On the day after the college entrance examination, each class held a celebration. The boys made an appointment to go to the Internet cafe to play games all night, while the girls went to the KTV singing rooms. Mei Fang stayed at home to have dinner with the wives and mothers-in-law, and while eating, he received many invitations.
"Are you going to celebrate with your classmates after dinner?"
Lin Youxi shook her head. "I don't have any particularly good friends in the class. Only Liu Xiaoyu was taken away by Yuanyuan."
"What do you mean by being taken away by me?... Stop talking about this. Xiaoyu said she received an invitation to sing at KTV and asked me if I wanted to go with her. But I wasn't invited at all!"
"I think that's understandable..."
Mei Fang said as she put a chicken drumstick into Xia Yuan's bowl, "Inviting you to sing at KTV is like asking Allen to sing Balixiang at KTV. The main thing is that he will order his own songs. Don't you think it would be embarrassing? Besides, it would be awkward if you met someone who knew you."
"Hmm... I can understand this... It's just that I have such a good relationship with everyone, but in the end, no one invited me to celebrate together. I feel sad."
"Ah Fang, eat more mutton to replenish your body."
While Lin Youxi was picking up some food for Mei Fang, she said to Xia Yuan, "Maybe I just thought you would definitely celebrate with Ah Fang?"
"Indeed, that's what I had planned..."
Xia Yuan thought for a moment and looked at Mei Fang, "Any plans to celebrate tonight?"
"My classmates have made an appointment with me, but Station C has already told us in advance that they want to celebrate the end of the college entrance examination. My uncle said that there may be a demand to upload to Station C at that time. I think it is better to go to Station C. After all, we haven't filmed a video showing our faces for a long time, and we can rush to the top of the list."
“Being a boss is really hard… Even though you are the boss, you still have to do marketing yourself.”
"Age is the biggest advantage of us founders. This sense of nurturing is also a very good experience for users of Station C, which can greatly improve user stickiness."
Mei Fang thought for a moment and said, "For example, if I write a novel in the future, telling the story of our childhood, readers will also have this kind of expectation when reading it."
"Oh! That's a great idea! When I stop singing and writing songs, I'll write novels. Maybe I can make some money."
Following Xia Yuan's line of thought, Mei Fang thought of the now crumbling Shengda Literature.
At this time, the Five Emperors of Shengda Literature had already fled in last year's civil war and joined the arms of Penguin. It is estimated that the merger and reorganization will be completed in the next two years.
Online literature can be regarded as an incubation pool for various IPs, and the huge profits brought by a powerful work are immeasurable. It is almost impossible for Mei Fang to get involved in Penguin with the current size of his company, but he wants to become a leader in the two-dimensional world, and ACGN's N (novel) should indeed be led by him.
At present, light novels in China have not yet become a trend, but websites such as Happy Book Friends (Hedgehog Pig) and Lemon Bag do exist. They are just too small and are not worth mentioning compared with the future industry giant Yuewen.
When I meet with my uncle tonight, I can discuss this intention with him...
Liang Meijuan was listening to the three people talking at the table, but because she didn't understand what they were saying, she never interrupted them. She just asked in the gap between the three people's conversation: "Youxi, if you three go out to celebrate, will you come back tonight?"
"Um… "
Lin Youxi deliberately tilted her head and looked at Mei Fang. Mei Fang was speechless for a moment, thinking to herself, "Don't make trouble, wife." "I will definitely come back... But I may be a little late. Auntie, don't worry about us. Just rest."
Liang Meijuan paused, "Also, for things like college entrance exam scores, don't we really need to estimate them? We should make plans early."
"It's okay, Mom."
Lin Youxi patted Liang Meijuan's hand and smiled, "Don't worry, we're fine."
"Then do we want Xiaoyu Yunyun to come with us?"
"It depends on what they want. If they want to celebrate with their friends, they can go find their friends. Oh, by the way... you can ask Junana and the others from the studio to come along, see if they have time."
So Mei Fang, Xia Yuan and Lin Youxi started to arrange meetings with people everywhere. Guo Yun said she would just go with her family because it was too far away. Liu Xiaoyu originally wanted to go to KTV, after all, she had promised someone else first; but later she heard that a boy was going to confess to her in KTV, so she changed her mind and decided to celebrate with Mei Fang and the others.
When Zhu Nana heard that she could have a free meal and appear on camera, she immediately agreed without hesitation, then patted her chest and said that she would be responsible for getting the people from the studio to go together.
Mei Fang is no longer a little brother who has to rely on taxis to go out. His uncle even drove over to pick up the three of them to the company to celebrate. On the way, Mei Fang talked to him about the strategic planning of light novels.
"Regarding the planning of light novels, I am also working on this... However, the overall organizational structure of C Station may be a bit complicated now. I plan to split it up to avoid the structure being too large, which will lead to limited resources allocated to some organizations."
"Tell me about your idea of splitting up."
"Bullet-screen videos are the main business of C Station. Apart from that, we are more suitable to split the existing game industry. Although Ximilu Games itself is the company of the webmaster, the distribution business is still in charge of our C Station. According to the idea mentioned by the webmaster before, I think it is also necessary to establish a distribution platform product."
"That means splitting the members of Station C's game operation department into a company that specializes in game distribution, right? I support this."
Station C—》TAPTAP, this was one of Mei Fang’s previous plans, but due to a shortage of manpower in the early days, they released relatively few games. There are still two years before the era of large version numbers. In these two years, Mei Fang must try to introduce enough games and release enough games, so that they can accumulate enough version number volume before the version number era.
However, what Mei Fang wants to do is not just to become the Steam of the mobile game industry. What he wants to do is to realize the Wegame ambition that Penguin has not yet launched. Although he foresees the difficulties that will arise in China in the future, the current industrial environment is still very relaxed. If he focuses on the global gaming platform from the beginning, it is not impossible to challenge Steam.
Regardless of whether you can do it or not, you should start planning now.
In my uncle's conception, he wants to create an ACN-integrated IP incubation matrix, bringing together novels, comics, and animation into a company's national creation base. The scale of this forum, led by Station C, will far exceed all the Internet two-dimensional forums on the market.
Although this idea is ambitious, the process will be very difficult if it is to be created from scratch, so my uncle hopes to acquire some existing anime/comic/novel platforms on the market.
Mei Fang promised to give Uncle enough budget support, but only suggested Uncle to acquire a small amount of high-quality assets and not to expand acquisitions blindly. In addition, he should strengthen cooperation with the subtitle group. The early inventory resources must have been introduced from the Sakura Country, and the role played by the subtitle group in this and even the role of attracting traffic will also be very critical...
The two chatted about the future vision of Station C. Xia Yuan and Lin Youxi did not say much, but just watched their men shining quietly.
Discussing career development plans with her uncle, Penguin directors, and bigwigs like Xia Xun has brought Mei Fang a lot of benefits and growth.
Unknowingly, through the dual help of years of hard work and study as well as the foresight of his previous life, Mei Fang has gradually developed himself into a sufficiently thoughtful leader in the industry, developing and progressing towards the direction of the godfather of the two-dimensional world, but he does not seem to have fully realized this.
(End of this chapter)