At this time, Pei Qian was leisurely sipping coffee at the Slackin’ Internet Cafe while watching GPL matches on their TV.

It had to be said, GPL matches were getting more and more exciting.

Zhang Yuan’s esports division was clearly wracking their brains to improve GPL match viewing experience, constantly optimizing. Pei Qian was even a bit worried—what if there was a huge gap when ICL started compared to GPL?

But thinking about it again, that probably wouldn’t happen.

Eric was so clever, he would definitely “reference” GPL’s content. In other words, the better GPL performed, the more ICL could copy, making it more advantageous for ICL to close the gap with GPL from the start.

So Pei Qian stopped worrying about ICL and relaxed to continue watching the matches.

GPL’s spring season was in full swing, with each club using all their abilities. Various excellent tactics emerged in an endless stream. Obviously, when a league got on track and the overall strength of each club improved, the environment would get better and competition would intensify, naturally improving the entire competitive ecosystem.

Just then, his phone rang.

Pei Qian looked and saw it was Yu Ping’an calling.

“Hello? Mr. Pei, there’s something I need to report to you. Bunny Tail Streaming wants to invite the young lecturers and scholars who cooperate with Useful APP to stream there. They said it was your idea. We certainly have no objections, just wanted to ask how to allocate resources since there are only so many lecturers and professors with limited time?”

Yu Ping’an quickly reported his issue to Mr. Pei.

All Tenda department heads knew Mr. Pei was usually very busy with work, so when reporting, they would be as brief as possible, only keeping key information to avoid wasting Mr. Pei’s time and affecting his work.

As for whether such brief reporting might lead to missing key information…

Impossible. Mr. Pei planned strategies thoroughly and knew every detail of every aspect of Tenda Group. How could he miss key information?

All Tenda department heads had the consensus that “Mr. Pei knows everything,” so their work reports were naturally very brief and never rambling.

However, at this moment, Pei Qian looked confused with a blank mind.

Bunny Tail Streaming wanted young lecturers and scholars to stream there?

And said it was my idea?

When did I have this idea?

Pei Qian wanted to deny it outright, but then thought this actually seemed like a decent approach?

Young lecturers and scholars going to Bunny Tail Streaming to teach?

Other streaming platforms featured gaming streams, girls dancing, outdoor adventures, while Bunny Tail Streaming had lectures?

Afraid viewers wouldn’t sleep well enough?

Most people watched streams for entertainment, yet Bunny Tail Streaming had online courses in streaming rooms, teaching rather advanced subjects—who would watch that?

Even if someone watched, they definitely wouldn’t donate lavishly.

Bunny Tail Streaming inviting these young lecturers and scholars to teach on their platform would need to offer them some benefits, right? They couldn’t shortchange their salaries, right?

This way, they neither earned money nor paid out salaries—how wonderful!

Pei Qian suddenly felt that although he didn’t know about this, Bunny Tail Streaming had done well!

Indeed, worthy of Old Ma! My right-hand man!

Thinking this, Pei Qian simply went with the flow and accepted the matter: “Mm, having these young lecturers and scholars teach at Bunny Tail Streaming is necessary.”

“However… Useful APP’s work can’t be neglected either.”

Both were important.

Useful APP had earned Pei Qian no profit so far, instead burning money every month. Moreover, Pei Qian had long suffered from Qiandu’s torture and very much hoped to have such an APP to freely access related materials.

This Yu Gong Moving Mountains-like work definitely couldn’t be put on hold—it had to continue, and with significant effort!

But how to specifically allocate between the two needed some coordination.

Currently, Useful APP seemed safer, while Bunny Tail Streaming had certain risks.

Since that was the case, temporarily prioritizing Useful APP while making Bunny Tail Streaming secondary.

Pei Qian continued: “Useful APP is a long-term plan, its work can’t be affected too much. Here’s what, Yu Ping’an, you select some people from the young lecturers and scholars cooperating with Useful APP to test the waters at Bunny Tail Streaming. The main personnel should continue completing Useful APP’s entries and database.”

Pei Qian was being cautious, not immediately letting large numbers of young lecturers and scholars join Bunny Tail Streaming, but considering testing the waters first to see how it went.

If things went as expected with no viewers, then they could expand the scale. If it became extremely popular, Pei Qian would need to think of other solutions.

Yu Ping’an quickly said: “Understood, Mr. Pei!”

After hanging up, Yu Ping’an told Chen Yufeng: “Mr. Pei has arranged everything. He said to select some people from the young lecturers and scholars cooperating with Useful APP to test the waters at Bunny Tail Streaming.”

“I’ll compile information on these young lecturers and scholars and send it to you for selection. Initially, send about a quarter over to test the waters. Any more would affect my work here.”

“Of course, I’m still contacting more young lecturers and scholars from other universities, including some scholars from other cities. Both our projects can work remotely anyway. When we find more suitable candidates, we’ll communicate anytime.”

Chen Yufeng was pleased: “Great, thanks so much!”

“Actually, I’m quite uncertain whether this model will work. Testing the waters first is the most stable approach.”

“By the way, you could also ask about their preferences. Some might prefer teaching over research.”

The two had a pleasant conversation and quickly settled cooperation details.

Simply put, Useful APP would be responsible for contacting various young scholars and lecturers, having them enrich Useful APP’s entries and knowledge base in their spare time. Those among them with good speaking skills who enjoyed teaching would be recommended to Bunny Tail Streaming.

Both projects offered similar, quite good compensation. The key was seeing how these people chose.

Bunny Tail Streaming needed to prepare corresponding features, ensuring related video editing and replay functions were complete, guaranteeing viewers’ viewing experience. Additionally, Bunny Tail Streaming could cross-promote with Useful APP in the future.

Both sides quickly reached agreement and went to handle their respective matters.

…

Shangyang Games.

Development of “Fitness Battle” was progressing intensively.

After finalizing design details with Guo Licheng, Chang You and others, Wang Xiaobin had comprehensively refined the game’s design draft. Related art asset requirements had been submitted and official production had begun.

Now, Wang Xiaobin’s main focus was entirely on the character designs for “Fitness Battle.”

According to his design, “Fitness Battle” featured eight characters. Players would be training these eight characters while exercising themselves.

One key to this game’s success lay in whether players would like these eight characters.

If players felt indifferent toward these characters, naturally they’d have no motivation to exercise, which would be a failure.

These characters would have many appearance variations. In terms of physique, they might have slightly plump, slender, healthy, or visibly muscular builds, possibly needing to correct poor posture issues.

As characters’ physiques changed, different clothes would look different on them. Some clothing would look best only under specific physique and posture conditions.

The key challenge was ensuring these characters remained appealing to players even when their physiques became out of shape.

When slightly plump: cute. After long training: cute and sexy.

Only this way would players have strong motivation to grind tirelessly.

Though all these designs had been entrusted to Aura Studio, with Boss Ruan handling them, Wang Xiaobin was completely at ease.

He was busy working when he noticed a familiar figure: Jiang Yuan, current head of Ottoo Technology, had come.

Wang Xiaobin stood up: “Is something wrong? Worried about ‘Fitness Battle’ development?”

Jiang Yuan smiled: “How could I be worried? Tenda’s gaming departments are the most professional in the entire group!”

“I’m here about something else I need to ask of Brother Wang.”

“Ottoo Technology’s new phone is positioned as a gaming phone, so I wondered if Brother Wang could help us modify two mobile games?”

“GOG already has a mobile version—it just needs optimization for our G1 phone. Besides that, I hope for a shooting game and racing game. I think ‘Sea Fortress’ and ‘Lonely Desert Highway’ are good choices.”

“Brother Wang, could you adapt these two games for mobile and optimize them for G1’s two shoulder button design?”

Jiang Yuan clearly understood that GOG’s mobile version alone wasn’t enough to truly showcase this phone’s advantages.

Because GOG used a skill wheel control system where most skills required holding the skill then dragging to select release direction. The two shoulder buttons couldn’t perform directional selection, limiting their usefulness.

At best, they could map skills like healing or shields that didn’t require directional selection. Since hero skills varied greatly, specific rules for using these two shoulder buttons for each hero would need detailed refinement.

Games like “Battle Hymn” could use shoulder buttons, but similarly wouldn’t provide qualitative gameplay improvements.

In contrast, shooting and racing games were completely different.

When playing shooters, the two shoulder buttons could be aim and shoot. For racing games, they’d be brake and accelerator, greatly enhancing player experience.

That’s why Jiang Yuan specially sought out Wang Xiaobin, hoping to launch several PC-to-mobile adaptations simultaneously with G1’s release for cross-promotion.