Painfully reflecting on the pain, Pei Qian decided to summarize his experience and look to the future.

For the sake of the "mysterious surprise within the system's rules," Pei Qian still had to work hard to lose money in the next cycle.

However, as the saying goes, a fall into the pit, a gain in your wit. Pei Qian had gained a lot of wisdom.

This time, he must learn from the previous lessons and never make the same mistakes!

First of all, he must never pin all his hopes of making money on wealth conversion!

Before, Pei Qian always looked down on the income of ten or twenty thousand, thinking that a slight loss could be converted into hundreds of thousands. This idea was obviously problematic.

The last two settlements, one was more than thirty thousand, and the other was more than twenty thousand, which only averaged out to a little over ten thousand yuan per month.

Too little!

Pei Qian decided to find other ways to make money.

Before, filming "Pei Zong's Daily Life" directly earned thirty thousand yuan, which was much more reliable than the system.

As expected, you can't support yourself by relying on a proper job these days. Ultimately, you still have to engage in a side hustle.

Pei Qian hadn't quite figured out how to do it specifically, but he already had a general idea.

In short, as long as it's within the system's allowed range, exchanging some labor for remuneration, and not going too far, should be fine.

How to operate specifically still depends on testing the system further to decide.

Secondly, there was the question of how to correctly lose money.

Pei Qian had now roughly figured out the system's nature.

The system's restrictions were actually quite numerous. Products couldn't be shoddy, garbage couldn't be forcibly sold at high prices, and high-value items couldn't be sold cheaply. In short, the prices of all products could fluctuate, but they had to be within a reasonable range.

This restriction basically eliminated Pei Qian's idea of deliberately losing money.

If the investment was small, he could only sell at a low price, which poor people would like.

If the investment was large, he could only sell at a high price, which wealthy people would like when the reputation went up.

Therefore, some crooked ways were not feasible, and that was all within the system's calculations.

However, Pei Qian discovered a phenomenon in this process, that is, the system would simultaneously consider both "income" and "reputation" when evaluating the quality of a product.

In other words, burning money to exchange for reputation was also feasible.

If he wanted to earn less money, he had to improve his reputation as much as possible.

This was the inspiration brought by the documentary *Metamorphosis*!

As long as the reaction was big enough and the impact was wide enough, even if this film had no means of monetization and couldn't make any money at all, the system wouldn't stop it.

Of course, because of the documentary, Li Zhengwei promoted *Fortress of the Sea*, which led to an increase in the number of players and income of *Fortress of the Sea*. This was a small flaw.

But after all, the merits outweighed the flaws, and making a documentary was still a good method.

Moreover, this experience was not only limited to documentaries. Making games could also be considered in this way.

If he invested enough and then made a niche game that everyone praised like crazy, but no one was willing to pay for it...

Wouldn't that be perfect?

Pei Qian felt that this should be the next stage goal of Tenda Games.

Last cycle, Tenda Games updated DLCs for all the games. If they didn't develop new games, everyone could only slack off every day, which was a bit unreasonable.

Fortunately, Pei Qian was very confused before, but now he had found a new direction.

If this direction could succeed, losing a few million on a game would not be a problem!

As for Shang Yang Games...

From the current point of view, it had been losing money all the time, which showed that Pei Qian's plan was relatively successful, so he didn't need to worry about it for the time being.

If he encountered such treasure companies that were continuously losing money in the future, Pei Qian wouldn't mind acquiring a few more.

In addition to that, he had to explore some new areas.

Lazy Workplace Delivery was a relatively successful attempt, but the amount of loss was not big enough.

As for Lazy Workplace Internet Cafe...

Strictly speaking, it was quite outrageous that the flagship store became popular because of Chen Lei. Pei Qian still couldn't accept this fact.

But now, only the flagship store had become a scenic spot. The other stores were still in a state of small losses.

Therefore, there should be no problem with the general direction of opening physical stores, but some small problems had occurred in the specific operation, and Pei Zong's luck was really not good.

So, physical stores could continue to be opened.

In addition to opening a high-end restaurant specifically for spending money extravagantly, which he had already thought about, Pei Qian also planned to engage in logistics and warehousing, that is, express delivery.

If he could really lose money every year like JD.com, Pei Qian would laugh out loud even in his dreams.

Moreover, engaging more in such labor-intensive industries, giving each employee more benefits, would be more advantageous when spending money extravagantly.

...

Pei Qian sorted things out and felt that it didn't seem difficult to create some losses in the next cycle!

Then, let's start with the first thing, finding extra money!

Facts had proved that he couldn't rely entirely on the system to make money. Pei Qian could exchange his labor for remuneration. As long as he didn't go too far and didn't maliciously extract system funds, the system wouldn't stop him.

As for how much salary would be considered as using system funds...

He still had to ask the system a little.

Pei Qian silently asked in his heart: "If I invest in opening a company and exchange labor for reasonable remuneration, what is the highest salary I can give myself?"

[It depends on the host's actual business ability and working hours.]

Pei Qian: "..."

It didn't sound very optimistic.

Pei Qian's actual business ability... basically didn't exist, right?

Although Pei Qian felt that being a boss seemed quite easy, he really couldn't do it if he had to take on a specific responsibility.

This could probably be seen as the highest salary that Pei Qian could get if he put down all his identities and positions to apply for a job at a company.

Moreover, he had to do this job according to the regular working hours to get so much money.

For example, if Pei Qian went to a restaurant to wash dishes now, he could earn at most two or three thousand yuan a month, and he had to honestly work for more than eight hours every day.

"This is too unreliable!"

"Isn't it because I don't have this kind of professional skill that I'm relying on the system!"

As expected, the system didn't show any mercy in this regard.

However, Pei Qian thought about it and realized that this rule seemed to have loopholes.

For some relatively simple jobs, business ability was relatively easy to define, such as washing dishes in a restaurant, working as a waiter, etc. There was a fixed salary level.

But what if it was some more abstract and complex work?

For example... being an actor.

The difference in pay between a movie emperor and a bit player could be tens of thousands of times, and even actors of similar levels would have huge differences in pay because of the different films they took on.

Then, how should this be calculated in the system?

System subtitles quickly appeared: [The host's current daily pay is at most 1500. It will increase with the increase of acting skills, popularity, and other factors.]

[If the host is hired by a company that is not related to system funds, the system will not restrict it as long as it does not cause suspicion from others.]

Pei Qian was stunned.

Why was there differential treatment?

After thinking about it, he understood.

This was a patch made by the system to prevent Pei Qian from "cashing out" system funds.

For example, if Pei Qian bought a film and television company and spent 1 million in pay to hire himself to make a movie, that wouldn't work, it would be considered maliciously cashing out system funds.

If he invested his own money, his daily pay would be at most 1500 yuan. When he filmed *Pei Zong's Daily Life* before, he filmed one episode a day, and his pay was 1000, which was within this range, so the system didn't prohibit it.

Calculated in this way, if he had 10 days of filming time a month, he could earn 15,000 yuan.

This was not a small amount compared to Pei Qian's current income level, but... it didn't seem like much.

But if a company that was not related to system funds asked Pei Qian to film a movie, the system wouldn't care how much money they gave Pei Qian.

After all, it didn't involve the malicious conversion of system funds.