Losing Money to Be a Tycoon

eady showing off to her family.
If she managed to create another successful game, wouldn’t she feel free to soar the skies?

They could not afford for this to happen!

“However, there seems to be a problem, Boss Pei.” Lin Chang looked hesitant.
“It has always been Ah Wan’s dream to produce games.
If you transfer her somewhere else in the name of expanding the business, would she be happy?”

Pei Qian looked confident as he answered, “Of course, we cannot make things too obvious.
Also, Lin Wan would not agree to stop working on games.

“Since that’s the case, I will put her in charge of another business while she remains in charge of Shang Yang Games.
Wouldn’t that resolve the problem?

“There would be a lot of work on both ends, and she would be distracted.
This would increase the chances of her failing.” Lin Chang’s eyes lit up.
“Hmm, that’s a good idea!

“But what business are you looking at? What kind of reason would you give her? I think we should sort out the details.
Ah Wan is very intelligent.
We cannot allow her to become suspicious.”

Pei Qian nodded.
“That’s right.
I have a few considerations, but I’ve not made up my mind.”

Lin Chang seemed very interested.
“Let me hear them.”

Pei Qian picked up a piece of sushi and said, “This is what I’m thinking.
First, we have to allow Lin Wan to remain as the director of Shang Yang Games.
She has to be put in charge of another game, at least in name.

“If we don’t allow her to take responsibility for anything game-related, it would be too obvious.
She would become suspicious and feel conflicted.

“With that foundation, I’ll assign her another task.

“This new task has to be related to games as well.
Then, I can directly explain to her my plans for business expansion.
We can say that we intend to expand into so-and-so territory because this territory is good for our development of games.”

“The territories that I’m thinking of venturing into are livestreaming and cell phone manufacturing.”

Lin Chang could not help but sigh.
“Amazing.” Pei Qian had a clear plan: he was going to tell Lin Wan that venturing into livestreaming or cell phone manufacturing would help them better advertise their games.
He would then put her in charge of these ventures.

This way, Lin Wan would be responsible for two businesses.
She would not have enough energy to tend to either the livestreaming or the game.
That would greatly increase the chances of failure.

Lin Chang also knew that Lin Wan was a very proud person.
If Boss Pei gave her a task, she would take it even if she thought it would be difficult to achieve anything.
She would not turn these additional responsibilities down.

Wouldn’t that guarantee success?

Lin Chang was elated.
“Boss Pei, which business do you find more suitable, then? Livestream or cell phone manufacturing?”

Pei Qian pondered for a moment.
“Cell phone manufacturing might be better.”

Pei Qian had not thought about other businesses.

Take car-sharing for example—it was sure to incur losses.

However, he could not put Lin Wan in charge of such a business because it was completely unrelated to games.
Pei Qian would not be able to come up with a suitable excuse.

On the other hand, he could say he was expanding the pie by venturing into cell phone manufacturing and livestreaming.

Both of these industries also had relatively high barriers to entry.

The bandwidth for livestreams needed to be able to accommodate about two million people at any one time.
That meant he would have to spend up to forty million yuan a month on bandwidth alone.

After all, livestreaming was different from games.
One could not spend that much money on bandwidth for web-based games because they did not require transmission of huge amounts of data.
Naturally, the two belonged to completely different tiers.

Major livestream platforms would later accommodate anywhere from six million to tens of millions of people at any one time.
They easily paid hundreds of millions of yuan for bandwidth alone.

Of course, Pei Qian could employ a cheaper method and spend less money on bandwidth.
However, no matter how much he tried to cut costs, he would need to prepare at least thirty to forty million for the initial investment.

If he prepared any less than that, he might fail to produce anything and even delay settlement.
That would be a major loss.

As for cell phone manufacturing, he could invest ten to twenty million yuan.
Cell phone brands like Xiaomi only cost about ten million yuan to set up as well.

What’s more, livestream had not become popular in the current market—it was considered a sunrise industry.
The cell phone market was also developing much faster than before; it was considered a sunset industry.

Shenhua, Pineapple, MSC, and other huge manufacturers were beginning to push competitors out of the market.
The next few years will become more and more difficult for small cell phone manufacturers.
Failure was almost certain.

Also, Lin Yu was in charge of Shenhua’s cell phone business.
For every new phone that Lin Wan produced, Shenhua could produce an even better one.

A beautiful war would ensue, wouldn’t it?

Lin Chang understood this as well.
He happily clapped and said, “Boss Pei, your plan is perfect and seamless! Once again, I owe you a huge favor.
“Don’t worry, Boss Pei.
If you meet with any difficulties along the way, we will do our best to cooperate!

“That’s right, I noticed that your new game’s reputation isn’t ideal.
How’s the situation? Have you thought about how to control the comments? It seems to be a hot topic on Weibo as well.
Do you want me to help you?”

“Don’t worry, I’m very familiar with the staff there.
Just say the word, and I’ll be able to get something in order.”

Lin Chang was in charge of Shenhua’s entertainment business.
Naturally, this was familiar territory for him.

Perhaps he wanted to make it up to Pei Qian for all the help that the latter had provided.

However, Pei Qian immediately raised his hand.
“No, don’t do anything! This is all part of the plan.”

A realization dawned on Lin Chang.
“Oh, I understand.
I won’t get involved, then.
If Boss Pei needs anything in the future, please let me know.
Your problems are my problems.
I will not hesitate to help!”