Chapter 1178: The Greatest Contributor on the Road to Success! (Part 2)

Chapter 1178: Chapter 472: The Greatest Contributor on the Road to Success! (Part 2)

For the next full month and a half, Han Lie did nothing but manage receptions.

Normally, investment institutions would visit enterprises, but at Tianhang, the roles were reversed—entrepreneurs visited Teacher Han.

Liu Minghao and the others painted big ideas indiscriminately and launched a new fund, still under Han Lie’s direct management, only accepting “service clients” as investors.

Then they started hitting explosive orders.

The first to be taken down was Mihayo, which was theoretically the least likely.

On September 14th, Han Lie specifically allocated an entire day to host President Cai, President Liu, and President Luo at the company.

The three anime industry leaders, not yet thirty years old, exuded the aura of nerdy guys.

President Cai was relatively the most handsome, Old Liu was relatively the most outgoing, and President Luo was the most reserved and silent, but when standing before Han Lie—they all appeared like underdogs.

However, Han Lie held considerable respect for them.

Those who have passion for life and ideals in their careers deserve respect.

“I am not very fond of your current game, but I am very impressed by your passion for gaming. I believe that one day, you will create a game that will change the entire industry ecosystem.”

Han Lie’s opening remarks were direct and sincere, complemented by a charisma that instantly elevated the good impression.

But today’s topic was financial investment, so they didn’t dwell much on gaming.

President Cai was most concerned about a topic that was both unexpected and expected—listing.

Although Mihayo never went public ultimately and had cash more than they could spend, initially, the three of them hoped to achieve personal wealth freedom through listing.

Among them, President Luo felt least strongly about it, while President Cai was most enthusiastic and eager.

“I hope to fulfill my promises to everyone through listing. People need money to live in the world, and listing does not conflict with our focus on game development.

If your side can provide us with a strong guarantee in this regard, I warmly welcome Tianhang as our strategic investor.”

President Cai’s attitude was also sincere, openly expressing his thoughts.

President Liu interjected, “Meanwhile, our internal discussion result is that we wish to save all the efforts in this area, entrust all affairs entirely to your side, and focus solely on what we do best.”

Got it.

Han Lie immediately realized that their primary focus was on the listing terms and conditions.

The three nerds were not naïve; they knew which cooperation model was most beneficial to them.

But Han Lie did not wish to offer too strict listing conditions.

Because Mihayo’s listing itself was a pseudo-topic.

Han Lie, in a very clever manner, moderated their overly strong expectation to list.

“As long as you are willing to cooperate, listing in three years is a piece of cake. If you feel it’s necessary, I can invite Zhongjin’s Magic Capital branch head right now, and we can have an in-depth conversation.”

The first sentence showcased 100% confidence.

To reinforce the image of expertise and networking leverage, Han Lie casually added.

“I’m not sure if you have a correct understanding of Zhongjin’s IPO capabilities. Generally, they only take on IPOs of major companies like Gongnong Jianjiao and disregard smaller deals.”

Old Luo and Old Cai indeed didn’t understand, and together they turned to Liu Wei.

Old Liu was visibly moved, asking, “President Han, are you confident you can get Zhongjin to take our deal?”

Han Lie smiled gently, not in a mysterious way, but with some self-mockery.

“Many things in the financial world are not solely business talk. I make my living off it, yet many times I envy your purity…

Frankly, at my level, the situation of not being master of my own destiny is far more than before, but it allows me to exercise some trivial privileges.

With Zhongjin now building a network platform, Zhongjin Gold Web, I am the only consultant with a private equity background. You’d never imagine how many headaches can exist in a mere platform…”

The three idealistic individuals stood respectfully, yet felt a strong sense of satisfaction.

See, aren’t we the ones who are free?

President Cai asked again, “So, as long as our profitability meets the standard, listing won’t be a problem?”

Han Lie replied with a chuckling smile, “The current top honcho at Zhongjin was from China Construction Bank, whom my girlfriend calls uncle.”

And with that, the preliminary arrangements were entirely set.

Han Lie then shifted his tone.

“However, I highly advise against anchoring your long-term goals on listing for now.”

“Ah?”

The three anime big shots were excited, only to be suddenly bewildered again.

“Why?”

Han Lie patiently explained, “A game company going public requires significant compromises, like not relying on only one game, one IP, needing multiple IPs, or acquiring related companies to expand business areas.

I’m not saying these conditions are hard to meet; I mean—when you adjust your pace to meet listing conditions, you are more likely to make misguided decisions.

For example, you will certainly develop Honkai 3, Honkai 4 next. At this point, three years have gone by, and we’re in the listing guidance period.

Then, do we continue to thoroughly explore the potential of the Honkai series, or hastily start a new project to meet listing conditions?

Such dilemmas will persistently trouble your entire creative team, erode enthusiasm, and cause disagreements.

So my suggestion is…

Do what you excel at, create the games you love, see listing as an inevitable result of success, rather than starting self-adjustment now for listing.

It’s not beneficial for creativity; can you understand what I’m saying?”

The trio was directly thrown off track.

Hearing Han Lie’s explanation, their fixation on listing no longer felt alluring.

President Cai still held onto his beliefs, hesitatingly said, “But, if we can’t list soon…”

“Wealth freedom, right!”

Han Lie interrupted, smiling and spreading his hands: “Forgot I’m still here? What a simple matter!”

He casually pressed a remote control, switched on the office projector, and sets of stock codes appeared on the wall, page after page in bright red.

“Why is our service called comprehensive financial integration?”

Han Lie’s voice suddenly became full of passion, with persuasive skills fully activated.

“Because we have long thought about how to help entrepreneurs address personal wealth realization issues pre-listing! Listen to me, pledge some stock to cash out, gather 200 million among the three of you and hand it to me, next year I will turn it into 800 million; release the pledge and directly buy cars and houses!

Raise any requests directly; we’ll handle everything for you—besides, I am a director of the local real estate association, you won’t need to worry about anything.

Houses, cars, savings, you’ll have it all, there’s no need to worry about how to deal with failure afterwards; is there any rush to list in the shortest time?”

Personally, I feel the ideal timeframe is around 2019, to list naturally, instead of desperately developing, merging, and expanding business scope just for the sake.

What do you think?”

Dazed, reasonably dazed.

Old Luo nodded vigorously, “I prefer natural outcomes!”

Old Liu pondered, “As long as living conditions are assured, the source of money doesn’t really matter…”

Old Cai no longer resisted, ultimately, he only desires wealth freedom.

The only issue—

“President Han, Liu Minghao President Liu promised to guarantee we earn over 50%, but it can’t be stated in the contract…”

“The contract indeed cannot state that, it’s against regulations.”

Han Lie explained succinctly and didn’t waste words with ‘trust me’ rhetoric, promptly taking out firm backing.

“When pledging shares, I’ll provide joint liability; with me credit enhancing, it directly allows an additional 100 million of loans, considering it my advance given guaranteed profit, how’s that for sincerity?”

Whoa!

The three of them exchanged glances, utterly bedazzled.

What kind of godly figure is this?

That’s freaking wild!

Never heard of such things!

The trio looked at each other, feeling strong shame—they were not yet businessmen, just emo anime deadbeats.

Thus, one of them slapped the table, rose up blushing.

“President Han, we’ve decided to make you our friend! Didn’t you want 15% of the shares? We’ll give you 20%!”

Shouting these words, President Cai still didn’t realize how much he had impulsively given away.

However, even many, many years later, he never regretted this decision.

Instead, he would always say to others, “Brother Lie is the greatest contributor to our success road!”

Ah, exactly!

Without him, you would have taken many detours…