Losing Money to Be a Tycoon

The best employee? Secret prize? Boss Pei was going to reward according to merit?

Everyone immediately started clicking with their mouse to choose who they thought was the best. Soon, everyone had finished voting.

Pei Qian took a look at the results: Huang Sibo was number-one with fourteen votes while Bao Xu was close behind with ten votes. Lin Wan actually had gotten three votes; Pei Qian didn’t know who had voted for her.

Pei Qian looked at Assistant Xin. Xin Hailu immediately took out the long-prepared custom-made trophy and handed it to Pei Qian. Pei Qian walked to Huang Sibo and handed him the trophy, “Congratulations!”

Huang Sibo was rather shocked; he was stunned momentarily as he hurriedly stood up and took the trophy. Everyone in the office immediately applauded warmly. Most of them thought that Huang Sibo was indeed the best employee!

Who was the one who had pushed the development over and over again? Who was the one who had worked hard without complaint; always staying back to work overtime? Ocean Stronghold’s huge success naturally had to be attributed to the development team while Huang Sibo was the development team’s chief planner; he had given the most effort!

OF course, some people also thought that Bao Xu’s creativity had been very important; hence, Bao Xu had gotten ten votes. However, Boss Pei also had to be credited for creativity. After all, Boss Pei had been the one to raise three requests; and Bao Xu had come up with his ideas based on them. He had essentially gotten some guidance and hints before he produced the correct answer.

Furthermore, Huang Sibo had been so busy taking care of the game’s development; his presence was the strongest. Hence, he had gotten the most number of votes.

Huang Sibo held onto the trophy with both hands as he was so emotional he could hardly speak. This trophy looked rather unique, and it was obvious it had been custom-made. It was different from the cheap tens of yuan of ordinary trophies! Furthermore, it wasn’t just about the cost of it.

A trophy also brought about a certain degree of honor!

The trophy also had the words ‘Tengda Network Technology Co., Ltd. First Best Employee’ engraved on it. This was the greatest praise and affirmation for his work; it was not something that money could give!

As everyone was still clapping, Huang Sibo felt that he should say something.

He cleared his throat and said, “I am grateful for Boss Pei’s trust and nurturing; I am also thankful for everyone’s constant support and assistance!

“Ocean Stronghold’s success should first and foremost be due to Boss Pei pointing us in the correct direction. Brother Bao and I had then managed to push forward in this direction.

“Second, credit should go to Brother Bao and his bold vision and inspiration. If he hadn’t thought of such a brilliant story mode and such a novel PvP mode to this game, it would have been hard to achieve its current success!

“Also, everyone’s hard work had also played a huge part. All this time, the designs team had been working overtime with me to work step by step according to plan while everyone else had also provided their greatest amount of cooperation. The great success was a combined effort!

“I think that this trophy should belong to everyone!”

After Huang Sibo spoke, yet another round of warm applause broke out! Lin Wan actually had some tears in her eyes, and she was rather emotional.

Hear, hear!

Shouldn’t this be what a company with a conscience was all about?

Of course, I had also not chosen wrongly; coming to Tengda had been the right choice!

The applause slowly subsided.

Pei Qian continued, “Next, I want to reveal the special prize for the best employee. Huang Sibo, from today, you are no longer part of the designs team. The chief planner position would be given to Lu Mingliang.”

Xiao Lu was flabbergasted.

Ah?

Huang Sibo was stumped.

What did this mean?

Hadn’t I just gotten the best employee award?

What was happening? Was I being fired on the spot?

Everyone else was equally stunned; they didn’t know what Boss Pei’s intentions were. Huang Sibo had done so well as the chief planner and the results proved as much; everyone knew it clearly.

Yet, he had been taken down like this?

Not only was he no longer the chief planner, but he also had to get out of the designs team immediately?

Pei Qian grinned as he continued, “As the best employee, I have decided to give you a Dream Fund worth one million yuan; you can use it to fulfill your dreams!

“You will still be Tengda’s employee. However, you will not be in the games department anymore. You can choose any industry that you’re interested in and invest the one million yuan. Regardless of whether your venture succeeds or not, the company will foot the bill!”

Huang Sibo—who had actually been so scared his limbs had gone cold—actually did an internal 180-degree flip!

Great, Boss Pei was not firing me!

Furthermore, he had given me a one million yuan Dream Fund, for me to fulfill my dreams!

Huang Sibo felt as if he was dreaming; he could not believe that all this was happening! Everyone else also stared wide-eyed as their eyes were filled with envy and jealousy. This was the treatment the best employee received?!

Wasn’t it… just a little too ridiculous?

A million-yuan investment with a high level of autonomy; regardless of success or failure, the company would pay the bill!

Envy—a whole load of envy!

Huang Sibo’s hands were shaking, and he almost couldn’t keep his grip on the trophy. “Boss Pei, I’m afraid that I am not good enough and can’t take on this responsibility…”

Pei Qian shook his head slightly, telling Huang Sibo to stop talking. “As the best employee, you have already proved your capabilities. Since I have faith in you, you should have trust in yourself as well.”

Pei Qian was very sincere.

Huang Sibo’s eyes contained tears as his lips trembled. Words could not express what he was feeling as he bowed deeply and said, “Alright, Boss Pei, I will definitely do my best!”

Pei Qian revealed his relief while he was secretly elated.

Success!

The first place had been eliminated!

This was the plan that Pei Qian had racked his brains to come up with.

The Ocean Stronghold’s success had proved that this bunch was not hooligans. Especially people like Huang Sibo had proved to be a hidden talent in the gaming industry! Pei Qian didn’t have the time to lament why he was so unlucky and always encountered hidden talents like this, and his top priority had been to get rid of this problem.

If not, if Huang Sibo and Bao Xu continued to be in charge and created yet another money-making game, wouldn’t he be in trouble??

Hence, Pei Qian had to execute his first place elimination plan!

However, Pei Qian couldn’t fire Huang Sibo and couldn’t demote him either. Logically speaking, that would cause suspicion and the system would not allow this as well.

Hence, Pei Qian thought of this perfect way.

He could just deploy Huang Sibo somewhere else, right? Huang Sibo could indeed have a little flair at game creation; fine, that was alright. Since that was the case, then Pei Qian wasn’t going to let Huang Sibo continue doing games!

Pei Qian would ask him to go to an industry foreign to Huang Sibo and give him a million yuan to do as he liked; most likely, he would end up in failure! At that time, without Huang Sibo around, the game might start to incur losses while Huang Sibo might lose another one million due to mismanagement; wasn’t that the best of both worlds?

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Haha, I am indeed a genius! To be able to think of such a perfect plan!

Pei Qian was extremely pleased with himself.

However, come to think of it…

Bao Xu was another thorn in his side.

Ocean Stronghold’s success had also been due to Bao Xu’s creativity. Bao Xu’s rich gaming experience must have given him this insight.

Pei Qian looked at Bao Xu and said, “This time, Bao Xu had gotten the second-highest number of votes; he has also done much for the company.

“Although second place might be a pity; the company will not forget your contributions.

“As the second-best employee, you will be given one month of paid leave. From tomorrow onwards, you don’t have to come to work. You can go and travel and sightsee—explore the world. That would be beneficial to your work in the future as well.”