booktalesy Chapter 262 Haofeng's Counterattack
Chapter 262 Haofeng's Counterattack
In the master bedroom of Jinling Zijinshan Manor, Li Feng slowly opened his eyes.
He rubbed his slightly sore lower back, then glanced at the haphazardly scattered toys on the bed.
Last night's absurdity and tenderness swept away the frustration that had been building up for him for days.
A while ago, Li Feng's mood was at its lowest point because of the failure of the Toei Animation acquisition deal.
During those several gloomy days, Zhu Xudan, who served as a sandbag, suffered greatly.
Behind the heavy door of the master bedroom, cries echoed almost every night.
However, Li Feng has always been a man of clear distinction between rewards and punishments.
To compensate this tormented and wronged nobody, he personally instructed Lao Han yesterday to cast Zhu Xudan as the female lead in the newly approved martial arts epic "The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber".
This meteoric rise is enough to drive countless newcomers who have been sidelined to madness with envy.
"Click".
Secretary Zhang Yuxi, who had been waiting outside the bedroom for a while, heard some movement inside and quietly pushed the door open and came in.
Looking at the ripped lace clothes scattered all over the floor, Zhang Yuxi's eyes flashed with a calm indifference, as if she had never seen anything like it. She quickly walked to the bedside and handed Li Feng a cup of ginseng tea.
"Boss, you're awake."
While massaging Li Feng's shoulders, Zhang Yuxi softly reported to the director:
"Tencent Video is quite efficient; the 800 million yuan was fully transferred to the group's corporate account this morning."
Li Feng took the ginseng tea, took a sip, and sneered, "Since Penguin got the person, has there been any new development?"
"It made quite a commotion."
Zhang Yuxi covered her mouth and chuckled, her tone tinged with mockery, "I had someone in Shenzhen check it out. Tencent Video is really ambitious this time; they've already arranged core announcements for these two people for the next three years overnight."
"A total of 3 top-tier outdoor variety shows, 6 big-budget TV dramas, and 5 big-screen movies have been planned!"
"Their total investment budget, including publicity and filming, has already reached 2 billion yuan!"
It seems Tencent is trying to squeeze every last drop of traffic from these two to compete with iQiyi for market share.
"Two billion?" Li Feng was in for a laugh.
"They've got quite an appetite; it seems Pony Ma is really going all out this time."
"Since they enjoy being the sucker, then tell the subordinates to keep an eye on those two."
"Keep all their secrets under your control, and don't let a single word slip out!"
"Once all 2 billion yuan of Tencent's investment is invested, and all the movies, TV series, and variety shows are filmed and ready for release, that's when we'll recoup our costs..."
"Give me another ultimatum, and I'll set off a massive online uproar!"
"You know perfectly well how to maximize their losses, right?"
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Time flies like sand through an hourglass, and in the blink of an eye, September has arrived.
As autumn deepens in Jinling, the Li family is once again celebrating a momentous occasion at the Zijinshan Manor.
In the spacious apartment on the tenth floor, with a loud cry, Liu Shishi successfully gave birth to a baby boy.
Li Feng personally named him Li Maobo.
"Pine, cypress, evergreen, and evergreen."
With the successive births of their second son, Li Maosong, and third son, Li Maobo, the elderly couple, Mr. Li and Ms. Zhang Xiulan, who traveled between Hong Kong and Xuzhou, gradually got used to their son's loving and benevolent ways.
"Forget it, this is the world of the rich, we parents can't control that much."
Old Li, puffing on his pipe, whispered in his wife's ear, "As long as our son behaves himself and doesn't cause trouble, having many children is a blessing. If all the children born are healthy, chubby grandchildren of the Li family, that's the greatest fortune!"
The elderly couple has come to terms with it now, and happily takes turns holding their three grandsons, Li Maozhen, Li Maosong, and Li Maobai, every day, cherishing them so much they wish they could hold them in their mouths.
The elderly couple seemed somewhat uninterested in Yang Misheng's second daughter, Li Yuxin, who lived on the first floor.
This is a common problem ingrained in the older generation in rural northern Jiangsu. Even though they now live an extremely luxurious life, they are still closer to their grandsons and feel that their granddaughters will eventually marry out and become outsiders.
however.
Yang Mi, as the mother of the eldest daughter, did not show any frustration or discouragement.
Inside the luxurious duplex living room, Yang Mi was holding Li Yuxin, who was almost a year and a half old, looking out at the bright sunshine in the private garden, a cold and aloof smile playing on her lips.
"The old man and woman aren't close? Ha, what's the big deal?"
Yang Mi sneered inwardly.
She understood Li Feng. Although the elderly couple were his elders by blood, Li Feng would never allow his parents to interfere with or influence any of his decisions!
"Instead of putting on a show of being a dutiful son or grandson of a wealthy family, we should focus our energy on things that are truly useful."
Yang Mi turned around, handed her daughter to the nanny, and sat down at the desk piled with postgraduate entrance exam materials.
"Get me that master's degree from Tsinghua or Peking University first!"
Yang Mi opened the thick book "Principles of Management," picked up her pen, and a fierce ambition burned in her beautiful, fox-like eyes:
"As long as I can get my master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Hong Kong before Liu Yifei, I can rightfully take the position of the main wife."
"At that time, will I still worry about my Yuxin not getting the lion's share of the inheritance?!"
"Whether the old couple likes it or not is unimportant. As long as I take over, my daughter will be Haofeng's rightful eldest princess!"
......
In mid-September, the autumn wind in Nanjing blew down the plane trees all over the streets, while the domestic entertainment market witnessed a head-on clash between two generations of top celebrities because of a Mid-Autumn Festival gala.
The "Three Little Ones," whom Haofeng Group had been secretly cultivating for several years with a focus on a "developmental" approach, reached the peak of their popularity in the autumn of that year.
On the stage of the Mid-Autumn Festival Gala, Haofeng Film and Television specially arranged for these three youthful and energetic young men with traditional Chinese style to compete on the same stage with the most popular Korean boy group EXO.
At this time, EXO in Greater China was in turmoil—the original twelve-member group had dwindled to only nine members, with the three most lucrative Chinese members, Luhan, and Huang Zitao, having all left and terminated their contracts.
Meanwhile, Tencent Video, after acquiring the man and Li Moufeng with an exorbitant breach of contract fee, is eagerly launching its idol-making plan.
Before "The Left Ear" was even finished filming, the man immediately announced his new film, "Somewhere Only We Know".
The director of this film is Xu Jinglei, a veteran actress from the "Four Dan and Two Bing" era in Beijing. This female director has now completely sided with Tencent.
The female lead is Wang Likun, a protégé of Tencent.
At the grand launch press conference, Xu Jinglei went so far as to express his loyalty in front of the media, declaring that he was very optimistic about the collaboration with Mr. Wu and was willing to delay the start of filming to accommodate Mr. Wu's schedule, waiting for him to finish filming "The Left Ear" before joining the crew.
This extremely ingratiating attitude immediately sparked a new wave of frenzy in the fan community.
At the same time, Li Moufeng also officially announced two major youth commercial works, "Gardenia in Blossom" and "Fall in Love Like a Star," with the local Hunan TV station clearly visible among the investors.
Clearly, after weighing the pros and cons, Hunan TV has secretly sided with Tencent in this capital battle.
Tencent has even set its sights on offline cinemas, frequently contacting several large cinema chains in China besides Wanda, attempting to use capital to completely dominate the cinema industry. It is coming on strong, determined to compete with Haofeng in the cultural and entertainment sector.
For a time, rumors circulated that Haofeng Group, having lost its top spot, was doomed under Tencent's aggressive recruitment drive.
however.
Just when Tencent was aggressively expanding its talent pool in the entertainment industry and thought it had the upper hand, things were looking up.
Haofeng's headquarters in Jinling quietly accomplished two major events that were enough to suffocate the entire Chinese internet and gaming industry!
The first one!
Haofeng Group, through its subsidiaries iQiyi and its sports division, flew across the ocean to New York and secured the exclusive online video broadcasting rights for the NBA in Greater China for the next ten years for a staggering ten years and one billion US dollars!
A ten-year exclusive buyout!
This is tantamount to uprooting the male user base of Tencent and Youku Tudou in the video streaming industry!
You know, in the past, when watching NBA games, netizens were used to watching those laggy, pirated versions online.
Starting next season, hundreds of millions of hardcore straight men and basketball fans across China will have to download and log in to iQiyi if they want to watch Kobe Bryant and LeBron James!
This is Haofeng's most aggressive attempt to exploit the lower-tier male market in order to drive traffic to iQiyi!
The second major event was a devastating betrayal of Tencent Games' empire, IEG!
Haofeng Games officially announced:
[Haofeng Network has entered into a deep strategic partnership with Take-Two Interactive, and Haofeng's top-tier lead programmer team will collaborate with 2K Sports to develop the next-generation competitive online game – NBA 2K Online 2!]
When this news came out, the air at Tencent Games headquarters seemed to freeze!
Tencent has invested heavily in this sports competition arena! Their game, NBA 2K Online, has been operating stably for three years.
However, Tencent's "2KOL" uses the outdated 2K11 engine as its core, and then it is localized and modified by Tencent's own studio!
The game 2KOL2, which Haofeng officially announced today, will be powered by Take-Two's next-generation 2K15 engine, which will be released this October!
"A reskinned version of the outdated 2K11, going head-to-head with the next-gen 2K15? That's no joke!"
"Tencent has painstakingly operated 2KOL1 for three years, and now it's instantly become a thing of the past!"
"Haofeng's move is brilliant! He snatched the exclusive NBA broadcasting rights on one hand, and launched the groundbreaking 2KOL2 on the other! He's forcing Tencent to smash its own sports online game business!"