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

Chapter 340 Everything is in chaos (Thanks to the new guild leader)

Pang Qingpeng put down his lunchbox, wiped his mouth, and typed in the message box:

My usual price is 100,000, but I'll give you a 20% discount.

The person on the other end, whose contact name was "Donghuang Qixing - Employee - Shi", replied:

[Prices can be discounted, but results cannot. This matter is being personally overseen by General Manager Cai, who said we must make sure the other side suffers a severe blow!]

Pang Qingpeng typed carefully: "Please rest assured, Mr. Cai, we are professionals when it comes to hacking games!"

The WeChat transfer notification came through, and after receiving the initial payment, Pang Qingpeng rubbed his hands together and got to work.

Pang Qingpeng is the owner of the WeChat public account "I Love Mobile Games".

Actually, it's not just this account; he operates about seven or eight accounts across various mobile game categories.

However, apart from "I Love Mobile Games", the other accounts have not yet grown in number of followers and are still in the stage of using a main account to nurture a secondary account.

At this point in time, the mobile game industry is not yet booming. Most of the dominant mobile games on the market are a few top games from companies like Huang Yi and Donghuang, while second-tier games are mostly the domain of Japanese companies.

However, Pang Qingpeng is a very insightful person. According to his analysis and judgment, as smartphones become more and more popular, mobile games will definitely occupy half of the game market in the future.

He didn't have the credentials to enter the gaming industry, but anyone can review games, so he started a public WeChat account focused on games.

Previously, someone from Donghuang Qixing had posted in their MCN group asking if anyone was willing to take on promotional work for Beichen Company and the game "Sheep and Sheep". He noticed this and said that he had received such offers before, but had turned them down.

He thought a big order was coming, and sure enough, the order has arrived.

His strategy of being cautious about accepting orders from small factories was absolutely correct. He's a shrewd man.

If we had accepted the order from Beichen Company back then, we definitely wouldn't be able to get the order from Donghuang Qixing Company now.

Not only will they not receive any missions, but when the Seven Stars of Donghuang issue a few missions, a group of people will rise up and attack them, and they will find themselves on the opposite side.

This has happened before: a game from a small studio was released, but it didn't pay homage to the "Seven Stars of Donghuang" (a popular online gaming platform), so it was bought with negative articles, while another public account accepted their promotional articles.

The public account was immediately attacked by a barrage of criticism, with many uninformed people joining in. The account's reputation plummeted, and not only were articles deleted and refunds issued, but its fame also fell drastically, and its credibility dropped to rock bottom.

This is the downside of randomly accepting promotional tasks from small factories: never promote anything without understanding the prevailing trends.

Putting down his chopsticks, Pang Qingpeng turned on his phone and started searching for "Sheep and Sheep".

If you're going to criticize, you need to target the right points. If you just spray randomly, not only will customers not buy it, but it also won't achieve the desired effect.

After playing for a while, his brows furrowed.

His first thought was: Is this game worth buying promotion for?

These poorly made games are everywhere with a simple search. They won't make a ripple on the internet, so why would they need to buy promotion for them?

Isn't that a waste of money?

Moreover, does this game really need someone specifically to criticize it?

He only played for a short while before finding several things to criticize: the art style was idiotic, the game was advertised as difficult but the first level was clearly a lie, it claimed you could only play one level a day but you could actually play infinitely, and you had to watch boring ads...

There are so many flaws that just listing them would take up too much space.

Opening the Word document, Pang Qingpeng quickly typed the first line:

"Recently, a friend recommended a game to me, saying it was extremely difficult. I played it for a while and I was so angry I laughed..."

...After submitting the manuscript, it was quickly approved, and then it was routinely published on several public accounts simultaneously.

Soon, several comments appeared in the backend.

[Front row.]

[Eating melon seeds.]

Pang Qingpeng clicked refresh, and then his brows furrowed.

A striking comment appeared in the comments section:

Are you out of your mind because you can't beat the game? Stop bashing it like this.

Comments on this WeChat official account are selected by default; this comment is not visible to other readers, only to Pang Qingpeng himself.

So it only hurt him.

He angrily deleted the comment, and soon another glaring comment appeared:

Haha, I just played this game, and what you said is all true, but it's all nonsense.

"???"

Pang Qingpeng was speechless.

What's the deal with these readers?

"I Love Mobile Games" has a very good reputation. In the past, whether it was a press release or a smear article, there were never any comments like this.

After refreshing the page again, the comments that appeared later finally looked normal.

[Haha, my roommate keeps playing this stupid game, I'm sick of the background music, I'm going to forward this article to him.]

[Facepalm. My dad heard about this game somewhere and played it all day during the ancestral worship ceremony. He almost got into a fight with some relatives. I really need to show him this article.]

Pang Qingpeng acted decisively, highlighting and posting the two comments, and replying with a "watching the drama unfold" emoji.

Then he took a screenshot of the comments below the article and sent it to the employee of Donghuang Qixing Company.

Pang Qingpeng: [Preliminary evaluation results are out, feedback is acceptable (eating melon.jpg)]

The other person replied with a thumbs-up image.

After refreshing the page, another comment appeared below the article:

[I've shared this on my WeChat Moments to help those in my circle who have contracted sheep disease.]

After clicking the mouse to post the comment, Pang Qingpeng fell into deep thought.

Is this game really that popular?

Why does it seem like... these people are having a lot of discussion on their social media?

Does this game really have a lot of players?

Moreover, he had a hidden worry in his heart:

If my smear article gets a lot of reposts after it's published, wouldn't that actually increase the game's popularity?

Judging from this game, it doesn't seem to care about its reputation, because it doesn't seem to have a very good reputation to begin with.

However, considering that the article has already been written, published, and the payment has been received, it would seem unprofessional to talk to the employees of Donghuang Qixing about this matter.

It's better not to mention it.

Then, Pang Qingpeng opened his WeChat Moments, frowned, and almost lost his balance.

The school beauty I've always had a crush on actually forwarded a link to the game "Sheep and the Sheep".

He quickly typed out: "[This kind of game that forces sharing can actually be set to be visible only to private users.]"

A short while later, the other party replied:

No, I'm going to forward this to others and make them suffer too!

"..."

After reading this reply, Pang Qingpeng belatedly slapped his thigh:

"Oops."

……

"Passengers, please bring your ID cards and line up in order to have your tickets checked and enter the station..."

Zuo Pingping looked up at the majestic gate of Beijing West Railway Station, its soaring eaves shimmering with a glazed sheen under the morning sun.

This is Beijing West Railway Station. Under the gate, there is a long queue of passengers waiting to enter the station. People are carrying large and small bags and all kinds of luggage. There are all kinds of people, from those wearing Armani to migrant workers lying on the roadside benches.

The ticket stub that Zuo Pingping was holding read D152, carriage 04, seat 12B, from Beijing West Station to Jinxi Provincial Capital, departing in one hour and arriving at the destination in three hours.

Zuo Pingping lowered her head and sighed softly.

They arrived in Yi Yangbing's sports car, but left by high-speed rail.

Who told her to have a falling out with someone?

Last time I got drunk at a bar, I woke up the next day in a big hotel bed, and apart from my shoes being taken off, my clothes were still perfectly fine.

She vaguely remembered that Chen Ya brought her here, and there was a glass of cold water by the bedside.

Chen Ya booked her a room until noon the next day. After lying in bed all morning, she suddenly had a realization.

She likes Yi Yangbing, and Yi Yangbing knows she likes him too, but in order to pursue Gu Yuqing, he still asked her to come and help him.

All morning, Yi Yangbing didn't call her once or send her a single message. He was probably furious about his failure last night.

She suddenly felt worthless. Her significance to that person was probably that of an insignificant person.

So she figured it out and bought a train ticket back to Jinxi a few days later. Before going back, the only thing she wanted to do was say goodbye to Chen Ya.

Unfortunately, we don't have their contact information.

Zuo Pingping silently bit her lip as her fingertips touched her phone in her pocket. Fortunately, her wait hadn't been in vain; although Gu Yuqing was possessive of her food, she had managed to get Chen Ya's contact information.

Soon, the train she was waiting for began boarding. The crowd surged. Once on the train, Zuo Pingping sat down, closed her eyes to rest, and unknowingly fell asleep.

I felt like I had slept for quite a while, but when I woke up, I found that the train had just started moving and a little child next to me was crying and making a fuss.

It seems the child wanted to play a certain game, but his mother's phone was out of battery, so he lay down on the ground and started throwing a tantrum.

Even if a child is good-looking, the noise level of up to 80 decibels, which is still high before puberty, will automatically evolve into a naughty child in Zuo Pingping's mind, no matter how good-looking they are.

She rubbed her forehead and gently put on her earplugs.

However, the child's shrill voice still pierced through my eardrums.

The train slowly pulled out of the station, and the mischievous child continued to make strange noises from time to time. Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the young mother was covered in sweat.

Zuo Pingping took off her earplugs and suddenly asked, "What game does he want to play?"

The mother was taken aback, then realized she was being addressed, and said apologetically, "He's so disobedient, I'm so sorry..."

“What game does he want to play? I’ll give him my phone to play with,” Zuo Pingping said. “My phone has battery.”

This mother never expected that Zuo Pingping, with her imposing appearance (wearing black lipstick, wavy hair, and a studded leather jacket), would be so kind and easy to talk to.

"It's a WeChat mini-game called 'Sheep'."

"Oh."

Zuo Pingping took out her phone, found the game on WeChat, and handed the phone to the child.

The young mother thanked her repeatedly, and kept reminding her child not to break the other person's phone. She looked even more worried than if she were playing with her own phone.

The attendant pushing the cart sold melon seeds and peanuts along the way. The mother insisted on buying Zuo Pingping a drink, and Zuo Pingping finally accepted her kindness after much persuasion.

After a while, to the mother's astonishment, Zuo Pingping took out another cell phone and started chatting with her best friend.

Someone like her naturally has two phones. If she only had one, she wouldn't feel comfortable letting her unruly child play with it so freely; who knows how much damage the child might cause?

Zuo Pingping: [I'm already on the bus, I'll be home at 12 o'clock.]

Best friend: [How's it going with Yi Yangbing?]

Zuo Pingping: [It's completely over. Don't mention her to me again.]

Best friend: [(Chuckling) You've woken up again? You've seen through his manipulative tactics again?]

Zuo Pingping: [Anyway, I suddenly realized there are many good men, and even more men better than him.]

Speaking of this, she thought of Chen Ya. Zuo Pingping suddenly wanted to check his WeChat Moments, wondering if he had any selfies that she could share with her best friend.

The result was a huge disappointment to her—a black profile picture and a spotless Moments feed; this person's online life was utterly boring.

Zuo Pingping forgot her original purpose and started scrolling through her WeChat Moments. As she scrolled down, she found that many people were mentioning a certain game.

[Finally beat the game! Hopefully no one in my WeChat Moments hasn't finished it yet!]

[Image] (A screenshot of the game "Sheep and the Sheep" after completing it, but it's obviously photoshopped.)

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Another one has gone mad.