Agreeing to Create Bad Games, What the Hell Is ‘Titanfall’? Chapter 245: Losing Big and Loving It! A Thousandfold Rebate

"You're just saring it all over the place, dummy. Aren't you just painting outside the lines like that..."

After dinner, Shen Miaomiao rested for a while.

Seeing that it was still early, she set an alarm and then took out the bright pink gold glitter nail polish she bought on the way today.

Stretching out her foot, she insisted that Gu Sheng help her paint her nails.

"It's not sumr anymore," Gu Sheng thought it was ridiculous. "It's almost winter at the end of autumn, and you're not wearing sandals. Who are you painting your nails for?"

"For myself," Shen Miaomiao answered matter-of-factly, then wiggled her toes. "And also for you to see."

Good!

Paint!

Can't refuse!

If I refuse again, it’ll be too formal!

Gu Sheng had no reason to say no.

But his hands were indeed clumsy.

The key was, he'd never done such delicate work before.

"Ah, I'll teach you!"

Seeing Gu Sheng couldn't teach himself, Shen Miaomiao sat up and grabbed his hand.

She dipped the small brush into the glittery nail polish and began painting his little fingernails.

"Isn't this... suitable?"

Gu Sheng looked at his increasingly effeminate nails and felt speechless.

"So what's wrong with it..."

Saying that, Shen Miaomiao put away the brush and admired her masterpiece with satisfaction:

"Look! How pretty!"

"Hmmmmm..."

Gu Sheng looked at his dainty pinky and said nothing, then bent down to take Shen Miaomiao’s fair and smooth foot in his hand:

"It still suits you better."

The warm light was soft and yellow.

The humidifier emitted a gentle mist, and Debussy’s "Clair de Lune" quietly flowed from the Harman Kardon speakers, dancing elegantly in the cozy, fragrant air.

Shen Miaomiao relaxed against the soft velvet cushion, feeling the warmth of Gu Sheng’s palm between her toes.

His earnest eyes seed to be sculpting a piece of art, focused and deep.

Rustle—

Her head leaned against the sofa back, gently biting her rosy lips, a tender smile playing at the corner of her mouth.

She casually grabbed the Polaroid from the art cabinet beside the sofa.

Click.

A warm mont frozen in ti.

Gu Sheng also looked up, smiling at Shen Miaomiao. "Taking a sneak photo of again?"

"Because you looked so handso just now."

Shen Miaomiao stuck out her tongue playfully.

For a mont, Gu Sheng’s eyes blanked in stunned daze.

Under the soft light, the perfect contours of the girl’s delicate face were vividly outlined, like a tender rose blooming in midsumr, or a quiet lotus blossoming under moonlight, exuding a sweet fragrance.

The blush on her little face was like the finishing touch on a delicate flower.

In an instant!

With a coquettish tone, words flew out like an arrow, piercing his chest, trailing behind a string of pink bubbles like a dream.

"Why are you looking at like that?"

Seeing Gu Sheng’s absent, distracted gaze, Shen Miaomiao’s cheeks reddened even more. She lifted her foot.

Her foot’s instep was already fair and jade-like; under the bright pink nail polish, it looked even more tender and delicate, as fragile as morning dew on a flower or mist moistening jade petals.

She gently tapped Gu Sheng’s jaw, closing his mouth. Shen Miaomiao tilted her head coquettishly, her big eyes sparkling with countless stars, lively and bright.

"Because you’re... pretty."

Gu Sheng recovered slightly and imitated Shen Miaomiao’s tone from before.

Then he lifted her foot, blew on it twice with a whoosh, and carefully examined it, as if admiring an artwork created by his own hand.

Shen Miaomiao admired it with him and giggled. "Looks good."

"Of course," Gu Sheng nodded approvingly. "You don’t even have to see who painted it."

"Climbing up the ladder..."

Shen Miaomiao lightly kicked Gu Sheng and teased with a smile.

While they were talking!

Buzz buzz—

The alarm went off.

Shen Miaomiao took a deep breath!

Ti to get paid!

"Hurry, hurry, China Digital Entertainnt Association, China Digital Entertainnt Association!"

Shen Miaomiao urged Gu Sheng to adjust the projector screen:

"It's ti, ti! You’re about to fall from your pedestal!"

Gu Sheng almost fell flat on his face.

Damn it, I’m about to fall from my pedestal.

"Can’t you let enjoy it a bit?"

Gu Sheng rolled his eyes and lowered the projector, then started connecting the display.

"No way!"

Shen Miaomiao sat on the sofa with her hands on her hips, putting on a serious face but joking:

"I just like watching geniuses fall!"

"Well, you’re really dark..." Gu Sheng smirked in disbelief.

Shen Miaomiao cupped her hands. "Thanks for the complint!"

She was getting more and more cheeky!

Gu Sheng’s eyes were about to roll to the back of his head.

He switched the screen to the data backend. One minute left.

Taking advantage of the break, Gu Sheng asked Shen Miaomiao:

"By the way, I’ve always wanted to ask—why are you so concerned about these sales milestones?"

Gu Sheng still rembered it was two years ago.

One day after work, he ran into Little Nezha in the conference room ‘doing rituals.’

If he recalled correctly, that ti was for the Left 4 Dead project.

Now, their company had released a dozen or so gas of varying sizes.

Yet Little Nezha was still so passionate about it, which baffled him.

"Uh..."

These words made Shen Miaomiao break into a cold sweat!

Her mind spun wildly!

What to say? What to say? What to say?

How should she answer?

She had to be careful!

If she didn’t give a perfect answer, Old Gu’s brain might suspect sothing fishy.

Then her system would be in danger!

After all,

That sword was only 0.01 centiters from my throat.

I must tell a lie.

One perfect lie.

"Because I want to share your joy at success imdiately and share your worries when you fail,"

Shen Miaomiao’s smile cald down. Her eyes were firm and bright as she spoke seriously to Gu Sheng:

"Honestly, you’re the most outstanding ga developer I’ve ever t. You were born for this industry,"

"Along the way, we’ve fought side by side. I love seeing you win, and I want you to keep winning. I want to be the first to see your success, to share your joy, and to hear you tell how amazing your ga is,"

"But at the sa ti, I’m always worried—worried that in your streak of victories, you might encounter setbacks. I want you to be strong, but I’m afraid you’re not strong enough. Though I can’t truly empathize with you,"

"I’m willing to share the burden with you."

Silence.

A long silence.

After speaking, Shen Miaomiao looked at Gu Sheng.

Gu Sheng’s eyes shifted from surprise to moved, then to gentle and peaceful like moonlight.

The next mont,

Shen Miaomiao softly exclaid, "Hey?"

Then she was embraced by Gu Sheng.

His strong, well-defined hand smoothed through her silky fragrant hair.

Near her ear, Gu Sheng’s voice murmured low:

"Thank you. I’ll try never to fail. From now on, we’ll only share joy..."

Shen Miaomiao: ...

Can I take back what I just said?

"Well... you don’t have to be so absolute... haha... occasional losses are okay too..."

Shen Miaomiao patted Gu Sheng’s back, wanting to say she was just joking and he didn’t have to take it seriously.

But when the words reached her lips, she swallowed them back, feeling it might be too cruel for Old Gu.

If their roles were reversed, and she were a genius designer like Old Gu, she would definitely want her gas to be bestsellers, right?

After a mont, Gu Sheng let go first and smiled at Little Nezha.

Shen Miaomiao also curled her lips slightly, a bit shy as she pinched her reddened earlobe.

Luckily at this mont,

The webpage refreshed on the hour.

Click.

The brand-new sales data popped up, and both turned to look.

According to Shen Miaomiao’s plan, as long as Garden Warfare’s total sales didn’t exceed 731,000 copies, she would smoothly get the rebate!

And in fact!

This ti, she was not disappointed!

Garden Warfare 7-day total sales—718,900 copies.

In an instant!

Shen Miaomiao’s little brain started spinning fast.

718,900 copies multiplied by 65 yuan per copy equals a total sales amount of 46,728,500 yuan.

With a 20% commission rate, their recouped funds would be... 37,382,800 yuan.

Total cost was 38,000,000.

Subtract 37,382,800.

Net loss: 617,200 yuan.

Multiply by 15 tis rebate, which is...

In her mind, the billing settlent—

[Sub-project: Plants vs. Zombies—Garden Warfare]

[Project Investnt Amount: 38 million yuan]

[Project Settlent Ti: 7 days ( 0 days)]

[Project Rebate Multiplier: 15 tis ( 0 tis)]

[Current Revenue Amount: 37.3828 million yuan]

[Estimated Rebate Amount: 9.258 million yuan]

[Remaining Settlent Ti: 0 days 0 hours 0 minutes 0 seconds]

Imdiately after!

Ding dong!

Shen Miaomiao saw her phone light up!

[Your debit card account 1118 has received 9,258,000 yuan transferred via mobile banking. Balance 11,793,211.68 yuan...]

Nine million... two hundred fifty-eight thousand... yuan...

Over nine million.

Shen Miaomiao swallowed hard.

Holy... holy!!!

Over nine million!

How long has it been since I last saw such a huge sum!

She still rembered the last ti her small treasury broke eight digits was two years ago, during the Left 4 Dead rebate!

And now, she had reached the peak again!

No!

Not quite!

This was just another brand-new beginning.

This was not yet her peak.

This was not yet the peak of the rebate system!

Right then!

Shen Miaomiao heard another crisp sound in her mind—

[Ding dong! Detected host has accumulated 5 losses, achievent unlocked—“The Tide Turns Here”]

[Achievent Reward: Loss Project Multiplier Purchase Voucher x1]

[Reward issued. Host can use it anyti]

The project lost, but I profited? And I even got an achievent and a voucher?!

Shen Miaomiao was stunned.

Today... really is a good day!

She reached out stiffly to Gu Sheng and pinched hard.

"Ouch, damn it!"

Gu Sheng shouted, clutching his inner thigh, both surprised and angry as he looked at Shen Miaomiao:

"What are you doing?"

"This... can actually sell over 700,000 copies..."

Shen Miaomiao hurriedly lied:

"I’m checking if I’m dreaming."

"If you’re dreaming, why are you pinching my thigh?!"

Gu Sheng was dumbfounded:

"Why don’t you pinch yourself?"

"Pinching yourself hurts so much, are you stupid or what—"

Shen Miaomiao rolled her eyes and then excitedly slid off the sofa, slipped on her slippers, and dashed to the bathroom:

"I’m going to the restroom."

With that, she didn’t care about Gu Sheng’s black aura on the sofa and rushed into the bathroom to open the system interface in her mind!

She had to see what this "Loss Project Multiplier Purchase Voucher" actually was.

This was an achievent reward!

Previously, all the achievent rewards she got were good stuff.

Like shortened settlent ti or increased settlent multiplier.

And this ti, the achievent was activated again, and just hearing the reward’s na told her it was not simple.

So, Shen Miaomiao focused and pulled out the voucher to read the detailed description—

[Loss Project Multiplier Purchase Voucher]

[Description:]

A voucher that can purchase any multiplier for a single settlent note, only usable on already settled loss project notes.

After opening a derivative project from a loss project, the host can enjoy ti adjustnts affecting the rebate multiplier, and can also purchase multiplier increases by consuming rebate money.

For every 10,000 yuan spent, the note’s rebate multiplier increases by 1.

[Note 1: This derivative project ignores the nature of the loss project.]

[Note 2: This derivative project’s rebate multiplier has no upper limit, but please confirm the purchase multiplier carefully. Once confird, it cannot be increased or decreased.]

"Whoa—!!!"

After reading, Shen Miaomiao gasped quietly in surprise!

This voucher is brutal!

She understood the usage rules perfectly.

According to the system’s summary, so far she had completed five loss projects—

Vampire Survivors, Left 4 Dead, APEX, To the Moon, and Garden Warfare.

There were main projects and sub-projects among them.

But it didn’t matter.

Now, she could choose any one of these five projects to start derivative ga developnt again.

At the sa ti!

She could use her rebate money to buy rebate multipliers.

So how much rebate bonus did she have right now?

Vampire Survivors: 50 yuan.

Left 4 Dead: 10 million yuan.

APEX: 528,000 yuan.

To the Moon: 250,000 yuan.

Garden Warfare: 9.258 million yuan.

Among these, 50 yuan was definitely untouchable—it was Shen Miaomiao’s treasure, her mascot, sothing she had sentintal feelings for all this ti.

The 10 million for Left 4 Dead was a free investnt, which was now gone after the huge profit from PUBG.

Finally, only 528,000 plus 250,000 plus 9.258 million remained, totaling 10.036 million yuan!

According to the voucher’s rules,

No matter which loss project’s derivative developnt she chose afterward,

As long as she used the voucher, she could increase the note’s rebate multiplier by 1,003 tis without any side effects!

Add that to the original multiplier inheritance.

For example, Garden Warfare’s note had a built-in 15 tis multiplier.

The rebate multiplier would reach an astonishing 1,018 tis!!!

What does that an?!

Lose 1 yuan, get 1,018 yuan back!

If!

This derivative note still lost a little like today—on a total investnt of 38 million, a small loss of 600,000 yuan within the specified ti.

Then, Shen Miaomiao would receive—

610.8 million yuan!

A loss of just a few hundred thousand turns into hundreds of millions!

Even if it lost only 100,000 yuan!

The rebate would still be over 100 million!

And 100,000 yuan is just a drop in the bucket for a ga.

Not even considering blockbusters, for Garden Warfare alone, priced at 68 yuan per copy, 100,000 yuan loss ans selling just over 1,400 fewer copies.

In other words,

The next ga wouldn’t have to lose big at all. It just has to lose a tiny bit, missing a thousand or so copies within the ti limit, and it would earn a nine-digit rebate!

This... I have to consider carefully!

Thinking this, Shen Miaomiao nodded deeply.

After all,

This was the very first ti in her life—

A thousandfold rebate!!!

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