"Hahaha, Mr. Ye, you're still so forthright!" Ivan chuckled heartily to ease the awkwardness. He coughed a few times before asking, "Mr. Ye, are you still willing to represent Star Conquer?"
Ye Zhi was slightly taken aback. She felt a sense of 'yesterday you ignored me, today you'll have to look up to me.'
"Isn't Star Conquer currently represented by Feilong Live?" Ye Zhi asked, puzzled. "If you break the contract now, won't you have to pay liquidated damages?"
"That's right," Ivan said matter-of-factly. "So, as long as Taoxun is willing to pay this liquidated damages, we're willing to cooperate with Taoxun and let Taoxun represent Star Conquer."
Ye Zhi: ???
She strongly suspected she had misheard something or missed a crucial detail.
"Also, your company acquired Phoenix Studio and is now promoting their Cosmic Heroes, right?" Ivan continued. "Of course, even though we have our grievances with Phoenix, I won't dwell on it.
However, Ms. Ye, after Taoxun represents Star Conquer, your company must provide more resources to Star Conquer than to Cosmic Heroes. Any competitions or events for Cosmic Heroes must not have prizes exceeding those of Star Conquer, and their event times must be about a month later than Star Conquer's competitions..."
Ye Zhi: ...
She was truly bewildered. Ivan did have a bit of arrogance; she'd noticed his inexplicable sense of superiority when they'd communicated before, but normal conversation was fine, and he was quite rational.
How had Ivan become so arrogant and conceited after working with Ou Minghan for a while? It was fortunate that Taoxun hadn't partnered with YD; otherwise, wouldn't YD have demanded their game player data by now?
It seemed Ou Minghan had flattered him so well that he felt he could dictate terms to other companies at will.
After listening to Ivan, Ye Zhi suppressed the urge to ask "What the hell?" and said indifferently, "Mr. Ivan, Taoxun places great importance on contractual integrity and does not support any breach of contract. If you are truly interested in Taoxun, I suggest you wait until the five-year term expires. I will arrange for Daniel to visit your company to discuss the acquisition of YD."
Ivan angrily hung up the phone.
Feng Jie, who had listened to the entire conversation, said somewhat speechlessly, "Arranging for Daniel to acquire YD... Ms. Ye, you're stabbing Ivan in the heart, deliberately humiliating him!"
"He humiliated me first," Ye Zhi stated calmly, recounting the conditions Ivan had proposed.
Feng Jie was also confused after hearing this.
Could it be that Ou Minghan had given Ivan the courage to propose such preposterous terms?
However, if Ou Minghan called again in the next couple of days, he could reveal this matter to Ou Minghan, making him focus his attention on YD company and stop bothering him.
"Ms. Ye, Star Conquer is about to undergo major changes. Is there anything we need to do?" Feng Jie asked. He silently grumbled that, given the current situation, Taoxun didn't need to do anything; Ou Minghan would likely ruin himself.
"Feilong Live is currently embroiled in internal conflict. It wouldn't be appropriate for us to make any drastic moves," Ye Zhi said with a smile. "Let's simply give players a free skin of their choice to celebrate."
Feng Jie was speechless; Ye Zhi's move was pure mockery.
Afterward, he asked Ye Zhi for leave, but she didn't approve. However, Ye Zhi suggested he go on a field trip with the new batch of employees from the game department. This way, he could take a vacation, travel, and save his annual leave for later.
This made Feng Jie sigh, realizing how different people were. Ye Zhi, as the boss, actually helped him save his annual leave. If it were Ou Minghan, forget annual leave; he probably wouldn't even have time to sleep.
Afterward, Feng Jie went on the field trip with the game department. Ou Minghan contacted him once midway. When he heard that Ivan had tried to re-cooperate with Taoxun behind his back, he became even more displeased with Ivan.
However, as Feng Jie had guessed, Ou Minghan's focus was entirely on the game, and he no longer bothered Feng Jie.
A week passed, and Star Conquer finally updated its gacha system.
Regarding virtual items, Ou Minghan was quite generous this time. Whether it was returning veteran players or new registrations, after completing a series of tasks, they could get around fifty to sixty pulls.
This surprised players. They didn't expect the usually stingy Ou Minghan to be so generous.
However, once they threw these fifty to sixty pulls into the gacha, they immediately faced the cruel reality.
Ou Minghan was still the same Ou Minghan. After so many pulls, they hadn't made any significant progress.
The gacha situation exploded into public discussion due to an incident.
A wealthy player, who liked a particular skin in the gacha pool, spent fifty thousand yuan to stream his pulls. To his surprise, after pouring so much money in, he didn't get the complete skin.
This wealthy player was also bold. He immediately called on other players to provide their pull records and specifically hired someone to calculate the drop rates for Star Conquer's gacha.
Star Conquer noticed the situation and reported it to Ou Minghan. As a result, Ou Minghan's usual manipulative tactics reappeared; he directly instructed the game department to delete the players' pull records.
From then on, the internet was filled with curses.
[Damn it! I got a gold pull in ten tries. I thought Ou Minghan had finally become generous, but it turned out to be legendary skin fragments! And you need twenty of them to assemble!]
[Is Star Conquer guilty? They deleted the pull records, which means they know there are no characters or skins in their gacha pool!]
[Family, the wealthy patron has finished the calculations. The drop rate for gold pulls in Star Conquer is less than one in ten thousand, and there's likely no pity system. This means that if you're unlucky, you won't get the character you want even if you throw in a hundred thousand yuan. As for free-to-play players, it takes a year to collect an epic skin and two years to collect a legendary skin. This game is suitable for people with strong willpower.]
[I really want to slap myself now. Knowing what kind of company currently represents Star Conquer, I still held out hope for them? I'm quitting! I'm leaving the game! Isn't it better to play Cosmic Heroes? They just gave away a free skin of your choice today!]
...
Ye Zhi also saw these comments online and was genuinely surprised.
She had only given away a skin, and Ou Minghan was already rushing to self-destruct?
However, this was beneficial to several of Taoxun's games.
Besides players flooding into Cosmic Heroes, many players also chose Taoxun's newly released "Catch You!" and the earlier "Encountering Xi You."