161 Impact of Celestial Bane (1/2)

Ye Lingchen did not expect to get such an answer.

”Yeah,” Song Qian continued, ”Y-God, I'm sorry for how this turned out. I didn't expect the higher-ups in Huyu to be so vicious. You have saved Huyu from certain doom, yet in exchange, they treat you like this.”

”They dare to act with such impunity is mostly because half of my Grave Robber's Chronicles copyright is with them right?” Ye Lingchen snickered.

”Indeed,” Song Qian nodded. ”They always thought that Grave Robber's Chronicles was your magnum opus. Although you share the copyright with the platform, the platform had the distribution to your work. That's why they did not care about you.”

”Do you know what they are planning to do with Grave Robber's Chronicles?”

”They have already planned to file for IP[1], then using Grave Robber's Chronicle's IP to branch out from stream to games and movies.” Song Qian naturally knew of some inner workings.

Although Grave Robber's Chronicles was authored by Y-God, he was banned by the platform. With that the platform could treat it as an asset, effectively getting rid of him while benefiting off him in a cruel and ruthless manner.

After a moment of silence, Ye Lingchen suddenly asked, ”Apart from Huyu, what other platforms are there?”

”Some time ago, the streaming platforms went through some dark times. Many of the platforms have already folded. Those that survived until now are just a couple of bigger platforms. However, they are also close to folding.” Song Qian could already guess where Ye Lingchen was headed. He then continued, ”If you want to stand up to Huyu with these platforms, it's going to be very difficult.”

Huyu pretty much had the monopoly of this sector. That was why it could act with such impunity.

After hesitating for a moment, Song Qian added, ”After I left Huyu, I'm now working at Panda Streaming. However, their current situation is not looking good…”

Panda Streaming was a livestream platform that was founded one or two years ago. It was rather unfortunate as it was hit by the long winter of the world of streaming before it got its name out there. Failure in investments and lack of funding caused it to remain in a rut, at this point they are unable to even pay the salary of its hosts.

Song Qian had just only joined Panda Streaming recently. He knew full well what the situation was like within. ”The entire platform has few hosts left. At this point, the platform is in huge debt and had difficulty operating on its own.”

That was only a small streaming platform, unable to compare with Huyu.

”It's fine as long as it's a streaming platform.” Ye Lingchen went silent for a while, then spoke, ”How much would it cost if I were to purchase this platform?”

”P-p-purchase?”

Song Qian was shocked. Taking a deep breath he asked, ”Y-God, you're not joking with me right?”

”That's right,” Ye Lingchen answered calmly. ”Just let me know how much.”

Ye Lingchen had finally understood the tyranny and cruelty of a streaming platform. Since Huyu Streaming struck the first blow, he had no intention of taking this quietly.

Grave Robber's Chronicles was his first creation. The dignity of a prodigy was on the line. This vengeance must be fulfilled! It had to be done viciously!

Instead of working for other streaming platforms, he might as well run his own. Getting rid of Huyu using his own streaming platform should feel great!

It was too much hassle to start a platform from scratch. He might as well save time and purchase one directly!

”At the moment Panda Streaming owes a debt of over RMB30,000,000. If you plan to purchase it, you must first clear its debts. I estimate that they will offer roughly about RMB40,000,000,” Song Qian explained.

”RMB35,000,000!” Ye Lingchen made a direct offer. ”You help me communicate with them. I'm only offering RMB35,000,000. This way their debts are cleared and would have RMB5,000,000 profit. There's no reason for them to reject the offer! If this deal goes through, you'll be the president of Panda[2]!”

Song Qian was suddenly hyperventilating. He was both shocked and excited at the same time!

'Y-God's a hidden rich kid! This is amazing!'

”Alright, I'll go talk to the higher-ups immediately!” Song Qian took a deep breath and rushed off excitedly to settle the issue.

Y-God had promised to let him be Panda's president! Add to it Y-God's fame and creations, he might bring Panda back from the brink of death! That would also bring him to the peak of his life!

He felt that he had successfully ridden on Y-God's coattail.

...

On the next day, Yuewen's headquarters was hectic after a meeting had just concluded.

Yogurt[3] was the top editor in Genesis that was responsible for the xianxia genre.

”Sigh, this time the Twelve Heavenly Kings and Rookie Champion had nothing to do with me again.” Yogurt shook his head with a bitter smile.

The xianxia genre was too unpopular with very few authors and readers when compared to urban and fantasy genres. They were too far apart.

Every year, Yuewen would pick the most popular author based on the popularity of their works. However, none of them in the past few years fell under Yogurt's supervision.

”You're still better off than me okay? I'm in the f*cking history genre. This is just too unfair!” Another person interjected. That person was Sunny Day[4], in charge of the history genre.

The history genre was even worse than xianxia. They might not even receive any books on any given day.

Both of them sighed, blaming their lives while connecting over their similar situation.

While chatting, Yogurt opened his inbox. As expected, there were only a few xianxia titles that submitted a draft.

”What the f*ck is this writing? Nothing makes sense!”

”OMG, another long-winded story.”

”Hm, this is a little better.”

Yogurt was flipping through each title quickly. Sunny Day joined Yogurt in dissing the submissions as he was too free.

Eh?

Celestial Bane?

Yogurt was caught by surprise. 'This name is something!'

Following that was the synopsis: The world began without celestial beings. However, since ancient times, humans witnessed the world around them being filled with unexplained incidents. Flashing thunders, raging storms…

'This synopsis...it's not bad too!'

Yogurt and Sunny Day stared at the computer unblinkingly with neither of them talking.