Return to 2002: Freestyle Superstar

Chapter 460: Am I so popular with female authors? (4K)

The Asian season is too tight.

The China Open in Yanjing has just concluded, and the Heineken Tournament in Shanghai is immediately launched.

This is the sixth Heineken Open and will also be the last.

Chen Ran had only had a few days off in Yanjing, and the organizing committee in the capital secretly hoped that he could leave as soon as possible.

This is the trouble of being too red...

In the past few days in Yanjing, athletes from other sports also invited Chen Ran to have dinner with him.

The way they looked at him seemed to say: Brother, you are so brave, you dare to do this to Director Cai.

Director Cai wants to find a doubles partner for Chen Ran. It is not a secret in the sports circle and many people know it.

Sure enough, tennis is indeed an international sport, which gives tennis players enough confidence to do so.

If they were athletes from other sports, they would have to obey the leadership's arrangements obediently.

They were extremely envious of Chen Ran, who also had high bonuses from tennis tournaments.

The prize money of the China Open is as high as 30 US dollars. This is just a 500-meter tournament. Among the major tennis events, there are not many higher-level events than the 500-meter tournament.

Chen Ran stayed in Yanjing for a few days and attended some business activities before setting off for the Magic City.

However, after he arrived in the Magic City, he did not rush to the training ground immediately. Instead, he quietly went to his company.

"Golden Slam Co., Ltd...."

"This time it finally lives up to its name!"

Chen Ran couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

When he first set up his company and chose this name, many netizens complained that he was "shameless" and "very narcissistic."

But now, everyone probably has nothing to say.

According to the plan given by Blizzard, "World of Warcraft" will be launched into a global public beta in November this year.

The original plan was for the US and European servers to be tested first, and then the Asian servers, including China, would lag two months behind.

However, thanks to Chen Ran's efforts, the open beta date was much earlier than in the previous life.

December!
The time is only one month later than the US server and European server, and a full half a year earlier than when Ninetowns was the agent in the previous life.

The relevant departments did not set any obstacles for Chen Ran's company in terms of approval. It can be said that it was a green light all the way.

Today, Chen Ran is not only a Grand Slam and Olympic champion, but also a representative figure in Chinese sports and a cultural symbol exported by this country.

More importantly, Chen Ran kept in mind his responsibilities as a public figure and did not use his enthusiasm for winning the gold medal to promote the game in the last Olympics live broadcast room, which also won praise from the outside world.

This may also be the relationship that gave Chen Ran the green light all the way.

However, Director Sun of the Tennis Sports Management Center has hinted that the leaders above also hope that he will focus mainly on his tennis career, but he must not be distracted too much by these side jobs.

Of course, Chen Ran also gave Director Sun reassurance, saying that representing Blizzard's games was to fulfill his long-cherished wish. After all, this was one of his dreams since his youth.

He even hinted to the other party that he would never follow suit again.

"Three years, I only have three years!"

"After three years, I transferred the agency."

"I will also use this to gain a fortune that can dwarf the entire world of sports, as well as the opportunity to become a comrade-in-arms with Brother Ma."

Chen Ran was thinking in his mind, but he said to the company's main management: "The server must be configured according to Blizzard's requirements to give players the best experience."

"There are currently so many servers for three-no online games in China that are definitely unusable."

"At least we want to give our Chinese players the best experience, which will definitely be no less than that of the American and European servers."

He said it with conviction.

Anyway, Chen Ran, my cousin majoring in finance at a key university, is responsible for all financial expenditures on procurement.

rebate?

Frankly speaking, the so-called knowing people but not their hearts means that even relatives you trust may not take kickbacks. This is something Chen Ran knows very well from his previous life experience.

Even if you don’t get a kickback this time, you can’t guarantee that you won’t get a kickback in the future.

But from another perspective, as long as the management gets things done and the company performs well, the boss sometimes turns a blind eye to these things.

No matter how strict the company's supervision is, as long as your management is not robots, it is inevitable to abuse power for personal gain.

Therefore, Chen Ran also thought clearly that if kickbacks were unavoidable, then it would be better to let outsiders take it instead of letting his cousin take it.

At least they have a community of interests and will not resign and run away after making money like other managers.

However, Chen Ran also discovered that his cousin was indeed from a financial background. Almost every financial expenditure would be carefully checked several times to ensure that there was no omission.

It seems that in her opinion, spending the company's money is really like spending her own money.

Hmm...very good, this is the attitude Chen Ran wants.

"In terms of point cards, we have cooperated with various Internet cafes across the country and established various distributors."

“Businesses are also very optimistic about the prospects of World of Warcraft.”

After all, not only in North America and Europe, there are also many senior players from China who have participated in the inside.

Compared with those domestically produced or imported online games from South Korea on the market today, this game does have epoch-making significance and is not one-dimensional at all.

30 yuan point card, 4000 minutes.

Chen Ran is also planning to launch a dual-track system of point cards and monthly cards after observing the market.

Players in the previous life complained about the agents of "World of Warcraft" like this: When we need monthly cards, you can only recharge points, and when we need points, you can only recharge monthly cards.

So these businesses are so shameless.

From Chen Ran's perspective, the agency rights are only three years.

Just be a good person and introduce the dual-track system of point cards and monthly cards at the right time. This will also pose a problem to Brother Ma who will take over the business in the future, and you will be able to win a good reputation.

"You seem to be very confident about this game?" Chen Ran's cousin asked curiously, "Is it completely different from the online games currently on the market?"

"It's very different, it can even be said to be subversive." Chen Ran smiled.

However, he did not hesitate to complain in his heart: "Everything about "World of Warcraft" is good, but it's so damn tiring to play!"

In my previous life, when I was in college, I still vividly remember the painful and unbearable experience of pioneering wasteland.

Keep releasing the soul, and then running away from the corpse, one after another, and I don’t know when it will end.

You ask me how tired I am?

If he had to choose between a World of Warcraft dungeon and a Grand Slam five-set match, Chen Ran decisively chose the latter. Of course, this kind of gameplay is unprecedentedly novel and curious for players in this era.

What's more, this is a game that only requires time and effort, but doesn't require too much money.

For those players who don’t like to go out for nightlife in their free time and have average financial ability, this game is definitely a perfect one.

If you play well, you can even make money from the game.

In 2004, many online games in China had started free models, and they also had the slogan "free forever".

With this gimmick, these online games can indeed attract many players in the early stage.

But it soon became apparent that this was all a scam.

The free gimmick is just to lure you in. If you really want to play well, you have to spend money, and big money.

In the game, there are places where you need to spend money.

How can you become stronger without recharging money?

And in the future, Xiao Ma will develop this essence to the pinnacle.

At that time, players began to miss the starting card game again.

30 yuan, 4000 minutes of Warcraft points card, this should be the most economical way of entertainment for the majority of netizens.

What's more, in today's era, because there are no studios and no mass production, everyone basically still plays games and explores the world by themselves, so if you are a rich player, you also worry about having money and nowhere to spend it.

During this period, without a financial group, it is even less possible for you to hire a team of people to work for you.

"From 2004 to 2008, this time I will have the most glorious period of "World of Warcraft", and that's enough!"

Chen Ran thought for a while and continued to give instructions: "Offline promotion of game posters in major cities can also be started, of course, mainly in Internet cafes."

It's the second half of 2004, and the security measures in major Internet cafes in China have been improved too much, and the computer configurations are also constantly improving.

At this point in time, "World of Warcraft" landed in China. It can be said that the right time, place and people are right.

In the future... for a long time in the future, there will never be a second MMORPG game like "Warcraft", not even one close to Earth.

"By the way, there's also the one upstairs..."

Chen Ran suddenly thought of his neighbor, Qidian Chinese Network, which worked upstairs.

According to the original historical trajectory, Shanda has acquired "Qidian Chinese Network" at this point in time.

But now, because of Chen Ran's butterfly effect, this has never happened.

"Qidian Chinese.com" has now stood out from the crowd and secured its top spot after going through rounds of fierce competition in the Chinese online literature market.

Even several other large-scale novel websites are far inferior to Qidian.

In addition to benefiting from the management team of this website, Chen Randi's intervention also played a role in fueling the flames.

First, because of the huge advertising effect he personally brought, and it was free, and then Chen Ran invested millions of dollars in capital, which made Qidian go crazy in the online literature market.

Of course, the writers at Qidian are also very capable. They have written various sacred books one after another and attracted a large number of readers.

Also because of Chen Ran, Qidian's management team had the capital to reject Shanda's acquisition.

To be precise, the sky-high price they offered made Shanda retreat.

Today, although Chen Ran occupies more than 30% of the shares of Qidian and is a major shareholder, he, like most angel investors, does not participate in the company's operations and will not interfere with management decisions. He completely lets them go their own way. Dry.

After all, he doesn't have the energy or time, and he doesn't think that his intervention in management can do a better job than the current management team.

People are more valuable in having self-knowledge.

Since Qidian's management team has proven its strength in previous lives, there is really no need for him to change anything.

Some time ago, he set up a tennis essay competition with his own money, and the response was overwhelming.

Especially after Chen Ran completed the unprecedented Golden Slam achievement, the popularity of tennis novels on the Internet reached unprecedented heights.

There are endless tennis novels of various types.

However, compared to football and basketball novels that use the same male author and protagonist, tennis novels actually achieve the goal of killing both men and women!

Many female authors have also flocked to Qidian, describing the story of a female player who entered the WTA for her dream and eventually won a Grand Slam.

Perhaps because tennis is the closest sport between men and women.

Therefore, these novels with female tennis players as the protagonists have done quite well, and even some male readers are very popular with such books.

After all, in the real world, Chen Ran has already won the men's Grand Slam on behalf of the Chinese men, while the women's Grand Slam is always vacant now.

Although Zheng Jie is considered a first-class player, she still seems to be far away from a Grand Slam championship.

Therefore, netizens can only put their YY on online novels.

Some readers also ridiculed that for football, we can only go to YY Men's Football Team, and basketball is similar, but for tennis, our YY Women's Tennis Team, because Chen Ran has achieved all goals.

In short, I hope our Chinese female tennis players can also win the Grand Slam championship as soon as possible.

The man has Chen Ran, and the woman also hopes to have her own Sharapova as soon as possible.

But there was something that made Chen Ran very, very speechless.

In these sports novels written by female authors and featuring female tennis players as the protagonists, she often becomes the male protagonist in the book, and then stays and flies with the female protagonist.

Moreover, these female authors are very brave, and because the Internet is now very open, they simply write Chen Ran's real name instead of an alias with a similar pronunciation.

As for the readers, they also requested that the male protagonist must be Chen Ran, and no one else would read it.

It can also be regarded as the Chinese version of Agassi and Graf.

These female authors even dare to think and write.

For example, for the heroine in the book, Chen Ran resolutely refused the pursuit of a popular actress in the entertainment industry and chose to be with the tennis heroine.

As for the actresses in the entertainment industry who are chasing after them, they basically cover some of the popular actresses in the entertainment industry today.

Anyway, in these novels with female tennis players as the protagonists, the female stars in the entertainment industry are green tea bitches and villains. The female protagonist is not only good at tennis, but also has outstanding appearance. Lapova is also even better, which greatly satisfies readers’ sense of YY!
In short, as long as it is a female star you want to name, there is nothing these female authors dare not write about. All villains are arranged, but the CP between Chen Ran and the heroine of the novel is very popular among readers.

Relatively speaking, the protagonists in tennis novels written by male authors will form a competitive relationship with Chen Ran because they are all male.

If the protagonist wins against Chen Ran, Chen Ran's fans will be denounced, saying that it is outrageous and exaggerated. They don't like this kind of plot and want to abandon the book.

As a result, most of the popular tennis novels were written by female authors, and the bonus incentives given by Chen Ran were basically taken away by female authors.

Chen Ran was speechless after hearing this.

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(End of this chapter)