Chapter 1 The First Day at Work

Lin Wan's first day at work was greeted with a grand welcoming ceremony!

At 2:00 PM, everyone gathered at the company and marched mightily towards the cinema.

According to Assistant Xin's arrangement, they first booked a VIP IMAX hall, spending over four thousand yuan to watch the latest movie, *Avatar*.

Afterwards, the group went to Swan Lake, the most expensive buffet restaurant in Jingzhou City. At 428 yuan per person plus a 15% service fee, the meal cost Pei Qian over ten thousand yuan.

After dinner, the group rushed to the nearby karaoke bar, opened a luxury room with a minimum charge of over 6,000 yuan, and then Pei Qian, after some maneuvers at the bar, fixed the number at five digits.

Even so, Pei Qian still felt a little dissatisfied.

Spending money in a hurry was so hard!

He could feel that the system was more lenient with funds than usual.

The system's restrictions seemed to fluctuate. Each time Pei Qian used system funds with different justifications, the system allowed for different maximum amounts.

Like last time, when Pei Qian used the guise of going to Yangcheng for exchange and study, he could spend money entirely according to business trip standards.

And this time, Pei Qian's reason for celebrating the completion of *Sea Fortress* allowed for a wider range of dinners and activities.

For general dinners, the buffet would be controlled within the range of 200 yuan per person at most, and the system would issue a warning if it exceeded that.

But this time, probably because Pei Qian's reason was sufficient, the system did not react at all to the choice of a 400-yuan-per-person buffet, and tacitly approved it!

Pei Qian guessed that the system's standards were likely dynamically changing, not fixed.

This was a good thing, which meant that Pei Qian could obtain an increasingly higher degree of freedom and could use system funds to do more things in the future!

Of course, system funds were still limited to company-related affairs and could not be used for personal consumption.

Pei Qian was already working very hard to spend money, but still felt that it was a drop in the bucket.

Taking today's expenses as an example, he only spent less than thirty thousand yuan, which was still some distance away from what Pei Qian had expected!

But it didn't matter, there was still more than a week before the settlement, and there was still time to continue spending!

Pei Qian could remain calm about this activity, but the others were different.

Especially Ma Yang, Bao Xu, Huang Sibo, and the others, who gradually fell into a daze as the team building activity progressed!

Watching a movie, they directly booked a VIP IMAX hall and enjoyed the latest 3D blockbuster!

Next was dinner, at over 400 yuan per person, with a total of 500 kinds of dishes and 400 kinds of seafood, including bluefin tuna, New Zealand scampi, Australian baby lobster, mantis shrimp... everything!

When Ma Yang saw that Haagen-Dazs ice cream was available in unlimited supply, he almost ate it straight from the bucket, but Pei Qian immediately criticized him severely.

"Can't you choose?"

"Don't you have any idea which ones are expensive? If you really don't know, ask Baidu!"

Everyone was having a great time, shuttling quickly through the restaurant, grabbing any strange-looking food, regardless of whether it tasted good or not, as long as it looked expensive.

Most of these people were in their early twenties, the age when they could eat the most, and the empty plates on the table were soon piled high.

Pei Qian was much calmer.

Before his rebirth, he rarely ate this kind of buffet. These delicacies were also quite attractive to him, but Pei Qian was now more concerned about the 500,000 yuan.

Once he got that 500,000 yuan, what good food couldn't he eat?

He wouldn't have to be like this now, having to come up with excuses to eat a good meal, and having to look at the system's damn face!

Pei Qian casually put a slice of bluefin tuna into his mouth, his mind filled with thoughts of the five hundred thousand.

...

Lin Wan's attention was also not on the dishes.

For her, these dishes were nothing new, she was already tired of them.

What interested her was the state of her colleagues and President Pei!

Look at these colleagues, how happy they were!

That was a smile that Lin Wan had never seen on the faces of her colleagues at Tianhuo Studio!

Was it because they ate good food today?

No, it definitely wasn't.

This was nothing more than a buffet costing over 400 yuan per person, which was not rare.

The reason why these colleagues were so happy must be because they felt President Pei's attention, it was the brilliance of President Pei's humanity that warmed them, allowing them to obtain sincere joy from their work!

Who said that employees and bosses must engage in intrigue?

Who said that work could only be a miserable thing?

Clearly, it wasn't like that with President Pei!

Such a pure gathering was really rare!

Other companies' gatherings were often held on rest days, taking up employees' rest time, and the gatherings were just about drinking, nominally to enhance colleagues' relationships, but in reality it was just a kind of social obligation!

Many people were annoyed by this, but they were helpless.

At Tengda, it was completely different.

Everyone ate and drank as they pleased. There were no leadership speeches, no mutual toasting, no awkward team-building exercises... it was just purely enjoying the food!

What a pure team-building dinner!

Moreover, Lin Wan noticed that Pei Qian was just eating absentmindedly, wondering what he was thinking about.

He must be thinking about the game and the company's operations, right?

Everyone was excitedly taking food and gorging themselves, only Pei Qian looked worried, not knowing what he was thinking about.

Sure enough, this was the responsibility of a company boss, this was "worrying about the world's troubles before anyone else, and enjoying the world's pleasures only after everyone else"!

Lin Wan couldn't help but have some new understanding of Pei Qian.

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After dinner, the group went to a luxury suite at a nearby karaoke bar and partied all night.

Of course, for the girls who didn't want to sing and wanted to go home earlier, Pei Qian specially arranged for male colleagues to take them home by taxi.

Anyway, the room fee was the same, even if people left, it wouldn't stop Pei Qian from spending money.

Pei Qian's principle was, as long as you don't hinder me from spending the system's funds, you can do whatever you want!

The luxury suite had an independent small bar and dance floor, and all kinds of drinks were freely available.

At first, everyone was still a bit reserved, but after Ma Yang displayed his death-knell-like singing voice and sang a song called "Love Transaction," the atmosphere immediately livened up!

Everyone let themselves go, howling into the microphones.

Lin Wan didn't leave, but sang a few songs, and her original-sounding voice was greeted with cheers.

She found that she was starting to like this group.

It was like a loving family, with everyone closely surrounding President Pei, happily together!

This atmosphere made Lin Wan sure that she had come to the right place!

Tengda might be the answer to her long-sought-after dream about games!

Pei Qian was also very happy and drank a few glasses of wine.

In a half-drunk state, he seemed to see the system settling accounts, and the 500,000 yuan of system funds was being transferred to his card...

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The next day at noon, Pei Qian woke up from the bed in his rented room, rubbing his sleepy eyes.

Although he had drunk alcohol yesterday, fortunately it was all good wine, so he didn't feel too drunk, and there were no signs of a headache.

He got up, poured a glass of water, and turned on his laptop.

The laptop had also been replaced with a new one. The previous laptop had gloriously retired, although it had only been bought for more than half a year since he started college.

Pei Qian's current laptop was a top-of-the-line Marsman gaming laptop!

Anyway, since he was spending system funds, such a gaming laptop was no longer something to look forward to for Pei Qian.

He opened the ESRO official platform and checked *Sea Fortress*, and found that it had not yet been approved.

Since the game's file size was large, the review would naturally be slower, so after 20 hours, the game was still in the "reviewing" state.

Pei Qian closed the laptop, not caring too much.

Others were concerned about when their game would be approved because they had developed a whole set of promotion plans, and they would immediately arrange promotions after the game was approved.

But Pei Qian didn't have any promotion plans!

In that case, did it matter when the game was approved? It didn't matter at all!