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Before 8 o'clock in the morning, Kevin's urging call arrived as scheduled, quickly bringing the rhythm of life back on track.

"Did you know that Steiger was coming over in the morning to check on the item? Don't be late today. ”

"Got it, I'm up. Did he say what time it was? Ji Wei had a foam mixed with black toothpaste in her mouth, and replied incoherently. She was quickly cleaning her mouth with a toothbrush in one hand while talking to Kevin on the phone.

"What did you say?" Kevin clearly didn't get used to her vague and eerie alien words.

"When is he coming, I asked?" Spit out the mouthwash in her mouth, Ji Wei repeated it loudly.

"He said it was 9:30, I guess I'd be a little late...... Maybe around 9:45. ”

"Got it, I'll be there by a quarter past nine." Ji Wei replied in a firm tone, while carefully looking at the increasingly serious panda eyes in the mirror - think about it, how can a day and a half of rest make up for the lack of sleep in a year and a half? She sighed inwardly.

Hung up the phone, and it took seven minutes and twenty seconds for Ji Wei to complete the whole process of washing her face, brushing her teeth, combing her hair, sorting out and putting on clothes, and going out.

Just after 8 o'clock in the morning, Shanghai is full of office workers in a hurry, whether they are high-level workers sitting in Mercedes-Benz Honda or working-class people walking 11th Road, they all have one thing in common: that is, the same expressionlessness. Perhaps most people will call this kind of expressionlessness not waking up, but a small number of people, such as Ji Wei, will classify this expression as thinking.

Every day in the subway stuffed with sardines, listening to Blackeyedpeas, business English or financial news on her iphone, Ji Wei is sorting out the day's work information in her head. Although it is a routine task to go through the next day's work schedule every night, it is still necessary to briefly organize the day's work information the next morning so that you can deepen your memory and think about whether there are any details that need to be prepared. What's more, Steiger's visit today is quite important.

Let's first briefly talk about the amusement software company in Xiao Nizi's hands.

The company's roots came from one afternoon a year ago, when Ji Wei was still an employee of a large foreign-funded software company as a software designer - a job that sounded beautiful and crazy to do.

Working in some foreign-funded software design companies, especially some wholly foreign-owned software design companies, basically there is no creative contribution to speak of, and the so-called software designers are just microphones for foreign branch producers.

In the initial stages of staffing a piece of software, foreign companies usually appoint a designer with good English to lead a product. In the production of products, foreign producers will send a large number of detailed design modifications every day, and within three days, the conceptual design proposed by the original domestic designer of the software will be turned upside down. In the long days that followed, the designers of the Shanghai branch began to take on the role of professional translators and project coordinators, working overtime day and night not to meditate on the details of the project, but to stay late to cope with the time difference of the foreign branches, and to communicate daily feedback on Facebook's instant messaging software Messenger or OfficeCommunicator.

Since then, Xiao Nizi has been working for that company for three years and three months.

Just that afternoon, while chatting with the producer of a foreign studio on Facebook, she silently lamented that the biggest gain in the past three years was that her English fart skills were gradually improving, but she was gradually facing the dilemma of mass suicide of creative brain cells, and a chat window from Kevin, a programmer and friend of the same company, popped up on her QQ.

Kevin: HiHi, are you busy? I'll talk to you about something.

Ji Wei: I'm not busy, I'm busy and I'm busy, what's the matter?

Kevin: Recently, our company has had great expectations for the software you have now, I see that you work overtime every day and look very tired. -P

Ji Wei: Yes, yes, it's tiring to chat with foreigners every day. Actually, you know, it's quite boring.

Kevin: Hehe, do you want to do something interesting? Would you be interested in working with me on a piece of software, in your spare time?

Ji Wei's eyes lit up.

Ji Wei: Is it just you? Who else?

Kevin: I also pulled Feng Yu on the program side, I don't know much about art, and I don't have any candidates.

After they briefly exchanged the project content and plan, Ji Wei spent about two seconds thinking before deciding to join the house. After all, it was a great temptation for her to have the opportunity to work on a project that was truly led by herself. Before getting off work that day, Ji Wei also pulled in Chen Xiaotian, a former company colleague. At present, Chen Xiaotian works in a well-known software company, serving as the main beauty, he is idle and panicked on weekdays, and dreams of making a fortune all day long, Ji Wei didn't spend much saliva, and Chen Xiaotian returned to the team. In this way, the predecessor of the original amusement software company, the amusement underground development team, was officially established.

In the following days, the four Xiaoqiang comrades can be said to be busy in the dark. For this project, Kevin and Feng Yu resolutely resigned from their existing formal jobs, and according to their words, programmers can only make a good product by dedicating themselves to making a product. As for Ji Wei, she has to work during the day, work overtime at night, and contribute to the amusement underground development team when she comes back from overtime (although she is willing to do this), and basically sleeps no more than four hours a day.

After half a year of hard work, they finally made their first mobile game software. After contacting the publisher for the software, in order to set up a valid corporate bank account, they registered a Hong Kong company through an intermediary, and the amusement software company was officially established.

Although the sales of this amusement software company's debut game were not as good as expected, Ji Wei felt that she had learned more from this six-month project than she had learned in the previous three years on the job, and there was a lot of knowledge that could not be learned from the monotonous business of the company. This motivation is enough to make the four Xiaoqiang comrades determined to devote themselves to the development of the second project. Just as Ji Wei was working on the design of her second software, she met Johnny, a partner at Stegger, at a regular gathering of the industry.

Johnny and Steger are Americans who have just come to Shanghai to start their own business, and have worked as producers for many years in first-tier software development companies in the United States. This time they came to Shanghai, hoping to learn more about the local team and find a starting point for entrepreneurship. After a brief introduction, Johnny became interested in Ji Wei's work and team, especially the second product she is currently creating.

The day after the party, Ji Wei and Kevin received an email from Johnny, and the content of the email was naturally about the possibility of cooperation.