Considering it carefully, this was also to be expected.

At the start, Upwind Internet Cafe locations were all chosen in relatively remote areas, basically filtering through all the worst locations in Jingzhou City.

And the Ming Yun Mountain Manor branch was the most loss-making of all Upwind Internet Cafes, naturally indicating that its location choice was the worst of the worst.

It was not surprising that Pei Qian would find this place when looking for a suitable location for this high-end restaurant.

Thinking about it this way, it seemed pretty good.

How about a "hidden temple in the deep mountains"?

There were originally some shops near the Ming Yun Mountain Manor villa area, but due to the extremely low traffic, most of them couldn't hold on and closed down one after another.

At that time, Pei Qian chose the independent shop farthest from Ming Yun Mountain Manor and turned it into the Ming Yun Mountain Manor branch of Upwind Internet Cafe.

Now, those shops could still be utilized. Pei Qian planned to pick another one inside that was relatively hidden, preferably a spacious one, renovate it, and turn it into a high-end restaurant.

Then, he wouldn't list information on review websites, nor would he promote it. The restaurant would just quietly lose money with its own employees eating inside, usually deserted, which was perfect.

This time, Pei Qian certainly wouldn't adopt a buffet format, as that has a consumption limit and wouldn't spend enough money.

He'd have to make an outrageously priced menu, then order all the expensive dishes, so the money would fly out quickly.

All the ingredients would be selected to be the best and freshest. In short, the best ingredients available in Jingzhou City would all be used.

What if there were too few customers and the ingredients couldn't be finished, resulting in waste?

The system probably wouldn't allow such behavior to happen.

Otherwise, Pei Qian could simply purchase ingredients frantically and let them rot and spoil, which would lose a lot of money, completely contradicting the system's consistent requirements.

Regarding this, Pei Qian had already thought of a countermeasure.

Some ordinary ingredients could be purchased at any time and used as employee meals. Anyway, they would be consumed internally, and not much would be wasted, so the system shouldn't care about that small amount.

For some relatively precious ingredients, such as Australian lobster, Kobe beef, diamond white truffles, and blue lobster, he would implement a reservation system. If someone reserved a meal for a certain day, he would purchase the required amount in advance.

This was nothing for Pei Qian, after all, he knew the timing of each gathering in his heart. Before the gathering, he would tell the restaurant to prepare all these high-end ingredients, and that would be ok.

But for the customers, if they came occasionally and found that this ingredient wasn't available, and that ingredient wasn't available, and all the good ingredients required a reservation…

It would also produce an excellent deterrent effect.

A double win!

Then, he would spend a high price to hire a few talented chefs from the Imperial Capital, the Magic City, or even abroad, and support them every day. The salary expenses alone would cost a lot each month.

He would lose money and be able to eat great meals often. How wonderful!

Thinking of this, Pei Qian considered taking a trip to the neighborhood in the next couple of days to find a place that was secluded enough and spacious enough to settle the restaurant's location.

The space must be large enough to accommodate enough employees.

…

…

July 19th, Monday.

Ma Yiqun arrived at Zhongdian Chinese Website and started his daily work.

There weren't many manuscripts to review, even with the ones from Saturday and Sunday. He quickly finished reviewing them.

After casually writing some of the plot for *Turning Back is the Shore*, Ma Yiqun felt a little bored and wanted to slack off for a while.

So, he opened a web novel forum and browsed around.

Glancing at the hot posts on the homepage, he was surprised to find that many people were discussing Zhongdian Chinese Website.

This was also normal. After all, Ma Yiqun had found some channels to send out the message that Zhongdian Chinese Website was opening and seeking manuscripts, and he had also posted on the forum, so many authors would naturally discuss it.

However, Ma Yiqun found that his website's reputation didn't seem to be very good on the web novel forum?

"Recently, a new website has appeared, called Zhongdian Chinese Website. It is said that the full attendance bonus is pretty good. A daily update of 3,000 words can get a full attendance bonus of 1,000 yuan, which is more generous than Infinite Chinese Website. Can I go? Can any大佬 give me some advice?"

"Small website, not recommended."

"It is said that some people have tried it and said that the traffic on the website in the early stages is too small. It seems that there are no operations to poach big-name authors or divert readers from other channels, so you have to be prepared that for a long time to come, your income will only be the full attendance bonus…"

"Really that bad?"

"It's really that bad. Mainly, someone asked their editor, and it seems that this website doesn't have any other preferential conditions besides the full attendance bonus. It is recommended that those with ideals still try to become famous in one fell swoop at Infinite Chinese Website. Even if you write a good book on this kind of small website, no one will subscribe to it."

"Unless you write something particularly rubbish and don't expect to earn subscriptions for the rest of your life, then you can go."

These were some comments from forum users. There were also a few comments that Ma Yiqun could tell at a glance were posted by editors or authors from other websites.

After all, Ma Yiqun had been hanging around this forum for a long time and was quite familiar with some common IDs.

"Everyone, don't go, it must be a scam!"

"This website has no promotion, no channels, so naturally there are no readers. The book library is also rubbish, and sooner or later it will be a vicious cycle. If you update on Infinite Chinese Website, even if the full attendance bonus is less, you can still earn some subscription money when it's put on the shelves!"

"That's right, this website doesn't know if it's laundering money, or if it's really so naive that it thinks it can attract good authors by just providing a full attendance bonus? It's ridiculous."

"Yes, it would be better to accept some slightly more expensive buyout manuscripts, at least so that the books on the website's homepage are watchable, right?"

"So, I advise newbies not to go, you'll definitely get scammed! To write web novels, you still have to go to a large website. What if this website runs away one day? You won't even get your full attendance bonus, wouldn't you cry to death?"

…

Ma Yiqun looked at these people's comments and sighed silently.

Although he really wanted to refute them in his heart, he also felt that what they said made a lot of sense.

From Ma Yiqun's standpoint, he had 100% trust in President Pei and believed that President Pei would definitely have a way to make the website popular.

But from an outsider's standpoint, what everyone saw was naturally the most unreliable side of Zhongdian Chinese Website.

Although some editors and authors from enemy websites were adding fuel to the fire and being sarcastic, it had to be admitted that most of what they said was true.

Without poaching big-name authors, without accepting buyout manuscripts, and without channeling readers, it was indeed impossible to attract any good authors just by relying on this small amount of full attendance bonus.

Ma Yiqun silently closed the forum and continued working.

The website had already been set up, and the authors whose manuscripts had been approved had also started updating. The recommendation slots in each section and on the homepage had all been given out, at least giving it a rough appearance.

Moreover, the webpage was quite beautiful, after all, money had been spent on it.

However, taking a closer look at the books on the homepage, they were all exposed.

The writing was simply unreadable!

The names were all the same: xx God Emperor, xx Crazy Son-in-Law, xx Crazy Soldier, etc., and there were even a few female-oriented books mixed in, such as *Naughty Wife, President Don't Get Angry* and *The Fake President's Little Wife*, etc.

The book titles were very ordinary, but the content was even more ordinary, basically the same old clichéd plots that had been written to death. If they were placed on Infinite Chinese Website, they would definitely be complete flops.

Moreover, this was still considered to be of a relatively high standard to be placed on the homepage's recommendation slot.

There were even more books that didn't even reach this level.

Ma Yiqun shook his head and sighed.

Sure enough, this matter was as President Pei had said, it couldn't be rushed.

It was better to slowly write the plot of *Turning Back is the Shore*.

Now that there was nothing to do, he could instead carefully polish the plot.

Several editors were also writing the plot of *Turning Back is the Shore* out of interest, and they would discuss it regularly. If they encountered some contradictions in the settings, they would communicate with each other until they were resolved.

The updates were very slow, and it was even difficult to meet the requirements for full attendance.

However, everyone didn't care, after all, President Pei's benefits and salary levels were good, so there was no need to force themselves to write desperately just to get that little bit of full attendance bonus.

In Ma Yiqun's opinion, this was also a good thing, at least the plot written in this way had no filler.

As the saying goes, slow work produces fine work. Writing slowly doesn't necessarily improve the quality, but writing too fast will almost inevitably lead to some small flaws.

The plot of *Turning Back is the Shore* was for the game, not for increasing the word count, so it was definitely better to write it as detailed as possible.