Chapter 170 - Lin Wan + Shang Yang Games = ? (1/2)

“Boss Pei, what can I do for you…?”

Over the phone, Zhou Muyan’s voice sounded rather lifeless. Since they had last seen each other in Guangzhou at the end of last year, Pei Qian and Zhou Muyan had not kept in contact.

As Ocean Stronghold and Bullet Hole’s results had been rather divergent, the duo’s originally fragile relationship had been made worse.

Ocean Stronghold had already become the unabashed number-one domestically-produced FPS game, having a massive following while still expanding continuously. Its competitor had also been changed from other domestically-produced games to Counter Strike.

On the other hand, Bullet Hole’s popularity had slowly dropped after its initial success attributed to its widespread publicity. Although it was still operating in the black and doing alright, this evidently did not hit Zhou Muyan’s initial goals and expectations. It was falling further and further behind from Ocean Stronghold.

The two games’ design concept was vastly different. When Tengda had gone to Sun Strike Studios to learn, Zhou Muyan had actually proudly shared Bullet Hole’s design concept with everyone.

At that time, Zhou Muyan had been brimming with confidence.

While Pei Qian had sat in the audience, smiling and nodding constantly—his eyes filled with approval.

However, Zhou Muyan now knew that Boss Pei had been acting back then!

When Ocean Stronghold had first launched, Zhou Muyan had not paid much attention to it. However, as its popularity grew continuously, Zhou Muyan finally had started to feel that something was amiss.

He had dug a little and found that Ocean Stronghold’s development had been almost in tandem with Bullet Hole’s. When Tengda had gone to Sun Strike Studios to visit, Ocean Stronghold had already developed to a certain stage!

Zhou Muyan’s heart actually went cold.

Boss Pei had long known about Bullet Hole’s problems but had continuously nodded in the audience, acting as if nothing was wrong.

That was so scheming!

Since then, Pei Qian had not proactively contacted Zhou Muyan; he primarily was afraid Zhou Muyan would think he was boasting. While Zhou Muyan wouldn’t bother to contact Pei Qian, he didn’t want anything to do with him.

As such, the two had finally gotten in touch once again after so long.

As for why Zhou Muyan would take up the phone call…

He didn’t have a choice; he had to give Boss Pei some face.

After all, Tengda was now being commended and praised by the official games platform. As they were all in the same industry, Zhou Muyan couldn’t purposely cross Boss Pei.

However, he was still a little unwilling to talk to Pei Qian.

Pei Qian could feel Zhou Muyan’s grudging feelings and was afraid that he might misspeak and trigger Zhou Muyan’s fragile soul. He decided to cut to the chase and shoot directly.

“Boss Zhou, apologies for the disturbance. I want to ask you something. Do you know who Lin Wan is?”

Zhou Muyan was stunned for a while.

Of course, he knew who Lin Wan was. The second day Lin Wan had started work at Sun Strike Studios, Shenhua Corporation’s President’s office had directly called Zhou Muyan. If he didn’t remember wrongly, Lin Wan had entered Tengda for a couple of months already.

Could it be Boss Pei still didn’t know who Lin Wan was?

That wasn’t logical, right?

Zhou Muyan was a little confused. He asked back, “Boss Pei, you don’t know?”

Pei Qian’s heart grew even colder. By Zhou Muyan’s words, he was evidently confirming that Lin Wan was someone special! Pei Qian coughed lightly, “Boss Zhou, to be honest, I am facing some problems now. I hope that you could render me some assistance; I will be eternally grateful!”

Zhou Muyan hurriedly replied, “Please don’t say that, Boss Pei. If you have any queries, please ask; I will definitely answer them if I can!”

Pei Qian asked, “Could Boss Zhou explain what Lin Wan’s deal with her family is and why she had entered the game industry… in detail?”

Zhou Muyan was a little perplexed. Could it be Boss Pei didn’t even know about this? It seemed as if Shenhua Corporation’s President’s office had not given Boss Pei a call?

There was something fishy going on.

However, Zhou Muyan didn’t think much as he told all he knew about Lin Wan to Pei Qian.

Lin Wan was Shenhua Corporation’s President’s youngest daughter. She had an elder sister and two elder brothers. As she was passionate about the game industry, she had found Sun Strike Studios on her own to work.

However, Lin Zhengnan was evidently not very supportive of Lin Wan entering the game industry. Nevertheless, as Lin Wan was rather stubborn and Lin Zhengnan did not want to strain his relationship with her, he had given Zhou Muyan a call hoping that he could extinguish Lin Wan’s game industry dreams so that she would return to Shenhua Corporation to work.

“This is the gist of it, Boss Pei. I do not know anything else,” Zhou Muyan spoke rather earnestly, “As for why you had not received a phone call… I do not know why.”

Pei Qian was silent for a moment, “How about Lin Wan and her relationship with her brother Lin Zhou, Shenhua Real Estate’s President?”

Zhou Muyan replied, “It is said that she only has some tension with her father; her relationship with her brother Lin Zhou is not bad.”