After rebirth, I found out that I have a childhood sweetheart

“Clang clang clang! Hello, everyone at Station C!”

Xia Yuan jumped from outside the camera to inside, then waved vigorously at the camera that Xiang Bingbing was holding: "Today is the first time I officially meet you all, this is Yuanbao - by the way, should I add desu this time? Haha... whatever."

Xia Yuan scratched his head a little embarrassedly. "In short, the newly released single topped the Penguin Music New Songs Chart on the first day. I didn't expect everyone to be so enthusiastic. Thank you very much for your support. I will continue to write good songs and entertain you with better songs!"

"I guess a lot of people know my real identity. There was a lot of controversy after I released my work last time, so I took the initiative to upload a video of the Jiangcheng Normal University Art Festival this time to put an end to some rumors or controversies. Please don't be unhappy about it anymore."

"Regarding my thoughts on debuting... I'm still a high school student, writing songs and singing are just my hobbies. I'm also planning to study hard. It's too early for me to be involved in commercial collaborations, so I usually actively refuse them. I hope everyone won't disturb my private life, as that would bother me. It's best to let the beauty stay on C Station and on the Internet!"

"Then..."

Xia Yuan looked at the prompter that Wan Chaoxiong held up, "Two minutes have passed? Ah Fang, Ah Fang, come here quickly! It's your turn! Don't be shy, come here quickly——"

Mei Fang was pulled from outside the camera into the camera by Xia Yuan, and the flirting posture of a young couple came to life on the paper.

He coughed a few times with a bit of embarrassment, then smiled at the camera and said, "Thank you very much for taking care of Yuanbao all the time. It was very unexpected for us to top the newcomer list this time."

Mei Fang rubbed his hands a little embarrassedly. "Although we really want to send something to thank our fans, we are students and have no money. After much thought, we decided to send 10000 copies of our recently completed game to everyone as a thank you gift!"

"Afang, it's too early for you to speak. We haven't even introduced what we do!" Xia Yuan pulled Mei Fang's arm to remind him.

"Oh... I forgot to introduce myself to you all. In addition to occasionally helping Yuanbao to sing, my main club activity is game development. We have currently established a Ximilu Studio in school. Yes... yes, some of you may have heard of it. It is the Ximilu game on Station C. I am the producer of the Ximilu game."

"In fact, we are currently working on a very new game. Foreign countries like to call it an independent game. The games we made before tended to be lightweight and funny. Our new game is about a girl's journey of pursuit. I will share the trailer with you later. Friends who are interested can actively participate in our activities!"

Xia Yuan was swinging Mei Fang's arm, her gesture showing the sweetness of a girlfriend:

"Listen to me, the music of this game was designed by me and my friends. The work has been put on the Steam Greenlight. Friends who are interested, please check the website at the bottom of the screen for more information about our new work! Um... that, if you have the ability, I hope you will support our new work!"

Less than a minute after Mei Fang posted the video online, many comments kept popping up. However, this video was full of big news after big news, and no one knew where to start being shocked.

[Fang Bao! Surprisingly! He is! The producer of my favorite domestic game studio, Ximilu Studio! ]

[Oh my god, I love "Reign" so much! ]

[No more talking, let’s go watch the promotional video first! ]

[What is STEAM? What is Greenlight? ]

[Such a cute Yuanbao can actually play games! Oh my god, this little girl is really popular with boys! ]

[From today on, I will be Yuanbao's dog forever! ]

[What kind of epic dream linkage is this! ]

Chapter 256 Mei Fang's Three Cards

In his previous life, Mei Fang did not actually have any particularly outstanding business talent. He just had a certain understanding of the basic development laws of the gaming industry, so he spent so much money to maintain Station C in this world when he discovered that Station B did not exist.

In fact, many people think that if they just want to develop the game industry, they can just create a game-related platform, such as benchmarking TABTAB and STEAM to make a name for themselves. Why bother to make a troublesome C station?

In fact that's almost meaningless.

Building a platform was not something that capital realized 10 years later. Before that, all the platforms that everyone could build had already been monopolized.

As we all know, the reason why Penguin was able to eventually defeat the once-popular domestic giant Shengda Games was not only due to the strategic decision-making errors of Shengda’s boss Chen Tianqiao himself, but also because even if Shengda introduced more outstanding games from abroad, its cost of buying traffic was very high and could not be compared with Penguin QQ, a huge traffic platform.

Relying on the QQ platform, Penguin can always easily harvest a large number of potential users, whether it is developing games or publishing games, and the advantages brought by this are almost immeasurable.

At the beginning of the century, the gaming industry grew wildly, with each company represented by its own signature game, and gaming platforms were almost limited to chess and card game halls and various pirated gaming websites. Later, with the promotion of smart phones, different mobile phone brands became a new generation of platform channel providers, providing their own application platforms to load games.

Only during this period did some truly original game platforms emerge, or game platforms based on mobile phone emulators, but most of them did not last long. They were either acquired by channel vendors or became niche platforms, a paradise for nostalgic and cracked games.

Tabtab, which has truly achieved success and produced something, actually did not rely on its own strength, but relied on the financial backer behind it, which is actually its parent company, Qindong Games. Valve itself has many world-renowned masterpieces. Qindong also made a lot of money in the era of web games and online games relying on the foresight of its boss Huang Ermeng.

Just like STEAM to Valve and TABTAB to Qindong, if you want to build a good gaming platform, it is meaningless if you don’t have a well-received first-party game.

Mei Fang is still too young and he does not have such conditions, so he has to find another way and use the huge traffic port of Station C as a starting point.

In fact, Station C is still relying on Mei Fang's game revenue for its survival. At present, due to the increase in bandwidth and the formal establishment of the company, the company's investment has increased, and now it has begun to show signs of losses every month.

Although Mei Fang has tens of millions of dollars in assets as a backup and the invincible trump card of the reborn, BAKCoin, as he emphasized before, there is no need to reveal his cards too early.

If you have an open card in your hand, play it first. What's more, the effect of the open card in Mei Fang's hand is exaggerated in itself.

Mei Fang named these three cards Xi Fang Yuan, representing the three main career lines planned by Mei Fang.

The first is the Xi brand, which is the C station brand representing Linxi Technology.

The Xi brand is the basis of everything, and has nothing to do with whether Lin Youxi reveals his identity.

As a platform, Station C is an incubator for all IP and cultural development. Even if it costs a lot of money, it must be firmly controlled in its hands.

The second card Mei Fang played was the fate card, which is the music card.

Xia Yuan's music career has the help of Mei Fang's plagiarism, and can quickly become popular with the traffic of Station C.

The songs that Xia Yuan plagiarized are not of a purely two-dimensional style, so they can also drive traffic to Station C and bring in a group of new users.

However, Mei Fang did not relax the difficulty of becoming a formal member just because of the surge in user visits. He even optimized several versions to keep up with the times.

The biggest regret of Bilibili back then was that it made its fortune by relying on the two-dimensional world and was working hard to de-two-dimensionalize Bilibili to make its content more popular among the general public. This was indeed the trend of capital development, but it also turned a group of real two-dimensional users into homeless rats.

Mei Fang does not need his C Station to be as popular as B Station. He just needs the scale of C Station to be large enough to cover his game users.

As for promoting culture as a vanguard or something like that, let Station A take on this responsibility in this life. He doesn't have big ambitions and he wants to leave a pure land for the two-dimensional people.

The Yuan card is not only a music card for Mei Fang, but also a poster girl card.

Station C will never deteriorate, and Yuanyuan will never enter the entertainment industry. This also means that various endorsements, packaging, and agency affairs have nothing to do with her, and Mei Fang does not need Yuanyuan to do these.

Under these circumstances, it is not easy to cash in on this card of fate. It can only rely on concerts and albums to replenish the blood a little. Xia Yuan's popularity will move forward with Station C.

The third card Mei Fang played was a square card, which was the Sago game card.

Mei Fang's capital chain is currently maintained entirely by Fangpai's supply. C Station's powerful traffic-generating ability can also reversely feed Mei Fang's games to gain more potential users. Now Yuanpai is also temporarily serving this function.

The effect even exceeded expectations.

At present, "Cloud Journey" has only developed a PC version, which is sold on C Station and STEAM respectively. The promotional video released by Mei Fang attracted a wave of Steam players, but the number of copies sold was very small. The game priced at 36 has been on sale for a week so far, and the total sales volume is less than 1000 copies. After all, smartphones and Zhifubao are still in the popularization stage, which is understandable.

C Station and Ximilu have limited influence overseas, so if Mei Fang wants to make big money on Steam, he can only wait.

However, the first week sales of C Station were far more impressive than those of STEAM, because C Station allows users to recharge C coins for payment, which makes the operation much more convenient. It sold 2 copies of the work in just one week.

You have to know that this was in 2012 in China. In the past, the real first year of domestic independent games had to wait until the birth of the official independent light "Ai Si" and "The Treasures of the Lost City" in 16. At this point in time, Mei Fang had become a pioneer in the ancient times and a landmark domestic independent light.

People have a high tolerance for games made by high school students. Everyone thought that Mei Fang would make another simple and fun game, but what they ended up playing was a work that was quite distinctive in terms of music, narrative, and art. How could this not excite game makers?

In addition to using the title of "The Light of Domestic Independence" to praise the ingenious conception of "Cloud Journey", Mei Fang was even given the nickname "Son of Light" and was highly anticipated by everyone.

Those young people, especially the boys, who were originally arguing over whether Fang Bao was worthy of Yuan Bao, suddenly became Mei Fang's supporters after playing the game made by Mei Fang. It seemed that no girl, no matter how cute, could compare to Fang Bao, and they all followed Mei Fang's account.

At present, Mei Fang’s own account [逆天小方方] has 3 followers on Station C. Although there is still a big gap compared with Xia Yuan’s 12 followers in 30, she can be regarded as an Internet celebrity to some extent.

To sum up, Mei Fang played all three bright cards at this point not out of casual arrangement, but for the consideration of the future plan of Xi card, the trump card.

Because this weekend, he will officially represent Linxi Technology to negotiate with Penguin's most mysterious strategic investment department, CVC (Penguin Industry Win-Win Fund), regarding C Station's Series A financing.

Chapter 257 Is this the legendary buckle?

After experiencing the 3Q war of the same era, Penguin began to rethink its full-platform layout strategy. Penguin CVC was officially announced in 2011, with an initial capital of 50 billion. However, it is rumored that only 20 people are managing this huge fortune. Every member of Penguin CVC has experience in giant projects and an academic background from world-class universities. They can be said to be the biggest among the big guys.

In his previous life, Mei Fang had no chance to touch a role of this level. Therefore, although his current status and wealth in the Internet circle cannot be underestimated, he would still be a little nervous about meeting with a big shot of this level.

The scheduled accompanying member, Sister Yueyue, must be present. Before the meeting, Mei Fang specifically consulted Lin Youxi and Xia Yuan for their opinions.

Lin Youxi's answer was straightforward, "If Ah Fang wants us to go, we'll go together."

"Youxi and I have the same idea... Although we may not be able to help you and Sister Yueyue, if the two of us can make you feel more at ease, you are welcome to ask us for help, okay?"

After careful consideration, Mei Fang decided to bring Xia Yuan and Lin Youxi with him for the interview.

Although they are not interested in these business negotiations, if they want to go further in the management level, they will also gain something by seeing the vision of the big guys.

The meeting place with the senior executives of Penguin CVC was directly chosen by the other party at the office building of Linxi Technology. In order to meet the client, Mei Fang specially wore a business-style white shirt prepared in advance. Looking at himself in the mirror, he felt like he had "combed his hair like an adult".

Ever since Xiao Xiayuan became a household name, Liang Meijuan didn't find it strange that the three little Meifangs did something earth-shattering, as long as they didn't get cheated, didn't violate F, and didn't affect their studies - now it seems that their studies have indeed been affected, but she didn't dare to ask more. Seeing Meifang showing off her image, Liang Meijuan was also very surprised:

"Aiya... Ah Fang is like a little adult now, quite like your father... No, maybe he's more like Yuanyuan's father..."

"Thank you for the compliment, Auntie."

If Mei Fang, like his father, still felt a little aggrieved, it would be perfect if he was like Uncle Xia Xun.

Xia Xun himself is the type of handsome uncle. Even though he is over 40 years old, he still looks handsome in a serious manner. He and Teacher Yu are indeed a perfect match.

Just like me and Yuanyuan now, hehe.

Liang Meijuan looked at him as he grew more mature, smiling but revealing a hint of regret and bitterness.

Now Yuanyuan has become a household name and her interactions with Mei Fang have become more bold. Parents are always sensitive and can understand the general situation by seeing many details.

Yuanyuan is probably already dating Afang.

This day has finally arrived...

Although Liang Meijuan did not watch the three little ones grow up, she has formed a close relationship with them over the past three or four years, not to mention that she took care of them after high school.

Out of a mother's selfishness, she certainly hopes that Mei Fang can be with her daughter, but she also finds it difficult to make a choice about Yuanyuan.

Fortunately, their relationship did not break down because Xia Yuan and Mei Fang were together, and Youxi did not show any sadness or loneliness.

But, that's probably just on the surface.

My own daughter, I am sure I know...

So while waiting for Xia Yuanlin and Youxi to finish dressing up, Liang Meijuan gently reminded Mei Fang:

"Ah Fang...what do you think of Youxi's recent performance in school?"

"How is it... I feel very, very good."

Mei Fang felt a little guilty, "Auntie, why do you suddenly ask this question?"

Liang Meijuan continued in a gentle voice:

"You and she grew up together, and you should know that Youxi in our family is a taciturn person who doesn't want to share her worries with others. She would only talk to you and Yuanyuan when she has something on her mind. Now... well, come to think of it, does she still communicate with you now?"

"Yes...I will."

"That's good." Liang Meijuan smiled and nodded, "The relationship between the three of you is precious. No matter what happens in the future, auntie sincerely hopes that you can always be good friends and don't leave anyone behind, especially you, Fang. You should know that Yuanyuan and Youxi revolve around you."

"That won't happen, don't worry, Auntie!"