The entire audience went wild after Jiang Qiuqiu announced that five percent of participants would be randomly selected for a spot at the New Year’s Eve dinner—all they had to do was share the pinned comment to their feed, record a video of it, and send it to a designated contact.

So, how fast can a message really be forwarded?

A 47-year-old CEO tells you: 10 seconds is all it takes.

A 117-year-old professor tells you: 15 seconds works too.

A 141-year-old general tells you: I did it in 8. Still got it.

A 41-year-old young sergeant major tells you: I’m the fastest. Done in 6 seconds.

...

Although the promotion was valid anytime before the start of the final PK match of the day, everyone acted as if they hadn’t heard the time limit, possessed by the curious notion that sharing first meant they would be the first to win.

And so, an astonishing scene unfolded.

Xiao Hong was an ordinary worker.

She had graduated, quite unremarkably, from a top-tier Federation university. Just as unremarkably, she had studied under one of its well-known professors. After graduation, she was lucky enough to land a job at a premier family-owned corporation in her home Star System.

As a wage slave, she didn’t have many hobbies. She usually just watched movies, played some games, scrolled through her feed, and checked up on her former classmates’ own wage-slave lives.

’Ah, one look confirmed it. Everyone was busy. Life was good.’

Today, she happily opened her feed, just like any other day.

With a swipe, she saw that her own mentor had posted something very, very strange.

Professor Wang: Do you like Ancient Earth cuisine?! If so, come follow this streamer, @Jiang Jiujiu, with me! Click the link hxxp:5jiujiu.cccn, follow her channel, and let’s dream of delicious food together!

It was accompanied by a picture of a huge medley of food.

Xiao Hong’s first reaction was that the professor’s account had been hacked.

’Her second reaction: how could a terminal account possibly be hacked?’

She paused to think for just a moment, and when her feed refreshed again—oh ho!—Xiao Hong was shocked to see that her boss, who hadn’t posted in a million years, had also made a post.

Boss Xu: Do you like Ancient Earth cuisine?! If you do, come with me and...

Same time, same content, sa—

Before she could even finish that thought, she saw that her colleagues from the same team and several of her former classmates had also shared the exact same post.

Xiao Hong: ’???’

Completely baffled, Xiao Hong posted about the situation on the Star Network.

The post caused an immediate uproar.

[So I’m not the only one who saw my mentor’s super weird post?]

[Can someone please tell us what’s going on? What’s this promotion? What food channel?]

As more and more people joined the discussion, someone in the know quickly appeared. They explained it was a promotion run by a food streamer named Jiang Jiujiu, and that sharing the message was apparently for a lottery.

[A lot—tery?]

[Are they giving away ten billion Star Coins?]

[All kinds of equipment?]

[Energy Crystal Stones?]

[Umm... apparently it’s none of those. The prize is supposedly a spot to taste-test the food this streamer makes herself.]

[...?]

[!?]

[??]

Everyone was stunned.

The person who had explained everything also asked curiously: [Haha, who are your mentors? They’re so hip, knowing to follow a streamer and even share her posts.]

[Professor Xu Shuangping]

[Professor Wang Haiyan]

[Professor Liu Deyun]

[...??] Another person chimed in with their own question marks.

Within just 20 minutes, more people had flocked to the topic #MyMentorSharedAWeirdPost than had been in the previous discussion for the #Low-EndFans tag.

Countless people flooded in, armed with screenshots.

It was no surprise that the content everyone was posting on their feeds was identical.

What was amazing, however, was the ID in the post.

It was just that incredible—some names, you didn’t need to search them on the Star Network to recognize them.

And so, the thread went wild with all sorts of incredible coincidences. You’d ask about my mentor, I’d ask about your boss, and after a short exchange, we’d discover we were from the same school.

After they all compared notes, they were shocked to discover that the thread had essentially become a comprehensive ’Who’s Who’ of the Federation’s elite.

There were famous figures from all walks of life, and many of those who had shared the post were elderly.

But what shocked everyone the most was a sudden post on the personal Star Network account of Mrs. Ai’er, who had vanished from the public eye many years ago: "@Jiang Jiujiu, little lady, your Healing Spiritual Power is getting smoother and smoother."

She was actually a real Spirit Healing Master!

What’s more, she had received guidance from Mrs. Ai’er, which most likely meant she really was a young and outstanding Spirit Healing Master!

...

This winter, you could go without a delicious bowl of tofu soup, and you could miss playing out in the first snow, but you absolutely could not go without hearing the name Jiang Jiujiu.

It was only then that everyone realized, to their astonishment, that someone in the Federation had become a true celebrity.

So famous, in fact, that it was strange *not* to know who she was.