Come to think of it, this project of Pei Qian's should have been a surefire money-loser!
After all, opening an internet cafe in this day and age—especially a chain of internet cafes with top-of-the-line computers—was a project that was guaranteed to lose money!
Everyone had computers nowadays. If they had time to go online somewhere else, they might as well stay home and play games.
But what Pei Qian hadn't expected was that his good friend Ma Yang would set up a stage inside the internet cafe where people could sing.
Through sheer dumb luck, Ma Yang had accidentally recruited a singer named Chen Lei.
With his original songs, Chen Lei had somehow drawn crowds to the Jin Chuan internet cafe headquarters every day. As a result, the cafe had actually started making money.
When Pei Qian heard the news, he was deeply frustrated, but he told himself:
Don't panic when trouble hits. There's always room to turn things around!
But before long, Pei Qian could no longer keep his cool. Tenda Internet Cafes had spread so far and wide that Ma Yang figured, since one location was making money while the others were losing it, he might as well set up big screens at the other locations and livestream Chen Lei's performances from the cafe.
So when passersby heard the singing outside, they went in. But they felt awkward just listening to the music and watching the handsome singer without spending anything, so they inevitably rented a computer.
Under those circumstances, Pei Qian's internet cafes had managed to cover their costs across the various locations, with even a small surplus. It hadn't been long, but in this day and age, that was already no small feat.
So when Pei Qian got the news, he was so upset that he