Chapter 71 - 71 Negotiation
71 Negotiation
A kidney transplant surgery, including postoperative care, would cost more than 300,000 yuan.
The 30,000 yuan that they had won from the competition had already been paid for the hospital fees. They still owed the hospital 30,000 to 40,000 yuan. Now, Zhai Jing only had about 1000 yuan left from the part-time salary that he had just received. He was still far from 300,000 yuan.
To raise the money as soon as possible, Zhai Jing had to take out the things that he had prepared for many years and look for Ren Rong of Dahong Corporation.
“The people from the foundation said that you wanted to see me and that you have a business deal to do with me. I’ve been very curious about it.”
Ren Rong still had a good impression of Zhai Jing. In addition, he owed him a favor during the previous competition. Therefore, after hearing the message from the Foundation’s President, he was stunned for a moment but still found time to meet Zhai Jing in his busy schedule.
In the guest room, the two of them sat on both sides of the table. The secretary served Zhai Jing a cup of tea.
“Thank you for taking the time to see me.” Zhai Jing placed the relevant information that he had prepared in front of him.
Ren Rong picked it up curiously. “A game proposal?”
“Yes, this is an ancient-style combat game that I spent three years making. I know that head office Ren has a gaming company under his name, so I was wondering if we could come to an agreement,” Zhai Jing explained.
President Ren raised his eyebrows.
“Weren’t you only fifteen years old three years ago? You’re already thinking about making games?”
“Because I like to play games, so I taught myself how to develop programs.” Zhai Jing’s words were half true and half false.
He really liked games, but the reason why he spent so much time here was mainly that he was young at that time. He wanted to make money but couldn’t find a part-time job. When he heard that he could make money by playing games, he put in the effort to study a few popular games.
He was quick-witted, his fingers were flexible, and he was willing to put in the effort to study it, so he quickly figured out a way to play. He gradually gained some fame in the circle, and people came to him to play.
Zhai Jing was naturally happy to be able to play games and earn living expenses.
Until one day, he saw a piece of news on the internet. A small gaming company had launched a popular game, and its monthly revenue had broken through hundreds of millions. It had become a big money-maker in an instant. This incident had left an impression on him. If the game was well designed, one could make a lot of money.
At the age of fifteen, Zhai Jing had an idea. He wanted to design a game and earn more money to save for his mother’s surgery. Hence, he took some time every day to learn programming development. After learning for a while, he realized that he was quite talented in this area, so he began to create his first game.
In the past three years, he had been in charge of the development of this ancient-style game while Mother Zhai was in charge of the art design. From scratch, it had been slowly built and modified. Now, the overall framework had been completed. The plot and character settings had also been partially completed. Only some details still needed to be perfected before it could be launched for the closed beta.
“Self-taught? you’re pretty good.” Ren Rong casually complimented him, but he wasn’t taking it seriously.
The domestic gaming market was still in a blue-ocean state, but there were only a few companies that could make games big and strong.
The game company under his name was acquired two years ago. After two years of integration and development, only two small games were produced. The company’s profits were still mainly from bringing in games from overseas. But even so, they could only barely maintain a balance of income and expenditure.
Making a game wasn’t that simple.
But Ren Rong flipped through the pages, and the more he read, the more serious he became. In the end, he even became addicted.
Ren Rong had just turned 50 this year and was considered to be in the prime of his life in the business world. The reason why he bought the game company was not only to expand the company’s territory but also because he was playing games himself. Therefore, compared to those bosses who did not understand games but were in charge of game development, he could quickly judge the playability of the game from the proposal.
At the very least, from the proposal, it was not that Zhai Jing was insensible as a young man, but he had the confidence to come to his door and talk about business. After Ren Rong finished reading the proposal, he asked Zhai Jing,
“You said that the game has been created. Can we try it out?”
“Sure.” Zhai Jing took out a USB flash drive. “But I need a computer with higher specifications.”
At Ren Rong’s command, his subordinates quickly sent over a computer with the best configuration. Zhai Jing inserted the USB drive and opened the game from it directly. Then, he logged into an account of 0001.