I Really Didn't Mean to Make Money

After introducing the Coffee Shop, Li Shen smoothly brought up Cangxue Games.

“Maybe not everyone knows Cangxue Games, but you should all know Tianlong. Tianlong is a game under Cangxue. And there’s a new game currently in development, so please look forward to it.”

Comments flooded the live stream.

“Damn, Tianlong is developed by your company? I play it every day. The gear is just too hard to farm, but I like it.”

“Now that you mention it, that Coffee Shop must be pretty good too. I’ll have to try it when I get the chance.”

“.........”

Li Shen watched the comments in the live stream and knew that the purpose of this broadcast had finally been achieved.

The only pity was that there were too few viewers—less than 200 people. 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

If only they had bought some traffic in advance.

The whole morning passed quickly.

After confirming that all the employees had gathered, they headed straight to the reserved hotel.

Inside the hotel, Wei Yan, Li Shen, and a few other leaders looked troubled as they examined the menu handed over by the hotel manager.

They had only spent a few tens of thousands on the morning’s activities.

So next, they had to spend over 900,000 yuan.

“What do we do? At these prices, we might not reach the spending quota today!” Li Shen said with some frustration. This time, he had made the restaurant reservation, but instead of booking the Emperor Hotel like President Chen had last time, he had chosen the original Xingyu Restaurant.

The dishes at Xingyu were cheaper than those at the Emperor Hotel, so it was obviously more difficult to reach the 900,000-yuan quota.

Wei Yan thought for a moment and asked, “Have we counted how many people are going to karaoke after dinner?”

“It’s already been counted—143 people in total,” Li Shen replied.

Since karaoke was scheduled for the evening, attendance was not mandatory.

“Alright, then let’s reserve private rooms at nearby karaoke bars first and see how much we can spend there. As for here, we can order all the expensive dishes and then add more as needed.”

“If it really doesn’t work out, then we’ll just have to stick with this.”

Wei Yan pointed at the menu.

Li Shen glanced at it curiously and his throat twitched twice.

Red wine.

The red wine at this restaurant was cheaper than at the Emperor Hotel—only 800 yuan a bottle.

But did they really have to order red wine again? The reason he chose Xingyu Restaurant was precisely to avoid seeing the Emperor Hotel’s red wine.

Could it be that, they still had to drink red wine at Xingyu Restaurant?

............

Early the next morning, Yang Dahai parked the business car in front of the Office Building, then quickly went to the back door and opened it.

Chen Mo slowly got out of the car and was about to enter the Office Building when he saw Li Shen and Wu Yu staggering over from not far away. Both looked a bit listless, as if they hadn’t fully woken up.

What’s going on here?

But soon, a strong smell of alcohol wafted from them.

Chen Mo immediately understood—they must have drunk too much at the team-building event yesterday and still hadn’t sobered up.

“Good morning, President Chen!” Li Shen and Wu Yu hurriedly greeted President Chen standing at the Office Building’s entrance, though they felt a bit nervous. Coming to work looking like this, would they get scolded?

But there was no way around it. To reach the spending quota yesterday, they had ended up ordering red wine.

Both had drunk plenty, and then at the karaoke bar, a group of employees kept toasting them.

With beer and red wine mixed, the result was predictable—they hadn’t returned to the factory at all but stayed overnight at a nearby hotel.

To avoid being late for work, they got up early and took a taxi to the company, which explained their current state.

Getting scolded for coming to work like this would be normal, and they were prepared for it.

But what surprised them was that President Chen looked at them with a smile—no anger, no reprimand.

“Well done. Keep it up in the future.”

Chen Mo patted their shoulders approvingly and walked into the Office Building.

These two had finally woken up. This was the state he wanted to see at work, and he had to encourage it.

“Brother Shen, is President Chen encouraging us to behave like this?” Wu Yu asked, puzzled as he watched President Chen enter the building.

“What do you know? President Chen was obviously being sarcastic. What he’s doing is giving us face. After all, this is in front of the Office Building, and many people are watching. If he scolded us here, wouldn’t that make him look ridiculous? Then how would he manage his subordinates in the future?”

“So from now on, we have to be careful. President Chen is giving us face, and we can’t take advantage of it.”

Li Shen looked at the figure disappearing into the Office Building with deep respect.

President Chen was truly great.

Hearing Li Shen’s explanation, Wu Yu suddenly understood.

So that’s how it was.

No wonder he was the employee who had worked with President Chen the longest and could grasp his meaning so quickly. Looks like he had to work even harder!

............

Chen Mo entered the office, glanced at the expense report from yesterday’s team-building event, and confirmed that they had indeed spent over a million yuan as he had requested.

Plus the December salaries, which he had already instructed finance to disburse early.

Along with taxes, and some utility expenses like electricity and water.

Altogether, nearly four million yuan of System Funds had been spent.

Now only about 1.3 million yuan of System Funds remained, and of that, over 800,000 yuan was Charity Funds.

Yes.

Eight hundred thousand.

He hadn’t expected that the rural aid for those empty-nest elderly had only cost just over 300,000 yuan.

Mainly because the rice and flour barely cost anything. A hundred-pound bag of rice was just over a hundred yuan. Two bags of rice, two bags of flour, and two buckets of cooking oil for each household added up to less than a thousand yuan.

Add the 5,000 yuan qualification fee, and it totaled less than 6,000 yuan per household.

After visiting nearby villages, they had helped nearly fifty impoverished elderly families.

By this calculation, after subtracting the 800,000 yuan Charity Funds, he only had about 500,000 yuan of System Funds left.

The completion target was below 7.5 million yuan, so this was very safe. Given his company’s current capacity, generating 7 million yuan in income in a short time was simply impossible.

This special task should be free of any surprises.

After completing the special task, the system settlement would take place two months later.

To convert all System Funds in full, he needed to reduce System Funds to below 150,000 yuan. At this rate, he still had a chance to achieve it.

Fifteen million!

Just thinking about converting it all and gaining 15 million in personal assets—instantly becoming a millionaire—was thrilling.

At that time, buying luxury cars and mansions wouldn’t be just talk.

Thinking of this, Chen Mo felt a surge of motivation. Spending money—he had to spend it hard.

Time passed, and soon it was noon. Shen Rou had returned from the canteen with his meal but kept his eyes on the system panel, showing no intention of eating.

Ding!

The system sounded.