March 18th, Friday…
At Shang Yang Games…
Lin Wan held an Otto E1 in her hands, fiddling around with it admiringly.
“Actually, once I get used to it, it’s not that heavy.
“What’s more, I found it hard to navigate such a huge screen with a single hand in the beginning. However, I now find trying to see things on a smaller screen torturous.
“Once one has had a taste of screens with high refresh rates and powerful batteries, it’s hard to go back.
“It looks like Boss Pei had thought of everything before setting the direction for research and development of the cell phone. He has a lot of foresight.”
Lin Wan had been using Shenhua’s flagship model before. When she switched to the Otto E1, she had found it difficult to adapt. However, the problem slowly dissipated over the last few days.
In fact, after playing GOG for a couple of days, she paid for all the skins as well.
Lin Wan could not have felt more grateful after completing this stage of work.
She had not had an easy time over the last few months. She had been in charge of Shang Yang Games and Otto Technologies at the same time, and it had been extremely difficult juggling both roles.
Shang Yang Games had been developing a horror game, no less. That made things all the more difficult. Luckily, after Lin Wan repeatedly visited a famous haunted house overseas with a few core members, got help from Big Boss Ruan Guangjian, and after having Boss Pei add finishing touches to the game; Be Quiet was completed.
Although sales had not gone through the roof, the game’s reputation was extremely good. That could pay off for a long time in the future. Boss Pei would probably be pleased, right? As for the cell phone business, Lin Wan had had no choice but to trust Chang You because she could not juggle too much work.
Still, Lin Wan had to be given due credit for her hard work as well. She had suggested using Tengda’s other arms to boost the value of the cell phone, and she had conducted the negotiations with the other subsidiaries. All in all, Lin Wan was very satisfied with her performance during this period!
Of course, there were some flaws. For example, Be Quiet’s sales had not gone through the roof, and Otto E1 was mainly only selling in Jingzhou, especially to Tengda’s gamers. The cell phone had not been termed a ‘divine creation’ or become a necessity in every household.
However, men should always leave themselves room for improvement.
Lin Wan saw herself as an ordinary person when it came to business. She could not peg herself against Boss Pei all the time, just because she was his employee. That would only hurt herself and destroy her motivation to work harder.
In any case, she was sure that she would never reach Boss Pei’s level no matter how hard she worked. Thus, she focused on staying grounded and took one step at a time to do a good job. All research and development work was done for now, but there were still loose ends to tie up. For example, Be Quiet was an online game. On one hand, they had to keep repairing bugs and improving the system’s functions. On the other hand, they had to keep releasing new content so that players would remain interested.
As for Otto E1, they had to do updating and maintenance work as well.
Obviously, her current workload could not be compared to that during the research and development period.
Lin Wan felt much more relaxed now. She could browse online shopping sites, buy bags, or play some games. One could say that she was very content.
At the same time, she had to wait for Boss Pei to give her a new task at any moment.
She recalled when Boss Pei had tasked her with two huge tasks: Shang Yang Games and the cell phone business. Lin Wan had thought that she would not be able to cope and that she would make a mess of everything.
Yet, everything had turned out well!
Lin Wan could not help but feel moved. It was almost as if Boss Pei had a keen eye for the upper limit of his employees’ potential.
It was amazing! Lin Wan was already looking forward to informing her family of her achievements and showing off to Lin Yu especially.
“Can Shenhua sell its flagship model for more than eight thousand yuan? Can it?! Our Tengda can!”
Lin Wan imagined Lin Yu’s blank expression and could not help but feel excited!
Just as she was fantasizing, she received a message on her cell phone: “Our workspace will be officially moving to Jingzhou tomorrow! We’ll be neighbors from now on. Please look out for us!”
It was from Ruan Guangjian.
Lin Wan’s eyes lit up. The big boss had finally dealt with all of his work in Shanghai? Great!
In December last year, Ruan Guangjian had come to Jingzhou to help with the concept art for GOG’s heroes. At the time, Boss Pei had tried very hard to rope him in.
He had invited Big Boss Ruan to take roller coasters, showed off Tengda’s benefits, and created a haunted house just for Big Boss Ruan. All of those actions pointed to one clear message:
‘Come to Jingzhou! Jingzhou is a good place!’
Big Boss Ruan had understood that as well. After finishing the art resources for two games, he rushed back to Shanghai and spent some time finishing up his work there.
Now, he was finally done, and he could officially move!
Lin Wan guessed that Ruan Guangjian had already been in Jingzhou for some time. However, he probably knew that Tengda had been busy during this period and did not want to cause more trouble. Thus, he quietly managed his own rent, shopped for furniture and office supplies, and the like.
Now that all of that had been settled, he was officially informing Lin Wan.
Lin Wan quickly asked, “Does Boss Pei know about this?”
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?!
