Chapter 1 Today's Shooting Went Exceptionally Well

"Today's shots were all particularly good, okay, that's a wrap!"

With Director Zhu Xiaoce's order, today's filming task was successfully completed.

Pei Qian was quite calm about this.

He was used to it!

Today they filmed outdoors, on the road, and borrowed the Cayenne that Pei Qian had previously rented.

After all, filming in the office all the time would easily bore the audience; they had to constantly try new subjects.

But no matter how the subject matter changed, the core remained the same.

Since the last conversation with Pei Qian, Zhu Xiaoce and Huang Sibao had apparently accepted Pei Qian's words and completely stopped considering taking hard advertisements, focusing wholeheartedly on the plot!

Although each episode of the plot couldn't always be full of climaxes and perfect, it could at least maintain a certain standard.

So far, the videos with a relatively enthusiastic response have generally had around six to seven hundred thousand views, while those with a poorer response have had four to five hundred thousand.

As a series of short videos that had just been launched, this was already a very impressive achievement!

After packing up the props, everyone prepared to go home.

Huang Sibao said to the group, "You guys go back first, I have some personal matters."

The others didn't ask any further questions.

Huang Sibao casually flagged down a taxi and went to the cafe where he had arranged to meet a friend.

A little over ten minutes later, he arrived.

Huang Sibao got out of the car, looking at the familiar but somewhat strange building in front of him, and inexplicably felt a sense of having been transported to another world.

There were four large characters on the second floor of the building: Shang Yang Games.

This was the game company where Huang Sibao had previously worked.

Before, Huang Sibao was the lowest-level odd-job planner in this company. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that he was heavily exploited, and naturally he didn't have many friends.

There was only one low-level planner who was exploited with him, and their relationship was pretty good.

After all, they were in the same situation, brothers in adversity, and had some sympathy for each other.

Later, Huang Sibao interviewed and entered Tengda. Although he still occasionally contacted him, he didn't mention his work much.

Why?

On the one hand, Huang Sibao himself had always suspected whether he had made a mistake and joined a fraudulent company, so he didn't dare to tell his brother.

Later, when he found out that the company's benefits were really that good and the game was a great success, he was too embarrassed to tell his brother.

He was afraid that his brother would become mentally unbalanced…

Later, Huang Sibao was busy with the short videos, and his buddy was always working overtime, so he couldn't find a chance to meet.

Finally, after the New Year, both of them took some time to meet and catch up.

Huang Sibao sat in the cafe for a while, and soon his buddy arrived.

He was about 1.7 meters tall, and his figure was a little out of shape due to long-term overtime work. Although he looked a little withdrawn, he was neatly dressed.

If there was anything special about him, it was probably his hands, which were nice and white and delicate. It was obvious that he didn't do much work as a child.

"Yi Qun, over here."

Huang Sibao raised his hand to signal.

The guy immediately saw Huang Sibao and sat down across from him.

His full name was Ma Dubiao, but usually no one would call him that name; they all called him Ma Yi Qun.

Ma Yi Qun worked as a plot planner at Shang Yang Games.

He graduated from the Chinese Department of a prestigious university, and his family were all cultured people.

His name was given to him by his grandfather, who was a professor of ancient Chinese at the university.

As for why he couldn't think straight and wanted to come to a game company to be a plot planner?

That's a long story.

Ma Yi Qun, like Huang Sibao, was the lowest-level odd-job planner, but he lived a slightly more human life than Huang Sibao.

Because Huang Sibao's position was executive planner, the head planner, Lao Liu, would frantically push all kinds of work onto him, regardless of whether he could finish it.

As a plot planner, Ma Yi Qun also had to bear a lot of executive planning work, but after all, he still had a lot of plot-related work to do, so he was assigned less work.

Moreover, plot-related work could be done at a slightly slower pace.

For example, naming equipment and writing descriptions might take three or four hours to complete, but Ma Yi Qun would slack off for two days and only submit the work on the third day, and Lao Liu wouldn't feel anything was wrong.

After all, the efficiency of naming work completely depended on the state, and Lao Liu wouldn't push too hard.

Therefore, Huang Sibao couldn't stand it anymore and angrily resigned.

And Ma Yi Qun hesitated and hesitated, and then hesitated for a few more months.

"Sibao, why do you seem a little darker?" After Ma Yi Qun sat down, he immediately noticed that Huang Sibao's skin seemed to be a little darker.

"Really? Maybe it's because I've been running around outside a lot lately, getting tanned." Huang Sibao passed the menu over. "I've already ordered coffee, see what you want to drink, it's my treat."

"Running around outside?"

Ma Yi Qun took the menu and casually ordered a latte.

Hearing Huang Sibao's words, Ma Yi Qun was dumbfounded.

He had never heard of having to run around outside to make games…

"Oh, I forgot to tell you. I'm no longer in the game industry. I'm making my own short videos. Have you seen *Pei Zong's Daily Life*? That's what we're filming." Huang Sibao said.

Ma Yi Qun's eyes gradually widened.

"*Pei Zong's Daily Life* is what you guys are filming? Holy crap! That video has been really popular recently, and I've watched every episode without missing one! What do you do in it? Screenwriter? Stage manager? Why didn't you make a cameo or something?"

Huang Sibao smiled. "I don't have the talent for acting. My position… it's hard to say exactly what I do, but basically I run around doing everything, and I'm one of the partners."

"That's great, I feel like Sibao you've found a suitable industry for yourself, congratulations." Ma Yi Qun was genuinely happy for Huang Sibao.

"I think you could do it too, your novels…"

Ma Yi Qun waved his hand, interrupting Huang Sibao's words. "Ah, don't mention the novel thing."

He re-examined Huang Sibao and found that not only had Huang Sibao's complexion improved, but he also seemed full of energy.

"These past few months, I feel like you've experienced a lot of things? Your mental state is different, tell me about it."

The coffee soon arrived.

Huang Sibao took a sip of coffee. "Let's talk about you first, how's the company?"

"What else can it be, the same as before, lifeless, stagnant." Ma Yi Qun's expression was slightly painful.

Facing his former brother in adversity, Ma Yi Qun also opened up. He had been holding back a lot of words, and he began to complain like crazy.

"Some time ago, Lao Liu didn't know what he was thinking, but he insisted on pricing a knife in the new version at 888 yuan!"

"The key is that this knife is not a particularly rare item at all. If it was a limited edition of one in the entire server, then selling it for 888 would be fine, but selling 100 in the entire server for 888 is crazy!"

"As a result, Lao Liu was determined to sell it for 888, not a penny less!"

"Later, I found out that he was jealous of *Sea Fortress* and thought that if *Sea Fortress*'s Fire Kirin could sell for 888, then our knife could too!"

"As a result, after it went online, as expected, the players cursed it to hell!"

"The boss scolded Lao Liu up and down, and we were sitting at our desks, we could hear the sound in the conference room…"