In the office of the Land of Light.

"Director Yang, this budget..."

Su Xiaoran took the document, glanced at the numbers at the bottom, and stopped speaking halfway through her sentence.

She took a deep breath, closed the document, and hugged it to her chest. "Are we really going to proceed with this plan?"

Yang Qian picked up her thermos, took a sip of tea, and leaned back in her chair.

"It's our one-year anniversary, so it should be a big celebration. Our fans have been with us for a whole year, so how can we live up to their expectations if we don't give them something of real value?"

Su Xiaoran looked at the nonchalant smile on his face, remained silent for a moment, and finally nodded.

On that day, the official account of the Land of Light posted a teaser.

"The Kingdom of Light is about to celebrate its first anniversary. We thank everyone who has been with us. On the anniversary, we have prepared a gift for everyone."

Stay tuned.

There's only a small icon below the text...

The logo of the Land of Light.

But there's a gold outline around the logo that's never been seen before, making it look like a limited edition made specifically for this day.

After the post was published, the comment section was flooded with fans in a very short time.

Some people have tried to deduce what the gift might be from the word count and punctuation.

Someone started a chain of comments in the comments section asking, "Guess how outrageous A-Guang's gift can be?"

Some people even created a comparison table of the welfare standards for all previous events in the Land of Light and posted it online, leaving a blank line at the bottom of the table.

The label next to it reads "Anniversary celebration, to be filled in, expected to be explosive."

"Based on the Land of Light's past welfare standards: game collaborations give away 30 free draws, free access to the doujinshi area at anime conventions plus official help for vendors to get eliminated, and various other welfare benefits accumulated at early anime conventions. For an anniversary like this, what A-Guang gives away will be at least the sum of all previous welfare benefits multiplied by a factor. Conservatively speaking, this factor will not be less than three."

"That's too conservative!!! Ah-Guang's brain never talks to you about coefficients. What Ah-Guang says is, 'Do I feel happy enough? Not enough? Add more.'"

"I just want to know one thing: Will A-Guang's autographed original artwork be released again? I've been dreaming about that final episode of Ultraman Tiga."

"Forget about personally signed original artwork. That's practically an urban legend now. People have offered a 100,000 yuan reward and still haven't received it. Do you think A-Guang can just give it to me?"

"It's hard to say. Ah-Guang's greatest talent is making the impossible possible."

However, what netizens didn't expect was...

The Land of Light account was updated again after midnight.

It's a video.

In addition to the usual anniversary thank-you video, Miriam Yeung appeared on camera at the end of the video.

He sat in his office, wearing his signature grey polo shirt, with a wall behind him covered in deep red velvet.

"To be honest, the question I've been asked most often this past year is, 'Guang, how much more have you not revealed? How many more holes have you not filled?'"

Yang Qian smiled and shook his head, "Actually, it's not much. I just saved up a little bit and wanted to wait for a suitable day to show it all to everyone at once."

The live chat exploded the moment that sentence was spoken.

"A tiny bit? It's probably more like a ton of it!!"

"Here it comes!! I knew Ah Guang wouldn't just send a thank-you video and be done with it!!"

In the scene, Yang Qian stands up, steps aside to avoid part of the camera, and reaches out to grasp a corner of the dark red velvet cloth behind her.

Then he pulled hard, and the velvet fabric slipped off.

One entire wall is densely covered with concept art, logo designs, and project timelines for dozens of unreleased new projects.

The footage did not show individual close-ups of each item.

But those shots that the camera panned across were enough for everyone to take screenshots frame by frame.

There is a previously unreleased title for the new work;

There are brand new character design illustrations that look like they're from mecha or fantasy themes;

There is a line drawing of a blue robot cat with a peculiar shape standing side by side with a boy wearing glasses;

Silhouettes of students in uniforms standing on the stage;

There were also several documents that were barely visible, with only the edges showing.

But the header of every document reads "Land of Light".

"What is that?! What is that blue Doraemon?! I think I've seen something similar online before!!"

"That row on the left!! The one furthest in the left row!! It looks like a group of students sitting at a long table having a meeting, the style is completely new!!"

"The one on the far right!! That silhouette standing on the stage... A stage!! A music anime!! Hikaru is going to make another music anime!!"

"There are at least thirty or forty project plans on this wall!!! He said 'just a little bit'!! He calls this wall 'just a little bit'!!"

"Screenshot, guys, hurry up and take screenshots!! This is the entire plan for the Land of Light's future over the next few years laid out before us on camera!!"

Yang Qian stood in front of that wall, spread her hands, and smiled at the camera.

"These things will be released one by one in the future, but that's not the focus today..."

The viewers in the live chat collectively gasped for a second.

"Wait... this isn't the point?! This isn't the point?!"

"Is there anything even more explosive than a whole future planning wall?!"

Yang Qian walked back in front of the camera.

"As I said before, every work of the Land of Light, every signature, every original drawing, is most valuable if it can help people in their lives in a little way."

"This attitude will not change."

He paused for a moment, then said, "So, on the occasion of our first anniversary, we did something that no one had ever done before."

"Starting tomorrow, we will be launching a brand new themed event on several designated animations on the Starlight Video platform."

The event is called "Surprise".

"Everyone who has participated in the event will have the opportunity to receive original artwork from all works under the flag of the Light, including those that have already been shown and those that have not yet been shown, which are on the wall."

The chat exploded again!

"Wait, including original artwork from works that haven't even been released yet?! So you can draw the original storyboards for those mysterious new works on that wall, before they even air?!"

"Is the rich guy who previously offered 100,000 yuan for a signed original painting now crying his eyes out?"

Yang Qian raised her thermos cup in front of the camera and made a clinking gesture towards the screen.

"Happy first anniversary to the Kingdom of Light! Thank you for accompanying the Kingdom of Light to this day. Please accept this surprise."

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