"No way!" Pei Qian refused flatly.

Li Yada was a little anxious. "But..."

Before she could finish, Pei Qian interrupted her. "No need to say anymore. This is a matter of principle, and there's no room for compromise."

"You can never finish all the work. Even if I approve you to start working a week early, will that week allow GOG to surpass IOI?"

Li Yada was temporarily at a loss for words. "A week certainly won't be enough, but..."

Pei Qian immediately seized the opportunity. "That's exactly my point. If I approve you to start work a week early and you still don't surpass IOI, then will you apply for weekend overtime next?"

"If you work overtime this week and still don't surpass IOI, will you have to continue working overtime next week?"

"A thousand-mile dike can be destroyed by an ant hole. You should understand the principle of nipping problems in the bud."

"If this continues, where will you put Tenda's rules and regulations?"

Li Yada: "Uh..."

Pei Qian said earnestly, "So, since working two extra days won't have a decisive effect, don't work overtime. Meaningless overtime wastes everyone's time and wastes my overtime pay. What's the point?"

Li Yada couldn't think of a good way to refute him for a moment, but the more she pondered, the more she felt something was wrong.

"But President Pei, IOI has been releasing new versions and is expanding rapidly in Europe and the United States. Our GOG and IOI are direct competitors. If we fall behind, we'll fall behind every step of the way."

"At this critical moment, a moment of carelessness could have unimaginable consequences!"

Li Yada's tone was very anxious.

Clearly, even on vacation, she had been paying attention to IOI's situation. Seeing the game's quality visibly improving, she couldn't sit still.

Pei Qian couldn't help but sigh. Sometimes, having employees with too much sense of responsibility wasn't a good thing!

Since GOG was destined to fail from the start, why bother putting in so much effort?

Working overtime and rushing to meet deadlines would only lead to failure in the end, which would be a waste of emotion.

It would be better to just do it casually from the beginning and spend the money.

Pei Qian cleared his throat and said, "I understand how you feel. However, a matter of principle is a matter of principle, and it cannot be easily compromised."

"Yada, I think you have a slight problem with your mindset."

"It's common to encounter problems at work. Is your first reaction to solve them by working overtime?"

"Overtime is not a panacea that cures all ills. On the contrary, it's a poison to quench thirst!" (using poison to quench thirst)

"Use it once, and you'll become addicted, sinking deeper and deeper. Use it too much, and all your other skills will deteriorate. You'll lose all skills other than 'overtime.'"

"Think carefully about what's more important."

"Remember, the important thing is not working overtime, but doing the right thing at the right time."

"Figuring out what the right thing is is far more important than simply working hard."

On the other end of the phone, Li Yada was silent.

After a long time, her anxious mood calmed down.

"President Pei, your words are enlightening. I was indeed trapped in a misunderstanding."

"When problems arise at work, we really shouldn't solve them by working overtime. On the contrary, I should try my best to solve them with everything other than overtime."

"If I only know how to make employees work overtime, then I'm truly failing as the person in charge!"

"Thank you, President Pei. I understand! Happy New Year, President Pei!"

Pei Qian listened silently until she finished. "Yes, happy New Year."

After hanging up, Pei Qian couldn't help but sigh. As expected of his own employee, her ability to draw inferences was quite strong. She used those clichés so fluently.

With a little guidance, he had completely dispelled her thoughts of working overtime.

"Not bad!"

"Finger Company, please put in some effort and try to work harder during the Spring Festival to completely crush GOG..."

Pei Qian prayed silently.

...

...

February 10th, the eighth day of the Lunar New Year.

The official start of work.

Since school hadn't started yet, Pei Qian still returned to Jingzhou the afternoon before.

His parents knew that Pei Qian was making money at Fei Huang Workshop, and that his new movie was about to be released and he was busy with work, so they didn't keep him for long.

They just repeatedly told him to take care of his health while working and not to overwork himself.

Pei Qian thought silently, overworking himself was definitely out of the question.

His job was quite healthy. He slept until he woke up naturally every day, and when he went to work, he just slacked off and drank tea, occasionally eating something good at Ming Yun Private Kitchen.

Everything was pretty comfortable, of course, it would be even better if his own employees didn't always backstab him.

...

17th floor, Tenda Games Department.

Cui Geng was already continuing to gather material from Bao Xu.

The Zhongdian Chinese Website training class also resumed today. Although Cui Geng was still a member of the training class, he already had an official position at Tenda, which was "Special Observer," so he didn't need to be locked in the "small dark room" anymore.

The others in the game department had quickly entered work mode, typing on their keyboards with complete focus, reluctant to even take a sip of water.

There was no way around it; the workload was heavy!

During the Spring Festival, many people, like Li Yada, were constantly paying attention to IOI's movements. Seeing the game update its version, they couldn't wait to rush back to work immediately.

As a result, after talking to Li Yada, they learned that she had been criticized and educated by President Pei and could only wait patiently for the holiday to end.

So, on the first day of work, they couldn't wait to start modifying the game.

Most of the people in the Tenda Games Department had a fire burning in their hearts.

We, Tenda Games, have always been a sharp-knife force that can fight hard battles! Under President Pei's leadership, every game we make becomes a hit. We can't let such a golden brand be ruined in our hands, can we?

If GOG loses to IOI, we can't afford to lose that face!

Everyone worked hard to get started.

Before the holiday, Li Yada had already entrusted the "afterlife" to the three "Regent Ministers" and arranged for them to be responsible for their respective tasks.

However, these three were, after all, newcomers and needed some time to familiarize themselves and hand over the work.

From now until the end of the month, while ensuring the progress of research and development, Li Yada also had to transfer her work to the three of them as much as possible to ensure a smooth handover.

After explaining the recent work tasks of the executive lead planner to Hu Xianbin, Li Yada temporarily relaxed, drinking coffee and thinking about the current situation.

Every time she couldn't help but feel a little anxious, she would constantly recall what President Pei had said at the time because she firmly believed that the path to success lay within it!

"President Pei said that the important thing is not working overtime, but doing the right thing at the right time..."

"Then, what is the right thing to do?"

"Working hard on research and development? That's just our duty, the most stable approach, but it can't be considered 'right.'"

Li Yada thought for a long time but still couldn't understand.

She instinctively wanted to ask Bao Xu for advice, after all, Bao Xu had his own way of interpreting President Pei's thinking.

However, Bao Xu was telling Cui Geng about Tenda's past, providing material for Cui Geng's new book, and Li Yada was too embarrassed to disturb him.

Since she couldn't ask Bao Xu, who should she ask?

Huang Sibo? It wasn't impossible, but Li Yada knew that Fei Huang Workshop was preparing for a new movie recently, and Huang Sibo was probably as busy as a dog and wouldn't have much time.

After thinking about it, she decided to ask Lin Wan!

Lin Wan also had her own way of interpreting President Pei's thoughts.

Li Yada sent a message, sending her confusion to Lin Wan, and asked, "President Pei said to do the right thing at the right time. What does that mean?"

Not long after, Lin Wan replied.

"You've come to the right person! I have a standard answer to this question!"

"President Pei once said something similar to me!"

Li Yada was immediately interested and quickly made a phone call.

"Tell me quickly, what exactly is going on?" Li Yada seemed to have grasped a ray of light in an instant.

On the phone, Lin Wan smiled and said confidently, "Do you remember what we were doing before at Shang Yang Games when we were making *A Song of War: The Power-Up Edition*?"

"The game kept losing money after the micro-client was launched, so I went to ask President Pei what to do."

"President Pei said to wait quietly for the right time. When the time comes, it will naturally get better."

"Think carefully. Isn't this sentence and the sentence he said to you somewhat similar? Don't they all emphasize the 'right time'?"

Li Yada suddenly realized, "Oh! You mean..."

Lin Wan smiled. "That's right. President Pei has already made it clear that working overtime is meaningless. No matter how much hard work you put in, it will only be half the effort."

"The implication is that there is a way to solve the problem without working overtime!"

"If I were you, I wouldn't continue to fight IOI to the death in the PC game field because no matter who wins or loses, it will definitely be a mess."

"I would change fields, take the lead in defeating it, and then strike back!"

Li Yada's eyes lit up, and many doubts were instantly resolved!

Regarding what the "right time" was, Lin Wan had already found the correct answer when she was making *A Song of War*.

The upcoming mobile game boom was the right time!

It was because Lin Wan had understood this point that she turned the half-dead *A Song of War* micro-client into a mobile game and caught the fast track of Shenhua Mobile's app store, so she was able to soar into the sky and make a beautiful comeback!

If you apply this standard answer...

You have to transform GOG into a mobile and PC dual-end interoperable game!

President Pei also said that IOI started very early, and it was not just a little bit ahead of GOG.

This gap can never be made up by the hard work of everyone in the Tenda Games Department.

Therefore, President Pei doesn't let everyone work overtime in order to prevent everyone from doing useless work and wasting too much energy, but hopes that everyone will put their limited energy into more meaningful things.

What if GOG is changed to a mobile game?

Then you can directly achieve overtaking on a curve!

There is currently no similar game in the mobile game field. If you transplant GOG to it, even if the gameplay is not so rich, as long as you can ensure stable operation, you can naturally kill everything.

After GOG quickly occupies an undoubted dominant position in the mobile game field, it will naturally affect the PC field in turn.

Just imagine, if a player has already played GOG on their mobile phone, and the first time they play a similar game on their PC, will they choose GOG, which they have played on their mobile phone and has many heroes and various skins, or IOI, where they don't know any of the heroes and everything starts from scratch?

The current consensus in the game industry is to change successful PC games into web games, and successful web games into mobile games. Sinking down level by level like this, changing to a new platform can give old games a second spring.

This is a fixed mindset.

However, this is not so absolute.

If a dominant behemoth game has not yet appeared on either the PC or mobile end, who says you can't go to the mobile end first and then the PC end?