Chapter 160 The More the Enemy Helps, the Better

He had just gotten out of bed, finished washing up, and was playing video games on his large TV.

It was a long-awaited weekend, and after a busy week, he deserved a good rest. Moreover, there weren't any particularly threatening matters to deal with in the near future. All work was progressing in an orderly manner, and the hope of losing money this cycle was high.

As he was immersed in the game, his phone rang.

He picked it up and saw that it was Wu Yue calling.

Pei Qian instinctively felt some resistance.

Because he really didn't know what to do with FV Club!

It was a hot potato right now, impossible to throw away, but equally impossible to keep holding.

In fact, when Pei Qian first invested in the entire FV Club, his idea was very simple: to find another way to lose money. Especially when he sent these people to competitions and on all-expenses-paid trips, spending millions at once, Pei Qian was ecstatic.

But he never expected that they would win a championship for no reason, and all those millions would be earned back, with interest!

This made Pei Qian very uncomfortable.

The problem now was that if Pei Qian sold the club's shares, he would definitely make a huge profit, because after FV Club won the championship, its popularity soared and its valuation also rose sharply.

Selling now meant that Pei Qian would get a large sum of money that he didn't know how to spend, which could easily disrupt his overall plan for this cycle.

But if he didn't sell, the club would constantly make money for him, which was very distressing.

After hesitating for a moment, Pei Qian answered the phone anyway.

There was no way around it; some things had to be faced, no matter how reluctant he was.

"Boss Pei! I feel it's necessary to report the situation of FV Club to you. Just now, Zhao Xuming called me and talked about two things…"

"What do you think I should do?"

"Refuse to cooperate? Feign compliance? Or… cooperate a little?"

Wu Yue felt that Boss Pei would most likely ask him to choose the former.

Because *gog* and *ioi* were competitors, and there were some grudges between Tengda Group and Finger Company. Whether out of personal grudges or for the sake of profit, Boss Pei had no reason to use FV Club to increase the popularity of *ioi*.

Of course, the possibility of refusing to cooperate was relatively low. Boss Pei would most likely ask him to feign compliance, cooperating on the surface but secretly making some small moves to suppress the popularity of *ioi*.

Eric's return as the head of the Greater China region, with three fires to burn as a new official: cutting prices to fight a price war, preparing to develop a mobile version of *ioi*, and preparing to host the iCL League, was clearly an aggressive move.

In Wu Yue's view, Eric's three strategies would all put a lot of pressure on *gog*.

Although *gog* was a large and well-established company, and its position in the national server seemed as stable as Mount Tai, once the balance of offense and defense shifted, the subsequent development would be difficult to predict.

Even if the opponent was once his defeated opponent, he had to mobilize 100% of his strength to deal with it, otherwise, arrogance could easily lead to failure.

As the head of the club invested by Boss Pei, Wu Yue was prepared for FV Club to be sacrificed if necessary.

What Wu Yue didn't know was that Boss Pei on the other end of the phone was now showing an expression of wild joy.

Not bad! Eric, the head of the Greater China region, was doing a good job!

Look at the things he has done since taking office; they are all very reliable! Now that Zhao Xuming has come forward to find Wu Yue, he obviously hopes to repair the relationship with FV Club and use the influence of FV, the champion team, on domestic players to promote and attract a wave of players to the Chinese server of *ioi*, which already has very few players.

It must be said that the Chinese server of *ioi* is indeed a pain in the hearts of Finger Company and Long Yu Group. Because there are few players, the level of competition is not high, and the version is often behind the foreign servers, so many professional players, including the FV team, train on foreign servers with accelerators and high latency.

This time, whether it is customizing a Chinese-style champion skin for FV Club or hosting the iCL League, it can have a very good effect of attracting traffic and injecting some fresh blood into the Chinese server of *ioi*.

Of course, Pei Qian supports such behavior with both hands!

Pei Qian is not worried at all about the threat that *ioi* may pose to *gog*. On the contrary, he hopes that *ioi* can be stronger, so that he can burn money more smoothly.

Thinking of this, Pei Qian immediately said: "You must fully cooperate with the requirements of Long Yu Group! Make this champion skin beautiful and promote it for them; as for the promotion of the iCL, you should also cooperate wholeheartedly, making it as cool and influential as possible!"

Wu Yue: "Huh?"

He was a little confused for a moment.

Isn't this helping the enemy?

Wu Yue was not sure and said with some doubts: "Boss Pei, but this will also bring huge popularity to *ioi* and pose a threat to *gog*!"

"Although FV Club plays *ioi*, we are obviously completely on your side, Boss Pei. As long as you give an order, we can immediately switch to *gog*!"

Pei Qian was shocked. Switch to *gog*?

Don't mess around!

I don't want the tragedy of DGE to be repeated!

Pei Qian's tone became serious: "Don't speculate on your own!"

"There is my reason for asking you to fully cooperate with Long Yu Group's promotion plan, and you will understand it later."

"Besides, FV Club is also my darling. You won the world championship, and you deserve this kind of promotion and preferential treatment. Now that Long Yu Group is willing to pay for it, this is what you deserve. Why not do it?"

Wu Yue was silent for a moment and said with some emotion, "Thank you, Boss Pei, I understand! I will definitely ask the team members to step up their training and continue to achieve good results, and live up to Boss Pei's trust!"

After hanging up the phone, Pei Qian was a little confused.

?

Why is Wu Yue so moved?

…

On the other side, Wu Yue hung up the phone and felt that his goal was clearer than ever before.

Since Boss Pei has spoken, then do as Boss Pei said and fully cooperate with Long Yu Group's promotional activities!

Wu Yue heard the subtext of Boss Pei's words.

Cooperating with Long Yu Group's promotion is in line with Boss Pei's layout and planning for the commercial competition between the two sides, and it is also out of concern for FV Club.

Obviously, Boss Pei did not simply regard FV Club as a tool for making money, not as an appendage, but respected the dreams of every member of FV Club and regarded everyone as friends!

Wu Yue immediately went to the training room to tell the team members about the champion skin and the iCL League.

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Monday, February 20th, noon.

The crew of "Mission and Choice" came to the Wu Ming Restaurant for the second dinner party.

This time, it was a real "farewell dinner."

After this meal, everyone would go their separate ways and busy themselves with their own affairs.

The editors and post-production staff had to continue to fine-tune the movie "Mission and Choice" in a tight schedule; Director Zhu Xiaoce had to take a group of people to shoot a documentary about roadside stall owners for Cold Faced Girl; and Lu Zhiyao had to leave Jingzhou because celebrities like him had very full schedules.

In fact, Zhu Xiaoce and Lu Zhiyao could have chosen to leave last week, but they both chose to stay, mainly because they couldn't bear to miss this meal.

Being able to eat a good meal at the Wu Ming Restaurant is not a common reward, maybe only once a year, so of course you can't miss it!

Everyone ate and chatted.

Lu Zhiyao said with some regret: "Boss Pei didn't come today, it's a pity that I can't see him one last time."

Zhu Xiaoce couldn't help but smile: "What are you talking about, how is it the last time? Didn't you just see him last week? And the movie will start promotion in more than a month, and you will definitely have the opportunity to meet Boss Pei again then."

Lu Zhiyao nodded: "Well, I just wanted to thank Boss Pei in person. Hundreds of millions of yuan were invested in a movie, and it turned out to be all my solo performance. It's really too much! It's hard to express my gratitude in words."

Zhu Xiaoce said: "That's not necessary. You acted very well, this is a win-win situation."

"But it's a pity that Boss Pei didn't come. I originally wanted to talk to him about the roadside stall documentary for Cold Faced Girl today, but since Boss Pei didn't come... then forget it."

"Maybe he already knows about it."

Huang Sibai nodded: "Well, Boss Pei is busy with work, so there's no need to waste his time on such trivial matters."

"I wonder which industry Boss Pei is busy with for Tengda now?"

…

At the same time, in the office area of Sloth Apartment.

Pei Qian was listening to Guan Peisheng's report on the current operating situation of Sloth Apartment, and suddenly felt a little itchy in his nose, wanting to sneeze. He rubbed it and held the sneeze back.

As for why it was Guan Peisheng reporting instead of Liang Qingfan...

Because Liang Qingfan was not there, he had gone to Egypt with Bao Xu, and would not be back until the middle of next month.

However, Guan Peisheng also knew the business of Sloth Apartment like the back of his hand, so it didn't affect anything.

So far, Sloth Apartment has developed the 1.0 "Focus Mode" and the 2.0 "Habitable Mode" respectively, all of which have been very successful, and all the houses are full of tenants.

In addition, Sloth Apartment has naturally derived other profitable models, such as cooperating with furniture manufacturers to customize furniture and cooperating with real estate developers to customize model rooms.

It can be said that the Sloth Apartment model has been very successful among young people.

But this did not affect Pei Qian's use of Sloth Apartment to burn system funds.

Because of the special rules of the system when calculating funds, Pei Qian's high-priced purchase of buildings is only recorded in fixed assets, so as long as Pei Qian does not sell these buildings, it is equivalent to a loss at the time of settlement.

Moreover, in this cycle, the amount of system funds has doubled, and Pei Qian has gained a lot of room for operation in buying buildings.

He was going to prepare for the next stage of buying buildings.

Pei Qian said to Guan Peisheng: "I'll briefly talk about the plan for the next stage. You can start researching it first, and then make specific plans after Liang Qingfan comes back."

"This time, Sloth Apartment is going to leave Jingzhou and advance to super first-tier cities. You can investigate and buy a building each in the remote areas of Emperor Capital and Magic Capital."

Pei Qian had done some simple investigations on relevant policies.

At present, Emperor Capital and Magic Capital do not have strict purchase restrictions on corporate home purchases, but they need to pay additional taxes, so it is much more expensive than individual home purchases. Moreover, these properties need to be used for legal business operations and pay taxes according to law.

Pei Qian did not intend to sell these houses in the first place, and he was indeed going to do rental business, so it was completely in compliance with the regulations.

Pei Qian also thought about it now, anyway, the Sloth Apartment is full, does it matter where you buy a house?

As long as you don't buy a house in the city center of Emperor Capital or Magic Capital, there should be no problem.

Of course, it is not necessarily possible to buy a whole building in the city center area. And the Sloth Apartment model is that you must buy a whole building, otherwise it is difficult to carry out unified closed management.

Because this time the amount is higher, if you buy buildings in Jingzhou or other second-tier cities, you may have to buy several buildings, and it will be more troublesome if there are too many.

Just go to Emperor Capital and Magic Capital, where the total price of houses is high, and buying one building in each can spend enough system funds.