Trying to Go Bankrupt, So How Did I End Up Ruling the Galaxy?

(So she switched to making games)

After transmigrating, Gu Chunqiao inherited an interstellar game company and a bankrupt System.

As long as she could make the company go bankrupt, her personal account would be filled to the brim.

The good news: The game industry was controlled by major corporations across the stars, and technology had reached its peak, making it hard for small companies to get ahead.

The bad news: Company funds increased by 1,000,000.

Company funds had to be used for the company, spent reasonably, and could not be given to charity or deliberately wasted.

Gu Chunqiao rubbed her hands together like a fly and immediately set out to study the strengths of blockbuster interstellar games.

She would compare them one by one and do the exact opposite!

"Money-Losing Plan One": Mosaic Shooting Range.

The selling point: A shooting game with extremely low graphics quality.

Ultra-difficult moving targets paired with dizzyingly awful visuals.

The goal was to make players throw up.

Player review 1: The level design looks careless, but is actually scientific. You can sense the game designer's painstaking effort hidden within.

Player review 2: Everyone at our mecha academy who played this game got full marks on practical training.

Player review 3: Let me grind away for three days and nights, and I'll definitely beat Level 99.

"Money-Losing Plan Two": A Simulated Life on Earth.

The selling point: Almost no immersion, just a mundane account of life on Earth, completely removed from interstellar life.

An open world with no main story, no quests, and no hints. You have to figure everything out for yourself.

Boring to the extreme. Even a dog wouldn't play it!

Player review 1: You can actually see prehistoric animals here.

Player review 2: I like this slow pace. It feels like my soul has been cleansed. Earth has become my second home.

Player review 3: If you want to take a break, come play A Simulated Life on Earth.

"Money-Losing Plan Three": The Legend of the Immortal Sword Hero, Retro 2D Edition.

The selling point: In a world where desktop computers have already been phased out, release a 2D game for desktop computers.

She could even manufacture a batch of old-fashioned desktops on the side and lose a fortune.

Now there's absolutely no way anyone will buy them!

Player review 1: An absolute masterpiece for the ages. It brings us back to the essence of art.

Player review 2: It contains many lost aspects of human culture, well worth savoring and studying.

Player review 3: I've bought the game. Looking to buy a desktop computer at a high price.

Employee: President Gu, the 100,000 desktops we manufactured to go with the game have all sold out. Should we restock?

Gu Chunqiao: "?"

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After players stabbed her in the back again and again, Gu Chunqiao decided to start with her employees and help bring about her grand plan to lose money.

Game planners fired by major corporations?

Hire them!

Operations rookies with no experience?

Hire them!

Screenwriters who can't sell their scripts?

Hire them!

Seven types of insurance and two housing funds from the day you start; salaries multiplied tenfold;

Annual leave, sick leave, and every kind of holiday leave, all provided;

Commuting subsidies, housing subsidies, and daily living allowances, all included;

It's just money. I've got plenty!

When the news came out, everyone was stunned.

Had President Gu hit her head?

She was spending so much money to turn her own company into a dumping ground for society's rejects.

Was she volunteering to do charity work?

Gu Chunqiao's expression turned stern. "I'm a talent scout who can recognize a thousand-mile horse. You people just don't understand."

Doing charity, they said?

Did they want the System to judge her as breaking the rules?

The entire staff was moved. So President Gu valued us this much. From now on, we'll work even harder. We can't let President Gu down!

The company produced another blockbuster, its industry chain expanded completely, and it became a sensation across the stars.

And so,

all sorts of bigwigs came for the benefits, disguising themselves as slackers to sneak in.

Talented people from every corner of society volunteered to become her angel investors.

In 3003 of the Federation calendar, Gu Chunqiao, honored as an outstanding figure of her age and a business emperor, looked at the colossal enterprise she had built with her own hands and wanted to cry.

All of you, get lost!

25.3.24

Theme: What age has no remarkable talent? It is only left undiscovered among the common folk.