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domestic.
People are paying far more attention to Jiang Chuan personally than to Zhixing Games, so no one even noticed when Zhixing Games launched a new game.
This is partly due to Zhixing Games' consistent lack of marketing efforts, but also partly due to the platform's own shortcomings.
GDR's official gaming platform primarily promoted "Sculpting," investing heavily in its advertising resources, while the new game barely made a splash.
Originally, some people in Yu Yue's group were thinking about whether to spend some money on publicity and cook for themselves.
To everyone's surprise, Yu Yue casually dispelled this concern: "We're out of money, we don't have the funds. All the funds have been invested in game development, so don't worry too much. President Jiang will definitely handle things, so don't worry."
"Isn't this just like when 'The Sculpture' was made? Don't rush things, you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry."
President Jiang?
Jiang Chuan himself didn't know why no one was paying attention to his new game...
He was far away in Finland, and when he first saw that the new game couldn't divert everyone's attention, he immediately adopted an ostrich mentality and decided to ignore it.
It was only because the count had nothing better to do that he would give him a briefing on the situation back home.
How should I put it?
Jiang Chuan was indifferent, because he preferred to ignore it.
Life is peaceful and serene.
He walked alone through the long, dark snowfield. With each step, the snow was crushed under his feet, the sound so quiet that it seemed as if this place was an endless night from which he would never wake up.
This is very similar to a certain stage in life.
But things are different now, and Jiangchuan was not affected in any way.
They were supposed to be out for a walk, but the kitten pretended to be dead and refused to get down, staying on his head and clinging tightly to Jiang Chuan's hat.
"It's too cold, I'm not coming down!"
Seeing how resistant He was, Jiang Chuan had no choice but to go along with Him.
Walking for a long time might get a bit boring, so Jiang Chuan casually flipped his hand over, and naturally, beautiful magic patterns surged out, like waves rolling and churning on the beach.
It was just snow falling on my fingertips.
The Earl had grown accustomed to Jiang Chuan's behavior of treating magic as mere entertainment, and also to the terrifying speed at which some people's abilities evolved.
However, the native creatures living here hadn't yet. They watched curiously from a distance, and after a long while, as if confirming that Jiang Chuan was not a dangerous person, they enthusiastically gathered around him.
A huge expanse of fluffy snowballs.
Jiang Chuan was almost at a loss, but he quickly realized that all the snowballs were heading straight for his hand: "Don't rush."
The count was tossed aside and lay on top of another, larger snowball.
Hmph, hypocritical humans. Their brows are still furrowed, but they're still touching the snowballs with their hands.
Rub this one, touch that one.
Hmph, fickle humans.
"Where did you come from?" the snowballs asked in unison.
"We come from a place where it never snows."
"Hmm, so you have the sun where you are?"
Jiang Chuan nodded.
"Will there be a sunset? What does a sunset look like? I want to know what a sunset looks like." Snowball became visibly excited.
“Sunset…” Jiang Chuan was at a loss for words: “It’s roughly like a beam of light that slowly sinks below the horizon. Then this beam of light will illuminate the surrounding clouds in a rainbow of colors, that’s the sunset. Beyond the sunset, the whole world will be in a dim, yellowish hue.”
Snowballs rarely see the sunset, so it's hard to imagine Jiang Chuan's description, which is relentless.
The count watched Jiang Chuan hesitate for a moment, and was about to stand up and rescue Jiang Chuan from his predicament when he saw Jiang Chuan wave his hand towards the sky.
He glanced at it several times, then silently curled his lip.
Ugh, so annoying. It's just that my ability has evolved again. I hate show-offs the most.
In the blink of an eye, Jiang Chuan's personal super topic site was already set up the next day.
The name of the super topic site and its Baidu Baike entry share the same style: "Chinese-style socialist entrepreneur".
At the same time, fans began digging up all historical information related to Jiangchuan and Zhixing Games.
Unsurprisingly, they saw Jiang Chuan's interviews before he was unknown in GDR, where all his famous quotes were included in the Bible and should be passed down for thousands of years.
"An eight-hour workday...because working hours might not be enough."
"There's no contradiction. After deducting the two-hour lunch break, the actual working hours each day are about six hours."
"We don't work overtime."
"Don't you think that working overtime increases the company's labor costs?"
"Overtime pay should be 1.5 times the regular wage, and if it's on a holiday, it should be doubled, making it three times the regular wage. If you calculate it properly, wouldn't it be more cost-effective to hire more people?"
Every word is precious and strikes a chord with the heart.
It's no wonder he's become a top celebrity of our time.
"Waaaaah, the entire Central China is just relying on our President Jiang to hold up this ceiling."
"President Jiang, how can you calculate cost-effectiveness? Are you out of your mind?"
Going back a little further, there's Jiang Chuan's voice, which appeared in earlier episodes of "The Survival Diary of Contemporary Migrant Workers".
"Ahhh, as expected of President Jiang, his voice is like a sacred hymn. Enough said, brothers, I'm charging in!"
"The interviewer version of President Jiang is so gentle. You can tell from his voice that he is a self-disciplined and refined elite CEO."
"That's it! My new alarm clock!"
The vigorous internet archaeology movement here had just ended...
The very next afternoon, the design drafts for a series of support items, including the support color and iconic slogan, were completed, with the main theme of "coming from the masses and going back to the masses".
This perfectly illustrates what it means to "keep the people in your heart, and the people will hold you high."
On the third day, with the fans cheering and urging from their leaders, the fans officially began to vote and support their idols to boost sales of their endorsements.
After all, President Jiang is not a proper person in the entertainment industry. The so-called voting data is nothing more than buying games, increasing the online time of games, and wandering around the Internet as an organic promoter.
If these numbers go up, they can be streamed on the official GDR gaming platform.
But can our General Jiang handle such a small matter?
That's definitely not going to work.
So this group of silly gamers, when they did something, did something amazing. They successfully filled the entire homepage of the GDR official game platform with Zhixing Games and Jiang Zong, the "shining light of new domestic games".
This has nothing to do with data fabrication; it's a vulnerability left over from when GDR's platform was built.
When we first set it up, we only thought about fairness and impartiality so that every game could get the appropriate exposure. We never imagined that any game company could have such influence and dominance.
In addition, they constantly make witty remarks both inside and outside the industry.
"The capital circle is dirty, but President Jiang remains untainted by it."
"President Jiang, you and I are in a parallel world, and I love you in the crowd."
"All slander stems from jealousy and feelings of inferiority."
...I inexplicably started following celebrities.
This aligns with the appearance-obsessed logic of the entertainment industry.
But the serious problem is that this is real life, not the entertainment industry. Jiang Chuan is at most a gamer, and this messy mix of people has led him to debut in the entertainment industry—it seems a bit like a magical realism.
The excitement caused a stir, even dethroning the top idol from the number one spot.
By the fourth day, even Jiang Zong's merchandise had been released. What I don't understand is how the players managed to turn just a few photos into something amazing and turn them into miniature cards.
Fan-made songs, fan-made PVs, and so on sprang up like mushrooms after rain, a move that even the people at Zhixing Games themselves found a little hard to understand.
A tendency toward personality cult has become widespread.
"I think I roughly understand why our President Jiang has been so rarely seen... Now I truly see what it means to bring disaster to the country and its people..." Tang Yue was somewhat speechless for a moment.
"So the world has gone this crazy? I really want to check the mental state of these netizens!"
"Sometimes I feel really helpless when I'm online alone, and I really want to call the police." Zhuang Xu smiled bitterly and shook the screen of his phone.
These silly gamers used the official game editor to create a text adventure game simulator called "If I Worked at Zhixing Games".
Jiang Chuan has not shown up throughout the whole affair, and even Song Zhiming, the president's special assistant, is unaware of the current situation.
The only thing I know is...
"What?! President Jiang actually went to Finland???"
Song Zhiming offered a helpless consolation: "I reckon he'll be back after this storm has passed. Don't be too surprised, anyway... you won't be able to see him when he comes back."
"That makes sense," the employees said sullenly.
"But going to Finland right now... doesn't seem like there's much scenery there, right? Or are we opening a branch office and heading straight to Finland?"
"It's not impossible."
Several other Zhixingren echoed this sentiment, their confidence in President Jiang surpassing their confidence in themselves.
Some people engage in personal hero worship, which is one thing if it's just a self-indulgent hobby, but the problem is that now, it seems the entire Weibo is immersed in this kind of personal hero worship.
Sure enough, some righteous netizens couldn't hold back and spoke up.
"What we're saying is, what is it about this person that you like? Aside from their good looks, you have nothing in common. They were born into a privileged life, so what's there for you, these beasts of burden, to empathize with?"
Fans immediately responded below.
"Anyone who can't grasp President Jiang's personal charm can only be described as: tasteless."
"+1 to the comment above. First of all, although he is in Rome, he is completely able to empathize with us and is willing to create a better employment environment for us. Even if that's all, it's enough for us to respect and acknowledge him. In essence, he is a true entrepreneur, not a capitalist."
To retaliate against someone's fickle behavior in the snow, the Earl couldn't wait to grab his tablet and start giving Jiang Chuan a live update on domestic developments as soon as he got home.
Naturally, he recited these things with great emotion and expression.
Jiang Chuan saw everyone's sincere replies and felt somewhat bewildered.
Having lived for so many years, to appear on the internet so frequently in this way... is even more outrageous than the Baidu entries these netizens made not long ago.
Well... how should I put it? In the current environment, does respecting and recognizing someone mean letting their popularity on social media surpass that of a bunch of celebrities?
Has our social civilization advanced to this extent?
This was even more shocking to the CEOs than being caught in the crossfire of competition with their peers...
"Is this about harnessing the power of the masses...?"
How much money could be made by monetizing this huge amount of traffic? And this is not like starting a company, where you need to spend time and effort producing products, researching the market, and then selling them.
In Jiang Chuan's current situation, he could simply open a personal social media account, add a Google link to his product showcase, and make a fortune.
This is even more outrageous than those who make money while lying down.
"See? I told you Zhixing Games was destined for success! First the game became a hit, then the company, then the boss. I reckon there's going to be another wave of success," the game producer from the coastal area said confidently.
"I didn't expect you to be so good at judging people. Why don't you help me see what I'm lacking? You can do that too?" Liu Jun quipped.
"If only we had established a partnership with Zhixing Games sooner, what a pity, Nan Linqing and Teacher Jing got the better deal."
Zhang Xia waved her hand, seemingly unfazed: "This popularity is only temporary. President Jiang has a very good attitude. You see, he has never responded to these things and has just been quietly playing games."
"You're calling him President Jiang now too?" Liu Jun was somewhat incredulous. He had promised never to bow his head, but now his brother was starting to bend over.
"I'm mainly after money. Maybe one day I'll get a hand from this guy, just like with Southern Games."
This remark drew agreement from the crowd.
Jiang Chuan's financial power is evident.
Just as netizens were going their own way and enthusiastically conferring the title of "Supreme Sage and Teacher" upon Jiang Chuan, a piece of news... perhaps it should be called a whole compressed file, was revealed on Weibo.
Some people might instinctively assume it's another workplace incident, but this time... this time it's the consumers who are the victims.
The compressed file was posted by a Weibo account that had only been registered a few days ago, and even the system-generated name hadn't been changed: "Dandelion Who Likes to Eat Yangmei (Chinese bayberry)".
This seemingly ordinary account has exposed the biggest scandal in the market.
"On-site inspection of the fermentation environment of pickled cabbage in the seasoning packets of a well-known instant noodle brand of a certain company."
"A certain beverage shop failed to dispose of expired ingredients in a timely manner and instead reprocessed and sold them."
And so on. The above are just food safety issues; going further down the line involves issues of personal health.
"A certain company is promoting a new series of skincare products with inferior raw materials, which has caused users to develop red blood vessels on their faces."
"Some medical waste, such as syringes and blood bags, is recycled and used in the production of plastic bags and other plastic daily necessities."
"Children's stationery, such as scented erasers and cloth pencil cases, contains certain toxic substances."
In addition to these, there are also hygiene problems in five-star hotels, price discrimination based on big data, and so on, which can be described as all kinds of dark secrets in various industries.
In the past, the media may have made sporadic reports, but they were never compressed and ignited like this account.
At first glance, it seems that almost half of the Zhongxia market has been lost, and that it is all unsafe, unhealthy, and driven by greed.
These news stories are not just sensational headlines or articles; they are supported by a complete chain of evidence, including videos, audio recordings, and photos.
They can easily beat someone to a pulp.
The incident began on Weibo, but it ultimately ignited a chain reaction across the entire internet, revealing the extent of so-called capitalist rule outside the workplace.
I originally wrote only 3200+ words, but during the revision process, I kept adding more and more, and it has now become 4200+ words. I hope you all like it.
General Manager Jiang: Thank you so much! (in a sincere tone)
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