Chapter 1 A Sense of Abandonment

Before him was a large, black screen.

In the distance was Li Shi, already gone.

Pei Qian had a feeling that he had been abandoned by the world…

The script for what would happen next was already obvious.

Mo Yu Internet Cafe's flagship store was definitely going to be a hit!

The influence of this kind of popular television show was just too great, like certain food shows that made a particular dish famous, and then that dish's chain stores could open all over the country in a very short time.

Of course, things weren't quite that bad yet, after all, the Mo Yu Internet Cafe's business model was different from a restaurant.

Restaurants sell the same food everywhere, and it's pretty much the same no matter which store you go to; but with Chen Lei, there was only one Mo Yu Internet Cafe.

There would definitely be a lot of Chen Lei's fans coming to follow their idol, to see the "small internet cafe" where Chen Lei used to be, but the other Mo Yu Internet Cafes wouldn't be very attractive to them.

It was like how the Beatles used to be the resident band in a small underground bar, and even now it's still a must-see attraction for many tourists, while the other bars on the same street don't get that kind of treatment at all.

For fans who were chasing their idol, only the Mo Yu Internet Cafe flagship store where Chen Lei had been had the value of "pilgrimage," and there was no need to go to the other Mo Yu Internet Cafes.

So, the most serious problem Pei Qian was facing now was that the flagship store's revenue was bound to skyrocket.

The other branches of Mo Yu Internet Cafe weren't too much of a problem for the time being.

But, just the flagship store's soaring revenue was already bad news for Pei Qian!

Because this cycle wasn't over yet, and Chen Lei was going back to the Mo Yu Internet Cafe flagship store to sing, who knew how much he would get in alcohol tips in the three days before the settlement!

Pei Qian wanted to refuse, but he had no reason to.

Thinking of this, Pei Qian felt cold all over, and wasn't feeling well at all.

Pei Qian sat for a long time before finally getting up from his seat.

Li Shi was gone, and the surrounding shops wouldn't be running promotional activities to steal Mo Yu Internet Cafe's customers anymore, of course, they couldn't steal them now even if they wanted to.

The promotional activities of the surrounding shops during this period, the hard-earned buzz, all fell on the Mo Yu Internet Cafe flagship store with Chen Lei's popularity.

Those profit points that Pei Qian had spent so much effort to push out before all came back with a vengeance!

He was very tired now, very uncomfortable, and wanted to go back to his warm bed and curl up in his blanket for a nap right away.

As soon as he reached the stairway, he heard a commotion downstairs.

Ma Yang ran upstairs excitedly: "Brother Qian! Brother Qian, are you upstairs?"

Pei Qian's voice was weak: "What's wrong?"

"Customers are here! So many customers!" Ma Yang's long face was filled with excitement.

Pei Qian looked downstairs and saw that many customers had gathered at the entrance of the Mo Yu Internet Cafe, and many people had already poured into the first-floor hall, all taking out their phones and taking pictures like crazy.

Some people couldn't wait to find a seat and take a place first; some people had no place to sit, so they stood on tiptoe to take pictures of the singer on the stage; and more people saw that the first floor was quickly full and were already going to the second floor!

Pei Qian and Ma Yang were almost blocked back by the surging crowd, and finally squeezed downstairs with great difficulty, slipping out of the internet cafe through the back door of the employee entrance.

As soon as they went out, they saw that there were still many people rushing towards this side on the street.

Taking a closer look, he understood.

People from the surrounding bars, as well as many residents nearby, had all run over!

The nearby bars had been running discounts on alcohol recently, and the evening was the peak period for people, but these people were halfway through drinking when they all learned about Chen Lei and Mo Yu Internet Cafe!

The news spread quickly, and since it was just across the street, they definitely had to come and take a look.

As for the expensive prices at Mo Yu Internet Cafe…

No one thought it was expensive anymore, what if it cost dozens of yuan to buy a drink just to take a picture and send it to a friend to show off?

Watching the bustling crowd at the Mo Yu Internet Cafe flagship store from afar, Pei Qian's eyes were a little wet.

My good internet cafe, it's gone!

It's so hard!

"Wuwuwu…"

Pei Qian was a little confused, what's going on, I haven't cried yet.

As a result, when he turned his head, he saw that Ma Yang was crying.

"Brother Qian, I finally understand the deep meaning of you sending Chen Lei to Modu…"

"You always believed that he could be a hit, didn't you?"

"Brother Qian, I misunderstood you before, wuwuwuwu…"

Pei Qian originally wanted to cry, but seeing Ma Yang's crying appearance like a hippopotamus, he suddenly didn't want to cry anymore.

He wasn't in the mood.

Pei Qian looked wistfully at the inside of the internet cafe: "Where's Zhang Yuan?"

Ma Yang wiped his tears: "He and the store manager are inside receiving customers. There are too many people, we just discussed it, and we plan to stay open all night tonight!"

Pei Qian: "...Isn't that necessary? Your health is important."

Ma Yang patted his chest: "Don't worry, Brother Qian, the three of us will take turns to rest, and we'll urgently transfer a few waiters from other internet cafes, and give them triple overtime pay, no problem!"

"You worked so hard to make the internet cafe popular, how can we let your hard work be in vain?"

"Speaking of which, Zhang Yuan and I, as the management of the internet cafe, have not been able to share your worries, it's really embarrassing."

"This time, you can rest assured, just leave it all to us!!"

The corners of Pei Qian's mouth twitched slightly: "...Then I really thank you."

Ma Yang wiped his tears, and a smile bloomed on his long face: "No need! Brother Qian, we don't need to say so much, just understand in our hearts!"

Pei Qian: "..."

There was really no way.

There were still three days left, and whether or not they stayed open all night tonight wouldn't make much of a difference.

"Okay, then Brother Qian, I'm going to be busy, you've worked hard during this time, go back and rest quickly!"

Ma Yang returned to the Mo Yu Internet Cafe again from the employee entrance, looking at his departing back, Pei Qian felt a kind of unspeakable loneliness.

……

……

The next day.

Monday.

As soon as Pei Qian opened his eyes, it was already noon.

After struggling for a long time, he finally made up his mind and called out the system panel.

Last night, Mo Yu Internet Cafe probably didn't sleep all night, and he didn't know how much alcohol they sold, the money earned should all be reflected in the system funds.

And early this morning, last week's game revenue would also be credited.

Before going to bed, the state of the system funds was still in deficit, with a loss of more than 2.1 million.

Pei Qian had spent all his energy to spend all this money.

According to Pei Qian's original plan, Mo Yu Internet Cafe wouldn't make any money, and the revenue from the game side this week would probably be around 1.6 million, and at most it couldn't exceed 1.8 million.

*Ghost General* and *Game Producer* originally had a net income of about 600,000 to 700,000 per month, and *Fortress at Sea* was around 3.5 million, converted into weekly income, it was only more than 1.2 million combined.

The official platform changed the sharing ratio, and considering the money earned by the dLC, Pei Qian's bottom line was 1.8 million.

Mo Yu Internet Cafe's turnover last night, at most, should be only more than 100,000, no more.

Some bars, if they had things like a few thousand yuan for a booth, they could indeed spend hundreds of thousands, but Mo Yu Internet Cafe didn't have that, at most it was some alcohol consumption, and by the way, some people went online.

The really difficult thing was the next two days, when Chen Lei came, the alcohol tips would definitely not be less.

However, now Pei Qian had a lot of employees, and in the case of a sudden spending spree, it shouldn't be a big problem to spend hundreds of thousands to create losses.

So, Pei Qian felt that if he was lucky, he might still have the possibility of losing a small amount of three to four hundred thousand.

That would still be acceptable.

The light curtain appeared in Pei Qian's vision.

[Wealth Conversion System]

[Host: Pei Qian]

[Surplus Conversion Ratio 100:1, Deficit Conversion Ratio 1:1]

[Next Settlement Time: 2 days]

[System Funds: 6.27 million (↑1.27 million)]

[Personal Assets: 45691.4]

"Damn it!!!"

Pei Qian almost spat out a mouthful of old blood.

"How can this be more than 1.5 million more than my bottom line!"

"There's a big problem!!"

Pei Qian was simply vomiting blood, he quickly sat up from the bed and ran to his computer to open the back end to check the specific data of the revenue of several games.

The revenue of *Ghost General* and *Game Producer* was higher than Pei Qian expected, but still within his psychological expectations.

But *Fortress at Sea* earned more than one million more than Pei Qian's worst-case scenario!

According to this data, the monthly revenue of *Fortress at Sea* had exceeded ten million, and according to the 30/70 split, the weekly income after tax was also more than 2 million.

The data that Pei Qian had originally estimated was mainly different in the revenue of this game!

Pei Qian felt cold all over.

What's going on?

Hadn't he checked before that there was no major problem with *Fortress at Sea*?

In the past few days, Pei Qian's energy had been focused on the Mo Yu Internet Cafe, and he never expected that the *Fortress at Sea*, which he had been ignoring, was the project that gave him a fatal blow!

"What exactly happened to *Fortress at Sea* last week?"

"Li Zhengwei did promote *Fortress at Sea*, but no matter what, it's impossible to have such a good effect, right?"

"Moreover, I haven't even started selling the 500 Barrett-Destructions next month! Just the Fire Kirin, I can sell more than 10,000 a week???"

"What's going on, it's completely unreasonable!!"

"What information did I ignore??"