Turn over from love

Chapter 200
In the list of "things I don't like to do in life", Zhang Chen will write the words "family dinner" without hesitation.

Today, it is the "family dinner" time that the Zhang family must come once a month, which is more regular than a woman's aunt.

Sitting at the dining table, facing his father who always had an overly serious face, and his two elder brothers who almost didn't have "spirited" engraved on their faces, Zhang Chen couldn't eat well.

As if he had deeply comprehended the poem "every grain is hard work", Zhang Chen buried his head in counting the few grains of rice at the bottom of the bowl, and swallowed every single grain in his mouth.

His mother, Jiang Yuanyuan, silently glanced at him, then sighed slightly.

How did you give birth to such an unworthy son?
"Ah Chen, I heard that the game you made is already online, how is it? Is the market feedback okay?" The eldest brother Zhang Zhixuan broke the silence between the dining tables.

When Zhang Chen heard it, he almost choked on the few grains of rice in his mouth, and couldn't help coughing a few times.

It really is which pot can't be opened without mentioning which pot...

What work are you talking about over dinner? !

But the complaints in his heart belonged to the complaints, and the eldest brother said this, no matter how upset he was, he had to respond well.

After all, the old father is here.

He has spent a lot of money on this game project for two or three years, and now it has finally launched grandly. It would be unreasonable not to report the results.

The second brother Zhang Yunkai also turned his eyes to look at Zhang Chen when he heard the words, with a look of anticipation.

Father Zhang Deyuan continued to eat his meal in an orderly manner without saying a word.

"Ha ha……"

Zhang Chen took out a napkin and wiped the corners of his mouth, trying to slow down the atmosphere with a low laugh.

"The game..." He paused for a moment, then grinned, "It's indeed online. The data in the first few days was pretty good, and it was very popular."

"Really? Then it seems that this project has come to fruition?" Zhang Yunkai looked a little surprised.

Zhang Zhixuan: "What's the name of the game, I'll play it later."

"..." Zhang Chen felt uneasy when he heard it, and stopped hiding it, and quickly wrote the following text, "Eh... Although the data is good, there are some bugs in the game design, and the players are not satisfied. experience, and now we have decided to remake the game, I’m afraid we won’t be able to play this game for the time being.”

Zhang Zhixuan: "???"

Zhang Yunkai asked sharply: "How long will it take to get back online?"

Zhang Chen scratched his head and said, "I can't give a definite number for now."

Jiang Yuanyuan subconsciously glanced at her husband Zhang Deyuan, and found that his complexion was not beautiful.

"In front of your family, if you fail in starting a business, you can generously admit that you have failed. There is no need to hide and embellish so nicely."

Zhang Deyuan spoke in a deep voice at this moment.

Zhang Chen's face darkened suddenly when his father was so shameless.

Although he felt very uncomfortable, Zhang Chen couldn't defend himself.

His game project this time was indeed a failure.

The team has worked so hard to make the game for so long. After it was launched, because it was promoted very well, it was really popular at the beginning. Unexpectedly, it didn't take long to find out that there were many problems. The server went wrong, and many bugs appeared in the gameplay. Players There are many bad reviews.

In the end, they gritted their teeth and could only take the game offline and return to the furnace to improve it.

In a rage, Zhang Chen ordered to optimize the team.

Now the team's vitality is seriously injured, as for the development time?Who knows how long it will take to get it back online.

This kind of large-scale production of games is time-consuming, labor-intensive and expensive. The key is that professional giant game companies have already followed their projects. Seeing how popular their games are online, people will come here after smelling them.

Zhang Chen originally had high hopes for this project, but the result made him feel cold again.

Although he was still struggling tenaciously, Zhang Chen's inner assessment of the project had already been labeled "failure".

Repeated investments have not yielded very good results. He really has no confidence at this family dinner table.

Criticism is inevitable.

He can only accept it.

In fact, he also has a way not to be criticized, that is, to stop from now on, no longer ambitious to catch up with the achievements of his elder brother and second brother in their careers, and willing to be a rich son who only cares about eating, drinking and having fun.

However, he has a mother who has high hopes for him, who urges him to persevere in aiming at the eldest brother and second brother, chasing and chasing, chasing and chasing, he has formed a habit, and gradually becomes unwilling, I can't stop anymore.

Zhang Chen lowered his head and answered his father's words in a low voice: "Yes, the game project can be said to have failed, and the ROI is no longer visible. If you want to continue doing it, you have to continue to spend money. This is not a small amount. Assessing the value of continuing to invest."

Jiang Yuanyuan saw her son so frustrated, and wanted to help him with a few words, but she didn't know where to start, fearing that she would make too many mistakes, so she stopped talking in the end.

Zhang Deyuan asked seriously: "If the evaluation result is not good, what will you do?"

Zhang Chen swallowed his saliva, and when he heard this, he said angrily: "If it really doesn't work, I'll sell this project!"

Zhang Deyuan raised his eyebrows: "Can you sell it back?"

Feeling his father's contemptuous tone, Zhang Chen raised his chin, "Of course! My project still has great potential, and someone is willing to buy it! Dad, don't underestimate the game industry. It’s a problem, but it’s a big-money project.”

Zhang Deyuan: "But in fact, it has encountered difficulties."

"..." Zhang Chen was speechless.

Zhang Zhixuan looked at Zhang Chen for a while, then interjected: "You just made up a large sum of money to invest in this project a while ago, and now you don't want to solve the channel, so hastily thinking about selling it, isn't it right?"

Zhang Chen was stunned for a while when he heard this, and then said "ah?"

Zhang Yunkai answered: "Didn't you embezzle [-] million a while ago?"

Only then did Zhang Chen understand what they were talking about.

"The [-] million yuan was not invested in this project!" Zhang Chen anxiously explained.

"No?" Zhang Yunkai frowned suspiciously, "So what new project are you playing? Two hundred million?"

Just failed a project and tossed a new one?
What a loser...

No amount of wealth is enough to defeat you!
Dad really spoils you enough.

Zhang Yunkai couldn't help complaining in his heart.

Zhang Chen explained: "The [-] million is for the movie."

Zhang Yunkai and Zhang Zhixuan: "???"

Playing games is not enough, then go to play movies?

They no longer know what words to use to describe their indescribable mood at the moment.

Zhang Zhixuan questioned: "Do you know movies?"

Zhang Chen: "Understand a little."

The corners of Zhang Yunkai's mouth couldn't help trembling, "Understood, you just voted [-] million?"

Zhang Chen heard the extreme distrust of him in the tone of the two elder brothers, and his self-esteem was crushed again.

He refused to accept it, so why did he start questioning him before he even figured out the situation?

He didn't start to do anything, and they thought he would fail, which really bothered him the most.

"Don't worry, this time the investment is guaranteed!" Zhang Chen lifted his chin slightly, and his voice became louder, "I signed the VAM, if I don't make money back, they will pay me back."

"Whose movie did you vote for, and they signed with you to bet?" Zhang Zhixuan was even more puzzled.

Zhang Chen didn't say who it was at this time, and answered around the corner: "Don't worry about it, you don't know each other, and you don't understand the entertainment industry. Anyway, I won't invest at a loss this time, so don't worry."

"Besides, don't you think that if I don't know how to play movies and how to play in the entertainment industry, I will definitely fail. This time I have an advisor, so don't worry. Besides, Ye Fangfei also invested [-] million in this movie project. One of their family's properties, you can't go wrong with her."

What Zhang Chen said later made everyone at the dinner table stunned.

Zhang Yunkai was startled, "Ye Fangfei?"

Zhang Zhiyuan: "After that show, do you still have contact with her?"

When Zhang Chen saw their surprised expressions, he immediately became confident, and said with a smile: "Yes, it's more than just a relationship. Fang Fei and I are good friends now."

Everyone was surprised: "???"

Zhang Zhiyuan and Zhang Yunkai were dubious, and said in unison: "Is it true?"

"Of course it's true. This film project was discussed with her about the investment." Zhang Chen smiled, deliberately blurring the concept.

It is indeed to discuss investment, but it is not a separate discussion.

Zhang Deyuan looked at Zhang Chen with a different color in his eyes, and said:

"It's okay to be friends if you can't be lovers. You are still young. If you develop well, everything is possible in the future."

"Before you got into such a big disaster, you can now realize it and properly handle the relationship between yourself and Ye Fangfei, which shows that you have made progress recently."

It was rare to be praised by his father, Zhang Chen was almost elated.

Jiang Yuanyuan next to her couldn't help showing a smile.

Zhang Zhixuan and Zhang Yunkai silently turned their heads and looked at each other, both feeling incredible.

The foolish thing this kid did before made the Ye family unhappy?
Can Ye Fangfei ignore the past and be friends with him?

what happened?
It’s weird.

"The [-] million yuan is for you to test the waters in the entertainment industry. If this project is fun, you can consider actually entering the entertainment industry to make a layout in the future, and you will be in charge."

Zhang Deyuan suddenly said so.

Zhang Chen: "?!"

What the hell!

real or fake?

Zhang Chen instantly felt that he could do it again.

"Dad! Don't worry! I will definitely follow up on this project!" Zhang Chen said, patting his chest.

……

After finishing this family dinner, Zhang Chen was suddenly full of passion for his career.

He contacted Lu Zhou immediately, intending to ask how the movie was going.

As a result, no one answered the first call.

The second call, still no one answered.

Zhang Chen frowned and started bombarding Wetalk information.

[Where are people? ]
[What are you busy with?I don't answer the phone]
[I want to talk to you about the movie, contact me as soon as you are free]
[Forget it, I'd better talk to you face to face, where are you?I will look for you]
……

However, after the message was sent out, Zhang Chen did not receive a reply from Lu Zhou after waiting for a long time.

Zhang Chen couldn't wait any longer.

Now that he is in high spirits, it's really disappointing that Lu Zhou disappeared at a critical moment.

After thinking about it, Zhang Chen contacted Ye Fangfei again.

Because Ye Fangfei reminded him before, and asked him to promise not to bombard her with messages, otherwise she would block him again.

Zhang Chen was afraid that something might go wrong. After all, the relationship between Ye Fangfei and him as friends is very important to him.

So, instead of sending a message to Ye Fangfei, he called her directly.

No one answered once, and nothing happened the second time.

Zhang Chen couldn't help complaining: "What's the situation? Could it be that he disappeared while playing with Lu Zhou? They didn't happen to go together, did they?"

As soon as this thought came out, Zhang Chen's eyes widened instantly, and he let out a low "fuck".

It is a big taboo for investors and investees to get together!

If it is not done well, this project is likely to be blown!

Zhang Chen suddenly felt bad.

"Don't mess with me! This project is very important to me now!"

Zhang Chen made up a big drama in his own brain, and couldn't hold back and made a third call.

The third call went on for a long time and no one answered.

"Women are really confused at critical moments!" Zhang Chen said angrily, and was about to cut off the call.

At this moment, a woman's voice suddenly came from the receiver:

"Can you say that again."

Zhang Chen was caught off guard and stunned: "?!"

Actually got through?

Ye Fangfei must have heard what he said just now...

Zhang Chen gave an embarrassed "hehe", and quickly explained: "Don't get me wrong, I didn't mean you... I just said my friend."

There was a shallow "Oh" on the other end of the phone, and he asked straight to the point: "Death serial call, what do you want from me?"

Zhang Chen didn't rush to answer, but asked back: "Who are you with?"

Ye Fangfei: "Why do you ask this?"

In other words: it's none of your business.

Zhang Chen probed: "You're not with Lu Zhou, are you?"

The other end of the phone paused for a moment before replying: "No, why do you say that?"

Zhang Chen suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that they didn't get together!Very good!Very good!

He smiled and said, "No, no one answered my calls to him, and no one answered my calls to you. It's such a coincidence. I thought what were you two doing together?"

"He's been busy recording a show recently, maybe during the filming period, he didn't check his phone." Ye Fangfei said.

"Shooting a show? What kind of show?" Zhang Chen was curious.

"Variety show."

"It's a variety show again, won't this kid go to a variety show again?" Zhang Chen was puzzled.

"..." Ye Fangfei was a little speechless, "Yin Zong. What's the matter with you? I'm busy, I'll hang up without me."

"I want to talk to him about the progress of the movie project, and I want to ask him out to talk, do you want to come together?" Zhang Chen said.

Ye Fangfei wanted to refuse, but after thinking about it, she said, "Yes, when?"

Zhang Chen: "He doesn't answer my calls, and I can't make appointments. I have to see when he is free. Didn't you say he is recording a show?"

"Then I guess we'll have to wait, he's not in Jinghua."

"Where is he then?"

"Brother Hong Kong."

"..." Zhang Chen frowned, his mind was a little far away, after thinking about it, he felt something was wrong, and asked, "How do you know his affairs in such detail?"

"He told me."

"Why didn't he tell me?"

"Why did I tell you that he has a good relationship with you?"

"???" Zhang Chen felt numb, "I invested [-] million in him, is the relationship bad?"

"Oh, I also voted him [-] million." Ye Fangfei replied lazily from the other end of the phone.

Zhang Chen: "2 is a multiple of 1, a completely different concept, thank you."

Ye Fangfei: "You signed the bet with him, but I didn't, thank you."

Zhang Chen: "???" Gan!

"Hang up, I'm busy now, you can tell me after you make an appointment with Lu Zhou." Ye Fangfei hung up the phone after speaking.

Zhang Chen fell into silence.

At this time, the phone vibrated, and a new message came in.

Zhang Chen picked it up and saw that it was Lu Zhou's reply.

Lu Zhou: [I filmed a program in Hong Kong]
Zhang Chen: [When are you free]
Lu Zhou: [Nothing recently, if you're not in a hurry, I'll find you when I return to Beijing after I've been busy]
Zhang Chen: [Forget it, I have time recently, I'll go find you, you always have time for a meal, right? ]
Lu Zhou: [There must be, so come on]
Lu Zhou: [Share personal positioning]
Zhang Chen: [OK]
　Thank you Empty Stool for rewarding 500 starting coins!
　
(End of this chapter)