The next morning, Wang Jian woke up feeling dizzy and bloated.
He saw Sarah already busy in the kitchen.
"Go wash up and co to breakfast quickly," Sarah said with a smile, seemingly oblivious to what had happened last night.
"Uh..." Wang Jian scratched his head guiltily, "Thank you for your hard work."
"You’re the one who had it tough," she replied as she moved the fried eggs onto a plate. "Four fried eggs, is that enough?"
"..." Wang Jian always felt there was an underlying ssage in her words, "Enough, enough."
"By the way, where are Lynn and Lily?" he asked, noticing that the other two won’s high heels were no longer on the shoe rack.
"Maybe they didn’t like my cooking?" Sarah casually answered, "They saw three fried eggs and hurried out."
"Oh, and the redhead was limping too."
This...
Wang Jian felt he had no response.
He quickly went into the bathroom to wash up.
When he returned to the dining room, he saw Sarah had already changed her clothes.
"Are you leaving too?" Wang Jian asked.
"Yeah," Sarah nodded. "Don’t you like Chinese food? I’m going to the bookstore to buy so Chinese cookbooks."
"To win a man’s heart, one must first win his stomach," Sarah said in awkward Chinese. "Isn’t that the saying?"
Wang Jian almost choked on his fried egg, "No, how did you—?"
"Chinese?" Sarah put on her high heels, "Just picked it up, thought it was interesting."
"And before, when we had to deceive ’our parents,’ we did a lot of observing."
"Am I right? My little brother."
With that, she smiled at Wang Jian, turned, and opened the door.
"Oh, rry Christmas!"
Watching Sarah leave, Wang Jian muttered, "This... this is totally the big sister style from before!"
At the sa ti, at the EA office building.
Inside the "Arcane Throne" project team, company executives who had foregone their holidays were listening to a sales report from the sales team.
"So, are you saying our ga outperford ’Diablo’ to claim the crown of the Christmas sales season?"
"Yes," the technical director said, looking at the docunts, "but the sales gap isn’t significant."
"I suggest that the company reconsider the feasibility of adapting bestsellers into gas."
At this point, the sales director stood up.
"You programrs just don’t get it!" he scoffed, "’Diablo,’ as the pioneer of single-player fantasy RPGs, should have had a massive advantage!"
"Our ’Arcane Throne’ Volu One, in its overall frawork, is actually similar to it and doesn’t have anything particularly surprising."
"Under these circumstances, for it to still beat ’Diablo’ and top the sales chart..."
"That ans the influence of ’Arcane Throne’ is actually very significant."
Seeing the technical director still looked unconvinced, he threw down a docunt.
"This is from Dark Horse Comics, the Christmas sales data for the comic version of ’Arcane Throne.’"
"It has beco the most popular phenonon-level comic next to ’Spiderman’!"
"And compare the licensing fees of ’Spiderman’ and ’Arcane Throne.’"
"Please use your brains, stop thinking about how to do CG all day."
The vice president who chaired the eting picked up the docunt, looked it over, and finally made a summary statent.
"Regardless, the licensing of this novel was very successful! The second volu ga of ’Arcane Throne’ also needs to be put on the agenda imdiately."
"Also, what about Wang’s new work? Is it suitable for adaptation into a ga?"
"It’s called ’Extre Heavenly Demon,’" a staff mber replied, "It’s probably not suited for adaptation into a similar ga."
"The power system in it is too chaotic."
The vice president nodded, signaling to move to the next topic.
"What are our competitors doing?"
"Ubisoft has already given up on following up on ’Diablo’-type gas, and has shifted to focus on single-player adventure gas with CG backgrounds."
"From so channels, it seems Ubisoft is deciding between two gas."
The person, who resembled an intelligence officer, looked down.
"Both gas are set in Jerusalem, one called ’Prince of Persia’ and the other ’Assassin’s Creed’."
"However, their ga engines have so issues at the mont."
The vice president nodded, signaling to continue.
"On the other hand, Capcom has never chosen to follow. They claim that single-player gas with CG backgrounds are the future."
"This year, they are planning to launch a ga called ’Resident Evil’."
"This year?" the vice president frowned.
"1996," the intelligence staff corrected, "In this area, our staff has had difficulties conducting operations."
"So, we received the intelligence a bit late."
"Again, acting as the latecor in catching up?" the vice president’s voice was commanding yet not angry.
"This ti, there isn’t an ’Arcane Throne’ to attract the public’s attention!"
"Actually..." the sales director hesitated, "there is."
"Hmm?" the vice president looked over.
The sales director organized his thoughts, "Although ’Extre Heavenly Demon,’ in print, is not as influential as ’Arcane Throne’."
"However, considering just the computer owners, this work’s influence is not inferior."
"Moreover, according to the technical staff’s analysis, although ’Extre Heavenly Demon’ is not suitable for being adapted into ’Diablo’-like gas, it is very suitable for adaptation into a single-player adventure ga with a CG background."
"If we can’t plan a ga from scratch, then acquiring the ga adaptation rights for ’Extre Heavenly Demon’ is also an option."
"Is it?" the vice president leaned back in his chair, "Then let the data analysis departnt analyze it."
anwhile, in a New York Producer Association eting room.
Representatives of various television production companies were holding a eting.
"This is the list of TV dramas adapted from books, comics, and autobiographies this year."
"Among them, those adapted from comics perford the best, but they also had the highest licensing fees and production costs."
"According to this standard, our settlent costs with the Screenwriters Association would be lower."
"Eh, what’s this ’Prison Break’ about?" a bigwig-looking person asked, pointing at the docunt.
"Um..." the investigator hesitated, "This ’Prison Break’ was co-produced by Goldman Sachs and a website."
"They say it’s an adaptation, but it seems more like a wager agreent."
"We don’t care about Wall Street and online stuff." The bigwig tapped the table quietly, "We’re only interested if there are more works like this, and how much the licensing fee is."
"That’s where it gets tricky." The investigator smiled wryly, "The work was published on that website, and to get the licensing rights, you have to negotiate with the website."
"As for similar works currently." He cleared his throat gently, "On that website, besides this ’Prison Break’, there’s another male-oriented ’Prison Break’."
"Its na is," the investigator chuckled, "’Special Soldier in Prison’."
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