Lin Wan’s first day at work was welcomed with an extremely grand ceremony!
At 2 PM, everyone gathered at the company and then marched magnificently toward the cinema.
According to Assistant Xin’s arranged itinerary, they first reserved a VIP IMAX theater, spending more than four thousand yuan to watch the latest movie “Avatar.”
Afterward, everyone went to Swan Lake, the most expensive buffet restaurant in Jingzhou City. At 428 yuan per person plus a 15% service charge, the meal cost Pei Qian more than ten thousand yuan.
After dinner, the group headed straight to the KTV next door, opened a luxury room with a minimum consumption of over 6,000 yuan, and then Pei Qian performed a series of operations at the bar, bringing the total to a five-digit figure.
Even so, Pei Qian still felt somewhat dissatisfied.
Spending money on the fly, yet he couldn’t spend it all!
He could feel that, compared to usual, today the system had already relaxed somewhat regarding funds.
It seemed like the system’s restrictions would fluctuate. Each time Pei Qian used system funds for different reasons, the maximum amount allowed by the system also varied.
Like last time, when Pei Qian used the pretext of going to Yangcheng for exchange and learning, he could spend money entirely according to business trip standards.
This time, with the excuse of celebrating the completion of “Sea Fortress” development, the range of dining and activities they could choose from had also expanded.
For ordinary gatherings, buffets would typically be limited to around 200 yuan per person; any more and the system would issue a warning.
But this time, probably because Pei Qian’s reason was very sufficient, when he chose a buffet at 400 yuan per person, the system didn’t show any reaction—it tacitly approved!
Pei Qian guessed that the system’s standards were very likely dynamically changing, not fixed.
This was good news, meaning Pei Qian could gain more and more freedom, and in the future, he would be able to do more with the system funds!
Of course, system funds were still limited to company-related matters and couldn’t be used for personal consumption.
Pei Qian was already trying very hard to spend money, but it still felt like a drop in the bucket.
Take today’s expenses for example—in total, less than thirty thousand yuan was spent, which was still some distance from what Pei Qian had imagined!
But it didn’t matter; there was still more than a week before settlement, so there was still time to continue spending!
Pei Qian could remain calm about this activity, but others were different.
Especially Ma Yang, Bao Xu, Huang Sibo, and the others—as the team-building activity progressed, they gradually fell into a state of stupor!
At the movies, they directly booked a VIP IMAX theater and thoroughly enjoyed the latest 3D blockbuster!
Next was dinner: over 400 yuan per person, with more than 500 types of dishes and over 400 types of seafood—bluefin tuna, New Zealand lobster, Australian small dragon lobster, noble mantis shrimp… everything imaginable!
When Ma Yang saw unlimited Häagen-Dazs ice cream, he almost hugged the container and ate from it, only to be severely criticized by Pei Qian.
“Don’t you know how to choose?!”
“Don’t you have any idea what’s expensive? If you don’t know, just search Thousand Degrees!”
Everyone was having a blast, quickly moving around the restaurant, picking up strangely shaped foods without caring whether they tasted good or not—as long as they looked expensive, they took them all.
Most of these people were in their early twenties, at the age when they could eat a lot. The empty plates on the table quickly piled high.
Pei Qian remained much calmer.
Before his rebirth, he rarely ate at such buffets. These delicacies were quite attractive to him, but Pei Qian now cared more about those 500,000 yuan.
Once he got those 500,000 yuan, what good food couldn’t he eat?
He wouldn’t have to be like now, finding excuses to eat well and still having to watch the system’s mood!
Pei Qian casually put a slice of bluefin tuna in his mouth, his mind completely occupied with the five hundred thousand.
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Lin Wan’s attention was equally not on the food.
For her, these dishes weren’t anything special; she was already tired of them.
What interested her were the states of her company colleagues and Mr. Pei!
Look at these colleagues, how happy they all were!
Those were smiles Lin Wan had never seen on the faces of her colleagues at Tianhua Studio!
Was it because they had eaten good food today?
No, not.
It was just a buffet meal that cost a bit over four hundred yuan per person—nothing rare.
The reason these colleagues were so happy must be because they felt valued by Mr. Pei. It was Mr. Pei’s humane brilliance that warmed them, allowing them to find genuine joy in their work!
Who said employees and bosses must scheme against each other?
Who said work could only be something miserable?
With Mr. Pei, it wasn’t like that!
Such a pure gathering was truly rare!
Gatherings at other companies were often scheduled on rest days, occupying employees’ free time, and were mainly about drinking, supposedly to enhance colleague relationships, but just a form of social obligation!
Many people found this annoying, but had no choice.
At Tenda, it was completely different.
Everyone ate and drank as they pleased. There were no leadership speech segments, no mutual toasting rituals, no awkward team ice-breaking sessions… just purely enjoying good food!
What a pure team-building gathering!
Moreover, Lin Wan noticed that Pei Qian was just eating absently, seemingly lost in thought.
He must be thinking about games and company operations, right?
Everyone was excitedly getting food and stuffing themselves, but only Pei Qian looked worried, deep in thought.
Indeed, this was the responsibility of a company boss; this was “worrying before the world worries, and enjoying after the world enjoys”!
Lin Wan couldn’t help but gain a new understanding of Pei Qian.
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After dinner, everyone went to a luxury suite at a nearby KTV and partied all night.
Of course, for the girls who didn’t want to sing and wanted to go home early, Pei Qian specially arranged for male colleagues to take them home by taxi.
Since the room fee was the same regardless, people leaving didn’t stop Pei Qian from spending money.
Pei Qian’s principle was: as long as you don’t hinder me from spending system funds, do whatever you want!
The luxury suite had its own small bar and dance floor, with all kinds of drinks and alcohol available freely.
At first, everyone was a bit reserved, but after Ma Yang showcased his voice that resembled a death chanter, performing “Love for Sale,” the place suddenly became lively!
Everyone let loose, hugging microphones and howling like wolves.
Lin Wan didn’t leave but sang a few songs. Her voice, which sounded like the original, was met with a round of cheers.
She found that she was starting to like this group.
It was like a loving big family; everyone was closely gathered around Mr. Pei, in perfect harmony!
This atmosphere made Lin Wan sure she hadn’t come to the wrong place!
Tenda was perhaps the answer to her dream about games that she had been desperately seeking!
Pei Qian was also happy and had a few drinks.
In his half-drunk, half-awake state, he seemed to see the system settling accounts, with those five hundred thousand yuan of system funds being transferred to his card…
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The next day at noon, Pei Qian woke up from his bed in the rented apartment, rubbing his sleepy eyes.
Although he had drunk alcohol yesterday, fortunately, it was of good quality and didn’t cause a headache or any discomfort.
He got up, poured a glass of water, and opened his laptop.
The laptop had also been replaced; his previous one had already been honorably retired, even though it had only been bought about half a year ago, since he started college.
Now Pei Qian’s laptop was a top-spec Alienware gaming laptop!
Since it was all system funds anyway, such a gaming laptop was no longer something worth looking forward to for Pei Qian.
Opening the ESRO official platform, he checked on “Sea Fortress” and found that it had not yet passed the review.
The game had a large file size, so naturally, the review would take longer. Even after 20 hours, the game was still in the “under review” status.
Pei Qian closed the laptop, not overly concerned.
Others care about when their games pass review because they have a whole set of promotional plans ready, and once the game passes review, they immediately arrange for promotion.
But Pei Qian had no promotional plans whatsoever!
In that case, did it matter when the game passed review? It didn’t matter at all!