Chapter 55: Three Groups in the Conference Room!

Following Qin Xiaoyu into the elevator, Yun Shuqian was filled with questions.

For example, where had Qin Xiaoyu’s car come from? Why had their studio moved into this upscale office building? What kind of game were they even making…

All these questions dissolved instantly the moment she stepped out of the elevator.

Tech nerds save the world!

Seven simple characters hung on the wall above the studio entrance.

The moment she stepped out of the elevator, Yun Shuqian looked up and saw those words.

At first,

she thought the words seemed familiar, as if she’d heard them somewhere before, but she couldn’t quite place them.

But,

as her gaze dropped lower and landed on the three large characters “MiHoYo,” her pupils shrank sharply, then widened again.

???

MiHoYo!

This… this isn’t the developer of Genshin Impact?

After confirming several times she hadn’t misread, Yun Shuqian was utterly stunned—and soon she felt like she couldn’t go on living.

The last time she met Qin Xiaoyu, and even today, she had been gushing nonstop about Genshin Impact and its creative team.

Looking back now, she felt humiliated.

Worse, the very person she’d lavished praise upon stood right in front of her, calm as ever, sometimes even deliberately contradicting her…

The fool was her all along!

Actually,

if these were the only things, it wouldn’t be that embarrassing.

The problem was, that day, to pull a Klee, she’d believed some coworker’s superstitious advice and shouted “Designer Dad” over and over…

That was the same as shouting “Dad” to Qin Xiaoyu!

Just thinking about it, Yun Shuqian felt like dying of social embarrassment—no, this was a full-blown social death scene!

“Uh… I’ll go meet the guests.”

Qin Xiaoyu, watching Yun Shuqian frozen behind him, guessed what she was thinking, smiled, and said:

“Everyone in the studio is someone you know—just wander around, talk to a student, or relax. My office is the first door on the right. Wait for me there.”

Yun Shuqian had meant to say something, but when she looked up, Qin Xiaoyu had already turned and walked toward a meeting room inside.

At this moment,

the large conference room was packed, and the people there could roughly be divided into three groups.

The first was peers from Xia’s gaming industry,

and nearly all the top gaming companies in Xia were represented.

Some mid-to-upper-tier game companies had also sent representatives.

The second group consisted of seven or eight senior executives from risk investment firms within Xia, well-known enough to be named.

The third group was more unusual—they were neither gaming industry peers nor financial sector bankers.

They were regional managers from several large chain physical enterprises.

After Qin Xiaoyu pushed open the door, every pair of eyes in the room snapped toward him.

This situation,

he had long anticipated, and knew it would come sooner or later.

He had once experienced even more complex scenes like this alongside Big Wei, so handling it was no challenge for him.