The entire dormitory was instantly stirred, and everyone gathered around.

Old Li quit his game, unplugged all the connection cables from his monitor, and moved it to Yu Hang’s desk.

The other roommates surrounded this brand-new computer host, their eyes full of envy.

The courier very efficiently connected the host and monitor, and after powering it on, proved that the computer was in perfect condition.

“This is the after-sales contact information. If the computer has any issues, or if you need updates or upgrades in the future, you can call this number for technical support.”

“I wish you happy gaming. If you’re satisfied with my service, remember to give me a five-star rating!”

The courier left, even taking the dormitory’s garbage with him.

“Quick, quick, run a benchmark test!”

Everyone in the dorm was more eager than Yu Hang.

Soon, the benchmark results appeared. The stunning benchmark scores and high-end, stylish configuration practically blinded everyone.

“This computer… must cost at least five or six thousand, right?” Someone was already swallowing.

Old Li chuckled: “Five or six thousand? Who are you looking down on? I checked, and all these components are from top-tier brands. Fifteen thousand would be more like it.”

Yu Hang’s roommates let out a collective gasp of amazement.

A fifteen-thousand-yuan computer host—this was the dream configuration!

Old Li’s eyes were also full of envy. As the person in the dorm who knew the most about hardware, he could talk about this knowledge eloquently, truly a keyboard warrior. But when it came to building his machine, he could only afford a mid-to-low-range value-for-money host.

The reason was simple: poverty!

College students’ living expenses were already tight. Except for a few rich kids, who could afford a computer host worth over ten thousand yuan?

“Old Yu, are you secretly a rich second-generation? Or have you been doing some escort work off-campus to earn money? If you’ve got some connections, can you introduce them to your brothers too?”

Everyone’s eyes were filled with capital-letter envy.

Yu Hang spat: “You’re the one doing escort work! This is a prize I won! Recently, Slackin’ Internet Café seems to be running a promotion. After getting online, there’s a chance to win a computer host. This one was given to me as a prize.”

Old Li’s eyes lit up: “Damn, such a good deal? When did this happen?”

Yu Hang said, “Just today. I won it this morning when I was online, and it was delivered by noon. This efficiency—too fast!”

Everyone looked at each other.

They had only heard of internet cafés giving away free internet time as prizes, but never heard of winning a computer host!

This was too extravagant!

One of the guys immediately started packing his things.

Old Li said sourly, “Hey, don’t get your hopes up. Old Yu is just super lucky, and there must be many people participating in this activity. If you go, forget about winning—you might not even find an empty seat, just wasting a trip.”

Yu Hang thought for a moment: “That’s not necessarily true.”

“Slackin’ Internet Café has never had very high occupancy, only about 60-70% in the morning.”

“And this promotion is especially low-key. After I won, they didn’t publicize it with great fanfare—the café attendant just quietly took down my address and contact information, and others didn’t know.”

Old Li and the others immediately started packing.

“Let’s go, let’s go to Slackin’ Internet Café today!”

“Right, it doesn’t matter if we win or not. We just want to experience what the legendary high-end internet café feels like.”

“Hey, wait for me, I’m putting on my pants.”

“Where’s the address? Does anyone know?”

“Hey, wait for me a bit too, I still have some work to finish.”

“You finish up first, we’ll set up the computers and wait for you!”

Yu Hang couldn’t help but smile. These guys were too genuine.

Previously, they all thought Slackin’ Internet Café was too expensive and didn’t want to go. Now, hearing there might be prizes, they all couldn’t sit still.

Yu Hang just smiled and watched. After all, he had already won a prize, and going online again wouldn’t win him another computer.

Opening the Slackin’ Takeout container, a food aroma wafted out.

Yu Hang ate while downloading various games on the computer.

The campus network was slow, but using an accelerator to play regular online games wasn’t a problem.

Not using this computer for gaming would be a waste of its potential!

While downloading games, Yu Hang opened a shopping website, pondering what kind of monitor he should buy.

Having acquired a computer host worth over ten thousand, how could he not pair it with an impressive high-refresh-rate gaming monitor?

As for keyboard and mouse, it would be disrespectful to such an impressive host to equip it with cheap peripherals.

While browsing the website, his phone rang again.

“Hello, your express delivery has arrived.”

Yu Hang felt dizzy. How could there be another delivery?

Since Old Li and the others were about to go to Slackin’ Internet Café, everyone went downstairs together.

It was still a Headwind Logistics delivery person, but not the previous one—it was a different person.

This time, the delivery person took out a large box and several small boxes from the electric tricycle.

Yu Hang was puzzled: “What’s this?”

The delivery person smiled and said: “Just received instructions from management, saying that lucky customers who won prizes at Slackin’ Internet Café will receive a monitor and a full set of peripherals in addition to the computer host, so I brought them to you immediately.”

Yu Hang was overjoyed: “Awesome! Old Li, hurry and help me carry these upstairs!”

Old Li made a fist-and-palm salute: “Farewell!”

The group vanished in a puff of smoke.

……

……

Slackin’ Internet Café, Huanyutian Street Branch.

Zhang Yuan and Ma Yang were chatting in the rest area while drinking coffee.

“Mr. Pei makes big moves. After this week’s promotion ends, the ROF brand awareness should be thoroughly established.”

“Although there are temporary losses, as long as local customers in Jingzhou recognize that ROF is a brand with good quality and after-sales service, once sales pick up, the losses will be recovered.”

“Moreover, the more components we purchase, the lower the overall price, which can also save some costs.”

“The only thing I don’t understand is why Mr. Pei doesn’t want a large-scale promotion for Slackin’ Internet Café’s computer giveaway activity?”

Zhang Yuan was still confused.

In his view, the event only lasted seven days, and the prize draw giving away computers could significantly increase Slackin’ Internet Café’s occupancy rate, so it should be publicized with great fanfare.

Although it would cost some promotional fees, they could be earned back through Slackin’ Internet Café’s profits.

As the two were chatting, they heard a rush of hurried footsteps from outside.

“This… this store, any seats left?”

“Huff, huff… yes, still some!”

“Quick, quick, let’s get online!”

Several student-looking people, gasping for breath—probably having sprinted all the way—swiped their ID cards at the front desk to pay, then hurriedly sat down in the empty seats and started using the computers.

After a few minutes, more people gradually came running in, claiming seats at lightning speed.

Zhang Yuan was surprised: “Huh?”

These people were running so urgently, definitely not just coming to play games. They must have heard about Slackin’ Internet Café’s computer giveaway activity, which is why they were so enthusiastic!

By three or four in the afternoon, the entire Slackin’ Internet Café was full. Some people, unable to get seats, had to leave in despair, thinking of trying their luck at other Slackin’ Internet Cafés.

Looking at the packed café, Zhang Yuan couldn’t help but marvel.

“So that’s it!”

“Mr. Pei knew all along that whether we advertised or not, Slackin’ Internet Café would be full.”

“Since that’s the case, why waste promotion funds?”

“This spirit of meticulous calculation and frugality is worth learning from!”

……

……

Meanwhile, Pei Qian was rubbing his temples to alleviate his headache.

Although the plan was good, when executed, it seemed there were still a bunch of problems!

Especially regarding Slackin’ Internet Café’s promotion, Pei Qian found he had been too naive.

Who said players wouldn’t discover it without promotion?

It was only the first afternoon, and players had already filled all the empty seats at Slackin’ Internet Café!

It was foreseeable that in the coming week, all Slackin’ Internet Cafés would likely be crazily packed.

Fortunately, Pei Qian reacted quickly, immediately giving all lucky winners additional monitors and full sets of peripherals, spending more money.

Pei Qian wanted to further increase the number of computer hosts given away, such as giving out a dozen or so per day, but the system denied it, so he had to give up.

However, after careful calculation, Pei Qian realized that although there was a slight hitch, it didn’t have much impact on the big picture.

It was still stable!

At this rate of loss, Pei Qian wouldn’t even need his employees to help with spending money; he could easily achieve a loss of five to six million.

After calculating this figure, Pei Qian himself felt shocked.

Happiness came too suddenly, almost unbelievable!

“Hehe, it seems I’ve found the correct path to making losses.”

“A future tycoon star is slowly rising!”

“The dream of becoming rich through losses isn’t far away!”

Pei Qian couldn’t help feeling smug.

Although the next cycle would inevitably bring various messy situations difficult to clean up, Pei Qian couldn’t care about that much.

As long as this cycle incurred losses, for the next cycle, who cared about the flood waters?

If losses seemed hopeless in the next cycle, he could just coast through it, letting the system’s wealth grow naturally. Even at a 100:1 ratio, it would convert to a considerable amount of money.

And if he had to make losses, he could start other money-burning businesses!

Pei Qian thought gleefully as he opened the official gaming platform, planning to find a fun game to play.

However, as soon as he entered the platform’s homepage, he saw a prominent interview feature.

“Exclusive Interview with Tenda Games: Bringing Players’ Perfect Imagination into Reality.”

There was also a subtitle: “Join the official team to unveil who exactly is the producer of ‘Turn Back to Shore’!”

Pei Qian was startled.

What’s going on!

He knew the interview results would come out soon, but… this was way too fast??

The interview team left Jingzhou on Sunday morning, and it had only been just over thirty hours.

The interview was already published?

Were they on some kind of stimulant!?

Would it kill you to slack off a bit and publish the interview next month?!

Seeing this title, Pei Qian instinctively felt something was wrong, especially when recalling the interview scene…

The officials better not cause trouble!

Pei Qian shuddered all over and hurriedly clicked on the feature.

There was a text transcript and video material.

But skimming through the text, there didn’t seem to be much mention of himself.

Pei Qian breathed a slight sigh of relief.

But looking carefully at a line of small text at the beginning, Pei Qian felt his heart sink instantly.

Although the text didn’t mention him much, the problem was by no means small!

The introductory guide was written like this:

“Shakespeare once said, a thousand readers have a thousand Hamlets. The same story, seen by different people, will also have different interpretations.”

“For this interview, the author has adopted a completely new interview format. We will use the method of ‘negative space’ to outline the contours of today’s star producer.”

“As for what kind of person he is? After reading this interview, you’ll find the answer.”