Chapter 1385 Who in Tengda Best Fits Young Master Tian? (Bonus Chapter for Monthly Tickets!)

As he was pondering, there was a knock on the door.

He looked up and saw Meng Chang.

Clearly, it was the end of the month again, and Meng Chang had come to calculate his commission.

Pei Qian glanced at him, then handed the notebook to Meng Chang.

"That last bit was a little bit of a shame," Pei Qian said.

The promotional plan for *The Successor* had been going well, a lot of money had been spent, but the hype never rose, and the score had dropped to 6 points.

In short, a complete mess.

If it had continued at the previous pace, with Meng Chang starting the second round of promotion and maintaining the state of throwing money without making a splash, he might have actually gotten his full commission.

Unfortunately, that Young Master Tian popped up out of nowhere again.

This Young Master Tian actually posted an update.

Actually, Pei Qian had just said it off the cuff at the time.

He said that Young Master Tian definitely wouldn't make a video, at most he'd just post an update. What he really meant was that there was an extremely small chance that Young Master Tian would post an update.

Because Pei Qian felt that it was too risky and not worth the reward for Young Master Tian to wade into this muddy water. It wasn't something a smart person would do.

But he didn't expect Young Master Tian to not only wade in, but to do the butterfly stroke!

This damage was no less than posting a video.

Pei Qian was also very puzzled. Was this Young Master Tian's brain broken? Tengda hadn't given him any money!

How could he praise *The Successor* as an epoch-making masterpiece?

And he even said that all the controversy surrounding it would naturally disappear the day after *The Successor* finished airing?

Pei Qian was very nervous and searched for this date on Qian Du, but found nothing.

The search results were all things like "What holiday is January 13th?", "January 13th almanac query", "Fate analysis for people born on January 13th", "What zodiac sign is January 13th?" and so on.

Every time this happened, Pei Qian wanted to say two things.

The first was: Get lost, riddle-mongers!

The second was: Trash Qian Du!

It was a pity that Useful App was now relatively useful, but not really completely useful. It was foreseeable that for a long time to come, the number of times Pei Qian said "Trash Qian Du" would not decrease.

Although Young Master Tian played the part of an annoying riddle-monger, and the netizens didn't guess what special day January 13th was, the hype was definitely stirred up.

Before, many people were bashing *The Successor* and giving it low scores online, which caused a lot of viewers or old readers who liked *The Successor* to feel disgusted. In addition, the officials were officially supporting the film reviews that supported *The Successor*, and with Young Master Tian's statement, the tension between the two sides became stronger and more intense.

Young Master Tian's simple update couldn't turn the tide, but it did add fuel to the fire.

This kind of fortune-teller-like speech attracted a lot of onlookers. Haters took this as a joke and laughed at those who supported *The Successor*, waiting for January 13th to pass without anything happening, and then they would continue to attack *The Successor* and start partying.

In short, the hype picked up again.

This directly led to a sharp reduction in the commission that Meng Chang could get, directly reduced to seventy-six thousand.

Although it was already pretty good compared to when he was getting a basic salary, after all, Young Master Tian's update had caused his commission to be at least halved. Someone without a bit of psychological resilience really couldn't take it.

Pei Qian felt that Meng Chang's attitude towards Young Master Tian was probably like his own attitude towards Old Joe.

Mortal enemies!

Therefore, Pei Qian felt very empathetic and sincerely expressed his "pity".

Meng Chang also sighed silently, "Yes, but there's nothing we can do about it."

If he didn't use Young Master Tian's account to post updates, the Pei-style promotion method wouldn't be perfect, and he would have to give up more than half of his commission.

Although the two hundred thousand dollars had already been invested, if it succeeded, the returns would completely crush this little bit of commission. But no matter what, the lost commission was still over a hundred thousand!

It was impossible for Meng Chang to say that he didn't feel any pain.

However, after following Boss Pei for so long, Meng Chang had long learned the principle of no pain, no gain from his repeated painful lessons.

After looking at it from beginning to end, Meng Chang had no objection to the commission.

Pei Qian put away the laptop and said, "There are two options for next month's promotional plan, *Safe and Civilized Driving* from Shang Yang Games and *Ghost General 2* from Tengda Games. It is said that the engineering samples of the steering wheel and hardware equipment have already been made and are currently in mass production. As for the game, there is already a demo, but the complete version of the game will be released in the middle of the month."

"*Ghost General 2* should be released at the end of next month or the beginning of the month after that."

"Both of these projects are a bit difficult this time. You should go and investigate first."

The reason why he said it was difficult was mainly due to two considerations.

First, both of these are game projects, and Tengda's game projects are bound to receive a lot of attention, so the natural heat is high, making it difficult to suppress.

Although the gameplay of *Safe and Civilized Driving* is relatively boring, and Pei Qian is hoping to use the gameplay to dissuade players, it doesn't seem reliable to rely on this alone.

Second, the timing is relatively awkward.

*Safe and Civilized Driving* will be released in the middle of the month. At that time, the game and peripherals such as the steering wheel will be launched together. It will be really difficult to maintain a low level of hype before the end of the month.

And although *Ghost General 2* will be released at the end of the month, its biggest disadvantage is only that it is a fighting game, and the game content itself does not have any major flaws. If you want to do reverse promotion, it's actually not easy to do.

Fortunately, Meng Chang isn't the same Meng Chang as before. He's getting more and more comfortable with getting commissions.

So, he should let Meng Chang choose for himself.

Meng Chang hesitated for a moment and then said, "Boss Pei, I don't really want to choose either of them. I think it will be difficult to make the most of these two games."

"Can I continue to do the promotional plan for *The Successor*?"

In Meng Chang's opinion, it wouldn't be easy to promote these two games using the Pei-style promotion method.

Because Tengda Games naturally has a good reputation, it would be difficult to suppress the hype in the early stages. And after the game is released, in three to five days, there will inevitably be rave reviews.

For projects like this, there is basically no room for the Pei-style promotion method, and commissions are impossible to get.

Rather than that, it would be better to continue doing the promotional plan for *The Successor*.

There is one advantage to doing this, which is that it can slightly hedge the risk.

If *The Successor* explodes on the 13th, then the commission for this month will definitely be gone, but his two hundred thousand dollars will be a huge profit!

Who would care about this two hundred thousand commission at that time?

If the worst situation occurs, and *The Successor* doesn't explode on the 13th, although two hundred thousand dollars will be wasted, he will definitely be able to get his full commission.

Compared to the *Safe and Civilized Driving* and *Ghost General 2* projects, which have a very small chance of success, choosing to continue promoting *The Successor* is obviously more cost-effective.

Moreover, Meng Chang also wanted to continue to keep an eye on the situation of *The Successor* and adjust the promotional plan at any time. If necessary, he could pull Young Master Tian out again.

After learning the Pei-style promotion method for so long, Meng Chang really wanted to use it perfectly once.

And this promotional plan for *The Successor* was only half completed. Meng Chang wanted to complete the other half.

If he could fully use the Pei-style promotion method on *The Successor*, Meng Chang felt that his strength would definitely have a leap-forward improvement and undergo a qualitative change.

Pei Qian thought for a while, "Okay."

He couldn't help but laugh to himself. This Meng Chang was quite witty.

Knowing that the promotion of the two games was difficult, he wanted to go back and work hard on *The Successor*.

Pei Qian didn't have any objections to this, because there were two purposes for letting Meng Chang do the promotional plan. The first purpose was to suppress the hype of the project and reduce the possibility of the project's success. The second purpose was to burn more promotional funds.

The first purpose was actually not something that could be forced, because whether a project succeeded or not mainly depended on the project itself. No matter how bad the promotional plan was for a good product, it would only temporarily suppress the hype and keep it unknown. It would still become popular later on.

Therefore, Pei Qian's expectations for Meng Chang were mainly on the second point.

As long as Meng Chang could guarantee that the promotional funds were spent and wasted, and that the expected effect was not achieved, that would be fine.

And *The Successor* was already a guaranteed flop based on the current situation. Investing more promotional funds would be a waste. In that case, why not let Meng Chang continue to burn money there?

Anyway, it's all these promotional funds. It's all the same whether it's burned here or there. Meng Chang felt that *The Successor* was more certain, and Pei Qian thought so too.

Meng Chang nodded. Boss Pei was still kind, knowing that he wasn't very proficient in the Pei-style promotion method. He didn't force him to choose a difficult game project, but tacitly allowed him to linger in the medium-difficulty track for another month.

He was about to leave when Pei Qian suddenly remembered something and stopped him.

"I have a question. I'm just asking casually. You can say anything you want and speak freely."

"If... I mean, if, Young Master Tian is inside the Tengda Group, who do you think is the most likely to be the real Young Master Tian among Tengda's employees?"

Pei Qian had been suspecting that Young Master Tian was hiding inside Tengda, and it was very likely that it was Tian Mo.

But the reason why he hadn't startled the snake and sent Tian Mo on a suffering trip was mainly because he felt that it might be a group effort, with someone editing videos and modifying copywriting for Tian Mo.

After all, Young Master Tian's videos were too sophisticated. It didn't seem like something that Tian Mo could do alone.

But it wasn't a good idea to keep dragging it on. Now that Tian Mo wasn't in Jingzhou and had gone to open a new experience store in another place, Pei Qian couldn't observe him up close and catch him in the act, even if he wanted to.

Pei Qian felt that listening to both sides would lead to clarity, and listening to only one side would lead to darkness. By exchanging opinions with others, he might be able to gain some new insights.

As the only good brother in the entire company who shared the same goal as him and had been investigating Young Master Tian, Meng Chang had already made inferences about Young Master Tian's real personality and behavior. Naturally, he was the first person to ask.

Meng Chang was stunned when he heard this question.

He was confused.