Chapter 78

“Brother Yu, we’ve nearly finished everything here and plan to head back tomorrow morning.”

On the other end of the phone, Cai Qiu slowly rose from the hotel sofa, a look of quiet satisfaction on his face as he spoke.

“You’ve worked hard, Old Cai!”

Qin Xiaoyu was highly satisfied with the efficiency of their trip; he smiled, clamped the phone between his cheek and shoulder, and locked his office door.

“Wait, Brother Yu, aren’t you going to ask how the promotion is going?”

Cai Qiu was taken aback.

He had gotten up from the sofa specifically expecting Qin Xiaoyu to ask him about the promotion results.

But then.

After waiting a long while, the phone offered only a few simple words in reply, followed by a burst of static.

The question he had anticipated never came from Qin Xiaoyu.

All the carefully prepared words he had ready now had no outlet, leaving him frustrated and speechless.

In fact.

Qin Xiaoyu could already guess the general outcome without asking—results elsewhere had been solid; there was no reason North America would perform poorly.

But judging by Cai Qiu’s tone, he clearly wanted Qin Xiaoyu to ask him directly, so Qin Xiaoyu smiled and casually said:

“Then go ahead and tell me.”

Hearing this, Cai Qiu instantly perked up, his voice growing excited: “Brother Yu, you have no idea how insane the results are.

There’s a new upcoming games leaderboard in North America, and our game is currently at number one.

This leaderboard isn’t just for mobile games—it includes tons of PC and console games too…”

On the other end of the phone, Cai Qiu talked for over half an hour before finally hanging up.

To be honest.

Qin Xiaoyu was somewhat surprised by such results.

If Cai Qiu wasn’t exaggerating, then they had spent a modest sum to achieve something major.

Besides the twenty million Cai Qiu took with him, Qin Xiaoyu had only arranged one additional transfer afterward.

Altogether, it amounted to just four million.

Add the ten million in channel promotion fees from Global Inter Yu .

In this parallel world, the total pre-launch promotional budget for Genshin Impact overseas came to a mere fifty million.

That’s far less than in his previous life.

Yet the results seem hardly worse at all.

Now everything is set—next comes waiting for May 1st, when they’ll check the results!

…

Eight forty p.m.

Qin Xiaoyu finally finished his tasks, stood up from his chair, stretched his limbs, and planned to relax before heading home.

But just then, a push notification suddenly popped up on his phone screen.

Such notifications, unless manually disabled, are sent daily by nearly every app.

Qin Xiaoyu didn’t think much of it; he picked up his phone and prepared to swipe it away.

But when he saw the content, his finger, already moving to swipe, froze mid-motion.

“The streamer you follow, Boss Nan, is now live…”

After a brief two-second hesitation, Qin Xiaoyu clicked through.

He had promised Zhang Feng the day before, when they met on the road, that he’d drop by his stream if he had time.

But last night, the Zhongli incident and the preview event had delayed him.