Losing Money to Be a Tycoon

Ruan Guangjian answered, “I sent him a message, but he hasn’t replied because he’s probably busy.”

Lin Wan nodded silently.
Boss Pei was probably very busy, or he would warmly welcome Big Boss Ruan for sure.
He would have planned a whole series of activities for him.

Lin Wan wondered what Boss Pei was busy with.
Since that was the case, she decided not to disturb him.

Ruan Guangjian had offered a lot of help during the research and development stage of Be Quiet.
As the head of Shang Yang Games, Lin Wan felt the need to welcome and thank Ruan Guangjian properly.
“Big Boss, where’s your workspace? I’ll bring Ye Zhizhou and the others there to visit,” said Lin Wan.

Soon, Ruan Guangjian sent her a location.
Lin Wan clicked on it and grew stunned.
“Eh? That’s… just opposite Fish-Catching Internet Cafe’s Handong University branch, right?”

At a two-story shop, just a street away from Fish-Catching Internet Cafe’s Handong University branch… This had been a bookstore before.
Its position close to Handong University gave it an advantage, allowing it to profit from the sale of best-selling novels and academic books.
However, with the rise of online shopping, the bookstore’s sales steadily declined.

This bookstore had held on for the longest among all the others.
Still, it could not fend against the overwhelming online shopping trend.
Thus, it silently closed down.

At that moment, all the books and furniture in the bookstore had been moved out.
Some simple renovations had been done, and high-end office furniture now took their place.

A line of passers-by stopped to look into the shop, but they lost interest once they realized that it was not selling anything.
The crowd slowly dissipated.

One street away-in Fish-Catching Internet Cafe, Pei Qian sat, sitting his coffee and pondering life.

The conversation that he had had with Boss Li the day before still hurt him today.
Thus, Pei Qian could not help but disappear for the day.

He was not even in the mood to take revenge on He Desheng and Yu Pingan.

After thinking about it carefully, Pei Qian thought it would be weird to just punish the two of them since so many projects were now proving successful.

As the saying went, there was no point in worrying about one debt when there were so many others.
Pei Qian had been backstabbed by so many employees that he was starting to have difficulty keeping track of his feuds.

He realized that there was a very serious problem with the management of the company.

First, the first-place-elimination system was no longer useful.
In the face of so many profitable projects, eliminating the head of the most profitable project would not make much of a difference in the grand scheme of things.

He had to think of something else.

Pei Qian sipped his coffee, feeling melancholic as he tried to strategize.
During his disappearance, a few people had tried to contact him.
However, Pei Qian neither read their messages nor replied to them.
He was mainly afraid that he would break down upon receiving bad news.
That could hinder his strategizing and prevent him from thinking of ways to turn profits into losses.

His subordinates had obviously gotten used to Boss Pei disappearing from the face of the earth, too.
Even if he did not reply to their messages, they would complete their tasks on their own.

As Pei Qian looked out of the window, he noticed some movement in the two-story shop across the street.
The bookstore had already closed down two weeks ago, but the shop had undergone renovations two days ago.
Pei Qian wondered who the brave warrior was.

In fact, this location was not that good.
Otherwise, Pei Qian would not have chosen this place to set up a Fish-Catching Internet Cafe branch back then.

People were starting to find opening their shops here advantageous, only because Fish-Catching Internet Cafe had livened up the entire area recently.

Still, Pei Qian did not have high hopes for

them.

“The shop could fail in less than three months.
We might not be neighbors for long.
Ai, how I admire them.”

Pei Qian had thought about taking over the bookstore before, but after several cycles, he was beginning to understand one foundational principle: most loss-incurring projects would generate profits once he took over.

At least, it had been like that for Shang Yang Games and ‘Top Student, Come Quick’.

If Boss Pei just sat back to observe, the loss-incurring projects would continue to incur losses.
However, once Boss Pei interfered, the project would start generating profits.

What’s more, a bookstore would only be able to lose that much money in the end.
Thus, Pei Qian did not take over it.
Someone else did instead.

“Forget it.
Whoever it is would have no relation to me whatsoever.
I cannot incur the necessary losses just by taking over one rotten bookstore.
I’d better think about how to incur losses before the end of this cycle…”

Pei Qian sipped his coffee and turned back around.

However, at that very moment, from the corner of his eyes; he noticed some familiar-looking figures walk towards the entrance of the two-story shop.

They were Lin Wan, Ye Zhizhou, Hu Xianbin, and Chen Kangtuo…

“Eh?”

Pei Qian thought that he was seeing things.
He turned back around and took a closer look.
He was right; Lin Wan was heading the group!

What were they doing here?

Just as he was feeling confused, he saw Ruan Guangjian walk out to warmly welcome the group.
Then, Ruan Guangjian led all of them into the shop.

Pei Qian’s mind was filled with question marks.
The scene before him felt like a dream.

He rubbed his eyes and then took a closer look at the sign hanging outside the second story.
There were an artistic logo and beautiful words.

Halo Workspace!

The hand that Pei Qian was using to hold his coffee cup trembled.

Holy sh*t… you’ve moved over so quickly?!