Based on his calculations, Pei Qian had earned about six hundred yuan in five months. That was more than a hundred thousand yuan per month!
Yes, it was worth celebrating!
Now, he could buy new appliances and furniture for the new house. He could also conduct soft renovation if he wanted to.
Of course, he still had to work harder.
On top of that, Pei Qian had discovered a medium-sized hidden threat: the fixed asset, Ming Yun Private Kitchen’s villa, had appreciated by more than two hundred thousand yuan.
Buying a fixed asset and managing it under the company’s name had allowed Pei Qian to spend a huge sum of money. However, Pei Qian did not dare to buy any more fixed assets for fear that they would affect settlement.
The biggest problem with having fixed assets was that 10% of its estimated worth would be converted into the System Funds. The formula for calculating loss would thus be ‘starting sum in System Funds – current System Funds – 10% of the value of Fixed Assets’. That was a headache.
If they only had ten million yuan worth of System Funds in the beginning, and the company’s Fixed Assets were worth a total of a hundred million yuan, then even if Pei Qian managed to spend all the System Funds, he would still not be able to incur losses overall.
Still, this was the first settlement with Version 2.0 of the System. In the future, the starting sum in the System Funds would continue to increase.
Once the starting sum became twenty, thirty, or fifty million yuan, Pei Qian could think about buying more fixed assets in the company’s name and using them for manufacturing or operations.
As the System Funds increased, Pei Qian would be able to lose more money and convert more Personal Wealth.
“I hope that the System Funds would increase for the next cycle…” Pei Qian prayed in his heart.
Chapter 471 - Retire and Give Room to Better Men
Chapter 471 Retire and Give Room to Better Men
Pei Qian turned his attention to the System’s reward. Each time the System gave him a reward, it proved very useful. The past rewards that Pei Qian had received included:
Getting an additional ten percent above the final converted amount, which translated to more income…
Changing the prohibitions to allow for donations to charity, thus allowing Pei Qian to mindlessly get rid of a portion of the System Funds…
Allowing one incomplete project to span two cycles, thus giving Pei Qian an additional way to spend huge sums of money…
Pei Qian wondered what the System’s reward would be this time.
The system screen continued to flash.
The long string of messages made Pei Qian dizzy.
First of all, he confirmed that the next cycle would last six months. That was slightly longer than Pei Qian had expected.
Three were pros and cons to both.
A short cycle would mean earlier settlement, and Pei Qian would be able to get his money earlier. However, less time meant he could not work on many long projects, and he would be more restricted. A long cycle would mean he could invest in bigger projects that cost more, but settlement would be later.
Pei Qian thought about Thriller Hostel’s problems and decided that six months was acceptable. A longer cycle was better than a shorter one.
The starting sum of twenty million yuan was less than Pei Qian had imagined. However, that was twice the starting sum that he had in the previous cycle.
Obviously, the starting sum had increased, and the difficulty of incurring losses had been reduced. The System was not foolish.
Pei Qian began to study the Special Task for this cycle.
‘No matter how smoothly things go, true business geniuses would never give up learning. This sentence offended Pei Qian slightly. He did not want things to go smoothly, and he had not given up learning.
He listened intently in class from time to time, and he passed his examinations based on his own efforts every time. How could the System say that he had given up on learning?!
However, the System seemed to have another way of measuring this.
The System’s regulations were very clear. Pei Qian could invest up to eight percent of the starting sum—that was 1,600,000 yuan-in himself. Simply put, he could use the money to pay his school fees.
The System had not restricted him in terms of what he could learn.
During Settlement, the System would measure how much Pei Qian had learned. If the System was satisfied with Pei Qian’s results, it would reward him by allowing him to deduct or add a fixed sum to the System Funds.
What if Pei Qian had 22 million yuan by the end of the cycle? That would be a profit. However, if Pei Qian had spent a million yuan on school fees and acquired the relevant knowledge, he would be able to deduct (1,000,000 x 8) 8,000,000 yuan from the System Funds.
There would still be 22 million yuan in the System Funds, but the System would calculate the conversion using the sum of 14 million yuan. That would count as a loss.
Pei Qian would only be able to convert two thousand yuan if there were 22 million yuan in the System Funds. However, thanks to the reward, he would be able to convert six hundred thousand yuan. Still, the regulations seemed restrictive.
First, Pei Qian could decide how much he wanted to spend, up to 1,600,000 yuan. However, even a Master’s in Business Administration would only cost tens of thousands of yuan or hundreds of thousands of yuan at most. How could Pei Qian spend 1,600,000 yuan?
He could register for more courses, but if he couldn’t spare time to attend all the classes, he would not meet the System’s requirements in the end. That would be useless.
What’s more, how much knowledge did he have to acquire before the System would be satisfied? There didn’t seem to be a clear standard.
“I want to spend as much money as possible and accomplish this mission. My best bet would be to hire an impressive professor with genuine talent or an impressive, elite professional. I can pay them a high fee and then spend more time studying hard. That would improve my chances of success. “Yet… What should I learn?
“Management? Economics? Finance?
“I can learn management and do the opposite of everything so that I can lose more money. Learning economics could also help me incur losses.
“However… I would seem overly confident by choosing either of those.
“I’m a humanities student who has never even learned additional mathematics. I
’d probably fail miserably if I try to learn either of those things. I could spend six months drilling difficult theories into my head and yet not understand a thing. If the System fails me, I would have wasted all of my efforts…
“Forget it. There’s no rush. I should think about it more.”
Pei Qian thought that the special task was very important. He could not afford to be reckless. Instead, he had to make very calculated moves.
He had to make sure that he would learn something and spend huge sums of money. It would be best if the mission would help him to incur even more losses.
April 1st, Friday…
Li Yada and Bao Xu were back. Pei Qian wished that it was an April Fool’s Day joke, but it was not.
Still, Boss Pei was very relaxed now that settlement was over. He felt like a college student starting a new term at schoolpeaceful and joyful. Exams week was far away, and he could enjoy as much as he wanted to at the moment.
Once Li Yada and Bao Xu entered the office, they received a warm welcome from everyone in Tengda Games.
“Big Sister Li, you’re back! Did you have fun?”
“Eh, Brother Bao, you don’t look that tan this time. Did you put a lot of sunblock?”
“Did you have fun overseas?”
Li Yada passionately shared about her travels and her experiences with her affectionate group of colleagues. On the other hand, Bao Xu walked back to his work desk expressionlessly, with earphones on to isolate himself from the rest of the world.
He did not want to leave again for the rest of his life!
Indeed, a homebody who hated going outdoors would never enjoy the experience of traveling no matter how many times he was forced to go through it.
When she noticed that Boss Pei was present, Li Yada quickly went up to greet him. “Boss Pei, we’re back!”
Pei Qian forced a smile and nodded.
Hu Xianbin walked up to Li Yada and proudly said, “Big Sister Li, we’ve completed the mission! After you left, we continued along your train of thought and finished GOG’s mobile game. After that, the game became extremely successful with the help of Boss Pei’s finishing touches!”
Li Yada smiled and said, “I know. I’ve been keeping an eye on GOG’s situation. I’m proud of all of you!
“It’s true—Tengda is now extremely powerful as a whole. Each person has his own role, and we can’t do without anyone! “Of course, that’s aside from Boss Pei.”
The corners of Pei Qian’s mouth twitched.
Pei Qian hated hearing that the company could do without anyone but himself. However, no matter how much he hated it, he had to admit that it was a fact. If not for himself, some projects would not have made that much money.
Take GOG for example. Li Yada had to take the most blame. Who had told her to come up with the idea of a mobile game anyway?!
If she had stuck to creating a client-side game, there would not have been so many issues!
The way Pei Qian saw it-even if he was to be blamed, he could only take a bit of the blame. To spend more money, he had come up with the competition and had accidentally made the game even more popular.
Hu Xianbin was the least responsible. After all, he had just been carrying out Li Yada’s instructions.
Thus, now that Li Yada and Bao Xu were back, Pei Qian felt that the next cycle would be even more difficult.
Li Yada exchanged a couple of pleasantries with everyone and then turned to Pei Qian. “Boss Pei, after this, I’ve made my mind up about something.
“I want to retire and give room to better men!”
Pei Qian was stunned. “Huh?”
Li Yada continued speaking. “I think that Tengda Games has only been this successful because it keeps welcoming fresh blood.
“This is a position that requires a lot of creativity. If one person remains the head of the gaming department for an extended period, he or she would eventually run out of inspiration and become boring. “Thus, I’ve decided to transfer the role of chief planner to Hu Xianbin!”
Eh? Was such a good thing really happening? The person in charge of a successful project like GOG was taking the initiative to make room for better men?
That was great!
Pleasantly surprised, Pei Qian immediately beamed brightly.
Hu Xianbin was stunned as well. He quickly said, “Big Sister Li, I don’t think that’s appropriate. I just joined the company a while
ago…”
Li Yada smiled and shook her head. “You already proved your skills. What’s more, I always thought that I was not capable enough to act as the chief planner as well.
“Boss Pei was the one who encouraged me and allowed me to reach 120% of my potential. That explains GOG’s success. Now, I think it’s time to transfer this role to a young man with a brighter future.
“As for me… I’ll be like Bao Xu. I’ll relax in the department and help out here and there, wherever you need me.”
Pei Qian could not help but feel emotional. Look! Look at this enlightenment! Zhang Yuan, learn from her!
Before this, Pei Qian had gotten rid of Zhang Yuan through the first-place-elimination system. Yet, Zhang Yuan had been reluctant to leave Fish-Catching Internet Cafe and ROF Computer-Installation. He had been the complete opposite of free and easy!
Look at Li Yada! She was so easygoing!
Although Pei Qian did not like Hu Xianbin especially much, Li Yada was still more dangerous between the two of them. He had to choose the lesser of two evils. It was a good thing that Li Yada was stepping down as the chief planner!
Pei Qian immediately agreed. “Alright, no problem. We will keep your salary the same, but you will no longer act as the chief planner. Thank you for working so hard for Tengda Games! You’re growing older with each passing day, and it’s time for you to take a break…”
Everyone, “…”
Boss Pei’s words were warm and moving, but what did he mean by ‘you’re growing older with each passing day’?!
Li Yada was only 25 years old this year.
Pei Qian studied Li Yada and Bao Xu and felt like travel therapy was especially effective. A perfectly functional chief planner had returned from her travels, desiring to slack and stepping down from her position.
Great!
Pei Qian would keep Li Yada in the gaming department and allow her to spread her slacking mentality–which she had cultivated during her travels—to the rest of the department.
As time went by, the entire gaming department would be filled with retired chief planners who could only think about slacking.
It would be the perfect scenario, right?
Chapter 472 - Old Master Lin Changed His Mind
3rd April, Sunday…
Fish-Catching Internet Cafe, Handong University branch…
Pei Qian and Lin Chang drank their coffees silently.
These two days were weekends. Pei Qian could have finally rested at ease without any psychological burden, put all his worries behind, and led a short and happy life.
However, Lin Chang came to Jingzhou today, which meant he had to meet him.
It’s just that… both of them fell into silence after greeting each other. They half-thought they succeeded thinking of how they were planning and strategizing a few months ago. However, in the end, both the game and the mobile phones were both popular. Lin Wan also swelled unprecedentedly and even began ranting in her family group chat, expressing her hatred. Both of them had problems on their mind. However, it did not seem appropriate for both of them to stay silent. The problem had to be resolved!
Lin Chang started reluctantly after a while. “Boss Pei, things are not going too well with the game and the cell phone. Didn’t we make sufficient plans?”
The corners of Pei Qian’s mouth twitched.
The planning part was mainly done by Pei Qian. He planned ambitiously, only to earn like a dog in the end. However, Pei Qian could not take it lying down. Lin Chang, do you dare say you don’t have any responsibility at all?<
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If you had not made your own decisions in the publicity of Tomorrow is Beautiful, the movie would not be so popular. The advertisements in it would not be studied, and the OTTO cell phones would not have such a good start…
In any case, you are definitely responsible as well! You can’t just throw all the responsibility at me!
Pei Qian sighed and said, “I gave you the responsibility of publicizing Tomorrow is Beautiful. You arranged for so many film schedules which established a high-end image for the OTTO cell phone in the minds of the consumers before its release. That has also disrupted the deployment of my strategy.” Lin Chang had a look of disbelief. “How was that possible?!
“Boss Pei, didn’t you write the script of this movie? You definitely know about the advertisement for OTTO cell phones. The quality of the movie is so high and had such a rich spiritual connotation. You know it better than anyone else that it would still be popular even if I did not do any publicity for it! “I will believe that the other movies succeeded because of publicity, but Tomorrow is Beautiful…? Publicity is nothing more than icing on the cake!”
Lin Chang actually threw the responsibility back to Boss Pei at the speed of light.
Pei Qian, “…”
He could not accept it but it did seem difficult to refute after thinking about it.
Tomorrow is Beautiful was now regarded as a work of excellent quality and profound connotation. Most people believed that the key factor of its success was its quality even though publicity had its merits.
As for the matter of excellent quality…
The biggest contributor might be Zhu Xiaoce, but Pei Qian seemed to be responsible as well.
Pei Qian started to doubt himself. Would all these not be destined to happen according to Lin Chang’s words?
They fell into a short period of silence again.
Lin Chang whispered suspiciously, “Boss Pei, could you actually have done it on purpose?
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