“This website… is called AiLiDao in Chinese?” Pei Qian looked at Huang Sibo, trying hard not to appear too shocked.

Huang Sibo nodded: “Yes, ilid, the pronunciation sounds like AiLiDao.”

Pei Qian was speechless.

Damn, what you’re saying makes sense!

“Well, Mr. Pei, we’ll be going now. We need to carefully consider the studio’s future plans in the coming days.”

“Hope that ‘Mr. Pei’s Daily Life’ and ‘Game Developer’ can both make big profits!”

After delivering this malicious curse to Pei Qian, Huang Sibo and Zhu Xiaocai packed up their equipment and left.

The entire office was filled with a joyful and harmonious atmosphere!

Pei Qian woodenly returned to his office and silently typed AiLiDao’s website address into his computer.

The webpage redirected.

Seeing the familiar page, Pei Qian was certain.

It was this world’s version of Bilibili!

Pei Qian hurriedly searched for more specific information about it on the Thousand Degrees search engine. But the search results only made his heart sink further.

AiLiDao was one of the earliest emerging bullet comment video websites in the country. Although it hadn’t been established for long, its momentum was fierce, currently challenging traditional video website giants like Banana Potato Network!

Moreover, AiLiDao differed from the Bilibili that Pei Qian was familiar with in one respect—it was wealthy!

Although it was still operating at a loss, it was an independent video company jointly invested in by Shenhua Group and Thousand Degrees, which explained its strong financial capability to spend large sums acquiring exclusive rights to so many popular drama series!

Even more unfortunate was that, because Thousand Degrees had also invested in this website, no matter what you searched for on Thousand Degrees, the AiLiDao video website always appeared in a very prominent position.

“An enhanced version of Bilibili?”

“Bilibili plus iQiyi?”

“I’m completely screwed…”

Pei Qian leaned back in his executive chair, feeling utterly deflated.

He had thought the death sentence would only be announced at 8 PM tonight, but discovered that the death warrant had been written long ago!

This was the price of not being familiar with the environment!!

Pei Qian had been sufficiently vigilant about this world’s video websites, especially those starting with A and B, which he was extremely wary of.

However, Pei Qian never imagined that this world’s Bilibili would be reversed, changing from bilibili to ilidilid!

Coupled with this inexplicable Chinese name, Pei Qian had mistakenly assumed it was some small website that would quickly die, and hadn’t considered other possibilities!

The current situation was extremely awkward.

After being stunned for a long while, Pei Qian somewhat desperately summoned the system panel.

【Wealth Conversion System】

【Host: Pei Qian】

【Profit conversion ratio 100:1, Loss conversion ratio 1:1】

【System funds: 710,000 (↓290,000)】

【Personal assets: 48,223.5】

【Special task for this cycle: The Company must own at least one physical store, located in a busy commercial area or near a university. (Completed)】

【Special task completion reward: An additional 10% increase based on the original conversion amount.】

Right now, the system still shows a loss.

But soon it wouldn’t be!

From the last settlement until now, Pei Qian’s main sources of income were still “Ghost General” and “Sea Fortress,” these two games.

Since no new monetization points had been introduced, “Ghost General” revenues began to decline rapidly, but monthly revenue still reached over a million, with net profits of about six to seven hundred thousand.

As for “Sea Fortress,” with the continuous increase in active players, monthly revenue showed an upward trend, currently approaching 7 million, with net profits of approximately 3.5 million.

Although they only sold one Fire Kirin, they couldn’t withstand the large existing base of FPS game players in the domestic market!

Currently, “Sea Fortress” is ranked among the top FPS games domestically. A large number of “Counter-Terrorism Plan” players had converted, and with Tenda continuously purchasing servers and increasing bandwidth, more and more players were joining, so the monthly revenue of this game not only hadn’t decreased but showed an upward trend!

After all, FPS games have longevity.

In two and a half months, these two games brought Pei Qian a net income of about 9 million!

Add to that the initial system funds of 1 million, and the total income was just over 10 million.

As for current expenditures:

Fei Huang Studio: 1 million;

“Game Developer” development: over 3 million;

Game promotion, payments to streamers for sponsored content: 300,000;

Moyu Internet Cafe investment: around 3.5 million, including three months’ rent;

Company rent at less than 400,000 per month, employee salaries at over 200,000 per month, plus miscellaneous expenses, approximately 800,000 per month, totaling 2 million over two and a half months.

Total expenses added up to about 9.8 million!

Of course, Pei Qian wouldn’t know the specific figures in such detail; the company’s finance department would naturally calculate these.

Pei Qian only needed to check the system funds value daily and figure out how to continue spending money.

Originally, this number had been controlled very well, successfully keeping the system funds below 800,000.

Before this month’s settlement, as long as he conducted another round of rushed spending, generously distributing benefits to all employees, and indulging in some company expenditures himself, keeping the system funds around 100,000, then before the next settlement, he would secure over 800,000 into his pocket!

But all this had one prerequisite—the new game, short videos, and internet cafe all needed to either not make money or make very little!

The internet cafe, with monthly net losses of around 300,000, perfectly met Pei Qian’s needs!

But now, a problem arose.

Although “Mr. Pei’s Daily Life” hadn’t been broadcast yet, based on its current popularity, it would likely generate an income of at least a million.

Of course, Pei Qian wouldn’t take all this money, but he had to take some; otherwise, it wouldn’t make sense to the system.

Meanwhile, “Game Developer” sales continued to climb, and in the remaining half-month, it would sell at least another 200,000 copies!

These two items together represented an income of 3 million!

The internet cafe could indeed lose a bit more, but faced with so much income, it was a drop in the bucket, ineffective.

If Pei Qian did nothing from now on, optimistically speaking, he would likely end up with a surplus of two to three million.

Pessimistically speaking, a surplus of four to five million was also possible.

If the surplus was 4 million, it would convert to 40,000 yuan, which wasn’t bad for Pei Qian, whose personal assets were currently less than 50,000 yuan—better than nothing.

But the key was how to compare!

A loss could bring personal assets of seven to eight hundred thousand yuan, which was dozens of times more!

Pei Qian sighed, feeling helpless now, and could only leave it to fate.

If the figures weren’t too far apart, just like during the last settlement, Pei Qian could organize another round of rushed spending.

But in the current situation…

He could only take it one step at a time.

Pei Qian felt a faint melancholy.

Wasn’t I supposed to have triple insurance…

How did it turn into this…