Chapter 27

“Don’t worry, if we lose money, I’ll sell everything I own to pay you back!”

Ye Xiao made this promise very boldly.

But investments are never 100% guaranteed, and if Ye Xiao really fails, the two sisters might ended up booking a VIP spot on the rooftop together.

With Ye Xiao’s assurance, Ye Youran struggled to enter the first five digits of the password on her phone, hesitating over the last digit.

This decision was incredibly hard. It was a million, after all. Even in their parents’ company, they rarely had a million in liquidity before payments for orders were settled.

As the loading circle on Ye Youran’s phone finally completed, Ye Xiao saw that her account balance now had an extra digit.

Phew, her scatterbrained big sister really has no sense of caution at all! Finally got it, heh~

Ye Xiao excitedly stared at the number on her phone, counting it over and over again.

In both lifetimes combined, this was the first time her bank account had held this much money.

“So, how far along are you with this game, Xiao Xiao? Do you have a Demo I can see? Or some character concept art?”

As the current top investor and angel investor, Ye Youran showed a lot of interest in Ye Xiao’s game-making ambitions.

“I’m working on it, working on it! When we get back, I’ll open my computer and create a new folder!”

Ye Youran: ???

“So, right now, Xiao Xiao, you only have an idea? The game is just a name, isn’t it? Give me back my money! I’m pulling my investment!”

Ye Youran protested immediately.

She had thought Ye Xiao, daring to ask her for money, at least had a basic framework ready. If not, then at least a few character concept sketches, right? But it turned out the game was only in Ye Xiao’s head, with zero real progress.

Shen Yunchu, who was driving, took a deep breath. Seeing how Ye Xiao’s sister transferred a million without hesitation, she wondered if she should support Ye Xiao, too.

Even though she didn’t have much, over the years working part-time, she had saved up about 50,000 yuan. But now, seeing how little Ye Xiao had planned, she quickly closed her mouth just as she was about to speak.

“Hey, scatterbrained big sister, don’t tell me you think you can get back the money that’s in my account now? No way, no way~ Just pray our game makes big money~ Are you mad, my dearest #1 fan? ❤️~”

Ye Xiao gripped her phone tightly, determined not to give back the investment once it was in her pocket.

She was even planning to ask her cheap old dad for the 300,000 yuan he set aside for a new car. If possible, with her dad’s tendency to spoil his daughter, she might even manage to get more investment out of him.

She comforted her scatterbrained big sister a bit, though Ye Xiao’s “comfort” was completely counterproductive.

The overconfident smug face she wore looked like nothing, but Ye Xiao’s cocky arrogance and disregard for others.

Ye Youran felt heartbroken. How could she have believed Ye Xiao’s nonsense? This game was probably doomed, and her million yuan would most likely go down the drain.

One million yuan! If she took that out from the bank and burned it, at least it would give off some light and heat! But giving it to Ye Xiao was likely a total loss, probably disappearing without a trace.

Ye Xiao then asked Shen Yunchu to take Ye Youran back to their rented apartment. She couldn’t keep driving the GTR—just this trip to the airport had emptied a full tank of gas, and she had to refill another tank along the way.

She calculated that it would be better to have Sister Ruoxue switch it out for a Buick or Mercedes business car.

Since she’d decided to make a game, it was time to take action, or Ye Youran might go crazy.

Ye Xiao downloaded the Entrepreneur app from the official State Administration for Market Regulation website.

This is a personal company management app. Anyone wanting to start a business just has to register, enter their ID information, pay a fee, and name the company to pass the review and establish a business.

Shen Yunchu glanced at the two sisters, it seemed like there would be no chance for her to get close to Ye Xiao today. But maybe showing off her skills to her future sister-in-law would be a good way to build relations.

If big sister Ye Youran could accept her and Ye Xiao being together, perhaps it would reduce the obstacles they’d face.

But for now, she needed to improve Ye Youran’s impression of her first.

However, Ye Youran wasn’t even paying attention to Shen Yunchu, staring at Ye Xiao the whole time as if afraid she’d take the money and run.

“Hey, scatterbrained big sister, don’t you want to go rest for a bit? I mean, do you really think I’d run off with your million yuan?”

The moment Ye Xiao said this, Ye Youran felt a deep fatigue.

After all, she’d been on a plane for over ten hours and then got “scammed” out of a million yuan by her own little sister. It was utterly exhausting.

But it was indeed as Ye Xiao said that it should be unlikely to run away with the money—she might be a brat, but she couldn’t run away from home!

Finally, under Ye Xiao’s persuasion, Ye Youran stopped her vigilant watch over her Ye Xiao.

Ye Xiao then operated the computer like a pro and finally passed the review, establishing “Yunxiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.”

There were just three people in their apartment, so she combined their names: “Yun” for Shen Yunchu, “Xiao” for herself, and by removing the bamboo radical, “You” for Ye Youran.

At least that’s how Ye Xiao saw it. Whether her scatterbrained big sister bought it was not her concern.

The current company account balance was 0. When Ye Xiao registered, she set the registered capital at two million.

For her dreams of vast galaxies, this amount was laughably small.

Of course, the registered capital didn’t need to be deposited immediately, the money was still in Ye Xiao’s pocket.

Though she’d seemed focused on personal matters recently, Ye Xiao hadn’t been idle.

She had deeply researched this world.

Compared to her previous life, this world had a much better environment for startups, making it an easy-level parallel world.

The government encouraged entrepreneurship, and creating a company required only a simple review, making it convenient and accessible for most people.

And all of this could be done on a computer via the app.

As for games, the most frustrating part of her previous life was the lack of clear rating systems, but in this world, this issue didn’t exist.

Games were evaluated and categorized by government agencies before release using a system called the ESRB rating system.

The Entrepreneur app would even automatically push relevant industry resources to business owners.

Since Ye Xiao registered her company as a network technology company with a focus on game development, the system would automatically push game-related resources to her company.

However, the official resources provided were mostly beginner-level materials. They could all be found online, with the official service simply bundling and pushing free resources to users.

Ye Xiao checked the resources and immediately found several game editors. For character models, many were open-source, and most were freely available online. Some basic paid models were also included.

Ye Xiao casually downloaded a game editor and found a video titled “Learning Game Development from Scratch” among the recommended resources.

Fortunately, Ye Youran finally couldn’t hold out any longer and went to sleep in Ye Xiao’s room. Otherwises, she’d probably have given her sister a good scolding.