Manager Cui’s mouth opened slightly, momentarily speechless.
Not expensive?
If it truly wasn’t expensive, it wouldn’t have remained unsold for so long!
This price even exceeded many villas within Jinzhou City proper. The premium was mainly for the design, the deluxe decoration, the standalone structure, and the hilltop villa gimmicks.
Pei Qian thought it wasn’t expensive because he was unconsciously comparing it with villa prices from his memory.
Seven million for such a large villa, truly not expensive!
If this large villa were in Beijing, Shanghai, or Guangzhou, wouldn’t it be worth tens or even hundreds of millions in ten years?
Moreover, Pei Qian had already confirmed with the system that he could use system funds to buy it!
The only condition was that the house would be considered company property after purchase. It could be used for opening a restaurant, but Pei Qian couldn’t live there himself.
In other words, it must be used for reasonable production and business activities, treated as a means of production.
Additionally, using company money to purchase property would cost more than personal property purchases. For instance, property tax would need to be paid, there would be no preferential tax rates or loan interest rates, and if sold, additional payments like value-added tax and stamp duty would be required, making it more difficult to dispose of.
But none of this mattered to Pei Qian. The system unexpectedly making an exception to allow him to purchase property for a restaurant was already an unexpected blessing!
Pei Qian glanced at the system funds.
The initial system funds after the previous settlement were 8 million yuan. Now, three weeks had passed, and the income provided by “Sea Fortress” alone was over 6 million.
At the beginning of the month, Slackin’ Internet Café had also provided considerable beverage income. Since rent was paid quarterly, there was no loss on the books yet, and the profits had all gone into the system’s funds.
Terminus Chinese Web, Shangyang Games, Headwind Station, and other projects had already consumed a large sum of money, leaving just over 8 million.
There was enough to buy this villa, but Shangyang Games and Tenda Games would require a substantial amount of money later.
The budget for “Return to Shore” was set at 20 million yuan, requiring at least three months to develop. Based on the subsequent income from several games, the money was just about enough.
But if 6 million yuan were spent at once to buy this villa, it would be somewhat insufficient.
Pei Qian thought about it and decided: since that’s the case, let “Sea Fortress” sell another batch of epic weapons!
An epic weapon costs 888 yuan. Based on a 70-30 revenue split, earning 6 million yuan would require selling exactly 10,000 units.
Perfect! This would be like a permanently exclusive gun, limited to 10,000 units. If all were sold, it would completely plug this financial hole.
With this in mind, Pei Qian sent a message to Assistant Xin, asking her to come over and prepare the paperwork.
Meanwhile, Pei Qian asked Manager Cui to show him around the villa.
…
There were eight hilltop villas in Mingyun Villa, all standalone buildings, situated quite far from each other to ensure absolute quiet surroundings.
Pei Qian specifically chose a standalone villa relatively close to the northwest side entrance, mainly concerned that when his employees gathered for meals, cars driving in and out of the villa area might disturb residents.
It would be convenient to enter through the northwest side entrance and leave after eating.
The villa had a usable area of 580 square meters, with three floors, 6 bedrooms, 3 living rooms, and 3 bathrooms. The ceiling height was just over 4 meters, with the living room ceiling reaching over 7 meters. The decoration was very nice, and there was also some simple furniture inside.
Of course, Pei Qian didn’t need this furniture, as he was using the house as a restaurant. The decoration could largely remain unchanged, but the purpose and layout of each room would need major changes, including the kitchen, bathrooms, and so on.
There was also an infinity pool, which offered a view overlooking the scenery below from halfway up the mountain, which felt quite nice.
Pei Qian walked around and could only silently marvel.
It’s good to be rich!
If I could lose 7 million yuan in one go during my next settlement, I’d get another one for myself without hesitation!
A person should have dreams; what if they come true?
Manager Cui vigorously praised the various advantages of this villa, speaking extravagantly.
His eloquence was inherently good, and the design of this house was indeed excellent. Aside from the price, everything was very beautiful, making it quite enticing.
Ma Yang and Zhang Yuan followed behind Pei Qian, also touring the villa.
The two had the same thought as Pei Qian.
It’s good to be rich!
After touring once around, Zhang Yuan said to Pei Qian: “Mr. Pei, why don’t you and Manager Ma continue looking at the house, and I’ll go explore the restaurant location a bit more?”
Pei Qian looked at him: “Restaurant location? Already decided, it’s right here.”
Zhang Yuan was dumbfounded.
Right here???
With such low foot traffic in this villa area, he wanted to set up a high-end restaurant in such a remote place?!
Pei Qian ignored Zhang Yuan’s astonishment and turned to Manager Cui: “Manager Cui, I want to buy a mixed commercial and residential hilltop villa to use as a private kitchen. That shouldn’t be a problem, right?”
Manager Cui was startled: “You want to buy one for mixed commercial and residential use? Uh… of course that’s possible!”
“This type of villa can originally be used for commercial purposes. We just need to communicate well with the neighboring owners.”
Manager Cui was quite surprised. He hadn’t expected this person to be interested in a mixed commercial and residential villa.
These few mixed commercial and residential villas were the hardest to sell because the area had too little foot traffic, the location was isolated from other residential areas, very remote, and in all aspects, mixed commercial and residential villas were inferior to purely residential villas.
Of course, opening a restaurant posed issues like vehicle access and personnel management.
Since these few mixed commercial and residential villas had a separate area, with vehicles entering and exiting from a separate entrance, they wouldn’t cause much disturbance to other residents in the villa area.
Moreover, Pei Qian had also said that the restaurant would adopt a reservation system and membership system, strictly controlling the number of people, and absolutely would not disturb or negatively impact the normal lives of other residents.
As for whether a restaurant in such a remote location could make money…
It didn’t matter.
For the Mingyun Villa developers, selling the villa and making money was all that mattered. If Mr. Pei lost money, that was his business and didn’t harm the developers at all—in fact, it could be beneficial.
And for Mr. Pei, losing money? Wasn’t that exactly what he wanted?
If other problems arose, just spend more money to resolve them! After all, it was all system funds, so none of it was an issue!
…
Before long, Assistant Xin arrived.
She seemed a bit surprised.
Mr. Pei suddenly wanted to buy a house. And a hilltop suburban villa with such poor cost-effectiveness? And in the company’s name? And for mixed commercial and residential use?
This was somewhat sudden, but Assistant Xin never asked too many questions. She simply followed Pei Qian’s requirements: negotiating the price, signing the contract, and handling all matters.
Pei Qian leisurely drank tea on the side while waiting, then sent a message to Lü Mingliang.
“Find time to develop a new epic weapon for ‘Sea Fortress’, limited to 10,000 units, discontinued permanently once sold out.”
Money, not earned excessively.
Pei Qian would not kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
“Sea Fortress” was actually in a very good state now. The reason many people were drawn to it was precisely because weapons in the game were scarce and had speculative value.
If guns like Barrett·Destruction were sold freely, it would seriously damage the game’s economic environment.
So, after consideration, Pei Qian decided that for “Sea Fortress” to sustainably earn money, the golden goose should lay eggs regularly and rhythmically. In the future, three types of weapons could be sold:
The first type, like Barrett·Destruction, limited to 500 units per month, refreshed the next month, allowing it to slowly, slowly depreciate, making it affordable for most people.
The second type, like this epic weapon, 10,000 units sold once, permanently discontinued, slowly appreciating.
For permanently unlimited epic weapons like Fire Qilin, selling a second one was not currently under consideration.
Otherwise, if revenue were inadvertently raised, it would be difficult to lower it again, and it would also excessively drain many players’ consumption capacity.
Selling 10,000 epic weapons this time, as long as they were sold gradually, would fill the hole created by the villa purchase and would not cause a break in the capital chain or affect the game’s development progress and other investment projects.
Since it was a full payment without various complicated loan procedures, the process was very fast, with results expected in about three to five days.
Pei Qian estimated that, including paperwork, renovation, and decoration, everything would be completed by the beginning of next month.
Just in time for the August 1st selection of the best employee, providing a legitimate reason to come here for a feast and pleasantly send off this lucky fellow.
However, the system allowing Pei Qian to purchase property for a restaurant was somewhat unexpected.
Was it because the place Pei Qian had chosen couldn’t be rented?
Or because the company’s funds could now afford such expenditures?
Although this villa couldn’t be used for personal residence and could only serve as a restaurant, the system had indeed further relaxed its requirements, which was a good thing!