freenovelworld #273 - About the matter of being raised as a useless person by Mr. Lu (2 in 1 order required)
#273 - About the matter of being raised as a useless person by Mr. Lu (2 in 1 order required)
"What's going on?"
It had been five years since his second son married the eldest daughter of the Huang family, and Pei Shengnan had never seen his in-law so agitated.
Huang Shiyi then told Pei Shengnan in detail about the grievances his youngest daughter had suffered.
"Liu Mengyuan? Is that Liu Lan and Pei Yu's daughter?"
Thinking of this cousin in the family, Pei Shengnan couldn't help but feel a sense of unease.
Both the Pei family and the Liu family started their businesses as merchant families from the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China era.
For nearly a century, the two families had direct competition in many fields and had been at odds in business for many years. In the Republican era, they were even so incompatible that they caused a fatal incident.
Therefore, initially, the elders in the family did not agree with the marriage of Liu Lan and Pei Yu.
However, Pei Yu was unusually persistent, even voluntarily giving up the opportunity to be the family heir and share wealth with his brothers, and went to the Liu family as a live-in son-in-law.
However, since both families were top-notch aristocratic families, it could be regarded as a good match. If they could take this opportunity to eliminate the century-old grudges and work together in business, it would not be a bad thing.
Unexpectedly, only about five years after giving birth to Liu Mengyuan, Pei Yu completely disappeared, his life or death unknown. Neither family knew where he had gone, and then the two families fell into a war of words of mutual accusations, which has continued to this day.
"With Liu Lan's personality, no wonder Pei Yu would run away from home. No one knows what exactly happened during the five years of their marriage..."
Pei Shengnan sighed.
He still had old scores to settle with the Liu family, and Huang Shiyi was his in-law, so he had to get this face back.
So he said in a deep voice: "Old Brother Huang, don't worry, your Huang family's affairs are my affairs. I will find a chance to knock on Liu Lan."
After the other party hung up the phone gratefully, Pei Shengnan sat in his chair and pondered for a moment, then called his secretary in:
"Go and investigate the recent development trends of Liu's Group and see what areas they are planning to focus on."
Pei Shengnan's reason for starting to investigate Liu's Group was naturally not out of anger.
Commercial competition is about interests, not emotions.
All along, the Pei family and the Liu family had been wary of each other's size and deliberately avoided each other in new blue ocean areas.
However, in recent years, Longteng Group has also reached the ceiling of its development, and the development in many fields has encountered bottlenecks.
If they want to develop further, they can only snatch meat from Liu's Group's hands.
But since ancient times, challenges have to be justified, and he is also happy to use Huang Shiyi's matter as an excuse to start a war.
Pei Shengnan looked at the skyscrapers outside the window, his eyes gradually sharp.
Liu Lan, I want to see how many rounds your Liu's Group can last.
...
It had been several days since the end of the Celestial Dignity Cup, but Lu Yu had not been able to find any free time.
Because the popularity of the game "Time-Traveling Moe Girls" was still soaring.
After the game was released, the number of downloads soared all the way, ranking first on the download list and popular game list on the Peach Garden Illusory Realm game platform.
Currently, the game has a cumulative download of 15 million copies, a daily average of 12 million active users, and a peak of 4 million concurrent users.
The mobile version of the game has also entered the iOS and Android app store charts.
Player reviews are overwhelmingly positive, and the game's rating in the app store once soared to a high of 95%.
On Weibo, Tieba, D Station(D站: D Station), Zhihu, and NGA, this game has also been at the top of the discussion popularity list.
Because of the open world's high degree of freedom setting, although the main direction of the main line is fixed, the process by which players reach the ending is strange and varied, and there are countless strange Moe Girls appearing in the middle.
Therefore, a large number of players share their Moe Girl screenshots, game experience, and equipment building ideas, forming a huge community.
Moreover, in Tenghui's ME-GAME and Youyi Workshop, many cross-platform game editors would rather risk being blocked by the platform to recommend this game.
After all, the traffic brought by the game is too good, and no one is willing to give up this kind of traffic.
Even many editors who had previously written black drafts about Peach Garden have turned their guns around and began to criticize other games for not being progressive.
After all, after entering the customs, there will be great scholars to defend our arguments!
What shocked Lu Yu even more was that the game was not only popular in China, but also successfully entered the international market, attracting the attention of overseas players.
Many players ran to the game review section of Peach Garden Illusory Realm and issued righteous shouts:
"We need English! Please!"
"私たちはゲームを日本语でプレイしたい、お愿いします！"
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Lu Yu was dumbfounded, even Middle Eastern brothers came to support it,
It's really true that all perverts(LSP) under heaven are one family!
In D Station(D站: D Station) and various novel platforms, there have also been many super-burning fan-made MOD mashups, analysis videos, and fan-created novels.
Animation area UP master(UP主: content creator) Fan Shi launched the video "Time-Traveling Moe Girls: Hidden Stalks and Easter Eggs in Those Games" and topped the entire site's popularity list.
On the Mango Bag light novel platform, a fan-fiction titled "Blue and White Hime Girl's Diary: Aisha Belle Sister's Midnight Secret" has long occupied the top of the novel monthly ticket list.
Thanks to the popularity of the entire network, many figurine companies have sent customized figurine cooperation invitations, which have almost burst the company's mailbox.
...
However, the reason why Lu Yu hasn't been idle these past few days is not because he has to talk about these collaborations.
Now the company has professional operations and business people who can share these tasks for him.
The reason why he hasn't been idle is that he has to monitor the status of the company's internal employees at any time to prevent new large-scale point deduction events from happening!
Since the opening of this year's Celestial Dignity Cup, the employees of Peach Garden have been completely non-stop, rushing to repair bugs,
And maintaining and operating a game of this magnitude is no longer something that the current manpower can handle.
Therefore, even if Lu Yu tried his best to supervise everyone, prohibit overtime and internal competition, and continue to promote various benefits such as cat-stroking and afternoon tea,
The income trend of Leisure Points still began to decline sharply!
Although the project team partners seem quite excited because of the game's success.
However, according to the system's law of diminishing marginal effect, the point income of employees from work is 0.
Therefore, for Lu Yu, the more employees put their energy into work, the less energy they have to enjoy, and these lost points are a bloody loss.
Lu Yu sighed and performed some operations on the computer.
Soon, all employees in the company received a text message prompt that 100,000 RMB had been credited to their salary cards.
"??????????"
Many employees popped up in the employee group:
Chu Xiong: "Brother Lu, is this an early year-end bonus? @Lu Yu"
Li Hongmei: "Should it be an advance payment of wages for the next few months?"
Zhao Yuhang: "President Lu, we are not in a hurry to use the money, so we don't need to pay in advance."
Lu Yu:
"What are you talking about? This is neither a year-end bonus, nor a salary, nor a year-end dividend.
Isn't there a 10 million yuan bonus for the Celestial Dignity Cup champion? This is the pocket money I temporarily give everyone with this bonus."
More and more employees began to pop up, expressing shocked expressions: (ΩДΩ)
President Lu gives temporary pocket money, starting at 100,000 at a time?
Zhang Fan: "But... President Lu, if it's 100,000 for each person, the bonus is not enough for the entire company to share."
Lu Yu:
"It's really not enough, so I used company funds to supplement everyone to 100,000.
By the way, you don't have to go to work this afternoon. Everyone can take this 100,000 to go shopping in the city and buy something they like."
The employees in the chat group frantically swiped the screen:
"Yay! ヾ(▽)ノ"
"President Lu is domineering!"
"President Lu is mighty!"
"President Lu is 2.8 meters tall!"
"I will always be the most loyal guard of Peach Garden!"
"I won't say anything, I want to work in this company until I'm eighty years old."
[Peach Garden employees are happy because they received pocket money, generating critical hits and resonance, Leisure Points +1100]
Earning a small amount of points again finally made Lu Yu feel a little better about being backstabbed by the try-hards.
However, Lu Yu felt that the root of the problem had not been solved.
Since the establishment of Peach Garden, each project has deviated from his original intention of making mediocre products, and the finished products have become more and more successful and popular.
What's even more terrifying is that these little try-hards have tasted the sweetness of making popular products, and their fighting spirit has become more and more high.
The risk of triggering a company-wide internal competition event is constantly increasing.
Where is the problem?
Lu Yu thought with his chin in his hand, flipping through the group chat records, and soon discovered a pattern.
For example, for things like "whether or not to put extra effort into optimizing a certain function", if no one in the group mentions it, then everyone doesn't care.
But once someone starts it and mentions it, more and more people will participate in the discussion, and everyone will excitedly brainstorm and follow up, and this originally unremarkable function will be made quite brilliant.
Even if it takes extra workload for this function, everyone enjoys it.
For example, for things like bringing a laptop home on Thursday to do something extra, if no one mentions it, then everyone can't think of it, but once an employee mentions it casually, it immediately reminds other people like an alarm clock, and as a result, more and more people bring their computers home and mix things into the game.
These phenomena reminded Lu Yu of a word: the Catfish Effect!
Or to put it another way, this actually spawned a disguised wolf culture.
"Hehe, sure enough, there are traitors in the masses!"
Lu Yu sneered, opened his work email, and prepared to design a new anti-internal competition system for the entire company.
He typed a few big words:
[Carefree Daily Life King Project]
[Werewolf Killing Plan]
The so-called Carefree Daily Life King Project refers to the fact that the company will encourage everyone to lie down and enjoy from the system level,
Lu Yu will regularly rank the system's point income and screen out the employees who earn the most points for awards.
In this way, to stimulate more employees to give up drilling into work and focus on leisure.
And the so-called Werewolf Killing Plan has the opposite hunting target.
He wants to find those wolves mixed into the flock of sheep, to find the culprits who tried to stimulate the company's wolf culture.
And carry out some special punishment and transformation measures with Peach Garden characteristics...
However, due to the limitations of the system rules, Lu Yu cannot directly show a tendency to maliciously slack off. This sense of disharmony will also increase the risk of the system being exposed. Therefore, some methods must be used for packaging and disguise.
Hehehe.
Lu Yu's eyes lit up, constantly tapping on the keyboard.
He believes that when he announces this system, the company's employees will definitely like it very much.
...
At this time, Liu Mengyuan, who was sitting next to him, was also flipping through the system light curtain with a dazed expression.
Originally, she should be happy that Time-Traveling Moe Girls was so successful.
However, the proportion of proficiency points earned recently that are related to work has decreased instead.
In fact, if she thinks about it a little, she will understand what is going on.
How did the core design points that made this game successful come about?
If you think about it carefully, you will find that none of the design highlights were thought out during the company's work process.
The idea that everything can be Moe(萌: cute) comes from Wan Xiaotong's flash of inspiration in her chuunibyou(中二病: adolescent delusions) brain.
The game's worldview comes from Wan Xiaotong's chuunibyou(中二病: adolescent delusions) fantasy and Lu Yu's chuunibyou(中二病: adolescent delusions) diary in junior high school.
The latest novels are first published on 69 Book Bar!
The game's combat system was thought out when everyone was doing gymnastics in the company and going crazy with Wan Xiaotong.
The rest of the various combat and force settings were all made up by employees based on what they played when they went to Yunnan for tourism and stroked cats in Cat's Tea.
Even the things that made the game the most brilliant were all unexpected results after the BUGs were fixed by mistake.
It is estimated that if these things are said, those peers who are trying to live and die but can't make a popular product will be so angry that they vomit blood!
Liu Mengyuan sighed. She flipped through the light curtain and thought about the sources of her recent point income, and found that they were also concentrated on two things——
The first thing is eating, all kinds of eating, from home all the way to the company, and then to the south of the border,
Therefore, her proficiency points in eating have been continuously improved, and her taste in appreciating food has been improved so quickly,
She even started to cook with ease, especially her skills in stewing turtle soup, which have reached perfection.
The second thing is stroking cats, all kinds of stroking cats, from home all the way to the company.
The old lady's big white cat next door has completely betrayed her. Every day after work, she waits obediently at the door like a concubine waiting for favor.
The cats in Cat's Tea are also very cheating, and Lu Yu even let them come to the company to sell moe(卖萌: act cute) in a chicken thief way. Who can stand this?
...
In fact, not only Liu Mengyuan herself, but she also accidentally discovered that the skill trees of this group of employees in the company have also begun to be crooked.
The technical director Chu Xiong's lewd graphics rendering and artificial intelligence technology have begun to advance by leaps and bounds.
Although it sounds like a good direction for the advancement of artificial intelligence technology.
But even Chu Xiong's AI proficiency points are all going in the lewd direction!
Fortunately, his own daughter, Melissa, the company's current AI signboard girl, has not shown obvious signs of depravity.
But it is hard to say when Melissa will start to get sick.
Could it be that she's starting to act up now, and the company just hasn't noticed?
Impossible, absolutely impossible!
Liu Mengyuan shook her head vigorously, completely dismissing this terrifying thought.
As for Zhang Qiqi, as the music director, this girl immerses herself in dark-style composing every day after work, her skill tree hurtling towards the direction of a death songstress.
Taking down a herd of Asian elephants would be a piece of cake.
Liu Mengyuan is terrified that one day, this girl might casually whistle in the subway and take everyone on the train with her.
Wan Xiaotong, as the producer of the company's most successful project to date, sensed through the system's light screen that this girl's chuunibyou (middle-schooler syndrome) is getting more and more serious.
Every day, she is fighting desperately with a being called the Invisible Boundary Line.
And Mo Xiaoxuan, the producer of another of the company's main projects, at first glance, is a quiet and seemingly normal boy.
But Liu Mengyuan can see clearly through the system's light screen that this kid is now secretly cross-dressing at home!
Cute JK uniforms, over-the-knee stockings, Lolita dresses—he's trying them all out, and his makeup and styling are becoming more and more skilled…
It's true that cross-dressing happens only once… or countless times!?
But well, his cross-dressing skill tree aura can provide development acceleration for the project, so go ahead and wear it.
Just be careful not to let his employees find out he's cross-dressing.
……
As for the skill point income of other employees, after a little statistics, the sources are similar—
Attending feasts!
Still, attending feasts!
Petting cats!
Still, petting cats!
She glanced at Lu Yu with considerable resentment.
The fact that the company's employees have reached this point is largely due to the various bizarre systems and heaven-defying team-building frequency that Lu Yu personally formulated.
If this continues, she and the company's other employees might be completely turned into useless people by Lu Yu!
No!
She can't just degenerate!
Especially, if the surprise mission fails in this cycle, and she fails to reach the skill point target, she will completely degenerate into a dark succubus.
Liu Mengyuan shuddered in fear at the thought of this, quickly turned on her computer, and began to design new systems for the company:
[Heaven Rewards Diligence Plan]
[Wolf King Plan]
The so-called Heaven Rewards Diligence Plan refers to the fact that the company will encourage everyone to focus their energy on game development from the system level.
She will regularly rank the system's point income and select the employees who earn the most points for rewards.
In this way, more employees will be stimulated to give up slacking off and focus on work.
The so-called Wolf King Plan is to find role models of try-hards among the employees, and then work hard to cultivate them, stimulating the company to produce a wolf pack culture.
Heh heh heh.
Liu Mengyuan's eyes lit up as she constantly tapped on the keyboard.
She believes that once she announces this system, the task of this cycle will definitely be stable!
……
Just then, Tang Wanru, the eldest of the Tangtang sisters, was about to come to report on her work, but was frightened by the auras of Lu Yu and Liu Mengyuan and dared not move forward.
She always felt that… President Lu and President Liu seemed to be brewing something extraordinary.
After Lu Yu finished writing, he stretched and asked after seeing Tang Wanru:
“What's the matter?”
Tang Wanru asked timidly in a soft, delicate voice:
“President Lu, um, this month is the year-end finals of the [Best New Star Live Streaming Platform Selection],
We signed up for this event and have already defeated Leopard Tooth,
Our popularity is tied for first place with the Douyin and Douyu live streaming platforms, and the competition is very fierce.
I was wondering, should we take advantage of the popularity of 'Hyperdimensional Moe' to do a live streaming collaboration to attract traffic to the platform?”
Lu Yu had some impression of this event.
This selection is organized by China Television and aims to discover the most outstanding and promising live streaming platforms in the industry, setting new benchmarks for the industry.
The winning live streaming platform will become China Television's annual strategic partner, sharing the broadcasting rights of many large-scale events and concerts.
In addition, the selection committee will provide the winning platform with generous advertising resources.
It can be said that the platform that wins the title of [Annual Best Live Streaming New Star] is equivalent to winning the rookie king of the live streaming industry.
Thinking of this, Lu Yu was faced with a formidable enemy!
What a joke, now 'Hyperdimensional Moe' has accidentally become a phenomenal hit. What if this wave of collaboration pushes Taoyuan Lightyear to become a top-tier platform?
At that time, being busy and overwhelmed will probably not be solved by recruiting another 200 people.
In this cycle, the system task is to earn points from 300 people, so he only wants to recruit these people, and doesn't want to recruit even one more.
Resolutely put an end to big company disease and uncontrolled internal competition!
He held out his Erkang hand and shook his head decisively: “No, absolutely not!”
Lu Yu's refusal was so激动的 that it startled Tang Wanru, and her delicate voice became even softer:
“But, the year-end finals, game live streaming is a must-choose project.”
Realizing his gaffe, Lu Yu cleared his throat:
“Cough, what I mean is, those who want to watch 'Hyperdimensional Moe' live streaming have already finished watching it at the Heavenly Venerate Cup. Using it to attract traffic again is not very meaningful. Why not…”
Lu Yu casually glanced at his game list and saw 'Free-Range Trash Talk Life' at a glance.
Although the number of active users of this game ranks second among the company's products, the growth of new users has obviously been weak. There should be no need to worry about attracting traffic by using it for live streaming.
“Let's stream Trash Talk Life.”
Tang Wanru: “Then should we invite some big streamers or big UP masters to play?”
Lu Yu shook his head decisively: “No need.”
He glanced at Liu Mengyuan, who was still frantically typing on the computer beside him: “Let's have President Liu and me use the 'Little Round Face and Little Feather' accounts to stream.”
The reason he chose this was because if high-popularity big streamers were used to attract traffic, and the program effect exploded accidentally, directly bringing fire to the live stream and the game, what would he do?
If he personally went on stage to stream, the controllability would be very strong.
It takes a lot of brainpower to create a wonderful program effect, but isn't it easy to create a cold scene and play awkwardly?
If I directly start slacking off, how will others respond?
……
The next day, the [Best Live Streaming Platform Year-End Finals]'s game live streaming event was held as scheduled.
Taoyuan Lightyear's homepage released a poster of Little Round Face and Little Feather participating in the live stream.
Many viewers were attracted by the event's publicity, and the live stream room began to lively screen:
“Hahahaha, it's Little Round Face and Little Feather again, you guys are about to become Taoyuan Township's designated streamers, right?”
“As long as there's a program effect, it doesn't matter if you take a few more commercial orders, we love to watch.”
“According to your account progress, are you going to stream the ending of Trash Talk Life today?”
Lu Yu and Liu Mengyuan each logged into their Trash Talk Life accounts.
Because they were going to team up to fight BOSS today, Liu Mengyuan invited two friends to join the team.
Game prompt:
“[Call Me Sister] has joined the team.”
“[Shushushu] has joined the team.”
Liu Mengyuan smiled and explained to the audience in the live stream: “This is the rich lady sister I met in the game, she's very nice and very generous. The one next to her is…”
Call Me Sister seemed to be watching the live stream as well, and she directly typed in the chat channel: “This is the coolie who farms the game for me.”
The barrage laughed: “Hahahahahaha, so real.”
At this time, in the Shenzhen Liu's Group headquarters building, Liu Lan was simultaneously opening the game and the live stream screen,
She glanced at Lu Yu in the live stream room and curled her lips.
You little brat, you want to woo my daughter, let me test you out first.