Mr. Dior - Chap 61 Lord Poseidon's Merman Prince

Zhang Chenfei could only deal with the IntelliBrain repair project when he wasn’t in character, so every time he “woke up”, the first thing he asked about was this topic.

Great progress had been made in the search for patients with IntelliBrain Disorder Syndrome. There were quite a number of people suffering from it in the country, but for most of them, it wasn’t very severe, and they recovered within a week or so. Very few had suffered from this illness as long as Zhang Chenfei had.

The people of Chyna had a habit of making light of big problems, and since they didn’t suffer any serious long-term effects, they didn’t make a big deal out of it. The Ministry of Justice finally selected two IntelliBrain users who had more serious symptoms and arranged for them to meet with Zhang Chenfei today.

When Jiao Qi heard about this, he decided to accompany Zhang Chenfei to the meeting.

The first victim was a twenty-year-old university student. He had been in the midst of playing a game when a minor earthquake happened, dislodging the ceiling light and causing it to crash onto his head. The game he had been playing then was an unlimited flow horror game, and the plot was a repetitive one that went round and round in circles. Even though he didn’t have much memory space in his IntelliBrain, he had still gotten stuck in that game.

“I know who you two are,” the youth said. He was wearing a tight, camouflage-print spandex outfit, and a toy gun hung from his waist. He quickly put on a pair of blue light cancelling glasses.

“Who are we?” Zhang Chenfei asked curiously.

“We met yesterday. You said that the secret passage was hidden in the lowest level of the wardrobe, but there wasn’t any secret passage,” the youth said. He pulled out his gun and pointed it at Zhang Chenfei. “Die, you alien creature! Even though you’ve now changed your appearance to look like Daddy Chenfei, you can’t fool me!”

“Chenfei!” Jiao Qi heard the gun go off and instinctively tried to push his Laogong aside, but Zhang Chenfei wrapped his arms around him instead and turned his body around.

A paintball landed on the back of Zhang Chenfei’s black suit jacket, splattering bright paint all over it.

“It’s a paintball gun. Don’t get your clothes dirty,” Zhang Chenfei said softly to the little wife in his arms. He took the opportunity to plant a kiss on his cute little wife.

They weren’t alone in the room – there were secretaries, staff from the Ministry of Justice, and the youth’s mother. Jiao Qi shot him a look, then quickly pushed him away.

“Ah, I’m so sorry, CEO Zhang. My child is still insane,” the youth’s mother said, quickly catching hold of her son and apologising to Zhang Chenfei. That suit looked very expensive, and she certainly couldn’t afford to compensate him for the damage done to it.

Zhang Chenfei waved a hand dismissively, then took off his jacket and tossed it to his secretary. “How long has he been like this?” he asked.

“It’s been about half a year. The doctors say that he might never get well. We’ve sued NC Electronics, but they don’t seem to care,” the youth’s mother said. Tears started to run down her face as she spoke. Her son had been a university student with a bright future when this had happened out of the blue, and she had no choice but to take him out of school for the time being. Their family was just an ordinary one, and they didn’t have the resources to make a big issue out of this.

NC Electronics was precisely the IntelliBrain manufacturer that Zhang Chenfei was preparing to go after. They were primarily involved in manufacturing low cost IntelliBrains for the mass market, and it was the softest target out of the three IntelliBrain manufacturers.

Zhang Chenfei looked at the despondent, teary-eyed mother, then suddenly felt his heart ache for his little wife. When he was in one of his crazy characters, did Jiao Qi also feel like his heart was breaking and cry his heart out?

“No,” Jiao Qi said. He could immediately tell with one look what this Big Cock Zhang was thinking about. His back tended to feel like it was breaking during those times, but every other part of him was perfectly fine.

“… …” After losing the opportunity to have a heart-to-heart talk with his Yanyan about this, Zhang Chenfei coughed lightly and turned to comfort the crying mother. “Since you’ve taken the time to come here, I’ll be upfront with you. We’re businessmen, and what we’re after is profit. What we’re trying to do is to make an app that has the ability to clear the cache memory in an IntelliBrain. We will profit from this app, but at the same time, it may be able to cure your son’s illness.”

The youth’s mother had originally thought that this meeting was just some kind of perfunctory CSR effort by Shifei Tech and didn’t come with high hopes at all, but when she heard Zhang Chenfei say this, her eyes lit up immediately.

“As such, what we need you to do now is to cooperate with us, and also keep this a secret. NC won’t provide us with the data I need unless we manage to get a court order against them, and if I don’t get the data, I can’t make the software. It goes without saying that if I can’t make the software, your son can’t be cured either,” Zhang Chenfei said. The only way to make a partner give 120% was to make sure she knew they were in the same boat and would succeed or fall together. This was Zhang Chenfei’s experience in doing business thus far. He had set this out clearly right at the outset so that she wouldn’t be easily taken in by anything NC said or offered.

Jiao Qi and Zhang Chenfei were stunned when they pushed open another door to meet with the other IntelliBrain victim. A young girl dressed in trendy clothes sat casually on the sofa, looking up at them when they came in. She was a celebrity who was as famous as the popular character Tang Qiang – Jiang Rourou!

Jiang Rourou was a petite person, and she gave off the air of a soft, fluffy little white rabbit. She had a whole battalion of male fans who were absolutely crazy for her. She had also signed an endorsement deal with NC to be the spokesperson of some of NC’s new IntelliBrain merchandise.

“Good morning, CEO Zhang and CEO Jiao,” Jiang Rourou’s PR manager said, standing up to greet them.

“Why, hello, you two! My name is Rourou, and this fellow next to me is my PR manager. His name is… ah, it doesn’t matter,” the pretty young girl said, as if she were performing a comic dialogue on stage.

The PR manager frowned so hard it looked like he was having a face cramp. Last month, Jiang Rourou had been watching a comic dialogue whilst taking a break in between shooting scenes when she had been hit on the head by a malfunctioning prop. She’d fainted on impact, and when she woke up, everything she said sounded like it came out of a comic dialogue, and there was no way for her to continue working as a celebrity idol.

They had actually been in the midst of filming an idol drama when the accident happened.

Male Lead: “For you, I’m willing to give up the billions of dollars of my inheritance, and renounce my status as the young master of a rich family!”

Rourou: “You really shouldn’t.”

Male Lead: “I can’t live on without you!”

Rourou: “Is there a need to be so dramatic?”

Male Lead: “Of course! Don’t you know what you mean to me?”

Rourou: “Luke, I am your father!”

Male Lead: “… …”

There was no way for the filming of the drama to continue with Rourou in this state. She also couldn’t film any advertisements, for fear that she would be completely ostracised from the industry. They had to delay many of the jobs that Rourou had agreed to take on, and her management agency had already made losses of more than ten million RMB as a result.

Jiao Qi exchanged a look with his Laogong. They both understood why the Ministry of Justice had selected Rourou as a potential litigant. The amount of damages they could sue NC for in respect of her loss of income was extremely high.

“I’ll get my advertising department to make a specific request for Jiang Rourou to participate in our promotional activities in the coming weeks, and I’ll offer a high engagement fee. When your agency gets it, you can reject it and add it into the loss of income claim,” Zhang Chenfei said, shaking hands with the PR manager.

“CEO Zhang, thank you so much!”

“How much do you think we’ll be suing NC for?” Jiao Qi asked curiously.

“NC isn’t the main dish. What I want is to be able to make them an offer they can’t refuse,” Zhang Chenfei said, a slight smile on his face. After he had made the cache clearing app, he intended to sue the manufacturer of Louis XIII.

“… Dior Zhang, is that you?” Jiao Qi asked uncertainly. That line of Zhang Chenfei’s had sounded too much like what an evil godfather would say.

“No, it’s still me,” Zhang Chenfei said hastily. He had been trying to act cool, but he’d not only failed, he’d succeeded in scaring his little wife. Jiao Qi’s hand was on the table in front of him, and he caressed it comfortingly.

As they were speaking, a call came in. Zhang Chenfei immediately frowned when he saw who the caller was. It was Zhang Zhishi – Zhang Chenfei’s absent father.

Jiao Qi pressed his lips together. “Take it. What if there’s really something urgent?” he said after a while.

Zhang Chenfei picked up the call, and a middle-aged man’s voice sounded from the IntelliBrain. That voice should have been familiar, but it practically sounded like a stranger’s voice. “Chenfei, I’ve recently got a project…” the voice said.

“I’m not investing. I’ve said this a hundred times,” Zhang Chenfei said coldly, reining in his temper with effort. “I wouldn’t invest even if your project won the Nobel Prize. I don’t want to have even an iota of involvement in that research you’re doing.”

He hung up immediately after saying this.

Zhang Chenfei hadn’t thought to retract his hand from Jiao Qi’s after he took the call, and Jiao Qi felt how tense that hand became. It had even started trembling slightly in anger. He hadn’t experienced what Zhang Chenfei had in the past, and didn’t feel that it was right for him to persuade Zhang Chenfei to forgive his father, so he chose to keep silent. When the call ended, Jiao Qi took Zhang Chenfei’s hand in his. “Big Cock…”

“It’s okay,” Zhang Chenfei said, smiling immediately when he felt his little wife grasp his hand. “Eat up. I’ll send you to Bajiao when you’re done.”

The risk analysis report for The Pearl of the Sea was out, and Zhang Chenfei had a meeting with Handsome Games that afternoon. He sent his little wife to Bajiao, then headed for the meeting.

Following The Vampire Prince’s success, a number of combat games targeted at girls had been released on the market. The games were poorly made and were clearly just out to make a quick buck out of its consumers. There wasn’t really a game that could be considered a match for The Vampire Prince.

“Otome games usually have a shorter player lifespan, and The Vampire Prince is no exception. Its popularity probably can only be maintained for another year or so, and it’s not a bad idea to use The Pearl of the Sea as its successor product. However, our marketing department doesn’t agree with the battle format proposed by Handsome Games,” Shifei’s Chief Operating Officer said, gesturing at the presentation slides on the projector screen next to him as he explained the difference between the two games and their potential for future development.

In short, the conclusion was that it wasn’t advisable to develop The Pearl of the Sea as a combat game.

“It may lead to a large loss of our user base,” the COO continued. “The mermaid genre is quite different from the vampire one – one can see how a vampire can be farmed as a combat character, but the mermaids and mermen here are really just romance game characters. Who would want to let a beloved husband or wife participate in a bloody battle?”

Zhang Chenfei listened patiently to his presentation, then rubbed his chin thoughtfully. “Perhaps we can change it to a PVE instead,” he said.

Everyone looked at him in surprise, including Li Yingjun.

“Huh? How would you do that?”

“I read a book about a merman being trapped in a laboratory and being subjected to cruel experiments,” Zhang Chenfei said. “The protagonist saved the merman and fell in love with him. Perhaps we can let the player be the saviour, battling against monsters and evil scientists and the like. They can do party combat or single combat.” Zhang Chenfei twirled the pen in his hand.

The genius of the gaming word, Zhang Chenfei, had very quickly found the best way to develop the game.

The whole of the conference room erupted into excited chatter.

Li Yingjun looked at him in surprise. “You even read those types of books?” he asked.

“The wisdom of ages is found in books,” the great CEO said arrogantly, raising his chin.

“… What’s the name of the book? I’ll have a read as well,” Li Yingjun said, feeling like he had just been given a piece of excellent advice.

What was the name of the book again? Zhang Chenfei stared blankly into space for a moment. He couldn’t remember it at all.

He met his little wife at the gym as agreed after he left the office. Gao Shiqing, who had become noticeably thinner, was still struggling valiantly on the exercise machine. When he saw that his two beautiful female friends had their eyes glued to the handsome couple, he coughed lightly. “Big Fei, why don’t you go for a swim with Brother Jiao instead? The gym’s crowded right now,” he said.

Zhang Chenfei’s little wife had just embarked on his exercise journey, and it wasn’t good for him to do anything too intense. Zhang Chenfei felt that this suggestion did make sense, so after running for a bit on the treadmill, he tugged Jiao Qi in the direction of the swimming pool.

The clear blue water of the swimming pool was heated. Jiao Qi’s swimming skills were pretty good, and he swam two laps smoothly. Because he hadn’t exercised for quite some time, he was quite tired out after just two laps, and he held on to the side of the pool to take a break. He turned to look for Big Cock Zhang, but he was nowhere to be found.

“Big Cock Zhang?” Jiao Qi called, turning around. There were only a few people around, and it was plain to see that Zhang Chenfei was not one of them. He panicked a little and started shouting. “Zhang Chenfei!”

“Splash!” The calm surface of the water was suddenly broken by a huge wave, and Zhang Chenfei crested it like a large fish. He grabbed hold of his little wife dramatically. “I’ve just found out something,” he said.

“Pfft! Argh, you’re really so…” Jiao Qi spat out the water he’d swallowed and wiped his face with a hand.

“Stop pretending,” Zhang Chenfei said, licking his little wife’s moist lips. He lowered his voice before continuing to speak. “I know that you’re also a merman.”