Honkai Impact 3, miHoYo's new game, was tearing up the gaming market.

People started digging into the company behind it. Within days of the launch, several of the big game companies had reached out on their own, hoping to invest in miHoYo.

Cai Haoyu politely turned down every one of them. That only made more people curious about the company, and before long they'd dug up miHoYo's only investor: Xu Ye.

First ofo had closed three rounds of funding in a single year. Now miHoYo had come out of nowhere with a smash hit.

Overnight, Xu Ye became a star of the investment world, and on campus he was everybody's idol. Everywhere he went, people crowded around to get a look at him.

It was only a matter of time.

Su Tong hadn't been in touch in a long while. On Wednesday morning, she finally called Xu Ye, and she didn't beat around the bush. "The school wants to interview you onstage tomorrow night. It's in the big multimedia lecture hall in the student activity center, starting at seven. There could be over a thousand people there, and someone's going to be filming the whole thing."

It sounded like a big production. Xu Ye jumped in. "Can I skip it?"

"No," Su Tong shot back. "Let me tell you something. You're the first student the school has ever held an event for while he's still enrolled. If you don't show up tomorrow, you can forget about passing your finals this year."

Xu Ye knew Su Tong was kidding.

With Qingye Investment where it was now, he hadn't needed a diploma to prove himself in years. Even if he turned in a blank exam, the school would probably find some way to pass him.

He didn't want to, but he gave in. "Fine."

"Don't be late. This is a very formal event."

"Got it."

As soon as Su Tong hung up, she reported it to Gong Ming, the class's faculty advisor. Gong Ming passed it up to the department heads, and they passed it up to the university leadership. By the…