Losing Money to Be a Tycoon

March 1st, Tuesday…

The house that Pei Qian bought last weekend had finally been handed over. Pei Qian received various certificates and keys for the house after engaging a special commissioning company for formal acceptance.

However, the house was empty of furniture, fittings, and fixtures.

Pei Qian's original plan was to let his parents live in this house so he did not want to buy the furniture and household appliances according to his own preferences. He specifically went home to give his parents a set of keys so that they could go over to tidy up when they had the time.

Pei Qian had the perfect plan:

He would say that he could not get away from his busy work schedule (which was true) and had no time to do all these things. Let the two seniors take their time choosing furniture, home appliances, etc. Pei Qian would reimburse them when they were done.

The furniture bought would then be more in line with his parents' taste.

He would then get his parents to stay there for a few days in the name of adding some human touch to the place after everything was done.

The gifting of the house would become natural when his parents become used to the place.

As for Pei Qian himself, he could always think of other ways to get himself a bigger residence.

Pei Qian was in a much better mood after he was done being busy for the weekend. He threw the annoying staff from the company aside and felt much better.

The only thing he was slightly unable about was his parents asking about the movie by Fei Huang Workspace as soon as he returned home. Pei Qian told the truth reluctantly. They were elated and pulled Pei Qian to the cinema to watch it again. They carefully found Pei Qian's name after carefully scanning for his name in the list of people behind the scenes.

Pei Qian had nothing to say about his parents' happiness being built on top of their happiness. He could only silently cry out in his heart.

Anyway, Boss Pei fully recovered after a short period of recuperation!

The real tough battle would start next month. It would directly determine the success or failure of this cycle!

The games developed by Tengda Games and Shang Yang Games would be launched this month. OTTO cell phones would also be launched for sale.

These were projects that Pei Qian had placed high hopes for. They could potentially offset the gain caused by the high box office of the movie!

Little Sun drove the car carefully towards Shenhua View.

Pei Qian sat in the back seat, taking out his cell phone on a whim to seek some spiritual comfort. The one thing that pleased him the most recently was the transformation of the authors in the Zhongdian Chinese Network class.

The updates from the authors' works had been showing a declining trend ever since the Tengda spirit had been spread to the class!

Even Ming Yu who used to be the model hardworking author stopped writing so much. He now wrote 7,000 to 8,000 words at best.

These 7,000 to 8,000 words were a lot to the other authors, but Ming Yu had reduced his word counts by half since he previously updated 15,000 words.

Pei Qian was especially happy about it.

The reduction in words from these authors would have minimal impact for the website, but it would not help Boss Pei's money loss plan. It's just that he felt very happy that lazy thinking was spreading.

The achievements were in the present and benefits in the future!

Pei Qian opened the Zhongdian Chinese Network website not because he wanted to read novels but because he wanted to see if the authors had updated less again today.

There was no helping it. Boss Pei was just someone so boring and easily satisfied.

However, the first thing that appeared after he clicked open the application was not the bookshelf but a splash screen.

"The Butterfly Game is out!

"The butterfly fanned its wings and set off a storm!

"It had become an entirely new urban theme since its serialization and had broken multiple records on the website!

"Bookmark and subscribe to get a random gift and Zhongdian coins gift pack!"

Pei Qian was stunned.

Wasn't this new book recommendation a little too strong?

The splash screen could be said to be the best recommendation resource on the website. Few books could obtain such a resource when they were first made available.

"'The Butterfly Game'? Why don't I have an impression of this book? Is it a new book that just came out recently?

"There is no pen name on the splash screen; is it by a new author? If the book is written well, I would have to immediately pull this author over to learn about the Tengda spirit!"

Pei Qian clicked in subconsciously.

He was momentarily stunned when he saw the author's pen name.

"The Tentacled Beast that Writes for His Life? Isn't that Cui Geng? He's still writing?!"

Pei Qian felt very perplexed. He was very fond of Cui Geng because Cui Geng played a very crucial role in the spreading of Tengda spirit in the class.

However, Pei Qian's impression of Cui Geng was still lingering in his 'complete speech' and 'special observer' status.

Pei Qian went to understand about Cui Geng's income. Based on his average subscription and average updating rate, his monthly income could only be around 10,000 yuan.

The income of a special observer might not be high, but the actual value would obviously be over that amount if he were to add on all sorts of Tengda's subsidies and benefits.

Moreover, his position did not have a specific scope. He would still earn the same amount of money even if he were to play games all day long.

What motivation would Cui Geng have to update his novel comparing it this way?

Pei Qian was a little confused. Why would a lazy bum with no reason to update his novel write a new book? This…

Something was definitely wrong.

He glanced at the total number of words in this novel: 260,000 words!

The first chapter was published on February 2nd, New Year's Eve!

In other words, this book had been written for less than a month so far and already had 260,000 words written. There had been 10 chapter updates since it was published which added up to 280,000 words!

He wrote 280,000 words in a month? How was he a lazy bum like this then? He was already worthy of his The Tentacled Beast that Writes for His Life title!

Pei Qian felt a little faint.

Did he earn some money and found a ghostwriter?

That was still impossible. Ma Yiqun would not allow something like that to happen.

No matter what, writing 280,000 words in just one month was not something the Cui Geng that Pei Qian knew would do!

Else, it was Cui Geng who was problematic.

Else, it was Pei Qian's understanding that went wrong…

Pei Qian quickly opened the 'The Butterfly Game' novel to read.

He read chapter by chapter, from when the protagonist obtained a golden finger to make an unintentional game designer profit so much…

Pei Qian felt a growing sense of deja vu.

"Is… isn't this me?!"

The content of this novel emphasized repeatedly about his successes, and the readers' comments made him feel as though he was being laughed at again and again.

"This bast*rd's novel is too funny, hahahahaha…"

"Quickly update, lazy bum! I can't wait to see which unlucky idiot's 'dream being realized'!"

"This protagonist is rather interesting. You might say that he was doing something good, granting orders' wishes on a whim but always obtaining the opposite effect. If you say that he was doing something bad, he was indeed doing something that had every sense of the meaning of success. He was only left with a face of confusion!"

"I wonder what kind of thought process this lazy bum has! He can even think of such a scenario!"

"You're still calling him lazy bum? Call him the Tentacle Beast! He made such a massive update in one month, making it to pay-to-read. Do you yield!"

"I really want to know if someone else is using this pen name. The difference in style and material is too large. Even his state experienced massive changes. Previously, it was a gift to be able to get one chapter. Now, he sometimes updates four or five chapters a week!"

"It seems like it's the efforts of the authors' class organized by the website. The works of authors who went to the class are getting better."

"I'll @ the books I'm following right now!"

Pei Qian quickly glanced at the comments of the readers, his heart turning cold.

It seemed like… this book… has great reviews?

Pei Qian was shocked.

This was not as simple as Zhongdian Chinese Network having another good novel. More importantly, was Cui Geng worthy of the 'special observer' role?

How could a special observer start to write fervently every day? Would he still have the time to observe if he were to write so much?

He had absolutely let down Boss Pei's expectations for this role!

Pei Qian was very anxious. He refreshed the application by accident, causing a new article to pop out.

"I'd like to report a piece of good news to everyone. It has been 12 hours since the first VIP chapter was uploaded from 12am. This book has 8,000 subscribers now and has broken Zhongdian Chinese Network's record!

"There are still another 12 hours. The estimated total subscribers would be within 12,000 to 15,000. It's a very large breakthrough to both me and the website!

"I hope that everyone could come in to support before the final results are out. If you think this book is alright, please subscribe. Let us create a new record on Zhongdian Chinese Network!

"I'm also working hard on my writing. I'll update with a 10,000-word chapter once midnight strikes!

"Thank you, everyone!"

Pei Qian was feeling a little dizzy.

"What the f*ck…?"

If they were to go by normal circumstance, the last 12 hours would definitely not be able to attract as much traffic as the first 12 hours. Putting the estimate at 13,000 subscribers was a very normal figure.

However, this was an excellent chance for Zhongdian Chinese Network. Ma Yiqun, therefore, was using everything at his disposal at Zhongdian Chinese Network to promote it!

The rest of the 12 hours had two peak readerships: during afternoon and night. It was possible to double the readership!

Zhongdian Chinese Network's greatest problem had been that the lower and mid-tier authors had always had average benefits, but no novel had really great results.

Cui Geng's original book had an average of 5,000 subscribers which put him at rank 40~50 on Zhongdian Chinese Network. Cui Geng was also one of the better achievers in class.

Ma Yiqun and Pei Qian were both very aware of this fact.

Pei Qian, therefore, rejected Ma Yiqun's request to poach masters from outside to spend the money on the mid and low-tier writers. However, he did not think that this class could actually still produce a super author!

An 8,000 subscribership was nothing compared to a large site like Infinite Chinese Network. Perhaps a dozen authors there could obtain such traffic.

However, an author with a 15,000 subscribership would also be a prominent author in Infinite Chinese Network!

That meant to say that from then on, Zhongdian Chinese Network would also have masterpieces and prominent authors!

Moreover, that was not the crucial point.

The most crucial point was that Ma Yiqun used so many resources to promote one novel also for publicity to show the rest of the authors a kind of exemplary behavior.

It meant: 'Did you see it? You could also get a 15,000 subscriber if you were to write well on Zhongdian Chinese Network!'

If it were to persist, the average subscribership might even hit 30,000 to 40,000 without a problem!

The originally lower and mid-tier authors had good benefits on Zhongdian Chinese Network. Many authors did not go on board because they felt that there was not enough visibility on the website.

However, there was evidence that there was ample readership on the website. The upper limits had been raised so more authors would definitely come onboard!

It was the same logic for readers. Many readers previously might feel that there weren't many top-quality good books on the Zhongdian Chinese Network and treated this website as a spare tire. They would only come here when there were no other good books on the Infinite Chinese Network.

However, the stereotype of 'Zhongdian Chinese Network did not have any good books' would naturally have changed for the better!

In short, Cui Geng's The Butterfly Game would have a long term impact onZhongdian Chinese Network. It symbolized Zhongdian Chinese Network's advancement to the next stage!

Pei Qian was speechless looking at Cui Geng's chapter.

Boss Pei's happy place did not seem to be particularly peaceful today…