A writer has arrived in the Chinese entertainment industry.

Eggplant is a native of Kunming. He majored in Chinese literature in college and has an innate sensitivity to words and narratives. Later, he became an architect, dealing with blueprints and structures every day.

As a video game enthusiast, he created "The Doomsday Scroll" using RPG Maker, driven by passion. Unfortunately, the game's graphics and technical shortcomings have always been a regret for him.

He aspires to create a martial arts sandbox game that truly belongs to the Chinese people. In his view, a good martial arts world should not merely be a backdrop serving emotions, but rather a dynamic, organic, and believable real world for players. Players should be the creators of the world, not passive puppets accepting the plot.

The absence of forced guidance, player-driven storyline, and dynamic world of "The Scroll of Taiwu" all stem from this creative philosophy.

So even if he were asked to meet him in Shanghai, a thousand miles away, he did not hesitate at all.

At that time, there was no direct high-speed rail from Kunming to Shanghai; the fastest journey by regular train would take 34 hours. To save time, Qiezi had to transfer in Guiyang first, and then in Changsha, taking a total of 20 hours to reach Shanghai.

He set off at noon the day before and arrived in Shanghai at 12 a.m. the next day. As he dragged his tired body out of Hongqiao Station, he received a call from Su Liu.

Following the directions, I finally found the black Passat parked on the side of the road.

Su Liu got out of the back seat and looked at the tired-looking man in front of her. Eggplant was wearing a gray baseball cap, a thin denim jacket, and a messenger bag slung over his shoulder. His face was round, and his overall features gave him an approachable and composed air.

However, he also made a mistake: he misjudged the temperature difference between Kunming and Shanghai. Now, a cold wind blew, and he began to shiver.

"Haha, Eggplant Bro," Su Liu quickly opened the back door, "Why are you dressed like this? Get in the car!"

As soon as Eggplant got into the car, she curled up into a ball, rubbing her hands together and saying with trembling teeth, "I... I had no idea it would be so cold here."

While instructing the driver, Xiao Liu, to drive, Su Liu said to him, "Let's go to my company first. I can introduce you to some friends who also work in the game industry."

Back at "Fusu Culture," Su Liu took Qiezi directly to the third-floor conference room. There, An Wenxiu sat at the head of the table, her eyes sharp, finalizing the investment agreement with Yao Men and Chen Kai.

After Fusu Culture acquired StudioGM, the two of them practically became full-time employees. In order to motivate them to work diligently and prevent the company's value from declining, An Wenxiu set up a precise incentive mechanism in the agreement—using virtual equity to provide profit-sharing incentives.

The two parties signed a complex "performance-based earnout" and "virtual equity unlocking" agreement, which linked their dividend rights to performance and imposed strict time limits.

The entire 20% virtual equity stake will be unlocked gradually over the next five years through annual performance reviews. This design is extremely complex, and the legal team at Revival Culture spent considerable time deliberating on it.

Yao Men and Chen Kai naturally had no objections. After all, this wasn't like the 1 million yuan angel investment miHoYo received; this was over 20 million yuan in cash, enough for them to realize their dreams.

"By the way, do you two have any ideas about the company name?" An Wenxiu tapped the contract on the table, her tone calm.

"Oh, we've already decided, we'll call it 'Yo-star' in English."

At this moment, Su Liu pushed open the door and came in with Eggplant.

"President Su." The two men from the Yao family quickly stood up to greet him.

"Mr. Su, regarding the 3D action game 'Genshin Impact,' our team has carefully studied its technical challenges. Based on your vision, it would be very difficult to implement on a mobile platform right now..."

As Su Liu gestured for Qiezi to sit down, she asked with a puzzled look, "What's wrong? Weren't we having a great chat yesterday?"

Chen Kai, who was in charge of the technology among the two, sighed after hearing this, "Such a grand idea is certainly fascinating, but technically speaking, it is almost impossible to realize at present."

"What do you mean?"

"Let's leave aside the other technical difficulties for now. Just looking at the current configurations of mobile phones, they simply can't support the smooth running of such a game." Chen Kai pursed his lips and continued, "The highest-spec mobile phones on the market right now have processors like the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800, Samsung's own Exynos 5 Octa, or the iPhone 5s's A7. They only have 2GB of RAM, and even the latest Samsung Note 3 released this year only has 3GB of RAM. These are already the best-performing mobile phones on the market."

"Not to mention the much larger user base of mid-to-low-end devices. The current situation is that no mobile device can run Genshin Impact. Furthermore, features like 'enemy slow motion,' 'perfect dodge,' and 'normal character damage output'—these things take a long time to fine-tune on PC, and mobile devices simply can't handle them."

Yao Men sighed. Chen Kai was a tech fanatic, and what he said was absolutely true.

Su Liu listened silently, then asked, "Anything else?"

"There are also countless details and challenges at every stage. There's no mature template for the combo judgment logic of 3D action games in mobile games right now. There's no 2D side-scrolling game like Time Hunter, or 3D touch control like Infinity Blade. What we're doing is non-targeting 3D combat. The connection between normal attacks, branch attacks, charged attacks, and dodges, as well as the judgment of hitstun and knock-up, we have to figure out every step ourselves, write code from scratch, and if there's a mistake, the entire combat system has to be scrapped and rebuilt."

"Another issue is personnel. President Su invested over 20 million, so of course we can recruit more people. But the problem is that many of these people are simply unavailable in China right now. For example, there are very few TAs (technical artists) in China who understand 3D cartoon rendering. The people we recruit are either extremely expensive or have never worked on anime-style projects before."

"And that kind of cartoon rendering," Yao Men smiled wryly, "Mr. Su, you said it needs to have both 2D outlines and realistic lighting and cloth simulation. Almost no one in China knows how to do that. I checked the information, and only a few companies in Japan have mature solutions, but they don't share them with others at all. We can only write shaders and adjust lighting parameters ourselves. We have to start everything from scratch."

After speaking, the two looked exhausted and somewhat uneasy. They had actually been in sync for some time, privately weighing whether or not to reveal the core technical challenges to Su Liu.

After all, it's incredibly difficult to find an investor in this industry who truly "understands games." They worried that telling the truth might cause uncontrollable complications, and Su Liu might decide not to invest anymore.

But in the end, they decided to be honest. Although the acquisition had been completed, in the eyes of Chen Kai, the legal representative, and Yao Men, the president, it was still their hard work.

An Wenxiu sat to the side, taking in their entire conversation. Unlike the others who were tense, she leaned back leisurely in her chair, enjoying the moment. Over the years, Su Liu had given her so many surprises, so now…

"Let me see what else you can come up with in your head," she thought.

"I understand," Su Liu suddenly stood up. "In that case, please take note of this. I will make the following arrangements."