Chapter 758 - 415: Little Things of Happiness

Tang Feng: "Got time?"

Lu Shuang: "Wanna grab dinner tomorrow?"

Gao Yuanling: "What have you been up to lately?"

Li Peifeng was well-connected at Bei Hua Normal, and many people knew about his early graduation. So, it wasn’t just his classmates who wanted to have a farewell meal with him, but many old friends too. However, he turned down all their invitations, citing a busy work schedule.

On one hand, he wanted to stay focused; on the other hand, he really was busy.

Apart from romantic relationships, he had to write, manage copyrights, shoot promotional videos for recruitment, and handle various graduation-related tasks... leaving no room for anything else.

Even Wu Ankang and Gao Xiuhua, who came to the Capital for sightseeing, only got to see Li Peifeng and their daughter a few times during their arrival and departure. How could Li Peifeng have time for all those old friends?

Besides, with graduation approaching, everyone should be returning to the sea of people!

"Heaven can be fixed, the sea can be filled, and Nanshan can be moved. The days and months that are gone cannot be chased back."

This was the latest post from Li Peifeng’s social media, accompanied by a photo of the campus under the setting sun. It was meant to tell those old friends to look to the future and live well. He hoped they would understand, even if he left things unsaid.

And he himself was striving harder toward the future.

...

West Continent Technology Co., Ltd., formerly known as Menglong, was renamed by He Yimeng after Li Peifeng acquired it.

Even though He Yimeng didn’t mention it, Li Peifeng guessed the name came from the poem "The southern breeze understands my intentions, and blows my dreams to the Western Continent."

No need to elaborate on the deeper meaning; he understood her intentions perfectly well.

Now they didn’t need to communicate by phone or WeChat; whenever He Yimeng wanted to find him, she’d tap his avatar, and Li Peifeng would tacitly communicate through a mutual understanding.

[The company has expanded to 130 people, including screenwriters, an art director, a chief programmer, and a producer we poached with a high salary. With such a strong team now, I think ’Sword and Magic’ can be officially launched. You should come over and discuss the plan.]

[On my way.]

After a brief mind-to-mind exchange, like quantum entanglement, Li Peifeng drove to West Continent Technology.

Although the office address didn’t change after the company was renamed, an additional 200 square meters were rented for expansion. With more workstations and employees bustling around, it showed a vibrant new atmosphere, unlike the old Menglong.

"Wow, is Yifeng really that handsome?"

"I told you before, he’s the kind of handsome that hits you at first glance."

"By the way, our lady boss is quite pretty too."

"Ha ha, you shouldn’t call her the lady boss carelessly."

"What, aren’t they a couple?"

"Not a simple couple, maybe something more complicated, you know?"

"Oh... shh~ here they come."

Li Peifeng walked past the workstations with a normal expression, thinking to himself how smart people have become nowadays. But it’s troublesome that they won’t pretend to be ignorant and privately gossip about the bosses’ relationship...

Without stopping, he walked into He Yimeng’s office, where she was seated at the boss’s desk working. As the door suddenly opened, she lifted her gaze.

"You got here pretty fast."

Li Peifeng responded with a "yeah" and casually said, "I just overheard the staff gossiping during work hours, seems like our company has a relaxed atmosphere."

High EQ: Our company has a relaxed atmosphere.

Low EQ: Aren’t the employees too damn idle?

He Yimeng, having spent more time at the company than Li Peifeng and having interacted with the staff longer, naturally understood their idle chatter better. Yet, she just smiled nonchalantly: "After today, once the project kicks off, they definitely won’t have time for gossip."

With that said, He Yimeng picked up the desk phone and called the newly hired game producer to the office.

Li Peifeng and He Yimeng were good students who barely had time to play games, let alone make them. No point in remedying that later; as bosses, they needed someone knowledgeable to actually make the game, oversee the planning, development, and marketing, and manage the team well.

Such talent was hard to find, but luckily, the ’Sword and Magic’ IP was large and promising. Offering attractive compensation, it held enough allure for top talents in the gaming industry. While it might not attract executives from big gaming companies, it certainly piqued interest among small studio talents.

After putting out the word, some highly qualified game producers came knocking. She selected the best candidate to be the producer of ’Sword and Magic’;

Wang Lianzong, age 37, had worked as a game designer for several large game companies like Konami and Giant Network. His career peak was leaving with his colleague and friend Yang Le to join the latter’s newly founded TipsWorks studio, which produced a buy-to-play mobile game named ’Pascal’s Contract’ two years ago.

This was an extremely hardcore souls-like action-adventure game, dubbed the Dark Souls for mobile.

Upon release, it attracted industry attention for its souls-like label and buy-to-play pricing model. The quality was praised by the industry and welcomed by the market, achieving sales of 1.5 million copies within a year of release.

What does selling a million copies of a game mean?

’Father of Dark Souls’ Miyazaki Hidetaka’s ’Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice’ had an initial sales figure of about 2 million copies, while the famous souls-like game ’Nioh 2’ by the renowned Ninja Dragon Team only reached a million copies after two months online.