Everyone listened attentively.

When they first encountered this script, everyone felt it seemed to lack something, with little chance of success.

But now after hearing that the creative source of this script was actually Mr. Pei? And it had received his approval?

That made this story completely different!

After Cui Geng explained his creative intentions, many people followed this direction of thinking and found it was indeed the case.

Much of the content in this script, when deeply explored, actually contained profound meaning!

Moreover, it satirized not only systems but also commonly existing economic and cultural problems in reality.

For instance, in the story, the protagonist Phil used a variety show called “The Successor” to change people’s perceptions to some extent, transforming his image from an “uneducated rich second generation” to “a true professional who understands superheroes,” and further to “the perfect superhero candidate with the only hope of saving Hope City.”

And in reality, isn’t capital doing the same thing—changing people’s thinking through public opinion and various cultural entertainment activities, ultimately profiting themselves?

In the story, Phil’s fans voluntarily entered information cocoons, believing only favorable opinions about Phil while ignoring unfavorable ones, ultimately making Phil invincible in the superhero election process.

And in reality, isn’t capital also striving to create information cocoons, turning those fans and users into the most useful pawns, the most impenetrable walls, freely accumulating wealth?

In the story, the false concept that “the wealth of the rich comes from hard work, and the rich naturally possess noble character” had, just like in the world of “Struggle,” taken deep root in ordinary people’s minds through repeated propaganda, like a mental stamp, adding another shackle to them.

If summarized…

“The Successor” was somewhat like a superpowered version of “Struggle,” except its story wasn’t about the rich struggling in the clouds and the poor struggling in the mud, but about the rich finding ways to kick all the poor into the mud, thereby defeating all the rich who competed with them in the clouds, thus becoming the only god high above.

After a long silence, Zhang Zuting said: “I see, now I understand what that feeling was about.”

“When I first saw this script, I didn’t actually consider it from this angle at all, and only saw a hint of satire. This satirical meaning wasn’t enough to move me.”

“Now I understand that the reason this story wasn’t well-received is because using text as a medium, the dimensions expressed are too limited. The impact of much of the content is far less than actual visuals, making it difficult to convey such profound content.”

“The reason ‘Beautiful Tomorrow’ and ‘Struggle’ succeeded was because their mediums were film and games, using abundant content to display various details, allowing audiences to become thoroughly immersed. Only then could the hidden content be excavated.”

“But ‘The Successor’ is a novel. These satirical contents can’t be explained too bluntly, and the immersive feeling and infectious power of text alone isn’t enough. In addition, Terminus Chinese Website is ultimately a web novel platform, and your writing style and creative habits all come from web novels, making it difficult to handle this theme and properly showcase so many details, which is why it wasn’t very popular.”

“Actually, the framework of this story can withstand deep exploration quite well.”

Zhu Xiaocai nodded: “That’s why Mr. Pei requested this work be adapted into a web series.”

“Only by adapting it into a web series can the true potential of this story be fully realized!”

“Of course, since this script wasn’t written personally by Mr. Pei, it might be slightly less profound. But after careful consideration, even so, this is still a good script because the content it expresses is completely consistent with what Mr. Pei wants to express.”

“As long as our screenwriting team works together to compensate for these shortcomings, this story can still unearth a lot of potential.”

“Mr. Pei seems to have a compassion for humanity, always worrying about capital controlling our lives and further controlling the world. This concern is also reflected in some of his works.”

“But most people think this concern is just unnecessary worry. Perhaps this makes Mr. Pei feel somewhat anxious, which is why he strongly supports similar themes.”

“I believe Mr. Pei’s attitude is that even if this web series loses money, it must be filmed.”

“Because it is meaningful and valuable!”

Everyone nodded in agreement.

Those who had previously doubted this script no longer dwelled on the issue.

Since Mr. Pei thought it was fine, they would film it!

Even if it lost money, it wouldn’t be a crippling blow to Tenda now. Mr. Pei should be able to bear it completely.

For Fei Huang Studio, even if this web series failed, it shouldn’t cause too heavy a blow, since everyone was clear from the beginning that making money with this web series would be very difficult.

Some things, ultimately, can’t be achieved simultaneously.

Since they had already made a choice, and that choice was firm enough, there was no need to worry about regretting failure, let alone affecting their creative mindset.

Lu Zhiyao was the first to express his stance: “Good! What Mr. Pei wants to do is something very meaningful. Even if the chances of failure are high, I fully support it! I don’t even need payment this time—I’m not short of money, and I feel honored to personally participate in such a meaningful endeavor!”

Zhang Zuting also nodded: “That’s right, regardless of personal feelings or reason, we should help!”

Zhu Xiaocai hurriedly said: “Not taking payment is definitely not acceptable! Not only payment, but all expenses needed for filming in the United States, including airfare, accommodation, etc., will of course be fully covered by us, according to Tenda’s standards.”

“Friendship is friendship, business is business. If Mr. Pei found out you weren’t taking payment, I’m afraid I couldn’t continue as director.”

Zhang Zuting and the others exchanged glances, nodding with smiles: “Alright then!”

Working with Mr. Pei just made people feel at ease.

Not only did they gain spiritual satisfaction by doing something meaningful, but materially, they would never be treated unfairly.

The only regret now was that Tenda Group only had Fei Huang Studio as its film and television department, and the speed of filming was really limited.

If Tenda had three film crews working simultaneously, producing six films a year, how wonderful that would be!

Zhu Xiaocai said: “Good, then let’s prepare, and in a couple of days, we’ll officially set off to complete our filming mission abroad!”

…

…

August 14, Tuesday.

Morning Dew Gaming Platform.

Tang Yishu had just seen off another game company representative and returned to her workstation to sip some tea to moisten her throat.

She had been a bit busy these past two days, but it was still within an acceptable range.

After all, not every game company would come in person for face-to-face discussions.

Over the weekend, Meng Chang’s promotion had taken effect.

Although the promotional plan wasn’t very effective—it didn’t drive many players to the platform, essentially just making noise for money—it at least created some brand awareness.

For players, the platform hadn’t even developed an application yet, nor had they heard of any impressive exclusive games, so naturally, they wouldn’t pay much attention. But in the eyes of many game companies, large-scale advertising at least indicated one thing: this platform had quite a bit of money.

Although this kind of advertising seemed a bit foolish, having a lot of money while being a bit simple-minded… wasn’t that just perfect?

So, throughout Monday and Tuesday, more game merchants came with their games, hoping to discuss cooperation with the Morning Dew Gaming Platform.

Actually, some companies had come on Sunday but were met with closed doors because the office was closed on weekends.

Not only that, a large number of companies had contacted Morning Dew Gaming Platform’s business department through the official website, sending demos of their games currently in testing, hoping the platform would try them out. If there were no problems, both parties could meet for detailed discussions.

As a result, over 90% of the games were rejected due to bugs!

Because they received quite a few games, including some that had been operating stably for several months, the bug issue didn’t result in a “no survivors” situation.

After all, those games that had been operating stably for several months might have tens or hundreds of thousands of players running them. Even bugs with a very low probability of occurring would be reported to the officials for fixes. As long as these game manufacturers’ testing teams were somewhat diligent, these bugs could basically be fixed.

Tang Yishu’s “aura” only accelerated the exposure of bugs, increasing the probability of rare bugs appearing, but it wouldn’t create non-existent bugs out of thin air.

And this was a probability issue. Bugs that didn’t appear even after hundreds of thousands of players ran through the game millions of times could essentially be considered non-existent—the probability was too low to be triggered.

But even so, rejecting over 90% of the games was still a quite shocking “achievement.”

Li Yada even thought at one point that Morning Dew Gaming Platform might “die before it could succeed.”

At this rate, how many games would be available when the gaming platform officially launched?

If the entire platform had too few games, countable on two hands, would they still have the face to call themselves a gaming platform?

But these games indeed had serious bugs, and forcing them onto the platform definitely wouldn’t work either.

So, they could only hope these companies would put in some effort, like Yan Qi, and quickly fix all the bugs.

Currently, these companies’ attitudes were clearly divided into two categories.

One category was like Old Liu, saying they would make changes but then disappearing without a trace.

They felt that their games were running fine on other platforms. Although bugs occasionally appeared, they were still playable, right?

Was it worth investing so much manpower and resources to fix these bugs for a newly established small platform? Wouldn’t it be better to use that energy to make more outfits and weapons to earn money?

The other category was similar to Yan Qi, promising to diligently fix however many bugs were found, continuing until there were no serious bugs left.

From the current situation, among the companies whose representatives personally came to discuss cooperation with Morning Dew Gaming Platform, the ratio of these two approaches was roughly 6:4, with only 40% of companies willing to earnestly fix bugs and maintain contact with Morning Dew Gaming Platform.

Among these, most were small companies.

As for those companies that made contact online, this ratio was 9:1 or even higher, with less than 10% of companies expressing willingness to fix these bugs, while the remaining 90% completely disappeared.

This was normal, as they could witness these bugs occurring in person, but those companies that sent game demos remotely couldn’t reproduce these bugs after receiving feedback from Morning Dew Gaming Platform. They might think Morning Dew Gaming Platform was deliberately nitpicking, showing no sincerity in cooperation, so naturally, there was no follow-up.

To avoid misunderstandings from these companies, Tang Yishu had to record while playtesting and send the video files showing the bugs along with her feedback.

This improved the situation slightly, but the improvement was very limited.

Because none of these companies were in Jingzhou, communication online was already difficult, and the bugs were hard to reproduce. Since the changes would likely not meet Morning Dew Gaming Platform’s requirements anyway, they simply didn’t bother, preferring to part ways.

Now Li Yada was like a diligent squirrel, working hard to collect every chestnut for winter.

After gathering a few companies willing to fix bugs, she created a group chat, adding all these companies’ representatives, regularly encouraging them.

What if more game companies gave up cooperation because of bugs they couldn’t fix?

Then this gaming platform really wouldn’t be able to launch!