Chapter 14 Monday, November 14th

In the office, Pei Qian briefly sorted out his recent work.

This cycle was relatively short, with more than two months left until settlement. From the looks of it, the work on each project was progressing smoothly, so there shouldn't be any major problems.

Just as he was thinking, someone knocked on the door.

Pei Qian looked up and saw Ma Yang entering.

"Oh? You're back. How was the press conference?" Pei Qian asked casually.

Ma Yang sat down across from Pei Qian's desk, "The press conference? So boring! I almost fell asleep listening to it."

"But don't worry, Brother Qian, I didn't embarrass you. I even asked two questions."

Pei Qian looked up at him, then continued browsing the web, "Oh."

Old Ma asked questions?

It's better not to talk too much about this topic. Just imagining the scene is embarrassing enough.

Pei Qian wasn't interested in what exactly Old Ma asked. Old Ma didn't even listen to the press conference carefully, so what high-level questions could he ask? It would be good enough if he didn't embarrass Tengda.

Of course, a little embarrassment wouldn't hurt. One of Pei Qian's major worries now was that Tengda and Dream-Fulfilling Ventures had too much of a good reputation, to the point of being over-mythologized, which was a major obstacle to his losses.

Ma Yang didn't take it to heart either. Seeing that Pei Qian wasn't interested, he stopped mentioning it and turned to the issue he was more concerned about recently: becoming an internet celebrity.

"Brother Qian, I came today to talk to you about the livestreaming."

"I'm still granting dreams on Weibo, but the frequency has decreased a lot. Now it's about once or twice a week, with each time ranging from thirty to fifty thousand yuan."

Pei Qian was taken aback, "Oh? You can't be stingy with granting dreams, and you can't be slack about it. Since you're doing this, you have to keep at it."

Ma Yang spreading money on Weibo was a good thing, so why was the frequency decreasing? Although the amount of money spread each time was still about the same as before, the number of times had decreased, so the total amount spread was also less.

Ma Yang said, "Brother Qian, it's not that I'm not taking it seriously. It's just that there were more people who needed to have their dreams fulfilled at the beginning, but now there are fewer and fewer, and there are fewer and fewer innovative messages on Weibo. As a 'Dream Investor,' I have to strictly control it and can't give money to just anyone."

Pei Qian was a little confused, "This... actually, the concept of dreams is very broad. You can appropriately relax the standards a bit."

Ma Yang waved his hand, "Hey, Brother Qian, I've already relaxed it a lot, but they themselves aren't putting their hearts into their dreams. How can that be considered a dream?"

"Some people don't even put their hearts into writing a Weibo post. It's hard for me to believe that this is their real dream."

"I even had someone record all the dream-granting records and made a special form. I'm telling you, Brother Qian, although I'm not that extremely smart, just generally smart, no one can fool me!"

Pei Qian couldn't help but fall silent.

It seemed unrealistic to expect Old Ma to spread money without limit.

Old Ma spreading money on Weibo depended on whether the dreams of the idiotic netizens had novelty, and he wouldn't give money to just any dream. As Old Ma said, if the jokes weren't well-written, it meant that these people weren't putting their hearts into their dreams, so Old Ma wouldn't give them money.

In theory, Old Ma's idea was quite correct.

But, only once or twice a week, only spreading thirty to fifty thousand yuan, this frequency was too low, right?

Before, he was spreading it quickly, and the dream fund money had already been used up, so Pei Qian had been constantly giving him money, but Old Ma was spreading it slower and slower.

But seeing how principled Old Ma was, Pei Qian couldn't say much.

Ma Yang continued, "And there's my livestreaming sales. I've already done two sessions so far, and this week will be the third session."

"For my livestream, the staff specifically recorded it and uploaded it to the Aili Island website. The goods I promoted were basically torn apart, and several small brand online stores closed the next day. Several slightly larger brands also issued an emergency notice, and all the products involved were taken off the shelves for rectification."

"It seems that a local TV station also reported it, giving these merchants a warning. Although they didn't mention me, I think I should have a little bit of credit, right?"

"Hey, but, Brother Qian, there's one thing I still don't quite understand. Am I specifically livestreaming sales, or livestreaming ruining sales? The actual effect seems to be a bit different from the initial expectations."

Old Ma's long face was filled with pride, but there was a little confusion in addition to the pride.

Pei Qian smiled, "Hey, these are all minor issues. Don't worry about them."

Ma Yang thought for a moment and continued, "Brother Qian, Chen Yufeng told me that although what I'm doing now is reasonable, legal, and compliant, there's still a little bit of danger. He said that if possible, he hopes I can talk to the company and apply for a bodyguard or something."

"I don't think it's necessary, but he insisted that I report it, so I want to ask, what's your opinion, Brother Qian?"

Pei Qian looked at Old Ma, his eyes gleaming, "Bodyguard?"

Ma Yang nodded, "Yes. Brother Qian, you also think it's a bit exaggerated, right?"

Pei Qian raised his hand, "Not exaggerated! Old Ma, I just regret it. How could I not have thought of this?"

"Although we are a society ruled by law, it's better to be safe than sorry."

"That's right, you're showing your face for the company, and this is a sacrifice for the company. In order to ensure your personal safety, I'll hire a personal bodyguard for you, and hire one at a rate of 100,000 yuan per month, and definitely protect you properly!"

Ma Yang was stunned for a moment, "Brother Qian, this standard is a bit too high, right? Even you don't have this standard."

Pei Qian shook his head, "Hey, you can't say that. Hiring a bodyguard for you is a work requirement, so don't decline."

Although Ma Yang said he didn't need it, he still beamed with joy when he saw Pei Qian being so insistent, "Okay, Brother Qian, then I'll accept the company's arrangement!"

"Oh, right, Brother Qian, recently several of my buddies have asked me for tickets to the GPL League. I told them that the company has regulations that this kind of thing has to be handled officially, but they didn't believe me, so I had to come and ask you for instructions."

Pei Qian nodded, "Hmm... tickets, I can give you some quota, but not too much."

"That's right, I'll talk to Shang Yang Games later and allocate a portion of the tickets separately to internal employees. However, the number and seat location must be strictly controlled, and they can't be given out randomly."

Ma Yang was also a prominent figure in the school now.

Because Pei Qian had been deliberately hiding his identity, most people in the school only regarded him as a small internet celebrity, as President Pei's actor, or at most as a higher-level employee within Tengda.

Anyway, no one regarded him as President Pei himself.

But Ma Yang had never thought about hiding his identity, and everyone knew that Ma Yang was a high-level executive of Tengda. Especially recently, Ma Yang had been spreading money on Weibo and livestreaming, and more and more people knew him.

Now Ma Yang rarely showed his face at school, for fear of trouble.

But the trouble at school could be avoided, but old friends could not be avoided.

Fortunately, most friends were still relatively sensible, and it wasn't yet time to find a job after graduation, so they were embarrassed to make excessive requests to Ma Yang.

Asking for two tickets to the GPL competition shouldn't be too much.

Moreover, there should be quite a few internal employees with this need, so it's better to establish the rules early, so that when the GPL League officially starts, the internal employees won't have to compete with the audience for tickets, which wouldn't be appropriate.

Ma Yang was very happy, "Okay, Brother Qian, then I have nothing else to do. I'll go back and prepare for the next sales livestream."

After seeing Ma Yang off, Pei Qian thought about it and realized that he hadn't been to Shang Yang Games for a while, so he got up and went there, preparing to see how their recent work was going.

...

Shang Yang Games, conference room.

Several key members had arrived, and Lin Wan began to report on the work situation during this period.

"President Pei, Shang Yang Games is still responsible for two aspects of work according to the previous work plan. The first aspect is the overseas operation of GoG, and the other aspect is the development of new versions of old games, led by Wang Xiaobin."

"Currently, the overseas operation of GoG is developing well. Although our publicity offensive has slowed down, the popularity and market share are still growing because of GoG's own advantages in gameplay, cross-platform play between PC and mobile games, and early operation."

"For us, it's a very cost-effective and worthwhile thing to be able to maintain this growth rate with less money."

"Currently, the main work of GoG's overseas operation, in addition to the usual promotion and operation, is to develop the existing characters from Hurricane Comics, and the response has been quite good, which is considered to be more suitable for the tastes of European and American players."

"The development of the new version is also going smoothly, but because of the limited manpower and resources and the tight schedule, they are all relatively conservative changes."

Pei Qian nodded.

"Well, that's good."

He didn't expect to spend a lot of money and get no results now, which wasn't very realistic.

A little bit of tinkering, GoG slowly promoting, and the new version being done in a conservative manner, even if it made money, it shouldn't make too much. That would be great.

Lin Wan continued, "Also, President Pei, there's some news you might not pay much attention to. I saw it accidentally before and I'll just mention it in passing."

"Eric has been replaced. Dayak Corporation has replaced someone to be in charge of the promotion of the IOI national server."

Pei Qian was stunned for a moment, "Eric? Oh, that one, that... the person in charge of the IOI national server, right."

Lin Wan nodded, "Yes, it seems to be a matter of the last few days. If there are no surprises, he should have flown away quietly, right?"

Pei Qian couldn't help but fall silent.

This Eric really came and went in a hurry.

What happened to saying that he was going to make a career? What happened to saying that he was going to lead the IOI national server to compete well with GoG?

In the end, I had just prepared, and nothing had happened yet, and Eric had already left?

This is really... the impermanence of the world.

For some reason, Pei Qian felt a bit of regret and emotion.

If I had known, I would have seen him off. What a pity.

"Oh, right, President Pei." Lin Wan remembered another thing.

"The matter of the GPL League tickets that you mentioned before has been arranged to be handled. As for which location these tickets should be set in specifically and how internal employees can obtain them, this still needs to be studied further."

"The GPL League venue has recently been renovated almost completely. It's still using the same venue as the previous GoG Global Finals, but the decoration has been rearranged according to the finalized clubs, and the battle flags of each club have been hung up."

"Of course, the various details of the venue have also been optimized according to the suggestions of the audience of the previous Global Finals."

"How about we take some time to go over and take a look this afternoon?"

Pei Qian nodded, "Okay, let's go take a look."