2 I Support All Your Ideas

In the meeting room, there was a moment of silence. Two salespeople, one HR, and one accountant exchanged glances and saw the same thing in each other's eyes.

One of the salespeople raised their hand and said, "Mr. Yang, I suddenly remembered that my wife is about to give birth, and I need to go take care of her. Could you please decide who should handle the company's affairs in my absence?"

The reactions of the employees were just as Yang Ruoqian had anticipated. He simply nodded and said, "Family comes first. How about the rest of you?"

The other salesperson immediately chimed in, "Mr. Yang, my wife is also about to give birth!"

"Mine too!"

So, after Yang Ruoqian's explosive statement, except for the stylish HR girl who didn't leave, the other three submitted their resignation letters and fled from the company that seemed destined to fail.

"Chang Zhiqing, what about you?" After watching the three people leave, Yang Ruoqian turned to the only one who hadn't spoken and jokingly asked.

Unfortunately, this girl's head was not displayed as recruitable. Yang Ruoqian guessed that only those who aspired to be artists and were actively working toward it would be marked as recruitable by the system.

In his previous life, Chang Zhiqing was the only employee who had stayed with the company for a full ten years. During the most difficult times, this lively and beautiful girl even agreed to Yang Ruoqian's request for unpaid overtime.

She was officially in HR, but she had taken on almost all the dirty and tiring tasks.

The two not only attended the same university but Chang Zhiqing was also a tenant in Yang Ruoqian's apartment, so they were very familiar with each other.

"Landlord, I'm not planning to leave... But, should we reconsider the idea of entering the entertainment industry?" Chang Zhiqing rubbed her forehead and said somewhat helplessly, "Do you know the capital threshold for starting a media company? Not to mention mega-stars, do you know the annual salary of a top-tier streamer? Do you know how much it costs to sign someone?"

"If we have to start from scratch, do you know how many resources it takes to make an artist popular? Do you know..."

A series of questions all boiled down to one thing—Yang Ruoqian was selling himself short, and he couldn't even reach the threshold to enter this industry.

The girl went on and on, outlining all the pros and cons, but her underlying message was clear: Yang Ruoqian should give up this unrealistic fantasy.

Listening to the girl's well-reasoned analysis, Yang Ruoqian's determination to start the company grew stronger. Everyone else thought that entering the entertainment & streaming industry was pointless and that making an artist famous was extremely difficult.

But wasn't that perfect for milking the system for profits?

Paying off the loans and becoming rich overnight were within his reach, right?

A long-lost entrepreneurial enthusiasm slowly ignited in Yang Ruoqian's heart.

"You have to believe in my vision!"

As someone who had been reborn from the future to 2015, Yang Ruoqian knew the direction of the cultural and entertainment trends over the next decade.

As long as he went against the trend, wouldn't his artists become nobody effortlessly?

It wasn't easy to become famous these days, but wasn't it easy to stay anonymous?

However, others didn't know that Yang Ruoqian had such a system.

Seeing Yang Ruoqian's stubbornness, Chang Zhiqing couldn't help but despair and muttered, "We're done... No more affordable rent!"

Already having weathered the toughest ten years of his life, Yang Ruoqian's mindset was in a great place. He looked at the $200,000 funds the system had deposited into the company account and promptly started typing up a long shopping list on his computer.

After all, the money deposited by the system into the company account couldn't be transferred in any way to his own pockets. The next month's funds would be replenished to $200,000 regardless of how much was spent. Saving it was basically equivalent to wasting it, so why not spend it?

Soundproofing panels for the streaming room, renovation costs for the streaming rooms, and so on...

After formulating a purchasing plan, Yang Ruoqian realized that there was still a substantial amount of money left in the account. That was because his company specialized in live-streaming equipment, and expensive items like sound cards, microphones, computers, and cameras were already readily available, requiring no further significant expenses.

No, he had to squeeze out every last bit of value from the system! So, he decided to buy some other items, spending all the money in the account!

Under the guidance of this thought process, Yang Ruoqian finally compiled his "shopping list."

"Well, since we're heading towards the entertainment media direction, we'll need to purchase some new equipment," Yang Ruoqian remotely connected to the printer and printed out the long shopping list. He turned to Chang Zhiqing and said, "And we need to establish a subsidiary company. Please handle that in the next couple of days."

Chang Zhiqing took the list, wrinkled her pretty nose, and muttered, "You're going overboard..."

Then, she looked at the list in her hand, falling into a momentary silence. Back when Yang Ruoqian had considered renting that 400-square-meter high-end office space in the city center, Chang Zhiqing had offered some sensible advice. However, in his youthful recklessness, he had completely ignored her suggestion.

Perhaps it was due to nostalgia or a last bit of pride, Yang Ruoqian had never moved the company. In 2015, office rental prices had begun their rapid ascent. The monthly cost was manageable for the company, even in its most challenging times. In a few years, as rental prices skyrocketed, Yang Ruoqian's company had managed to escape the brink of bankruptcy, making the additional thousands or so monthly expenses inconsequential.

Investing in the office space for the sake of the company's image and work environment could be understood. However, what on earth was this extravagant shopping list?!

Was there still so much money in the company's account?

Even if there was, such extravagance shouldn't be allowed.

"Boss, are you out of your mind?" Chang Zhiqing exclaimed, snapping Yang Ruoqian back from his trip down memory lane. "Recreation room, tea room, coffee room, gym, exhibition hall... What do these things have to do with work?"

And these new office desks, with such a high degree of privacy, anyone would think we're protecting some national secrets! With these privacy conditions, employees won't even concentrate to work!

This situation was truly the harbinger of a collapsing empire, a prelude to the company's demise!

Chang Zhiqing was exasperated, her head spinning. "Why don't you just install a bar while you're at it? It would make it even more convenient for employees to slack off!"

Yang Ruoqian was overjoyed. "That makes sense! Add the bar counter to the shopping list too! Hurry and buy it!"

"Boss, boss! Please, reconsider your decisions..."

What she didn't know was that the more she thought the company was doomed, the more confident Yang Ruoqian became.

A comfortable environment would make employees unconsciously slack off, reducing their work efficiency and making his artists even more unknown!

As long as the artists recruited by the system had fewer than ten thousand real fans, staying at the "Nobody" level, Yang Ruoqian would achieve financial freedom in a month!

Even if their fan base accidentally grew a bit, as long as it didn't exceed a hundred thousand, the five million bonus received would still be a considerable amount. Two months would be enough to pay off all the loans!

According to the system's description, the bonus was divided into two parts—one deposited into the personal account and the other into the company account.

This meant that a "Nobody" level artist could bring in one hundred million in cash every month!

What was the concept of one hundred million in cash per month? How many companies in the world could achieve that? Not to mention saving a company from the brink of bankruptcy, given enough time, it would easily secure a spot in Forture 500!

Even the higher-tier " Unknown Artist" category would bring in a whopping ten million!

Yang Ruoqian was so engrossed in the idea of getting rich overnight and becoming one of the world's top 500 companies that he completely ignored Chang Zhiqing's advice.

"Chang Zhiqing, what's your major, by the way?"

"Computer science. Why? What's up?"

Yang Ruoxian, still caught up in his entrepreneurial dreams, replied, "How much do you know about the entertainment industry?"

Chang Zhijing rolled her eyes once more and said, "I know about entertainment as much as a cow to music."