Chapter 010: Intangible Assets
Although what Si Hang did had been utterly absurd, it seemed that he didn’t actually dare to truly provoke Qi Yu. After sounding him out that one time, he also found out that Qi Yu had a temper. If he were to cause them to have a falling out, Qi Yu would not leave him any face. And so, he subconsciously restrained himself a bit. Afterwards, he no longer dared to act recklessly.
In the blink of an eye, it was already match day.
That day, Qi Yu went to the stadium with Si Hang and the others. Their seats were in the VIP room.
Lin Huan’s team, which Si Hang regarded as a strong opponent, also came. The two sides met from a distance, and the atmosphere was filled with mututal hostility.
As an outsider, Qi Yu didn’t actually feel very invested. And because he didn’t understand the game, he couldn’t get into watching the games either. He just sat there and calmly observed the scene; from the way the game was displayed, the number of spectators present, the general age group of the audience, to their emotional response…
In the end, Xiao Ye of the FTD team won an individual match, but they lost the team match and missed the final.
Si Hang only showed a moment of frustration when he first learned of the result of the game. He very quickly resumed his frivolous manner, as though he weren’t at all concerned about winning or losing.
That night, he extended a rare invitation to all the team members to go eat at a local Michelin-starred restaurant. Xiao Ye, though, was absent for this meal.
When Si Hang arrived at the restaurant, he realized that Xiao Ye wasn’t there. He asked no one in particular, “Where’s Xiao Ye?”
A team member said, “The captain said he was in a bad mood and wanted to be alone.”
Si Hang let out a “tsk”. “Didn’t he win a game? Why is he still in a bad mood? Really.”
Their group went back to the hotel directly after the meal. Qi Yu wanted to go to the fitness center downstairs to get in some exercise, so he soon broke away from Si Hang and the others.
Arriving at the fitness center, he unexpectedly ran into Xiao Ye hanging around in a daze on the terrace outside the gym.
Qi Yu hesitated for a moment, then walked over. “Why are you here?”
Xiao Ye was startled when he saw his visitor. He stood up and called out to him, “Yu Ge”. He had on a melancholy expression, completely different from the murderous look he sported when he was playing on stage earlier in the day.
“I didn’t see you during dinner. Was it because you were unhappy about losing the team game?” Qi Yu asked him.
“No,” Xiao Ye said quietly.
Qi Yu didn’t pry. He simply stood beside him and accompanied him to empty their minds for a while.
There were no stars in West City’s night sky. The sky was like a dark blue silk cloth spread over the top of their heads. The color became darker as it reached the edges, as though the paint had settled down there, accumulating into a thick inky color.
“I know you’re Hang Ge’s friend…” Xiao Ye suddenly spoke, his voice was very soft, with a sense of frustrated uncertainty, “But I still want to say it. I’m not very happy in this team…”
“…Why?” Qi Yu asked him.
“Although everyone’s playing together, our hearts are scattered. There’s no sense of teamwork at all.”
“Really?” Qi Yu frowned.
“I still like my original team better. Although they’re not playing very well now, we were very united. I never thought about giving up on them…”
Qi Yu found it strange. “Then why did you come to Si Hang’s team?”
“Si Hang spent 12 million to dig me out. My brothers knew when he paid this price…” Xiao Ye smiled, his face full of bitterness, “They were the ones who gave up on me. They said they didn’t want to drag me down.”
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Qi Yu glanced at him. “Have you ever told Si Hang?”
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After a momentary silence, Xiao Ye added, “I heard you and Secretary Xu chatting in our room that day.”
Qi Yu: “What did you hear?”
Xiao Ye: “You were talking about team cohesion.”
Qi Yu said “Oh”. Now, he remembered. At that time, he and Xu Yizhou were discussing the core competitiveness of game companies — if there were star players in both teams, what could determine a company’s longer-term investment value? It was the cohesion of the team, an intangible asset that investors could easily overlook in the early stages.
To discover such “intangible assets”, investors also needed to have professional insight. For example, Xiao Ye said that the FTD he was currently in didn’t feel like a team, but a layman like Qi Yu wouldn’t be able to tell.
“It would’ve been nice if I heard you say this earlier.” Xiao Ye said with the forbearance of regret and remorse, “Then maybe I could have convinced my brothers to believe in me. I would have been able to accompany them so that we could make progress together. …”
Qi Yu looked at him in amazement—this boy was only eighteen years old, with extraordinary personal strength, and with Si Hang’s favor. His future was immeasurable.
He could obviously decide to care only about himself, but he would rather give up this “great future” and be with those obscure and nameless people…
“Xiao Ye, how many years have you signed with Si Hang?” Qi Yu asked him.
“I still have three years to go.” Xiao Ye sighed, “I can’t go anywhere in these three years, otherwise I’ll have to pay a very expensive penalty fee, and I might even be branded as a traitor to my team…That’s why I’m feeling so confused now.”
Qi Yu looked far into the distance. He took a breath, and muttered with a sense of maturity that didn’t fit his age, “Who isn’t confused when they’re young? Who can guarantee that they will always make the right choices in life?”
Xiao Ye: “……”
Qi Yu paused for a moment and continued, “Xiao Ye, you’re already amazing. You have a career that you love and that you’re good at. You can make so much money by your own ability… Si Hang’s investment in you, is also a kind of intangible asset for you. He made it possible for you to step onto the international stage and allowed you to be seen by more people. This is a good thing for you. You can say now that you don’t care about capital, but when you don’t have capital, you will then realize that you need it to support your dreams. This is the reality. If you don’t want to waste these three years, turn these regrets into your own motivation and improve yourself. If after three years, you can still be as amazing as you are now, and you still insist on going back, then bring your own team and come look for me.”
By that time he would have already graduated, and Qi Yu reckons that he could already have some dispensible funds…
Qi Yu tilted his head when he finished speaking. He was unexpectedly met with the sight of Xiao Ye dazedly staring at him.
“…what’s wrong?” Qi Yu thought for a while, fearing that he might have come off as too conceited, he added tactfully, “Even if I can’t invest in you, I can help you find some resources.”
Xiao Ye lowered his eyes in embarrassment, and let out an “en”. He then looked at Qi Yu, with the same shy smile he had when he first saw him. “Yu Ge, let me teach you how to play. This game is really fun.”
Qi Yu frowned. “I’m not really fond of playing games.”
“Uh.” Xiao Ye’s smile froze and he looked a little disappointed, like a child who wanted to offer his most precious thing to please someone only to be mercilessly rejected.
Qi Yu couldn’t quite bear it. He said, “Wait a minute…”
He walked to the side and made a call. After a while, he returned to Xiao Ye, “Are you free tonight?”
Xiao Ye: “Yeah, the competition’s over. I’ve got nothing but free time.”
Qi Yu said to him, “Get something to eat first, then come to my room later. 2316.”
——”You guys? Hah!”
While they were talking, a familiar voice suddenly sounded from behind them.
Beyond the gym’s terrace was the swimming pool, which happened to be connected to the bar they went to the day before.
Si Hang and the others had come to spend here again. Seeing them through the glass, they took a detour to check in on their situation. Only, when they got closer, they heard that last sentence Qi Yu said to Xiao Ye.
Si Hang seemed like the had caught hold of Qi Yu’s handle. His eyes were beaming with excitement. “Qi Yu! I didn’t expect you to be this kind of person!”
Qi Yu stared at him blankly. Si Hang smiled, he practically dancing with joy. He said, “Haha! It’s okay, I understand! No wonder last time…Ahaha, it seems that I got the wrong direction!”
Qi Yu: “???”
“If you had this kind of interest, you should have told me earlier. I could have arranged something for you… But it doesn’t matter. Xiao Ye will do; as long as he’s willing! Hahahaha I won’t bother you!” With a strange smile on his face, Si Hang backed away to leave.
Qi Yu was completely baffled. “What was he talking about?”
“I don’t know…” Xiao Ye couldn’t make head or tail of it either. He scratched his head and said to Qi Yu, “Hang Ge acts like he’s got a screw loose sometimes, but he’s actually quite nice.”
“……”
‘Nice?’ Qi Yu sneered and thought to himself, ‘isn’t that because you’re playing well? Just see how nice he is to you when you aren’t!’
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The next morning, when Si Hang saw Xiao Ye, he winked at him and asked, acting all hush-hush, “Hey, how were Qi Yu’s skills?”
Xiao Ye shook his head. “He can’t, he doesn’t play.”
Si Hang was stupefied. “Huh? Doesn’t play? Then why is your face so pale?”
Xiao Ye yawned, “He asked me to play games with his brother and sister-in-law. We played for the entire night… They were in China, it was daytime there.”
“Play, play games!?” Si Hang was dumbfounded, “What about him?”
“Him?” Xiao Ye scratched his head and said, “I think he was looking through some financial reports.”
A dull expression was stealing over Si Hang’s face. “Financial report!?”
“There were also two other books. They were in English and filled with numbers. I didn’t understand. He went to sleep when he saw it was already midnight.” Xiao Ye blinked his dry eyes. “Hang Ge, I’m sleepy. I’m gonna go get some sleep…”
After speaking, he waved his hand and left, leaving Si Hang alone in the hotel corridor, a mess in the wind.
Everyone was present during lunch. Si Hang asked Qi Yu with a constipated look on his face, “Qi Yu, are you still studying in your room at night?”
“Studying!?” Everyone turned to look at Qi Yu when they heard it.
Si Hang explained: “It was Xiao Ye who told me that when he went to Qi Yu’s room last night, he saw Qi Yu looking through some books and financial reports. So diligent!”
“No way!” Everyone had shocked expressions, as though Qi Yu had done something completely outrageous.
“Which financial report are you looking at?” Qin Han asked.
“Our company’s financial report,” Qi Yu didn’t deny it, and stated plainly, “My dad looked at it and said there was a problem. He asked me to take a look with him.”
Xu Yizhou, beside them, heard him. Remaining completely calm and collected, he turned to look at Qi Yu.
Si Hang sneered, “Why do you even need to look through it? Doesn’t your company have a finance department?”
Maybe in his head, Si Hang really couldn’t figure out why Qi Yu would take the initiative to do this kind of thing, he laughed for a good while. He then questioned earnestly, “Sigh, isn’t Uncle Qi being particularly strict with you? Otherwise, why would he give you homework on your vacation?”
Zhu Lin also said, “That’s right, it’s good enough to just find someone to look it through for you. Whenever Si Hang has any questions about those sort of things, he just directly asks Xu Ge, right, Si Hang?”
“En, Xu Yizhou is much more useful than those old fogeys in our university who only know to recite from the book.” Si Hang made no attempt to gloss over his sense of superiority. After complimenting Xu Yizhou, he looked at Qi Yu and feigning generosity, said, “What is it that you don’t understand? I’ll lend you my omnipotent secretary.”
Qi Yu smiled and didn’t respond. But Xu Yizhou, beside them, very naturally chimed in, “When it comes to financial reports, I know someone who’s particularly amazing in this field. He was a math major and his perceptiveness when it comes to business financial data is levels above that of ordinary people’s. 99.9% of financial fraud problems can’t escape his eyes.”
“Oh?” Qi Yu was a little bit intrigued, “He’s that amazing?”
“En, if you need it, I can introduce you to him…” Xu Yizhou paused for a moment, as though he was struggling with something embarrassing to say. He hesitated for a couple of seconds before continuing, “However, this person’s personality is not very good.”
“What do you mean by ‘not very good’?” Qi Yu asked.
Xu Yizhou explained, “He’s the sort to haggle over every ounce and he won’t work for others for no reason. Even if I introduce you to him, he might not necessarily grant me this favor.”
“To put it bluntly, he wants money,” Si Hang snorted out a laugh. “Stop talking around in circles and just introduce them already. It’s not like Qi Yu doesn’t have the money.”
Now that Si Hang has said this, Qi Yu could no longer very well say that he didn’t need it. Also, his interest really had been aroused by Xu Yizhou’s introduction of that person.
Seeing that he intended to accept, Xu Yishou took his mobile phone and added Qi Yu’s WeChat account. He then sent him that person’s contact info and said, “I’ll send him a greeting. You can just add him directly.”
Qi Yu clicked on it and saw that the other party’s WeChat name was “F1S“. His icon was a magnifying glass facing the coordinate axes.
When he added the other party as a friend, Qi Yu asked Xu Yizhou again, “What’s his name?”
Xu Yizhou said, “His online username is “Complex Number“. Those who know him call him “Xiao Fu”, but he should be a few years older than you so if you’d like, you can also call him ‘Fu Ge’.”
“Okay.” Qi Yu didn’t realize that Xu Yizhou had avoided his question. After he heard that he could now message them, Qi Yu didn’t rush to greet them. After adding him as a friend, he put down his phone and continued to eat.
The author has something to say: [Little Theater]
Qi Yu: “Are you free later?”
Qi Feng: “What are you up to!”
Qi Yu: “I found someone to play with you.”
Qi Feng: “……???”
Qi Yu: “If Ling Ke’s free, ask him to play too.”
After an hour.
Qi Feng: “Ahhhhhhh, what kind of immortal is this man you’ve found! I forgive you now!!!”
Qi Yu: “……”
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Complex Number: The fish bites the hook:)
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I bet Fu Yansheng is laughing evilly right now 😂😂😂 the gong is going to play his wife 😙😙
fufufufufu fys being the embodiment of 😈😈
thank you for the chapter ❤
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Thanks for the chapter<3
thanks for the chapter!
so secretary xu is one of fu yansheng’s colleagues or something??
I think he belongs to the maths group. The one which members go undercover.
Thanks for the chapter !
Xiao Ye the god gamer is so cute ah.. I hope he wouldn’t decline by then and still can become part of Yiyi’s investment in gaming business in the future
Hoho, the hunt commence..
I can see fu Yansheng, smirking evilly..😆