freenovelworld #242 - Call me sister (2 in 1 order)
#242 - Call me sister (2 in 1 order)
In Shenzhou City, at the headquarters of the Liu Group, in the chairman's office.
Liu Lan sat at her luxurious desk, her brow furrowed, her fingers trembling slightly as she held her phone.
The city outside shimmered under the blazing sun, but the skyscrapers seemed to blur in Liu Lan's eyes as her gaze focused on the report from Manager Sun.
As the helmsman of the Liu Group, she had always been confident in her market insight, but at this moment, she felt a wave of unease.
The recent successes of Peach Blossom Village in various fields had left her slightly shocked.
She never expected that this small studio, which she had regarded as insignificant ants at the beginning of the year, had actually developed to such an extent.
Her mind drifted back to the stubborn expression on her daughter Liu Mengyuan's face when she ran away from home.
From childhood to adulthood, she had always felt that her daughter was a failure, hindering her in every way and bringing shame to the family.
Could it be... that man changed her?
The figure of Lu Yu appeared in Liu Lan's mind.
...
But she quickly dismissed the distracting thoughts and her eyes shone with a deep light once more.
Liu Lan stood up, her pencil skirt swaying slightly over her voluptuous figure.
Walking to her laptop, Liu Lan opened a video call and connected with Shi Yi of Youyi Company.
Shi Yi's expression was obsequious: "President Liu, what are your instructions?"
"Contact the person in charge of Mi Leyou for me, and tell them that we will increase our support for them in this year's Celestial Dignity Cup, and elevate our cooperation with Mi Leyou to a group strategic level.
I will have Secretary Wu send you an email with the specific implementation plan later."
Upon hearing the term 'group strategy,' Shi Yi's expression became very serious, and he nodded in agreement.
After closing the video, Liu Lan breathed a sigh of relief.
In fact, supporting Mi Leyou to compete with Peach Blossom Village was not a temporary act of impulse, but a strategic consideration with deep layers.
After all, after several wrist-wrestling matches between Peach Blossom Village and Youyi this summer, Youyi had already lost a city.
In the field of games, Liu Lan urgently needed a new successful project to establish the Liu Group's prestige.
This year's Celestial Dignity Cup is a large-scale event with a wide reach, and by supporting Mi Leyou to win the Celestial Dignity Cup, it can demonstrate the Liu Group's strength and powerful image in the game industry.
In addition, seeing the recent successful integration of offline catering with film, television, and games, Liu Lan deeply realized that
cultural products such as movies, TV series, and games can bring surging energy, and the group's future strategy must also be inclined in this direction!
After all, Liu Lan was able to achieve her current scale by relying on four words: adapt to the trend!
She can also use this year's Celestial Dignity Cup to reassure the group's investors and partners, that is—
The Liu Group has not fallen behind the times.
Liu Lan sat down at her computer and reopened a page, which was the official website of Mi Leyou.
In a prominent position on the official website page, the pre-launch promotion for the "Collapse 3" project had already begun.
The group can use this to find an opportunity to move up, such as establishing a strategic alliance with Mi Leyou, or even directly investing in it.
As a last resort, even if Mi Leyou is unwilling to accept investment,
this cooperation may also drive up the Liu Group's stock price, after all, the Liu Group's stock price needs a new story to support it.
Thinking of this, Liu Lan felt a little relieved.
As for the small setbacks in the Liu's Commercial Plaza, it would not have a big impact on the Liu Group's national layout.
A company with a market value of 700 billion yuan would not be affected by a small company with a monthly turnover of 200 million yuan.
...
Liu Lan closed the webpage, hesitated for a moment, and reopened a game icon on the desktop.
Soon, the familiar "Carefree Mouth Cannon Life" game LOGO appeared in front of her.
She didn't know why, but she had recently become very fond of playing this game, even a little addicted.
"Hmph, I just want to see what that stinky girl wants to express."
Liu Lan curled her lips, and her black silk-clad legs were comfortably crossed as she clicked the start button.
She had already played the plot to the point where the protagonist, along with Mengyuan and other partners, defeated Li Honglei of Chinatown, and obtained a new Mind Bond from Chu Xiaoxiong.
Although the transportation hub to the next plot area required a lot of Divine Easy Coins to unlock,
she had already told Wang Su her account and password, and asked Wang Su and her bodyguard sisters, who seemed to have nothing better to do, to work hard in the game for several days, so she had earned enough money.
In the game plot, before entering the Akihabara Idol Street, the other partners were making their final preparations, and everyone seemed very excited.
Especially Mo Xiaoxuan, her eyes were sparkling, her fleshy legs wearing white silk were bent into an inward eight, and she twisted her body from time to time, her dress swaying in the wind.
She unconsciously bit her lip, her expression cute and shy.
"Hey, Xiaoxuan, it's just going to the Idol Street, why are you so nervous?"
The protagonist next to her asked with a smile.
Liu Lan's game ID was "Call Me Sister", and the character image she created was as close to her real-life image as possible.
"O-Of course it's because there are more women's clothes there, doesn't that make you excited?"
Mo Xiaoxuan's face was rosy, she waved her pink fist, and looked forward to it.
Audrey Qi Qi complained from the side: "Haven't you been wearing women's clothes since you were born? What's there to look forward to?"
When she got to this point, Liu Lan lit a cigarette for herself, and the look in her eyes on the screen became slightly sharp.
A woman's intuition gave her some guesses, and she muttered to herself:
"This Mo Xiaoxuan, could it be a little boy?"
However, just as her thought arose, suddenly the game went black and cut into a cutscene.
...
In the endless dark night of New Alpha City,
the headquarters tower of the Divine Easy Company, like a steel behemoth, stood in the center of the city, the neon lights from the outside world reflected through layers of glass, outlining the strangeness of this headquarters.
At this time, around the tower, the weather was strangely lightning and thunder.
Those lightning storms were blood red, indicating that they were not natural phenomena, their source was the excitation device at the top of the Divine Easy Tower.
Immediately afterwards, the camera switched to a dark tech-style office inside the tower.
Chairman Liu Xia Wushilang sat in the chair, looking down at the trembling Divine Easy employees in front of her.
She was wearing a black tight-fitting OL outfit, the clothing was made of high-tech material, a slightly shiny black translucent material, outlining a full and upright figure.
She gently stroked the black hair on the side of her neck with her fingers, letting them slide from her fingers.
On the face of the Ice Queen, the makeup was exquisite and unique, the lip color was seductive, but her eyes were deep and sharp, so that none of the men present dared to have any improper thoughts.
"Your 16th team has delayed the construction period for a full day, what's going on?"
The employee wearing a construction helmet under the stage spoke with a trembling voice:
"C-Chairman, recently there have been unexplained fluctuations in the Spirit Language Network in the Chinatown direction, t-this has caused our 'Spirit Language Particle Emission Tower' to malfunction, it's really not our fault..."
Liu Xia Wushilang stood up leisurely, black stockings fit her slender and sexy legs, outlining the curve extending to her upturned buttocks.
On the thigh part of the stockings, there was also a circle of rose patterns tattooed.
Suddenly, she picked up the leather whip on the table, swung it between her wrists, making a crackling sound, like a viper.
"I said, the corporate culture of Divine Easy Company is—no excuses!"
Pa!
Wushilang slammed the whip heavily on the ground in front of the subordinates.
The employees were immediately frightened and trembled, nodding repeatedly and saying: "C-Chairman, we will never dare again!"
She turned to face the window, her slender waist swaying slightly, exuding a charming allure.
"Step up the arrangement of the Spirit Language Network, be sure to complete the control of the city before the old antiques in the United States and the Council interfere, at all costs!"
The subordinates responded respectfully and withdrew from the office in a panic.
Wushilang narrowed her eyes slightly.
"Hmph... Chinatown? Marilyn Mengyuan, do you really think I can't grasp your whereabouts?"
...
After watching this cutscene, Liu Lan, who was in front of the computer screen, paused the hand holding the cigarette in mid-air, seemingly thinking about life.
It wasn't until the cigarette butt was about to burn her fingers that she reacted.
"This stinky girl, so this is the image I have in your heart?"
Liu Lan frowned slightly, and then looked down at the long black silk legs under her pencil skirt.
The black silk on the thigh part was slightly translucent, and a group of rose patterns were tattooed on it, exactly the same as in the game.
"..."
Liu Lan pursed her lips.
...I just happened to think that this style of stockings was very suitable for mature women, it's not because I thought that I looked good in this style of stockings in the game that I placed an order in reality.
Absolutely not!
Just as Liu Lan was about to close the game and continue processing work documents, she suddenly received a new game friend message.
The sender's game ID was "Little Roundy", a teammate Liu Lan had casually added when doing side quests in Chinatown recently.
Little Roundy: "Wow, I see your location, you've already arrived at Akihabara Idol Street? How did you save up so many Divine Easy Coins in such a short time?"
Liu Lan thought, this Little Roundy should still be a young girl, playing the game at this time, which means she's either fishing in school or fishing at work, which in her opinion is definitely not a good habit.
So she started typing on the keyboard.
Call Me Sister: "Oh... I just spent a little bit of money, but you, it's a workday now, how do you have time to log in to the game?"
Little Roundy: "Hi, our company basically all employees fish at work, it's okay."
Call Me Sister: "Then I advise you to change jobs to a serious company as soon as possible, a company with such loose management is destined not to go far."
Little Roundy: "Covering mouth and laughing.jpg, rich woman sister, aren't you fishing now too?"
Liu Lan was directly stunned, and for a moment she was speechless.
Heh, this little girl seems to be quite good at talking, quite like that stinky girl.
Call Me Sister: "I heard you don't have money to unlock the new plot level? How about this, I'll transfer 300,000 Divine Easy Coins to you, so you can quickly clear the level, and then we'll play together."
Little Roundy: "Starry eyes.jpg, but it's okay for you to take out so much money at once?"
Call Me Sister: "It's okay, I have a lot of coolies to grind the game for me."
Little Roundy: "Wow, as expected of a rich woman sister!"
Little Roundy: "I'm not talking anymore, I'm going to soak in the hot springs, rich woman sister, let's team up to go through the plot next time."
Call Me Sister: "Go, be careful not to burn yourself with the water temperature."
She shook her head, just as she closed the game, she suddenly froze:
Huh?
Hot springs?
...
At the same time, Peach Blossom Village villa.
Liu Mengyuan closed the game with relish and stretched.
"Who are you chatting with? So happy?"
Lu Yu next to her asked curiously.
"Oh, a rich woman sister I met in the game, she's very generous."
After Liu Mengyuan finished speaking, she casually clicked on the system email in the company.
Soon, she saw a work email sent from Xu Qin in her mailbox.
The email detailed the recent achievements of the Cat Paradise linkage:
The passenger flow of Cat's Tea has increased by 20 times compared to usual, and the operating turnover has increased by 30 times!
Moreover, these data were obtained on the premise that the store capacity is limited and can only accommodate the current customers.
She clicked on the news links reporting on the Cat's Tea linkage in the email, and her eyes flashed with excitement.
"Yay!"
Liu Mengyuan's eyebrows curved, and she couldn't help but let out a burst of cheers, her cheeks flushed slightly, almost unable to hide her inner joy.
After happily clicking on the system light curtain,
Sure enough! The recent proportion of proficiency points income sources has changed, and has shifted a lot towards the career direction.
For this round of the system mall, she plans to take down more talents related to developing her career!
"What's wrong, why are you so happy?" Lu Yu asked curiously.
Liu Mengyuan chuckled, and her eyes showed blame:
"Of course it's because the Cat's Tea linkage was successful, you knew it a long time ago, right? You're still pretending."
"Huh?"
Lu Yu looked dazed.
At this moment, he realized that Lin Ming must have stabbed him in the back?!
But thinking about it carefully, that's impossible...
Lin Ming's store is already surrounded by Liu's Commercial Plaza, and he sent Wan Xiaotong, the chuunibyou girl, to assist her, which can be said to be a "strong combination", foolproof.
Then, he saw the report email sent by Xu Qin, and he was immediately stunned in place!
After a slight buffer, he clicked on the news reports on the Cat's Tea linkage, and looking at the overwhelming crowd, he suddenly felt dizzy!
Damn it, h-how is that possible!?
Game linkage, limited edition peripherals, and warm-up performances...
Then, hearing the host and various investors praising him, he choked on his own words.
Hey, wait a minute, you guys.
Do we know these investors? Are we familiar?
Where did you all come from?
"Unbelievable, simply unbelievable!"
A quarter of an hour later, Lu Yu recovered from the shock that had left him slumped in his chair. He took a slight breather and called Cat's Tea, but the line was busy, indicating they were extremely busy.
If they're this busy, wouldn't the Leisure Points be…
Lu Yu shakily opened the system screen, and immediately his vision went dark again.
Over the past week, the employees of Cat's Tea and the NekoPara team had accumulated deductions of over 2500 Leisure Points due to work-related fatigue!
He stood up and paced back and forth in the office area, his expression grave as he pondered his next course of action.
The other employees, seeing Lu Yu's demeanor, were filled with admiration.
As expected of our boss and leader, he's achieved such success just entering the physical industry, yet he shows no pride or complacency. President Lu must be thinking about how to make Cat's Tea bigger and stronger, right?
If the boss is working this hard, shouldn't we wage slaves work even harder?
After thinking for a long time, Lu Yu became vaguely concerned about the 'Hyperspace Moe Girls' project, as the risk of Wan Xiaotong, with her chuunibyou tendencies, becoming a workaholic was gradually increasing.
After contemplating for a while, he decided that he had to inquire about the game's development progress.
And use this as an excuse to extricate Wan Xiaotong from Cat's Tea's business, in order to prevent her from falling into an even larger-scale involution.
Having made up his mind, he immediately dialed Wan Xiaotong's number.