Obviously, although the Morning Dew Gaming Platform had burned a lot of money on promotion and received criticism, it still didn’t count as perfect because the attention and buzz were too high.

This full commission was truly difficult to obtain.

Pei Qian figured that even if he personally took charge, he would probably fail just the same.

This could only be solved by Meng Chang himself.

But regardless, 98,000 in commission was equivalent to more than three years of Meng Chang’s base salary, which was quite good.

Pei Qian handed the laptop over: “Hmm, very good. You’ve finally figured it out! You’ve found the correct way to earn your commission!”

Meng Chang took the laptop and looked at it. When he saw the figure of 98,000, he couldn’t help but tremble with excitement.

This was completely consistent with what he had anticipated!

After months of exploration and countless days and nights of deep thought, he had finally reaped rewards.

Previously, Meng Chang had been wondering why Mr. Pei wanted him to earn commissions through reverse promotion.

Later, he understood that it was obviously to make him learn the Pei-style promotion method, using reverse promotion to achieve better promotional effects.

Meng Chang reflected on why all his previous promotional plans had failed. On one hand, it was certainly because his skills were insufficient and he didn’t have a good grasp of each project’s situation. On the other hand, Mr. Pei was definitely up to something.

Obviously, when Mr. Pei discovered that Meng Chang wasn’t following the Pei-style promotion method but was instead plotting to make projects fail miserably, he would choose the right moment to discreetly trigger all the previously accumulated buzz.

And to punish Meng Chang, Mr. Pei often chose the end of the month for this timing.

As a result, the projects would still be successful, Mr. Pei would still achieve his goals, but Meng Chang couldn’t get his commission.

But now, Meng Chang had fully comprehended the Pei-style promotion method. Naturally, the final step was to ignite the project’s popularity, so Mr. Pei no longer intervened.

Meng Chang believed that if he hadn’t taken the final step, if he hadn’t converted all the accumulated heat and controversy into actual promotional effects, then Mr. Pei would definitely have taken this step to make the project explode in popularity.

Therefore, Meng Chang needed to do the whole process, implementing the Pei-style promotion method from beginning to end, including the final ignition phase. Because only in this way would he fulfill Mr. Pei’s requirements, not add to Mr. Pei’s troubles, and earn his commission with a clear conscience.

Now, with Mr. Pei openly praising him, saying that Meng Chang had finally figured it out and found the correct way to earn commission, this was no longer a hint but a clear directive.

From now on, he had to do promotions in this correct way!

Ninety-eight thousand.

Meng Chang couldn’t remember the last time he had seen so much money.

It was so hard-earned!

Although he had only received half of the full commission, Meng Chang had no complaints because he was very clear that his application of the Pei-style promotion method was not yet particularly skillful, and there were still many areas that needed improvement.

“Thank you, Mr. Pei, for your unwavering guidance!”

“I didn’t understand at first and wronged you. I’m very sorry!”

Meng Chang handed the laptop back, expressing his gratitude repeatedly.

Pei Qian smiled and waved his hand. “No need, no need. We have a cooperative relationship, we help each other.”

“So, this month’s promotional work has been perfectly concluded. As for the Morning Dew Gaming Platform, you don’t need to worry about the follow-up matters.”

“Next week when you come back, I’ll arrange the latest promotional plan for you.”

Meng Chang nodded excitedly. “Yes, Mr. Pei!”

…

After leaving Mr. Pei’s office, Meng Chang became jubilant.

This feeling was wonderful!

In fact, after comprehending the details of the Pei-style promotion method, he had also compared his previous promotional techniques with it.

In the end, he found that his methods were inferior in every way!

He fully acknowledged defeat.

Meng Chang’s previous promotional approach could be summarized in one word: piggybacking! He would piggyback on any trending topic, and if there wasn’t one, he would create one just to piggyback on it. In short, he would frantically throw money at a trending topic to attract people’s attention.

Previously, Meng Chang had thought that this was the best marketing strategy for the internet age.

After all, in the internet age, the most precious thing is always attention, and a plan that can attract a lot of attention must be a good plan, right?

But after learning the Pei-style promotion method, Meng Chang realized he was completely wrong.

The attention he grabbed with his approach was fake and would disappear at the slightest breeze.

While the attention gained through the Pei-style promotion method was solid. These classic marketing strategies could even be included in textbooks and would still be talked about with relish many years later!

In addition, Meng Chang had previously only valued marketing and not the product, so he had burned a lot of money only to end up with nothing.

In contrast, Mr. Pei not only had far superior marketing techniques but could also deliver high-quality products.

How could he possibly compete with that?

It could only be said that his defeat was not undeserved.

Although Meng Chang’s previous promotional plans had attracted attention, he still had an uneasy feeling deep in his heart. Although he constantly tried to convince himself, what’s fake is fake and can’t become real.

When a person does something against their conscience, knowing it’s wrong, but does it for money and benefits, coming up with various excuses to convince themselves—sometimes they even feel they’ve been convinced and have accepted it—but that feeling of drifting without anchor will still linger in their heart from time to time.

Now, Meng Chang could take this commission with a clear conscience.

Because he felt that what he had done for the Morning Dew Gaming Platform using the Pei-style promotion method was fully worth this 100,000 yuan commission.

Of course, there was one last step, which was to release this video, putting a perfect end to this application of the Pei-style promotion method.

He thought that Mr. Pei must also be looking forward to seeing the results of his work.

…

…

September 1st, Saturday.

Today, Yan Qi wasn’t working, just taking a normal rest day.

“Empire’s Blade” had been completed, launched without bugs, and was operating normally. Naturally, the project team had no reason to work overtime.

However, Yan Qi’s worries hadn’t diminished at all; in fact, they had grown stronger.

Because by his calculations, “Empire’s Blade” would likely be removed from the platform along with other games in about a week.

The first batch of games that went online were all hovering on the edge of being removed, with their “not recommended” rates quite high. The only reason they were still hanging on was that players were keeping them around to find bugs.

Once the bug-finding activity ended, with many angry players instigating others, wouldn’t these games die at lightning speed?

Other games would probably face the same fate.

The only solution was to extend the bug-finding activity or hold more sessions, but the problem was that the games on the platform didn’t have any malicious bugs to begin with! If players couldn’t find bugs the first time, would they keep looking? Could the activity still attract players?

Probably not.

Earlier, the Morning Dew Gaming Platform had reassured representatives from various companies in the group chat, telling everyone to remain calm and promising that the issue would be resolved. But it was already the weekend, and there was still no news.

It seemed difficult.

Yan Qi felt a bit melancholic.

This bug-finding activity had indeed brought a large number of players to “Empire’s Blade,” even causing all the game servers to be full during the early operation phase. The level of popularity far exceeded Yan Qi’s expectations, but the key issue was that this kind of popularity simply couldn’t be sustained!

What was the use of high short-term popularity if the game would soon be removed? Working hard to make a game only for it to become a one-time deal was too inappropriate.

After struggling for a long time, Yan Qi still couldn’t think of any solution to break this deadlock. He could only sigh and let things take their course.

He opened the AiLiDao website to browse some videos.

“Hmm? Qiao Laoshi has a new update?”

As a game developer, Yan Qi also enjoyed watching Qiao Laoshi’s videos.

By watching Qiao Laoshi’s analysis videos of Tenda Games, he could always learn new knowledge and gain new inspiration!

Mr. Pei’s game design ideas were wild and imaginative, difficult for ordinary people to follow or understand. But through Qiao Laoshi’s interpretation, one could grasp at least a few points, which was very helpful.

“Hmm? It’s just a repost.”

Yan Qi was a bit disappointed. He had thought Qiao Laoshi had updated with a new video, but after checking, it was just a repost of someone else’s video.

Other fans were apparently also very disappointed and were urging for updates, but Qiao Laoshi obviously didn’t intend to show up in the comment section to be captured alive.

Originally, Yan Qi wasn’t going to watch it, as many video reposts by content creators were just relationship-building or favor exchanges, and the quality of reposted videos varied greatly, not necessarily worth watching.

But after seeing the title of this video, Yan Qi immediately clicked on it without hesitation.

“Morning Dew Gaming Platform: A Soul-Searching Question for Every Player!”

Seeing this title, Yan Qi felt surprised and curious.

A content creator had noticed the Morning Dew Gaming Platform issue and even made an analytical video?

Although Morning Dew Gaming Platform was a newly opened platform, its recent popularity was indeed high, so it wasn’t strange to see analytical videos about it.

What surprised Yan Qi was that the title of this video was too outrageous!

How was it a “soul-searching question”?

This term was too heavy!

But precisely because this title was somewhat exaggerated, and it had been reposted by Qiao Laoshi, Yan Qi clicked on it out of curiosity.

The creator of the video was “Tian Gongzi,” and the editing looked very polished, using materials from the Morning Dew Gaming Platform that perfectly matched the narration throughout.

The only issue was that this Tian Gongzi didn’t use his own voice but used AEEIS artificial intelligence to automatically generate the entire audio!

After continuous updates and iterations by the Numa Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, AEEIS as an AI had been somewhat optimized compared to its initial version, such as speaking more fluently and having more reasonable pauses.

Of course, AEEIS still retained that somewhat neutral, mechanical voice with a sarcastic style that seemed to mock human intelligence.

This style always subconsciously made people feel as if it had its own thoughts, to the extent that this video seemed like it was made by AEEIS itself.