My Boss Wants to Lose Money, but I Make Mihoyo a Worldwide Sensation

Shen You transmigrates to a stitched-together parallel world with no Honkai Energy, where everyone is busy with business and entertainment.

He arrives so poor he can't even afford food, but awakens a game-development engine from another world. He promptly pulls out an insanely punishing game called Jumping Celestial and applies for a job at Mihoyo Studio.

At the time, Mihoyo is on the verge of bankruptcy. Its new CEO, Kiana, wants to burn through the company's funds so she can claim the System's “tenfold rebate,” so she casually splashes two million on promotion, expecting the pixelated game to lose every penny.

But then

As soon as the game launches, it takes the internet by storm with its mind-bending physics engine and torturous mechanics. Streamer Pardo gets so tilted she breaks down, Big Duck stays up all night to beat it, and the company rakes in seventy million overnight!

Watching the revenue skyrocket, Kiana completely loses it. “I told you to make a garbage game that would lose money. How did you make seventy million?!”

Shen You smiles and pulls out his real trump card: “Don't panic, boss. For our next project, we'll make a next-gen 3D action game with cute girls. We'll hire top artists and a symphony orchestra. It'll cost a fortune, guaranteed!”

And so, Honkai Impact 3rd bursts onto the scene.

Pink Elf Elysia puts on a skintight motion-capture suit, rich heiress Eden composes the music, and Raiden Mei personally steps in as action director!

When the spectacular gameplay trailer is released, players all over the world go wild, and a vast gaming empire rises from the ground up.

Only Kiana, watching the company grow bigger and bigger, sheds tears of despair. “Shen You, you absolute menace! My tenfold rebate for losing money is gone!”