Mortal Kombat: Scumbag Men Stealing Away Yandere Girls

He doesn't believe good things fall from the sky for nothing.

He glanced at Eva sitting next to him.

Eva sat obediently on the three-seater sofa between the two of them, her hands resting on her lap.

"Of course, it's not guaranteed to make money. Businesses have their ups and downs, but rather than simply wanting money, I hope that my ideas will be validated and rewarded with money."

"Since that's the case, why not just take the money?" Han Di chuckled, trying to deflect the question.

"Young people don't understand. In business, nine out of ten times you make money, you lose money. If you ask me, it's easier to just take the money."

Bai Weiran joked with a smile.

"Things that can be settled with money are simple matters."

“Mr. Han, this is not a simple matter that can be resolved with money.”

Han Di's expression immediately turned cold.

People who want something but don't want money are more troublesome.

But Han Di has always been a person who repays kindness, and it is because of this that his subordinates respect him.

“If the business fails, consider this money as my reward. If the business succeeds—” Bai Weiran stretched out his palm and opened it in front of Han Di.

"I want 50% profit."

Han Di's attitude immediately became cautious.

A 50% profit margin—what kind of business could have a 50% profit margin that's comparable to his Eva?

Although the Han family has always been part of a local underground force, Han Di does not engage in illegal business.

He owns several legally operating military factories, which, together with the fees he collects from the southern district, constitute the Han family's main source of income.

Previously, with neighboring countries in constant conflict, the military factories were doing very well and were overwhelmed with orders.

Now that neighboring countries have signed ceasefire agreements one by one, orders for military factories have plummeted. At the same time, competition with three other companies has led to a significant reduction in revenue in this area.

The Han family's income has become more dependent on the fees paid by residents of the southern district.

He is looking for a way to bring new wealth to the Han family.

However, Anda has neither mineral resources nor geographical advantages, nor any outstanding technology or thriving industries.

The Han family had always been in the arms business and had no other technological foundation or accumulation.

Transformation is easier said than done.

—Is this a move towards violent debt collection?

Han Di was not happy about it. He had a longer-term vision. Peace was coming soon, and he did not want the Han family to go back to the old ways.

But he also knew that businesses operating in the gray area often yielded greater returns than those operating legally.

If this person uses his daughter's kindness to blackmail the Han family into doing business in a gray area, should he agree or not?

Han Di fell into deep thought for a few seconds, then heard the young man speak calmly.

"This business allows the Han family to apply their past experience. It should be said that most people cannot do this kind of business."

There's something strange about this world.

They have already invented television and mobile phones.

However, entertainment activities are scarce, and games are still limited to casual mini-games, with few large-scale games emerging. It is just beginning to take shape, unlike the already saturated Chinese internet industry, which is in a growth phase.

"You're suggesting we make a game?"

Han Di curled his lip upon hearing this.

He looked down on those games; they were just child's play.

He's been in the arms business; why should he go back to making games?

Breaking bricks, eating stars, playing whack-a-mole—how boring!

How can you make that little money from kids?

Bai Weiran leaned back on the sofa, his hands clasped together, a gentle smile on his face.

"Besides children, adults also enjoy playing games."

"The gaming industry is a dream-making industry, selling dreams to ordinary people, and Mr. Han already holds the dreams that ordinary people want in his hands—"

"If robbing a bank were legal, everyone would dream of robbing a bank. What the law can't do in reality can be done in a game. Mr. Han wants to control his subordinates to prevent them from acting recklessly, but people just love to act recklessly. Since we live in a world with constraints, we have to sell our unrestrained fantasies to others."

Han Di: …………

Turn the daily lives of underworld gangsters into a game and sell it to the general public?

Drinking, fighting, causing trouble, charging fees, and speeding cars?

He highly doubted that anyone would actually pay for it.

He remained silent for a while, then glanced at Eva out of the corner of his eye and saw her gently purse her lips at him.

It was a subtle gesture between the father and daughter that indicated she had something to say.

Han Di has always groomed her daughter to be the next head of the Han family, and Eva has never disappointed her.

"...I need some time to think. In the meantime, I'd like to have a few words with my daughter alone. Mr. Bai, you don't mind, do you?"

Bai Weiran gestured for him to proceed, watching as Han Di carefully picked up Eva. The burly man held the girl, his arms so muscular they were as thick as Eva's waist.

He watched them leave, then turned his gaze back to the deer head on the wall.

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Handy led Eva into the adjacent study and gently put her down with an incredibly tender gesture. Without a word, one could see how much Handy cherished his daughter.

"My baby, you've lost so much weight—"

Looking at her daughter's face, which was noticeably paler and thinner than before she went in, Han Di felt heartache, and anger flashed in her eyes.

"They're really taking advantage of the fact that the Han family has no one left."

Eva didn't cry as she was comforted. She was unusually calm, brushing away her father's hand that was touching her face, her pale face even showing a hint of displeasure.

"Whether I lose weight or not doesn't matter, but Dad, please grant that person's request!"

"…………? You think it's feasible?"

Eva held Han Di's hand in her other hand, her expression unusually calm, and slowly recounted how she had stabbed Bai Weiran several times in the cell, leaving him unharmed.

“He’s not human, at least not a normal one,” Eva analyzed calmly.

“Daddy, you once said that when we’re unsure about someone’s true nature, we should choose to be friends over enemies.”

“I’m not grateful for his help.”

"If he tries to harm the Han family today and tries to use me to blackmail you, I'd rather slit my own throat and die in prison."

"I don't mind sacrificing myself for the Han family."

From the moment Eva realized that Bai Weiran possessed superhuman strength, she was immediately filled with apprehension and fear.

She wasn't foolish enough to bring home someone she couldn't kill and whose origins she didn't know.

Eva already felt that she had been framed for being imprisoned, and now someone who seemed to be trying to rescue her had appeared.

Who knows if this is another trap?

“I don’t care about what he said, but his plan—is indeed useful to the Han family.”

Eva grasped Han Di's large hand, her pale, bloodless lips pursed slightly.

“Daddy, we’ve been looking for a new direction for the Han family to transform.”

"His plan might be a suitable direction for development. Although we hadn't considered it before, we don't have many industries to choose from."

How about making a game with an underground world as its theme?

Han Di couldn't see anything wrong with it either.

Some even felt that Bai Weiran, despite his seemingly profound appearance, was actually a bit of a goofball.

“But making things for this child to play with—” he finally sighed.

"This is just a small-scale operation. What kind of transformation is this for the Han family? Just allocate some money and pick people from the bottom to do it."

“No, she told me about a new operating model,” Eva said seriously.

"We can't do one-off games; we have to keep innovating, constantly updating the game, leeching off the players, and then continuously releasing new characters to sell back to them."

Han Di was still not very interested.

“Two percent,” Eva said earnestly, holding her father’s hand.

"This character isn't sold directly to players; they have to draw it through gacha pulls. And the chance of drawing this particular character is less than two percent. What does that mean, Daddy? It means that players throw a hundred dollars into our account, and we've already made ninety-eight dollars!"

Han Di was immediately startled.

"A two percent probability? Even the casinos in the neighboring Chuanhuang City don't have such low odds for poker. Is this a legal business? It's faster than robbery, and it even has a price tag. Who would buy it?"

“I was skeptical at first, but he said to just give it a try.”

Eva moved her hand away and turned her face away. She couldn't see, but her mind was exceptionally clear, and numbers were rapidly being calculated in her head.

This is a good business that doesn't seem to have any downsides at the moment.

Moreover, no one is doing this business yet.

Aside from the unusually high rate of return.

Han Di was skeptical, but Eva continued.

He also said that not only can we sell characters to players, we can also adopt a way to let players compete with each other on a map. For example, each player can run their own faction and compete with each other for territory and resources. If they want more resources, they must buy more powerful characters.

"If the players are at peace, we can even have our own developers infiltrate the game as shills to incite conflict between players."

Han Di: …!?

Holy crap, what a natural talent for the underground world!

Chapter Ten: Even my dad has never treated me like this!