Ke Yanan who is busy with dressing up and marketing every day has no idea how enthusiastic gaming fans are for the boss of the gaming industry. Especially bosses like Lou Wei, who is extremely considerate to the players when he publishes games, are in the realm of ‘only I can criticize my boss but you can’t’, and ‘I don’t like this game, but you don’t deserve to leave a poor rating.’

For many 2D fans and gaming fans, Ke Yanan definitely caused public outrage. Not to mention that he ruined the perfect image that he had been upholding and at the same time, he also threw away his credibility as a spokesperson. 

Ke Yanan’s mind went blank. Liu Jinxing on the other end of the line is ready to hang up. 

“By the way,” Liu Jinxing suddenly recalled something before he hung up. “You’ve offended Yuancheng Technology by leaking information regarding their unreleased game. You’ve violated the industry’s regulations. No one can help you get out of this. You’ll have to pay the penalty yourself. “

When Ke Yanan heard these, his vision suddenly blacked out.

He couldn’t think about any other thing besides the term, ‘penalty’. “That’s absurd! When I first signed the contract, you said that any penalty fee will be covered by the company! You must help me! You have to help me!”

Liu Jinxing snorted coldly. At this instant, he is speaking with a tone similar to how Ke Yanan spoke to Zhang Xuan, “Why aren’t you able to access the situation clearly? At the time when you ignored my instruction and posted on Weibo on your own account, you’ve already breached the company’s rule. Acting without permission is already considered a contract breach.” His voice gradually grew colder, “An An, you’ve brought this upon yourself.”

Liu Jinxing drinks and smokes every day, his voice doesn’t sound pleasant. His voice sounded extra greasy over the telephone receiver with poor sound quality.

If it was any normal day, Ke Yanan would have started to twitch his mouth and shun him. But now, he stared straight at the white wall beside him. Burying his facial features in the shadow of the light. He said in a voice that was extremely sweet, “President Liu, I want to see you.” 

He didn’t wait for Liu Jinxing to speak. He quickly continued, “If you don’t want to come over, I can go to you.”

He said coquettishly, “I really miss you.”

But Liu Jinxing still remains silent. He didn’t say anything for a few seconds. Just when Ke Yanan couldn’t wait any longer and wanted to open his mouth to speak, Liu Jinxing eventually let out a long sigh and said in disdain, “Ke Yanan, if you’ve been this obedient from the very beginning, all this wouldn’t have happened. But it’s okay, I’ll still come looking for you if I remember you. After all…you still have the looks.”

 He then hung up the phone.

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The next morning when Wen Fan woke up, it was already noon. Lou Wei deliberately put the phone screen facing away from the sun. If Wen Fan didn’t step out from ‘The Sims’ mansion, and just stayed indoors, he would have thought it’s still nighttime.

He put away the virtual mansion and saw Lou Wei who was busy sorting out information about ‘Heaven’s Dream’.

Lou Wei’s computer is cluttered with the typesetting of the content for ‘Heaven’s Dream’ patch release, the evaluation report of his personal user experience, and the different data values of characters fights, weapon upgrades effects, and bugs on character’s special effects.

Previously when Wen Fan played ‘Heaven’s Dream’, ‘Heaven’s Dream’ team always mentioned that Lou Wei was the chief experience officer for the game. Lou Wei is the one who conducted the evaluation for each version. Wen Fan didn’t believe it. He didn’t expect that this turned out to be true. 

Because he knew that conducting user experience is not just to experience a game, change skins. Instead, it is to fight different levels of characters using different equipment at different places with different attacks and also detect bugs across the entire map. In addition, they need to evaluate the smoothness of the gameplay with different skins. It is cumbersome work as it is necessary to keep a close eye on the data value of the characters, attacks, and even those critical hits that flash momentarily. It’s not as easy as it seems.

During Wen Fan’s University year, he ever worked on a part-time job doing games reviews.  But in the end, he stopped before he completed the task because it was too cumbersome and tiring. When you experience the game as a job, it is very difficult to feel the fun of the game.

From the day he played ‘Heaven’s Dream’ until now, he had always heard about Lou Wei’s evaluation report and player strategy for the game. Based upon this point, Wen Fan deeply respects Lou Wei.

Moreover, Lou Wei built the plotline and worldview of ‘Heaven’s Dream’ all by himself. That includes a total of six continents with over a hundred plotlines. 

Wen Fan was absorbed by the data on Lou Wei’s computer. When Lou Wei noticed that Wen Fan had woke up, he immediately working, “You’re awake.”

“Yeah.” Wen Fan nodded. His ears swayed twice, and the golden-brown tail behind him wagged left and right.

Lou Wei reached out his hand and touched Wen Fan’s head, “You can play for a while. I need to finish up the rest of the stuff.”

The way he talked was as if he was coaxing a child who needed someone to play with. Wen Fan felt weirdly awkward when he heard it. He said, “You can get back to your work. There’s no need to worry about me.” But the ears on his head stood up.

Lou Wei gently grazed the screen on Wen Fan’s ear, as if he was rubbing his puppy ears. He then began to tidy up the data values.

In order to kill some time, Wen Fan clicked on Weibo and then began to search for information about Ke Yanan and ‘Compagnon’.

To his surprise, someone seemed to be suppressing Ke Yanan’s news. There’s not even a single news about him on Weibo hot search. However, when Wen Fan clicked on topics related to Ke Yanan, he noticed that the number of threads related to him was obviously higher than those of the Top 3 hot search. 

Obviously, someone has been deliberately suppressing Ke Yanan’s news.

Wen Fan really didn’t expect that Mingxi Entertainment would still protect Ke Yanan. But when he placed his hand on Weibo, and picked up the billions of information feeds from Weibo, he realized he had it wrong. 

Mingxi Entertainment is not protecting Ke Yanan. The reason why they are suppressing all the news about Ke Yanan is obviously to keep him out of the spotlight, not giving him any chance to get any exposure.

Wen Fan has no doubt about Mingxi Entertainment’s intention.

After all, the incident had almost ruined the reputation of Mingxi Entertainment. It is indeed a wise choice to abandon the pawn in order to protect the general during critical moments.

However, there was still a lot of news about the dark history of Ke Yanan on Weibo. Back then when Ke Yanan was at the peak of his fame, once that news was posted, the relevant PR team would report them immediately. But now, since Ke Yanan’s hot search and posts were being suppressed, no one is dealing with all those dark history news.

Wen Fan is getting tired of seeing all those new information.    

QQ Penguin, kangaroo, and other small animals gathered next to Wen Fan, reading Ke Yanan’s dark history on Weibo.

Wen Fan glanced at the APP shelf above his head, and saw the quick APP link to ‘Fruit Ninja’. It is a mini-game that does not take up any memory and can be played without downloading.

Wen Fan extended his hand to pick up the knife on the APP icon and sliced the watermelon in the icon box. He then divided the watermelon among himself and the surrounding animals.

They continued to browse Weibo.

When he reads Weibo now, he can do it without flicking the page with his hands at all. He controls Weibo entirely using his mind. All he needs to do is to think about which piece of information he wants to see, and the information will be displayed automatically. So even if he holds the melon with both hands, it will not affect him browsing Weibo.

 However, Ke Yanan’s black history seems to be those that are commonly seen in the entertainment industry. After reading them for a while, Wen Fan felt like switching to watch Bilibili TV instead.

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