A beautiful day starts with ending the process of making money.

Pei Qian had originally planned to sleep in, review his studies, and then reward himself with some delicious food. It was a perfect plan.

However, this absurd ten million dollars that fell from the sky ruined his good mood.

Pei Qian was silent for a long time before asking, "This ten million dollars… can we sponsor it back?"

Based on the principle of whoever earns the money spends it, since this money was earned by sponsoring the club, it would be better to sponsor it back.

He Desheng said, "President Pei, are you saying we should make a surprise attack and continue to sponsor the club and continue to earn money?"

"I'm afraid not."

"Finger Company isn't that stupid. They won't allow something like this to happen a second time. Before, we sponsored the club and asked them to put the GoG logo on their team uniforms, which was taking advantage of a loophole in the rules. Now, Finger Company requires that all club team uniforms participating in IOI official events cannot have sponsorships from other games."

"Of course, those clubs that we sponsored before are still in a gray area. Finger Company is reluctant to pay them the penalty for breach of contract, and these teams' results aren't very good, so...they'll just stay like that for now."

"But sponsoring again is out of the question. This loophole has already been plugged by Finger Company."

Previously, Pei Qian had sponsored a total of ten clubs. Now, five of them had to pay compensation for terminating the contract, while the other five continued to be sponsored.

Obviously, Finger Company had chosen to terminate the contract with the five stronger clubs that were more likely to enter the quarterfinals. As for the other five, they were simply reluctant to spend the money.

After all, terminating all the contracts would require another ten million dollars, which even the Dayaike Group would find extremely painful.

Pei Qian was very melancholic.

Thinking on the bright side, at least the other five weren't forced to terminate the contract. Otherwise, he would have had to earn another ten million dollars, which would have been even more stressful…

He Desheng said, "President Pei, what do you think we should do with this money… how should we spend it?"

Pei Qian was silent.

Yes, how should he spend it?

With only a month left until the settlement, how could he spend ten million dollars in a short amount of time? Wasn't this messing with his mentality?

Of course, there were still ways to spend it, such as investing it in the "Mission and Choice" project, or continuing to advertise and sponsor GoG, or doing some promotional activities, and so on.

But after all, this was a lot of money. How could he spend it as quickly as possible with the least negative impact? He needed to think about it some more.

Thinking of this, Pei Qian said, "Don't worry, I'll think about it."

Of course, He Desheng wouldn't have any objections, "Okay, President Pei."

After hanging up the phone, Pei Qian felt a wave of melancholy. His good mood for the day was gone.

He couldn't sleep anymore, so he got up to wash and have breakfast at Mo Yu Internet Cafe.

After that, Pei Qian drank coffee while browsing the news online.

These past two days, the e-sports and gaming circles were basically filled with news about the IOI World Finals. After all, the GPL Spring Split hadn't officially started yet, and this was the only major event. Coupled with the promotion by Longyu Corporation, the news was overwhelming.

However, in addition to the results of the various teams in the group stage, there were also many news about FV Club, such as the excellent training conditions revealed on FV Club's Weibo, and those entertaining Weibo posts, etc.

Moreover, they occupied a lot of space and had high popularity.

Because today was already the second day of the competition, and the domestic teams didn't have any matches today, and yesterday's matches were lost quite badly, neither the media nor the audience wanted to mention it anymore.

FV Club, as the number one seed in China, had done some good things, making it very suitable for news reports.

Therefore, even though Longyu Corporation didn't like FV Club, the various game media outlets were still hypocritical, giving a lot of news space to FV Club for higher click-through rates.

Pei Qian didn't care too much. Since they wanted to stir up trouble and attract hatred, they would definitely create some popularity. But this popularity was unlikely to translate into revenue, and might even have a negative impact after the FV team lost the match, so there was nothing to worry about.

Pei Qian looked at the news in other sections, and suddenly, a piece of news caught his attention.

"Cold Noodles Girl Ensnared in Bankruptcy Rumors, Meng Chang Clarifies: False Rumors"!

Although Cold Noodles Girl and Round Dream Ventures had absolutely no relationship anymore, Pei Qian was still paying attention to Cold Noodles Girl's news.

If Cold Noodles Girl became popular and its valuation inflated, then Pei Qian could rest assured that he had made the right decision to leave, avoiding making more money.

If Cold Noodles Girl failed, confirming that it was a garbage project that couldn't burn money into a future, then Pei Qian could consider buying up garbage assets at the bottom to burn money.

Pei Qian quickly clicked on the news to check, and found that the cause of the matter was that a certain media outlet reported that Cold Noodles Girl's financing had failed, its cash flow was tight, and it had already owed payments to suppliers, and it was likely to go bankrupt in the near future.

And this revelation, triggered all the previous negative news about Cold Noodles Girl.

In fact, since the beginning of Cold Noodles Girl's establishment, there had been many voices of doubt on the Internet, including questioning its food as being unappetizing, expensive, over-marketed, its reputation far exceeding its substance, and so on.

But before, Cold Noodles Girl was doing well, its stores were popular, it had a high online popularity, and the taste was acceptable, and the price had subsidies and was not particularly expensive, so these voices did not cause much reaction.

But now, the online marketing craze of Cold Noodles Girl had gradually faded, coupled with this revelation, the previous negative voices of Cold Noodles Girl were naturally dug out.

This revelation did not have much hard evidence, but only forwarded a chat record, which was the dialogue of so-called "industry insiders".

As everyone knows, chat records are not considered hard evidence, but they are better than no pictures at all.

And this news also stimulated many people's desire to discuss, and some people even wrote an article analyzing Cold Noodles Girl's business model, openly singing it down.

The title of this article was "The So-Called Internet Thinking of Cold Noodles Girl is Nothing More Than Pretending", and the last paragraph of the article can be described as killing the heart.

"It must be admitted that Meng Chang has extremely strong cross-border thinking, extremely high intelligence, top-notch execution, and first-class eloquence. From any point of view, he seems to be a perfect entrepreneur."

"However, common sense tells us that no matter in any era, no one is much more foolish than anyone else, and even the smartest genius can only deceive consumers for a while, but not for a lifetime. What's more, there are even smarter geniuses above geniuses. Perhaps in the eyes of other geniuses, such as President Pei, Meng Chang's thinking is as simple as a blank sheet of paper."

"Meng Chang has been emphasizing Internet thinking, emphasizing following the trend of the times, but he is like a child sitting in the passenger seat of a car, posing as if he is driving, thinking that he controls the direction of the car, and charging passengers as the driver; but in fact, neither the car nor the road is in his own hands."

This article can be described as a perfect follow-up attack.

The revealed chat records were not very authentic. Cold Noodles Girl could completely say that this was a smear by competitors, but this article was written with every word hitting the heart, especially pointing out several fatal problems of Cold Noodles Girl again.

And the most deadly thing was this sentence: perhaps in the eyes of other geniuses, such as President Pei, Meng Chang's thinking is as simple as a blank sheet of paper.

This was clearly implying President Pei's two previous sales of Cold Noodles Girl's shares!

As everyone knows, President Pei's investment success rate is extremely high. President Pei's continuous sale of shares twice must be because, in President Pei's view, Cold Noodles Girl's model has huge problems!

Therefore, voices of doubt were rampant.

And Cold Noodles Girl also immediately refuted the rumors, saying that the company's cash flow was healthy, financing was smooth, and daily operations were completely fine. Please do not believe or spread rumors.

But the debate about Cold Noodles Girl's business model had already started again.

On many news websites that reprinted this news, as well as in major forums, netizens were fiercely discussing it.

Some people think that Cold Noodles Girl was originally blown up, and it is not surprising to go bankrupt;

Some people think that Cold Noodles Girl is in great shape, this is the media sensationalizing, cheating click-through rates;

Others think that Meng Chang likes marketing so much, this is mostly a self-black, cooperating with the media to stir up popularity.

In short, there are different opinions, but the doubts about Cold Noodles Girl are indeed increasing.

Looking at these arguments on the Internet, Pei Qian was speechless and contradictory.

Obviously, many people knew about Round Dream Ventures' sale of Cold Noodles Girl's shares, believing that this was a clear signal: Cold Noodles Girl was not favored by President Pei and would fail sooner or later.

However, Pei Qian himself knew very well why he wanted to sell the shares.

The contradiction lies in whether Cold Noodles Girl can succeed or not? Looking at the news revealed now, it seems that some difficulties have been encountered, but if Pei Qian takes action now, what if he directly saves it?

This is very tangled.

Pei Qian considered for a long time and decided to respond to all changes with no change, and he could no longer be fooled.

This time, he must wait until Cold Noodles Girl is completely hopeless and there is no possibility of saving it before taking action. He must never turn a loss into a profit again!

…

At the same time, Fuhui Capital.

Li Shi and Xue Zhebin looked at each other with blank expressions.

Xue Zhebin tentatively said, "President Li, your judgment on President Pei… seems to have deviated somewhat?"

"If President Pei runs away… what should we do!"

Li Shi silently took a sip of tea without replying.

After Li Shi and Xue Zhebin invested eight million in Cold Noodles Girl, President Pei immediately sold all the Cold Noodles Girl shares he had bought for 2 million before, once again completely severing ties with Cold Noodles Girl.

As a result, this move immediately produced a chain reaction, and investors were even less optimistic about Cold Noodles Girl's model!

According to Meng Chang's plan, after receiving President Li's investment, he would make a final effort, hype up the popularity, push up Cold Noodles Girl's valuation, and talk to more investors. As a result, President Pei's move was equivalent to drawing firewood from under the cauldron, directly cutting off Meng Chang's retreat!

Meng Chang couldn't get investment, and Cold Noodles Girl was still burning money. This eight million seemed like a lot, but in reality, it couldn't last for too long. Cold Noodles Girl's cash flow was already very tight.

The online exposure that Cold Noodles Girl was going to go bankrupt, although a bit exaggerated, was indeed not groundless. Investors were generally not optimistic about this project, so it was inevitable that rumors would leak out.

After unscrupulous media added fuel to the fire, it became what it is now.

Obviously, Cold Noodles Girl had reached a critical moment of life and death. Most bankrupt companies have sudden problems with their cash flow, and they may directly die in a very short time.

This makes Li Shi and Xue Zhebin's investment seem very stupid…

Of course, other investors also have some shares of Cold Noodles Girl, and Li Shi is not the biggest sucker.

Everyone is now in a more contradictory state of mind.

They want to sell, but if everyone sells, Cold Noodles Girl's valuation will collapse instantly, and everyone's shares will be worthless, and no one can escape. But if someone sells and someone doesn't sell, the first person to sell can get away, and the latter person will be trapped.

Xue Zhebin followed Li Shi the whole time. As a result, he watched Li Shi conduct on-the-spot investigations and repeated analyses, and he learned very seriously. In the end, it seemed that he still failed to invest, which was quite a negative example.

Li Shi coughed twice to ease the embarrassment on the scene.

"Don't panic, the matter of Cold Noodles Girl has ushered in a turning point, but it is obviously not over yet."

"The reason is President Pei's operation!"

"President Pei first invested 2 million and then immediately sold it. Others may interpret it as President Pei seeing the problem with Cold Noodles Girl and withdrawing in time, but I don't think so."

"If President Pei thought there was a problem with Cold Noodles Girl, then he must have seen it from the beginning, otherwise he would not have sold all the shares. Why invest 2 million after selling them?"

"Is President Pei so free that he is playing with Meng Chang?"

"Absolutely impossible!"

"Obviously, this 2 million operation has another meaning. In my opinion, President Pei may be deliberately sending a signal to wait for Cold Noodles Girl's valuation to collapse!"

"And President Pei's move is definitely not just to teach Meng Chang a lesson. I said before that President Pei only talks about interests and not feelings in business. Even if President Pei hates Meng Chang, he will only give a slight punishment, which can only be the second purpose. The first purpose is definitely to make money through Cold Noodles Girl!"

"President Pei made a sum of money from selling Cold Noodles Girl's shares the earliest. If it only stopped there, then the subsequent 2 million would be completely unnecessary."

"So I judge that President Pei will definitely take action afterwards!"

"I will choose a suitable time to acquire some shares of Cold Noodles Girl at a low price."

"This time, I want to predict President Pei's plan and be ahead of President Pei!"

…

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January 1, 2012, New Year's Day.

8:00 AM domestic time, 4:00 PM Los Angeles time on December 31, 2011.

Pei Qian got up as usual. He didn't have any special feelings about New Year's Day, and he didn't have the habit of staying up until midnight to celebrate the New Year.

This year is the special year of 2012, so there are endless discussions about this year on the Internet.

As early as 09, a global disaster film called "2012" was released, and the Mayan prophecy had already been widely known.

However, Pei Qian knew very well that there was nothing particularly noteworthy about 2012. The so-called December 21st doomsday was just nonsense. In addition, the Olympics and the US presidential election had little to do with most people's daily lives.

Therefore, Pei Qian was completely in no mood to care about those discussions about the special year of 2012, and still focused his attention on his own affairs.

The exam week still had to continue to be reviewed, and the group stage results of the two domestic teams in the IOI Global Finals had also come out.

One was eliminated, and the other persisted to the tiebreaker, but after a fierce battle, they were still defeated, and finally lost the qualification for the quarterfinals.

And just now, the game of the second team had just ended, and the entire live broadcast room was full of various curses, and it was no exaggeration to say that it was the end of domestic IOI!