian Yi was raving mad in there.

“And also…”

Xia Fan said with a strange expression on her face, “A few singers just apologized to you online, and some are here right now, wanting to come over and apologize to you in person…”

Lin Yuan was taken aback.

Only then did he see not far away, singers like Elf and Mu Shi were standing in a line, looking eagerly at him, like a bunch of guilty school children.

Lin Yuan could only helplessly walk over to comfort them.

He didn’t think the issue was severe enough to warrant an apology.

Seeing Lin Yuan’s reaction, Xia Fan knew:

Her friend still didn’t fully grasp what the two characters “Admirable Fish” meant for the music scene of today.

Especially…

After this unmasking.

A little while later, the White Swan Robot and some others also came backstage to find Lin Yuan, with one goal:

To add him as a friend!

Of course, Lin Yuan also satisfied this group of people.

Once backstage business was done, he finally managed to extricate himself.

“Finally, it’s over.”

Sitting in Gu Dong’s car on his way home, Lin Yuan finally let out a sigh of relief, commenting how navigating the suddenly transforming social interactions backstage due to the unmasking was even more exhausting than a singing duel.

Is it over?

It might not be

Lil Goodoong chuckled secretly. This competition had dealt tons of hard blows to countless people.

Once again, the same statement-

Lin Yuan somewhat underestimated the impact of “Admirable Fish”.

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ps: Thanks to the Alliance Hierarch from Daoist Monk for the tips. Here is another fresh and hot chapter. Also, thanks to Feather for the tips that are more effective than cultivated by Polluted White. Every morning, when Polluted White is about to go to sleep, he can see the silhouette of Feather about to ascend, ▄█▀█●.