Love? The Reborn Me Just Wants to Obtain Rewards

Chapter 247: Chapter 122: The Great Fortune Brought by a Slap

The unlucky Chen Jie was completely stripped clean by Su Huai.

Chen’s access wasn’t high enough; he indeed couldn’t make any promises that would satisfy Su Huai, but as a high-level executive of the platform, he knew much.

So Gou Huai gave him a relentless squeeze.

"You’ve met Mr. Xie of Gou Star and Mr. Wang of Cool Dog, haven’t you? Their backgrounds, personalities, photos, their attitudes towards this matter, psychological bottom lines... Tell me everything," he demanded.

Chen Jie made a pained face, trying to stall.

Leaking company trade secrets was asking for big trouble!

Su Huai, "Don’t want to talk? That’s fine, I never force friends."

Three, two, one...

In less than three seconds, Chen dropped to his knees.

What’s called leaking company secrets? I’m just maintaining our esteemed VIP customers, and just happened to chat too enthusiastically, that’s all!

"No, no, no, Gou God, whatever you want to know, I’ll tell you slowly!"

Su Huai smiled lightly, got him!

"Okay, let’s talk over voice then, let me see what’s the situation."

The situation was quite simple, according to Chen Jie, it’s essentially the company internally divided into two camps holding different views on long-term development strategies, which erupted at this sensitive moment.

"Gou God, for a small platform like ours, there are only two paths to take.

The first is the high road, strict control over hosts’ behaviors, eliminating peripheral gambling games, actively exploring, using continuous traffic input to boost new user registration and consumption, attracting high-quality hosts with high income, and then expanding influence with quality content...

Ultimately forming a healthy internal growth cycle, striving to expand, eventually competing with the first-class big platforms, aiming for a public listing.

The second path is to continue skirting the edges, maintaining mid-to-small platform positioning, reducing unnecessary expenses in traffic and bandwidth, quietly making a fortune.

The problem with the former is that it takes too long to see effects, and the traffic is too expensive.

We have only Handsome Dog Music as a traffic inlet, and right now with three majors and five minors in the music software market, we’re ranked in the middle, with limited traffic.

And the external customer acquisition cost is too high; we simply can’t afford it.

So where do the funds come from for breaking through and attracting traffic has always been a big problem.

You happened to cause such a big stir, bringing huge free traffic, so the progressive camp led by Mr. Xie wants to seize this opportunity to push for reform, transforming into a standard big platform.

However, the conservative camp led by Vice President Zhang believes it’s unnecessary to compete directly with top platforms like Dragon Hub and Wrong Projection Bear, and if the transformation fails and we can’t establish solid defenses, we will lose our current unique features, resulting in the continuous input of traffic and bandwidth costs that will crush the company.

In fact, both sides have their points, and the moat of content and ecosystem isn’t that easy to build. Panda, despite Principal Wang’s traffic boosting, couldn’t establish a positive cycle, and our team, even the hosts, is only slightly better than Panda in all respects, making the transformation really difficult.

Now our revenue is ranked in the middle, but our costs are very low, and the annual profit looks great, so generally, shareholders believe there’s no need to take risks.

But if we don’t transform, for how long can we keep playing this edgy game?

And Mr. Xie, as the legal representative and president, can’t help but worry, because he’s definitely the first to be blamed should anything go wrong, you understand, right?

So Mr. Xie wants you to keep making big waves, Mr. Zhang wants you to exercise some control, and Mr. Wang doesn’t care about the details, he just wants results, hence the company is quite chaotic, arguing daily.

I’m also at my wit’s end, forced to talk to you, trying to probe your stance...

Sigh, this really isn’t a job for humans, is it?

Of course, I hope you’ll make big waves, where else would the performance and bonuses of the operations department come from?

Isn’t it all from players’ top-ups and quantity of play?

Gou God, I truly have no intention to manipulate how you play on the platform, but with pressure from above and tight constraints below, caught between a rock and a hard place, I simply had no choice...

Su Huai could certainly understand his pain and difficulty, but he simply didn’t care to bother with it, instantly zeroing in on the true key point—

"So, basically now, my attitude can influence your company’s decisions?"

"Um..."

Chen Jie was shockingly startled, just how could this person’s thoughts be so sharp and unorthodox?

A regular player, who would think from that angle?

But he dared not think too much, nor dare to deny it and could only resign himself to be honest.

"Yes, if you leave the platform because of this, I’ll definitely be fired, and Mr. Xie’s reform will naturally not proceed, but if you continue making waves, the platform will definitely be called in by the higher-ups, and whether they want to reform or not, they’ll have to."

Su Huai immediately inquired another key point, "So, between Mr. Xie and Mr. Zhang, who can offer more benefits?"

Well well!

You really are a... very kind person.

Chen Jie didn’t even dare to badmouth Su Huai in his mind, desperately wanting to please him.

Big brother, you can’t leave!

"Mr. Xie is the big brother of Gou Star, and Mr. Zhang is an old subordinate of Mr. Wang..."

Chen Jie racked his brains, selling out both leaders completely clean.

Leaders?

Leaders can’t touch my year-end bonus!

And now it’s not just about the year-end bonus; it’s even about whether he can survive smoothly until the end of the year, so there’s no room for sentiment.

Bam bam bam bam, whatever Su Huai asked, he responded, what a cooperation.

So obedient.

The next day, when Mr. Xie Feihong, the president of Gou Star, came knocking, Su Huai had already thoroughly understood him.

Interestingly enough, after getting the detailed information, Su Huai realized he knew him.

—The future co-president of the Penguin Music Entertainment Group, theoretically in charge of all four of the group’s live-streaming platforms, and the company where Su Huai worked, the guild, also relied on Penguin for its sustenance, and it was Xie Feihong who handed out the big awards at the annual Starlight Gala.