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Chapter 118 Sold

The end of April.

Cai Quan and Wen Fei came to the Avalon studio together.

As soon as they arrived at the floor where the Avalon studio was located, they saw the big 'Mingyu Technology' sign... and they were wondering if they had come to the wrong place.

Yuan Yanbo appeared at the door.

"Hello, are you the stationmaster and deputy stationmaster of ANF? I'm Yuan Yanbo, who contacted your company a while ago."

Yuan Yanbo took the initiative to greet them, and at the same time looked at the two of them inconspicuously.

Cai Quan and Wen Fei have quite a big difference in style. Cai Quan is a typical otaku, wearing black-framed glasses and having a buzz cut. He doesn't look handsome, just clean.

The other one had a completely different style. Although not as pretty as her boss... or the legendary investor lady, she was gentle and delicate, with a girl-next-door vibe. Most importantly, she had very long legs...

"Hello."

Cai Quan didn't seem very good at dealing with this kind of situation. He was a little nervous, but he still managed to stretch out his hand and shake Yuan Yanbo's hand. At the same time, he said incoherently, "I really like FGO. Your game is great. You are truly a talented person. No wonder you can create such a game..."

"..."

Yuan Yanbo listened to the other party's nonsense and remained silent.

Wen Fei, who was standing next to him, rolled her eyes at Cai Quan and quickly explained, "How can you call someone so handsome?! They are clearly stunning!"

"...You misunderstood. I'm just an employee, not the boss of this company."

Yuan Yanbo looked at the Crouching Dragon and Phoenix Chick in front of him, shook his head with a bit of a smile, and then said: "It's better to say that I just joined the company. I was an employee of this company before."

He pointed to the Mingyu Technology sign behind him and continued, "I just joined Utopia recently, and the sign is about to be changed. I was just afraid you might think you were in the wrong place, so I came to meet you at the door."

"..."

When the two heard this, they were stunned for a moment, then realized that they had made a fool of themselves and their faces quickly turned red.

Yuan Yanbo smiled again, but instead of standing there and letting them feel awkward, he said, "Come in and sit down. Our boss is waiting for you in the conference room."

Say it.

He walked inside first.

Cai Quan and Wen Fei looked at each other, quickly dispelled the unnecessary thoughts in their minds, and followed him into the company.

When they walked into the Avalon studio, their first impression was that there were so few people. Although the company had many locations, there were really few staff members.

The second feeling is... so busy.

Everyone was concentrating on doing something, and when someone was occasionally seen communicating, they seemed to be in a hurry.

But so energetic.

Maybe this is a normal company...

Cai Quan thought as he walked forward.

It wasn't until Yuan Yanbo reminded him that he came to his senses... They had arrived at the meeting room.

Mingyu Technology has rented an entire floor, so there must be a conference room.

Yuan Yanbo knocked on the door, then led Cai Quan and Wen Fei into the meeting room.

In the conference room.

Tang Yao was bending over and writing and drawing on an A4 paper...it was a plan for a card game.

Although the acquisition is important...but she promised Xun to go back early today, so she does as much as she can.

However, after hearing the footsteps, out of politeness, she immediately put down the work at hand and raised her head.

The moment she looked up, Yuan Yanbo introduced her, "This is Tang Yao, the boss of our Avalon Studio..."

Hear this.

Cai Quan and Wen Fei both stopped, their eyes widening slightly as they looked at the girl sitting not far away… That delicate and beautiful face, that sweet temperament between maturity and youth, that figure that looks like a brother, you say she is the boss!?
The two looked in disbelief.

This is really shocking...

Tang Yao was used to it, and after a moment of awkwardness, she took the initiative to speak: "Hello, is this Brother Cai, the stationmaster of ANF? And this... Deputy Stationmaster Wen Nuanxin?"

Obviously, she had done her homework.

Hearing her words, especially the name "Brother Cai", Cai Quan blushed and quickly said, "Yes, yes, we are..."

Wen Fei felt a little better and just nodded and said yes, but her eyes never left Tang Yao.

Because it's too outrageous... How could such a sunny and beautiful girl create a otaku-oriented game like FGO?
"Please take a seat."

Tang Yao invited them to sit down.

Then...they fell silent.

Because Tang Yao is not good at this either.

In a way, she is also a otaku.

Fortunately, Yuan Yanbo was there. He seemed to have noticed something, looked at Cai Quan, and took the initiative to say, "Regarding your plan to sell the website..."

“Oh, yes, we do want to sell the website.”

Cai Quan finally reacted and began to introduce his website. "Our website targets a niche market with huge potential. It's vertical, targeted, and has no competitors. We currently have over 200,000 users and are the largest ACG communication community and video platform in China..."

He spoke haltingly, obviously having memorized it in advance.

Yuan Yanbo listened patiently to the end of his argument, then bluntly pointed out, "But your website doesn't have an audiovisual license yet, right? Furthermore, the website itself has its fair share of issues. Not only do server errors frequently occur, but submissions aren't reviewed regularly. A while ago, the server crashed, and it was inaccessible for over two weeks. Users were complaining. While it's indeed the largest ACG community and video platform in China, compared to other mainstream video sites, it doesn't have any advantages at all, and its commercialization is also quite weak..."

"..."

Cai Quan was speechless. After a while, he finally explained, "It's mainly because we have too few staff members, and we also have some funding problems..."

Yuan Yanbo continued to ask: "What about the commercialization issue?"

Cai Quan was speechless: "..."

Wen Fei, who was about to say something, also shut his mouth.

If there really was a viable commercialization path, they wouldn't be in such a rush to sell the website.

At this time.

Tang Yao noticed Cai Quan's embarrassment and understood the limitations of a otaku in this matter. She signaled Yuan Yanbo not to continue and asked, "Are you sure you want to sell the website?"

"Sure……"

Cai Quan looked at Tang Yao after hearing this. When he saw her harmless and pretty face, he seemed less nervous. "To be honest, I can't even afford to pay next month's salary. The pressure from server-related expenses is getting greater and greater. If I didn't have any other options, I wouldn't even think of selling the website..."

"Then why don't you accept the capital injection?"

Tang Yao was a little curious, and also wanted to find out the real situation of the website.

“…because we lack the ability.”

This time, the one who answered Tang Yao was not Cai Quan, but the pretty Wen Fei.

She looked at Tang Yao, who seemed younger than herself, and said seriously, "We tried, but we found that we simply don't have the ability to run a company. Both me and the person next to me were just enthusiasts at the beginning. We had no idea where the website should go next, or what we should do to turn the website around.

Professionals do professional things... and we are just enthusiasts, obviously not professional enough. Even if we accept your investment, we will probably just continue to spend money to buy servers, and then hire some employees to maintain the website and improve user experience, but we don’t know what to do with more.

We have experienced this situation once before, and at the beginning the investor was so angry that he gave up on us.

If there was a way, we wouldn't want to sell the website, but there's no other way... Instead of accepting investment and wasting time, it would be better to sell the entire website to you. You professionals might be able to make the website survive better, which would also be good for the website users."

Cai Quan did not refute, but smiled bitterly and said: "That's right..."

Although Tang Yao wasn't sure if what they said was true, she could tell they were serious about selling, so she continued to ask, "You accepted investment in the beginning. Were you able to recover the shares there smoothly?"

"Sure. I think they'd be happy to let us buy back our shares at the original price, because the investor once told us that our website doesn't look like something that could be turned into a company..."

"So how much do you think you'd like to sell it for?"

"Forehead……"

"..."

Cai Quan and Wen Fei exchanged a glance, then said unsurely, "Five million? Wen Fei and I own the majority of the shares, and the rest is in the hands of that angel investor. He invested one million, so it's six million in total..."

Tang Yao: “…”

Compared with FGO's first-day revenue, this number is very small.

But the two are still very unconfident, and it is obvious that neither of them has much confidence in the future of the website.

And hear this number.

Tang Yao suddenly remembered something.

Xilin, the founder of the famous A-Station, seemed to have sold the website to Chen Shaojie for 400 million. After Chen Shaojie incubated Douyu, he sold the website to Yang Xinmiao. Since then, A-Station has embarked on a long road of palace fighting, changing hands several times within a few years, and each round of financing was accompanied by shocks at the top.

It is obvious that this site was established earlier than Bilibili. Bilibili was originally derived from Bilibili A and was a backup site at that time.

But the fate of the two sites was completely different.

develop to the end.

Station A... is really dead. Even the videos on the rankings have only a little over 10,000 views.

It's simply terrible.

So will the ANF here become Station A?

……No.

Let’s not talk about FGO, which brought a company to Nasdaq.

Avalon Studios will then just have to continue working on the second game.

Then this already established two-dimensional cultural community and video platform...will definitely soar to the sky!
Think of this.

Tang Yao looked at the two cautious and unconfident founders in front of her, and suddenly smiled softly, then said, "Okay, I'll buy it. Please help me solve the equity issue with the investors. I'll pay for it!"

(End of this chapter)