Chapter 186 - Think of Another Way to Make Money (1/2)

Reflecting on his painful experience, Pei Qian decided to take his lessons to heart and look to the future.

To get the ‘mysterious surprise within the System’s regulations’, Pei Qian had to work hard to make a loss in the next cycle.

However, as one learned from experience, Pei Qian had already grown much.

This time, he definitely would be able to learn from experiences; he would definitely not make the same mistakes again!

First, he definitely could not put all his hopes of making money into wealth conversion!

Previously, Pei Qian had always looked down on income of ten or twenty thousand; he had always thought that as long as he made a slight loss, he could convert and make hundreds of thousands at one go. This way of thinking evidently had issues.

After the previous two rounds of settlement, he had only made thirty-odd thousand and twenty-odd thousand; that was only ten thousand-odd on average monthly.

It was too little!

Pei Qian decided to think of other ways to make money.

He had immediately made thirty-odd thousand when he acted in Boss Pei’s Daily Life; wasn’t that already much more reliable than the System?

Evidently, he couldn’t eke out a living for himself by relying on his main job; he ultimately still had to do something on the side.

As for what exactly he could do, Pei Qian had not thought it through yet. However, he already had a rough idea.

All in all, as long as the System permitted it, he was going to use labor to exchange for remuneration; he just had to make sure he didn’t go overboard. He still had to test the System before he could firm up his plans.

Second, he had to know how to properly generate losses. Pei Qian now knew how the System worked more or less. The System actually had many restrictions. Products couldn’t be inferior ones masquerading as quality ones while rubbish goods could not be forcibly sold at a high price; high-value goods could also not be sold cheaply. Basically, while all product prices could fluctuate, they had to be within a reasonable range.

This restriction had basically prohibited Pei Qian from intentionally creating losses.

If he invested little, he could only sell the products at a low price; only the poor would be interested in them. If he invested much, he could only sell it at a high price; when the reputation of his products grew, the ballers would be attracted.

Hence, Pei Qian had not managed to do anything unscrupulous; the System had prevented him from such.

However, Pei Qian had discovered a phenomenon: when the System evaluated a product’s quality, it would consider it from the ‘income’ and ‘reputation’ points of view.

That meant that if he burned money to build up a good reputation, that was doable. If he wanted to make less money, he had to try his best to increase the product’s reputation.

This was an insight he gained from the Coming Out of the Cocoon as a Butterfly documentary!

As long as there was a huge and wide response

—even if the documentary couldn’t be monetized and couldn’t generate any profits, the System would not bother.

Of course, the documentary had resulted in Li Zhengwei promoting Ocean Stronghold and led to its players and income rising; this could be considered to be a minor flaw.

However, this one flaw did not outweigh the benefits; filming documentaries was still a good idea.

Furthermore, this experience had not been limited to just filming documentaries; he could apply this thinking to making games as well. If he invested enough money and made a game with niche appeal that everyone praised and lauded, but no one spent money on it.

Wouldn’t that be perfect?

Pei Qian thought that this should be the next objective of Tengda Games.

In the previous cycle, Tengda Games had only created new downloadable content for all its existing games. If Tengda did not start developing new games and everyone was left in limbo every day, that would not be very acceptable.

Fortunately, although Pei Qian had been rather confused and unsure previously, he had now found a new direction.

If this was successful, it would not be a problem making a game that created millions in losses!

As for Shang Yang Games…

It had continuously made losses; this proved that Pei Qian’s plan was still rather successful, and he didn’t need to bother too much with it now. If he encountered such loss-making treasures in the future, Pei Qian also wouldn’t mind taking over a few more companies.

Besides all these, he also wanted to break through into a new industry.

Fish-Catching Take-Out had also been a rather positive experiment; however, it wasn’t losing enough money.

As for the Fish-Catching Internet Cafe…

Strictly speaking, the flagship store growing popular because of Chen Lei was indeed something a little preposterous; Pei Qian still couldn’t accept this fact to date.