We agreed not to date, so why are you crying now that I've become the richest man?

Su Ya received a look from Ye Chen and put down the bamboo chopsticks in her hand.

She took a napkin and wiped her mouth, then pulled a printed briefing from her briefcase.

"Mr. Xia, since we've come up with overseas plans, let me give you a breakdown of the accounts and funds."

Su Ya's voice was steady and clear, revealing the meticulousness unique to financial professionals.

"The first batch of revenue sharing payments that came from EA a few days ago has been fully credited to our account in compliance with regulations."

"We registered a parent company in the Cayman Islands and used the BVI structure for tax isolation."

"Currently, the flow of funds in overseas accounts is completely independent of the domestic entities."

Suya tapped several key points in the presentation with her fingernail.

"We will continue to use this architecture for our next game."

"All overseas distribution packages are linked to the enterprise developer account of StarCraft's Hong Kong subsidiary. Funds go from overseas players to the Apple App Store or Google's Android Market, and after being settled back to our Hong Kong account, we then pay EA the channel promotion service fee according to the agreement."

"Going through the entire process not only avoids unnecessary exchange losses, but also eliminates any potential risks of cross-border disputes from a legal perspective."

Xia Meng stopped picking up food and her gaze fell on the briefing in Su Ya's hand.

Her breathing slowed down by half a beat.

This level of offshore financial structure is usually only used by mature companies preparing to list in the US, and Star Interactive even keeps the core developer accounts and payment rights firmly in its own hands, not giving the issuer any opportunity to overstep its bounds.

Xingchen Interactive, a startup company that has only been established for a little over a month, has built such an impenetrable firewall around its funding and equity.

Xia Meng turned to look at Ye Chen, who was slowly sipping his old duck soup with a porcelain spoon, without even lifting his eyelids.

"It's not just about the financial structure."

Han Yue then took over the conversation at that opportune moment.

She tidied the stray hairs by her ears and watched Xia Meng continue to add to the story.

"To ensure the stability of the overseas servers for Temple Run, the technical department just completed a large-scale expansion last week."

"We have deployed distributed server clusters and hot standby nodes in North America and Europe respectively, and carried out round-the-clock inspections."

"The domestic operations and maintenance team is divided into three shifts, working 24 hours a day and night to ensure that the response time will never exceed five minutes in any time zone where a downtime occurs."

Han Yue placed her hands on the table, her tone calm and composed.

"As long as the traffic from EA continues, our servers will not experience lag or crashes."

"Star Interactive will strive to provide the best possible player experience."

Xia Meng leaned back in her chair, picked up the stemmed glass in front of her, and took a big gulp of orange juice.

The orange juice, with its sweet and sour coolness, rolled down my throat.

She originally thought that she was dealing with a team of college student entrepreneurs who knew a little about technology and were lucky enough to catch the right trend.

On her way to the banquet, she was still scheming about how to use EA's size to gradually erode Star Interactive's dominance in subsequent collaborations.

Reality proved that she had miscalculated.

From tax segregation to the repatriation of overseas funds, and then to a 24/7, comprehensive operation and maintenance system.

Ye Chen had long since transformed this company, inside and out, into a precisely operating money-printing machine.

Ye Chen left no loopholes that could be exploited by external capital.

By the end of the meal, Xia Meng had abandoned her last bit of disdain for the startup company.

In this collaboration, EA can only honestly play the role of a distributor.

Trying to use resources to restrict supply is completely unworkable.

Ye Chen put down the soup bowl and took a napkin to wipe his hands.

He controlled the pace of the dinner throughout, giving EA enough face while firmly upholding the company's bottom line through Su Ya and Han Yue's reports.

"Mr. Xia, we can have more food if it's not enough."

Ye Chen leaned back in his chair, his tone gentle.

Xia Meng waved her hand and took the handbag, placing it on her lap.

"The food was very good, and Mr. Ye's arrangements were very thoughtful."

"I have a video conference at headquarters this afternoon, so I'll head out now."

"The overseas test package for 'Fruit Warrior' is ready and will be sent to my team at any time."

Xia Meng stood up and took the initiative to extend her hand to Ye Chen.

Ye Chen stood up, grasped the edge of her hand, touched it politely, and then withdrew his hand.

"It's a pleasure working with you."

Stepping out of the private restaurant, the afternoon sun shone on the bluestone pavement, making people squint.

Xia Meng walked towards the taxi parked by the roadside in her high heels, and waved to Ye Chen before getting in.

Ye Chen watched the taillights of the car disappear into the shade of the sycamore trees, then turned and walked towards his Mercedes.

"Get in the car, let's go back to the company and finish checking the reports this afternoon."

Ye Chen opened the car door and gave Su Ya and Han Yue some instructions.

Su Ya and Han Yue nodded in agreement, opened the back door, and got in.

Ye Chen got into the driver's seat, started the car, turned the steering wheel, and drove towards Zhangjiang Integrated Circuit Port.

Star Interactive and Star Software are both located in the same office building, but on different floors.

Compared to the bustling game development at Xingchen Interactive, the atmosphere at Xingchen Software was much more subdued.

The car was parked in the underground garage, and the three of them took the elevator upstairs together.

The elevator arrived at the floor where Xingchen Interactive was located first. Su Ya greeted Han Yue and quickly stepped out of the elevator to return to her workstation to check the data.

Ye Chen pressed the floor button and continued to take the elevator to the office area where Xingchen Software was located.

The elevator doors slid open to both sides with a ding.

Ye Chen pushed open the frosted glass door, and the dense sound of keyboard typing immediately rushed towards him.

The office area was filled with the strong smell of instant coffee.

Several core engineers were gathered around Chen Wei's workstation, fiercely debating the code scrolling on the screen.

"No, the underlying permissions of the Android 2.2 system are too restrictive. The kernel has blocked all the previous temporary privilege escalation vulnerabilities."

"On mobile devices, without rooting and gaining privileges at the underlying level, it's simply impossible to achieve one-click automatic silent installation."

Chen Wei, clutching his dwindling hair, stared at the red error message on the screen and sighed.

"Nowadays, ordinary users don't bother to root or flash their phones."

"If our app store client has to keep popping up system installation windows after the game is downloaded, making users manually click 'Next,' 'Confirm,' and 'Finish' repeatedly, the experience is completely ruined."

"Compared to the official system's built-in app store, if we can't achieve seamless and silent installation, user retention will definitely be a big problem."

A bespectacled programmer picked up a cup of now-cold strong tea, took a large gulp, and looked bitter.