One Hour of Rapid Money Loss!

"What the hell?!"

"This system actually has hidden achievements?"

Shen Miaomiao was shocked!

Was this compensation for her two failed investments?

Oh, no.

After reading the system's prompt again, Shen Miaomiao understood.

Actually, this Rebate System was meant to encourage her to make successful investments.

The system's main purpose was to safeguard her investments, ensuring she wouldn't be completely ruined even if an investment failed.

To put it bluntly, the system was just a safety belt.

It was just that she, a slacker, was using it for nefarious purposes.

But so what!

Shen Miaomiao shrugged and pouted, wearing an expression of "I'm shameless, and so what."

She had already experienced two successful investments, and combined, they still hadn't yielded as much as a single loss rebate!

Life offers few chances to gamble!

Gamble a bit and your bicycle turns into a motorcycle! Bet a little and your motorcycle turns into a Land Rover!

Embracing failure and losing money was the true path to wealth!

Thinking this, Shen Miaomiao summoned the [Settlement Time Reduction Card] in her mind.

She saw the card read—

[Description: Upon use, this card will randomly reduce the settlement time.]

The card's description was simple.

The key was a line of small text below that caught Shen Miaomiao's attention—

[(Note: If settlement is successful, it may affect the judgment of subsequent achievements. Use with caution.)]

After pondering it over twice, Shen Miaomiao nodded, understanding.

If her guess was correct, the system's achievement rewards were likely based on her successful investments.

One successful investment unlocked "First Pot of Gold."

Two successful investments unlocked some achievement, then ten, twenty, a hundred, and so on.

But if she failed an investment in the middle and received a rebate, the achievement system's count would reset.

Therefore, her previous judgment should be correct—

The system's original intention was to encourage her to make successful investments—don't fail! Don't slack off!

Hah—

Shen Miaomiao let out a disdainful snort.

You really underestimate a slacker's resolve.

Would she pass up the big money from slacking off to earn the small money from successful investments?

Success? What success!

I'm purely a gambler!!!

With that thought!

Shen Miaomiao, without any psychological burden, took out the reduction card and, with a thought!

The next second!

The reduction card vanished into dust in her consciousness, turning into a ball of golden light.

Immediately, a crisp sound echoed in her mind!

[Ding! You have successfully used the Settlement Time Reduction Card!]

[Random time reduction drawn, your next investment settlement time has been shortened—]

[15 days, 22 hours, 59 minutes, 59 seconds!]

"What the hell!!!"

Shen Miaomiao exclaimed!

It reduced it by 15 days?!

Oh, no!

To be precise, it was 15 days and 23 hours!

Wouldn't that mean she could launch a project, lose money, and get the rebate on the spot?!

With this thought, Shen Miaomiao grabbed her phone, ready to call Gu Sheng and tell him to launch a project immediately, anything, and pour hundreds of thousands into it.

This way, her account would instantly have several million more!

However!

The system seemed to have detected her little scheme and immediately issued a prompt—

[(Note: The reduced time must be less than the estimated settlement time for the project's rebate. Otherwise, it will cause an error and the system will become invalid.)]

Shen Miaomiao: ...

I knew money wasn't that easy to lose.

With a slightly awkward grin, Shen Miaomiao began to rethink how to use the 15 days and 23 hours of reduced time.

It seemed that the best option now was to participate in the "Yiyou Mini-Game Development Festival" that Chu Qingzhou had just mentioned.

According to the system's estimation, if their company's project participated in this development festival, the settlement time would be 30 days.

And the reduction card in her hand would directly shave off 15 days and 23 hours.

Coupled with the 14-day free trial period stipulated by the platform...

That made it 29 days and 23 hours!

Oh wow!

Shen Miaomiao's eyebrows shot up!

This meant that the actual settlement time for this project would be only 1 hour!

We're taking off, holy crap!!!

After a series of calculations, Shen Miaomiao was overjoyed and jumped up from her bed in excitement!

One hour to rapidly lose money!

No matter how fun Gu Sheng's game was, or how much streamers promoted it, it was impossible to break even in just one hour!

This round!

This round, I've already won big!!!

Thinking of this!

Shen Miaomiao immediately called Chu Qingzhou back and made the decision on the spot!

"Sister Chuchu! You need to call the Yiyou Platform back right now!"

Shen Miaomiao stopped lamenting like Xianglin's wife. Her spirits were high, and like Ru Tu holding a steel fork under the moonlight, her eyes shone brightly:

"Tell them we are honored to receive their invitation and will be attending the game festival on time!"

On this end!

Shen Miaomiao regained her confidence, filled with excitement and a soaring voice.

On the other side, in the vice president's office of Xingmang Games, a voice was equally high-pitched—

"You're reporting this kind of result to me?!"

Bang—!!!

With a roar, the sales summary sheet was slammed onto the desk. The heavy thud made the man across the desk flinch.

Behind the desk sat a middle-aged man with a potbelly and a receding hairline, seething with anger:

"Fantasy Hegemony! Such a strong IP! It was the undisputed champion of the Yiyou bestseller list for three full months before!"

"How could the sequel turn out like this?"

"You let a buggy game with clipping issues beat you by 150,000 in sales?!"

"Jiang Yun, many people told me before that you've run out of ideas, and I didn't believe them."

"I entrusted this IP to you again, to continue its legacy, and this is the result you give me?!"

A barrage of scolding!

The man named Jiang Yun opened his mouth but hesitated to speak.

Jiang Yun found it difficult to express himself.

Admittedly, the once popular "Fantasy Hegemony" on the platform was indeed created by him.

And it was with this work that he became famous, becoming one of the well-known game designers in China's industry.

However!

Jiang Yun was not someone to rest on his laurels.

After the success of "Fantasy Hegemony," he actively prepared for a transition, wanting to launch another action-adventure game.

But he was ruthlessly rejected by the company.

The reason given was: Why research projects that were likely to lose money when you could just release a sequel?

However, that wasn't all.

The pot-bellied Vice President Chen Hang was blinded by greed.

After seeing the success of Fantasy Hegemony, he not only wanted to speed up the release of its sequel, which should have already concluded, but he also doubled down. He changed characters that were originally obtained through combat to be acquired via a lottery, and maps that were originally unlocked through exploration to be obtained with the first top-up.

He even slashed the special effects of some characters' already flashy awakening skills, turning them into additional effects that players would have to pay for.

Therefore, the failure of Fantasy Hegemony 2 was actually within Jiang Yun's expectations.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yun had nothing more to explain. He could only sigh silently and nod:

"I didn't do well enough. I'm sorry, President Chen."

Just like usual.

This time, Jiang Yun once again chose to swallow his pride.

Yes.

He didn't want to leave Xingmang Games, and he couldn't.