Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 299: 297: Does Cloud Dream Have Such Prestige?

Seeing the boss being so generous, showering them with gifts, the comments in the live broadcast room quickly changed, praising him as “bold,” “visionary,” and “a man of great deeds”!

All kinds of flattery were given out as if they were free.

Even Chasing Wind, who had been trained in the business world for a long time, had never seen such a situation before!

Even though he knew that most people were just joining in the fun, trying to get compliments for free, it didn’t affect his good mood.

Five minutes later, Chasing Wind set up the unrestricted lottery for 100 invitation letters and then leisurely logged into the Metropolis (Public) map to choose his virtual property.

After all, he is the only one qualified to get a house right now, there is no competition, so there is nothing to worry about.

Three minutes later, Chasing Wind’s original property happened to conflict with someone else’s, so he decided to check out the house next door in person.

By this time, the lottery results had come out.

As for the idea of extending the time and attracting attention by holding a lottery, Chasing Wind had no intention of doing so.

Outside the live broadcast room, Shuihua, who logged into three different accounts with her computer, mobile phone, and tablet, opened Chasing Wind’s live broadcast room and took part in the lottery at the same time, was surprised to see a message:

“Congratulations! You have won!

The prize is: one ‘Metropolis Permanent Resident Invitation.’

Fill in your Cloud Dream account name and UID in time to get the reward from the anchor.

If the information is not filled out in time, it will be considered as an automatic forfeit.”

Shuihua blinked, a little uncertain.

“Money…is it really that easy to make?”

With nearly eight million people participating in the lottery, she won just like that?

“I’ve decided! I’m going to buy a lottery ticket tomorrow!” Shuihua waved her fist, planning to give it a try…

After filling in the information, Shuihua took out her unfinished homework, and started working on it with the live broadcast on.

The fourth note of the “Golden Key”: “The basic goodwill of Metropolis residents towards you has increased, and some individuals, stores, and organizations will provide special services or extra benefits to you.”

This particular note seemed a bit vague and unclear, and she was curious about what specific effects it would have.

This was also the reason why the number of people in the live broadcast room did not plummet immediately after the lottery ended.

Many people in the live broadcast room were passionately offering their ideas.

In addition to outrageous ideas like “testing if the virtual girlfriend will offer special services after deleting the account,” there were also seemingly reasonable suggestions, such as:

“If I take this to a special gun shop, can I skip the mission and buy special firearms directly?”

“Test the Continental Hotel to see if there’s special service or treatment, and if the ‘Assassin’s Gold’ obtained after completing missions will increase.”

In a small corner of a street-side cafe, hidden by tall green plants,

Princess Camille Victoria sipped her coffee discontentedly, put down her mobile phone, and looked up to face the person walking towards her.

Tall and slender, wearing a gray-white linen outfit, and with her long hair pulled back into a ponytail, Alex looked chic and pure. At this moment, she was wearing sunglasses and a mask, wrapping her face tightly as she walked slowly towards Camille Victoria.

Asking for a favor from the teacher, of course, had to be done face-to-face.

Last week, Camille Victoria had planned to bring some small gifts and visit the teacher at her home.

However, as Alex was immersed in her creative work and Camille Victoria was too shy to ask for help over the phone, Alex had been under the impression that Camille Victoria simply wanted to visit her, so she kept saying she had no time.

It wasn’t until Camille Victoria asked for the third time that Alex caught on and guessed there might be something she needed help with. That, combined with a sudden craving for coffee late at night, led her to meet Camille Victoria at this familiar cafe.

“Go ahead, what do you need help with?” Alex took a sip of the coffee on the table, skipping the small talk and going straight to the point.

Camille Victoria was well aware of the teacher’s temperament, and even though she was not entirely comfortable with it, she had grown used to it.

But before speaking, Camille Victoria tried to take credit, “Teacher, the coffee in your hand was made by me personally. How does it taste?”

However, Alex was too familiar with her, and without Princess-filter lens, she simply did not buy it: “So, is this a difficult problem?”

Failing to act cute, Camille Victoria had no choice but to move on and confirm again, “Teacher, you really don’t want to retire, right?”

“Yes, yes, yes, I just don’t want to show my face when I’m not busy.” Alex had had enough of being under the spotlight, and having people surround her wherever she went. So, in the last few years, she had deliberately avoided these situations, causing the outside world to speculate about her “retirement.”

“Do you want to hold a concert, then?”

Alex looked as if she was thinking how troublesome it would be and was about to refuse.

Seeing Alex’s expression, Camille Victoria hurriedly added, “It’s not a concert in reality, it’s in a virtual world. You can build the stage exactly to your liking!

Anything is fine!”

“Virtual world?” This word caught Alex’s interest.

“Yes, yes.” Camille Victoria nodded again and again.

But Alex immediately thought of something else, “Did Cloud Dream ask you to be their spokesperson? Lincoln has such a big face? Tell me, are you interested?”

“No, not at all! Don’t change the subject.” Camille Victoria quickly denied and started explaining that it was “internship work” and also “looking forward to the teacher’s return to the stage.”

After some explanation, Alex finally nodded, “Although it’s not convincing at all, if you say so.”

This made the Princess feel a little frustrated.

However, to her surprise, Alex’s next words were, “Alright, I agree.”

As it happened, the song she had recently been working on had something to do with virtual reality, and she was quite interested in it.

Moreover, she wouldn’t have to leave home, deal with all the messy related matters, or travel around for promotional interviews. All she needed to do was put on the headband at home and sing her favorite songs.

Once the singing was done, she could remove the headband and instantly disappear, with no one able to find her.

An easygoing concert like this didn’t seem like such a bad idea.

Camille Victoria’s eyes lit up, “Really?!”

Alex immediately flicked her forehead, ‘When have I ever lied to you?”

“Quite a few times…” Camille Victoria said quietly.

“Alright!” Alex immediately interrupted Camille Victoria’s attempt to dig up old grievances.

“I’ll hold the concert if that’s what you want, but on one condition: you have to come on stage and sing a duet with me.”

“What?” Camille Victoria was immediately caught off guard.

“What do you mean ‘what’? After teaching you for so long, I can’t bear not to see you sing on stage.”

“But…” Camille Victoria hesitated, “I can’t perform in public.”

Rights and responsibilities go hand in hand.

As a royal princess, Camille Victoria enjoyed honors, security, living expenses, and other benefits, but she also had to shoulder corresponding responsibilities and faced many restrictions.

For example, members of the royal family cannot engage in business, become shareholders in private enterprises, or work in high-profile jobs, among many other restrictions.

If they really want to engage in these activities, they can do so by publicly renouncing their royal status and forgoing related benefits.

Although not many people take this route, there are always one or two in each generation of the royal family who do.

After all, the living expenses of the royal family members are not as high as outsiders imagine, and while they can be affluent, they can’t exactly be fabulously wealthy.

Not at all!

Daxia is not the Middle East.

Let’s put it this way, if it weren’t for the official security provided, the royal family members’ living expenses would not be enough to hire their security team…

Moreover, Camille Victoria has never seriously considered leaving the ranks of the royal family either!

Well, actually, she has thought about it secretly…

That was when she realized that those who married into the royal family and became princesses would also have to accept the many restrictions placed on royalty…

But that’s still a far-off thing, and she can’t suddenly go crazy just for a concert, can she?

Furthermore, even if she does leave the royal family one day, Camille Victoria is not interested in becoming a celebrity.

Having grown up in the public eye, she doesn’t feel the need for more attention.

What she truly wants is a life like she has arranged in her virtual office in Cloud Dream, living leisurely in a small courtyard surrounded by flowers and plants.

“Sigh!” Alex, looking at the conflicted princess, let out a deep breath, “Where’s your brain? Can’t you disguise yourself? Just change your appearance, and you’ll be fine!”

“What?” Camille Victoria looked up with a slow reaction, suddenly realizing,

She finally caught on, blushing a little, but still nodding, “All right then.”

Alex leaned back slightly, looking puzzled at Camille Victoria: It’s just singing a song together on stage, right?

What’s with the sudden blushing?!

They chatted for a while longer, finishing their coffee, and then left the cafe together.

Jordan silently followed behind them.

Across the road in another building, not far from the trio.

In a third -floor restaurant at a window seat, a paparazzo having lunch with a friend happened to glance out the window.

Thanks to his keen sense of smell from working part-time as a paparazzo, he immediately noticed Alex, who had not yet put on sunglasses and was saying goodbye to someone.

He promptly took out his mobile phone, zoomed in, and snapped frantically, even grabbing his friend’s phone to start recording.

After Alex and Camille Victoria said their goodbyes and left separately, he enlarged and scrutinized the photos.

Then he was stunned— “Is this… the Princess?!”

His head felt a bit overwhelmed.

“Why would the Princess know Singer An Rongyi?”

“Could it be…. that the Princess is going to leave the royal family and join the entertainment industry?”