I was exposed for adding my female boss to my group of female friends.

“Pei Hu is not just any driver. He’s more than just Chen Ya’s driver. The reason Chen Ya lets him get away with it is because Pei Hu took a bullet for him. If it weren’t for that relationship, given Chen Ya’s personality, why would Pei Hu be qualified to do things for him?”

Everyone looked over and saw Gu Yuqing walking out of the bathroom wrapped in a bath towel.

She hadn't even washed up. When Liu Ruying started talking about Chen Ya, she was eavesdropping at the door. After hearing about Pei Hu, she couldn't help but come out.

"Blocked a bullet?" Qin Yunchu asked in surprise, "Do you mean in a real sense, or is it just a figure of speech...?"

"It really did stop a bullet." Gu Yuqing walked over and put a coat on her body.

Qin Yunchu looked bewildered.

She didn't understand, first of all, why would a bullet be shot at Chen Ya...

Even though she was the eldest daughter of the Qin family and a senior executive at Hongtu, and had heard of many horrifying methods of power struggles, the idea of ​​being shot was still too terrifying to bear.

Gu Yuqing knew what she was thinking and said, "Principal Yang also said that Chen Ya has promoted technologies such as controlled nuclear fusion. Do you think people whose interests have been affected won't be furious?"

Controlled nuclear fusion is the biggest energy revolution of this century, and its significance is even comparable to the transition from steam to electricity.

It's hard to imagine how many people's interests will be affected, and it may even attract the attention of external forces. The risks are also unpredictable.

Gu Yuqing said, "The reason why Chen Ya's name is not on Beichen's list is because he was in hiding for the first two years after Beichen was established. It is not appropriate for his name to appear on the company's list."

Looking at the three silent people in front of her, Gu Yuqing smiled and said to Liu Ruying, "Go on, Pei Hu's woman forced you to drink with her, and then what?"

"Then, he poured the whole bottle of wine over Sister Hua's head." Liu Ruying smiled, "It gave me a chance to vent my anger."

Qin Yun Chu was a little shocked: "Really? Is he angry? Then he really... cares about you a lot."

Liu Ruying blushed: "Really?"

"Yes, in my memory, he has always been very gentle. Even when there are all sorts of petty people who try to trip him up, he just ignores them and would never hit them."

Qin Yun Chu recalled Chen Ya's former boss at Hongtu Company. That woman would make things difficult for Chen Ya whenever she had the chance, but Chen Ya never got angry.

After learning Chen Ya's true identity, she felt that Chen Ya had a good temper more and more.

“Hehe, Chen Ya has a good temper? That’s now,” Gu Yuqing seemed very unhappy. “His temper has improved many times over the past few years. If it were before, let alone Sister Hua, if he were unhappy, Pei Hu would have been skinned alive.”

Qin Yun Chu looked at her curiously: "Really? To be honest, I'm quite curious about what Chen Ya was like before. Also, President Gu, how did you and Chen Ya meet?"

Lu Qingxuan, who had been silent all along, moved her feet together, showing that she was also curious about the question.

Especially regarding how the two of them became what Gu Yuqing called "friends with benefits".

Gu Yuqing smiled.

"That's a long story."

……

……

The recorder's head was buried behind the laptop, his mind wandering, but his eyes kept glancing at Gu Yuqing behind him from the corner of his eye.

It was summer 2015. The continuous showers had just passed, and the sky was a clear, bright blue, as if it had been washed clean. Gu Yuqing, sitting by the window, was like a white cloud at the edge of that sky—leisurely, ethereal, and… soft.

She is as beautiful as ever today.

Today, Gu Yuqing wore a purple satin cross-collar long dress. The purple color made her look mature, mysterious, and charming. The dress was of excellent quality, but it couldn't contain her allure. A rich fragrance, like that of blooming peach blossoms, emanated from her exposed shoulders and collarbone.

Her light blonde curly hair, highlighted with dye, exuded both nobility and cuteness. Her eyes, beneath her arched eyebrows, always seemed to shimmer with a hazy light, radiating an elegant energy. Most striking was her full, peach-like figure, yet her waist was slender and supple, and her skin as smooth as silk.

Gu Yuqing is such a woman, who has a continuous charm on the opposite sex, appealing to all age groups, and no one can resist her.

However, no matter how much the recorder longed for this woman who was now so close to him, he couldn't get any closer—because she had always lived in a different world.

"How many more?" Gu Yuqing put down her coffee and asked leisurely.

“This is the last batch,” the partner next to him immediately replied.

"Once this batch is finished, I can finally get some rest," Gu Yuqing said, putting her hand to her mouth and quietly yawning. "I heard that the new shop downstairs has really good afternoon tea pastries."

"Really? I'll treat you," his partner quickly said.

"Do you think I can't afford it?" Gu Yuqing blinked.

"N-nothing..."

"Then why do you think I need you to invite me?"

"I...I didn't mean that..."

Gu Yuqing stared at him for a long time, then suddenly chuckled: "Just kidding, why are you so nervous?"

"Ah, haha..."

The recorder standing nearby broke out in a cold sweat.

Fortunately, I wasn't qualified to speak to Gu Yuqing, otherwise, I would definitely have been toyed with like that too.

If I were to be tricked like that, I would definitely feel like dying.

"Mr. Gu, the next batch of entrepreneurs is ready," the secretary said as she entered through the door.

"Let them in," Gu Yuqing said calmly.

This is Gaoshan Capital, a venture capital firm under the Gu family.

The current project involves holding discussions with qualified startups to assess the success rate of investments.

The person sitting in the middle, referred to as President Gu, is Gu Yuqing, who is currently the person in charge of this company.

At the same time, she has another identity—the heiress of the Gu family, a wealthy conglomerate behind the company.

These two identities have already determined her extraordinary status and power in the company, but the reasons why she has won the respect of these people are not limited to these.

Gu Yuqing has a well-known nickname in the industry – “Venture Capital Queen”.

The investments she has handled have maintained a 100% success rate to date, with astonishingly high returns.

However, she also has a title that rivals the previous one—"Capital Witch".

Her style involves interfering in the business operations; she will use any means necessary to maximize the company's profits and completely exploit the startup.

Once the startup has no more value to extract, she will not hesitate to cash out and leave.

It's hard to say whether there are more companies ruined by Gu Yuqing or companies that took off because of her insightful investments.

It is precisely this investment style that has made Gu Yuqing both incredibly famous and infamous in the industry.

"Hello everyone, hello..."

Four young men knocked on the door and came in. The man in the lead looked to be in his early twenties, with a youthful and handsome appearance.

As for the three people following behind him, they were all typical bookworms, with no discernible style.

Gu Yuqing crossed her arms and said rather bluntly, "You four are the startup team?"

"Yes, hello, my name is Chen Ya." The young man smiled at Gu Yuqing, his smile as bright as sunlight breaking through the clouds.

But Gu Yuqing didn't hold back at all.

"Alright, your team's presentation is finished. Three of you can leave, and one of you can stay and explain the issues clearly. I hate having so many people crammed into this room; the air is all stuffy."

The four people looked at each other, and in the end, it was the one named Chen Ya who stayed.

He generously sat down and handed out the documents in his hand to the people in front of him.

Gu Yuqing, her fingers adorned with delicate nail polish, toyed with a slender fountain pen. Looking down at the materials in her hand, she methodically asked:

"Please give a brief introduction to your project."

"We are a game company, and our first project is to create a cross-platform online game..."

After listening to Chen Ya's explanation, Gu Yuqing bluntly asked, "There are at least eight hundred or a thousand online games on the market right now. What are your unique features?"

“Our specialty is our specialty…” Chen Ya finished speaking, and Gu Yuqing was stunned for a moment. He immediately said, “Sorry, slip of the tongue. Our specialty is that we are very productive.”

Chapter 303 The First Productive Force

Gu Yuqing rolled her eyes at Chen Ya. Others might not have noticed the lewd joke he just made, but she certainly did.

Although she didn't mind, no one had ever dared to make such a joke in front of her before, so she mentally gave the person in front of her a good scolding.

If it were someone else, she would definitely give them a good dressing down, until they couldn't stand up straight.

But Chen Ya's smile looked like spring water, sweet with a hint of brightness, like the school heartthrob you secretly admired but dared not confess during your school days. Even the great devil Gu Yuqing couldn't bear to scold him directly.

Although Gu Yuqing had a good impression of Chen Ya because of her preference for good looks, her tone was still not very polite.

"High output? A game company describing itself as having high output? Unheard of." Gu Yuqing crossed her arms and propped up her long legs. "Explain?"

“Currently, online games generally have two profit models: one is the prepaid card system, and the other is free-to-play with in-app purchases,” Chen Ya said. “The essence of the prepaid card system is selling playtime, while the free-to-play model sells data.”

"The point card system has a characteristic that the longer a game operates, the higher its IP value becomes, and it competes for players' time, resulting in a clear 80/20 rule, or even a 90/10 rule. Therefore, there are fewer and fewer point card games now, and most new games can only choose the free-to-play track."

"Most free-to-play games currently rely on selling anxiety: you can get a good gaming experience by spending money, but if you don't spend money, you're just another person's gaming experience. I won't comment on whether this method is ethical, but this model is destined to prevent games from truly reaching the masses."

Hearing this, Gu Yuqing frowned slightly and said, "You haven't gotten to the point yet."

"Yes, but please listen to me patiently. It is easy for us to analyze and conclude that if we create data discrepancies to force players to recharge, it will lead to a shrinking user base; if there are too few monetization points, it will make it difficult for the game to operate in the long term."

"Therefore, our game will adopt a model that allows players to have their cake and eat it too. Our model is that paying players spend money, while free players build communities, maximizing both the user base and the willingness to pay."

Gu Yuqing raised her eyebrows.

In her experience, nine out of ten people who claim to have discovered a new profit model are unreliable.

The person in front of me was even more outrageous. What he said was equivalent to negating all the game models of the past few decades—if it were really possible to have both fish and bear's paw, who would be forced to make a game that only allows one of them?

"If you want to have your cake and eat it too, you'd need to raise a bear that can catch fish. Do you have one?" Gu Yuqing asked with a mocking smile.

"Yes, this bear's name is Update," Chen Ya said with a smile. "The experience that the prepaid card system has contributed to the gaming industry is that version updates can increase player engagement and ensure online time. So, we rely on version updates to attract users."

"We're a gacha game, and we plan to release a new version every six weeks, along with a new card pool. This way, we can maintain both popularity and monetization points, using the revenue from each version to develop the next, creating a virtuous cycle..."

Hearing this, the male consultant sitting next to Gu Yuqing finally couldn't hold back any longer. He turned to Gu Yuqing and asked for her opinion with his eyes. After receiving her consent, he asked Chen Ya bluntly:

"You said you don't want to profit by creating numerical anxiety, right? Then let me ask you, what PvP mode will you use? Will it be direct combat or a leaderboard? How will your guilds be designed?"

“There’s no PvP, no guilds,” Chen Ya said frankly. “There are no leaderboards, no competition. These things create numerical anxiety, and low-level players will experience the game like high-level players.”

The advisor twitched his brow, then patiently asked again, "You don't have PvP, and it's a gacha game, so what motivates players to draw cards?"

"Love!" Chen Ya's voice unconsciously rose a little. "Designing each character to be incredibly adorable is the duty of game developers! Players will naturally pay for that love!"

The consultant rubbed his head and asked again, "Regardless of whether what you said about paying for love is reasonable, how can you guarantee that the stats won't inflate when you release a new version every six weeks? Once the stats inflate, the so-called 'paying for love' becomes complete nonsense, because once a character falls into the power trap, there's no longer any question of whether they're cute or not."

"We have a very complete mechanism to limit numerical inflation."

"What mechanism?"

“We can design an elemental reaction mechanism where each character possesses an element, and these elements react with each other. For example, ice and water will freeze, and lightning and fire will explode. In that case, the characters become element generators. As long as they are combined properly, each character will be useful, and there will be no strength trap.”

Hearing this, Gu Yuqing finally showed some interest, put down her legs which had been crossed high, and sat up straight.

The advisor continued, "Even so, your claim of a version every six weeks is unrealistic. Take Meowth for example: the Pandaren Expedition and the Burning Legion Mystery expansions will cause world changes. Where do you have that much story expansion potential?"

“It’s very simple. Our protagonist is a traveler,” Chen Ya said. “His goal is to travel to various countries. Each country has two or three regions, which means two or three new maps. I designed seven countries, which means dozens of brand new maps and new versions.”

The consultant asked, "How many years do you plan to run this game?"

"The goal is ten years."

The consultant immediately said, "Even if you add 21 new images, that's only 21 versions. It would only take less than three years to update them all. How can you possibly last ten years?"

"Don't rush," Chen Ya said with a smile, "There are also festivals! We don't celebrate real festivals, we celebrate virtual festivals. Each country designs one festival, so there are seven festivals for seven countries."

"There are 52 weeks in a year, and a total of 8 versions are released. I count each holiday as a version, which covers the whole year. I celebrate every year and create new events every time, so I can achieve perpetual motion!"

After saying that, he added, "Moreover, it is not necessary to release a massive amount of content with every update. Between every two major versions, there will be some transitional minor versions. In short, there is no need to worry about the update content not keeping up."

"This..." The consultant was speechless for a moment, but quickly recovered and slammed his fist on the table, asking, "Even so, a frequency of updating a version every six weeks is not very realistic. Where will your production capacity come from?"

Chen Ya stared at him for a while, then opened the laptop in front of him, turned it around, and faced the consultant.

"Here, this is our demo. We made this in just six weeks. Take a look."

The consultant dragged his laptop over. He was a professional consultant in the gaming field, so he naturally picked up the game demo very quickly. After just a short while of simple operation, his eyes widened in amazement.

"This...this was made in six weeks?"

The demo Chen Ya handed him was almost identical to a completed game.

Not only are the characters, actions, and maps very detailed, but there are also lighting and shadow systems, day and night weather systems, and even some quests and dialogues.