A Journey Through the Worlds of Film and Television.

Chapter 518 Cooperation with Penguin

In fact, the most secure way for Lin Jingyi would be to bring her over to have dinner with Ruan Guan. But Ruan Guan's problem has not been resolved yet, and some topics are not convenient to talk about with Lin Jingyi present.

Moreover, Ruan Guan only invited Lu Cheng alone, and it was not convenient for him to bring his girlfriend without his permission.

However, Ruan Guan was drunk now, so asking Lin Jingyi to come over to help could still give her enough sense of security.

When Lin Jingyi arrived at the hotel room where Lu Cheng and Ruan Guan were, she was surprised to see Ruan Guan passed out drunk on the table. "Isn't this the female classmate you used to eat with? Her name is Ruan Guan, right? How did she get so drunk?"

"Well, this is a long story. The child has no mother."

"Then let's make a long story short."

"To put it simply, her boyfriend is a scumbag. He got another girl pregnant behind her back. He asked her to deal with it, and she even borrowed money from me to deal with it..."

Lu Cheng briefly explained what happened and added, "I originally promised to keep this a secret for her. You can't tell anyone."

"Then why did you tell me?"

"You and I are one, so telling you won't be considered a leak. Besides, I don't want you to have any misunderstandings because of my close contact with other girls."

"I'm not a stingy person, I won't care about these things."

"But I care. I don't want to destroy my perfect image in your mind."

Lin Jingyi walked up to Lu Cheng and offered him a kiss: "This is a reward for you."

"This reward is not enough, give me another one."

"No, you reek of alcohol. Drink less next time."

"Then save it first..."

"So how does she deal with it?"

"Why don't you just send her back to the dormitory? It's just that it's not convenient for me, so I have to trouble my wife to help her."

"Alright, alright."

After saying that, Lin Jingyi went straight forward to help Ruan Guan, but found that the other party was completely drunk, and the whole body was limp, as if he had no bones.

Lin Jingyi simply bent down and picked up Ruan Guan in a princess hug.

Lin Jingyi, who had strengthened her physique through elementary, intermediate and advanced level strengthening pills, now had a physique of about 18 points, and could easily pick up a girl.

Ruan Guan was placed on the back seat, and then Lin Jingyi drove the car while Lu Cheng sat in the passenger seat. The two returned to the downstairs of the girls' dormitory of Dongda University together.

Lu Cheng called Zhu Xiaobei in advance, and Lin Jingyi and Zhu Xiaobei helped Ruan Guan back to the girls' dormitory.

Zhu Xiaobei was still a little surprised: "What happened to Ruan Guan? Why did she drink so much?"

Lin Jingyi shook her head: "We don't know much about this either, you should ask her yourself."

Afterwards, Lin Jingyi went downstairs and saw Lu Cheng still sitting in the passenger seat: "Shall I take you back to the boys' dormitory first?"

"Don't worry, I didn't eat well just now. How about you go out with me for a midnight snack?"

"Okay, what are we going to eat?"

"Just go to your favorite restaurant."

After having dinner with Ruan Guan, it was natural for him to have a good meal with his girlfriend as well.

By the time the two finished eating and returned to the dormitory, it was already late at night.

Fortunately, Lu Cheng has a good relationship with the security guard and dormitory manager, so it didn't affect his return to the dormitory.

As time enters June, the freshman year is coming to an end. Lu Cheng's Orange Technology has already earned back the initial investment in publicity, advertising, and company operating costs with the Orange Input Method, and has officially entered a profit-making model.

At the same time, campus recruitment at major universities is also in full swing.

Under Lu Cheng's arrangement, heads of various departments of Orange Technology went to major universities to conduct campus recruitment and further promote Orange Technology.

Not only that, after Juzi Technology got on the right track, Lu Cheng founded another investment company named "Hongdou Capital".

In mid-June, Lu Cheng flew to Shenzhen and met with Mr. Ma from Penguin.

Speaking of which, the Internet bubble crisis at the end of last year also affected major domestic Internet companies, including Penguin.

As early as 99, Penguin Technology launched QQ. By last year, the number of QQ users had exceeded million.

But QQ was just a chat software after all, and it had not yet found its own profit model, so the company's development was not very smooth. In addition, the Hong Kong Li family, who had originally planned to invest, suddenly withdrew their capital, which directly led to the break of Penguin's capital chain.

There was even a time when Boss Ma wanted to sell the Penguins for 300 million.

Later, a top scorer in the Henan Province college entrance examination who had returned from studying in the United States had a conversation with Boss Ma and expressed his willingness to invest 3000 million US dollars in Penguin. He also gave Boss Ma a suggestion to take advantage of QQ's huge customer base to vigorously develop social platforms and online games.

It is precisely because of the combination of these two people that the penguin will become the emperor penguin of the future.

Now that Penguin has obtained sufficient financial support, it is indeed vigorously developing QQ's peripheral businesses and online games.

After meeting Boss Ma, Lu Cheng did not beat around the bush and went straight to the point, proposing his desire to cooperate with Penguin and sell or agent some of the newly developed games to Penguin in the form of package sales or profit sharing.

Boss Ma was a little curious: "Boss Lu, I heard that your Orange Technology has been cooperating with Shanda, why did you find us Penguin this time?"

"Some games are suitable for Shanda, such as Legend. Some games are more suitable for Penguin, such as the games I will talk about next. Penguin's social platform has the largest user group, and this user group is mostly young people..."

When talking about the classification of games and the future development of the game industry, Lu Cheng spoke eloquently with his unique vision and foresight, which made Boss Ma quickly recognize Lu Cheng's abilities.

Afterwards, Lu Cheng gave several small games that were most suitable for social platforms to Boss Ma, such as Farmville, Landlords, and Dance Dance.

After discussing with his newly formed technical team, Boss Ma reached a long-term cooperative relationship with Orange Technology.

In order to facilitate cooperation between the two parties, Lu Cheng also asked Luo Yang to recruit some talents in Shenzhen to form a studio to facilitate cooperation between the two parties.

If he had traveled through time three or five years earlier, Lu Cheng might have developed a chat software similar to QQ.

But since QQ has already appeared and has a sufficient number of user groups, there is no need to compete anymore. The cost investment is too high and the results are too slow.

Moreover, there are so many profitable businesses in the world, and Lu Cheng cannot do all of them. He still has to focus on and prioritize.

Limited by the current level of computer hardware, Lu Cheng did not bring out future large-scale online games such as "Dungeon & Fighter" and "Cross Fire". He only developed a few small and medium-sized games based on the current common computer settings.

After the two parties reached a cooperation, Lu Cheng had a new source of funds.

Speaking of which, Lu Cheng's current source of the most money, apart from the stock market, is the cooperation with Shanda and Penguin.

Orange Technology’s current profits are really not as good as these.

However, with the end of a new round of campus recruitment, Orange Technology has further grown and established its own game studio.

New applications and games are also under development.

With a large amount of cash in hand, Lu Cheng has begun preparations to build an electronics factory to prepare for the production of mobile phones, laptops, etc. in the future.