Chapter 72: Two Copyrights

3.5 million is not a small number; many bank cards have transfer limits between several hundred thousand and one million. Fortunately, Xu Heng had previously received special treatment from the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China due to the amount of money in his stock account, so transferring several million was still doable.

After signing the contract and seeing those five zeros in the text message on his phone, Huang Kai's emotions could not help but surge with excitement.

3.5 million!

Not 3,500, and not 35,000!

One must know what 3.5 million meant to a college senior in 2007.

Houses, cars—these things seemed to be laid out right in front of him, within easy reach.

Huang Kai swallowed hard and turned off his phone screen, as if afraid someone might see the deposit figure on it, then took a deep breath and looked toward Xu Heng.

"Boss Xu..."

Xu Heng laughed: "In the future, just call me Old Xu or Boss; calling me Boss Xu sounds too distant."

"Boss," Huang Kai said respectfully.

He didn't dare to actually use names like Old Xu or Little Xu; the two were not in the same social class, so their forms of address naturally couldn't be in the same class either. This was the rule of society.

Even if Xu Heng appeared amiable and very easy to talk to on the surface, who knew if he was the type of person who was temperamental on the inside? If he were to be fired over a small mistake and lose a monthly salary of 50,000, that would be a major disaster.

"Take me to see your current results, and that friend of yours, Li You. I contacted you through her last time, and you even blocked my QQ," Xu Heng teased.

Huang Kai could only laugh awkwardly and say it was all his fault for not trusting the boss at the beginning, and that if he had known the boss was so wealthy, he would have definitely served him with the utmost care.

Xu Heng also smiled, said nothing more, and followed him through the gates of the Communication University of China.

Huang Kai had also founded a board game club at the school. The club wasn't large, with a scale of a dozen or so people. They had borrowed a small classroom to use as an activity room, which was filled with wooden chairs and cards. Three long tables were pushed together to serve as a large table for board games, and there were a few desks in the corner for players of games like Yu-Gi-Oh! to battle.

Xu Heng met Li You there. She was a girl with an ordinary appearance, wearing a simple red T-shirt, and her hairstyle was the "bowl cut" popular among girls in that era.

She was also Huang Kai's girlfriend. The two had worked together to design the basic rules and gameplay of Three Kingdoms Kill, and had also hand-drawn the various cards for the first version of Three Kingdoms Kill.

Li You was startled when she saw Xu Heng, but she immediately realized who this stranger who had come to their club was. She glanced silently at Huang Kai, and Huang Kai walked over to her side and whispered a few words in her ear.

The subsequent matters followed logically. The relationship between Li You and Huang Kai had reached the point of being inseparable; the two's decisions were basically made by Huang Kai alone, with Li You usually only offering opinions on the side.

Since Huang Kai had already negotiated to sell the Three Kingdoms Kill copyright to Xu Heng for 3.5 million, she naturally wouldn't object, especially since she was the one who had persuaded Huang Kai to do it in the first place.

It was just that when she heard Huang Kai say that Xu Heng was giving him a monthly salary of 50,000, Li You still couldn't stop herself from covering her mouth in surprise.

"There's such a good thing as pie falling from the sky?"

"We can't look at the boss with the eyes of an ordinary person. Did you notice the watch on his left wrist? A Green Water Ghost; it's at least a five-figure number. People who can afford to wear that watch are either rich or noble."

Once Huang Kai said this, Li You also noticed Xu Heng's attire. Although his clothes and pants didn't have brand logos, judging by the texture, they shouldn't be cheap street-stall goods, which meant this Xu Heng was likely a "rich second generation."

Thinking of this, Li You finally felt completely at ease regarding Xu Heng.

"Then you should assist the boss well; maybe we can have an extra backer in the future."

"Don't worry, don't you trust my ability?" Huang Kai smiled and patted her on the shoulder.

The matter regarding the Three Kingdoms Kill copyright was settled just like that, not even taking a full day. The main reason was that Xu Heng's generosity was so great that the young Huang Kai couldn't refuse.

If it were the Youka company that developed normally in the later years of 2010, Huang Kai definitely wouldn't have looked twice at Xu Heng's 3.5 million.

Unfortunately, the advantage of a "reborn" person lay right here: Huang Kai's vision couldn't reach as far as three years into the future, while Xu Heng already knew early on what kind of success Three Kingdoms Kill could achieve.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that it would later become Huaxia's first phenomenal board game card set. To be able to buy such a money-printing machine for 3.5 million now—he was the one who had made a killing.

The next day, Xu Heng went to the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China to open an account and register his first company—Xianyou.

The meaning was simple: a company focusing on casual gaming projects.

Then he established subsidiaries under the company, such as Xianyou Entertainment and Xianyou Cards. In short, they were all empty shells for now, with no employees and no core team; all of that would have to wait until the company was successfully registered to start recruiting.

The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in Beijing was much more imposing than the one in Jinling. They didn't care for Xu Heng's small amount of money, so his preferential treatment wasn't as obvious here. He spent the whole morning just waiting in line, and the remaining tasks of submitting materials for review would have to be dragged out until after the eleventh.

Xu Heng wasn't in a hurry; besides Three Kingdoms Kill, he had another contract that needed to be handled.

That was regarding the Ultraman IP copyright for which Xinhua Chuang was the domestic agent!

In the 21st century, Huaxia had two major domestic card sets that had set off a craze: one was Three Kingdoms Kill from around 2008 to 2015, and the second was Ultraman cards after 2018.

These two companies were also very interesting: one was called Youka, and the other was called Kayou.

The story of Kayou was even more legendary than Youka's; it took less than three years to go from the verge of bankruptcy to an annual profit of over three billion.

Ninety percent of the reason for this came from the popularity of the major IP that was Ultraman!

Xu Heng thought that since he was going to print Three Kingdoms Kill anyway, he might as well print Ultraman too. They were all cards anyway; at most, there were only slight differences in the manufacturing process.

So, after leaving Beijing, he immediately flew to Modu, preparing to find Xinhua Chuang to talk.

When the plane landed, Liu Yiyan, wearing a mask and sunglasses, came to pick him up in person.

In October, Modu had already begun to turn from hot to cool. Liu Yiyan was wearing a plaid miniskirt and sheer stockings on her lower body, while her upper body was already covered by a small jacket, hiding her fine figure under the clothes.

"Hubby, you finally came; I missed you to death." Liu Yiyan wrapped her arms around his neck and brought her soft lips over.

"It hasn't even been a month yet." Xu Heng pinched her nose with amusement. He didn't kiss her back, but instead pointed at Huang Kai behind him and said, "There are other people here; aren't you embarrassed at all?"