When he searched for "Yi Yu" in the App Store, there was a sudden bang behind Li Xuan.
He turned his head, and the applause crackled and colorful ribbons and gold powder fell down.
"Thank you all for your hard work during this period. Yi Yu has been successfully launched!" Qi Boyuan took out the microphone in the conference room. "This is the first game of our studio. The studio has entered a new stage. In the future, we will continue to work hard and strive to complete the A round and B round together, and wait until the day when Yuanyi Technology goes public!"
"Good!" Chu Tianheng took the lead and shouted, and everyone applauded again.
"Then let our General Manager Li say a few words." Qi Boyuan put the microphone to his mouth.
Li Xuan took off a few ribbons on his head: "What are you doing?"
"Let's celebrate." Qi Boyuan said with a smile.
More than ten pairs of eyes in the company were looking at him, and even the cleaning lady hadn't left yet. Against the backdrop of ribbons and gold powder, the decoration that usually looked full of technological coolness inexplicably took on a bit of warmth.
"Thank you for your hard work." Li Xuan stood up, "This month's bonus will be doubled."
"Are you done?" Qi Boyuan laughed amid the cheers and elbowed him, "Say a few more words."
"Say something more?" Li Xuan raised his eyebrows. "Your bonus for this month will be deducted."
"Why?"
"Hit the boss."
The other employees laughed in good faith, and Li Xuan grabbed his coat from the back of the chair and walked to his office. Qi Boyuan followed him: "You are dreaming. I am in charge of the accounts, and I can pay as much as I want."
"Okay, accountant." Li Xuan turned on the light in the office and yawned, "Will you and senior take everyone out for a midnight snack?"
"Okay." Qi Boyuan nodded, "You're not going?"
"Sleepy." Li Xuan's face showed a little fatigue. A few days before the game was launched, a small bug was detected, which was incompatible with a certain niche model. Because there were few users, the impact was not big, so it was not discovered in the early stage. But since Li Xuan knew about it, he had to solve it. In order to ensure that the game could be launched on time without any problems, he really didn't sleep for two or three days in a row.
"Then go to sleep." Qi Boyuan said, "Mr. Li, you have worked hard."
Li Xuan sighed: "You are still excited, right?"
"Do you need help tucking you in?"
"Get lost." Li Xuan grabbed a ball of paper on the table and threw it at him. "I see you are a little excited today. You should say the same thing when Zhou Jia comes."
"She just loves watching this." Qi Boyuan's smile deepened when he mentioned his girlfriend.
"What?" Li Xuan didn't hear clearly.
"It's okay, go to sleep." Qi Boyuan closed the door for him. "If you're hungry, just call me and I'll bring you some porridge... Forget it, don't call me. Call Tianheng. I may not be able to hear you."
"Get lost now."
Li Xuan hadn't felt this sleepy in a long time. Probably because the game was online, he had sorted out some things, his mind was a little relaxed, and his body allowed him to have a short rest.
He fell asleep as soon as his head touched the pillow. He didn't change his clothes and forgot to draw the curtains. When he woke up, he saw that it was a little dark outside. He sat up and rubbed his slightly swollen temple. Qi Boyuan must have heard some noise. He knocked on the door outside. When Li Xuan said come in, he pushed open the door of the lounge and walked in.
"Finally woke you up."
"What time is it?" Li Xuan said, looking at his watch. The hands pointed to six o'clock. "Is it almost dawn?"
"Not only that, it's almost dark!" Qi Boyuan sat down directly on the bedside table, "It's six o'clock in the afternoon. It just rained, and it's cloudy outside."
"I slept for so long?" Li Xuan frowned, almost suspecting that he was joking.
"I came in to see you three or four times, and it seems like you've slept through your quota for the week... ... Let's not worry about this for now." He still had his laptop in his hand, "Come and see first."
"What happened?" Li Xuan just woke up and his mind was still a little confused. He didn't hear the excitement in his tone and subconsciously thought that there was something wrong with the software. The moment he saw the screen, he couldn't help but be stunned, "Did you hire a navy?"
"Do you know how expensive it is to buy a download of a living person?" Qi Boyuan pointed at the screen, his eyes and eyebrows unable to hide his joy, "Now the number of downloads has exceeded one million, have you given me the budget?"
Less than 24 hours after the release, seven-digit downloads is a difficult feat to achieve even in the entire gaming community, let alone for Yi Yu, which is simply a miracle.
After all, no matter how talented Li Xuan is, he can't hide the fact that Yuanyi is still a startup company, and this is the first game. They did their best in the early promotion and marketing, and Qi Boyuan was very careful in calculations, and spent every penny wisely. But compared with game giants like Yuanxin, it's not an exaggeration to say that their preheating is better than nothing. Moreover, "Yi Yu" is not a popular competitive game. At a time when the mobile game market is divided by competitive and otome games, the market share of business mobile games itself is quite limited.
Li Xuan had considered all these and was clear about them. In his initial assumption, Yi Yu was going to be a small but fine product. It certainly needed to make a profit for the company, but more importantly, it needed to build a reputation, which represented the company's strength and quality. Of course, it also needed to have downloads, but the hope was more on word of mouth from future "tap users".
"Do you know how much the backend turnover is now?" Qi Boyuan said as he clicked on another interface. He couldn't help but sigh, "Li Xuan, I'm telling you the truth. Before I saw the money coming in, I felt uneasy about the salary you gave me. Until now, I haven't dared to spend a penny. I was afraid that I would empty your family's funds before seeing the results..."
"I have a rich family background, you can still pay for a few more years. Don't make a speech. It makes me seem like I'm being stingy." Real money can never be faked, Li Xuan interrupted him, "What's going on?"
"You don't know?" Qi Boyuan asked back with a little surprise.
"I just woke up, will it count?" As the words fell, a vague guess suddenly appeared in Li Xuan's mind.
"Sung Min is doing publicity!"
Sure enough, the next second Qi Boyuan confirmed his thoughts. This time he didn't keep it a secret and looked at Li Xuan's expression again: "No, you really don't know? Didn't you ask him for help?"
"I didn't." After a while, Li Xuan shook his head.
"Are you sure he's not our investor? Did you lie to me last time?" Qi Boyuan changed his posture, took a bottle of soda from the side, unscrewed it, and before he could drink it, it was taken away by Li Xuan. He opened another bottle with good temper, a little surprised, "You didn't look for him, so this guy is really nice... ... You said he was a friend last time, I thought it was just an acquaintance, but in order to promote "One Corner", he live-streamed playing games in the early morning before dawn, and broadcast for two hours. I saw his eyes were red. It even became a hot search in the middle. The girls in our company are crazy."
Qi Boyuan pointed outside the office and said, "And he did it quite naturally. If I hadn't known you two knew each other, I would have thought he just downloaded a game and got addicted to it... Oh, it's still on the trending search now, but it's dropped a bit. Do you want to take a look?"
While speaking, Qi Boyuan had already clicked on the recorded video that was on the trending search. When Li Xuan heard Sheng Min's voice, he didn't dare to look at the screen for a moment and his whole body froze.
"Have we followed up on the follow-up publicity? Is there any problem with the server?" He paused for a moment and asked Qi Boyuan.
"No problem. I came back to work overtime before finishing my midnight snack... What happened to your neck? Did you get a stiff neck? It was fine just now..."
"It's okay." Li Xuan said, "Just keep busy."
"Okay." Qi Boyuan looked at his abnormal expression and was a little confused, but he didn't say anything else and stood up. "Should I keep the computer for you? Or should I bring yours in for you?"
"Keep it." Li Xuan's voice was a little stiff, "I'll return it to you later."