7: Chapter 7 has sold over 100,000 copies!

In the frame was a young man wearing a black T-shirt, sitting in a gaming chair. On the screen in front of him was the familiar [Vampire Survivors] interface.

"My friend recommended this game to me, said it's super fun."

Lu Shao said into the microphone:

"I took a look, isn't this just a pixel game? What's so fun about it?"

Bullet comments flooded the screen:

"A pixel masterpiece!"

"I've played this game for a hundred hours!"

"Ugly Lu, you'll know once you play it."

"Start already, start already!"

Lu Shao opened the game, selected the default character, and entered the map.

"That's it? Movement with arrow keys? Auto-attack?"

He said with a look of disdain:

"Isn't this a piece of cake?"

Just as he spoke, the first wave of monsters swarmed in.

Lu Shao moved around casually, killed a few monsters with his Whip, picked up experience points, and leveled up.

"Oh, I can choose skills."

He chose the Knife:

"These knives fly on their own? Interesting."

Two minutes later, the monsters increased in number.

"Holy crap, why are there so many?"

Lu Shao started to get serious, his fingers clattering against the keyboard.

Five minutes later, the screen was full of monsters, with throwing knives, Whips, and bibles flying everywhere.

"Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't chase me!"

Lu Shao shrank back into his chair, but his eyes were glued to the screen:

"Holy shit, left, left! There's some on the right too! I'm dead, I'm dead, I'm dead!"

The screen went black; he was dead.

The bullet comments in the stream exploded instantly:

"Hahahahahahaha!"

"You're so bad at this! You're so bad at this!"

"It's only been five minutes..."

"Too noob, too noob."

"To be fair, this game is actually hard!"

Lu Shao froze for two seconds, then slammed the table:

"Again!"

In the second round, he lasted ten minutes.

Third round, twelve minutes.

Fourth round, fifteen minutes.

In the fifth round, he finally saw Death and was instantly killed.

"Holy shit, Death's entrance is so cool!"

Lu Shao's eyes lit up:

"How do you beat him? Does anyone know?"

The bullet comments flooded the screen again:

"You need to stack armor!"

"Use Garlic and King Bible!"

"I beat him once, it's all about positioning!"

"Ugly Lu, go again!"

Without a word, Lu Shao started another round.

This time, he played for forty minutes.

He died in the end, but the bullet comments were going crazy:

"Forty minutes!"

"Lu Shao is improving so fast."

"Even though the streamer is a bit of a noob, his improvement speed is decent."

"What's the name of this game? Any brothers know?"

Lu Shao took a breath and glanced at the comments:

"This game is called [Vampire Survivors], it's on Steam for eighteen yuan. I'm telling you, this game is addictive. I'm streaming this for the rest of the night."

For the next four hours, Lu Shao continued to stream [Vampire Survivors].

From 10 PM to 2 AM, the number of viewers in the stream stayed steadily above 1.5 million, peaking at 3.3 million.

The comments went from "What game is this?" at the start to "I bought it too," "So fun," "Need a guide," and "Lu Shao, carry me" filling the screen.

Jiang Yuan sat in front of her computer, watching the frantic scene in the stream, feeling a bit dazed.

Three million popularity.

A massive stream with three million popularity was watching someone play her game.

She instinctively opened the Steam backend.

Sales: 31,472.

This was the data from 8 PM tonight.

She refreshed it.

31,654.

She refreshed it again.

31,897.

With every refresh, it went up by at least one or two hundred.

Jiang Yuan's hand holding the mouse trembled slightly.

She refreshed one last time.

32,103.

In ten minutes, sales had increased by over a thousand copies.

She leaned back in her chair, staring at the jumping numbers, suddenly at a loss for words.

After a long while.

On her phone, another message from Lin Xi arrived:

"Did you see! Did you see! Lu Shao is streaming it!!!"

Jiang Yuan replied with three words: "I saw it."

Lin Xi:

"What's the count on your backend? Look, look!"

Jiang Yuan took a screenshot and sent it.

Lin Xi replied instantly:

"Holy crap! It's at forty thousand???"

Forty thousand?

Jiang Yuan was stunned for a moment and checked the sales again.

41,528.

It really was over forty thousand. Wasn't it just thirty-one thousand earlier?

She checked the time: 2:40 AM.

Lu Shao had just finished his stream.

In four and a half hours, sales had increased by over ten thousand copies.

Jiang Yuan took a deep breath, stood up, and walked to the window.

Outside was the night view of Shanghai, with lights from thousands of homes and neon signs flashing on distant skyscrapers.

She suddenly felt an urge to laugh.

In her previous life, she led a team of dozens and spent over two years making a game, only for it to sell a few hundred copies on the first day and be cursed out by everyone.

In this life, alone, she made a small game in over ten days, and because a big streamer played it for one night, sales broke forty thousand in a single day!

What the hell kind of luck is this?

For the next three days, Jiang Yuan didn't get a single good night's sleep.

It wasn't that she didn't want to sleep, but she was too excited to fall asleep.

Sales were skyrocketing like crazy.

By the end of the first day, sales broke seventy thousand.

By the end of the second day, they broke ninety thousand.

On the afternoon of the third day, Jiang Yuan stared at the numbers on the screen, her fingers trembling slightly.

100,247.

One hundred thousand copies.

She did it!

First, she took a screenshot with her phone to record this glorious, memorable moment, then posted it to her Moments as a promotion for future recruitment. Jiang Yuan leaned back in her chair, looking up at the ceiling, her eyes stinging slightly.

That game from her previous life, which took over two years to make, only had total sales of less than ten thousand copies, half of which were sold at a massive discount.

Now, this one, made in over ten days, had sold one hundred thousand copies.

One hundred thousand copies at eighteen yuan each was 1.8 million.

After Steam's cut and taxes, she'd be left with about 1.1 million.

Jiang Yuan sat up straight, looking at that number, and suddenly couldn't help but laugh out loud, once again deeply feeling the immense treasure hidden behind her.

On her phone, Lin Xi's messages came one after another:

"I saw the sales screenshot you posted on Moments! It's a hundred thousand! A hundred thousand! A hundred thousand!"

"Holy crap!!!"

"Xiao Yuan, you're a rich lady now!!!"

"Treat me to dinner! Treat me to dinner! Treat me to dinner!"

Jiang Yuan picked up her phone and replied with one word:

"Okay."

Then she received another message.

It was from Su Meng.

This was one of the few industry friends the original owner of her body knew, a lead artist at a mobile game company. Clearly, she had also seen the sales screenshot posted on Moments not long ago.

"Jiang Yuan, congrats! One hundred thousand copies, you really did it."

Looking at the message, Jiang Yuan suddenly recalled a scene from her memories: a conversation she had with Su Meng online over a month ago.

Back then, the two of them were still worried about whether sales could even break a hundred.

Now, it had actually reached a hundred thousand!

She replied:

"Thanks."

Su Meng replied instantly:

"What are your plans next?"

Jiang Yuan stared at the question and fell silent.

Next?

Continue making games, definitely.

But how?

Doing it alone definitely won't work anymore.

A hundred thousand sales meant the game had a hundred thousand players. These players would expect updates, new content, and the next game.

She wouldn't be able to handle it all by herself.

Jiang Yuan pondered for a moment and finally made a decision!

She was going to hire people.

After some thought, she replied to the other party:

"I want to make a new game. How about... you come and help me?"