Chapter 79

After finishing the Carnival, Qin Xiaoyu didn’t stay in Zhang Feng’s livestream, but exited directly.

He sent gifts in the livestream not to hear Zhang Feng thank him.

Nor was he there to watch the viewers spamming the chat with “rich guy!”

He simply felt Zhang Feng was a decent person, and that he consistently made videos and livestreams about Genshin Impact.

Invisibly, he was doing free promotion for Qin Xiaoyu’s game.

Sending a few gifts was just a small show of support for Zhang Feng.

Although Genshin Impact now seemed popular on Xiao Po Station with a sizable user base,

Qin Xiaoyu knew clearly that there was still a long way to go before reaching the game’s upper limit.

After all,

Xia’s population base was slightly larger than that of his past life’s Earthly Zhonghua.

According to his original estimate, active users should have reached at least ten million.

But the game had been live for nearly a month now.

And on Xia’s servers, daily active players numbered only around three million.

This wasn’t a terrible figure.

In any other game, three million active users would make the operators grin ear to ear.

But for Genshin Impact, Qin Xiaoyu couldn’t smile—he was even a little disappointed.

At the current natural growth rate, reaching the ten-million target

wasn’t impossible, but it was as hard as climbing to heaven.

Next,

to trigger explosive user growth, he would have to spend money on promotion.

After watching Zhang Feng’s livestream, Qin Xiaoyu suddenly had an idea.

Yinfu Short Video was now the hottest traffic hotspot.

Though its user base spanned most age groups, the core users were overwhelmingly young.

This overlapped heavily with the age range of anime-game players.

Running a promotion on short video would be a solid choice—at least Qin Xiaoyu thought the effect wouldn’t be bad.

After some thought,

Qin Xiaoyu decided to host a Genshin Impact streamer recruitment event on Yinfu Short Video.

On one hand, the event would raise Genshin Impact’s visibility among young people and attract casual users.

On the other hand, it would also be a small gesture of support for streamers like Zhang Feng.

Of course,

at this point, Qin Xiaoyu only had a rough idea—he hadn’t yet had time to plan the event details.

The key issue was,

these past few days, the studio couldn’t spare enough staff to communicate with Yinfu Short Video.

But that wasn’t a big problem.

Cai Qiu should be back by the day after tomorrow at the latest.

He’d discuss it with him when he returned and hand the task over—he trusted Cai Qiu completely.

…

Half an hour later,

Qin Xiaoyu returned to his rented apartment, planning to shower and go to bed.

But as he was about to take off his shirt, his phone suddenly rang with a WeChat video call alert.

He picked up the phone, saw the caller, silently put his shirt back on, then tapped answer:

“Big sister, what’s so important at this hour?”

On the call screen, Yun Shuqian’s beautiful eyes held a faint hint of resentment, as if complaining he hadn’t contacted her in so long.

But she quickly realized something and didn’t mention it.

Instead, she hesitated, struggling for a long moment before asking: “Um… do you have time for a late-night snack?”