My Online Lover Is the Rival I Fired novel · Chapter 12 of 24

Chapter 12: Showcase

The Hexin showcase filled the glass atrium on the second floor with two hundred chairs, forty reporters and a row of cameras.

A huge screen stood behind the stage.

Cen Wenjun opened it himself, in a dark suit and a warm smile.

"Friends," he said. "We are here to watch two of Shanghai's best studios show their work."

"Whoever shows more will have my money. I like a clean fight."

Applause.

Yu stood in the wings in a charcoal suit with a hand-stitched pocket square.

Mo stood next to him in black, with his glasses polished and his hands behind his back.

They had arrived separately.

They had not touched in public.

Mo's eyes slid sideways once, quickly, and the corner of his mouth moved.

Yu felt it in the base of his spine.

"Before the demos," said Cen, "my head of studios has something to share with you. A matter of integrity. It's brief."

A thin man in rimless glasses came to the lectern and lowered his voice to a funeral register.

"Last week Hexin received an anonymous file," he said. "It is a build of Lantern Studio's Saltmarsh."

"We believe it proves that Lantern's founder carried Greywater's unreleased art out of the building when he left."

The screen lit.

A clip played, with a lighthouse keeper in a yellow coat walking up a spiral stair.

Mo's whole body went white.

"That's not mine," he said, very low.

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