Chapter 195 - 178: Taking a Game From the Game World

Chapter 195: Chapter 178: Taking a Game From the Game World

"Ladies, welcome to our beauty salon!" Lin Yao reacted instantly, stepping forward to greet them.

The actress at the front said with a bright smile, "A friend recommended this place. They said this new beauty salon was good, so we came to have a look."

Her words immediately made things clear to Lin Yao.

’This must be thanks to him.’

’No wonder he had Qingxue change the prices and go the high-end route.’

She naturally knew such an opportunity was rare, so she immediately had someone register the actresses and get them situated.

Seeing that several celebrities had actually come to the salon, the women who had left earlier hesitated.

Just then, three more luxury cars pulled into the parking lot. A few women who were clearly socialites and ladies of high society stepped out.

These women had clearly arranged to come together. After getting out of their cars, they saw the sign for Qingxue Beauty Salon.

To be honest, they had been to many beauty salons, and the well-known ones in Tianzhou City were all much, much larger than this one.

But that wasn’t important to them.

After all, they had been invited by that actress close to Master Kai, who said the salon was opened by one of Master Kai’s friends.

They all knew Master Kai’s status and standing.

Many of their families’ businesses were connected to banks, and they all wanted to build a relationship with Master Kai.

Besides, if Master Kai himself was helping to promote this salon, his friends must be extraordinary people, right?

As for why such a person would open a salon like this, that wasn’t important.

To them, Qingxue Beauty Salon might be a place to build connections and expand their network.

Lin Yao, of course, saw these socialites and immediately went to greet them. Just from the cars they drove, she could tell these women were either rich or noble—definitely high-end customers.

"Ladies, welcome." Lin Yao greeted them, still all smiles.

The socialites entered the salon and looked around at the environment.

One of them asked tentatively, "We heard from Master Kai’s recommendation that this new salon is quite good."

Lin Yao was a sharp one. She immediately understood what the woman was implying and said with a smile, "Then we really must thank Master Kai. He’s a friend of our boss and often visits him for tea."

She had, of course, heard about this Master Kai from Yang Ming.

After all, when a couple is together, besides getting to know each other... intimately... they’re bound to talk about work.

She also knew about Master Kai’s status in Tianzhou City, but she had also learned from her boyfriend that Master Kai showed great respect to her boyfriend’s cousin, President Lu.

Surprise was evident in the eyes of the socialite who had asked the question. "And your boss is...?"

The other women immediately looked over as well. Someone who Master Kai would frequently visit for tea was definitely no ordinary person.

Lin Yao quickly explained, "Qingfeng Company belongs to our President Lu, and he opened this beauty salon for his girlfriend."

"Qingfeng Company!!" The socialite was even more astonished.

The other women had the same reaction.

Qingfeng Company was the hottest topic in Tianzhou City recently.

Especially Qingfeng Network Company.

The intelligent assistant software they launched was just too smart, too incredible.

They all had the assistant software installed on their phones.

Everyone was now saying that Qingfeng Company would become a tech giant like Penguin or Douyin in the future, which was a terrifyingly impressive prospect.

Naturally, as locals of Tianzhou City, they had also heard some things about the Gao Family.

In particular, they’d heard that the city’s own Mr. Chen had tried to stand up for the Gao Family, only to suffer a loss at the hands of Qingfeng Company’s boss and ultimately accept defeat.

Once a story like that gets out, it naturally spreads slowly through the circles of Tianzhou City.

It was safe to say that their families absolutely could not afford to provoke such a figure.

"Sign us all up for a membership card!" a woman who was clearly older said immediately.

The others immediately nodded in agreement.

Clearly, this Qingxue Beauty Salon had exceeded their expectations.

’A place like this could really become a great spot for networking and building connections. We’ll have to invite our friends to come along more often in the future.’

"Of course, please come this way." Lin Yao invited them inside to register, simultaneously pulling out her phone and quickly dialing a few numbers.

She had wanted to hire some high-level beauty technicians before, but since they were a new salon without a stable client base and weren’t positioned as high-end, no one was willing to come.

Now, the situation was clearly different.

...

After asking Master Kai to help with promotions, Lu Feng didn’t pay any more attention to the beauty salon. To him, it was really just something to make Yang Qingxue happy and give her something to do.

He headed to Qingfeng Network Company first thing in the morning.

Qingfeng Network Company was vastly different from before. Compared to the initial handful of employees, Qingfeng Company was now extremely crowded, with a constant flow of people coming and going.

Because the intelligent assistant software was so incredible and developing so rapidly, the company desperately needed people. They had sent out job postings to almost every well-known university.

Moreover, everyone knew Qingfeng Company’s potential now, so the universities were naturally eager for their graduates to join a company like this.

As a result, those universities recommended their top graduates one after another.

And because things were too hectic and rushed, they had even temporarily put aside things like employee onboarding and training.

The newly hired employees could only learn as they went, figuring things out on the job.

However, many of these people didn’t recognize Lu Feng. So, when he walked in, he naturally drew everyone’s attention in an instant.

Some even began to whisper among themselves.

’So that’s the Chairman. He’s just as young as he looks in his picture on the org chart.’

After all, this was the real world.

When joining a company like this, most employees would definitely be curious enough to look at the company structure and staff directory, unless they had zero ambition and didn’t care about the job.

Otherwise, they would pay attention to these things.

The scenario in TV shows where employees don’t recognize the chairman happens, but it’s rare.

"Where’s Wang Kai?" Lu Feng asked a supervisor.

"Chairman Lu, President Wang is in his office," the supervisor said immediately, then led Lu Feng to Wang Kai’s office.

When Wang Kai saw Lu Feng arrive, he hurriedly got up from his office chair. "Chairman Lu, I was just about to look for you. Some documents need your authorization. I didn’t expect you to come here."

Lu Feng smiled, sat down, and asked, "How are things at the company now?"

Wang Kai immediately replied, "Registered users are approaching 300 million, with an 80% active user rate. In terms of user traffic alone, we’ve already surpassed top tech companies like Baidu."

"So, the problem we’re facing now is that we have to change office locations immediately. This current space is just too small."

Lu Feng nodded. "Mm, you can be in charge of that."

Wang Kai continued, "Besides that, there’s one more matter that needs your decision, Chairman Lu. The company has more than enough users now. Apart from the revenue from the intelligent assistant’s avatars and skins, we should also expand into other business areas, branching out in all directions like Penguin."

"The direction I’m thinking of is gaming. After all, our company already has a game department, which would make promotion faster. Plus, the money-making potential of games is among the strongest for online projects."

Lu Feng nodded. "Mm, tell me your thoughts."

Wang Kai explained, "Right now, our company hasn’t developed its own mobile games. So, if we want to promote games now, we have to consider either collaborating with other companies on their games or directly acquiring another company’s game. This matter requires your input, Chairman Lu."

Hearing this, Lu Feng was reminded of something—Cheng Sisi and those computer tech talents. ’Before the apocalypse, the game world also had a ton of mobile games, right?’

’In those nearly 100 years, how many smash-hit games would have appeared? There must have been no shortage of phenomenal games like *Honor of Kings* or *PUBG*, right?’

’If I just have Cheng Sisi and the others convert the code, it could be used on real-world mobile phones.’

Thinking of this, Lu Feng said to Wang Kai, "President Wang, let’s start by acquiring games from other companies."

Wang Kai nodded. "Okay. I’ve already scouted a few games that other companies are about to complete. I’ll arrange for someone to contact them."

Lu Feng shook his head. "President Wang, don’t rush on your end. I have a game in mind. I will acquire a game and bring it over."

"President Lu, how much capital does the company need to prepare for you?" Wang Kai asked immediately. He didn’t doubt Lu Feng’s judgment. After all, Chairman Lu was the one who produced something like the intelligent assistant software; any game he had his eye on was bound to be good.

"How much capital does the company have right now?" Lu Feng asked.

That was indeed a question.

Although he owned 100% of the shares in Qingfeng Network Company, he would definitely have to give stock options to people like Wang Kai and other talented elites in the future. That was the only way to retain them.

Therefore, the financial records had to be kept clear.

Even though it wouldn’t cost him much to get a game from the game world, the company’s books still had to be in order.

Wang Kai said at once, "Chairman Lu, the company currently has 1.5 billion in liquid funds."

"That much?" Lu Feng was a little surprised.

Although he knew that internet companies were profitable, he hadn’t expected to rake in so much money in such a short time.

Wang Kai chuckled. "Chairman Lu, and that’s with us being understaffed and unable to provide users with enough intelligent assistant avatars and skins."

"You have to understand, for our top-ranked intelligent assistant avatar, Teacher Youcai, we only designed three skin sets based on the lingerie and outfits she wore in three of her ’instructional videos.’ Each set costs 30 yuan. Do you know how many people paid for them?"

"On average, 3.5 million users paid for each set. A single set can bring our company 105 million yuan, so three sets is 315 million."

Lu Feng was truly speechless hearing this.

’Are there really that many degenerates in this country?’

’But then again, why is it that when those shady websites get shut down, their liquid assets can be in the billions? It’s probably the same principle.’

’Just think about how many people, while eating instant noodles, would still generously fork over 30 yuan for a one-day viewing membership for these ’teachers’?’

Wang Kai immediately asked again, "Chairman Lu, is 1.5 billion yuan enough? I’ll have the finance department transfer it to your account later. If it’s not enough, we can take out a loan!"

Lu Feng nodded and made up a story, "That should be about enough. The other party’s game was just completed, and it’s not certain if it will be a hit. Buying it now, the price won’t be too high. But with the company transferring all that money out, are you sure things will be okay here?"

Wang Kai laughed confidently. "Chairman Lu, you don’t need to worry about that at all. We have several new skins about to be released, including two new sexy nightgown skins for Teacher Youcai. They’re the ones she wore in one of her ’instructional films’ when she was... by the male lead. They’re really sexy!"

Hearing this, Lu Feng just smiled. ’They’re really milking this one ’teacher’ for all she’s worth!’