Chapter 795 - 274: Daily Cash Flow Over 100 Million, A True Money-Making Artifact

Old Wave News: "Super-genius Li Yuan makes a powerful entrance with his revolutionary game, ’Honor of Kings.’ Major gaming companies, are you ready for the challenge?"

Modu Financial News Channel’s front-page headline: "Exclusive Interview: The Design Philosophy and Origins of ’Honor of Kings’—A New Milestone in the Online Gaming World!"

Wangyi News: "Pioneering a new path in gaming? Is it the fantasy of a genius or the beginning of his downfall? Let’s wait and see."

UC Browser ran a clickbait title: "Shocking! This Is the Real Reason Xia Hua Ventured into Gaming!"

Li Yuan was already a viral superstar. Just over a week after the "Milk Tea Girl" poll concluded, he suddenly blazed a new trail in a completely different field. The resulting shockwave swept across the country like a Category 18 typhoon. Competing reports from various websites and newspapers only fanned the flames, escalating the hype for "Honor of Kings" until it captured the nation’s attention.

At Li Yuan’s home base, the Daxia University forums were abuzz with discussion. As his classmates, students from the first-year computer science class were particularly hounded for information.

At the university’s startup incubator, several students working part-time asked curiously, "Liu Jia, aren’t you Director Li’s roommate? When did he develop this game?"

Liu Jia shrugged. "I’m not sure, either. He’s so elusive these days and so busy, he’s barely ever in the dorm."

Another student wearing glasses asked, "I read online that this game has been in development for several months. Has anyone here played it?"

"We haven’t," one of them replied as the others shook their heads. "We’ve only seen the detailed explanation videos online, but it does look pretty appealing."

Their part-time work at the incubator mostly involved maintaining the website’s forums. This meant actively deleting posts and banning users for malicious slander, hateful tirades, or intentional flame wars that could negatively impact the site. After all, if a website devolved into a "cesspool" of malicious insults and slander, it wouldn’t be far from ruin.

As someone who had seen it all before, Li Yuan knew from personal experience that most forums eventually degenerated into fan wars and verbal abuse, creating a toxic environment. While this might bring a temporary surge in traffic, it would ultimately lead to a false "prosperity" and a loss of loyal users, who would simply move on to new platforms.

A third-year game design major also working part-time lamented, "The pay here at the incubator is great, but the work feels rather meaningless. It would be so much better if we could get into the company’s game development department."

Hearing this, the others immediately agreed. They were all ambitious students from a 985 university; who among them didn’t want to make a name for themselves?

"Liu Jia, Wu Hao, Qiang, you’re all Director Li’s roommates and so close with him. Could you subtly ask if we could intern in the company’s development department? We’d even take a pay cut."

"Yeah, yeah! It’s relaxed here, but we aren’t learning anything substantial."

"To be part of developing something as major as ’Honor of Kings’ or the ’Zhihu website’... just the thought of it is thrilling."

Hearing the words of their upperclassmen, Liu Jia, Wu Hao, and Qiang exchanged a somewhat helpless glance. They had actually learned a great deal from these seniors during their time at the incubator.

"Um, we’ll try to ask Yuan for you when we see him," Liu Jia said. "He’s probably really busy right now."

"Of course he is. Tomorrow, January 20th, ’Honor of Kings’ goes live nationwide. Who knows what kind of results it will achieve."

"I don’t know about anything else, but with Li Yuan’s immense influence, ’Honor of Kings’ is guaranteed to be a cash cow. It might even break ten million in revenue on its first day."

"Speaking of making money, Liu Jia, Wu Hao, do you guys have any idea what Li Yuan’s net worth is now?"

Liu Jia shook his head and ventured a guess. "I have no idea, but I feel like it has to be at least a hundred million."

A rather attractive female upperclassman scoffed, "A hundred million? Who are you looking down on? Do you have any idea how much his ’Tea Color Moonlight’ makes in a single day?"

Liu Jia genuinely didn’t know; he only knew that business was booming. "I really don’t! How much does it make a day?"

With an envious look in her eyes, the upperclassman replied, "I have a high school friend who works at Li Yuan’s Tea Color Moonlight. She told me the Tea Color Moonlight Milk Tea Shop’s daily net profit is over a million. That’s thirty million a month..."

Liu Jia’s eyes widened in disbelief. "My God, is it really that insane? Doesn’t that mean Li Yuan could earn several hundred million a year?"

The pretty upperclassman shook her head. "It’s probably more than that. Our company’s ’Zhihu website’ alone is already valued at one billion, and then there’s ’Honor of Kings’ and ’Tea Color Moonlight’... Maybe by the time we graduate, Li Yuan’s net worth will have reached the tens of billions."

"Liu Jia, Wu Hao, Qiang, being Li Yuan’s university roommates is a massive, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. If you just stick with him, you’ll be set for the rest of your lives."