104: How did you talk about it?

At this rate, in less than half a year, the once-dominant Blue Fox is likely to completely collapse.

By then, Aoyou Communication will surely become the nation's leading chat tool.

Adding to that, there were rumors that Far East Group, the capital behind Blue Fox, no longer wished to support it, causing companies that originally wanted to cooperate to choose a wait-and-see approach.

Without the backing of its financial patron, Blue Fox became vulnerable.

Smart people all know to choose a flourishing new sapling over an old tree that is almost dead.

Moreover, these are all shrewd individuals who have been in the business world for many years.

Business negotiations require a long-term plan, and with Blue Fox's current precarious situation, who would dare to risk cooperating?

Actually, as the helmsman of an enterprise, President Xu doesn't need to handle such matters personally.

However, with a limited number of staff currently, managing the backend of several projects has everyone overwhelmed, so he had to personally run around to sign contracts.

Fortunately, Qin Feixu is already extensively recruiting new people, and soon President Xu will be able to truly retreat behind the scenes and enjoy a leisurely life.

"President Xu, we also successfully secured the contract for Luqi Novels. I've already sent the email over."

"You've worked hard."

This time, Qin Feixu represented the company to discuss placing advertisements on the online literature platform.

In this virtual society, online literature platforms also have a significant market.

Luqi is one of the smaller websites, primarily focusing on fanfiction and urban themes.

Since the massive success of Dungeon & Fighter, many writers on that site began creating various articles based on this game, including some adult novels.

Although these writers are very skilled at creating such works and have millions of followers, President Xu actually did not grant them any adaptation rights, and this behavior is, in fact, illegal.

Everyone at Shuqi Company is well aware of this.

However, there's no way around it; writing Dungeon & Fighter fanfiction is indeed too profitable.

Initially, an obscure small writer earned a monthly income of 100,000 yuan by relying on Dungeon & Fighter fanfiction.

Other authors, seeing this, followed suit and began writing a large number of similar fanfiction stories.

Shuqi.com's management and editors understood that this was illegal, and President Xu would definitely win if he sued.

But they saw the website's traffic and popularity increase significantly because of it, so they chose to turn a blind eye and even secretly encouraged everyone to continue doing so.

But paper, after all, cannot cover fire.

The founder of Shuqi.com also knew that one day President Xu would come to settle accounts, and he might face huge compensation at that time.

In order to legitimately continue operating Dungeon & Fighter-related fanfiction, he decided to contact Qin Feixu to purchase advertising space on the Aoyou Communication platform.

After President Xu agreed, Qin Feixu went to negotiate with the other company.

"Ninety million? How did you negotiate that? Did you hold a knife to their throats?"

Seeing the contract's contents, President Xu asked with some surprise.

Actually, Shuqi initially only wanted to spend thirty million to secure advertising space on Aoyou's software and the rights to Dungeon & Fighter fanfiction.

President Xu felt the price was too low and asked Qin Feixu to appropriately raise the offer.

Unexpectedly, Qin Feixu raised the price to ninety million, and it was only for a period of one year.

If they wanted to renew the contract for the second year, they would need to pay the same amount again.

Surprisingly, the other party actually signed the contract.

"Haha, President Xu, you really know how to joke."

"Our company's traffic is worth this amount, and besides, do you know how much money these people made by writing fanfiction?"

"They raked in 150 million in just three months, which is more than the combined revenue of all our games in three days."

"I think there will be opportunities for future cooperation, and this novel website is indeed one of the best teams in this area."

"Using their strength can also help us promote our game."

"Otherwise, even if I were to demand 200 million, they wouldn't refuse."

"After all, if an infringement case goes to court, we would definitely win, and they would have to disgorge the illicitly gained profits."

"So, do you think they would refuse to sign?"

When President Xu finished reading the last message with the cute emoji, a chill ran down his spine.

He could already imagine the scene in the conference room where Qin Feixu smiled as she forced the founder to sign.

However, after a second thought, President Xu felt much more relieved.

The business world is like a battlefield; everyone is just after money.

Although Qin Feixu's approach was a bit forceful, she was, after all, a good employee working to maximize benefits for her company.

"Okay, you've worked hard."

President Xu replied and drove back to the office.

A few days later, President Xu found that the company had many new faces, all technical personnel personally recruited by Qin Feixu.

These people were either poached from elsewhere or new colleagues who joined after extremely rigorous evaluations.

Qin Feixu's standards for selecting talent were much stricter than his own; everyone she chose was an industry elite.

Especially several expert-level individuals proficient in computer programming, who could complete tasks in an hour that others would need half a day to solve.

From then on, President Xu fully entrusted the work of recruiting new people to her.

"It looks like I won't have to worry about things here anymore."

Looking at his busy colleagues through the window, President Xu said with satisfaction.

The company now has over twenty core employees, each capable of handling their own in key positions.

Aside from major decisions, most backend data issues no longer require his personal intervention.

It was already nine o'clock in the evening.

Most people had gradually gone home to rest, but a few programmers were still diligently working overtime.

Lin Weixin was one of them; she was working on fixing some bugs in the new dungeon, Dungeon & Fighter.

She had previously developed this content with President Xu.

However, due to the many enemy settings involved, there were many error codes.

Just debugging alone took Miss Lin a considerable amount of time.

Fortunately, a batch of new personnel recently joined the project team to assist with the work.

"Phew~ Finally done!"

At eleven o'clock midnight, with the last line of code written, the design of the Dimensional Rift-related activities and unique channels was finally completed.

Two other companions rushed over upon hearing the news: "Sister Lin, we've also finished programming Celia's blessing items and other equipment!"

"Very good, please send me the files as soon as possible. Everyone, get some rest early."

After saying that, she spent another two hours carefully checking every script, ensuring nothing was missed before publishing the announcement:

[Dungeon & Fighter Maintenance Announcement: Servers will be shut down for upgrade operations from December 16th to 17th]