Chapter 520: Massive Contract Deal (1/2)
”I’m sure you’ve all heard about TCL making a high-profile entry into the VRMMO scene and signing a massive contract deal with Candlelight Shadow, Blue Sky Scar, Tempest Shadow, Transient Smoke and Clouds, and God’s Dance already, right?”
”Mn.” He Yi nodded and said, ”We’ve already known about it since yesterday.”
Zhu Hong smiled. ”Well, if there’s one thing I can promise you, it’s that Lu Chen will be given an equal or higher salary than Candlelight Shadow’s if he can defeat him in a match!”
I was both surprised and pleased. I knew I could trust our local corporations; they didn’t undercompensate us at all.
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Zhu Hong checked the info in her folder before continuing, ”The board of directors have unanimously decided to offer you the below salary: Lu Chen, you are the 7th-placed CGL Hall of Famer, the Little Heavenly King and Candlelight Shadow’s strongest rival. Our offer to you is a yearly salary of 24 million RMB, or 2 million RMB per month. Beiming Xue, you are the famous Dark Archer who defeated many top experts in the China server. Our offer to you is a yearly salary of 12 million RMB, or 1 million RMB per month. He Yi, you are the guild leader of Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls and a powerful contender who showed great promise in the competitive environment of both champion and team arenas. Our offer to you is a yearly salary of 9 million RMB or 750k RMB per month. Finally, Murong Mingyue, you are the strongest priest in all of China's servers. Our offer to you is a yearly salary of 6 million RMB, or 500k RMB per month.
“So, that’s our offer. Does anyone have anything to say? If so, please, feel free.”
Zhu Hong looked at us with serious and sincere eyes after she was done.
I folded my arms before my chest and asked the girls, ”So, Eve, Beiming, sis, what do you think about your offers?”
Beiming Xue muttered in a daze, ”Millions? Millions. Millions…”
It looked like the offer had overloaded her brain. She really was too precious.
He Yi and Murong Mingyue didn’t care about the offer at all—or more accurately, it was too little money to them to take it seriously—but they still gave Zhu Hong an affirmative nod. ”It’s acceptable, so let us move on to the next phase. What does Lenovo want us to do in return?”
Zhu Hong smiled. ”Not much, actually. Would you like to move to our club? We’re headquartered in Beijing.”
He Yi shook her head immediately. ”No.”
”That’s fine too. That means you’ll still be staying at your place, am I right?”
”Mn.”
He Yi gave Zhu Hong a small smile.
I asked, ”Director Zhu, We chose Lenovo even though there are plenty more clubs that we could’ve joined. Can you tell me why we made this choice?”
Zhu Hong looked surprised, but she quickly smiled and answered me seriously, ”We have products all across the globe, but our domestic products are good as the ones we sell overseas. Is this good enough for you?”
I nodded gladly and extended my hand to her. ”We’re very happy to sign a contract with Lenovo.”
Zhu Hong exclaimed in pleasant surprise, ”You’re saying yes?”
”Is there any reason we shouldn’t?”
”No, not at all!”
Zhu Hong quickly made a call, and a short while later a couple of Lenovo employees showed up at our doorsteps with the relevant contract documents, stamps, and so on. Beiming Xue and I could only stare at them with our mouths agape. This professionalism is on another level, isn’t it?
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We signed the contracts on the spot, and just like that we became official e-sports members of Lenovo. Zhu Hong also promised us that they wouldn’t increase the size of the team, and they would communicate with us beforehand if the necessity arose. After all, this was a professional VRMMO e-sports team, and rapport between team members was incredibly important.
For example, a company might want to make a super team with Candlelight Shadow, Lin Yixin, Luo River God of the Capital, and me in it. However, that would never happen because Candlelight Shadow and I were enemies, and we would never work together under the same club. In a 2v2 match, the first player I would kill would always be Candlelight Shadow no matter if he was a friend or foe.
Lenovo was really well-prepared. When we returned to the workshop and checked the official website, we immediately discovered a new, eye-catching headline—
”Lenovo signs massive contract deal with Broken Halberd Sinks Into Sand, Beiming Xue, From Water, and Murong Mingyue. The giant virtual ship that is Lenovo has officially set sail!”
The following passage introduced the team, Lenovo, what they wished to do in Heavenblessed, and so on. It was very good marketing especially because the Eternal Moon Corporation allowed it to take the headline at its website’s front page. Obviously, this was very good for Lenovo.
That wasn’t the only hot news of the day, however—
PepsiCo: Signed a massive contract deal with five tiger generals; Warsky, Farewell Song, Laughing At The Heavens, October Rain, and Lin Bing Dou Zhe.
Founder Group: Signed a massive contract deal with five tiger generals; Purple Dawn, Fighting On All Fronts, Gao Jianli, Red Dust, and Zero Degree Rain.
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Another two big corporations had made their moves. Warsky really was talented in this area; not everyone could get PepsiCo as their sponsor.
I didn’t think Founder Group made the right choice signing Candle Dragon Second Seed, the team that was led by Purple Dawn, however. That team was second-rate no matter how you looked at it...
That being said, it was a good thing that these wealthy business corporations were willing to invest big money into players. All the contract deals were stated to be ”massive”, but the gap between offers was huge as a matter of course. For example, my offer was worth 24 million, while Purple Dawn’s offer was only 2 million. There was just no comparison.
Of course, I wasn’t saying that a 2-million contract deal was bad. Quite the contrary, it was still amazing!