Chapter 16 March 16th, Morning

In the reception room.

Pei Qian looked at the name on the resume, a bit dumbfounded.

He didn't expect anyone to have such a name.

Thankfully, it had a very thoughtful pinyin annotation.

"Ma Dulongbiao?" Pei Qian looked up at the scenario planner recommended by Huang Sibobo across from him.

Ma Yiqun nodded. "Yes, President Pei. You can also call me Ma Yiqun, that's what everyone calls me."

"Mm-hmm."

Pei Qian began browsing the resume, while Ma Yiqun waited patiently.

Actually, Pei Qian hadn't planned on hiring anyone else.

Because the current staff was already sufficient to complete the development of "Game Producer."

As for whether to hire more people in the future, or whether to develop two games simultaneously...

Pei Qian wasn't too concerned about that for the time being.

But this Ma Yiqun was introduced by Huang Sibobo, and considering the old employee's face, Pei Qian still had to interview him.

If he found that this person was too outstanding, he'd just find a reason not to hire him.

He quickly skimmed the resume.

Well, from the resume, there was nothing particularly outstanding.

Like Huang Sibobo, there was only one work experience listed on the resume.

Both at Shang Yang Games, Huang Sibobo was an executive planner, and this Ma Yiqun was a scenario planner, looking like kindred spirits.

Less than a year of work experience, Pei Qian was quite satisfied with that.

Otherwise, the resume didn't reveal too much.

Ma Yiqun, following Huang Sibobo's advice, had truthfully written about his work experience. Because there wasn't much to write about in the first place, the resume looked quite thin.

Pei Qian finished reading the resume and felt it wasn't too bad.

In the current situation, Huang Sibobo's workstation had been empty recently anyway, so having one more person wouldn't make much difference, and having one less wouldn't matter either. It wouldn't hurt to have this kind of newbie come to the company and just drift along.

But there was one thing that Pei Qian wasn't particularly satisfied with.

And that was this person's education!

Huang Sibobo graduated from an ordinary university, while Ma Yiqun was a Chinese major graduate from a top 10 key university in the country, which was quite a match for scenario design.

And to be able to get into this kind of university, his IQ was definitely not low.

Seeing that President Pei had already finished reading the resume, Ma Yiqun took out a stack of materials. "President Pei, these are some short stories, essays, novels, and the like that I wrote before. You can take a look."

Huh?

There's a problem!

Pei Qian instantly became alert, took the stack of written materials, quickly browsed through them, his expression changing unpredictably.

Ma Yiqun was a little uneasy.

He was worried that President Pei would think he didn't have any special characteristics and wouldn't hire him, so he had specially printed out all of his written materials from his university days and his work period, hoping to add some points for himself.

Logically speaking, these written materials should be very important plus points for applying for a scenario planner position.

Pei Qian flipped through these written materials, and the more he looked, the more fortunate he felt.

Fortunately, Ma Yiqun took out these written materials.

Otherwise, Pei Qian would have really hired him!

After quickly browsing through these written materials, Pei Qian discovered that this person didn't seem as simple as his resume stated.

This writing style, it's not bad!

Fluent writing, beautiful prose, and he seemed to have a very deep foundation in classical Chinese!

The few copywriting packages he did for Shang Yang Games were quite outstanding.

Maybe he came from a scholarly family, a whole family of cultured people.

Of course, it wasn't like he was particularly amazing. At least, that couldn't be seen from these limited written materials.

This person can't be hired.

This risk can't be taken.

This kind of person clearly doesn't meet Tengda's hiring requirements!

Pei Qian planned to find a reason to reject Ma Yiqun.

What reason would be good?

Pei Qian took Ma Yiqun's resume again, quickly scanned it, preparing to pick out a slight flaw.

He noticed that Ma Yiqun joined Shang Yang Games in October of last year.

He didn't go in as a fresh graduate.

What did Ma Yiqun do for the three or four months after graduating from university?

Like Huang Sibobo, did he switch careers midway?

Or was there another hidden story?

This might be a good excuse.

"You joined Shang Yang Games in October. Were you at another company before?" Pei Qian asked casually.

"Oh, no. After graduating from university, I was writing web novels, so I delayed the graduation season," Ma Yiqun replied.

Writing web novels?

A clue!

Could this also be a multi-talented treasure boy?

"Then why didn't you continue writing later?" Pei Qian asked.

Ma Yiqun hesitated for a moment and said, "It's like this, President Pei."

"Actually, I started trying to write novels during my senior year. At the beginning, I wrote very badly. There were no recommendations, and no one read them, so I wrote intermittently."

"During my senior year, I finally had a small group of readers. Although there were still no recommendations, the players spread the word, and gradually there was a group of loyal readers. Judging from the data, it had to be a shelf-ready premium, but... the first day subscriptions were 30."

"..." Pei Qian sympathized from the bottom of his heart. "Maybe the plot on the shelves wasn't handled well? Start another one?"

"I started more than one. A total of three, all with good data before being placed on the shelves, and the first day subscriptions after being placed on the shelves did not exceed three digits. I wrote more than a million words in total, all for nothing."

"There was no way, I was about to starve to death, so I had to find a scenario planning job to do," Ma Yiqun's expression was very helpless.

Pei Qian was a little suspicious. "You... you're stubborn? Did you write some major poison point that caused such public resentment?"

Ma Yiqun smiled bitterly. "I don't know, I'd really like to know."

"Okay, you're hired!"

Pei Qian immediately made a decision.

What 'Huang' this and 'Huang' that, isn't this the talent that Pei Qian needs?

You should switch your surname with Huang Sibobo!

Ma Yiqun was stunned, he didn't expect President Pei to make a decision so decisively!

Did he really appreciate his talent?

Huang Sibobo said that President Pei's vision was very special, and he could always analyze the inherent characteristics of each person through their appearance.

Even some traits that President Pei saw, you yourself didn't even know!

Now it seems, that's really the case!

Pei Qian stood up. "Hurry up and complete the resignation procedures, and then find Assistant Xin to sign the contract."

"In terms of salary, I'll give you 5,000 a month, and there will be opportunities for salary increases later."

...

Watching Ma Yiqun leave, Pei Qian was in a good mood.

Although Ma Yiqun's ability was okay, not quite in line with Pei Qian's standard of a good employee.

But continuously writing three books that flopped, that's not something that ordinary people can do!

That must be great luck!

Pei Qian now needs this kind of person with great luck!

There was no way, repeatedly encountering strange events had made Pei Qian believe in these metaphysics even more.

Pei Qian even suspected, was it because he was too lucky?

There was always such a saying circulating in the martial world.

When luck is good to a certain extent, luck is no longer luck, but destiny!

Luck can only determine temporary success or failure.

But destiny is different, it's like a halo, it will continuously bring good luck!

Therefore, Pei Qian felt that he should hire people like Ma Yiqun to neutralize it.

Otherwise, making money no matter what he does, wouldn't that make people vomit blood?

Although this idea was very superstitious, very unscientific, and very unreliable, trying it wouldn't cost him a piece of meat.