At the start, I tricked the school beauty, and ended up with twins?

Lin Xinyue rolled her eyes at him.

Gu Yu was good in all respects except one; he liked to worry, insisting on involving himself in everything.

He always took over tasks meant for others, working as if he were a domestic nanny, wishing he could personally take care of everything in the company.

But was that possible? Of course not.

So it had to change!

"I'm just worried..." Gu Yu muttered.

He truly couldn't help being concerned.

"Is worrying useful? If you're so worried, why don't you take a plane back instead? Why go out at all?"

Lin Xinyue stopped in her tracks, turned around, and glared at him with a furious expression.

Gu Yu's breath caught; he realized that Xinyue was genuinely angry this time.

After a moment of reflection, he realized that, no matter how concerned he was, he couldn't personally handle everything and that sooner or later, he would have to delegate authority to other people in the company.

When that time came, he certainly couldn't continue to be overbearing, could he? Just like with Mr. Chen Tian and his son, Chen Qiao, even though Chen Qiao was the official Chairman of Shengda Group, it was the old man who actually held the most sway within the company.

"Wait a second... Chen Qiao, I think I understand something!" Originally self-consoling, Gu Yu suddenly thought of Chen Tian's son, Chen Qiao.

What if those three technical experts weren't sent by the old man but by Chen Qiao?

Lin Xinyue: "..."

Watching as Gu Yu picked up his phone again to start a group voice call, she stood to the side, hands on hips, fuming as she stared at the talking Gu Yu.

"Curry fish balls—" Just then, she suddenly heard a vendor's cry not far away.

Glancing at Gu Yu and estimating that he wouldn't finish any time soon, she ran over there by herself.

...

(Modu, Shengda Game Building)

"How's it going? Have you guys made any progress at Ideal Paradise over the past two days? Gu Yu didn't suspect you, did he?"

Chen Qiao sat in the main seat of a small conference room, looking at the three balding programmers before him.

These three were the backbone of the Shengda Game's technical department, and he had arranged for them to go to Ideal Paradise.

"We've made some progress. Their company is indeed developing a new type of major 3A game that hasn't appeared on the market yet."

"We haven't encountered Gu Yu. According to their company's employees, he left on a long trip a few days ago and won't return for at least a month."

"As for the rest of their staff, although they are still somewhat wary of us, they are gradually accepting us."

The middle-aged programmer in the center, who had the thinnest hair, spoke succinctly.

"Gu Yu isn't at Ideal Paradise? Ha, that really is convenient for your operations."

Chen Qiao was somewhat surprised, but soon his smile grew even brighter.

Noticing his subordinates staring, he gradually toned down his smile, "Ah, I really didn't expect it! With Ideal Paradise's rudimentary environment and technology, they could actually develop such a game."

Chen Qiao lamented; he was aware of the situation in Ideal Paradise's technical department. Most of the technical staff were recent college graduates, and there were even some who had not yet graduated and were interns.

Yet this team, which seemed hastily assembled, had produced two hit games one after another.

And in just over a month, they had increased the company's value to a staggering fifty million!

Although a large part of this success was due to Shengda's operations department's assistance, it also indirectly proved the immense potential of Ideal Paradise.

Besides, although Shengda Game had helped Ideal Paradise, they had benefited even more from the assistance they provided.

The ingress of Ideal Paradise not only revived Shengda Game's mobile gaming platform but even brought in a significant new capital for Shengda.

With the platform revived and new funds invested, a flood of small gaming companies entered, and the mobile gaming platform unusually blossomed.

A project that was nearly abandoned became alive again and even turned into one of the company's main revenue-generating projects.

This filled Chen Qiao with joy but also evoked wariness in him.

Ideal Paradise was developing too quickly, so rapidly that it defied logic, yet no problems could be found.

According to three technical experts, the tech department at Ideal Paradise was suffering from severe overtime issues, with most employees often pulling all-nighters.

Therefore, Chen Qiao felt that the rapid development of Ideal Paradise had to have been driven by Gu Yu's oppression.

Are there really any employees in this world who are willing to work overtime overnight for a company out of their own free will?

Impossible!

At first, he thought Gu Yu was just a talented college student with an entrepreneurial spirit, but now it seems he's every bit the capitalist as he is!

That kid is definitely bad news; I can't fathom what Mr. Chen Tian sees in him.

Although the two companies are currently in a cooperative relationship on the surface, in Chen Qiao's heart, he had already come to regard Gu Yu as a hugely potential rival.

Since both companies are in the same city, and in this city where giants like Tencent and Mihayou exist, the Modu gaming industry is currently in a state of tripartite equilibrium.

Among these three, his Shengda Game is indeed the weakest link. If not for the fame accumulated in the early years, it might have already been kicked out of the top tier.

Fortunately, under the joint suppression of the three companies over the years, not many gaming companies in Modu have managed to grow significantly.

Even the few that did well have been forced to withdraw from Modu due to resource monopolies of the three companies.

Thus, Shengda Game has been able to sit comfortably at the top tier position until now.

But now, with Ideal Paradise rising unexpectedly and developing so rapidly that it has begun to threaten Shengda's leading position in the Modu gaming scene.

In order to preserve Shengda Game's status, Chen Qiao had no choice but to resort to certain underhanded, albeit convenient and swift methods—planting his own people within Ideal Paradise to steal the data on Ideal Paradise's third game, making it easier to suppress them later on.

He could have done without such trouble; though Shengda Game was no longer what it once was, the connections and resources accumulated over the years could have easily snuffed out a small company like Ideal Paradise.

But he didn't want to go to such extremes, partly because of Mr. Chen Tian, and partly because he had designs on Ideal Paradise.

If possible, he would like to take the booming company into his hands.

Such a vigorously growing company, if brought under his command, would certainly revitalise Shengda Game.

"Since Gu Yu won't be back for a while, there's no need to rush in the next few days. First, build good relations with their people,"

"Stealing data and project plans must be done only when everything is absolutely foolproof! You all know the risks involved..."

With many thoughts in his mind, and seeing the three veteran programmers still looking at him, Chen Qiao couldn't help but to caution them again.

"Chairman Chen, rest assured! With our technical expertise, extracting data from their projects will go completely unnoticed by them.

Furthermore, while helping them solve a problem yesterday, I even left a backdoor in their project," said the programmer with the bushy Fu Manchu mustache on the left, smirking.

"..."

Chen Qiao was speechless, the veteran programmers were truly fierce, having planted a backdoor in Ideal Paradise's project so quickly.

Doesn't that mean he could stealthily extract whatever data he wanted!?

"They didn't notice anything?" Chen Qiao still felt uneasy and sought confirmation again.
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"Hmph, with my skills, it might take them another two years to comprehend the code I've written."

"In that case, I'll have to trouble the three of you. Once this is done, promotions and raises are certain!" Chen Qiao stood up, invigorating the three programmers before him.

"We will surely exert ourselves to the utmost for the benefit of the company!"

...

While one meeting was taking place in this conference room, Ideal Paradise also convened an urgent meeting after hanging up the phone with Gu Yu.

Yu Shutong: "I've made up my mind; we will discard all the project work done yesterday and roll the code back to the day before.

As for that portion written by those experts yesterday, I'm sure it's riddled with backdoors. We shouldn't startle the snake in the grass just yet; I'll keep that part of the code running!"

Pu Tongren: "Great! Now that we are aware of the real situation, I hope everyone will pull together and cooperate fully from here on out!"

The senior executives of Ideal Paradise all stood up, clasping each other's hands and pumping each other up energetically.

...