34: Chapter 34 Jiang Yuan's Late-Night Thoughts, Lin Xi's Ideas

At 10:00 PM, Chen Yu sent a link to a forum post into the work group chat.

"Boss, our company was photographed today."

Not long after, Zhou Ming sent a [Shocked] emoji first, followed immediately by Lin Zhengtao with a [Scared] emoji, while Su Meng, who usually has a steady personality, sent a [Calm] emoji.

When Jiang Yuan saw it, she had just finished showering and was lying on her bed in her penguin pajamas, scrolling through videos.

She opened the group chat, specifically zoomed in on the photos, and looked at them carefully for a while.

The photos were quite blurry, but she could roughly make out some sketches and handwriting on the whiteboard.

She pondered for a moment and replied in the group chat:

"No need to pay attention to it. No core information was leaked, so just treat it as an early promotional reveal."

"However, this serves as a reminder. Tomorrow when you go to the office, make sure to move that board so we don't accidentally leak any sensitive information in the future."

Chen Yu replied instantly:

"Received! I'll move the board first thing when I get there tomorrow!"

Jiang Yuan exited the group chat and started scrolling through videos again. Perhaps due to big data algorithms, she would come across a video related to her own games almost every dozen or so scrolls.

These videos ranged from interesting highlight clips uploaded by players themselves, to stream replays or videos from various platform streamers, to recordings of overseas content creators playing the games. The like counts varied from a few thousand to tens of thousands, with the highest being a highlight replay from a major streamer with over two hundred thousand likes.

It was clear that while both Vampire Survivors and Slay the Spire were currently quite popular within the gaming circle, they were still far from reaching the level of mainstream fame where the general public would know about them.

Aside from the fact that the two games themselves didn't possess the kind of explosive, mainstream popularity to break out of their niche, it also had a lot to do with the fact that Spark Games had only released the PC versions of these two games so far.

It could only be said that...

Jiang Yuan had indeed achieved a certain level of success, escaping the awkward situation of being a one-person army, and now had a certain number of employees under her.

But this was still a long way from truly establishing Spark Games as a small-to-medium-sized enterprise capable of standing firm in the gaming industry.

She turned off her phone and tossed it aside.

This scene couldn't help but remind Jiang Yuan of what the guests from NetEase had said right before they left during their last meeting.

Blinking her eyes, Jiang Yuan couldn't help but mutter to herself:

"Should I really hand over the publishing of Spark Games' future titles to them?"

Of course.

Whether it meant setting up a Publishing Department to do it herself, or handing it over to NetEase, Tencent, or some other company.

Expanding the company's staff as soon as possible and getting the console ports of Vampire Survivors and Slay the Spire finished had become the most urgent tasks for Jiang Yuan, with very high priority.

Additionally, if possible, Jiang Yuan wanted to strive for a simultaneous multi-platform release for Spark Games' third title, Plants vs. Zombies, and not drag this process out until the fourth or even fifth game.

To be honest.

When Jiang Yuan first started working on Slay the Spire, she had actually considered implementing this. At the time, she had even thought about whether to take the opportunity to hand over the publishing of Slay the Spire to NetEase, and consider setting up a Publishing Department herself later.

But since it was her first time leading these newly hired people, just the process of getting them to work together took up a fair amount of her time and energy. On top of that, because Slay the Spire had much more content than Vampire Survivors, keeping an eye on the progress of every aspect further exhausted her remaining mental energy.

This matter had just been dragged out until now, and there was still no conclusion.

"I can't let this drag on any longer. Game development must proceed, and the company's expansion and the establishment of the Publishing Department cannot be delayed either!"

She muttered to herself, her eyes gradually brightening.

Because of the shadow of her death in her past life, Jiang Yuan understood that while game development and production were certainly important, a game company of a certain scale that could completely take orders from her was actually just as important.

Perhaps she didn't have much talent in company management and development.

But as long as she had a foundation of successful games and a continuous stream of incoming capital to rely on.

Even if she were an idiot, she would probably be able to run the company decently, let alone the fact that she had normal intelligence and a certain degree of management and operational experience in this area.

Just as Jiang Yuan was frowning and deep in thought about these two aspects—the games and the company.

Her apartment's digital lock suddenly emitted a crisp "beep" sound.

The next moment.

Lin Xi, wearing the same penguin pajamas,

pushed open the apartment door and walked in with a bright smile. After slamming the door shut, she whispered in her uniquely sweet voice:

"Xiao Yuan? Are you asleep? Beep beep, please respond if you're not asleep!"

Closing her eyes with some resignation, Jiang Yuan didn't make a sound, trying to get the other person to give up.

But after a while.

There came a "knock-knock" sound on the locked bedroom door. Not only did Lin Xi not leave, but she said in a cheerful voice:

"The light in the room is still on, so I know you're not asleep. Come on, my good little Xiao Yuan, open the door!"

Jiang Yuan said with a calm expression:

"Jiang Yuan is already asleep. Come back tomorrow morning."

Hearing this, Lin Xi was immediately amused and annoyed, saying softly:

"If you don't open the door, when you have time off in a few days, I'm going to take you to the IFC mall for a huge shopping spree—ten outfits this time! Don't worry, I just got my salary from last month, over a hundred thousand, so it'll definitely be enough for you to splurge!"

A look of speechlessness clearly flashed in her beautiful, black-and-white eyes.

Although beautiful clothes looked exceptionally pleasing to the eye on this body—even she herself thought she looked stunningly beautiful—

considering the physical and mental exhaustion of shopping for clothes and trying them on, Jiang Yuan obediently got up to open the door, letting Lin Xi rush in wrapped in a fragrant breeze and crash onto her soft bed like a cannonball.

"It's the middle of the night, why are you here acting crazy?"

Closing and locking the bedroom door, Jiang Yuan asked with an unfriendly tone, her exquisite, flawless face expressionless and cold as she looked down at Lin Xi, who was blinking her eyes innocently while clutching the quilt on the bed.

"I just got my salary and was too excited to sleep, so I came to chat with you, Xiao Yuan, and sleep together! Oh, come on, I just bought you a few pretty clothes, I didn't even drag you along to tire you out. Do you really need to react like this, Xiao Yuan?"

"Heh."

With a cold laugh, Jiang Yuan said indifferently:

"Do you think I don't know what you're thinking? You just want to raise me like a daughter and get a sense of accomplishment from seeing me wear the pretty clothes you buy every day, right?"

Watching Lin Xi's eyes widen more and more upon hearing this, Jiang Yuan secretly mocked her in her heart while also silently complaining:

If I hadn't had the same mindset in my past life—liking to create the most beautiful female character in most games and then turning on 'dress-up' mode—I might have actually been fooled by you, you bad person!