Since we are both reborn, of course I would choose the rich woman!

Chapter 201 Jian Xiaojie: I'm back (6k subscription required)

The competition for promotion in large groups is very cruel. If you cannot continue to bring value to the company, or if you tie yourself to certain interests of the group, they will never show mercy when it comes time to optimize you.

Although Yao Qiangguang is a grassroots executive from outside the company, he also understands this principle.

Although after he came to Penguin, he helped Penguin create the "Tiantian Series" mobile games on the mobile terminal, and "QQ Speed" on the computer terminal as an achievement.

But his position within the Penguins is not secure.

The Tiantian series of mobile games are games whose upper limit can be seen at a glance, but the era of computer games has visibly passed.

In the future, computer games may only produce one or two hit games every once in a while. According to the trend, "League of Legends", which is represented by Penguin in China, will start to dominate the charts for a long time.

An era of e-sports for all may be coming.

In this case, MOBA games on mobile terminals must be a blue ocean.

This was Yao Qiangguang's judgment based on the market and the trend of the times, so he agreed without hesitation when the competition in the same category was mentioned above.

Due to the limitations of current hardware conditions, the development of MOBA games on mobile phones faces many difficulties. While Yao Qiguang was struggling to overcome these difficulties, he failed to receive basic resource support.

This made him very tired.

However, Chen Yu, who was competing with him, was already ahead at the starting line.

For this reason, Chen Yu, the president of Guangliang Studio, specially pulled him over for a private "talk".

"You are not a direct descendant, so why are you working so hard? When you reach the end of your term, the company will give you a large compensation, and you can wait for retirement peacefully, right?"

"What do you have to compete with me and Zeng Lun? You are not as good as us in terms of resources, background, or even health."

"Take my advice, this is not your battlefield."

What Chen Yu said to Yao Qiguang that day was still echoing in Yao Qiguang's ears even days later.

Every evening when he left the company, looking at the increasingly prosperous Shenzhen city bathed in the twilight, Yao Qiguang felt a sense of desolation of "old age" in his heart.

But beneath this feeling of desolation, there were embers that refused to go out no matter how hard he tried to bury them.

He actually likes games.

The fire buried deep in my heart since childhood has continued to burn for more than twenty years.

Over the past twenty years, he refused the institutional job arranged by his parents and resolutely stepped into the huge Internet trend of game development. He made a lot of money, but then burned it all when he developed games on his own.

It was also from that time that he realized that games were no longer something that could be operated by two or three people, so he later joined Shanda, and after being teased by Penguin for more than a year, he finally joined Penguin.

And his achievements with the Penguins are obvious to all.

He became a grassroots executive at Penguin, managing one of Penguin's four major studios, and had many successful works and cases under his management.

But these products all have a strong penguin color and cannot highlight his personal abilities - in other words, what he has made so far can be replaced, and he is also a link that can be optimized in this Internet behemoth.

Does he really have to do as Chen Yu said, wait until he is completely burned out, and then wait for the pension that Penguin will give him to support him in his old age?
But if that were the case, he really couldn't accept it.

A few days after Chen Yu finished talking to him, the group's vice president Tang Yi came to talk to him, personally supported him, asked for some resources, and also implicitly criticized Chen Yu at the weekly meeting of the Interactive Entertainment Business Group.

Before leaving, Vice President Tang found Yao Qiguang to have a private chat with him, saying that the company is now at a critical period and he hopes that Yao Qiguang can take the overall situation into consideration.

Yao Qiangguang felt bitter when he heard this, because whenever you are asked to consider the overall situation, you are definitely not in the overall situation; whenever you are asked to do something at any cost, you are the cost.

Judging from his many years of experience in large companies, this wave may even be a double act performed by Mr. Ren, the big boss of the Interactive Entertainment Group, and Tang Yi.

Mr. Ren is a very capable person.

Yao Qiguang strongly agrees with this point.

Although Vice President Tang has the title of vice president, his position is more like a noble one without real power. He is unlikely to pay attention to trivial matters between grassroots executives.

Therefore, that weekly meeting was more like an operation carried out by Mr. Ren to balance the studios under him.

Large groups and the officialdom have many similarities, and balancing the use of personnel is a necessary skill.

Thinking of this, Yao Qiguang felt even more depressed.

His abilities are obvious to all, so does Mr. Ren really want to win him over here and burn him out completely?
In fact, it doesn’t matter if he burns out, but he hopes that his name and milestone can be left in the future history of Internet game development.

After work that day, Yao Qiguang was still driving around in a depressed mood, and then he unknowingly came to the Haipanwan community, where his beauty was and his paradise was.

But he has been indulging in the land of pleasure and betraying his wife, which makes him feel very tormented inside.

Yao Qiguang parked the car and strolled to the Bay Park here.

He sat down on a park bench, supported by a crutch he had recently picked up, and stared with haggard and empty eyes at the sea in the distance, which was sparkling like molten gold at sunset.

Suddenly, he noticed someone sitting on the bench next to him.

Yao Qiangguang turned his head and looked at the person beside him, and found that there was a very handsome young man, but that young man's face also had the haggardness accumulated from overwork. However, that haggardness did not ruin his handsomeness, but instead made him look a little broken.

He is so handsome that he looks like a character in a TV drama who has been carefully made up and dressed up for the filming.

This handsomeness made Yao Qiangguang, who looked like an ordinary person, a little uncomfortable, as if he was being shone in the eyes by a strong light.

So Yao Qiguang leaned on his crutches and prepared to get up and leave.

But the young man said calmly and naturally: "Mr. Yao, let's chat."

Yao Qiguang froze for a moment. He looked at the handsome young man next to him and asked in confusion, "I don't know you."

The young man then turned to look at Yao Qiguang: "Hello, I'm Lv Yao."

Lu Yao!!
It turns out that he is Lu Yao.

The name Lu Yao has been mentioned very frequently within Penguin's interactive entertainment group recently. The "Legend of the Brave" side is almost treating Lu Yao and his Guang'an Network Studio as mortal enemies.

Especially after hearing that he was involved with "ByteDance" and "Xiaomi Interactive Entertainment" in the north, it directly alarmed the top management of Penguin Group, and an emergency president's office meeting was convened for this purpose.

It’s just that Yao Qiguang, who is developing MOBA mobile games, has no direct competitive relationship with Lu Yaoguang, so he doesn’t pay much attention to Lu Yao.

After meeting him today, Yao Qiguang discovered that the young president of Shangnan was even more handsome than he had imagined, and he had a mysterious and profound aura.

However, his identity meant that he could not have much contact with Lu Yao.

So Yao Qiguang stood up resolutely with the help of crutches: "Sorry, I shouldn't have talked to you."

Lu Yao was still sitting on the bench. He took out his mobile phone, opened it, and showed a picture in the phone.

Yao Qiangguang's heart skipped a beat, thinking that his affair had been discovered, but when he looked down, he saw a photo of him and Mr. Lu sitting on a bench.

Yao Qiguang heaved a sigh of relief, but he still frowned and asked, "What do you mean?"

Lu Yao smiled and said, "I don't really want to start a conversation with you in this way, but I don't have much time, and I don't have many opportunities to come here quietly. So can you please sit down and chat with me for a while?"

Yao Qiguang showed the toughness and coldness that a senior executive should have at this moment: "What else?"

Lu Yao smiled and said, "You should know better than me what the Penguin Interactive Entertainment Group is like now. Once this photo is leaked, even if the Penguin executives are willing to believe you, Zeng Lun and Chen Yu will be eager to eat you up."

Yao Qiguang was silent.

He sat back down next to Lu Yao and said calmly but sarcastically, "Boss Lu is indeed very similar to what was rumored online."

Lu Yao smiled and said, "Mr. Yao has searched for me?"

Yao Qiguang said indifferently: "I've only heard of you. Many people in our park have been discussing you recently."

Lu Yao smiled and said, "You are really kind. My purpose for coming here this time is very simple. I want to invite you to join our Guang'an Online Games. I am not a person who makes empty promises. I have limited passion for the game industry and even more limited energy. So as long as you come, Guang'an Online Games will be directly handed over to you for management in the future."

“This can be written into the contract.”

But Yao Qiguang was unmoved: "Sorry, I don't have any plans to change jobs recently. If I do, I will contact Mr. Lu."

Lu Yao did not respond, and asked, "Mr. Yao, I know you. I can see that you are passionate about games. In 02, you locked yourself in the room and spent all your time, energy and wealth to develop a game you wanted."

"So now, you no longer have the same enthusiasm as before?"

Yao Xiaoguang looked at Lu Yao in surprise. Most of the people who knew about these things were insiders, and Lu Yao... this man who started out by living off gigolos, became wealthy by selling QQ underwear, and then was taken to success by a rich woman, actually took the time to find out about his past?
Sure enough, the bowl of free rice cannot be held firmly by just having a good look.

Yao Qiangguang realized that Lu Yao was indeed a man with ideas and abilities.

But his personal ability was not enough to fight against a behemoth like Penguin, so Yao Qiguang refused: "Let alone whether I am enthusiastic or not, it is just a foolish dream for you to go head-to-head with Penguin with your size in Shangnan."

If it was before 2010, if a figure like Lu Yao emerged, there might still be hope.

But the current Internet landscape has actually become almost solidified. How can a latecomer like Lu Yao, who doesn't have many Internet genes, want to defeat Penguin?
This is really a bit far-fetched.

Lu Yao smiled carefreely and said, "It's impossible to say that there is no pressure. In order to compete with Penguin, I have rarely been able to sleep well in the past six months. But things without challenges... are actually very boring to do."

"Don't you want to receive lots of compliments when people mention you on the Internet in the future? Even if it becomes material for someone else to write a rebirth novel online."

Lü Yao used the future to describe his hope: "In this way, our names will be stored in time and in people's memories, like an invisible monument."

"And when this monument is engraved with the words 'defeating Penguin, creating an innovative chapter for domestic games, and leading the direction of future games', it will shine even brighter."

The future described by Lu Yao is undoubtedly very attractive.

This reminded Yao Qiangguang of the first time he came into contact with the game "Diablo". He and his classmate used the keyboard to add blood and magic, while he was responsible for operating the mouse. After a fierce battle, they finally defeated the big BOSS at the end of the level.

That was the first time he felt deeply moved by a game, and the spark for developing the game was planted at that moment.

And now, the game was reflected in reality, and the penguin became the big boss at the end of the level in reality. If he could really defeat the penguin... the emotion he felt in the summer when he was seventeen seemed to flood into his heart again.

Yao Qiguang was silent. People were coming and going in the Bay Park. Children and people of all ages in Shenzhen made all kinds of noises in the park, but Yao Qiguang could not hear them.

He has indeed been in the game development field for too long...

It has been so long that he has forgotten his original intention.

After a long while, Yao Qiguang finally came out of his emotion and said to Lu Yao seriously, "I'm sorry, the most important thing in the Internet age is traffic. In this regard, I don't think any Internet company can compare to my current company."

After he finished speaking, the light in Yao Qiguang's eyes seemed to dim. Unexpectedly, he has become the mercenary adult that he hated when he was a child.

If he were ten years younger, he would definitely follow Lu Yao without hesitation.

After saying that, Yao Qiguang said tiredly, "As for the photos in your hand...if you want to publish them, then publish them. I will explain it to the company."

"I go first."

After saying that, he stood up and prepared to leave.

Lu Yao then stood up from the bench, took out a mobile phone from his pocket and handed it to Yao Qiguang: "This phone has only my number. Maybe one day you will need it."

"I have always felt that great things require great people to do them. Penguin is not a company that was developed with the goal of greatness. It will erode what you have worked so hard to create."

Yao Qiguang's hand paused.

Reason told him that he should reject Lu Yao immediately and return the phone.

But his emotion made him agree with what Lu Yao said and controlled his body.

So Yao Qiguang silently put away his phone, then limped away on his crutches. In the darkening night, his back looked particularly desolate.

When Yao Qiguang returned to his car, feeling the pain in his leg, he couldn't help but look up at the Haipanwan community.

There is his paradise... But if the woman who admires him for his sincerity and is willing to have close contact with him knew what he said and did today, what would she think?
Yao Qiguang closed his eyes tiredly, was silent for a moment, opened his eyes, started the car, and left.

……

After Yao Qiangguang left, Lu Yao put his hands in his coat pockets and walked to the edge of the park.

The park here surrounds the coast with stone platforms and railings. Many men, women, and children who live nearby will come out for a stroll after dark, especially now that it is January and it is already quite cold in Shangnan.

But the climate here in Shenzhen is pleasant, not so hot, and much drier than in the previous months. It can be said that when it is snowing in the north in winter, it is a pleasant time in the south.

Therefore, there are many people in this coastal park, and many people are leaning on the railings chatting and enjoying the breeze.

Among the crowd by the railing, the tall and graceful Rong Nianqing was also leaning against the railing, but she was not looking at the sea, but was looking at Lu Yao.

The photo of Yao Qiguang and Lu Yao sitting together just now was taken by Rong Nianqing and sent to Lu Yao.

Originally, Lu Yao wanted to come to Shenzhen City by himself to talk to Yao Qiguang, but when Rong Nianqing found out, he insisted on coming along, even though the local forces in Shangnan had been defeated by them, some went into exile, and some went in.

But now the Rong family has been pushed to the forefront of public opinion again, and there is no guarantee that something might go wrong.

So Rong Nianqing followed along to take care of Lu Yao.

Lu Yao was also sensible and just treated it as a vacation for them together, even though there was nothing fun in Shenzhen itself.

When Rong Nianqing saw Lu Yao coming over, she put her hands in her coat pockets like Lu Yao did, leaned against the railing and smiled, "How was the chat?"

Lu Yao shook his head: "This Mr. Yao is not willing to change jobs."

At that time, Shanda was about to sink, but he was still teased by Penguin for almost a year before he agreed to join Penguin.

Yao Qiguang is almost forty years old now. Whether it is for life planning or considerations of bilateral strength, he has enough reasons not to choose Lu Yao's side.

Rong Nianqing asked casually, "What are your plans next? Are you really going to expose the photo of you and him sitting together?"

Lu Yao smiled and said, "That was just a way to keep him here for a chat. It would be meaningless if it were exposed. In fact, even if he doesn't switch over, I have confidence in the subsequent plans."

Being bad at video games is an original sin, and similarly not being fun to play video games is also an original sin.

Players have limited screen time every day, so of course they will play whatever game is fun.

Especially now that Lu Yao has joined forces with ByteDance and Xiaomi Interactive Entertainment to complete the construction of the "social + game" system.

Even if this system is "fake", relying on "Neihan Duanzi" and "Toutiao", and even "Tik Tok" which will be launched next year, he is confident that he can use it to build a system of "self-content + user-generated content + self-dissemination + e-sports".

Once this system is successfully built, the things he operates will no longer be afraid of any channel blockade or attacks from other forces.

It will form a platform with strong self-propagation capabilities from the inside out, thus breaking away from the conclusion that channels determine the life and death of products in mobile game promotion.

In terms of exploring and pursuing content platforms, Penguin is already several steps behind.

Even though he is now preparing to launch "Penguin" under "Toutiao", and will launch "Weishi" after Douyin launches three short video content platforms, the gap in algorithms has already widened.

Penguin, the Internet giant, has shown signs of defeat in the face of the rapid rise of new forces.

But they are completely ignorant at the moment.

Seeing Lu Yao so confident, Rong Nianqing smiled.

Although he didn't know where Lu Yao's confidence came from, and couldn't even see his chances of winning in the future, Lu Yao had already done many things that were beyond her expectations.

So she believed in Lu Yao and was happy for him.

Rong Nianqing smiled and said, "Then I'll accompany you to finish your work, and you can just accompany me to do something next time."

Lu Yao looked at Rong Nianqing: "Going to Foshan?"

Rong Nianqing replied: "No, it's Huizhou Province. Didn't you suggest that I make cars and mobile phones? I have already discussed it with my family. I will build a factory in Luzhou City and then cooperate with many domestic automobile manufacturers."

The automotive industry requires a lot of technical accumulation and is also a very expensive endeavor.

However, domestic automobiles have developed very well in all aspects in recent years. Although the brand heritage accumulated in traditional oil vehicles is not as good as that of imported cars and joint venture cars, there is generally no problem with quality.

When the sales of new energy vehicles begin to explode in the future, all kinds of imported cars and joint venture cars will be brought down from the altar in China.

Although Lu Yao doesn't like new energy vehicles, he is particularly grateful that they allow him to drive an Audi A27L worth 7 yuan.

At this stage, new energy technology is still relatively backward. In fact, there are domestic manufacturers that can cooperate with us for the three major components of traditional fuel vehicles. So as long as Rong Nianqing takes the lead seriously, this will not be difficult to accomplish.

Especially off-road vehicles developed for non-land markets.

Although the roads over there are bad, there is also an engine in China that is specially designed for bad roads. Its power is unknown, but it becomes stronger when facing strong opponents.

There should be a good market for redesigning and selling it to non-mainland China.

and many more!

Lu Yao suddenly realized: "It seems that there is only Jianghuai in Luzhou. Why would you want to build a factory there?"

Chery's factory is also in Huizhou, and Chery's engine power is also very good, so he can understand building a factory in Wuhu, but what is the plan for building a factory in JAC?
Lu Yao pondered for a moment and said, "Have you ever considered building a factory in Liuzhou?"

Rong Nianqing shook her head and said, "It's not possible in Liuzhou. The situation there is quite complicated. It's not appropriate for outsiders, especially our family, to go in."

Lu Yao had heard something about this, and even more so, something very, very bad would happen in Liuzhou in the future. Lu Yao heard this while drinking and chatting with a big shot when he was introducing a girl to him while studying abroad in the future.

Rong Nianqing continued, “It’s not appropriate in Shangnan or in Bulk Province.”

Eleven of the thirteen bulk suppliers in the province have automobile assembly plants, so it is obvious that they cannot pee in the same pit.

Huizhou has always been sucked dry by Shangnan, and its economic scale is neither up nor down, so it is easier to tie the people from Huizhou to itself. In addition, there is an automobile industrial base, so it is a relatively suitable place.

Lu Yao nodded. Thinking about the fact that Huizhou would be able to protect the three little sheep despite the online abuse and some unspeakable reasons, he knew how hard they would work for the local economy.

So overall, Huizhou is indeed the best region for cooperation.

Afterwards, Lu Yao and Rong Nianqing flew directly to Luzhou for a field investigation, and truly enjoyed the official reception. The feeling... was really great.

A week had passed when Rong Nianqing and I returned to Shangnan.

Lu Yao barely had time to catch his breath and continued to devote himself to his work.

Another week later, Lu Yao received a text message from Jian Xiaojie: "I will be back to Shangnan in two days."

Lu Yao replied immediately: "Then I will pick you up then."

Jian Xiaojie: "No need, you take Sister Shu to the place where we often meet, and I will go there to find you after I get off the plane."

Lu Yao felt a little strange, but he didn't ask any more questions and replied directly: "Okay."

……

Two days later, around seven in the evening.

Lu Yao brought Sister Wang to Jian Xiaojie's secret residence. Sister Wang seemed to know about this place, so her ears gradually became clear on the way here, but she didn't say anything.

When he and Sister Wang arrived here, they found that the place was empty and no one was there. It seemed that Jian Xiaojie had already informed them in advance.

He and Sister Wang hadn't been waiting here for long when they heard the sound of the combination lock opening the door.

Wait until the door opens.

When Lu Yao and Sister Wang arrived at the door, they saw that the lights in the corridor outside were very bright, but the lights in the room were very dim, so Jian Xiaojie, with her coat open, appeared in the backlight.

Against the light, Lu Yao couldn't see the expression on Jian Xiaojie's face, but he could feel the tiredness and exhaustion emanating from the black silhouette.

The feeling was just like the moment in Howl's Moving Castle when the wizard Howl transformed himself into a monster and fought outside for a long time, and finally returned to the castle covered in wounds and fatigue. The exhaustion emanating from his bones almost became tangible.

So when Sister Wang went forward, Jian Xiaojie almost fell down into Sister Wang's arms.

"call"

Faintly, Lu Yao seemed to hear a sigh coming from deep within Jian Xiaojie's body.

She just lay in Sister Wang's arms, like a child who had worked hard outside for a long time and finally returned home, and like the deformed Hal who gradually returned to being a human being, she became gentle and relaxed.

Sister Wang said nothing, but just stroked Jian Xiaojie's back gently and lovingly.

That look seemed to say—

"It's okay, I'm here, always here."

(End of this chapter)