Chapter 1 The "Masterpiece"

At the end of the video, a uniform stream of bullet comments reading "Full marks!" floated across the screen.

But that wasn't all. At the end of the video, Teacher Qiao announced a preview of his next program, sending the bullet comments to another peak!

"That's all for this episode of Masterpiece. I sincerely hope that all players can personally experience the rich depth of this game."

"After all, watching someone else play is only scratching the surface. It's better to truly experience it for yourself."

"And don't worry about not being able to beat the game because you're clumsy. I'll be releasing a series of detailed walkthrough videos to help every player like me to successfully complete the game through their own efforts!"

"That's it for this episode. The complete walkthrough for 'Turn Back is the Shore' will continue to be updated later. Please continue to follow us."

"If you think this episode was good, please support us. We'll see you in the next episode of 'Masterpiece'!"

Instantly, a flurry of bullet comments swept across the screen, including "Looking forward to it," "Thanks for your hard work, Teacher Qiao!" "Banging the table waiting for updates," and "See you next year," among other things.

Pei Qian fell silent once more.

Crap, Teacher Qiao is even releasing a new series of videos! A series of videos explaining the gameplay in detail!

Pei Qian had anticipated this series of videos to some extent.

If he hadn't released "Masterpiece," this series of videos would have had a very limited impact.

But after releasing "Masterpiece," the situation was completely different!

The players in the comments section also left messages, each one clearly encouraged.

"A series for the ages! Finally seeing the second episode of Masterpiece!"

"Never would have thought that the second episode would also be a Tengda game."

"That's my boy! Every time he makes a move, it's so extraordinary! Completely crushing the other game up hosts!"

"Well said! This game's spiritual realm has been elevated by at least three levels! I have to say, this game's depth is too rich. Most people are blinded by the illusion of high difficulty. We still need professionals like Teacher Qiao to analyze it to fully show the game's depth!"

"Teacher Qiao is mighty!"

"Teacher Qiao spent a week sharpening his sword, and it really resulted in a masterpiece! This is not only Tengda's masterpiece, but also Teacher Qiao's masterpiece!"

"After watching this video, I feel ashamed. I'm also one of those who got the 'Turn Back is the Shore' ending and refunded the game because I was clumsy. I'm going to buy the game back right now!"

"After watching this video, I feel ashamed. I'm also one of those who got the 'Turn Back is the Shore' ending and refunded the game because I was clumsy. I'm going to go and watch someone else play it seriously!"

"Thank you, Teacher Qiao, for dispelling my idea of using Pudu to cheat. I'm going to put down Pudu and use my own strength to complete this game!"

"I didn't expect this game's story to be so long, yet they put so much plot into it. Sure enough, that's dedication."

"While other domestic games only use the plot as decoration, Tengda actually created such a rich world view and plot setting for this game, and even buried clues to hidden weapons in it. The game only used part of the novel... That's so conscientious!"

"I'm going to read the novel right now!"

"I feel like there's still a lot of depth to be mined from the plot. I also noticed some details that Teacher Qiao didn't see. I'll also release a video to share with everyone later!"

...

After reading through the popular comments, Pei Qian felt like crying.

You're all being deceived by him!

The truth is not like this at all!

The ending I appointed was the "Turn Back is the Shore" ending. Couldn't you just give up obediently?

Who told you to imagine that the characters in the game would be trapped in the sea of suffering forever? This is just a game, it's fake! Don't get so into it, okay?

The only comment in these that made Pei Qian feel a little better was the one about watching someone else play.

How great would it be if everyone happily went to watch someone else play!

But obviously, this was just President Pei's wishful thinking.

After watching this video, many players who were planning to give up on the game because they were clumsy were determined to buy it; players who had already refunded it spent money to buy it again; and players who were about to give up rekindled their motivation to fight.

Most importantly, the topic of "difficulty" was completely deconstructed!

The topic that the haters and paid posters had been fixated on before was "difficulty." As long as they repeatedly emphasized the difficulty and demonized the concept, they could dissuade those clumsy players who were hesitating.

But with the release of Teacher Qiao's video, he directly provided a higher-dimensional perspective, making it unnecessary to discuss the topic of "difficulty" any further.

Indeed, this game is difficult.

But the difficulty of this game is part of the immersion, part of the plot's depth.

It is precisely because of the difficulty that this game is complete; it is precisely because of the difficulty that players can obtain the best gaming experience and feel emotional sublimation!

The original shortcomings have become advantages!

With this stance, Teacher Qiao immediately became invincible.

When the detailed video walkthrough comes out, it will completely dispel the worries of those clumsy players who are worried that they won't be able to beat the game. They can just follow the video walkthrough step by step.

In this way, another large group of players will fall into the pit!

Pei Qian felt very depressed.

Things are getting bad!

He had completely underestimated Teacher Qiao's destructive power!

It's Thursday now. Next Monday, the revenue from "Turn Back is the Shore" will arrive. Allowing the word-of-mouth to ferment for three days, these three days are estimated to bring a significant increase in the game's sales.

Big problem!

Thinking of this, Pei Qian quickly called Lu Mingliang.

He told him to go all out and build dozens more Upwind Logisitics stations, continuing until the next settlement. He had to spend all of this unexpected money!

After hanging up the phone, Pei Qian was still a little uneasy.

No, he had to go there in person!

He had to personally supervise the work!

Pei Qian was afraid that Lu Mingliang would not realize the seriousness of the matter, so he decided to go to Upwind Logistics' office in person and give everyone a full dose of motivation!

Thinking of this, Pei Qian didn't dare to delay for a minute. He directly arranged for a driver and hurried out.

Before leaving, he instructed Li Yada, "I'm going out to deal with things at Upwind Logistics. If there's nothing else, let everyone go home."

In the office area, Tengda's employees watched President Pei, who was in a hurry, and couldn't help but sigh.

Huh, didn't our game become unexpectedly popular again?

President Pei isn't planning to rest or celebrate, but is continuing to work on Upwind Logistics?

That's so dedicated!

The leader himself works overtime, but lets the employees take a vacation and rest. What kind of spirit is this!

...

Upstairs in Tengda, Qidian Chinese Website.

Ma Yiqun had been busy with the TPDB website before, but now that the website was finally more or less on the right track, he wasn't as busy.

Of course, for Ma Yiqun, even though he was in charge of both the Qidian Chinese Website and the TPDB website at the same time, he was still able to handle it with ease.

Because after the Qidian Chinese Website got on the right track, there were very few things that Ma Yiqun needed to handle, and he could completely leave it alone.

After so much training, the people under him were each able to stand on their own. Whether it was selecting manuscripts, arranging recommendation slots, or providing advice to authors, the editors, led by Zhu Xing'an, were already able to do a good job.

Even in their spare time, Zhu Xing'an and the other editors had time to write the official novel of "Turn Back is the Shore."

Although the novel was heavily criticized by readers, everyone didn't care. It was just for their own amusement.

Ma Yiqun often lamented that these people were worthy of being top students from Handong University. Although they each felt a bit socially awkward and quite reclusive, they still had a good understanding.

After Ma Yiqun explained the rules and routines of online novels in detail to them, everyone understood them quite well.

Don't mention it, they were really quite suitable for the online novel industry.

Overall, the development direction of Qidian Chinese Website was correct.

Although not many people were optimistic about the website when it was first established, lacking both readers and authors, this situation had gradually improved.

Some time ago, President Pei gave another allocation of funds, which could be used to provide extra subsidies to those online novels that were written well.

In Ma Yiqun's opinion, online novels with the potential to become masterpieces were all given full royalties according to the number of words. This also greatly improved Qidian Chinese Website's reputation in the circle of online writers.

With a higher ceiling, they could attract more talented authors.

The only problem that was difficult to solve was the problem of the reader base.

Without readers, continuing to burn money like this would not be a long-term solution.

However, Ma Yiqun wasn't worried. As long as this royalty subsidy could continue for a while, and there were more and more good authors, some blockbuster books would always appear.

Over time, wouldn't they have readers?

Ma Yiqun opened the backend and checked the detailed data of these books.

He was in charge of a large amount of subsidies, and he had to be very careful about which author to give these money to.

Because this matter was not completely transparent, it was easy to cause controversy and make other authors who didn't receive subsidies jealous. They might even cause trouble for Qidian Chinese Website online and affect the website's reputation.

So, it had to be fair.

Of course, it was impossible for Ma Yiqun to read all the novels on the website. It would be impossible for him to do that even if he was exhausted.

Ma Yiqun mainly used the data + manual evaluation method to determine how much royalty to subsidize each month.

First, he would use the data from the backend to make a preliminary selection. For example, how many collections, how many follow-up readings, and how many recommendation votes did the book have? Then, Ma Yiqun would look at the beginning, the middle of the plot, and whether there was a significant drop in the number of comments in each chapter or any signs of comment spamming.

In this way, he could roughly infer the current popularity of a book.

If a book had a good start but collapsed in the middle, it would also be reflected in the data. At this time, Ma Yiqun would also correspondingly lower the subsidy.

After all, this money was given by President Pei. Ma Yiqun felt that he must be responsible to President Pei. He couldn't waste money and must spend it all wisely.

As his eyes swept across the backend data of some of the top-ranked books, Ma Yiqun suddenly froze.

Why did the data of all these books have a trend of rapid growth?

The most exaggerated was the official novel of "Turn Back is the Shore." This couldn't be said to be a rapid growth, it should be said to be an explosion!

Looking at the number of registered users on the website, it was also growing rapidly!

In addition to surprise, Ma Yiqun also had deep doubts.

What's going on? Where did these new users come from?

Could it be that President Pei was advertising Qidian Chinese Website in other places?

But President Pei didn't notify me about this!