Lu Ping took over a shop. The transfer contract said: The previous owner lost money for three years, then skipped town.
As soon as he signed, a voice sounded in his head.
[Loss Settlement System bound.]
[Rule One: If the business operates at a loss this month, ten times the loss will be deposited into the Host's personal account.]
[Rule Two: If the business makes a profit this month, the same amount will be deducted from the Host's account.]
[Rule Three: Only operating losses count. Giving things away, setting them on fire, or destroying equipment yourself all count as cheating, and the month's results will be voided.]
Lu Ping froze for three seconds, then smiled. Lose a hundred thousand, get a million. What a deal.
So he set about running the shop into the ground in earnest: raising prices, offending customers, taking down the sign, and hiring only the worst people.
A month later, he opened the accounts. The shop had lost twenty-six thousand. There was a queue stretching across the street.
