My Virtual Girlfriend-Chapter 87 Am I The Clown? (Vote for recommendation!)

Chapter 87: Chapter 87 Am I The Clown? (Vote for recommendation!)

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Monday was the most anticipated day at Chenyu Company!

Because today, to celebrate the game’s massive success, Chen Yan was going to hold the company’s first lottery!

As early as last week, everyone had learned about the prizes and awards for the lottery.

Aside from Chen Yan, the boss, the company had a total of six employees.

Three third prizes: three laptops worth around 8,000 each.

Two second prizes: two desktop computers valued at 40,000 each.

And the final grand prize: a luxury car worth a million that Chen Yan had only driven for a few days.

According to Chen Yan, he didn’t like the color of the car and had hardly driven it, so he decided to put it up for the drawing.

In the morning, just after 8 o’clock, the company started work.

Yu Qiao Qiao had classes in the morning and could only get there by noon, so the lottery was set for 11 am.

While waiting, Chen Yan sat at his desk, watching the game backend data and scrolling through Weibo to look at the evaluations of his game.

Over the past few days, as more and more players finished the game, there had been many more positive reviews and recommendation posts online.

Internet user French Saint: "After playing this game, I really can’t forget it for a long while. Cinematic production, grand yet intricate storyline. Different choices lead us on different paths. Having played this game, I truly experienced what that era, that generation of people bore upon their shoulders! This game is simply the most vivid patriotism lesson."

Internet user Royal Zhang Fang: "All I want to say is that in this game, I went through countless gun battles and died hundreds of times. It wasn’t until I finally cleared the game that I realized the simplest and most challenging endings are actually the same: returning to the countryside, to grassroots, working from sunrise to sunset."

"But... I have no regrets. Without the protagonist’s narrow escapes from death, where would most people’s ’sweet dreams of returning home’ come from? Life is beautiful because some people carry the weight and move forward for us. Lastly, kudos to the game’s copy planning team!"

Internet user demi: "This game really....."

"...."

The game’s popularity had perhaps waned a bit these past few days, and sales had dropped quite a bit. Compared to the income of one or two million a day from the previous days, now it was only six or seven hundred thousand per day. But Chen Yan’s mood was even better than before.

Whether it was the gaming forums, STM reviews, or Weibo, they were all praises for the game after clearing it. The most compliments were for the beautiful, attractive characters, and the awesome game planning.

This recognition from the players made Chen Yan prouder and more thrilled than making money.

It was while Chen Yan was engrossed in the praises on Weibo that suddenly, a message popped up.

"Director Zhang confirms Yi Xiaoxi as the new movie lead." frёeweɓηovel.coɱ

Seeing this notification, Chen Yan was taken aback.

"Huh? Wasn’t Lu Man supposed to be the lead in Director Zhang’s new movie? Why has it changed?"

Curious, he clicked in, only to discover that all the trending news articles were introducing the movie and Yi Xiaoxi, without any mention of a casting change.

For a moment, Chen Yan doubted his own memory, "Could I have remembered it wrong?"

With that question lingering, Chen Yan searched for news about Director Zhang’s movie casting change on Baidu, but still found nothing.

He thought for a bit and changed the search terms to ’Lu Man & Director Zhang’s new movie’.

Hundreds of news articles popped up.

Chen Yan clicked on each to read through them.

And he found... he had indeed remembered correctly.

Lu Man had indeed officially announced at the film festival opening ceremony that she would star in Director Zhang’s film.

And for the subsequent two days, there were quite a few soft articles and presses to hype it up.

But starting five days ago, all promotion had suddenly vanished.

And then today... without any warning, the lead actress had been switched.

Chen Yan frowned slightly.

Something’s not quite right here...

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At noon, Yu Qiao Qiao finished school and arrived at the company.

With her was Yang Nuannuan, whom they hadn’t seen for a long while.

Yang Nuannuan still dressed like a student, with glasses on, looking calm and tranquil but with meticulous thoughts.

Chen Yan, of course, knew she was there to support Yu Qiao Qiao, to prevent him from forcefully giving away the luxury car.

But... did he need to forcefully give something away?

With the help of a special prop, all he needed to do was the most "fair" lottery that couldn’t be criticized even if Sherlock Holmes were to investigate, right?

Thinking this way, Chen Yan ignored Yang Nuannuan, clapped his hands to gather the veterans together, cleared his throat, and then began, "As of yesterday, our game has sold fifty thousand sets!"

"The company has also successfully made a profit of more than ten million!"

"So, I’ve organized this lottery! Let’s all celebrate together!"

"If you draw the grand prize, be happy. If you get the third prize, don’t be discouraged."

Pausing, he continued with a smile, "After all, this year’s project bonus for each person will be three to four hundred thousand! It’s not about the small change!"

Hearing Chen Yan’s words, everyone couldn’t help but laugh out loud, creating a more enthusiastic atmosphere.

After Chen Yan’s speech, he moved on to say, "Alright. Now, let’s proceed with the lottery."

"I’ll explain the rules of the lottery."

Upon hearing him, Yu Qiao Qiao and Yang Nuannuan exchanged glances, seeing the words "It’s on!" in each other’s eyes.

Yu Qiao Qiao quickly pricked up her ears, wanting to see what sort of rules Chen Yan had set up for the lottery, and whether he really intended to rig it.

Then...

She heard him say, "Our lottery rule is very simple, that is... there are no rules."

"To avoid any suspicion of unfairness or underhandedness."

"I’m leaving the rules up to everyone, to decide on the method of drawing lots. Whether it’s drawing straws or playing cards, or even rolling dice. As long as everyone agrees, any method is ok."

The moment Chen Yan announced the rules, Yu Qiao Qiao was completely dumbfounded.

After a moment, she looked at Yang Nuannuan, who was just as stunned.

A thought crossed her mind: Could it be... Sister Man Man was right?

Chen Yan never intended to give the car to me?

Was this actually a very fair, just, and transparent lottery?

With this in mind, Yu Qiao Qiao’s gaze fell on Chen Yan who, "after having read the rules, had walked to the corner to stand completely aloof."

At that moment, she thought back to how she’d been wracking her brain these past few days about how to refuse the car from Chen Yan, how to reject any underhanded practices from him.

Coupled with Chen Yan’s straightforward approach today.

Suddenly, one thought dominated her mind: Oh my goodness. How vain and naive I’ve been these past few days...!

What on earth have I been doing?

Did I imagine Chen Yan would give the car to me?

Then spend my days "living in fear"?!

And in the end...

Was he actually just not thinking that at all?

So... am I the clown here?

Perhaps sensing Yu Qiao Qiao’s embarrassment and discomfort,

Yang Nuannuan, standing beside her, gently squeezed her hand, offering a comforting look and whispered, "Don’t worry... let’s see if there are any problems later...."