Prodigal System in the Flourishing City

Shimen First Middle School.
Previously, brimming with confidence and full of mockery towards Lu Xiaobu, Hua Wenyan is now utterly dumbfounded by the complete reversal of the situation!
How is this possible?
Are you kidding me?
Just a few minutes and the whole situation has turned upside down?
From a scene where he was sure to advance, to one where he is completely crushed?
Zhou Jingyuan watches this unbelievable scene and feels a bit... well, never mind, she doesn’t have them.
What is going on?
Lu Xiaobu outright scolds the judges...
Just when everyone in the Heavenly Dynasty thought Lu Xiaobu was sure to lose...
Then, just like that, he wins in a confused haze!
This is really screwing the pooch!
The surrounding students exploded.
"Young Master Bu is invincible! What a comeback, awesome!"
"Young Master Bu is awesome! Easily thrashing the showoffs! What can the judges do? You scold, but still get your face slapped!"
"Good people receive good karma! Young Master Bu is unbeatable!"
"..."
Wu Qianmin also jumps and laughs joyfully: "Xiaobu, we won! Hahaha, we won!"
They are all excited, but Lu Xiaobu is disinterested.
"Boring."
Lu Xiaobu yawns.
He really has no interest in the Newcomer Rich List.
Seeing this, Li Qiang immediately tells Hua Wenyan: "See that? Truly awesome people never show off! Young Master Bu doesn’t even consider you worthy to be his opponent."
"En? Well said. Reward, five thousand."
Lu Xiaobu immediately cheers up.
Listen to that, how pleasing to the ears!
Truly awesome people never show off.
"Thank you, Young Master Xiaobu!"
Li Qiang is thrilled.
"Li Qiang, how about working with me from now on?"
Lu Xiaobu strokes his chin and says, "Salary ten thousand, tips extra."
This Li Qiang is a talent!
Spouting bootlicking phrases, cheeky remarks, and face-slapping retorts comes effortlessly to him, having such a person around is really comfortable!
"Ah?"
A rush of ecstasy floods Li Qiang’s heart: "Really?!"
"Would you like to?"
"Would! Would! Most certainly! I, Li Qiang, pledge to climb mountains and dive seas for Young Master Bu, to exhaust myself in service until death!"
Li Qiang immediately pledges loyalty!
"Lu Xiaobu, don’t be too smug too soon, I haven’t lost yet! Let me show you my backup plan!"
Hua Wenyan stares intently at Lu Xiaobu, pausing between each word.
He pulls out his phone and makes a call: "Hello, I am Hua Wenyan."
"President Hua."
Hua Wenyan: "Now, immediately announce the list of the Twelve Heavenly Kings, push it across all websites and platforms for me!"
"But, President Hua, the cost..."
Hua Wenyan grits his teeth and says: "No buts! This is an order!"
"Yes!"
Hua Wenyan ends the call, smirking at Lu Xiaobu: "Did you really think I wasn’t prepared? I came here to watch you so I could activate my backup plan at the first opportunity, to avoid being caught off guard!"
"Backup plan?" Lu Xiaobu shows a bit of interest.
"Yes, the backup plan." Hua Wenyan regains confidence, looking down at Lu Xiaobu and says: "I saw your donation records on our website, and I must say you have an eye for talent, spotting our recently unearthed Divine Book."
"But what you saw were only two or three books, but in fact, I have unearthed twelve Divine Books."
"I had organized it all before I came here, giving them a new title—Twelve Heavenly Kings."
"I’ve already initiated this plan, and now the entire network is promoting these twelve new books."
"No matter how well your tea sells, it’s limited by supply, so your rise is limited."
"And I, my Twelve Heavenly Kings, will bring me an endless stream of profits wherever there’s internet."
"So, you’re doomed to lose!"
As soon as his words fell, during the live broadcast, Hua Wenyan’s index, which was originally lagging behind Lu Xiaobu, suddenly started to soar rapidly.
The speed was so fast that it was even faster than Lu Xiaobu’s previous burst!
"Hahahaha!" Hua Wenyan let out a mad laugh: "The final winner is me!"
Zhou Jingyuan hurriedly took out her phone and opened a website to check: "The Twelve Heavenly Kings? Oh my, why are all the recommended spots on the entire website occupied by these twelve books?"
Suddenly, she felt a wave of regret; she had even had Lu Xiaobu make a donation earlier. Looking at it now, wasn’t that just aiding the enemy?
She felt somewhat guilty towards Lu Xiaobu.
...
TV station.
Tao Aijun jumped up excitedly: "Great, just crush them! I knew Lu Xiaobu wouldn’t be up to it!"
Shi Jinhao coughed: "Ahem, ahem, Teacher Tao, this is live, live, everyone is watching."
...
Liu Family.
Liu Changlong laughed: "Hahaha, Hua Wenyan, it seems you’re not so useless after all!"
...
Zhang Family.
Zhang Benhu: "Uh... Are the younger generations this capable now? To still have a backup plan."
...
Lu Family.
Lu father: "What? Isn’t it, even now we still can’t completely crush them?"
Lu Hongbin, looking at his phone, touched his chin: "But dad, why do I find the titles of these so-called Twelve Heavenly Kings so familiar?"
Lu Wenhuo, being the top student, rolled his eyes: "Familiar indeed! These twelve authors, not missing one, are all right there in the confinement room."
Lu father was shocked: "Huh? Are you saying, this backup plan of Hua Wenyan’s, is actually all in Xiaobu’s hands? These impressive Twelve Heavenly Kings are actually Xiaobu’s people?"
Lu Wenhuo smiled and said: "Exactly, Hua Wenyan really shot himself in the foot! The more popular the Twelve Heavenly Kings become, the benefits are all Xiaobu’s, not Hua Wenyan’s!"
Lu Hongbin: "Hahahaha! Can’t help it, I can’t hold it in anymore, hahahaha! Xiaobu is too awesome!"
...
Confinement room.
A group of authors couldn’t concentrate on writing anymore.
Fenglei Zaojiu: "Oh my god, I became one of the Twelve Heavenly Kings?"
Love to Eat Hot Dry Noodles: "Me too! What’s going on?"
Irritable Shrimp: "Could it be the website glitching? How else could we ever get such a title?"
A Meter and A Half Old: "I think I’ve figured out the problem. Just look at the Newcomer Rich List."
Moments later.
"I see." Everyone suddenly understood.
Love to Eat Hot Dry Noodles: "What do we do? We were brought up by Young Master, we can’t help others attack him."
Fenglei Zaojiu: "How about we go on an indefinite hiatus?"
Everyone nodded.
"I think so!"
"Agreed!"
"Approved!"
"..."
And Lu Xiaobu, looking at the list of the Twelve Heavenly Kings on his phone, couldn’t help but twitch his mouth: "Is this your impressive backup plan?"
"Scared now? If you kneel and beg me now, I might still be able to give you some face."
Hua Wenyan sneered, full of arrogance!
Actually, this list of the Twelve Heavenly Kings was supposed to be released at the end of the year.
That would have been the time when costs were lowest and profits were highest.
Pushing it now actually meant taking a bit of a loss to generate hype; the profits couldn’t reach the highest!
But now, for the sake of the Newcomer Rich List, he couldn’t care less!
Under this cost-ignoring promotion, Hua Wenyan’s index was rapidly climbing!
Well, then...
One minute after the Twelve Heavenly Kings were released...
They all published a statement.
"Indefinite Hiatus Notice."