novelraw Chapter 457 : Big Trouble
Chapter 457 : Big Trouble
Chapter 457: Big Trouble
"How's the studio doing lately?" Chen Fan asked casually, a cigarette dangling from his lips.
"Good. Couldn't be better," Luo Wenjie replied excitedly, also with a cigarette in his mouth.
"Recently, Zhou Honghai and those few employees created another new cheat. As soon as it went online, it sold like crazy."
"It's like picking up money off the ground."
Luo Wenjie chuckled, "Even now, I feel like it's not real, like I'm dreaming."
"Of course, it's still no comparison to you, Brother Fan."
In front of anyone else, he would have enough reason to be proud. After all, he had already made one to two million yuan before even graduating. He had every right to be proud.
But facing Chen Fan, Luo Wenjie couldn't bring himself to boast.
Especially after visiting the Medal Club last time, Luo Wenjie was now even more polite to Chen Fan. It was as if he had found his place again.
Chen Fan, however, warned him with a serious expression. "Don't just think about making money."
"The authorities won't ignore this forever."
But Luo Wenjie asked with a smile, "Brother Fan, you keep telling us to be careful, but these cheats aren't like drugs, gambling, or prostitution. They don't cause much harm."
"Besides, it's not just our studio doing this, everyone's doing it."
"We haven't seen any studio get in trouble."
Chen Fan shook his head, "Just because they're not cracking down now doesn't mean they won't in the future."
"Think about it, who are you offending with the cheats your studio sells?"
"It's the online game publishers. You're making money, but you're causing them to lose real cash."
"Once all the game publishers unite and pressure or lobby the authorities, do you think your small studios can stand against them?"
Luo Wenjie shook his head, clearly not agreeing with Chen Fan's view.
To be honest, he couldn't understand why Chen Fan was always so against Cheat Studio.
"Brother Fan, let's not even talk about whether the authorities will take action. What you said about game publishers uniting is unlikely. They're competitors to begin with, how could they unite?"
"And even if we take a step back and say the authorities start regulating, I guess they'd just issue a policy, fine and warn for each case they find."
Seeing Luo Wenjie's attitude, Chen Fan felt a bit helpless.
He realized that in the face of huge profits, Luo Wenjie seemed to have lost his way a bit.
If he had known earlier, he wouldn't have agreed to Luo Wenjie leaving the internet cafe and investing in the studio.
"Anyway, just take my words as advice. Be careful, and don't be high-profile."
Luo Wenjie nodded with a smile. "Don't worry, I always remember what you say."
"I've always kept a low profile, and even if something really happens, I'll be the first to run. No one will catch me."
Hearing Luo Wenjie's assurance, Chen Fan nodded, feeling a bit more at ease.
Over the next few days, as Chen Fan moved back to live in the dorm, the atmosphere in dorm 519 obviously became livelier than before.
In this dorm room, Chen Fan was the most special one. He had money and was low-key enough, and he was nice to everyone.
Everyone supported him and trusted him.
Even Luo Wenjie, who usually didn't stay in the dorm, left his girlfriend and moved back.
After lights out at night, it was as if everyone had returned to the state they were in when they first entered college.
They would have a bedtime talk every night before sleeping.
Bedtime talks among boys are interesting, often started by one or two guys bringing up a topic.
The topics usually start with some trivial matters, then move on to post-graduation job issues.
Finally, it would smoothly transition to how beautiful a girl from some department is.
Then it would extend to female celebrities or actresses in certain adult films, and at this point, more people would join the conversation.
When three or four people had joined, the others basically couldn't sleep anymore.
They started discussing the standards for judging a beautiful woman. Wu Di said it was about the boobs, Luo Wenjie said it was about the butt.
Ma Xiaoshuai said it was still about the figure, only a curvaceous good figure would interest men.
Listening to these beasts talking heatedly, Chen Fan, who had been pretending to sleep, couldn't hold back anymore and shouted,
"Of course, it's about the legs."
"Old Chen, you're not asleep?"
"How can I sleep with you guys talking so intensely?"
"Heh, last time when Sun Hao and I were in the library, we saw a girl from the Foreign Languages Department wearing a super short skirt, high heels, and black stockings, sitting right across from me. Tsk tsk, those legs were simply amazing..."
"I was thinking at the time, it would be a waste not to film such great legs."
"Hey, speaking of which, do you think those Japanese actresses worry about their families seeing their adult films?"
"If their parents saw the films their daughters made, wouldn't it be awkward?"
"What's there to be awkward about? Maybe her dad even has a collection of several films."
"The Japanese economy is bound to fail sooner or later. In the future, they can only rely on making adult films to stimulate the economy."
At this point, the topic naturally shifted from talking about women to international affairs.
Those who were just showing their perverted nature seamlessly switched, all turning into know-it-all international experts.
Chen Fan dozed off for a while, and when he woke up, good grief, Wu Di, Ma Xiaoshuai, and Luo Wenjie were still chatting.
The topic had already reached the future space planet wars between China and America.
To be honest, Chen Fan quite liked this atmosphere.
In his previous life, his relationship with his dormmates wasn't particularly good or bad, and they lost contact after graduation, each going their separate ways.
In this life, he was assigned to dorm 519 and met five roommates with different personalities.
They occasionally had some conflicts, but everyone was nice, always trying their best to maintain the environment and atmosphere of dorm 519.
Perhaps, living life again, he not only enjoyed love with Su Ruochu but also found a rare friendship.
On Thursday night, after evening self-study ended, Chen Fan returned from the apartment, carrying several plastic boxes.
"Damn, Old Chen is really thoughtful. Knowing we're hungry, he even bought supper back."
Chen Fan put the things on the table, "You guys are lucky. My girlfriend can't eat much alone, so she let me bring all the leftovers to you guys."
"This is the supper I carefully prepared."
"Hehe, Father, please accept your son's kowtow."
"I hereby declare, from now on, Su Ruochu is my godmother."
Chen Fan couldn't help but curse with a laugh, "Get lost! We don't have such unfilial children like you guys."
He swept his gaze around the dorm, then asked Ma Xiaoshuai,
"Where's Brother Jie? Not back yet?"
Ma Xiaoshuai, while fighting with the others for food, mumbled unclearly,
"He said there was something at the studio this afternoon. Probably won't be back tonight."
Chen Fan nodded, just about to say something when Ma Xiaoshuai's phone rang.
He looked at it and immediately showed a lecherous, happy expression.
"Hello, honey, I'm in the dorm..."
"Old Chen? He's in the dorm. Why are you looking for him?"
Ma Xiaoshuai turned to Chen Fan with a confused look.
"My girlfriend wants to talk to you."
Chen Fan was equally puzzled, "Me?"
He subconsciously took the phone.
"Hello?"
But the voice on the other end wasn't Song Linlin's, it was actually Li Jiao, crying.
"Chen Fan, please help Wenjie..."
She was crying while speaking, making Chen Fan completely confused.
"Don't cry first, tell me what happened?"
"What's wrong with Brother Jie?"
"He... he was taken away by the police."
"Something happened at the studio..."