53: Overall plan

Sun Zhenfeng hurriedly refreshed Weibo. Sure enough, Starlight had posted another message. This time it was normal, consisting entirely of text.

【Welcome everyone to the Starlight family. It is inevitable for people to choose the wrong direction, but as long as you correct your mistakes, Starlight's doors will always be open to you! Congratulations to the more than twenty thousand Streamers for returning to Starlight!】

Sun Zhenfeng slammed his phone onto the ground, shattering it into pieces everywhere, and roared:

"Check for me how many of Sunset's people have joined Starlight!"

In less than ten minutes, his secretary cautiously brought a laptop to show the Chairman the data inside.

The secretary didn't dare hand it to him, fearing that in a fit of rage, he would throw the laptop onto the ground as well.

As Sun Zhenfeng looked at the data on the computer, he felt the world spinning. Overcome by a surge of fury, he completely blacked out, saying only one thing before he fainted.

"Jiang Chuan, you are such a dog!"

A total of 23,420 people from Sunset had defected to Starlight. During this period, Sunset had spent a total of over 25 million yuan.

Currently, Sunset's online user count reached 370,000, a drop of 130,000 from yesterday, returning to the level before the event was held.

Sunset had paid the enemy's salaries, held celebration ceremonies for them, and given them bonuses—only for them to run off with the accumulated audience in the end.

After laboriously organizing the event and wasting manpower, effort, and money, they finally discovered they had done all the work for the enemy's benefit. It was no wonder Sun Zhenfeng was so enraged... "Doctor! Doctor!"

"President Sun!"

"Dad!"

"This is bad! Director Dong has also fainted!"

"Quick! Doctor, come here quickly!"

Sun Zhenfeng was unconscious for two hours before he finally woke up. He opened his eyes and stared blankly at the white ceiling.

"Old Sun, you're awake?"

Sun Zhenfeng turned his head and found three other people in the adjacent beds, and they were all familiar faces!

Dong Changhai, Director of Deep Sea's Promotion Department; Chen Xu, Chairman of Silver Star; and Wang Guichen, Director of Competitive Creation's Promotion Department.

Chen Xu leaned against the headboard, and seeing that he didn't speak, explained:

"The doctor said we were all overcome by a surge of fury, so he arranged for us to be together."

Dong Changhai frowned and said unwillingly:

"What's the use of saying this nonsense? How to solve the problem is the key!"

Wang Guichen said with a smile, "Old Dong, you're also talking nonsense. If there were a way, would we be here? Now, financing is pretty much impossible. We've become the standard negative examples on the internet."

Dong Changhai, who got along with him the least, said angrily:

"Aren't you also talking nonsense? In my opinion, we are no match for him when it comes to playing with people's hearts, so let's play with our cards on the table! A direct confrontation, a war of attrition!"

Chen Xu gave a light snort and said:

"Do you still have money in your accounts? Anyway, Silver Star has none left."

"This won't work, that won't work, then what do you say we should do!"

Wang Guichen stretched and said slowly:

"President Chen and I have discussed it. Since we can't win, we'll surrender. Anyway, we don't have any real grudge."

Hearing this, Dong Changhai said firmly:

"No way! Old Wang, you're so old, and you're going to surrender to a junior? Have you no shame?"

Wang Guichen didn't fall for it and said:

"My pride isn't worth much. The new generation replaces the old; what's there to be ashamed of?"

Seeing that his provocation was useless, Dong Changhai clenched his fists. Thinking of his previous confidence, his heart was full of resentment, and he stopped speaking.

Chen Xu looked at Old Sun and asked, "Old Sun, what do you say? Keep fighting or surrender?"

Sun Zhenfeng looked at the ceiling and said firmly, "Fight!"

Wang Guichen stood up and said:

"Then you guys fight. President Chen and I are getting on in years and don't have the energy for that anymore. Let's go, Old Chen!"

"Let's go."

Sun Zhenfeng watched the two walk out of the room, then sat up and asked:

"Old Dong, do you have any good ideas?"

Dong Changhai stood up and said as he walked:

"I'm going back to Deep Sea. Wait for my news."

Sun Zhenfeng reached out his hand and shouted reluctantly:

"Old Dong! You must come back! Jiang Chuan is too much of a dog; I can't hold out for much longer!"

"Achoo! Achoo!"

Jiang Chuan moved his phone away and sneezed several times, rubbed his nose, and continued chatting with the person on the phone.

"President Chen, you're too kind. You are my senior; how could I let you treat me to dinner when you come to Falling City? It's on me! Good, good, good, see you tomorrow night!"

He hung up the phone, unable to figure out why the Chairman of Silver Star wanted to have dinner with him. They had never even met. It couldn't be that he was coming to surrender, right?

He didn't dwell on it; he would know what the other party was up to tomorrow. He opened his project proposal and looked at the full plan he had written.

Whether it was the newly recruited Streamers or the ones who had been poached, they were actually all arranged by him.

It was actually quite interesting. The breach of contract fees were given to him by Old Sun, and he had returned them right back to Old Sun.

It was as if Old Sun had poached the people, given them a bonus, and then sent them back for free.

The purpose of this step was, of course, to drain the other party's funds. This included the Luocheng University live streams—don't look at it as only a thousand yuan per person; there were a lot of people!

Biding his time in the early stages was to wait for this time gap when the enemy's funds were short and they hadn't secured financing yet.

Spending the least effort to get the greatest harvest, with even the provisions prepared by the enemy—how could he lose this battle?

At this time, he began the public opinion war, issuing announcements and posting videos to ruin Sunset's reputation.

The goal was to make investment companies afraid to jump in easily, making them wait and see how things developed. Otherwise, it would have turned into another direct confrontation.

Jiang Chuan understood investment companies best; he naturally knew what they were thinking.

Investment companies were there to make money, not for charity. With such a bad reputation, how could they possibly come to offer money?

This led Sunset into a very awkward situation. If they continued the events, they had no money left in their accounts.

The money had all been swept away by Jiang Chuan, and no investment company was willing to invest.

If they didn't continue, how could they fight against Starlight and other streaming companies? They put up money; what would you put up? Your bald head?

This was the importance of timing. If Starlight had joined the battlefield at the very beginning...

Not to say whether they could win, but even if they did, not much money would be left in their accounts.

Poaching people required money, continuously increasing the intensity of events required money, and promotion required money.

Adding in the large bonuses and salaries paid out at the end of the month, tens of millions really wasn't much.

Business warfare required brains. Timing is sometimes not a gift from heaven, but something created by man.

As for the more than twenty thousand Streamers, they were, of course, students from Luocheng University. It was just a bit of boasting; it was impossible for all of them to join Starlight as Streamers.

The most difficult part of this was accurately calculating Sunset's financial situation. But Sunset had a person: Zhang Linlin!

Although she wanted to leave Sunset, her contract had not expired, and she could go to the Sunset company at any time.

Jiang Chuan didn't need her to reveal confidential information.

He wouldn't do anything illegal; just revealing some financial information that hadn't been made public yet was enough.

With her status, it was very easy to find out these things at Sunset. Her request was also very simple: to come and work at Starlight.

Jiang Chuan naturally didn't mind and readily agreed. Currently, he still had two cards in his hand that he hadn't played yet.

One was the recording of Lin Shuyi, and the other was the evidence of Sun Kai's predatory behavior toward Female Anchors.

He had originally planned to arrange for Lin Shuyi to go over there as well, carrying some very hidden but unimportant company secrets.

With non-compete agreements and evidence of enticement, it would be impossible for investment companies to provide financing to Sunset.

But this was a backup option—a pyrrhic victory. He wouldn't use this plan unless he was at a dead end.

The evidence on Sun Kai was collected by Zhang Linlin. This matter could be seen as big or small, but if used at the right time, it would be a good card to play.

This was the entire plan he had arranged—step by step, using the least amount of capital to fight the most beautiful battle!

"Old Sun is so pitiful. I heard he's been hospitalized. I'll go see him after work!"