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Kuaishou was indeed trying to poach Chen Jincheng again. Right as the video "Gathering the Girls for Something Big" hit the top of the trending list, Sister Hong found him. "Boss, Kuaishou’s people are contacting us again. They want to poach you, and this time, they said you can name your price."

Chen Jincheng laughed. "There’s no way they’d agree to my conditions right now. Let’s ignore them. The most important thing for Second-Life Star is to finish the interactive movie game, *Ancestral Master Simulator*."

Sister Hong nodded. When it came to matters like this, her job was simply to carry out whatever her boss decided.

The boss placed immense importance on the *Ancestral Master Simulator* game, which, in turn, made her extremely curious.

However, she wouldn’t have much time to dwell on it.

She had to go apply for the necessary documents and licenses.

Making a game wasn’t something you could do on a whim.

Before development could even begin, they needed to apply for the relevant corporate credentials, which Second-Life Star currently lacked.

This included an organization code certificate, a tax registration certificate, an online game culture operating permit, a value-added telecommunication business license, and more.

These were relatively easy to obtain; it was mainly a matter of applying to the industrial and commercial bureau to expand Second-Life Star’s registered scope of business.

With the right connections, it could all be done in a week.

And as it happened, Second-Life Star had some connections in Coastal City.

Applying for the game’s publication number, however, was a more complex affair.

A game needed a publication number before it could be legally launched and operated.

The application for a publication number had to be submitted through the website of the National Press and Publication Administration, including materials such as the game’s basic information, script, and test reports. The standard review process typically took around three months, sometimes even longer.

First, it would be examined by a junior-level reviewer. After ten days to half a month, it would move up to a senior reviewer. After another half a month to a month, it would reach a section chief, and so on...

That was just how the process worked.

But with connections, things were different. Depending on the game’s category, a result could be obtained in as little as half a month, after which it would enter a public comment period.

Once the one-week comment period was over, it would go through a few more procedural steps, and the publication number could be obtained in about a month total.

But again, Second-Life Star had connections in Coastal City.

If all went smoothly, they could have the game’s publication number by around the 10th of next month.

「The next day.」

Chen Jincheng gathered the girls and began filming the scenes for *Ancestral Master Simulator*.

The filming for all the game’s related scenes was scheduled to take ten days.

However, production on the game wouldn’t wait until all ten days of filming were complete.

As soon as a scene was filmed, Chen Jincheng could send the video over to the tech department.

There were free, ready-made templates for interactive movie games. Once the game engine was set up, they could just embed the footage. The whole process would only take about half a month.

Filming and sending the videos to the tech department simultaneously would save a lot of time.

While Chen Jincheng was filming *Ancestral Master Simulator*, the shopping cart feature on Tiao Yin was also exploding in popularity.

After Chen Jincheng’s record-breaking five billion in sales from his videos, countless influencers and MCN companies had set their sights on video-based e-commerce. Every day, new influencers and MCN companies were jumping into the fray.

Naturally, throughout this period, news about Chen Jincheng continued to spread.

Following the buzz from "Gathering the Girls for Something Big," videos began circulating online the very next day showing the girls acting cute and trying to curry favor.

The videos were all shot from a first-person perspective.

This surprised and intrigued everyone.

Furthermore, numerous "clip" accounts hyped up the fact that there were many more of these teaser-style videos on Second-Life Star’s official website, which drew in a large audience.

Over the next few days, videos of these "Miss Cheng" ladies were released almost daily. Each day, the new videos would trend, reaching an ever-wider audience.

The one thing that made people curious, however, was that Chen Jincheng was nowhere to be seen.

He was the one who gathered all those girls, so how could he not make an appearance?

Yet the videos continued to be updated daily.

At first, the videos were all about beautiful women doting on the viewer, giving them gifts, and acting cute.

But then, a new video was released, and everyone realized there was more to this than met the eye.

This video began with the camera’s perspective approaching a hotel room and knocking on the door. When the door opened, Yinyin appeared, wearing a bathrobe.

From the way the bathrobe hung, everyone could tell that she was likely wearing very little underneath.

Without the bathrobe, the view would have been quite something.

But what was this all about?

It was all intensely suggestive.

But as the first-person camera entered the room, a jaw-dropping scene unfolded.

The hotel room was filled with beautiful women, all sitting together, all wearing the same kind of bathrobe. The dazzling sight of so many beauties gathered together was almost overwhelming.

Crucially, judging by the fit of their bathrobes, it seemed that these girls, just like Yinyin, were also wearing very little underneath.

This sent everyone’s imagination running wild and triggered a flood of heated comments:

"Can someone please tell me what the hell is going on?"

"This really makes you wonder about Chen Jincheng’s real reason for gathering all these girls."

"The ’something big’ Chen Jincheng was talking about... don’t tell me it’s *this* with all these girls in a hotel room???"

"..."

The moment this video dropped, it captured the attention of countless more people. To figure out what was going on, everyone flooded Second-Life Star’s official website, clicking on the special section titled "Gathering the Girls for Something Big."