He was blameless for kicking Golden Wind aside for profit.

What he looked down upon was Kamikoshi and Yamamoto’s petty stinginess.

On one hand, they said Gu Sheng was just a greenhorn fresh out of the gate, arrogantly calling himself one of the top producers with abundant experience.

On the other hand, they cautiously concealed the news, afraid players would find out the director had been replaced.

If you weren’t afraid, then why avoid it?

Regarding this, Moriya’s evaluation was simple—petty!

Since the truth couldn’t be hidden, it was better to just come clean early!

Better a short pain than a long one; let the players vent their anger sooner rather than hiding it!

Moriya, holding a high position, dared to think and act boldly!

Moreover, as Kamikoshi’s own Kamikoshi said, business wasn’t purely black and white.

He knew very well that if they handled Moriya at such a critical moment, Komera would fall into even deeper turmoil.

So after careful consideration, Kamikoshi decided to go with the flow and let Moriya become Golden Wind’s liaison.

“President Kamikoshi said that Komera deeply apologizes for the delay in notification regarding this matter,” Moriya said,

“And later today, we will issue a statement. We hope your company will cooperate in the explanation and that we may have opportunities to collaborate again in the future.”

After a moment of silence,

Gu Sheng shook his head and sighed regretfully,

“In fact, the interruption of cooperation means no loss to Golden Wind. On the contrary, it’s your company that suffers—you’re giving up an IP that could have gone down in history,”

“Besides, Mr. Moriya has already spoken, so I can’t refuse this face,”

“As for cooperating with your company in the future, that opportunity is probably gone,”

“But I admire Mr. Moriya’s conduct. Maybe in the future, we’ll have chances to get closer.”

Comfortable!

So comfortable!

These words immediately raised Moriya Tetsuya up on a pedestal!

Between the lines, Gu Sheng’s message was clear—today, the face I’m giving is to you, Moriya Tetsuya, not Komera.

For a moment, even someone as experienced as Moriya couldn’t help but feel a jolt inside:

“Thanks a lot, Mr. Gu! Arigatou gozaimasu!”

“Please take care, Mr. Moriya,” Gu Sheng smiled, “See you next time.”

The call ended.

Gu Sheng exhaled deeply and nodded: “Moriya is a good comrade...”

Clever, prudent, upright, polite, discerning, and ethical.

A great talent!

However!

At this moment, across from him, Shen Miaomiao’s mouth was wide open, eyes filled with shock, her jaw nearly hitting the floor!

Gu Sheng had been in Neon for less than two months!

Yuki jumped ship, Sato surrendered, Okura took sick leave and slackened, the production team fractured!

Even the executive director actively betrayed Komera and fired a shot at them!

What the hell...

I send you to start cooperation, and you end up flipping everyone on the other side?

That night!

7 PM Zhongjing time, 8 PM Neon time.

Regarding the “Replacement of Silent Hill Official Chief Game Director” matter,

Komera finally responded!

[Komina Corporation: Due to force majeure, we regret to announce that cooperation with @Golden Wind Games has been terminated. Silent Hill will be developed by Komera’s ‘Yamamoto Studio.’ We sincerely thank @Gu Sheng Sam for bringing us the bizarre PT world. We will carry forward the banner of psychological horror and devote ourselves to developing the official Silent Hill game to meet player expectations! Looking forward to future cooperation!]

After the post was released, the blog remained calm.

Because Komera disabled comments, only Golden Wind could comment.

Immediately after, Gu Sheng kept his promise and replied under the official Golden Wind account:

[Golden Wind Games: When the mountain doesn’t move, the water flows around—looking forward to our next encounter (smile).]

At first glance!

Gu Sheng’s reply seemed proper, fully implying there were still chances to collaborate.

But paired with that smile emoji, it felt more and more sarcastic!

Passive-aggressive!

Even more provocative, after replying, Gu Sheng learned from Moriya and ‘accidentally’ liked an image in the #SilentHell# hashtag circle!

It was a shirt with big letters saying, “I don't need sex! Because I fxxk KOMINA every day!”

He kept the like for a minute, then canceled it.

Players burst out laughing!

They flooded the comments below that picture—

‘[@Gu Sheng Sam approves.jpg]’

‘He didn’t even like Komera’s post, only this one.’

‘Hahahahaha...’

‘Sam is so interesting! That smile emoji is pure mockery!’

‘The old thief has always been good at passive-aggression.’

‘I’m dying laughing; it’s a classic remake.’

‘He said nothing but seemed to say everything.’

‘Little Huang: What does Sam’s like have to do with my Golden Wind?’

‘Little Huang is the fake outside world; Sam is the real otherworld. Don’t ask, just Fxxk KOMINA!’

‘This like is pure essence!’

‘Looking forward to the next encounter: means waiting for you to die.’

‘Fxxk KOMINA!’

‘Whenever, wherever! As long as you shout this slogan, we’re brothers by different fathers and mothers!’

‘Don’t know what happened, but first, Fxxk KOMINA for sure!’

‘Teacher Gu, any plans next? How about releasing the original Silent Hill under a new shell, rename it or something? I’ll buy it.’

‘I second that!’

‘Seconded…’

Sigh...

Leaning back on the sofa, Shen Miaomiao stared at the comments and sighed silently.

The situation was bad.

Although to prevent Komera from sabotaging, the development of “Escape” was proceeding quietly without public announcement,

When the official reveal came, the market impact would surely be huge.

Though this time, she inherited a hundredfold rebate multiplier; even a small loss would earn a huge profit.

But if things continued like this, whether they could afford losses and whether players would turn grief into motivation to buy “Escape” fueled by Fxxk KOMINA anger was hard to say.

Looks like I have to activate my Plan B...

...

One week ago.

Zhongjing.

Third-floor conference room of the China Technology Development Exchange Center.

Representatives from many top domestic game companies and studios gathered.

At the forefront was none other than Jiang Yingcai, the newly appointed chairman of China Digital Entertainment Association.

This meeting mainly brought representatives together to discuss the upcoming “Charity Week” event scheduled for February next year.

Called a mobilization meeting,

But everyone knew this meeting’s form outweighed its actual meaning.

After all, Charity Week was an all-benefit event with no downsides, and companies scrambled to get in rather than needing motivation.

At the meeting, Jiang Yingcai gave his usual speech outlining the significance and format of Charity Week.

However, just when everyone thought it would be the same old routine,

Jiang Yingcai said:

“Apart from the continuing traditions, this year, China Digital Entertainment Association has a new call to action...”

Oh?

At this, the representatives perked up.

Shen Miaomiao also pricked up her ears, turning a page in her notebook covered with doodles, ready to hear what new moves there were this year.

“As everyone knows, Charity Week events have always used a ‘bundle package’ format,” Jiang Yingcai said,

“And the contents of these bundles mostly consist of each company’s classic older games.”

“This model is stable,”

“But the path of charity cannot stagnate. To thoroughly implement the Charity Law, promote healthy development of charity undertakings, create a strong atmosphere of philanthropy, and strengthen industry participation in charity,”

“Here, on behalf of the China Digital Entertainment Association, I call on everyone to innovate, actively design and develop charity games while maintaining the charity bundle, making our Charity Week activities more vibrant.”

After Jiang Yingcai finished,

The expressions of the representatives froze.

They understood the chairman’s words.

In summary, the main point was—make new games for Charity Week.

This was a huge problem for the companies.

It must be known!

Charity Week was popular because it included once-hot classic games now barely selling!

At rock-bottom prices, sales surged, giving those classics a second life to earn profits.

For companies, this was thin profit but high volume, pure profit!

But now!

Jiang Yingcai’s proposal asked them to spend money on new games!

As soon as the topic of investment came up, companies deflated, showing little enthusiasm.

After all!

Games participating in Charity Week had to donate 10%-15% of total revenue!

Especially for independent companies like Zhen Ting, Nu Yan, and Golden Wind!

The platform itself takes 30%-35% of total revenue, then you have to donate 10%-15% of what’s left!

After all that, they’d barely take home any money.

So everyone hung their heads, like students hearing a question from the teacher.

Among the silent representatives, only one person’s eyes lit up!

Shen Miaomiao!

Hiss—!

Great opportunity!

Normally, the loss rebate system only considered “cost” and “profit,” with lower profit yielding higher rebates.

But Jiang’s proposed model clearly crushed profit margins!

Wouldn’t that make recouping costs extremely difficult?

Thinking this,

Shen Miaomiao seemed to catch inspiration and quietly activated the system in her mind!

“Hey hey! Tongzi bro, wake up, Tongzi bro!”

[I’m here]

“I spend money making games for charity, that’s not against the rules, right?”

[Not against the rules, but because the project involves charity, the rebate mode will change to ‘Charity Project Rebate Rules’]

“Charity rebate rules? What does that mean?”

[According to system settings, charity projects are not regular projects; cost and profit difference won’t be calculated. Instead, a single charity project’s charity amount is calculated.]

[Charity project rebate = public charity amount x 1%]

Shen Miaomiao: ……

Alright, the system had already anticipated this move.

Makes sense.

If charity projects got rebates like normal sub-projects, she could wildly create charity projects, donate all profits, and abuse the system to earn massive rebates.

One percent rebate...

Shen Miaomiao clicked her tongue.

Donate 10,000, get 100 back; donate 1 million, get 10,000 back, and so on.

In theory, this was a loss-making project.

But then again, charity was about doing good without expecting return.

The system gave her a one-percent rebate to encourage this behavior, which was quite generous.

Moreover, the rebate went into her own petty cash!

She was basically spending company money but enriching her own pocket.

Pretty ruthless.

Just a pity the rebate rate was too low.

One percent.

Since the donation itself was only 10%-15% of total profit, multiplied by one percent, the actual cash back was tiny.

So, at the meeting, no other companies spoke, and Shen Miaomiao kept quiet, letting the matter pass.

...

But now!

Shen Miaomiao sensed a crisis!

Because “Old Spy” Gu Sheng’s infiltration and defection campaign within Komera led to Komera’s reputation collapse!

Though the projects were only just beginning and some time remained before completion, Komera still had chances to recover its reputation.

However!

Such a heavy blow would take Komera quite a while to fix!

And this would inevitably affect Silent Hill’s marketing!

Komera was like a bucket; originally unbroken, they could collect a lot of water during development!

But now, with a hole in the bucket, water was leaking out, so they had to fix the bucket before collecting water again, meaning less water overall.

The giant that Golden Wind couldn’t beat before was now unpredictable!

Shen Miaomiao feared her words might become a self-fulfilling prophecy and kill Komera outright.

So!

Charity Plan B had to be launched!

Every little bit counts; even mosquito legs are meat.

Though China Digital Entertainment Association required games or charity bundles to donate 10%-15% of total profit,

From the system’s perspective, she could donate the entire profit!

Back then! Two years ago! When they were still an unknown small game company!

Their game “Vampire Survivors” was developed with just 200,000 in cost but earned 2.5 million in one week!

Now, with Old Gu’s many honors, from domestic to Asia to global audiences,

Plus the support from China Digital Entertainment Association for this Charity Week,

Releasing a mid-small scale PC game with revenue multiplied by three or five times, earning tens of millions, would be no problem!

Then donating a few hundred thousand would be a mental comfort.

Thinking this,

Shen Miaomiao nodded secretly and called out to Gu Sheng, who was exercising on the treadmill: “Old Gu, Old Gu! Want to do charity?”

“Charity?”

Gu Sheng, running, didn’t know what Little Nezha had suddenly thought of, so he slowed the treadmill and asked while walking:

“Charity? You mean the Charity Week event hosted by Chairman Jiang?”

“Mm!” Shen Miaomiao sat up, took a sip of water, and ran over eagerly, handing him the cup: “There’s a new activity this year.”

“A new activity?”

Gu Sheng took the water and sipped:

“Tell me about it.”

“All right,”

Shen Miaomiao nodded obediently, straightened her back, and assumed a respectful posture:

“President Gu, let me report to you...”

Source: Webnovel.com, updated by lotustale.com