Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 1320: Chapter 1184: Blazing!_2 Chapter 1320: Chapter 1184: Blazing!_2 What tests, what admonitions, what threats, none of that existed.

In fact, to avoid disturbing their private world, they didn’t even stay for a meal.

With a wave, they walked off nonchalantly.

That left Lincoln all confused.

When he asked Camille Victoria what she had done, she was reluctant to share.

But after being pinned on the sofa and tickled under the armpits until she was laughing so hard she could barely breathe, she opted for honesty.

Her method was actually very simple and crude—

She bribed her sister, Zhu Qinglu.

After taking her sister on a tour of the “Mavis fully manual high-tech residence,” she pulled out her mobile phone and showed her sister her account balance.

Just to count the number of digits in that figure, Zhu Qinglu had to check five or six times.

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—Before this, Zhu Qinglu only knew that her sister could receive dividends from a few games; the figures were expected to be considerable, but she had no idea just how “considerable” they were.

Now she clearly understood: her little sister had become a wealthy tycoon—even by national standards, considering just the cash in hand.

Then, without a second word, the Little Princess transferred ten million to her sister.

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Before she formally broke away from the royal family, this was the most she was allowed to spend per week—initially the limit wasn’t that high, but after Lincoln introduced hibernation technology, it was raised to ten million.

This amount was virtually just symbolic, signifying compliance with the rules.

For the Little Princess, who didn’t spend more than twenty thousand per month under normal circumstances, it was as if there was no limit at all.

Although large transfers would only be processed the next day, and the money hadn’t yet hit the card, her sister Zhu Qinglu was instantly “persuaded.”

She immediately declared, “Wait for me, I’ll deliver the family register to you within an hour!”

Of course, that was a joke—the Little Princess had not renounced her citizenship; marriage wasn’t that simple.

Zhu Qinglu was not one to be dazzled by money.

But she was truly convinced.

Members of the Daxia royal family face many restrictions; they live off fiscal revenue generated by a large number of royal assets confiscated in history.

Although there is a substantial amount of this money, it’s been confiscated, and the allowances distributed to them each year are nothing like those extravagant stipends foreign royalty receive.

Common royal family members might live somewhat more comfortably than the average middle-class, but they are far from being considered wealthy—the Emperor and Empress fare better, but not by much.

Of course, they don’t have to worry about housing or transportation, so they’re definitely not in financial distress.

But if they want to “make something of themselves,” or satisfy more luxurious desires, they can forget about it.

So Camille Victoria is an exception among exceptions.

She is the first member of the royal family to retain her status and yet possess enormous wealth and a great deal of freedom, with the officials even willing to step back and give way.

The reasons for all this are self-evident.

That’s why Zhu Qinglu has always been supportive of her little sister taking the initiative to pursue happiness.

The string of numbers now just made her realize this point more directly and intensely.

Of course, she had no qualms about accepting the money!

After all, to Camille, this was just a drop in the ocean, but for her, it was a substantial amount!

She, playing the matchmaker, had brought a new couple together, and so she took the red packet with full justification!

—Of course, if it had been from Lincoln, she wouldn’t have accepted it.

She was shearing her little sister’s wool!

And after shearing the wool, whatever her little sister wanted to do or wherever she wanted to stay, that was up to her!

After meeting with Lincoln, Zhu Qinglu quickly took her leave.

And Lincoln, upon learning the whole story, wordlessly massaged the Little Princess’s cheeks for quite a while before they had dinner and then played games together.

In choosing which game to play, they didn’t pick Lincoln’s favorite “World of Bubbles” nor the Little Princess’s favorite “Dragon Knight.” Instead, Mavis pulled them into “Origami Kingdom.”

The Little Princess was immediately captivated by this novel gameplay; she forgot all about “Dragon Knight” and happily started folding origami.

Even when it was time to rest, she was still so enthusiastic she showed no intention of logging off.

At home, she would have already been in bed at this time.

But now, away from home and hooked on an addictive game, she was a bit unrestrained, and it was only with Lincoln’s ruthless intervention that she finally logged off.

Though after that, they didn’t exactly go to bed and sleep properly.

But no matter what, at least they were on the bed on time…

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In the following two days, the Little Princess once again postponed her moving plans, becoming addicted to playing games.

Of course, she didn’t spend all her time in Origami Kingdom.

That game was indeed significantly affected by production capacity, having only a framework and gameplay, with many elements unfinished.

Not only did its online function limit to playing with just one friend, it even lacked a main storyline.

Its greatest utility was in showing players the possibilities, which made everyone look forward to its completed gameplay.

But this anticipation, combined with the novelty of the current experience, was enough for players to give it a very high score.

The Little Princess gave it a perfect 10 on the spot before moving on to Dragon Knight, a game she had been eager to play.

One night passed, and Dragon Knight had earned the nickname “Super Can” among the player circle.

After playing all morning, she switched to another game.

Just like all players around the world, no matter how much they love a game, facing 100 different game worlds makes it hard to stay focused on just one.

They couldn’t help but be tempted to try something new in other games.

And faced with a massive number of trial players, even over a hundred demo trials were simply not enough.

By Saturday afternoon, the players had pooled their efforts, creating a ranking list of game scores and brief reviews as a reference for trials.

It’s worth mentioning that the [score ranking] and [popularity ranking] are not the same thing.

For example, the demo of Earth Fire didn’t score very high, averaging only 7.1.

The reason was a serious issue—imbalance.

The map was packed with weapons of outlandish power and severe imbalance.

Many players didn’t even know how they died, which greatly affected the game’s score.

But, imbalance was also the greatest fun of Earth Fire.

— Being blown into ions by someone else’s nuclear hand grenade was, of course, frustrating, but leveling all buildings and living beings within 50 meters, leaving only a huge crater, was too satisfying!

So even though many players were complaining and giving it low scores, they still couldn’t stop playing!

It was a true explosion of popularity!

Another game that blew up on the heat charts was Succubus Prison.

Players generally figured out the scale of this game.

How to describe it exactly…

If you say it’s compliant, it doesn’t seem to be very compliant at all.

But if you say it’s non-compliant, it doesn’t exactly violate any of Cloud Dream’s rules—the kind of experiences it offered could also be found in the Mysterious Stores of Night City.

It was a bit like the position of soft-style massage in reality.

To put it more bluntly, it was skirting the edge.

Only this game was doing it quite fiercely, a little too heavy-handed!

The players described it as—

“It feels like the development team is using all their strength to test the limits of Cloud Dream and the regulators!”

“Except for not taking off pants, it feels like they’ve gone to the limit.”

“The heroes!”

Yes, specifics of gameplay, the portrayals of blood and horror in the storyline… and so on, were almost never discussed…

Everyone was busy with shady stuff.

Even strategy posts were monochrome, teaching you how to trigger various fortunate scenes and deadly moves.

And the replies were all uniformly “the poster is a good person.”

Harmoniously unlike any game forum…

As for World of Bubbles and Paris: The Revolution, which Lincoln had specially marked, due to their thematic restrictions, they haven’t stirred up much commotion so far.

But for them, this wasn’t important anymore.

Because Lincoln had already assessed the weight of the demos and confirmed the capability of their development team.

So on next Monday, Lincoln would make an announcement, classifying them as “Outstanding,” officially stepping out of the framework of the [Cradle Project], and offering special support!

…

While the [Cradle Project] was thriving, the real world was also undergoing drastic turbulence.

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