205. Game Librarian
“Mom, you really misunderstood. I really don’t want to start a company! Plus, I used to make those kinds of games before, how could I…” Su Qi explained while holding the transfer agreement, wanting to return it to her mom.
Because she didn’t have the management skills of her wife An Ning. Uh, just thinking of herself, a patient with social anxiety, actually becoming a boss…
Su Qi was quite confident the company would go bankrupt.
She didn’t believe that she, with social anxiety, could cultivate any brave generals.
So thinking of this, Su Qi zeroed in even more on Lu Ran’s hand.
Lu Ran saw her daughter forcefully stuffing the documents into her hand and just assumed Su Qi was doing this because she was afraid of losing money for her.
Speaking of losing money, Lu Ran had actually carefully considered this issue.
Because even if she bought this company for Su Qi, for her daughter, it still counted as starting a business.
But being successful in entrepreneurship was still for the minority. It was far from being as easy as described online.
The simplest example was: Lu Ran was able to use 2 million to buy this game company with 5 million in startup capital. Wasn’t this a typical case of failed entrepreneurship?
Thinking of how her assistant said if she didn’t act to buy it, this company would have already reached the stage of being mortgaged, and the price had been negotiated down to 1.8 million, Lu Ran felt even more that the risk of entrepreneurship was too high.
Fortunately, her assistant explained to her the meaning of a limited liability company (LLC).
Hearing that the worst case scenario was the company shutting down with a net financial loss, she was finally at ease. After all, she could still afford this 2 million.
TN: LLCs are important legal structures for forming a business. Limited liability means that the assets and debts of the business remain separate from the personal assets and debts of the LLC’s owners. In most cases, if an LLC goes bankrupt, creditors can only go after the assets of the business and not of the owners.
Actually, Lu Ran was quite conflicted when she first bought this company. It wasn’t because of the money.
But because she was more inclined to let her daughter be a carefree wastrel. In the future, she could find a good man in Zhe Province to marry, and just be her little darling by her side for life.
But considering Su Qi’s stubborn personality just like Su Lujun’s, she even hid such a big thing like her illness from them for so many years…
Lu Ran was afraid that her daughter would go to school in Su City in the future, and because she wanted to start a company, she would take out loans and cause some unfounded troubles.
Seeing her daughter looking like she was easy to deceive, Lu Ran felt uneasy. So in order for her daughter to take fewer detours, she bought this company.
Looking at her daughter who was still making excuses, Lu Ran took the agreement in her hand, flipped to a page inside, and said to her daughter:
“Look, the company name has already been changed to Xiaoqi’s Studio. The money definitely can’t be refunded. Mom doesn’t know how to run a business either, and your dad is an old fogey who can’t even use a computer! This is your dream, so don’t refuse anymore.”
Su Qi just felt dizzy. This 2 million yuan company was given to her just like that, but she was only an 18-year-old kid. Plus, how did it get elevated to the level of dreams? Then she heard her mom continue:
“This company is yours now. Whether you sell it or it goes bankrupt, don’t have too much mental pressure. Just treat it as mom’s compensation for not seeing you these two years, okay?”
After finishing, she gently hugged Su Qi and lightly patted her back.
At this moment, Su Qi just felt the system girl was really hateful. She even made her mom become sentimental. But the system girl was oblivious and was still communicating with Su Qi:
“Great, Host! We’re rich now!”
Su Qi corrected her in annoyance, “No, not we. I’m rich now.”
Lu Ran saw her daughter in her arms finally stopped refusing and breathed a sigh of relief. She silently prayed that her daughter would go bankrupt and then return to her side to be a wastrel. Then she got up to prepare dinner.
Su Qi carefully read the contract in her hand again.
Su Qi was a bit curious. What kind of company would lose over 3 million yuan in two years?
Looking at the address on the contract, Su Qi opened her phone browser to search.
She found that this company was actually quite close to her school, a thirty minute drive. Now that it was bankrupt, there was still one job opening posted.
Online Librarian (6000-8000)
Clicking in to look, seeing the comments and pictures on 58.com below, Su Qi understood why this company went bankrupt.
Foss: Been at the company for half a month. Quitting today. All I can think of is spending 999 on a knife.
Maupassant: I only found out today that the responsibility of a librarian is actually inserting ads into compressed files every day. Are you sure this is a librarian?
Su Qi read many messages and pictures before finally finding out what this game company did.
It was a company that made web games. Everyone was familiar with the game—Legendary Overlord!
Speaking of this game, Su Qi deeply detested it.
Because she used to make games, she always had to go online to download tools. And every time after downloading, these Legend games would pop up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain.
And they were hard to kill with antivirus software. The most infuriating thing was that when this game appeared, it always caught you off guard.
Su Qi remembered one time late at night, she was in the dorm room burning the midnight oil, concentrating on writing code. Suddenly, the sound of “Ha! Ha! Ha!” from killing monsters appeared, along with that red and green webpage that popped up. It almost made Su Qi flip over the computer desk!
At that time, Su Qi didn’t know what kind of person would be so vicious as to add this game to some compressed files.
After reading the reviews of these online librarians, she finally realized that this was actually their profession!
Su Qi suddenly somewhat understood why this game company went bankrupt. Because wasn’t this completely a pest company?
Just as Su Qi was about to turn the page, she saw her phone ringing.
It was her fifth brother Su Wujun who was in the army in Shanxi.
Su Qi guessed that her second brother must have told him that she was a girl, so her fifth brother was calling, right? Su Qi’s impression of this fifth brother was that he was tongue-tied like her, and even had a bit of a silly feeling, but had extremely strong principles and was very protective.
When she was bullied by other kids when she was young, it was mostly this brother who stood up for her. Thinking of her brother standing in front of her, Su Qi inexplicably felt a bit more sense of security in her heart.
Picking up the call, Su Qi heard the somewhat honest voice unique to her fifth brother.
“Is this Little Qi? It’s your fifth brother.”
Su Qi froze for a moment. The last time she heard her fifth brother speak was two years ago during a video call when everyone gathered at Grandpa’s house for Chinese New Year. At that time, she was still a boy. Time really passed quickly.
“Yeah, Fifth Brother. It’s Little Qi.” After Su Qi said this, there was silence on the other end of the phone.
Actually, Su Wujun didn’t believe what his second brother said.
After all, Su Qi grew up with him. How could he turn into a girl just like that? But after seeing the video his second brother sent and connecting the call, he finally realized that his little brother seemed to have really become his little sister!
Because both of them were tongue-tied and didn’t know how to make conversation… Especially Su Wujun, who hadn’t recovered from the shock yet, let alone expand on a topic. So there was a long-lost silence on the phone.
Just then, suddenly the sound of a train station announcement came through the phone.
“Next stop Taiyuan. Passengers getting off at Taiyuan, please…”
Su Qi was stunned and asked, “Brother, are you taking the train home?”
But Su Wujun’s answer made Su Qi freeze:
“No, we’re going to assist Henan!”