Afternoon.

As the weekend was approaching, Pei Qian was briefly reviewing the current situation of various businesses in his office.

Tenda Games, Shangyang Games, Outu Technology, Fei Huang Studio, and other departments had already launched their new projects, which were well-received. It seemed a bit difficult to salvage the situation.

Physical businesses such as Slackin’ Internet Café, Slackin’ Takeout, Headwind Logistics, Tuoguan Fitness, Sloth Apartments, as well as departments like Rabbit Tail Live Streaming and Dream Fulfillment Venture Capital, were still expanding according to the original plans without any particularly noteworthy major moves.

However, near the end of the settlement period, there were still some departments whose work was being finalized, which seemed to offer some possibility for rescue.

For instance, according to previous plans, the decoration of the food market was almost complete, with hopes for an official opening at the end of next month.

Tenda’s large experience store was also being prepared at full speed. According to the original plan, it would start trial operations on the 10th of next month and officially open on the 24th after the large screen was installed.

Chi Xing Studio was expected to produce a finished VR headset by the end of July, with a demo of “Animal Island” for experience, while the official game launch might be delayed by about two more months.

Since Chi Xing Studio wasn’t directly controlled by Tenda, the system’s control was relatively relaxed and wouldn’t strictly require an official product to be launched before settlement.

Therefore, Pei Qian wasn’t very concerned about the timeline here. Even if he had to worry about making money, that would be an issue for the next cycle.

Additionally, the roller coaster project at the Horrified Inn had been under construction for a while with a relatively long timeline, expected to take at least another four or five months to complete.

Pei Qian was considering that if there was unspent money at the end of this cycle, he could temporarily increase investment in this roller coaster project, making it consume as much funding as possible without seriously affecting the construction schedule.

Furthermore, Pei Qian had planned a method to rush spending at the end of this cycle.

Since the “515 Game Festival” money-burning war, where Tenda had beaten them dizzy, Finger Corporation and Dragon Universe Group had been in a dormant state.

They weren’t in a hurry, but Pei Qian was.

Since they weren’t spending money anymore, Pei Qian definitely needed to do something to stimulate them to continue burning money. This way, he could continue the price war legitimately without triggering system warnings.

Pei Qian had selected the end of June as the date. This period was the “Summer Sale” for many American companies, and Finger Corporation would definitely launch a series of promotional activities during this special time, otherwise they would appear out of sync and be criticized by overseas players.

And what Pei Qian planned to do was to start the Summer Sale activities a few days early!

By launching the Summer Sale first and offering various generous benefits, could Finger Corporation not follow? Could they afford to offer fewer benefits?

They would definitely have to grit their teeth and outdo Tenda when the Summer Sale officially began.

So, Pei Qian could introduce a series of new benefits, and both sides could happily continue burning money.

Of course, the second batch of new benefits would definitely not affect the initial benefits. They should be non-overlapping, so as not to affect the interests of the first batch of players.

Pei Qian had already planned it all out pleasantly, just waiting for the time to show his skills.

Sometimes Pei Qian often sighed with gratitude for heaven’s gift of Finger Corporation and Dyac Group.

Without these two companies, GOG would definitely quickly dominate the global MOBA game market, and then even if Pei Qian wanted to burn money, he wouldn’t be able to find an opponent. How uncomfortable would that be!

After sorting through the current situation, Pei Qian surprisingly found that this cycle’s situation didn’t seem to have reached an unmanageable state yet, and was still acceptable.

Although “Mission and Choice” had become popular, Outu Technology’s new phones and smart fitness clothing racks were selling out, and Tenda’s various departments were developing vigorously…

There was still hope for losses!

Pei Qian felt that this represented his growth!

Looking back at the initial settlement cycles, it was often the case that before the end of the month, the fate of making money was already determined. Pei Qian was like a salted fish unable to turn over, waiting for the final judgment to descend.

But now, the salted fish could make an effort to turn over!

This was truly gratifying.

Pei Qian continued flipping through the recent developments of various departments when he suddenly found a department he hadn’t paid attention to for some time.

Terminus Chinese Website!

To further erode the authors’ fighting spirit and reduce the content output of Terminus Chinese Website, Pei Qian had specifically set up an “Inspiration Class.”

Big TVs, a vast array of movies and games, comfortable single-person sofas, separate “inspiration collection area” and “work area,” all tempting the lazy fish in the authors’ hearts to stir.

After this Inspiration Class was officially established, Pei Qian hadn’t paid much attention to it.

On one hand, compared to other departments, Terminus Chinese Website didn’t rank at the forefront in terms of profitability, so it wasn’t worth Pei Qian spending too much energy on it. On the other hand, given the very slow creation speed of these authors in the “Inspiration Class,” writing 400,000 words in three months would be pretty good.

And for a book to become popular, it would take at least three to four months, a long cycle, so constantly monitoring it didn’t make much sense.

Pei Qian looked at the date. This Inspiration Class was established at the beginning of February, and now it was the end of May, so the timing was just right.

The Inspiration Class had word count requirements for these authors’ novels, which weren’t too long, so the approximate creation time could be estimated.

For those who wrote faster, their works might be nearing completion; for those who wrote slower, they should at least be halfway through.

So, Pei Qian felt it was time to understand the specific situation of this Inspiration Class.

Perhaps there could be an unexpected surprise?

Pei Qian had specially bookmarked the new books started by several authors at that time, so he immediately opened the long-neglected Terminus Chinese Website APP to check.

As soon as he opened the details page of the first book, Pei Qian’s eyes lit up.

“The data is so dismal?”

Whether it was recommendation tickets, monthly tickets, and other metrics, or donations, comments, and other data, even including update word count, everything was very dismal.

This author used to be in the top three of the category rankings, but now had dropped to outside the top ten, showing how badly the data had plummeted.

After opening four or five more books in succession, the situation was all about the same!

Among them, the one with the best data was an official novel based on “Turn Back is the Shore” called “Forever Fallen in Reincarnation.” This book ranked in the top five of the fantasy novel section and hovered around the twentieth to thirtieth position on the entire site.

Even so, it was already the best achievement among the authors in the Inspiration Class.

Pei Qian briefly flipped through the comment sections of these books, looked at the readers’ feedback, and immediately showed a knowing smile.

Because these authors were previously skilled in the creation model of web novels, and now suddenly shifting to this compact structure format, many authors were actually very uncomfortable, as their previous creative experience was difficult to apply.

And the slow update speed also made most readers unbearable.

If a web novel updates 4,000 words daily, it might be agonizing for readers to follow, but if the quality is superior, it’s still barely acceptable.

But if it updates only 1,000 words daily, that’s a disaster.

Unless the quality is too outstanding, even monthly updates would have readers. But obviously, these authors in the Inspiration Class couldn’t achieve this level.

So, these books weren’t performing well, and some of the authors seemed to have been severely discouraged, stating in their author messages that they would go back to writing their originally skilled themes after this book was completed.

In addition, Pei Qian specifically looked at Cui Geng’s new book “The Successor” and found that its performance was slightly worse than “Forever Fallen in Reincarnation,” ranking around fortieth on the entire site.

For Cui Geng, who had once topped Terminus Chinese Website, a ranking of around fortieth was clearly an unacceptable result.

After all, Terminus Chinese Website is different from Infinite Chinese Website, which is a large site. Relatively speaking, the reader and author groups are smaller. At the fiftieth position, the book’s various data may have shrunk tenfold compared to Cui Geng’s previous books.

Pei Qian looked through them all, and the results were more optimistic than imagined.

Judging by web novel standards, the creations of these Inspiration Class authors could basically be described as ending in complete failure!

Shouldn’t Mr. Pei step forward to console the authors’ wounded spirits?

Pei Qian immediately decided to visit the Inspiration Class.

Although these Inspiration Class authors were writing buyout contracts and earning quite a bit, many authors already didn’t want to continue writing.

For many authors, the feeling of loneliness from writing books that no one reads is far more terrifying than earning a bit less money.

So, Pei Qian felt he should go to comfort them again, to strengthen these authors’ confidence to continue writing.

Even if some ran away, at least some would stay!

Otherwise, if such a good Inspiration Class became completely empty in the future with no one coming, how could that be acceptable?