Losing Money to Be a Tycoon

een a small company.
Pei Qian was just an independent game developer.
Now, Tengda had already become established.
After Ocean Stronghold’s success, it was already working on a new project.

What Lu Mingliang hoped that Ruan Guangjian would collaborate to work on was Game Designer.

 Ruan Guangjian considered for a moment but didn’t agree immediately.

 “Could I have a look at the rough design manuscript? I don’t mean anything bad.
If it’s Boss Pei’s project, I will definitely agree unconditionally.
I’m not trying to reject; I’m just afraid that it might not be within my capabilities, and my work might not be outstanding.

 “Could you let me take a look at the design manuscript? If I feel that I am up for it, I’ll do it.
If not, I will recommend someone in the circle that is an even better and more suitable animation artist.”

 Lu Mingliang soon sent the design manuscript over.

 Ruan Guangjian swiftly glanced through it, and he thumbed the table, expressing his praise.

Indeed, Boss Pei was really something!

 A powerful and unconstrained design!

 Although Ruan Guangjian didn’t really understand game design, he could sense that the irony this game had for the games industry as a whole was filled with dark humor!

This wasn’t a superficial, no-brainer game for players.
Although it looked like it was mocking players, it actually wanted to bring gamers into the gaming industry, to understand the heart of designers, as well as to debunk any myths about the gaming industry!

 It wasn’t just a game that was very entertaining; it was a work of art!

 Furthermore, the artistic importance of portraying the abstract concepts into actual animation in the game design was evident!

 This completely played to Ruan Guangjian’s strengths!

 Perfect!

 After deliberating for a short moment, Ruan Guangjian decided.

 “Alright, I’ll take this job! If it’s a job from Boss Pei, I will give it my all! As for money, you don’t have to give the market rate.
When Boss Pei unilaterally decided to increase my pay back then; I still remember this to heart.
I still owe Boss Pei a favor; you only have to give a token!”

Ruan Guangjian suddenly felt as if a ball of fire was burning in his chest!

 Producing animation for other companies… that was work.
However, doing so for Boss Pei was an artistic endeavor!

 Since the theme was so good, Ran Guangjian really wanted to pull out all stops!

 The two hit it off immediately and agreed to start work officially after the holidays were over and start producing the important concept design map!

 …

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February 12th…

 It was soon going to be the holidays.
All company business had been settled, and the seven-day-long holiday was about to begin.
Pei Qian had already packed his luggage and was ready to head home.
Although Pei Qian had been reborn and had gotten the system and—from all aspects—looked like the perfect protagonist, he did not come from an orphanage.

 His parents were well and healthy.
However, as they had always pursued a care-free mindset with him, he didn’t really feel them as his parents.
The first few days that he had been reborn, Pei Qian had called home.
After making sure his parents were doing well, he had not contacted them ever since.

As for opening a company…

He also didn’t want to tell them for now.

 There were two reasons.
One, Pei Qian had to explain clearly how he had gotten the initial fifty thousand yuan.
He only had a thousand-odd yuan as allowance; it was barely enough for him to eat.
He couldn’t possibly have saved up fifty thousand to start a company and develop games.

He couldn’t possibly say he had taken a naked loan1, right?

 Second, Pei Qian’s dad—Old Pei—was a very conservative person and so was a little old-fashioned.
He had a preconceived notion of games! Old Pei had once said at the dinner table that games were very harmful to people and should not be allowed!

 Although he was drunk, he probably really believed in that.

 Old Pei was very representative of some elders in this generation; this was a common phenomenon.
If not, there wouldn’t be a case of people trying to ‘combat internet addiction’.
Of course, Old Pei only had a prejudice against games; his motivations were fundamentally different from those professors and experts raking in money from dealing with internet addiction.

 All in all, this was a generation gap.

 Regardless, if Pei Qian told his own parents that he had established his own gaming company, made money, and sold an 888-yuan Red Kilin…

A storm would brew in his home.

 Thinking about this, Pei Qian was rather pained.

 Since it was normally better to avoid unnecessary trouble, he didn’t want to make this matter public just yet.
As for Old Pei, Pei Qian had to slowly and gradually change his thinking.