Chapter 18 Low-Budget Documentary

Limited by current funds, Fei Huang Studio can't produce any impressive documentaries.

Pei Qian remembered successful documentaries like the nationwide hit *A Bite of China*, which required a large investment to produce. It involved traveling across the country to record footage, and the filming equipment was incredibly expensive.

As of now, Fei Huang Studio can only use 50% of the net profit from *Pei Qian's Daily Life*, which is just over 1 million yuan. This amount of money is stretched thin.

Filming documentaries like *A Bite of China* is simply impossible.

However, Pei Qian wasn't taking it lightly.

He knew these issues, so how could Zhu Xiaoce not know them?

Of course, he knew.

Zhu Xiaoce is a young, talented director. Since he wants to make a documentary, he must believe there's a good chance of success.

Pei Qian, having been tricked once, wouldn't fall for it a second time. This project will likely still make money.

It's just that compared to short videos, this low-investment documentary should make less money, which is enough.

Thinking of this, Pei Qian said, "Okay, I support you."

The words were a bit weak, as they were insincere.

Huang Sibao was very happy. "Thank you for your support, President Pei!"

After hanging up, Pei Qian briefly asked about the situation at Shang Yang Games.

Assistant Xin gave a brief report that everything was going smoothly. Pei Qian could meet his new employees on Monday and assign tasks.

Pei Qian pondered for a moment. "Monday... Do I still need to go?"

Assistant Xin coughed twice. "Of course, you still need to go. The boss's influence on a company is extremely important. I think President Pei still needs to show his face and give a speech. Otherwise, letting the Shang Yang Games employees develop freely might be uncontrollable."

Pei Qian thought about it and felt it made sense.

Assistant Xin meant that Pei Qian should go to stabilize morale and set a general direction for the development of all Shang Yang Games employees.

Pei Qian, on the other hand, was worried that these employees might cause trouble for him, such as messing around and unexpectedly turning a profit.

Although it was a takeover, upon closer consideration, there were actually some changes compared to the original Shang Yang Games.

One was that Old Liu had jumped ship, and the lead planner had been replaced by Wang Xiaobin.

The other was that the boss, Du Ruijie, had run away.

These two people should have played key roles in the original Shang Yang Games' losses.

With them gone, Pei Qian felt a little uneasy.

To ensure everything goes smoothly, Pei Qian decided that he still had to make a trip himself.

Anyway, it would only be this once, and he would never go again, trying his best to ensure that he wouldn't have too much influence on Shang Yang Games.

After all, with the example of Tengda Games before him, Pei Qian had an unprecedented lack of confidence in his game design skills, so he had to be cautious.

If Pei Qian made some off-the-cuff remarks and replicated the *Fortress of the Sea* disaster, it would be too embarrassing.

"Okay, you pick me up on Monday morning and go to Shang Yang Games first."

Pei Qian sighed silently.

Being a boss is really hard.

...

Monday morning.

Shang Yang Games.

Ten minutes before work, all the employees of Shang Yang Games had arrived.

Each of them was highly focused, sitting up straight, looking at documents and using editors, while secretly watching the entrance.

Shang Yang Games had changed owners!

No one knew what kind of temper or personality this mysterious President Pei had, so on the first day of work, they had to be vigilant and not dare to be careless.

Everyone knew that Shang Yang Games' previous business situation wasn't good.

If President Pei wanted to establish his authority today and fired an employee who was late for work for some reason, wouldn't anyone who was caught be extremely unlucky?

Therefore, everyone was paying extra attention and didn't dare to be negligent.

Wang Xiaobin felt especially pressured.

He, the lead planner, was originally just a replacement, and he wasn't confident in his abilities at all.

Old Liu had jumped ship, and according to seniority, it was indeed Wang Xiaobin, the numerical planner, who should take over.

Others were hard to convince, and Du Ruijie didn't trust them.

Wang Xiaobin didn't think too much. Since President Du had personally appointed him, he couldn't refuse. Moreover, Shang Yang Games was likely to dissolve at any time at that time, and he didn't think he could be the lead planner for long.

But Wang Xiaobin knew very well that he was a good hand at pulling tables and configuring values, but he was a bit overwhelmed when it came to coordinating the research and development of the entire project and determining the general direction of game development.

Therefore, Wang Xiaobin planned to come clean with President Pei today, hoping that President Pei could parachute in a senior designer from Tengda Games to be the lead planner, so he could focus on assisting.

In the workstation to Wang Xiaobin's left rear, a young man was secretly replying to chat messages on his phone.

On the chat box was a message that Ma Yiqun had just sent: "How is it, Xiao Ye, has Tengda's HR called you recently?"

Ye Zhizhou replied: "No."

Ma Yiqun: "That can't be. I told President Pei about your situation last time, and President Pei said he definitely wouldn't let you lose your job. Could it be that he's been too busy recently and forgot?"

Ye Zhizhou: "President Pei directly acquired Shang Yang Games, didn't you know?"

Ma Yiqun: "???"

There was no reply for a long time. Ma Yiqun on the other side was obviously dumbfounded.

What does President Pei mean by this?

He just hoped that President Pei could help solve the work problem of his brother, but President Pei's "definitely won't let him lose his job" turned out to mean this??

He acquired Shang Yang Games!

Ma Yiqun and the others really didn't know about this, because Pei Qian felt that this matter had little to do with them, so he hadn't revealed it yet.

So Ma Yiqun was completely stunned.

"Could it be that President Pei saw that Huang Sibao and I are so excellent, so he felt that the other employees of Shang Yang Games were also very excellent, and simply acquired the company?"

"...What are you thinking? That's impossible."

Ma Yiqun had just left Shang Yang Games not long ago, and he knew too well what kind of company it was.

To describe it in four words, it was terminally ill!

President Pei is acting in which play by acquiring a game company that is already buried?

Ye Zhizhou looked at the time, it was already time to go to work, and quickly replied: "Brother Ma, let's not chat for now, President Pei may be coming in a while."

Putting away his phone, Ye Zhizhou continued to pretend to look at the computer screen.

Before long, Ye Zhizhou felt that the atmosphere in the office area suddenly became serious.

Peeking out of the corner of his eye, it was indeed President Pei!

Although he had met once before, seeing him again still felt a bit suffocated by this confident aura.

Although President Pei was very young, he didn't know why, but he had a special temperament in his gestures.

How to describe this temperament...

Not short of money?

Confidence?

Compassionate?

Doing my own thing?

It doesn't seem very appropriate.

In short, from the perspective of temperament, President Pei is not a vulgar person, and is completely the opposite extreme from the original President Du.

Coupled with the successful games that President Pei had created, it added a halo to him, making it difficult to look directly at him.

"Sure enough, this is what a true leader should look like. President Du is, at most, a nouveau riche."

"A true genius designer should be like this!"

Ye Zhizhou sincerely sighed.