I Control the Trending Searches and Become the Mastermind Behind the Scenes

In Huaguo, the entertainment industry is deeply bound up with capital and public opinion. Trending searches can make someone a god or destroy them.

Chen Yanzhou is the mysterious manager of the top esports team Dark Blade, known in the industry as the "mastermind."

The team is exposed for match-fixing, and a public-opinion storm is about to break, but he remains unruffled.

By chance, he obtains the Public Opinion Foresight System, which lets him predict how trending searches across the internet will unfold.

The System tells him what's true and what's false, allowing him to plan ahead, control the narrative, and turn the tables.

Others chase trends; he creates them. Others fear public opinion; he uses it to destroy his enemies.

While his opponents are still struggling, he has already leveraged the situation to purge the team, cut off his rivals' sources of income, and take control of the industry's direction.

From match-fixing scandals to webs of corporate power, from a livestream death to a top-tier star's downfall, he advances with every step planned.

Reporter Shen Zhiyi investigates the truth, repeatedly stumbling into the traps he has set, until they eventually join forces and gain momentum.

After ten years of pulling the strings, he takes a team to the top of the world and reshapes the rules of entertainment.

At last, standing backstage, he removes his mask: "The true mastermind is the one who protects the truth."

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.