Losing Money to Be a Tycoon

stuck at 1100 points not because I’m lousy… but because my teammates have been lousy!

“Playing with professionals is much more fun than playing with newbies!”

Pei Qian was speechless.
“…”

Old Ma, you really have no self-awareness whatsoever…

If you had been playing with them as someone other than the CEO of Dream Realization Ventures, you would have been tortured so badly that your computer would be smashed by now…

Still, seeing how happy Ma Yang was to live in his imaginary world, Pei Qian could not bear to expose him to the truth.
He could only turn him down, saying, “It’s alright.
I have work to do.
Next time, for sure.

“Er… Old Ma, how are you doing with the twenty million yuan I gave you? How much have you spent?

“I came to remind you once again that you must not hesitate to invest the money.
Spend it when you must.
The smaller your investment, the smaller your returns; the larger your investment, the larger your returns, understand?”

Ma Yang nodded excitedly.
“Don’t worry, Brother Qian.
I’ve already spent all twenty million yuan!”

Pei Qian paused, evidently surprised.
“Huh? You’ve spent it all? You’ve spent all twenty million yuan?”

Ma Yang nodded.
“That’s right.
I only started playing games after finishing my work.
Why else would such a professional person like me play games during office hours?”

Pei Qian blinked, feeling confused.

Although this was the outcome he had hoped for, he was still deeply shocked to find out that Old Ma had spent twenty million yuan without hesitation.

Once again, this confirmed that Old Ma was his trusty right-hand man!

Pei Qian’s expression went from bewilderment to elation.
Old Ma was burning money so quickly.
He did not have to fear even if the company continued to generate more profits.

“Tell me, what did you invest the money in?” Pei Qian was brimming with excitement.

Ma Yang giggled and opened a report on his computer.
“This is the company I invested in! It’s called Finger Games.

“My first thought was to buy Gods Rising when I got the money.
However, there was no way I could do that.
I could not find the game’s creator.

“Also, I heard that the creator is in the midst of discussions with game giants in the West.
Of course, our twenty million yuan would be peanuts to him.

“That’s why I instructed He Desheng and the others to look around.
That’s when they found Finger Games, which is currently developing a similar game called Imagine of Infinity, or IOI for short.
They’re lacking funds at the moment and were looking for investors.
I made it just in time!

“They needed eight million US dollars in total.
I did my calculations and converted the twenty million yuan into about 2.8 million US dollars.
With that, I bought about twenty percent of the company’s shares, as well as the right to be their exclusive agent in the country.

“Although that’s useless for now, the company allowed us to be their exclusive agent for free.
I thought that it would be a waste to turn it down.
Even if we realize we don’t need those rights in the future, we can still transfer them, right? “Eh? Brother Qian, why do you look so pale? “Quick, quick! Bring a chair over!”

He Desheng quickly swiftly moved one of the office chairs beside him over, so that Boss Pei could sit down.

Pei Qian felt slightly dizzy.
He never thought that the first stab in the back in this cycle would be from his trusted brother!

Pei Qian was not prepared to be stabbed in the back like that.

Wasn’t it common practice to only stab him in the back when settlement was near? This cycle had just begun!

Still feeling incredulous, Pei Qian asked, “Don’t you… need to apply for relevant permission before making overseas investments?”

He Desheng explained, “Boss Pei, you do need to apply for permission.
However, the review process would be especially long for investments worth more than a hundred million US dollars.

“We only invested about two million US dollars, and so it’s not considered a huge project.
We only needed to complete the paperwork in Jingzhou.
Fu Hui Investments made overseas investments before as well.
That’s why we’re quite familiar with the procedures.
We got approval quite quickly.
“Also, we were buying shares and not property.
That’s why the transaction was much quicker.

“Of course, we have to follow up with some more paperwork.
That will still take us some time.”

Finished.

Pei Qian turned to Ma Yang listlessly.
“Why… why did you choose this company?” Ma Yang smiled.
“Brother Qian, didn’t you tell me to invest in whatever I liked? You know that there are not many things I like.”

Pei Qian was speechless.
“…”

There was a huge problem.

[1] This stands for Kill-Death-Assist.