Chapter 39: The Betting Agreement!

“Old Cai, Ah Wei, you’ve both worked hard today—let me take the shift tonight; go back and get a good night’s rest!”

After discussing in the studio until around nine p.m., Qin Xiaoyu directly told the two of them to go home and rest.

Since the launch of Genshin Impact these past two days, the workload they’ve carried has been far greater than his own as the major shareholder.

In fact, their sleep time hasn’t even reached half of his own; if they keep pushing like this, Qin Xiaoyu truly feared their bodies would break down.

Cai Qiu and Chen Wei had originally planned to stay past midnight, check the revenue stream, and then leave.

But after hearing Qin Xiaoyu’s words, they didn’t argue—they really were exhausted after these two days.

Their workload was nearly equivalent to an entire month’s worth of what they normally did.

“Fish Brother, I’ll head back to rest now—I’ll come at seven tomorrow morning to relieve you. Don’t forget to send us the revenue figures after midnight, or we won’t be able to sleep soundly.”

Hearing their final words before leaving, Qin Xiaoyu was left speechless.

“These two guys have never seen real money…”

Shaking his head and silently sighing, Qin Xiaoyu remembered the promise he’d made to Tao Xiaodian that day; after a moment of thought, he plugged the external hard drive into his computer.

He didn’t make promises lightly, but once he gave his word, he’d do his best within his means.

Besides,

according to Tao Xiaodian’s words, this matter was also beneficial to his game—who could ever dislike free promotion?

Still, he certainly wouldn’t hand over all the character model data to her.

After all, many characters hadn’t been released yet; giving them to her now might boost player anticipation, but if they wouldn’t appear for a long time, it wouldn’t be appropriate to hand them over prematurely.

In this parallel world, before Genshin Impact’s launch, Qin Xiaoyu had made considerable changes to the character roster.

Characters from Liyue who were originally meant to appear at launch—like Keqing, Ningguang, and QiQi—

due to voice actor issues, most hadn’t been released in the first half of Version 1.0.

That’s why on the first day of launch, many trolls online had pushed the narrative that Genshin Impact was a game obsessed with foreign culture.

But considering these characters were due to appear in the second half of Version 1.0, Qin Xiaoyu thought for a moment and sent them all to Tao Xiaodian.

After completing this task, Qin Xiaoyu took a short break.

Then he opened the overseas voice actor files Chen Wei had sent him and began studying them.

After listening to a few voice samples, Qin Xiaoyu relaxed.

These people were different from Lin Su and her students—they were mostly professional voice actors with solid foundational skills.

Actually,

compared to domestic servers, overseas voice acting required fewer considerations, since there had been no closed beta overseas.

So, as long as they re-recorded and replaced the previous data, players wouldn’t suspect anything.

His main concern now was only the price.

Originally,

Qin Xiaoyu had expected professional voice actors’ rates to be absurdly high, but after reviewing their quotes, he couldn’t help but smile.

True, some long-established voice actors had steep prices, but most of their proposed rates were still within an acceptable range.

Even in places like Sakura Country, the voice actor rates were often cheaper than those in Xia Country.

Of course, “cheaper” here meant compared to voice actors of similar caliber—they still couldn’t be compared to Lin Su and her group.