Don't get married if you're reborn.

Chapter 369 Auspicious Start to Construction (4K)

When I arrived at the startup base, the employees of the "Hero Kill" team from Game Science Studio were already there.

Apart from graphic designer Zeng Mi, who was allowed by Zeng Wenjie to work from home.

Yuan Xiuqin was the first to arrive, which gave her a strange feeling. After all, she was from Chongqing University, but she came to Fengyuan early to report for duty. She had a strange feeling that she had NTR'd her alma mater.

Fortunately, the employees had already met before the Lunar New Year, exchanged contact information, and discussed game development online during the long holiday. So, when everyone gathered in the office, the atmosphere was lively and there was no awkwardness.

Yuan Xiuqin discovered that her colleagues were indeed quite talented, and once again secretly regretted her previous ridiculous idea of ​​judging people solely by their academic qualifications.

The internet is buzzing with activity, and the game "Hero Kill" remains incredibly popular.

Everyone is curious: how did a team from a second-tier college manage to secure investment from Tencent and co-develop a game with them?
Many people questioned whether this was a publicity stunt and believed that the game was destined to be a worthless piece of junk, and that it was best not to have too high expectations.

Therefore, the development team members often engaged in online banter, making this holiday quite exciting.

Zeng Wenjie arrived at office 207 on time. The office had been completely renovated and was fully equipped, with the most advanced computers installed.

"Happy New Year, boss!"

Fourteen new employees greeted their boss in unison.

Apart from Chen Qiao and Yuan Xiuqin, these employees were all recruited with the help of the leaders of the Fengyuan Academy. They are generally highly capable and have impressive resumes.

If Zeng Wenjie were an average young man, he probably would have had difficulty managing these talents. However, although he is young, he already has the title of one of the top ten outstanding talents in the province as a guarantee, coupled with his miraculous entrepreneurial process, which makes everyone quite convinced.

Zeng Wenjie nodded and then said, "Happy New Year everyone! Thank you all for coming to start the new year. This is a red envelope I prepared for everyone! Everyone gets one!"

As soon as he said that, the office erupted in cheers.

So Zeng Wenjie handed out 200-yuan red envelopes to everyone, and then went to conference room 209 to hold a meeting.

He distributed more detailed information about "Hero Kill," and after everyone glanced at the information, he began to make work arrangements.

The meeting was halfway through when the head of the Computer Science Department at Fengyuan College rushed over.

He pushed open the conference room door apologetically and said, "I'm so sorry I'm late! Something really came up and I was held up!"

That's when everyone realized they were missing a nominal mentor!
Seeing this, Zeng Wenjie couldn't help but find it a little funny. He was a student, yet he had to make the late department head apologize and beg for forgiveness.

"Director Jiang is here! Here, Director, this is your start-of-work bonus!" Zeng Wenjie took out a red envelope from his pocket and handed it to him.

"Huh? I have one too?" Director Jiang looked bewildered, then happily accepted it. "Thank you, boss!"

The director's professional knowledge may not be strong, but this is, after all, a project that will remain in the Feng Shui Institute, so it is natural to arrange for a leader from the Feng Shui Institute to come in and provide guidance.

Of course, as for the accounts... we'll just ask Mr. Ma to settle them!
After Director Jiang sat down, Zeng Wenjie continued the meeting, experiencing the thrill of having a student give a presentation while the director took notes.

At this moment, Zeng Wenjie wanted to comb his hair into a slicked-back style, put on a handsome suit, raise his body fat to 30%, then change to the background music of "You Came from the Three Winters," and earnestly instruct: When using a computer, you must connect a monitor.

Joking aside, Zeng Wenjie spoke in a very organized and methodical manner.

"Director, I'll need your help to contact two broadcasters to do voice-over work for our game, and also find someone specializing in classical Chinese musical instruments to create the background music..."

Director Jiang immediately took notes in his notebook and said with a smile, "Wenjie, don't worry, leave this to me."

He couldn't really provide any guidance; his main task was simply to meet Zeng Wenjie's demands on the school.

Zeng Wenjie keeping the project at Fengyuan was already exciting enough for the leaders. What's more, they could get a share of the profits after the game was produced. As long as his conditions weren't too unreasonable, the school leaders would do everything they could to meet them.

After the meeting lasted for more than an hour, the employees of the "Hero Kill" project immediately adjusted, got into the zone, and started working.

Feng Xiao came over from 208 and said to Chen Qiao, "There's a technical problem next door, go and solve it."

Chen Qiao smiled helplessly, stood up, and said to Zeng Wenjie, "Boss, shall I go and handle this?"

Zeng Wenjie nodded and said, "Go ahead! Don't forget you have two jobs."

Chen Qiao smiled smugly, feeling a sense of being needed and quite satisfied. He immediately went to 208 to deal with Marlene's technical issues.

Listening to the sound of typing on keyboards in the office, Zeng Wenjie felt very relieved, as if a skyscraper was gradually rising from its foundation.

“Actually, with your abilities, abandoning those real businesses and turning to gaming, fully embracing Tencent, is also a good choice. That way, you won’t have to worry about being retaliated against,” Feng Xiao said, looking at Zeng Wenjie.

"Being humiliated by having your head submerged in water and not fighting back is not my style. Besides, do you think penguins are easy to bully?" Zeng Wenjie said.

The reason Tony was so easy to talk to was because he owed someone a favor.
He got the Happy Landlords game for free and then quickly released it.

Using the existing framework of Dou Dizhu (a popular Chinese card game), adding Happy Beans chips immediately attracted many loyal card game players. Further updates are being planned, with special poker designs, voiceovers, and table features to be released in future updates.

Mr. Ma is very "generous". In the early stages of the promotion, each person can receive 30,000 Happy Beans per day, which is ten times more than the fixed 3,000 Happy Beans per day.

With the support of "chips" like Happy Beans, Happy Landlords became very popular after its launch. The recharge volume made the Penguin Games department overjoyed. They never expected that even traditional card games could make money!

Therefore, they were even more eager for Zeng Wenjie to release the game "Hero Kill".

Zeng Wenjie gave Feng Xiao a copy of the information on "Hero Kill" and told her to take a good look at it so she could role-play it later and go with him to chat with Zeng Mi and break down her psychological defenses.

During her annual leave, Zeng Mi has completed nearly half of the character illustrations.

Zeng Wenjie had examined them one by one, and these character illustrations were even more vivid, expressive, exquisite, and beautiful than he had imagined.

The female characters' character illustrations, in particular, are all large-breasted and very pleasing to the eye. I can't imagine how amazing it would be if it were made into a visual novel.

Zeng Wenjie also asked Zeng Mi to create some modern outfits for these characters when she had inspiration, which would then be released as skins for players to buy with real money.

The corresponding basic cards are much easier to draw and are already partially completed.

Just as Zeng Wenjie was chatting with Feng Xiao for a couple of minutes, he received a call from Tony Ma.

"Mr. Ma, Happy New Year! We're starting work today!" Zeng Wenjie said.

"Mr. Zeng, Happy New Year! Our project director will arrive in Fengzhou the day after tomorrow. He'll call you shortly. Could you please send someone to pick him up at the station?" Tony Ma said politely.

"Huh? The train station? Aren't you taking a plane?" Zeng Wenjie asked.

“Our director has a bit of a quirk; he thinks airplanes are unsafe and will absolutely not fly unless absolutely necessary,” Tony Ma said with a helpless smile. Zeng Wenjie said, “Mr. Ma, I actually have many ideas, but the timing isn’t right, so it’s too early to say anything. Let’s discuss it in more detail after the game is developed and released, and if you think the response is good.”

Tony Ma laughed and said, "I have benefited greatly from communicating with Mr. Zeng, this imaginative young man! Of course, I would be very willing to have another detailed discussion with Mr. Zeng face to face."

The success of Happy Landlords made Tony Ma extremely happy; he made a fortune from traditional card games, so one can only imagine how much profit Zeng Wenjie's other ideas would generate.

The reason why Zeng Wenjie had never considered doing anything on the internet before was twofold: firstly, the internet industry had not yet developed to the stage he was most familiar with, and secondly, because of the existence of Tencent with its Sharingan-like eyes, whatever he did would be copied by others.

But things are different now. We have a cooperative relationship with Penguin, and some of our ideas seem like we could try to push them forward.

After finishing his conversation with Tony Ma, Zeng Wenjie received another call from the project director of Penguin Dispatch.

The project director's name is Zheng Shouyun. Judging from his voice, he is not very old, probably in his early thirties.

After learning of his arrival time the day after tomorrow, Zeng Wenjie planned to pick him up in person.

"You capitalist bastard, where are you today?! It's time to start work!"

Zeng Wenjie answered a phone call, and just by listening to the tone of the voice, he knew who it was.

Aside from exceptional employees and notorious troublemakers, no one dares to speak to the boss with this kind of attitude.

Zeng Wenjie said, "Things have changed a bit. I'm coming over now. Please wait for me in the shop for a moment."

After hanging up the phone, Zeng Wenjie said to Feng Xiao, "Think about your sales pitch. After work, I'll take you to Zeng Mi's teahouse for drinks."

Feng Xiao nodded slightly, glanced at Zeng Wenjie, and smiled, "Don't be too anxious, nothing has happened yet."

Zeng Wenjie certainly had a way out, but he couldn't swallow his anger if he just retreated like that!

The snack shop, which was just starting to do well, and Marlenia, who was just beginning to gain a foothold, couldn't withstand that kind of setback, and he didn't want his hard work to go to waste.

He promised to open snack shops all over the country so that Mu Qingyang could have snacks wherever he went!
Yuan Xiuqin sat at her desk, finished a small task, took a short break, and turned off the "Do Not Disturb" mode on QQ when she received a message.

It was a message from Qin Yixuan confirming that he would come to Chongshan in the first half of this year.

Yuan Xiuqin replied, "That's great! Let's get together then! Don't wait until you get your graduation certificate to come; that'll be a farewell dinner."

Qin Yixuan replied, "No, the General Administration is preparing to conduct a series of interviews with the village BAs, so it shouldn't be too late."

Yuan Xiuqin replied, "I officially started working at Wenjie's Game Science Studio today!"

"Hero Kill?"

"Ah."

"Is it fun?"

"It'll be fun. You'll see once it's released and you can try it out!"

After a brief chat, Qin Yixuan had to get back to work, while Yuan Xiuqin had to continue her tasks. The two campus beauties said goodbye and then went about their own business.

Director Wang glanced at Yuan Xiuqin and coughed, saying, "Students from Chongqing University, don't chat on QQ for too long. Finish your task as soon as possible."

Yuan Xiuqin hurriedly agreed, then smiled wryly. She hadn't expected to be supervised by a teacher even after starting work—it was absurd! And this teacher was from the School of Wind and Rain, or more precisely, the department head…

However, it was precisely because Director Wang was there to supervise that the employees in the studio worked extra hard when they typed on their keyboards, and many of the graduates felt like they were back in college.

When Ye Qiansheng saw Zeng Wenjie rushing over from the school, he couldn't help but frown and say, "Why do you look so bitter and resentful these past two days?"

Zeng Wenjie asked, "All?"

Ye Qiansheng said, "It's my dad. I made a joke to him yesterday and he almost beat me up. In the evening, Ye Yixuan came back for dinner, and the two of them looked like they had a lot of bitterness and hatred."

Since Ye Yixuan was able to become Zhuang Aimin's secretary, it's clear that the Ye family and her senior brother are allies, and they've placed a heavy bet on him.

Given this major change that caught everyone off guard, it would be truly bizarre if Ye Qiansheng's father were in a good mood!

"We'll have to find a new location for the branch; the deal we made before fell through," Zeng Wenjie said to Ye Qiansheng with a nod of helplessness.

Upon hearing this, Ye Qiansheng became anxious and said, "We've already made all the plans, and now they're falling through? Isn't that a waste of our time?"

Zeng Wenjie sighed helplessly and said, "There's nothing I can do! I'll take care of the site selection as soon as possible. If you have any good shop options, Brother Ye, you can also recommend them to me."

Ye Qiansheng frowned and nodded, cursing, "Is it that you don't want to expand, or is there some idiot getting in our way? On the first day of construction, we get such terrible news, what a damn bad luck!"

Zeng Wenjie just smiled and didn't explain in detail. Ye Qiansheng's personality wasn't suited to understanding these things.

When Shi Jing saw Zeng Wenjie arrive, he ran out from inside to greet him, saying, "Happy New Year, boss!"

Zeng Wenjie looked at him with a half-smile. This bastard, back in his hometown he kept calling her "bra" and now he knows to call her "boss"!
He took out a red envelope from his pocket and gave one to each of Ye Qiansheng and Shi Jing, who had started work early yesterday but hadn't arrived yet.

"Holy crap, thank you so much, godfather!" Shi Jing changed his form of address again and bowed deeply.

Zeng Wenjie was stunned for a moment, and suddenly understood how his teacher Gao felt. So this is what it feels like?

Only Ye Qiansheng calmly put the red envelope into his pocket, not even bothering to say "thank you".

Zeng Wenjie glanced resentfully at Ye Qiansheng, who didn't know how to flatter and only knew how to talk big about the boss, and felt that he had really trapped himself by opening Pandora's box for him.

At noon, Zeng Wenjie packed his lunch at an off-campus store and also took a lot of snacks from a snack shop, loaded them into his car and drove them back to the entrepreneurship base.

On the first day of work, we should treat the employees to a good meal and drinks so that everyone can help each other succeed.

Rooms 201 and 202 were also converted into simple lounges by the school leaders, where people could even lie down after meals.

Zeng Wenjie took some time at noon to chat with Zeng Mi, telling her about the situation and environment in the studio.

Zeng Mi looked at the text on the chat box, her worried brows furrowing slightly, and a hint of envy appearing in her eyes.

She felt like she was part of the studio, but unfortunately, she could only work outside of it...

(End of this chapter)