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Chapter 384 Have you forgotten what we do? (6k views, please subscribe)

To be fair, Tencent has actually been paying a lot of attention to the short video sector.

After short videos emerged along with the significant acceleration of China's internet speed, Tencent has been laying out its short video strategy across multiple platforms, fields, and dimensions.

The QQ Watch, QQ Video, and QQ Zone Video, originally part of the wireless industry division; the various short video apps under the pan-entertainment display category; as well as WeChat and the short video business that has been divided into separate departments, are all being actively developed within Tencent.

Tencent has done everything it could to support the development of these short video apps, allocating as many resources as possible.

The group has given away all the anchors, artists, celebrities, and TV series copyrights it could.

But of all the penguins' many actions, only a few have actually yielded results.

Even Weishi, which was highly anticipated before and after its restart, has always been in a state of utter failure.

In this wave of Spring Festival marketing in 2017, Douyin was the clear winner.

During the Spring Festival, the daily active users exceeded 100 million, and the user activity data of nearly 70% was even more shocking to Tencent, the domestic Internet giant. Before the Spring Festival was over, Tencent's CEO, Teng, gathered all the company's senior executives together for a closed-door executive meeting.

Meanwhile, Alibaba Cloud, one of the three internet giants, has begun to intensify its contact with Douyin, aiming to achieve in-depth cooperation in multiple aspects and at multiple levels.

As for the last current giant, although it is also actively laying out its product lines and development direction, it doesn't need to worry too much.

Faced with the complex and ever-changing market, Lü Yao had already discussed it with Zhang Xiaonan during the Chinese New Year.

The penguins' efforts are nothing to fear.

Alibaba's cooperation will be chosen based on the circumstances.

Baidu is nothing but a pile of withered bones in a tomb.

Then, Lü Yao wrote a lengthy report on future development, nearly 10,000 words long, and sent it to Douyin headquarters. He also wrote an encrypted letter to Zhang Xiaonan, which was sealed on a USB drive with a high level of encryption. Lü Yao gave the password to someone he absolutely trusted, who would contact Zhang Xiaonan if necessary.

At the same time, he instructed Zhang Xiaonan to keep in touch with Jian Xiaojie and shared his own experiences from interacting with Jian Xiaojie with her.

During the Spring Festival, Zhang Xiaonan was very confused by Lü Yao's series of actions. She felt that Lü Yao was acting strangely and was not like a young entrepreneur, but rather like a charlatan.

Later, when Zhang Xiaonan was browsing Douyin (TikTok), she saw a video compilation of Zhuge Liang from the Three Kingdoms period and suddenly realized that Lü Yao's behavior recently was just like that of Prime Minister Zhuge Liang. That encrypted USB drive was like a secret gift that Prime Minister Zhuge Liang gave to his subordinates.

At that moment, Zhang Xiaonan felt both nervous and had goosebumps all over her body.

Is this Lu Yao guy for real or fake?

Are you really trying to portray yourself as a master strategist?

Zhang Xiaonan instinctively didn't believe Lü Yao, but when she thought about Lü Yao's past achievements, she couldn't help but feel awe.

……

Douyin's momentum is now unstoppable, and even if other domestic internet companies want to replicate Douyin's path, it won't be easy for them to catch up in the short term.

Therefore, Lü Yao went all out, almost completely transforming the voice chat software company into Douyin. Zhu Junyan, Zhou Xiangyang, and others were still in charge of this business, but Lü Yao sent Cheng Xinyu and Xiao Nali to help them with the transformation.

At the same time, Lü Yao also split the online marketing department, which was originally hidden under the MCN company, into several parts and hid them in different company structures.

Then, he handed over some of the power over these online trolls and marketing accounts to someone he trusted.

Lu Yao himself also possesses a powerful online army capable of participating in internet marketing.

While restructuring and splitting up his companies, Lü Yao was also making long-term plans for the future of the gaming business.

Although Lu Yao's Guang'an Network Games Company already has several popular game IPs such as "Honor of Kings", "Shoot the Shooter", "PUBG", "Calamity and Castle" and Auto Chess, among which "Honor of Kings" has the potential to become a national-level game thanks to the boom in popularity of Douyin during the Spring Festival.

But Lü Yao understands that every game has its own life cycle, and the best development path for game companies is to encourage the development of domestic games. However, due to the long-term abnormal development environment, domestic games have always been in a very difficult situation.

Since Guangan has already made money in this industry, and even shows signs of becoming a leading player in the domestic game industry, it should continue to expand this advantage and build its own game platform architecture.

At a senior management meeting of Guang'an Company, Lü Yao finalized the "discovery-support-distribution" operational system for the Guang'an online game platform.

Every year, Guangan allocates 3% of its revenue and profit to support the domestic game industry.

The investment support is not entirely handled internally by the company. The task of identifying and evaluating investments is delegated to the senior management of Guang'an. After cross-review by senior management, the approval report needs to be submitted to Liu Mulin in Dahai City, and then Liu Mulin will allocate funds.

Meanwhile, Liu Mulin's investment bank will send investment advisors to the company to solicit opinions, clearly define the responsibility for recommendations and subsequent rewards, and then Lü Yao, as the company's leader, will be able to see the process clearly from the results.

After finalizing the operational framework of the Guang'an online gaming platform, Lü Yao approached Feng Ji and Yang Qi.

Since they expressed interest in making single-player games, Feng Ji and Yang Qi, although still the chief planner and art director of the Guang'an "Honor of Kings" project team, have actually devoted most of their working time to the production of the new single-player game.

The two giants of Game Science today are no longer the losers that Lu Yao experienced when he was studying abroad.

Thanks to Lü Yao's strong intervention, Feng Ji and Yang Qi bypassed the initial failed accumulation phase and directly became the wealthiest gaming tycoons in China.

With this series of achievements, Feng Ji became somewhat arrogant.

In the early stages of developing the new single-player game, many of Feng Ji's ideas were somewhat far-fetched. After finalizing the story framework of the previously unfinished "Black Myth," Feng Ji immediately began designing a story with very high aspirations and a grand narrative.

Fortunately, Feng Ji is not the only giant in Game Science.

Besides Feng Ji, there is another true soul of the Game Science team—Yang Qi.

When Feng Ji presented Yang Qi with the script he had written with great enthusiasm, Yang Qi carefully read through Feng Ji's manuscript. Then, expressionless, he raised his hand and, one page after another, calmly and unhurriedly tore it up in front of Feng Ji.

Lu Yao only learned about this matter after finishing his work during the Spring Festival and chatting with Feng Ji and Yang Qi.

When Yang Qi tore up the first page of the manuscript, Feng Ji was stunned. When Yang Qi tore up the second page, Feng Ji got a little angry, but before he could rush up to Yang Qi, Yang Qi was already staring at Feng Ji expressionlessly and started tearing up the third page.

Yang Qi tore off even more during the third tear, as if to provoke Feng Ji.

The anger that had just risen in Feng Ji's heart was quickly extinguished under Yang Qi's cold gaze.

After tearing up all of Feng Ji's manuscripts for the fourth time, Yang Qi even asked Feng Ji, "Tell me, why did I tear up your manuscripts?"

When Lü Yao was chatting with Feng Ji and Yang Qi, he saw Feng Ji blush when he got to this part: "I actually got carried away. I was only thinking about telling a great and grand story, and I focused all my attention on creating darkness. It was too straightforward and too boring."

"The truly good stories are never told by ourselves, but rather discovered by others."

When Lü Yao heard this, he couldn't help but look at Yang Qi, give him a thumbs up and praise, "Teacher Yang is really amazing."

Yang Qi is a very shy and introverted person. After the game "Honor of Kings" became a hit, this pair of unfortunate partners who were fired from Tencent and had to start from scratch finally met their mentor and soared to new heights. The contrast in their story attracted many media people who wanted to interview them.

But Yang Qi refused almost all interviews, giving all the opportunities to steal the spotlight to Feng Ji.

So Yang Qi felt a little embarrassed by Lü Yao's praise.

In their subsequent conversation, Lü Yao and Feng Ji confirmed that they would be able to complete the basic framework of the game by the second half of next year, and then release the first trailer by the end of next year to promote it to the public, and then attract investment and recruit manpower.

Especially the latter. Despite the fact that Guangan Networks is now so large and has a lot of manpower, it is simply not enough for Game Science's new project.

Not to mention that Guangan itself has a large number of games under development, the updates and maintenance of existing games alone require a huge amount of manpower.

When discussing manpower, Lü Yao suggested: "We can collaborate with universities, animation studios, and special effects companies."

The creation of China's first AAA single-player masterpiece cannot be accomplished by a single team alone. It requires the collaboration of experts from various fields across the country to refine the story in the minds of Feng Ji and Yang Qi.

When Lü Yao went abroad to study, Game Science didn't have many people who truly believed in them because of their previous failed startups.

Therefore, Game Science spent two years polishing the first chapter of Black Myth before it was released. The first gameplay demo video, which was 13 minutes long, was not for promotion, but for recruitment.

At that time, Game Science was not only unable to collaborate with domestic universities and other experts in the field of digital art creation, but they themselves were also unsure whether they could even operate smoothly on their own.

But it's different now.

With the support of Guang'an Online Games, Game Science's current status is quite extraordinary.

After discussing his own situation with Feng Ji and Yang Qi in China, Lü Yao also offered some advice: "We all know that the domestic environment has always been quite complex. In recent years, there has been a lot of chaos in the film and television industry. I think that with the booming development of the domestic digital art field, it's only a matter of time before this circle becomes chaotic."

"Actually, I think it's necessary for us to establish an industry union with our own value-based review standards. The establishment of this union would actually be beneficial to the development of our game platform."

Feng Ji and Yang Qi exchanged a glance, their expressions somewhat different.

Feng Ji's eyes showed some surprise and confusion.

Yang Qi's eyes showed surprise, but also a hint of seriousness. So, after remaining silent, Yang Qi said, "This is not something that can be accomplished overnight."

Lu Yao laughed and said, "I never thought this could be accomplished overnight. Aren't we going to support the development of domestic games? Let's start by implementing our company's internal standards, and then spread them to the whole country and even the world. Let our standards become the world's standards."

Standards, though seemingly abstract and ethereal, have a profound impact.

In the future, some foreign value-based organizations will recklessly spread their harmful ideas to all fields, turning the gaming field, which was originally meant to embody human imagination, into an unspeakable Cthulhu state.

When Lü Yao was studying abroad, Black Monkey was also attacked by these organizations and online "sisters" (a term used to describe female netizens who support the game). As a result, the so-called "sister certification" appeared online. Players didn't really recognize games that weren't attacked by "sisters".

Lü Yao hopes that the standards he establishes through Guang'an are also a way to build momentum for future public opinion.

At the same time, it is also about establishing Guangan's voice in the future gaming industry.

However, the establishment of such industry standards and the establishment of discourse power are often accompanied by very serious war of words and struggles for the high ground of values, which is very mentally exhausting. If given a choice, Lü Yao would not want to trouble Feng Ji and Yang Qi.

However, establishing industry standards requires insiders like Feng Ji and Yang Qi, who have very clear principles and commitments, to take the lead.

Feng Ji and Yang Qi did not hesitate for long before accepting Lü Yao's task.

After arranging his work, Lü Yao made a special trip to Luoma Lake and Weiguang International during the time Wang Shu was in postpartum confinement and the baby's one-month celebration.

He spent quite a long time in both places.

It took a whole week in total.

As for what he did in those two places, Lü Yao kept it a secret.

……

Amidst the constant busyness, time passed day by day. Whenever he had a spare moment, Lü Yao would visit Wang Shu and their child at the private hospital.

Wang Shu was taken very well at this private hospital.

This place is nothing like those heartless postpartum care centers you find elsewhere.

Most postpartum care centers on the market nowadays are basically just luring people in and then exploiting them, especially before 2022. Pregnant women, who are the most anxious and easily deceived group, were really squeezed dry of every last drop of profit.

Many of the seemingly high-end care services offered by postpartum care centers are actually quite poorly implemented.

So-called postpartum nutrition meals are nothing more than mass-produced meals.

The so-called postpartum recovery is nothing more than another money-grabbing project that the postpartum care center collaborates with. During the one or two recovery treatments that the postpartum care center provides free of charge, the therapists will constantly create anxiety for the new mother.

The so-called postpartum care is actually a month-long, continuous sales pitch.

Most new fathers send their wives to postpartum care centers simply to pay for peace and quiet, to avoid future complaints from their wives—"It's all your fault! You wouldn't let me go to a postpartum care center!"

Many new mothers who have been to postpartum care centers have been misled by the packaged image of sophisticated women who believe "women should treat themselves well."

But the private hospital where Wang Shu stayed was different.

To put it bluntly, this hospital caters to people in Jian Xiaojie's social circle. They won't cut corners on the services offered because their service fees are already extremely high, and those high fees are a barrier to entry.

Because their real users don't care about the cost.

Under the attentive care of professional nurses, Wang Shu recovered very well. Even the incision on her abdomen gradually faded with the help of imported scar-removing medication.

As for Lü Ping'an, he is growing up healthily every day.

Babies are truly amazing beings. They are wrinkled when they are first born, but as the days go by, they become more and more fair, plump, and incredibly cute.

Wang Shu, who stays by her child's side, takes a photo of the child every morning, noon, and evening, then prints it out and carefully keeps it safe.

In late March, as usual, after finishing his work at the company, Lü Yao arrived at the private hospital, still smelling of work.

The special floors in this private hospital are all two-bedroom apartments with a living room, each with a floor area of ​​over 100 square meters. The interior decoration is also exceptionally exquisite. If you don't come in from outside the hospital, just looking at the room, it looks like a well-decorated home.

After arriving here, Lü Yao took off his coat and said with a smile, "This place feels just like our new home now."

Wang Shu, who was recovering well, smiled and said, "I said half a month ago that I wanted to move back, but Xiao Jie wouldn't let me. She said that although the villa was nice, the facilities there were not as complete as here. She said that I could only go back after my full month was over."

Just then, Jian Xiaojie came over.

Jian Xiaojie was holding a lot of plush toys, as well as many baby items and supplements for Wang Shu.

As soon as she entered, Jian Xiaojie put down her things and looked around the room suspiciously: "Were you guys talking badly about me just now? I feel like something's off."

Wang Shu laughed and said, "It's me. I'm not happy that you've been making me stay here and not let me go home."

Jian Xiaojie hugged Wang Shu's waist and said coquettishly, "I'm doing this for your own good. Besides, what do you mean I locked you up? Of course you can go wherever you want, it's just that... some things can't be controlled by human power."

After being intimate with Wang Shu, Wang Shu went to play with Lü Ping'an.

Before Wang Shu became pregnant, she was the one who disliked children the most; but after Wang Shu gave birth to the child, she was also the one who loved children the most.

Every time she came over, Jian Xiaojie would play with Lü Pingan for a long time until Lü Pingan showed an impatient expression, at which point she would slink away.

When Jian Xiaojie returned after teasing Lü Ping'an, Lü Yao and Wang Shu sat at the table and laughed, "Oh, tired from playing?"

Jian Xiaojie raised her chin and laughed, "What do you mean I'm tired? It's Xiao Ping'an who's tired~~"

Wang Shu, deeply concerned for his daughter, said, "Ping An is still young; she can't stay upset for so long."

Jian Xiaojie retorted, "When she was crying in the middle of the night, you couldn't tell she couldn't make a fuss for that long. Besides, if having a baby can't be used for fun, then it's meaningless!"

Anyway, Jian Xiaojie can now twist even the most unreasonable arguments into something plausible.

Lu Yao ignored Jian Xiaojie and turned to look at Wang Shu, saying with concern, "Sister Shu, how come you've started taking over the work at Huasheng Life?"

When Lü Yao first arrived today, he noticed the stacks of file folders in the room, all of which bore the logo of Huasheng Life.

Wang Shu laughed and said, "I was really feeling stifled here, and I felt like I had recovered quite a bit, so I told President Rong that I wanted to catch up on the work I had missed. Don't worry, I will take good care of myself and won't force myself. This is just a warm-up."

Jian Xiaojie pursed her lips, but what Wang Shu said did make sense, so she didn't argue.

Lu Yao didn't say much, and instead changed the subject to Lu Ping'an's full moon celebration. Lu Yao had already figured out how to celebrate Lu Ping'an's full moon celebration.

Lü Pingan, who was currently adoring Jian Xiaojie, said, "You don't need to worry about that. I will definitely handle this matter perfectly. As for Xiao Pingan's full moon celebration, I will make the entire Shangnan region shine for him!"

Lu Yao smiled and said, "My idea is to keep a low profile as much as possible."

Jian Xiaojie frowned and pursed her lips.

She was a passionate and unrestrained person who loved and hated intensely. After spending time together, she truly regarded Xiao Ping'an as her own daughter, and her desire to give Xiao Ping'an the best of everything in the world grew stronger.

Xiao Ping'an is too young to know these things, so Jian Xiaojie is eager to record this moment with a grand celebration.

But Lü Yao's needs are also quite reasonable.

At this time and juncture, it is inappropriate and bad to carry out these things in a grand manner.

While Lü Yao and Jian Xiaojie remained silent, Wang Shu said, "Let's compromise and choose a quieter location for the full moon celebration, invite some high-profile guests, and make it a grand affair. This way, we won't give a bad impression to outsiders, and we can still show our sincerity."

Jian Xiaojie sighed inwardly, then smiled and praised Wang Shu, "You really have to admit, our Sister Shu is so elegant and poised."

Lu Yao smiled and continued, "Also, after Xiao Ping'an's one-month celebration, I plan to leave Shangnan and go out for a while. I will take Sister Yongzhen and Cheng Xinyu with me. We may spend a bit more time outside."

Upon hearing this, Jian Xiaojie immediately became displeased: "Huh? What do you mean? Sister Shu just finished her postpartum confinement and you're already going out to have fun? And you're taking Yongzhen and Cheng Xinyu with you? How long is 'a little longer'?"

The more Jian Xiaojie spoke, the more unfriendly her tone became.

But Lü Yao wasn't afraid. He looked at Jian Xiaojie and stared back at her, saying, "Sister Jian, have you forgotten what we do?"

"Have you forgotten who I am and what my background is?"

Lu Yao's tone was slightly cold, even impolite. His harsh words were like a sharp spear in the winter snow, pressing against Jian Xiaojie's throat, making her—

Speechless.

(End of this chapter)