Chapter 81 - Draft is Out (1/2)
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
February 8th, Monday…
As the lunar year was coming to an end, Pei Qian could feel a ‘holiday’ atmosphere everywhere.
As for the new year of 2010, Pei Qian actually didn’t remember much about it. He had actually even forgotten what the New Year Gala program was on CCTV that year. This world was a little different from his past life’s; the New Year Gala program should be slightly different as well.
Of course, no matter how it differed, it probably wasn’t going to be that nice in any case.
In schools—as the exam week ended, all students were hurrying back to their hometowns. As it was winter, fallen leaves were disappearing from the trees and there was a sense of desolation in the schoolyard.
Pei Qian came to the office and sat at his desk.
He took a cup of tea from Assistant Xin as he sighed; yet another dull day.
He summoned the system.
<Wealth Conversion System>
<Owner: Pei Qian>
<System Funds: 1,780,000 (↑780,000)>
Huff…
Pei Qian blew to cool his tea as he was rather indifferent to what he saw.
It was within his expectations!
Only a week had gone by; the original one million in System Funds had become one million seven hundred and eight thousand yuan.
After Ocean Stronghold had improved its server equipment and bandwidth, the number of players had increased rapidly once again. The game was persistently being highly rated on official games platforms while the company’s income was rising.
While he was spending money fast, he was earning fast as well!
As much as he had kept spending on rent, wages, and other aspects; the funds in the company ledger kept on increasing. Fortunately, Pei Qian had timed everything very well during the last settlement; if not, it was actually not that easy a thing to achieve a loss.
This time, the three plans that Pei Qian was working on at the same time required a lot of spending.
A million yuan had been promised to Huang Sibo.
Ma Yang was going to open a physical shop; according to Pei Qian’s rather extravagant and lavish thinking, he was going to put in at least two million in initial capital.
As for the development of Game Designer, Pei Qian was planning to put in more than two million for the first phase of the project; he wasn’t going to set a limit either.
If he couldn’t spend enough money, he would just keep putting more into each project!
As for his daily expenditure now, including the company’s rent and his employees’ wages; he was more or less spending a million monthly.
From the looks of it, his total expenditure was not going to be a small amount; the existing System Funds were not going to be sufficient.
The problem was… the cycle this time was three months.
Based on the rate that Ghost General and Ocean Stronghold were raking in money, they could easily bring in three to four million a month!
If Pei Qian wanted to have less than a million in the System Funds before the next settlement and to achieve a loss once more, there was a certain difficulty to it.
Pei Qian started to calculate further and was rather vexed. He had thought of converting the System Funds’ profits and whether that would help or not. However, after calculating in detail, he realized that this method was not reliable.
The two games were indeed very profitable. For them to bring in almost ten million in three months was not an issue. Based on a 100:1 Conversion Ratio, to be able to convert almost ten million yuan was not bad.
The problem was… how about expenditure? Pei Qian couldn’t possibly be a miser, right?
Even if Pei Qian didn’t do anything, the company had almost a million yuan in expenses monthly—three months later, a five to six million yuan profit would still be left. Based on the conversion ratio, this would be fifty to sixty thousand.
It was such a small amount; if he just generated a small loss, wouldn’t he be able to get this amount as well?
Furthermore, if he focused his sights on profits, would Pei Qian bear to use the System Funds to pay for expenses? If he didn’t, his quality of life and work environment would definitely fall!
After calculating, Pei Qian knew that it wasn’t the same level of difficulty converting profits or losses into his own money; Pei Qian wasn’t stupid!
Losses were the way to go!
This time, Pei Qian wanted to set a target for himself: to make a loss of seven hundred thousand yuan out of one million in System Funds. That shouldn’t be that hard, right?
He had a triple insurance plan in place!
As he was thinking about this, a knock on his door rang out.
“Enter.”