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Chapter 336 - 125: Firecrackers Announce the Passing of the Old Year, Peers Aid in Unveiling My Ambitious Vision! _4

Chapter 336: Chapter 125: Firecrackers Announce the Passing of the Old Year, Peers Aid in Unveiling My Ambitious Vision! _4

If the story had ended there, that would have been that.

But some Huaxia Nation players studying in Korea, after trying the game, discovered.

Discovered that every damned move and technique was almost entirely copied from some of Huaxia Nation’s well-known martial arts.

Yet, during the marketing, the promotional phrases were ’The martial arts game that’s uniquely ours in Korea, simida’, ’This is the most authentic Korean-style martial arts online game, simida’, ’Heritage claimed! Even Huaxia Nation citizens can’t help but look up to the pioneering game of martial arts style!’

Koreans, who’ve always lacked national self-confidence, have been up to these sneaky tricks for more than just a day or two.

After all, if not resorting to brazen theft and covert looting, with Korea’s cultural heritage of barely 70 years, by now they’d probably still be at the ’primitive people, starting caves’ stage of development.

At first, netizens were saying they were used to it, let it claim what it wants, treat it like KunKun.

But after some diligent digging by certain attentive students from the Huaxia Nation, it was revealed that the game originated from Netcom’s developed "See the Sun Again"

That’s when the controversy started.

If Tengjing’s scandal a few days ago was just internal strife, with everyone closing their doors to watch the excitement.

Now Netcom’s behavior qualifies as a pure big rarity.

They were relentlessly scolded by netizens from Little New Year all the way to the Lunar New Year without any pause, and right after collecting the Five Fortunes red packets during the New Year’s Eve dinner, they took the opportunity to scold Netcom’s enthusiastic horse, kicking off the New Year on a ’good’ note.

When this happened, Tengjing’s executives were nearly in tears, wishing they could give Netcom an embroidered banner overnight inscribed with ’Selfless foster father who saved us from disaster, reputation overturned all thanks to peers’, with the horizontal inscription ’Rare Wonder’.

And this time, it wasn’t just the China Broadcasting Bureau.

Even the official social media account of Huaxia Mama reposted similar news and criticized, "Any intangible cultural heritage of our country must be cherished and handed down for generations, not reduced to a tool for capitalists to accumulate wealth."

Such wording is actually quite severe.

This year, surely there are those who are joyful and those who are worried.

Exactly who is joyful is unknown.

But Netcom’s executives are nearly worried sick.

The reputation of some players can fade with the internet’s memory.

But some things related to dignity are memories that the people of Huaxia Nation will not allow to fade.

Some foreign brands that have caused insult in the past now have gloomy sales within Huaxia Nation, which serves as the best warning.

Moreover, being targeted and criticized by the official media.

That can escalate things even more!

After much thought, the only remedial measure Netcom could think of.

Was to rush to create a truly original Huaxia-style martial arts game that could crush the game "Reviving Martial World" from next door in Korea with an overwhelming presence!

But as easy as it is to say, how easy is it to do?

If we had that capability, would we have sold the IP of "See the Sun Again"?

The newly appointed head of operations at Netcom, Jia Kuigan, was nearly pulling his hair out to the point of baldness.

Finally, he suddenly thought of someone!

Ke Jin!

Great Ke!

Divine Ke!

Mr. Ke, having debuted for only a year and a half, has created one blockbuster game IP after another with the awe-inspiring game design concept ’Not just hype, but myth-making’.

Under his leadership, top players have created including but not limited to: random, psychological, torture, battle royale, tower defense, stream of consciousness, and the recently popular art category.

A total of seven brand new game types!

Each one popular! Each one in the spotlight of players!

If we could partner with such an infinitely capable game company...

It seemed there wouldn’t be a worry about not having the chance to apologize to the vast number of players, as well as to the official media, right?

However, given Netcom’s prior offense to top players.

The two game companies had almost no interaction during this year.

As the recently appointed operations manager, Jia Kuigan was cursing his predecessor Lu Long, wishing he could be executed by firing squad.

Lu Long, damn your birth, damn it!

Out of everyone to offend, you had to go and tick off such an innovative gaming company...

You are the afterglow of sunset! The dawn’s early light!

You are the fire of a red stone, like the depths of an agate pond!

Of course, apart from praising Lu in his head, Jia Kuigan still had to think of a solution.

"Maybe, with the New Year coming up... send Designer Ke a text to celebrate the New Year?"

"Whether it works or not, at least it could ease the past tense relationship?"

Deciding to take action, Jia Kuigan hurriedly asked someone to find Ke Jin’s personal number.

Then, holding his phone tenderly like a girl in her first love, he typed and deleted text over and over again.

After several iterations, with a nervous heart.

He timed it right at the stroke of midnight, and pressed the send button!

Thinking it over, he added a sticker of ’Cheers to our friendship’ at the end.

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"Dang!"

"Dang!"

"Dang!"

As the first bell of the New Year chimed, the Ke Family, just like millions of ordinary families, began the ceremony of ’kowtowing deeply’.

Ke Jin and his sister found a mat to spread on the ground, gave their father and mother several loud kowtows, and said a few words of blessing with clasped hands.

After receiving the eternal hundred-yuan New Year’s red packet from their parents.

With a fortune-bringing hat on her head, Ke Yu smiled, revealing her pearly white teeth, and amidst the deafening sound of firecrackers outside the window, she yelled at Ke Jin, "Brother, happy New Year!!!"