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Chapter 241 Patience

On the highway back to Jinling from Hengdian World Studios.

The atmosphere inside the van was somewhat somber.

Tian Xiwei leaned against the car window, watching the scenery rushing past outside. His once clear eyes now held a hint of bewilderment and frustration.

"Sister Duling, isn't this... a case of us offering our warm welcome only to be met with a cold shoulder?"

Tian Xiwei muttered somewhat dejectedly, "Sister Tangtang and Sister Shishi usually seem so gentle, but I never expected them to be so hurtful when they reject people. We're caught between two sides now, what are we going to do at the company?"

Compared to Tian Xiwei's dejection, Chen Duling, sitting next to him, appeared unusually calm.

"Serena, don't be discouraged."

"We didn't come here empty-handed."

"Although I was turned away, at least I finally understand things that I couldn't figure out before!"

Tian Xiwei paused for a moment, then turned around with a puzzled look on his face: "Understood? Understood what?"

Chen Duling turned his head, his intelligent eyes gleaming with a keen insight into human nature.

"Look at Liu Shishi and Tang Yan's reactions today. Faced with these two newcomers who have taken the initiative to surrender, they not only didn't try to recruit us at all, but instead avoided us like the plague."

"What are they afraid of? Are they afraid we'll take their resources? No, they're afraid of being betrayed!"

Chen Duling meticulously dissected this intricate web of relationships:

"I've always found it strange that these four poets from the Tang Dynasty, who are all of similar stature, are now so clearly divided and irreconcilable?"

"I guessed the answer today!"

Chen Duling's tone was somewhat confident: "Yang Mi and Liu Yifei's works this year are all pre-existing projects that are being broadcast, and they rarely appear in public, but the boss's resource allocation towards them has not decreased but increased."

"What does this mean? It means that these two are probably already together."

Upon hearing this, Tian Xiwei covered his mouth in fright and dared not utter a sound.

"It's precisely because those two had enough trump cards that so many of Tang Shi's original subordinates defected to curry favor with those two!"

Chen Duling sneered, "Having experienced betrayal and alienation from everyone, Tang Yan and Liu Shishi are now in a phase of being bitten by a snake once and being afraid of a rope for ten years! At this time, it is impossible for them to accept any newcomers."

Tian Xiwei was dumbfounded. The waters in this company were actually this deep!

"What about Yang Mi and Liu Yifei? Should we go and seek refuge with them?" Tian Xiwei asked anxiously.

"Go over there? Are you offering it for free?"

Chen Duling shook his head. "That place is already overcrowded. Newcomers like us with no fame or resources have no way to get there. Even if we did go, we'd just be cannon fodder."

Tian Xiwei's face fell: "Then what should we do? We can't just stay in the cold palace like this forever, can we?"

"As the old saying goes," Chen Duling said calmly.

"Patience means having a positive outlook and being able to endure!"

"Serena, don't forget what our biggest asset is."

Tian Xiwei blinked blankly: "What?"

Chen Duling's eyes shone brightly: "It's youth!"

"We're all born in the 90s, and in this industry where youth is a major factor, time is on our side."

"Liu Yifei and Yang Mi are both approaching thirty. Even if they have children, the saying 'beauty fades and love wanes' is an ironclad rule."

"So, all we need to do is wait."

"Wait for the next power to stand on equal footing with them and represent the new generation of forces to emerge."

"Once that person appears, we will take the accumulated experience of the past few years and go to him for refuge. This is called the merit of following the dragon."

Tian Xiwei was thrilled, but also somewhat confused: "Sister Duling... are you saying that a fourth force will emerge in the company in the future, one that can rival them?"

"right!"

Chen Duling nodded. "It is the fourth pole."

"Men are always fickle, always looking for something new. So, this fourth pole will appear sooner or later."

……

It's already mid-January.

While the domestic internet's attention was still focused on the box office competition during the Lunar New Year season.

A card game that didn't have much pre-launch hype has suddenly launched!

Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft!

This card battle masterpiece, which is authorized by Blizzard's "World of Warcraft" super IP but was developed entirely by Haofeng, quickly caused a frenzy in the gaming community upon its release.

"Holy crap! Blizzard actually licensed a Chinese company to make a game?! The art style and special effects are absolutely gorgeous!"

"The feeling of opening the pack is so satisfying! A golden legendary item! I spent 5,000 yuan today just to get a golden Roaring Dreadlord!"

"This game is so fast-paced! A match lasts only ten minutes! It's so much more fun than those long and tedious PC games! I just can't stop playing!"

In just one week!

Hearthstone's global registration numbers are skyrocketing!

Jinling, lobby of Haofeng Group's game division.

"Mr. Li! It's exploded! It's exploded again!"

Looking at the scrolling data in the background, Old Chen was so excited that he could hardly speak.

"Registered users exceeded 15 million in the first week! And players' willingness to spend money is extremely high!"

Li Feng stood in front of the control panel, looking at the various high-performing transaction data, and was quite satisfied.

This was Blizzard's most lucrative cash cow in its previous life, and now that he's brought it out a few months ahead of schedule, it's naturally unstoppable.

"The data from the PC is just an appetizer." Li Feng was not blinded by the victory before him.

"Old Chen, let me emphasize this again! Card games, with their simple logic that only requires touch controls, are naturally designed for mobile devices."

"Tell the mobile game department to send more staff, in three shifts around the clock."

"The iPhone and Android versions of Hearthstone, and especially the iPad version, must be launched within three months!"

Old Chen stood at attention and accepted the order: "Understood, Mr. Li! The mobile porting is in the final stages of resolution adaptation, and we will definitely seize the opportunity to tap into the mobile market."

……

at the same time.

Fiyta Building, Nanshan District, Shenzhen.

In the strategic conference room at Tencent's headquarters, Pony Ma frowned as he looked at the industry analysis report on Hearthstone that had just been delivered.

"The Warcraft IP... fragmented, fast-paced gameplay..."

Pony Ma tossed the report onto the table and fell into deep thought.

Haofeng Network's every move in the gaming industry has been perfectly timed, demonstrating a keen insight that has put considerable pressure on the head of the Tencent empire.

"Mr. Ma, Haofeng's card game is really lucrative, should we...?" The head of the IEG game department habitually brought up Tencent's traditional trick.

"No need to ask me, the usual rule."

Pony Ma interrupted him coldly, "Start the remake plan immediately. Whether it's using our own Three Kingdoms IP or finding other licenses, create a similar collectible card game."

"Yes! I'll arrange the R&D right away!" The IEG manager felt like he'd been granted a pardon.

however.

Just when everyone thought the big boss was about to unleash his fury on this game battle, Pony Ma suddenly put all the game department's agendas on hold.

"You can proceed with the game remake as planned. But that's not Tencent's strategic focus right now!"

"Compared to Li Feng, I'm more worried about that guy in Hangzhou right now!"

In Pony Ma's eyes, no matter how much Li Feng's Haofeng Network makes waves in the gaming and pan-entertainment sectors, it's still just carving out its own territory in the consumer entertainment field.

But Jack Ma's Alibaba is using Alipay, this financial behemoth, to truly control the wallets of Chinese netizens!

This is the penguin's mortal enemy!

"Little Dragon!"

Pony's voice was resolute:

"Chinese New Year is just around the corner! How's the internal testing of WeChat's red envelope feature going?!"

Zhang Xiaolong's tone was full of confidence: "Don't worry, Mr. Ma, the underlying payment interface and bank card binding channels have been fully connected, and the random algorithm for grabbing red envelopes has been optimized."

"very good!"

A dazzling light flashed in Pony's eyes.

"It took Alipay ten years and tens of billions of yuan in subsidies to get people used to using it for online shopping and payments."

"This Spring Festival, we're going to use WeChat red envelopes to break down the financial barriers that have been built up over the past decade!"

"Go tell the entire tech team and operations team!"

"This year's Lunar New Year's Eve is a life-or-death battle where there is no room for error!"

"We must make it so that netizens across the country will obediently link their bank cards to WeChat Pay just to grab those few yuan red envelopes in WeChat groups!"

"I'm going to use this New Year's Eve to win our own Pearl Harbor battle!"