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Chapter 142: This is clearly President Li giving a gift by proxy! (A new month, asking for monthly votes!!)

Chapter 142: Chapter 142: This is clearly President Li giving a gift by proxy! (A new month, asking for monthly votes!!)

p.m.

Lilith walked into the cafe with proud steps.

It was obvious that she was in a very good mood.

Gu Fan did not ask, but he could roughly guess what had happened: clearly, Lilith had gained Lucifer’s appreciation in Hell by earning a large amount of negative emotion points, thus redeeming her previous humiliation and exhaling in triumph!

Not only that, "City of the Abandoned Gods" probably also had a positive effect on Hell’s propaganda efforts.

After all, in this game, players fight against Heaven from beginning to end, with angels as enemies and demons as powerful allies. This subtle influence was also something Hell always pursued in its propaganda.

Anyway, Lilith was definitely very happy!

Yesterday evening, Lilith had already told Gu Fan in advance that she had something very important to announce today and asked everyone to work a little overtime.

And there she was, just after 6 p.m.

"Alright, everyone quiet down, President Li has something very important to tell you all!"

At Gu Fan’s command, the slightly noisy second floor of the cafe instantly became silent, and everyone turned their attention to Lilith.

Lilith cleared her throat and said earnestly, "Everyone has worked hard on their previous tasks!

"I have seen all your efforts, and rest assured, I am an investor who clearly rewards and punishes, and I will definitely not mistreat anyone!

"Especially during the recent ’Hell Inferior Demon’ campaign led by President Gu, we achieved significant results, which could not have been done without everyone’s overtime work and full cooperation.

"Therefore, I have decided to distribute all of the net profits from ’Hell Inferior Demon’ up to now as bonuses to everyone!

"That’s a total of 600,000!"

Everyone was stunned, and after a moment, they hurriedly said, "Thank you, President Li!"

Obviously, this caught everyone completely off guard!

Gu Fan was also surprised. He had not expected Lilith, who usually showed no concern for the operations of Nitian Paradise Company, to make a special trip just to distribute bonuses to everyone.

And to distribute all the profits earned by ’Hell Inferior Demon’?

However, after giving it some thought, Gu Fan immediately understood why Lilith was doing this.

It was to win people’s hearts!

Clearly, Lilith had also realized that there was a significant risk with the current games of Nitian Paradise, which was that the employees only knew about President Gu and not President Li!

Though Lilith couldn’t explicitly know how these employees felt about her, she could roughly sense that they seemed to listen to Gu Fan more.

And for a suspicious and powerful demon, such a situation was clearly something that needed to change.

Otherwise, wouldn’t she be completely sidelined by Gu Fan if things continued this way?

Of course, Lilith only had a vague sense of danger at this moment and had not fully realized the severity of the problem; otherwise, she would definitely take some more drastic measures.

The solution that Lilith thought of was to use money to win over hearts!

Why did the employees respect Gu Fan? It was because he gave them bonuses.

Well, that’s easy to handle; she would give them bonuses too, right?

When it came to financial power, Lilith had never been afraid of anyone.

It so happened that ’Hell Inferior Demon’ had about 600,000 in net income, a sum not specified for any particular use in the contract, thus at Lilith’s disposal. She decided there and then to distribute it all.

She figured Gu Fan wouldn’t dare say a word against it.

Seeing the joy on the employees’ faces, Lilith was also very proud.

Good, it seemed that the monetary offensive was rather successful!

She coughed lightly and continued, "Now for the second matter, I want to tell everyone that Nitian Paradise will continue to recruit. We need to strengthen our team and increase investment to develop larger scale games.

"This, President Gu, please implement it earnestly."

Gu Fan nodded: "No problem."

"Alright, that’s it for now, everyone can go off work," said Lilith, leaving the cafe full of pride.

Meanwhile, Gu Fan waved to everyone, "Finished work!"

...

Subway station.

Zhou Yang and Zhao Haiquan were waiting for the subway together, they could take the same line for about seven stops, then each would transfer to different routes.

"Brother Haiquan, aren’t you going to buy a car?" Zhou Yang asked.

Zhao Haiquan looked at him, "No chance of getting a license plate, so why bother buying a hammer? Besides, with Capital City so congested, for us singles, driving is nowhere near as good as taking the subway."

Given the incomes of everyone at Nitian Paradise Company, affording a car should not be a problem. However, being in Capital City, a special city like this, many issues cannot be resolved with money alone.

"But speaking of money, I was genuinely surprised by what President Li did today."

Zhao Haiquan remarked emotionally, "Never expected that President Li, though a lousy game designer, is quite generous as an investor and boss, handing out bonuses of 600,000 yuan just like that!

"Although I still don’t know exactly how this money will be divided, even if it’s distributed evenly, each person would get tens of thousands."

"Being able to work at Nitian Paradise Company is like hitting the jackpot in a past life! Both the investors and the bosses are really good."

However, Zhou Yang disagreed.

He shook his head slightly, "You’ve got it all wrong."

Zhao Haiquan was a bit surprised, "Hmm? Where did I go wrong?"

Zhou Yang sighed softly, "Brother Haiquan, you’re still oversimplifying the issue. Have you been bought over by such a small favor? Think about it, is the money really coming from President Li? Isn’t she just taking President Gu’s money and offering it up as a borrowed gesture?"

Zhao Haiquan was stunned, "Ah? Why would you say that?"

He didn’t understand Zhou Yang’s logic at first. Clearly, President Li was the investor for the entire Nitian Paradise game, and President Gu initially received his funds from President Li. So how had it become a situation where President Li was taking money from President Gu to offer up as a borrowed gesture?

Zhou Yang said with earnest emphasis, "Brother Haiquan, I’ve actually been puzzled for a while by one thing: why did President Gu make us work overtime on a MOD for ’Hell Inferior Demon’?

"Isn’t that Hell Frontline’s game?"

"Now I finally get it. This game is indeed closely related to our company!

"What did President Li say? The money is the profit from ’Hell Inferior Demon’! That means President Li must have invested in this company called ’Hell Frontline’ too, allowing her to take money from ’Hell Inferior Demon’!

"And if you think about it, doesn’t this game feel familiar?

"Doesn’t it seem similar to ’Sisyphus,’ from its artistic style to its gameplay?"

Zhao Haiquan’s eyes widened, "Oh? Are you saying that President Li is holding a grudge about ’Sisyphus’ and therefore invested in a similar project to prove herself?"

Zhou Yang shook his head, "No, it can’t be such a coincidence that there’s a project almost identical to ’Sisyphus’, right?

"’Hell Inferior Demon’ was such a disaster that it was rated the worst game ever by players. Do you really think it’s possible for two Crouching Dragon and Young Phoenix-caliber individuals to emerge in the domestic gaming circle in a very short period of time?

"President Li just happened to discover this game and invest in it? How could there be such coincidences in this world?"

Zhao Haiquan suddenly nodded in realization, "Oh!!

"I get it now, you mean to say that ’Hell Inferior Demon’ is actually President Li’s own idea! She thought her original concept for ’Sisyphus’ was good, but was let down by bugs like ’Rolling Stone Acceleration’ and ’Dragon Flap Wings’, so she simply went out and invested in another company to continue proving that her idea was sound!

"And that’s how ’Hell Inferior Demon’ came about!"

Zhou Yang nodded, "Exactly! Can you think of a more reasonable explanation?

"Look, the gameplay of ’Hell Inferior Demon’ is very similar to ’Sisyphus’, and they even removed those valuable bugs; the art resources are highly refined, clearly using the same outsourcing company as ’Sisyphus’; even the sound effects and such are alike.

"As for the marketing tactics, they’re cut from the same cloth!

"The only difference is that the programmers of that company are far from President Gu’s caliber, and they also lack President Gu’s ability to turn decay into magic by implanting bugs into the game.

"So, ’Hell Inferior Demon’ is entirely a reskin project that President Li secretly executed!"

Zhao Haiquan understood but quickly came up with a new question, "But regardless, ’Hell Inferior Demon’ did indeed make money, and that money really does belong to President Li. She took it to distribute bonuses to us. Calling her generous and open-handed should be no problem, right?"

Zhou Yang shook his head, "Of course there’s a problem!

"Think about it, why did ’Hell Inferior Demon’ become popular? It’s because President Gu had us work overtime on the MOD! It’s because of the speedrun videos that Su Tong labored to produce!

"Without those elements, could ’Hell Inferior Demon’ make any money? It would make no money at all!

"But it’s quite apparent that President Li still doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with her design. She still believes that the success of ’Hell Inferior Demon’ is natural, all thanks to her concept.

"Look how happy she was when she mentioned ’Hell Inferior Demon’!

"Have you ever seen her show that expression over our company’s games?

"This shows she prefers ’Hell Inferior Demon’ over our company’s games. Why?

"Because despite ’Hell Inferior Demon’ being rated the worst game and cursed by countless players, it was 100% her own design; whereas our company’s games, magical as they were made by President Gu, deviated from her original intentions due to bugs, so she dislikes them!

"This money, which President Gu racked his brains to earn for us, not only protected President Li’s investment but also prettied up this mess with MODs, giving players of the cesspool butterfly swim competition a precious lifeline.

"Yet President Li craftily issued this bonus to us without mentioning a word of President Gu’s contribution. Isn’t this precisely offering up borrowed flowers? She’s using President Gu’s money to win people over!

"Therefore, this act of kindness should be credited to President Gu!"

Zhao Haiquan had an epiphany, "Oh!! Now that you explain it, I completely understand. Indeed!

"If you hadn’t enlightened me, I would have almost been fooled by President Li!"

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