Over on NGA's 'Melon Board' (the platform's go-to section for gaming drama and insider leaks), a Sunborn insider's posts were saved and archived by fellow users. The original thread creator noted that 'some posts have been killed' — implying previous leak threads had been wiped by company PR teams, and players were proactively backing up the info before it disappeared entirely.
This 'uncle' (juiujiu/舅舅, Chinese internet slang for an insider with privileged information) already has a jaw-dropping track record: they correctly predicted the launch of an internal Sunborn project, mass layoffs on the Wandering Earth game project, and a catastrophic meltdown of the company's middle-platform QA system. These hits have earned them near-oracle status in the NGA community.
The biggest bombshell this time: the community had long blamed a story writer known as 'Star' (星姐) for the disastrous narrative direction of Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. But the insider clarified — 'Star does exist... but she really doesn't have that much influence. All the direction is set by yz.' The 'yz' here refers to Huang Chong (黄翀), Sunborn's CEO, nicknamed 'Yuzhong' (羽中) by the community. This means every infuriating story decision — including the infamous 'Daiyan becomes Madame Raymond' romance subplot that enraged the entire playerbase — was greenlit by one man.
The comment section erupted. One player dug up Huang Chong's own words from a sponsored STN video where he publicly promised 'if the story has problems going forward, that's my personal responsibility' — and now that the insider confirmed he controls the narrative, it's a perfect accountability loop. Another furious player wrote: 'So you let Star take the blame for the 'Maid of Orleans' disaster, thinking you could dodge responsibility? YOU decided to turn Daiyan into Madame Raymond. YOU greenlit Tiger stuffing the script with mass-produced sweet nothings. Weren't you the one who said you had all the time and money in the world to fight the players? So why are you cutting the team that fell behind, and why won't you stop the endless loan-style sugary content?'
The drama sparked a heated debate about 'nüpin-ification' (女频化) — a community term for when a game's narrative shifts toward female-oriented romance fiction tropes. One detailed analysis pointed out that Daiyan's storyline (one of the most controversial arcs in GFL2) reeks of 'nüpin novel' conventions: notebook-picking plot devices, bougie settings like bars and observatories, forced romantic pairings for every character, and the deliberate emasculation of the Commander (the player's self-insert). The commenter argued Huang Chong himself couldn't possibly have consumed that much romance fiction, speculating he 'went insane wanting to make a female ensemble drama and hired a bunch of nüpin writers.' But ultimately, the decision-maker still holds the bag.
The insider himself then showed up in the comments (Floor 12), personally confirming: 'Star does exist... but she really doesn't have that much influence. All the direction is set by yz. As for the other story issues — the hidden agendas, the nüpin writing style — I don't really know the details, so I'll keep my mouth shut.' The comment section went absolutely nuclear. One user gushed: 'Holy shit, the uncle himself appeared! I believe you now — YOU ARE MY GOD!'
A screenshot from Floor 9 also surfaced, purportedly showing Huang Chong's own words: 'I'm going to focus my energy on the military (Exilium) project now.' This was widely interpreted as confirmation that resources were being funneled away from other projects to GFL2, lending credibility to long-running community speculation that other games and staff were sacrificed to feed the sequel. One commenter sarcastically quipped: 'Since Exilium has all the energy and resources to burn, of course anything competing for those resources had to be axed.'
Some players did attempt to defend Star, arguing that swapping bosses wouldn't necessarily fix the problem, and that certain deeply uncomfortable story beats (like the infamous 'that's so Chinese of you' line) couldn't have come from Huang Chong alone. But the prevailing sentiment was clear: at the end of the day, the root problem is a one-man dictatorship — 'That's always been the case. Some people were so busy fighting the 'extreme feminist' boogeyman and pinning everything on Star that they were actually laundering Huang Chong's reputation.'
As of this writing, the leak thread has survived deletion-reposting cycles and continues to gain traction on NGA. Players are already clamoring for more — 'Big bro, give us another melon!' — but the core takeaway from this round is crystal clear: at Sunborn, every story decision that infuriated millions of players was dictated by a single man.
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