"I made an appearance on tonight's Hangzhou's Young Entrepreneurs program," he said. "I had a segment there with the chairman."
Mengqi's eyes flickered with surprise, but she didn't speak.
Su Yue tilted her head.
"Chairman? Chairman Wu?"
Lin Feng nodded.
"Yes, him."
"I hadn't expected you and him to get along," she said. "You even sent a jab at him during the Outstanding Citizen Award back then."
Outstanding Citizen?
Mengqi wondered silently.
It seemed there was a story she didn't know.
Lin Feng waved his hand.
"Well, things happened."
He turned to Mengqi.
"That reminds me. I also spoke about my businesses there, and that includes Xingyao Entertainment."
He leaned forward slightly.
"With the agency being put in public like that, there will definitely be a lot of people with interest."
He met her eyes.
"I was hoping you could help me manage things and see if we could get some employees. With how we're going, we'll need more than just you and me."
Mengqi nodded.
"I understand."
"If we're lucky, we could get some new talents too." He added.
Su Yue stiffened.
"New talents?"
Lin Feng turned to her.
"Yeah. Is there a problem?"
She looked down, not responding.
He smiled. He understood what was happening.
In fact, he didn't really need any new talents at the moment. He had just been setting up for this moment when he spoke about it.
"It's okay," he said gently. "You can tell me anything."
He met her eyes.
"We're friends, right?"
She looked up, a faint blush coloring her cheeks.
"It's just..."
She hesitated.
"I was a little jealous. I wished I could remain your sole talent for a while."
Then her eyes widened and she shook her hands frantically.
"Um, ignore what I just said! I understand that this is a business and you…"
He placed a hand on her head, patting her gently.
"It's okay. I understand."
She fell silent, her cheeks reddening further.
Lin Feng turned to Mengqi, his expression serious.
"Su Yue is still uncomfortable partnering with strangers. She'll remain our sole talent for now."
Mengqi facepalmed internally.
This dog couple.
But she didn't say anything.
Well, it's not like we can handle another talent at the moment anyway.
"But..." Su Yue tried to speak up.
Lin Feng just smiled.
"It's okay. I don't think we can handle another talent at the moment anyway."
She nodded reluctantly.
That went pretty well.
He had said he was jealous of her sponsors before, and she had compromised.
Now she had said she was jealous, and he had compromised too.
This will definitely improve her view of me. She'll be more agreeable in the future.
He clapped his hands together, changing the subject.
"Anyway, let's look at the stream results."
He grinned.
"I can't wait to see."
…
Lin Feng stared at the screen.
[Stream Summary]
Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes
Peak Concurrent Viewers: 321,794
Average Viewers: 178,513
Gifts Received: ¥3,870,800
Chat Messages: 10,468,902
This is insane.
Then again, he had expected as much.
The chat messages had exploded too. It seemed playing games brought more engagement.
Now adding the money from sales on top...
This young lady is quite rich.
He pulled up the physical album sales figures.
The total came out to one million yuan.
He subtracted the 200,000 yuan production cost first to get the net profit, then added the remaining 800,000 to the 75% they received from the platform - 2,903,100 yuan.
This brought the total to 3,703,100 yuan.
From this, Xingyao would receive 740,620 yuan.
This should be a good amount to operate next month.
It was a pity he had already paid himself his salary, so he couldn't benefit from this large sum.
As for the winner of it all - Su Yue - she would receive 2,962,480 yuan.
Lin Feng wondered if all the money he'd received from the system since he'd gotten it even reached that amount.
…
After talking for a while longer with Su Yue and Mengqi, the hour grew late.
Lin Feng was unable to return to campus and went to the studio apartment instead.
This turned out to be quite a good investment.
He had been thinking of canceling it, but decided against it. It was coming in quite handy these days.
After freshening up, he decided to check the game analytics before going to sleep.
He opened the statistics page.
His eyes widened.
They had actually gotten over 12,000 sales.
This was more than triple their previous total.
While this was just a one-time spike because of Su Yue's stream, it would alert the Game Store algorithm that this game was worth pushing. Even without any more effort from them, the game should be able to pick itself up from organic views.
He smiled.
It's not going to die anymore.
That being said, it was a little disappointing.
It was now almost a week after release, and the game had just a little under twenty thousand sales. While this was a moderately successful launch for an unknown studio, when compared to the original game, it wasn't even close.
The original had over five hundred thousand sales in its first week. And over double that by the end of the month.
While this relied on many factors they couldn't control - such as other somewhat similar games having already released and established the genre - he still couldn't help but feel disappointed.
Still, it's just the first week.
There's no telling what the future will hold.
…
Sunday, November 22nd.
Lin Feng's eyes fluttered open.
He was drowsy, his mind still clouded with sleep.
He looked up.
Where's the bunk?
He blinked a few times, slowly readjusting.
Then he remembered.
Right. I came here yesterday.
He reached for his phone on the nightstand.
The screen lit up.
The light was too bright - it blinded him for a moment before his eyes adjusted.
Then he froze.
Missed calls.
Dozens of them.
He shot upright, suddenly wide awake.
He scrolled through the call log, his heart pounding.
His mom had called multiple times.
Even his dad had called.
There were calls from unknown numbers. Some he recognized from people he knew back in high school.
What happened?
He panicked, his mind racing through possibilities.
At that moment, his phone buzzed again.
Mom.
He quickly answered.
"Hello?"
"Oh, so you're a tycoon now and don't pick up your mother's calls anymore?"
Lin Feng froze.
Ah.
It was then that he remembered what had happened.
Since he'd been on TV, many people must have recognized him.
No wonder he was getting so many calls.