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

Mei Fang looked at Xia Yuan and Ge You slumped on the sofa, looking like a puddle of mud, motionless.

So Mei Fang walked to Xia Yuan, slowly took off her shoes, and took off her white socks... and repeated this process, and finally took off her wig and removed Lin Wanwan's costume.

During this process, Xia Yuan has been very cooperative and let Mei Fang control her.

"Okay, I've helped you remove your makeup. You are no longer Lin Wanwan, but my good wife Yuanyuan. Can you tell me now?"

Xia Yuan hummed and nodded, then still crawled slowly into Mei Fang's arms, letting Mei Fang use his knees as a pillow for her, and then made muffled groaning sounds in Mei Fang's arms.

"Afang, let me tell you..."

The aggrieved Xia Yuan complained to Mei Fang about how hard it was to find a chance to perform in a livehouse.

"We called and visited many shop owners, but they didn't even look at us. Some even asked us to pay them money to perform, saying it was a venue fee to increase their exposure... There was even one store manager who was even more speechless and wanted to do something to us—"

Mei Fang was startled when he heard this, and his eyes suddenly became sharp, "Which family? What's their name? Did they bully you?"

"Don't show that murderous expression... We're fine. Bingbing is here. She picked up the store manager in no time. He was so scared that he didn't dare to say a word."

"It's really reassuring to have Bingbing here..."

Mei Fang thought about it and said, "So why don't you find an agent to help you deal with it? Even if you don't let me come, Yuanxia Music already has professionals in this area."

"Our company's agents are all very professional... I don't want to be like this. This means I'm relying on you for help again... By the way, I'm actually looking for your help now."

"Telling your boyfriend about the hardship of running a band, does that count as asking for my help?"

"Well, Xiaoxue, Xiaoyu, and Bingbing don't have boyfriends to vent their grievances to."

"That's because they don't look for it themselves...what can we do about it?"

"you--"

"What do you mean by 'I'? You want me to send them three boyfriends?"

Xia Yuan looked at Mei Fang, who was playfully sticking out her tongue, and suddenly felt no longer angry.

"you are nasty."

"It's annoying...but what are you doing unbuttoning your clothes?" Mei Fang teased while scratching Xia Yuan's nose.

"Come and help me take a bath today. My feet are all calloused. Ah Fang's car is still very comfortable..."

"Okay! I'll trim Princess Yuanyuan's feet... Oh, right, did you find a suitable livehouse in the end?"

"Yes, it's a livehouse on Qianhai Road. The location is pretty good, but the venue is a bit small..."

Xia Yuan was still unbuttoning her clothes when Mei Fang picked her up like a princess. They kissed for a while, and Mei Fang asked again:

"By the way, what's the name of the livehouse owner who's planning to do something to you?"

"Asking this... You're not planning on buying that store and doing something like a domineering CEO, are you?"

"Wouldn't it be a bargain for him if he bought it?"

Mei Fang smiled and said, "Don't underestimate your boyfriend's influence... I have a simpler way to deal with it."

That night, a video complaining about the misconduct of a livehouse manager in Pengcheng was pushed to the top of the C station's hot searches, triggering unanimous complaints from many netizens in the barrage.

From then on, the store's business plummeted until it closed down.

Chapter 430 Livehouse Debut

While his wives are busy pursuing their careers, Mei Fang is focusing on the construction and expansion of Sago Studio this fall.

Since the concept of independent games was redefined and launched by Meifang, Meifang has absorbed a large number of domestic independent games into its own game territory with the help of the TABTAB plan and the gamejam developer competition.

This includes studios that became famous in the previous life but are still unknown at this time:

The Fallen Leaf Island project team was preparing to launch the first domestic gal series, "College Entrance Examination Love for 100 Days";

Phantom Blade Network will debut their proud meta-game action game "Ashe";

At this time, the three guys from Hunter Studio were recruiting the first batch of test users for their independent work "Lost Castle";

In addition to these studios, Mei Fang also invited Heluo Studio, which has long been famous in the Chinese market. This year they will also launch their comeback work "The Legend of Sword and Fairy"; and Zhulong Studio, which launched the "Gujian Qitan" series, is currently in a state of turmoil due to the departure of the chief creator Gong Changjun. Mei Fang has helped the company stabilize slightly through financing cooperation and other means.

Some of these works are still in production, and some have been officially released on the domestic TABTAB platform. Because Mei Fang himself has the support of an independent game of such high quality as "Cloud Journey", these young people with new dreams are very fond of Mei Fang's plans.

Mei Fang has arranged cooperation negotiations and angel investments for all of the above studios in exchange for their exclusive distribution status on TABTAB. These products will continue to output works as the backbone of Mei Fang's domestic independent game empire.

As for the three domestic swords, Mei Fang did take the initiative to propose cooperation, but Dahua and Xishanju are large groups with rich financial resources. It is not easy to obtain the exclusive distribution status. The other party's sky-high asking price made Mei Fang a little unacceptable, so he gave up.

When communicating with these long-established domestic stand-alone game producers, Mei Fang could feel both their talent for game design and their inherent arrogance. They expressed great disgust and even disdain for some current game design concepts.

There is no way to keep up with the changes of the times, or there is too much prejudice against certain changes. This is probably the key point that some domestic stand-alone games cannot keep up with the times. This actually has little to do with the suppression from above, so that until now the tide of version numbers has not even arrived, and some of their works have been eliminated by the market.

Ok……

So I prefer to talk about games with young people!

However, Mei Fang was able to be so inclusive only because of his later experience. He himself could not say how great he was.

As for overseas, Mei Fang basically relies on her own memory to find some works and seek local distribution cooperation.

This included the Cherry Studio that he had always been thinking about, which was also the producer of the most famous Metroidvania game "Hollow Knight" in later generations.

At this time, the studio was crowdfunding on the well-known platform Kickstarter. "Hollow Knight" also released a basic version 1.0.0 and was preparing to put it on Steam for sale. Mei Fang directly took over the Chinese localization work of Steam and the distribution agency rights of TABTAB.

Originally, the Cherry Group planned to raise $80 in crowdfunding before starting the Bumblebee DLC development plan. Now they have only raised $30. Mei Fang helped them fill the crowdfunding goal with one move, so that two of the three developers of the Cherry Group, Pellen and Gibson, flew to Pengcheng overnight to meet with Mei Fang and ask what requirements Mei Fang had for the future development of Hollow Knight.

"I don't have any requirements... Bumblebee, you can give up the idea of ​​DLC and just start the next generation of the new game."

Mei Fang thought about it and said, "But you have to complete the development of this sequel before 2020. This is a hard requirement for you."

When the two enthusiastic and cheerful Australian friends heard that Mei Fang had given a full four years for development and iteration, they immediately applauded excitedly.

"It's easy, Mei, my friend. It took us three years to get Hollow Knight to where it is now. This new game will definitely take less than three years!"

"You better be!"

Mei Fang's sudden anger left the two main creators of Cherry Group a little confused, but this was understandable. After all, they didn't know how many years Mei Fang had waited for "Silk Pigeon" in his previous life, and even waited until Mei Fang's sudden death before seeing it come out.

I have to say that Kickstarter is a really good thing. Mei Fang only needs to sort out the works he is familiar with according to the rankings, and he will know which works are of good enough quality for him to buy.

Mei Fang will invest in games such as "Enter the Gungeon", "Transistor", "Celeste", "Shovel Knight", "Into the Breach", "Slay the Spire", etc. as long as he likes the games he has played.

Other wealthy bosses spend money on luxury goods and luxury cars, but Mei Fang is frantically looking for agents. Basically, once a work is confirmed, he directly throws it to the overseas marketing department, causing these departments to work overtime every day. The people below curse Mei Fang's ancestors in their hearts. Of course, this is something Mei Fang is unaware of.

In addition, Mei Fang also focused on discovering some domestic producers. Among them, he spent a lot of money to recruit Chen Xinghan, a famous Zen game designer who once worked for Sony. He hopes that Chen Xinghan can join his team and assist him in the development of that 3A open world work.

Chen Xinghan's work "Journey" is also one of the most important reference works of "Cloud Journey", and it is also one of the mentors that made Mei Fang pursue games as the ninth art. After communicating with Chen Xinghan, Mei Fang gained more insights into games, but also gave up the idea of ​​letting Chen Xinghan lead the development of 3A open world works.

Therefore, Mei Fang decided to build a new studio specifically for Chen Xinghan and his team to complete the design of "Codename: Sky: Children of the Light".

Mei Fang, who is also a game producer, has many opinions on his works. If the producer and the boss have different ideas, it is easy to cause a lot of conflicts.

Because of the suffering he had endured in his previous life, Mei Fang would not forcibly interfere with the work of the producers in his studio, but he also hoped that the works he led would not be disturbed.

For example, in the game "Lily of the End", the three parts, including the script (designed by Mei Fang), art style (designed by Guo Yun), and music style (designed by Liu Xiaoyu), were all led and completed by Mei Fang himself.

Mei Fang ensured that the atmosphere and visual expression of this work were similar to those of the previous work, but in terms of level design, numerical control, and action design, because the company had sufficient manpower, Mei Fang could create a smoother experience. The previous work had major loopholes in the above three aspects, and the previous negative reviews were also concentrated here.

Moreover, compared to the previous work's skit-level plot experience of about 15 hours, Mei Fang has made the whole story more complete and full by transforming the levels, incorporating more world view content, adding additional hidden plots and BOSS, and the 100% completion rate of one week can be extended to about 40 hours.

“This will be a Souls-like work that ACG users will enjoy—at least, enjoy watching.”

This is Mei Fang’s evaluation of "Lily of the Last Flame".

"Lily of the Last Flame" will be officially released in a week, but before that, in addition to being busy with pre-release preparations, Mei Fang will also participate in a livehouse performance - but Xia Yuan/Lin Wanwan is not very happy about this.

"Why did you come to our show when you're so busy lately... You just sang four or five songs and then came down, what's so good about it!"

"This is our junior Wanwan's debut performance. As a senior, how could I not go and watch it?"

"It's not that I don't want you to see it... First, you've been busy releasing games recently, and second, we're just testing the waters. It would be embarrassing if we messed up... I hope I can perform perfectly in front of you... in front of you, senior. Is that not okay?"

Lin Wanwan hugged Mei Fang's neck and acted coquettishly, but kept persuading Mei Fang not to look.

Mei Fang was a little bit unable to persuade Lin Wanwan, so she could only verbally agree to let it go.

"Okay, okay...I won't go..."

"You have to keep your word. If I find out you're here, I won't be with you anymore."

Lin Wanwan kissed Mei Fang on the face, then stood up and stroked her orange. At this moment, Lin Youxi handed Lin Wanwan's guitar to her and said, "If Ah Fang can't go, can I go too?"

"Well...it's better not to come. Anyway...it's quite embarrassing."

"I don't believe it... can it be more embarrassing than someone's performance in bed?"

"Yes!"

Xia Yuan puffed up her cheeks and stomped her feet, "I've been really busy lately... Ah Fang is just a way to relieve stress. We really haven't been intimate well, but it will be fine after a while, for sure!"

"Okay, okay...I won't talk about you anymore."

Lin Youxi handed the guitar bag to Xia Yuan, "I've checked everything for you. I've also packed some food in the bag. If you feel a little nervous, just eat some bread to fill your stomach. I've eaten much less tonight than usual, and I see you don't have much of an appetite."

"Wow...Thank you Sister Youxi!"

Lin Wanwan said this and hugged Lin Youxi, giving her a big hug.

"I've been really busy lately and haven't had time to meet and play with you guys for a long time. After I finish rehearsals, I will spend time with you guys."

"Busy, everyone is busy. After all, we are all working hard for our careers..."

Lin Youxi smiled and shook her head. "But it's okay. You should do everything you want to do while you are still young. Don't wait until you don't have time to regret it later."

"Ok, I know."

Xia Yuan nodded slightly, she understood what Lin Youxi meant.

This is also the plan for the three of them in college.

During my time in college, I achieved all the careers I wanted to pursue and all the dreams that were yet to be realized.

It's not just Xia Yuan, Lin Youxi too.

So does Mei Fang.

When you really start to build a family, your career can no longer be your top priority.

This is the only time you can pursue your dreams with all your might.

From now on I can only live a happy family life with financial freedom, woohoo!