The journey always has an end, but life continues.

At twelve o'clock in the evening on April 12, everyone took the opportunity to arrive in the capital and returned to their homes.

This journey has come to an end, and everyone has gained something different. The one who gained the most is undoubtedly Li Peifeng.

Not only did he officially turn Lao Zhao into his fiancée, but the five-in-one emotional relationship has also become more stable.

When Li Peifeng proposed to Zhao Qingge, the three girls Wu Xuhuang were really angry about it, but by the time they got home, their anger had almost dissipated.

After all, it's just a proposal, and it's not worth getting angry at all. The two of them are going to get married in the future. If they are so angry now, won't they be angry to death when they see the scene where the two take their wedding vows?

Just ignore it.

When I figured out that the phrase "the good days are yet to come" was a lie, and that all life can bring to people is a series of unsolvable problems, I fell into a sea of ​​incomparable peace.

The next day, Wednesday, everyone returned to their busy daily routine, going to work when they should go to work, and going to school when they should go to school.

Li Peifeng still planned to stay at home and code, but after a while, he received a call from He Yimeng.

"I have been in contact with all the mobile game companies you mentioned, and the prices offered are too high. Considering all things considered, I think it would be better to start one myself, or acquire a more capable game development studio, and then use it as a basis.

The skeleton is gradually built..."

After He Yimeng resigned from Trinity, he focused all his energy on this.

Li Peifeng has been traveling for more than a week, and she has not been idle every day. The first five days were for tutoring in the mobile game industry, and the next few days were spent contacting acquisition targets and negotiating one by one.

The final answer given to Li Peifeng was also well thought out, and even the specific plan and studio acquisition target were prepared. After hearing this, Mr. Li felt that it made sense and directly adopted it.

"Okay, as you said, if you need my help when making acquisitions or recruiting people, just contact me."

"Of course I need you to come forward. Are you home?"

"Hmm...How about I go find you now?"

"Come here, I plan to visit that studio in the afternoon, and you should go too."

"no problem."

When he came to Baoyu Community again, Li Peifeng no longer hid his head and tail as usual. He drove directly to the downstairs of He Yimeng and walked into her house openly.

"I see the garage is not open, and you have closed the psychological consultation room as well?"

"I don't have time to take any more cases. Another counselor is on leave today, so it's closed."

He Yimeng was wearing pajamas, opened the door and went straight to the bedroom: "Come with me, I will show you the information about that studio."

As early as eight or nine years ago, developing mobile games was a fertile paradise for game designers of any level and level. At that time, all they needed was to have a smartphone, know the Xcode integrated development tool, and have enough ideas and creativity

You can join this exciting field with huge potential.

From game design blueprint to market investment, even an individual or a small team of several people can complete a mobile game within a few weeks to a few months, so there are countless domestic mobile game development studios.

To put it bluntly, at that time, mobile games were the mainstream, and even pigs could fly if they stood on the mainstream.

However, with the development of the smartphone era, mobile phone hardware continues to change and upgrade, and capital is valued, more terminal game production companies have begun to get involved in the field of mobile games, and other factors have caused the development costs of 3D mobile games to increase exponentially.

, players’ tastes have become more picky, and operation difficulty has also increased.

Although there are some creative games, and with amazing luck, games operated on low budgets can also set off trends and create cultural phenomena, but the probability of winning a lottery jackpot is really too low. Small mobile games

The chances of success for development teams and developers are disappearing. Only mobile game companies with stronger funds, willing to spend a lot of money on production, and a lot of money on marketing, can gain a firm foothold in this more involved market.

Therefore, many mobile game production studios are facing the crisis of bankruptcy. The old games they once produced are no longer popular in the market. Their monthly revenue is getting less and less every day. It is unsustainable to operate and they cannot develop new games.

New games that meet the appetite of contemporary players, or problems with the funding chain due to increased development costs, put the project on hold.

Most founders don't want their hard work to be completely wiped out. They also want to find a new owner for it before it suffers a loss, so that they can cash out and leave.

The Menglong Studio that He Yimeng showed Li Peifeng was like this. It has a scale of more than 30 people. It developed an RPG-type 3D mobile game three years ago. At its peak, it achieved a monthly revenue of one million.

The results were good, but they only lasted less than half a year. Due to operational problems and changes in players' tastes, the revenue dropped rapidly.

The founder of Menglong was also a game developer with a dream. After making a certain profit from the first game, he immediately started a new project, increased the budget, and recruited people to start a big project.

After a year of painstaking research and development, the new game was released, but the market response was very lukewarm.

The production cost increased tenfold, and the results achieved were not half as good as the first game. It was difficult to maintain the game for two years. The founder of Menglong was discouraged and resigned to his fate and wanted to sell it.

"This studio has a certain amount of RPG production experience and technology, and although its two mobile games are still in operation, they are both unable to make ends meet and are not far from being shut down. Therefore, the price to acquire it will be relatively low.

, all that needs to be considered is the cost of equipment and personnel, I estimate that it can be won for about two to three million."

"After the acquisition is completed, we will recruit more personnel, and "Sword and Law" will basically be launched!"

Li Peifeng looked and nodded: "When did you make an appointment to meet?"

"At two o'clock, go directly to the studio, which is about ten kilometers away."

Li Peifeng withdrew his gaze and carefully looked at He Yimeng. The ends of his white hair were a little yellowish, and his complexion was not very good-looking. It was obvious that He Yimeng had spent a lot of time and effort on this matter during the week he was out for fun. He couldn't help but feel distressed and touched.

He finished: "Mengmeng, thank you for your hard work."

"Don't just talk."

He Yimeng said calmly: "Think carefully about how many shares you should share with me when the time comes, as long as it is worthy of my hard work."

Li Peifeng pretended to be generous: "What's mine is yours, I'll give it to you as much as you want. Well, I'll work hard first, give you some love, and use it as interest."

"Hang it, I don't need that worthless thing at all!!"

The louder you shout, the more necessary you are.

Li Peifeng ignored He Yimeng's struggle, poured in the energy of love, and made lunch afterwards. While He Yimeng was eating the meal with a rosy face, He Yimeng calmly asked: "What do you think of this trip, and what do you want from me?"

Sample?"

Li Peifeng hesitated for a moment and finally told the truth: "It's okay, everything went smoothly."

…

"Two...are you Ms. He?"

"Yes, this is Mr. Li, my partner."

"Hello, hello."

Perhaps in response to the principle of being successful in love and being frustrated in the workplace, the two of them did not have a smooth conversation about the acquisition of Menglong Studio.

After arriving at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, Li Peifeng and He Yimeng met the boss Xu Long, a middle-aged man in his early forties wearing jeans and a white shirt.

Under the leadership of Xu Long, the two of them visited the studio. The employees worked as usual and looked as usual. They occasionally glanced at the visitors. Although the voices of the discussions were very low, Li Peifeng learned all about them.

They also learned that the studio was looking for investment, and when they met Li Peifeng and He Yimeng, they were all surprised that the acquirer was so young.

"It doesn't look like an investment, it's probably a rich second generation who wants to play."

"We can't discuss it again."

"Don't make random guesses, it seems he's not the second generation of rich people, because that handsome guy looks familiar to me..."

"Don't tell me, that beauty looks familiar to me!"

Both Li Peifeng and He Yimeng are well-known. Some people recognize them, and some people don't. Xu Long belongs to the latter group. Seeing that they are so young, he thought they were rich second-generation people who had just graduated from college and wanted to find something to do.

, so he tried his best to trick the two of them into investing in Menglong Studio using some fluent words.

That's right, it changed from acquisition to equity investment.

Most entrepreneurs would not want to hand over their business to others if they were not really forced to do anything else. Xu Long was the same. When he saw two people who were suspected of being rich and ignorant, he wanted to swindle some money.

Come, continue to control Menglong Studio and develop a new project to bring it back to life...

Li Peifeng and He Yimeng looked at each other and saw each other's thoughts, but they also tacitly agreed to let Xu Long continue acting, listening to him draw the pie, boasting about how powerful his employees' skills were, and how his new projects were doing.

How creative.

When Xu Long's mouth went dry and he felt something was wrong in his heart, He Mengcai said with a half-smile: "Boss Xu doesn't seem to be sincere. I remember we were talking about acquisitions on the phone. How?

Did you change your tone after we arrived?"

Xu Long's eyes flashed with embarrassment, and he laughed and said: "It's an acquisition. I'm willing to transfer 40% of the equity. How can this not be an acquisition?"

"My partners may not have made it clear to you before, but what we want is a full acquisition, not a shareholding."

Li Peifeng calmly introduced himself: "I am an online article author. The purpose of acquiring game companies is actually to operate the copyright of my works..."

Mr. Li briefly talked about his thoughts, and then bluntly stated that he could only acquire the company wholly because Xu Long is the founder of this company. If you continue to stay here, it will cause inconvenience to the subsequent management of the company. Then he asked He Yimeng

Said: "I see that Boss Xu is still very reluctant to leave his company. Let's go directly to the second one. There is no need to waste each other's time."

Is there any second place for them to see?

Time was in a hurry, so it would be great for He Yimeng to find such a studio that was on the verge of bankruptcy and had the conditions to develop RPG mobile games. However, she knew very well that Mr. Li was acting, so she hummed in agreement and stood up to leave.

"Wait, wait, you two sit down first, it's not like I can't consider it if I'm fully funded."

Xu Long saw that the negotiation was about to collapse, so he sighed and tried to persuade him to stay, and the real negotiations began.

But he insisted on a price of five million and refused to let go. The reason was that the studio was strong and the two old games in operation still made a little money every month. As long as they were promoted properly and some gameplay updates were made, they would definitely be able to come back to life.

Li Peifeng was quite satisfied with the price of five million, but He Yimeng shook his head repeatedly.

She had done enough homework before coming, and the highest estimate she could give for the work of 'Menglong' was three million, but Xu Long's price was less than half higher, so Bai Mao started a fierce bargaining mode...

"We can give up the two previous mobile games of Menglong. Boss Xu, you can take them away. After all, even if we take over, we will directly shut them down and dedicate all our efforts to develop our own projects. Frankly speaking, what we value is just

Your studio has a mature team. We don’t need the rest at all, so I think two million is a relatively fair price.”

"If you are not satisfied, we can only make another choice, or poach them the day Menglong is disbanded? Sorry, what I said is a bit unpleasant... but you have been in the business world for so many years, you should still be able to accept the reality.

Right?"

Xu Long couldn't accept it at all, not because he couldn't accept the reality, but because he couldn't accept the price of two million.

The conversation reached a deadlock, and He Yimeng really wanted to leave after leaving a single word.
To be continued...