Sternly, Pei Qian replied, “Bargaining does not fit into Tengda’s culture!
“If applicants can pass the various stages and examinations, it shows that they’re talents we are looking for. “Of course, we should honor them accordingly. How can we still try to bargain with them?!
“In an attempt to save mere hundreds of dollars a month, we would be making these people unhappy, causing them to take their work lightly—thereby affecting their productivity. Wouldn’t our company suffer in the end?
“That’s why we should never bargain!
“We would be acting like hooligans if we ask the applicants to suggest their starting salary and then bargain with them!
“We’ll pay them according to the upper limit in the market. We have to make sure that Tengda’s salary remains competitive. Once the employees pass the Tengda Spirit compatibility test, we can distribute their first salary.
“We must pay our employees enough money to ensure that they work hard for Tengda!”
[1] This refers to hiring based on familial bonds like preferring relatives. [2] This refers to having a certain clique that excludes others outside the circle.
Chapter 316 - Boss Pei’s Script
Chapter 316 Boss Pei’s Script
A single sentence from Boss Pei could undo ten years of education.
Hao Yun felt as if everything she learned about human resources management in school had become useless. They did not fit at all with what Boss Pei required!
However, that was the way Tengda and Boss Pei operated! Boss Pei had always been unique. Obviously, he also had a unique theory and method of managing his employees.
Hao Yun nodded. “Alright, Boss Pei. Leave these things to the HR department. We will get everything done properly!”
Hao Yun had just received an epic, long-term mission from this NPC. Filled with renewed motivation and determination, she left.
Pei Qian took a short break and then continued to work on the movie script.
November 2nd, Tuesday…
At 10 AM sharp, Pei Qian walked into the office. He opened his laptop, opened a document, and then began making final edits to the movie script. He wanted to complete the script today and then send it over to Huang Sibo and the others.
There was no other way about it; Pei Qian had always worked swiftly and decisively.
With the story’s earlier framework as the foundation, Pei Qian perfected the details. The more details he came up with, the less likely Huang Sibo and Zhu Xiaoce would misunderstand his intentions.
First, he had to add more sci-fi elements.
Pei Qian pondered for a moment and decided that it would be best to avoid adding complicated, commonplace sci-fi elements.
That meant no space warships and time traveling Why was that?
That was because Pei Qian’s primary aim was to spend as much money as possible on special effects. If the special effects ended up being too well done, the audience might think that they were worth paying for to watch. What would Pei Qian do then?
Boss Pei had to ensure that while he spent money on these special effects, the audience would not enjoy them.
It would be best to avoid things like time travel because Pei Qian was coming up with an incomplete script. There was a chance that Huang Sibo and Zhu Xiaoce—these imaginative b*stards-would be able to change it beyond recognition.
There would be a lot of room for them to get creative with things like time travel. This worried Pei Qian.
He did not want them to come up with a script that ended up being only about one person, in which the protagonist recorded himself, slept with himself, killed himself, or married himself.
Thus, after some thought, Pei Qian decided to carry out wicked deeds under the banner of virtue. He would give the movie a sci-fi appearance but not film any huge scenes involving sci-fi. The movie would purely revolve around everyday life.
When advertising the movie, he would call it a ‘locally-produced sci-fi film’ with a ‘moving plot’ and ‘beautiful special effects’. That would give the audience high expectations.
They would enter the cinema and realize there were no special effects, no cool scenes, and very few sci-fi elements. The movie would just be a modern story wrapped in sci-fi packaging On top of that, the plot would be extremely toxic.
It would piss them all off!
The angry audience would immediately cry for refunds.
As for how to make the plot as toxic as possible, Pei Qian had to keep coming up with details.
The male protagonist was going to be a bootlicker who would end up with nothing. This general framework could not be changed. However, how exactly should he bootlick and end up with nothing?
Pei Qian had to rack his brains to come up with this.
If he came up with something too subtle, the plot would not be toxic enough, and people would not be repelled strongly enough.
Thus, he had to ramp up the intensity!
Now that he had the general framework for the story, Pei Qian felt inspired to write the rest of the details. He quickly tapped away on his keyboard, expressing all his thoughts in words.
Technology would have flourished in the future.
Robots would replace humans and take over most of the manual labor. Most manual laborers would lose their jobs and become poverty-stricken. Fortunately, they could depend on basic social welfare services for their food and lodging. The male protagonist was a jobless, poor man who had to depend on basic social welfare services and emergency relief to survive.
He lived in something like a capsule and could only sleep curled up. If he was not careful when he tried to sit up on his bed, he could knock his head against the ceiling He would receive instant food every day thanks to the emergency relief services. He would have to add boiling water into what looked like a gray flour paste. This would barely meet his daily nutritional needs.
There was a television in the capsule that the male protagonist lived in. This was the only form of entertainment available to him.
The television programs were filled with all sorts of advertisements, which he could not skip over because he had insufficient money.
He could play games and chat with others on the television, but he had to pay to do all of these. Since the male protagonist could not even afford to skip advertisements, he naturally also could not afford other forms of entertainment.
Thus, the male protagonist spent his days watching advertisements and television programs. Each day, he had three hours to leave his capsule and walk around outside.
This was because the outside space could not be freely enjoyed by humans.
Rich people could roam around outside from 6 am to 6 pm every day, ordinary citizens from 6 pm to 12 am, and poverty-stricken people like the male protagonist from 12 am to 3 am.
From 3 am to 6 am, the outside world would undergo mass cleaning, so that the rich people could enjoy it once again from 6 am onwards.
If poverty-stricken people went out or remained outside past their allocated time slot, they would be severely punished.
Most poverty-stricken people’s body clocks were completely messed up as a result. They treasured the time slot that they were allocated to roam around outside. To them, this was the most important part of their days.
Of course, strictly speaking, poverty-stricken people like the male protagonist were not completely jobless.
They were allowed to watch their favorite television programs and vote for them.
Depending on how long they spent watching these programs, they would be paid some fictitious money that could be used to purchase certain items. These included nice clothes, delicious food, tasty drinks or alcohol, and the like.
Every television program would also contain a quiz. If one decided to spend their money on these quizzes and ended up winning, they could earn even more fictitious money.
Some programs would even invite ordinary or rich people, who rose out of poverty by earning money through quizzes, to share
their experiences during the program.
The male protagonist was very into this. He won some and lost some, but he was quite gifted. Thus, he would win small sums from time to time and reward himself with some beer.
One day, the male protagonist ventured outside once again.
By chance, he met the similarly poverty-stricken female protagonist. The female protagonist was not especially beautiful or charming, but she was pure and adorable. To the male protagonist, she was uniquely attractive. He began to fall in love with her.
The male protagonist struck up a conversation with her using his innate sense of humor. He defeated other competitors and won the female protagonist’s heart.
From that day onward, they would meet in their allocated three hours to eat good food or spend money on cheap forms of entertainment.
Both of them quickly developed a romantic relationship.
The male protagonist began to scrimp and save and carefully take part in quizzes, for fear that he would lose all of his hard-earned money.
He wanted to save enough money to buy a space where both of them could live together.
Since his heart was set on this, he did not buy the female protagonist any gifts or treat her to feasts for a long time.
The female protagonist did not get upset. Instead, she was very forgiving and expressed understanding and support for the male protagonist. That was until one day, the male protagonist finally saved enough money to buy a capsule big enough for the two of them.
It was then that the female protagonist suggested that he had been earning money too slowly for them to ever become ordinary citizens. She said that she wanted to take part in a talent show, so that they could earn money much faster if she was given a chance to star in it.
The male protagonist refused, and they had their first quarrel.
The next day, the male protagonist felt immensely guilty. After considering for a long time, he decided to give the female all the money he had saved up, so that she could chase her dreams.
On the day that the female tried out for the talent show, the male protagonist-as her loved one—was awarded an entire day free of advertisements. That meant he could watch the entire episode from beginning to end without being interrupted by any advertisements.
The female tried to display her talents while on stage by singing and dancing. The male protagonist watched closely but did not think that the program was that interesting at all.
The female protagonist finally ended her performance, but only one out of the four judges gave her the nod.
According to the rules of the competition, participants would only succeed if they got three or more nods.
The other judges ruthlessly pointed out the female’s problem: she was too stiff when she danced, making her look like a clumsy bear. Her singing technique was also wrong, her breathing was unsteady, and she was out of tune. She was also too nervous on stage, so that she lost her stage presence.
The only one who gave her the nod was a male judge who only thought her dress looked nice. They had spent a huge sum of money to rent that dress for the show, so that the female protagonist would look like the innocent girl-next-door.
She left the talent show, feeling extremely disappointed.
Yet, the male protagonist inwardly celebrated. That was because he knew that if she had succeeded, they would only grow further and further apart.
Now that the female’s dreams were crushed, he could hope for a future together
When they met again, the male protagonist comforted the female and then began to save up money again in order to buy a capsule that they could live in together.
He spent more time watching different television programs and studying their ways, so that he could carefully take part in the quizzes.
He had to make sure that he won every quiz he took part in.
Subsequently, the female protagonist became increasingly distracted on their dates. She often zoned out while the male protagonist was talking and nodded while in a daze.
The male protagonist did not overthink this. Instead, he wrote it off as the female protagonist being crushed about her dashed dreams and was certain that she would recover one day.
At last, the male protagonist earned enough to purchase a bigger capsule. He happily announced this to the female, saying that they could finally live together.
However, the female protagonist lost her temper for the first time, becoming hysterical towards the male. She kept shouting ‘you don’t know anything’ and suggested they broke up.
Confused and on the verge of breaking down, the male protagonist suddenly realized that the female had a small baby bump.
The female protagonist came clean with him and admitted to having an affair with that judge from the talent show the entire time.
Chapter 317 - It Would Definitely be a Masterpiece!
Chapter 317 It Would Definitely be a Masterpiece!
The judge had his own bungalow, and he could bring girls out in the day. The female protagonist had already seen a more beautiful world. That was why she did not care to live in the cramped, two-man capsule together with the male protagonist.
She had wanted to come clean with the male protagonist earlier and get together with the judge, but the judge had suddenly stopped contacting her a few days ago. She had not heard a peep from him.
The male protagonist knew that the female had already been dumped. Perhaps the judge just wanted to try something new; he probably did not plan to spend the rest of his life with the female protagonist.
After calming down, the male protagonist decided to accept her.
However, the female turned him down and left.
From that moment on, the male protagonist’s life seemed to lose all its color. He used the sum of money he had saved to rent a bigger space for himself. He also paid to get rid of the advertisements in his television programs, purchased more forms of entertainment, and bought a bunch of junk food to cheer himself up. With what was left of his money, he tipped the female host of the television program he had been watching in exchange for a ‘thank you’. He went back to living a blurry life. Instead of carefully taking part in quizzes, he chose to pour all his money into quizzes with high rewards. Sometimes, he won big and went on shopping sprees. Other times, he lost everything and lay in his bed like a corpse for several days.
This went on for five years.
One day, the muddle-headed male protagonist had been watching television programs as he normally did.
All of a sudden, he realized he had won a quiz that he had staked everything on. He received more than ten times the money he had put in!
His bank account now had much more money than it did before; one could say that he had become an ordinary citizen!
The male protagonist was overjoyed at this turn of events. He could not wait to share this good news with the female protagonist.
However, he could not find her. He had no choice but to search high and low for her during his allocated three hours, in the hopes that the female protagonist had not left the city.
Just like that, the male protagonist spent more than a month searching for her. At last, he still could not find any traces of the female protagonist. Since he had no other choice, the male protagonist thought of an idea. He decided to spend some money to take part in a talent show. There, he would profess his love for the female protagonist and tell her that he had been waiting for her this entire time… and that he hoped she would return to his side.
Talent shows had a wide reach. Once the show aired, the female protagonist would probably see his message.
Thus, the male protagonist ended up on the stage of a talent show.
As he stood in the spotlight, the male protagonist stared at the ruthless judge who stole his girlfriend and then dumped her.
The male protagonist’s only intention had been to profess his love for the female protagonist and tell everyone how much he missed her. He had only wanted to talk about all the beautiful memories t
hey shared. However, after seeing the judge’s sanctimonious expression, the male protagonist lost all control.
He picked up his microphone and ranted to the audience about how sanctimonious the judge was. He accused the latter of being a wolf dressed in sheep’s clothing and explained how the judge had shamelessly stolen the male protagonist’s beloved before dumping the kind-hearted girl.
He cursed and swore at the judge with the ugliest language that he knew, releasing pent-up feelings of indignance, regret, and rage.
The entire place grew silent.
After that short silence, everyone burst out with applause!
Even the judge who had just been cursed and sworn at clapped as he laughed and held up his thumb towards the male protagonist.
The female judge next to him looked deeply moved. Wiping her tears, she immediately hit the button in front of her to express her approval of the male protagonist.
Four circles lit up in front of the judges.
That was four votes. The male protagonist had made it.
The lights immediately began to flash, and multi-colored smoke appeared on the stage, along with other special effects.
This meant that many people watching online had been moved by the male protagonist’s performance and were tipping him from where they were.
The male protagonist looked at the dazzling numbers on stage. Thanks to these tips, he had earned much more in the past few minutes than he had in the past few years.
The judge whom he cursed and swore at highly praised his performance. The former explained how it had been a long time since he had watched such a satisfying talk show.
The judge extended a symbol of peace to the male protagonist, expressing his wishes to help the male protagonist create a television program.
The male protagonist knew very well what this would mean.
It would mean that he would have unimaginable wealth and fame as his television program reached hundreds of thousands, or possibly even millions, of people!
He could live like the other rich folk. He could roam around outside during the daytime and live in a huge bungalow. He could wait as his female servants knelt beside him and fed him freshly-picked grapes.
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