“In that case, then,” Old Elder was also helpless. Eventually, since he was, after all, an old person with much experience, he laughed and said, “What big projects that are worth lots of money have he started up recently. Tell me, and we’ll try to analyze it.”
“This…” Ling Xiaoyi was at a loss of what to say and what not to. However, looking from another angle, actually, she just needed to be more flexible. Moreover, it wasn’t something troublesome for Old Elder to know about, so she might as well directly say it out. In the process, she would still be able to negotiate the terms on behalf of Young Master. Thus, she didn’t resist any further and slowly said, “Young Master recently wants to collaborate with Young Master Liu, Liu Mingxin, to organize an E-Sports competition. With regards to Young Master’s usual style of doing things, I reckon that there will be quite a large amount of investment in this E-Sports competition. Currently, it looks like it’s estimated to be around 5 million.”
“Hm.” Hong Tu touched his chin as he mumbled. “We don’t really have a good relationship with the Liu Family, and this child Dali actually wants to collaborate with Liu Mingxin? I’ve heard of him, he’s the most outstanding figure of the present Liu Family, and he doesn’t even lose out the slightest bit when compared with Yuxi. Won’t Dali be on the losing end if he collaborates with him?”
After all, Hong Tu was older and prioritized the aspect of stability in whatever matters. Thus, he considered the disadvantages first, and once he heard that Hong Dali was collaborating with Liu Mingxin, his first reaction was to consider whether Hong Dali would be on the losing end.
Ling Xiaoyi naturally understood that Old Elder Hong Tu meant well. Thus, she smiled and said, “Speaking of which, when Young Master and Liu Mingxin are together, it seems that the person who’s at the losing end has always been Liu Mingxin. At least, I’ve never seen Young Master really suffering any losses before.”
Speaking of which, Liu Mingxin was indeed very tragic, for he’d really never gotten any advantages when faced with Hong Dali.
Of course, it was possible that Liu Mingxin was a gentleman who was not willing to resort to despicable means.
Anyway, no matter what, the outcome was that Liu Mingxin had always played a tragic role, and that wasn’t even caused by Hong Dali himself. That made Hong Tu not know whether to laugh or cry.
“En, in that case…” Hong Tu thought for a while, and soon after, he asked Mu Yuxi to get paper and pen, as he said, “Then let’s use this E-Sports as the first case to analyze.”
As he spoke, he drew a circle on the paper and labeled “E-Sports.” Afterward, he asked Mu Yuxi, “Yuxi, you try to analyze it first. See what exactly was the motive for Dali to start this up.”
That was a relatively rare model for analysis. Mu Yuxi had previously suffered a huge setback from Hong Dali during the family meeting, thus, she naturally wanted to regain her confidence now. She stared at the circle on the paper and resolutely wrote “entrance ticket” first at a side.
Soon after, Mu Yuxi said, “Dali has always done things on a large scale. With regards to the location where the E-Sports will be held, the West Fourth Loop Stadium has around 50,000 seats, so I believe that that price of the entrance ticket will be relatively high. If it’s able to reach the explosivity of I Am a Singer, I reckon that one match would be able to earn over two million worth of earnings from the entrance tickets. In that case, if a few matches are held…”
Mu Yuxi resolutely nodded her head. “That would be a few million worth of earnings. This is not a small amount of money.”
Ling Xiaoyi and Wang Mingyu giggled in their hearts as they heard that. Young Master had come up with that idea just for fun and to squander, but this Mu Yuxi and Old Elder just had to make such a fuss about it by conducting a case analysis. That would be unbelievable even if they told others about it.
“En, however…” Old Elder stared at the circle on the paper, too, as he mumbled. “It’s sure not to be as simple as it seems, right?”
“I think so, too.” Mu Yuxi frowned and thought for a while. “Perhaps after the E-Sports competition has ended, this type of game will become very popular, and by then, if they started to develop some gaming merchandises—for instance, costumes—it would be rather viable as well.”
Listening up to this point, Ling Xiaoyi was a little shocked.
This Mu Yuxi could actually think of that aspect, that was really not bad.
“This is indeed not bad.” Old Elder continued to encouragingly ask, “En, are there any others?”
“As for others…” Mu Yuxi couldn’t really think of others. What else would an online game entail? After she thought for quite a while, all of a sudden, both her eyes lit up as she loudly exclaimed, “I know!”
“What have you thought of again?” Old Elder was surprised as he said, “Quickly say it!”
“Old Elder, if you think of it, online games will normally have a portion of preset background as well as relationships between its characters, right?” Mu Yuxi said gleefully. “Dali has an online novel website, and suppose after holding the E-Sports this time, Dali lets the authors on the online novel website write novels related to the game, wouldn’t it bring along many orders and much popularity, too?”
Upon hearing what Mu Yuxi had said, both Ling Xiaoyi and Wang Mingyu were shocked as well.
Seems like she lived up to her name as the family’s Number One genius, she’d indeed given more thought of it than herself.
“Not bad, not bad at all. I haven’t thought of this point.” Hong Tu stroked his mustache as he smiled and said, “Yuxi, you really are brainy. However, how big an impact will this online novel website bring about? Even if all these people write about game novels related to games like Draconic Continent and so on, that, too, can’t earn much money. According to the things that Hong Dali had previously set up, what he does seems like those that have profits increasing by a few folds. I’m afraid that the profit rate of the novels won’t be able to reach that amount, right?”
What Hong Tu had said made a lot of sense.
None of those things that Hong Dali had previously set up had produced low profits. However, for the E-Sports this time, no matter how he looked at it, it didn’t seem to be a project that would earn big money. Had it been that small money from the entrance tickets to recoup the capital funds invested, that would seem more reliable.
However, this had entirely no relation with those things that he had previously set up. Thus, it gave off a strange feeling no matter how much he thought of it.
“I feel that maybe what Dali wants is popularity. After all, holding this E-Sports can bring about an immensely huge amount of popularity…” Speaking up to this point, Mu Yuxi, too, had noticed that something was amiss. “But it can’t be the case. This game is the property of Liu Mingxin, why would Dali benefit Liu Mingxin so much for no reason? Liu Mingxin will be the one who will benefit from the spike in popularity, while Dali’s side basically won’t get any benefits.”
Thinking up to this point, the always calm and cool Mu Yuxi was getting a little frustrated.
What was that Hong Dali thinking to give Liu Mingxin such a big advantage for nothing?
In fact, it wasn’t only her who was frustrated. Hong Tu and Liu Mingxin were very frustrated, too. Back then, Liu Mingxin couldn’t sleep well for a whole week as he pondered over this. Then, he carried dark circles under his eyes with him to work almost every day, and even the employees in the company couldn’t stand it anymore. There were even a number of female employees who discussed in private. “I wonder which vixen was it that seduced Liu Shuai(Handsome) to this extent. If I were to find out, I’ll scratch her face for sure! How good would it be if Liu Shuai had directed any of his matters at me!”
If Mu Yuxi could manage to analyze this matter within such a short period of time, there would definitely be something wrong with her.
Thus, Old Elder and Mu Yuxi stared at the circle on that piece of paper for above an hour. Alas, Old Elder surrendered first. “Haiz, I’m old already, I can’t think well anymore. I’ll go to sleep first, all of you take your time to look at it.” As he said that, he supported himself with his walking stick and went upstairs to sleep…
That old fox, he sure ran fast enough!
Mu Yuxi was rather helpless. She stared for another half an hour until she was on the verge of going crazy, yet she still couldn’t see what kind of motive Hong Dali had. At last, she could only seek help from Ling Xiaoyi. “Miss Xiaoyi, apart from what Dali said about wanting to hold this E-Sports, didn’t he say anything else?”
“No.” Ling Xiaoyi was also very helpless. “Back then, Young Master was… Oh right,” Ling Xiaoyi’s eyes lit up. “Young Master had just met Miss Lin Zixuan back then. And seeing that Miss liked to play games, Young Master brought her to a cybercafe. Afterward, he saw that Miss was very good at gaming, thus, he wanted to hold the E-Sports competition.”
“Because of Lin Zixuan?” Mu Yuxi mumbled for a while, and suddenly, she said with pleasant surprise, “Then, is he doing this to promote Miss Lin Zixuan? Dali seems to have his own way of promoting a person. For example, Miss Li Nianwei.”
“I initially thought of that, too.” Ling Xiaoyi helplessly said, “But Lin Zixuan is now the goddaughter of Master, and she’s only fourteen this year… It seems like our Young Master doesn’t plan to expose her to the public.”
Afterward, Ling Xiaoyi came to a conclusion. “Thinking of it carefully, Young Master really seemed to start this up just to waste money and squander. At most, it could be added that he thought this thing was very fun.”
Mu Yuxi froze on the spot…
“Okay…” By then, Mu Yuxi had defeat written all over her face. When faced with the feeling of powerlessness against Hong Dali, she felt like dying. Thus, she eventually decided not to brood over it anymore. If she thought any longer, even her hair would probably turn white as a result. Thus, she decisively stood up and sent them off. “In that case, you two can go back first. We’ve really troubled you.”
“Heh heh, Miss Yuxi, you’re too polite.” Since there wasn’t anything else, they’d naturally leave as soon as they could.
It was a quiet night.
The next day, Hong Dali slept till the sun was high up in the sky. He naturally woke up with his 9 o’clock biological clock and then stretched his waist in a satisfied manner. “Ah, I’ve had such a good sleep! Wahahahaha! A new day has started! A new outlook, let’s go and save big turtle!”
After he’d put on his clothes, washed up and went downstairs, Lin Chuyin was in the midst of adjusting the three sets of diving setups, while Tang Muxin, Li Nianwei, and the others had long prepared everything and were waiting to get going as they waited for him to come downstairs.
“Dali,” Once she saw Dali coming downstairs, Tang Muxin instantly went forward, smiled and said, “are we going to save big turtle today? He’s so pitiful over there.”
“Save, we must save it!” Hong Dali roared with laughter. Compared to saving big turtle, the family meeting was really boring to death! As he spoke, he snapped his fingers. “Let’s go!”
The group of them went out and, upon reaching the entrance of the Hong Family estate’s big conference room, the three elders, Hong Tu, Hong Wei, and Hong Ying had long ago brought the descendants with them to send them off. Hong Tu smiled and said, “Dali, you’re planning to go back just like that?”
Speaking of which, he favored Dali just like how Hong Weiguo favored him. Now that Hong Dali was also the well-deserved title of Rookie King of the year, though he didn’t want the privileges entailed, the title still remained on him. Thus, it naturally felt different by looking at it this way.
“Big Grandfather, I’m going out to play now. I’ll come back again to visit you if I have time!” Hong Dali went forward and grinned as he started to tug at Hong Tu’s white and long mustache. “Big Grandfather, what do you do to keep such a long mustache? Let me help you to pluck it out, that will make you look younger, heh heh…”
Everyone around watched in trepidation.
Apart from this Hong Dali, no one else would dare to come up and pluck Old Elder’s mustache…
