But he smiled and said, "Don't pretend with me. We've been in this business for so long, we know it all. Just tell me, how much did it cost?"

"How much did it cost?" Gu Yuqing sounded surprised.

“How much did it cost to buy trending searches?”

"Ah, Mr. Cai," Gu Yuqing said politely, "I only just found out today that the game was trending. Asking me how much it cost to buy the trending search is like asking a blind man."

"Really?" Cai Zhenyi was very surprised.

At this time, the secretary had come in and saw Cai Zhenyi making a phone call, and waited quietly on the side.

"Mr. Cai, come on, would you like to help me?" Gu Yuqing said with a smile, "You have such a good relationship with social media platforms like Weibo. Wouldn't it be easy to help create a few more trending searches?"

Gu Yuqing's words were tinged with thorns, so how could Cai Zhenyi not hear it? She meant that buying trending searches was a favorite practice of the Donghuang Seven Stars, and it was a well-known fact in the industry.

Cai Zhenyi pretended not to hear and said in surprise, "What are you talking about? Our strategic cooperation with Weibo is official. They have been smearing us a lot, but they just said that we haven't fallen out."

Gu Yuqing smiled and said, "Then helping me find your invincible MCN group to promote it would also be a good idea!"

"Hey, we don't have an MCN group. These are just rumors spread by outsiders to slander us. You don't believe it, do you?" Cai Zhenyi said with a smile.

MCN agencies refer to influencer management companies, which nominally help influencers monetize. Live streaming guilds are considered MCN agencies.

In fact, most domestic MCN companies are essentially companies that control the content creators’ channels, and use this to ask for prices from the client and squeeze the surplus value of the content creators.

Donghuang Qixing's MCN Group is a higher-level existence - as the largest party A in the domestic gaming industry, they control many MCNs.

Therefore, in the field of public opinion, the Donghuang Seven Stars are always undefeated because they have a group of dogs and are extremely capable of setting the pace.

"Is this a disparagement of yours? I think you are very strong and I admire your company's strength." Gu Yuqing said.

"Haha, really not," Cai Zhenyi said, "By the way, speaking of which, I met your Mr. Chen last time, and I haven't added his contact information yet. Can you give it to me?"

"Why do you want his contact information?" Gu Yuqing sounded a little alert.

"As friendly competitors in the same industry, why don't we communicate and learn from each other more often?" Cai Zhenyi said with a smile.

Gu Yuqing was silent for a while. Cai Zhenyi called out "Hello" twice, but the other party didn't say anything. Just when he was wondering, Gu Yuqing finally spoke.

"I've thought about it. Mr. Cai, you're not planning to invest in his company, are you? That won't do. I'm the majority shareholder now. How could I possibly give you my cash cow? You should look for someone else, not me."

Cai Zhenyi said awkwardly, "You're too defensive, too defensive. I don't think that at all."

"Business is like a battlefield. How can we not be on guard?"

Cai Zhenyi continued to ask Gu Yuqing questions, while Gu Yuqing continued to respond indifferently and even asked Cai Zhenyi questions in return.

The two of them exchanged blows for a while, but neither of them let out a single word.

In the end, Cai Zhenyi had no choice but to hang up the phone.

After hanging up the phone, Cai Zhenyi's expression was very serious, but there was also a bit of excitement under the seriousness.

Sure enough, confronting Gu Yuqing is very pleasurable.

This woman is as cunning as a fox, as cruel as a lion, and sometimes as smart and cute as a cat.

She is very attractive.

Cai Zhenyi rarely shows interest in anything. Only when facing Gu Yuqing does he always feel continuous stimulation, and if he is not careful, he will reveal his flaws and be caught by the other party.

Every time he confronted Gu Yuqing, he wanted to conquer this woman even more.

"Mr. Cai," the secretary said. He had been waiting for a long time. "Weibo has no record of this company buying trending searches. They asked if we should remove this trending search."

"Withdrawn? No." Cai Zhenyi shook his head and then smiled, "These guys are really making money from both ends, they are very black-hearted."

Weibo has a common tactic: they can’t just remove trending searches whenever they want, they are all generated based on real-time calculations, and it takes a lot of operations to create a trending search.

Of course, if you want to be on the hot search, you also need to "operate".

In short, you have to pay more.

"Then what?" Cai Zhenyi continued to ask.

"All the MCNs we have communication channels with have checked themselves and found that none of them have received promotional tasks from this company," the secretary said. "It seems that they did not issue the tasks through MCN."

"Yeah." Cai Zhenyi said.

"However, we just received another message," the secretary said, "a well-known mobile game account, the owner of 'I Love Mobile Games', said that this company contacted them."

"Oh?" Cai Zhenyi's interest piqued, but after a moment's thought, he added, "Let's not talk about this for now. Let's have our colleagues contact this company first."

"Do you want to invest in them?" asked the secretary.

"Um."

"You are so decisive." The secretary praised and then went to work immediately.

Just because Gu Yuqing doesn’t give it to him doesn’t mean he won’t take it.

If he doesn't take it, someone else will. It has become a hot topic, and those manufacturers with strong expansion tendencies will definitely be keeping an eye on it.

...

On the other side, Gu Yuqing hung up the phone and turned to look at Chen Ya.

"You have to know that even if I don't give it to you now, they will find you later."

Chen Ya said: "Then let them look for it later."

Cai Zhenyi didn’t know that Gu Yuqing and Chen Ya were together - if he knew, he would definitely be furious - he had just asked Gu Yuqing for Chen Ya’s contact information, and Gu Yuqing had actually asked for Chen Ya’s opinion.

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