How to Lose Money and Become a Tycoon, Starting with a Milk Tea Franchise

“Spin around 360 degrees and see what kind of shopping district you’re in!”

Brother Yong is livestreaming a call-in, and he’s stunned on the spot.

“Friend, the manager who wants to save his boss, did you just say your boss uses air-freighted fruit, fresh milk delivered the same day, and premium tea leaves to make milk tea that sells for eighty-eight yuan a cup?”

“And in the first month after opening, the books showed a net loss of more than twenty thousand yuan?! The boss even paid bonuses out of his own pocket?”

“What was this boss thinking?”

“Is he some saintly philanthropist, or does he have too much money burning a hole in his pocket?”

“Folks in the livestream, believe it or not, after all these years traveling around and checking out shops, this is the first time I, Brother Yong, have ever heard of something this bizarre!”

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No one knows that Lin Jian has simply bound himself to the Billionaire System. The more money he loses, the more he earns!

When opening milk tea shops, he picks the most expensive ingredients and the worst locations. When investing in movies, he backs only films everyone agrees are terrible. He hands out so much money to his employees that competitors curse him out...

All so he can burn through the System’s funds as quickly as possible and lie flat in peace.

Unfortunately, his employees are far too good at carrying out orders, their thought processes are bizarre, rich second-generation heirs keep delivering perfectly timed assists, and even the women sweeping the streets show up to spend wildly.

Every month, his plan to lose tens of millions somehow turns into a hundred-billion-yuan profit once again.

In his CEO’s office, Lin Jian clutches his head and cries: “Please, I’m begging you all, let me lose money just once!”

Also known as: “I Really Didn’t Want to Make Money,” “All I Really Want Is to Lose Money,” and “The Harder I Try, the More I Fail, Until I Become Invincible”

[Subverting expectations + Entrepreneurship + System + Misunderstandings + Urban]