Rebirth of the Godly Prodigal - Chapter 95

Chapter 95: Will This Burn Money?

Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

Once those words left Zhang Wenyang’s mouth, eyeballs popped out onto the floor, and the sounds of jaws cracking filled the room.

Hong Dali violently slapped his thigh. “Good job!” Then, eyes glittering, he asked, “How much did you spend?”

Zhang Wenyang reported truthfully: “200,000 yuan to hire the Internet Water Army and 1.5 million yuan on advertisements. I haven’t started spending on other things yet.”

Hong Dali secretly called out the system. Indeed, the value shown was 2 million or so. Looks like this guy was indeed good at spending money! Also, he didn’t treat Hong Dali like a fool and take any money for himself. Hong Dali snapped his fingers and said, “Well done, tip him!”

Instantly, a lackey walked forth with a Payment Terminal. “Young Master, how much?”

“Everyone, two thousand!” Hong Dali grinned and said. He definitely must make good use of such a talent who knew how to spend money. “Take it as a red packet for everyone. En, how is the website doing now? I didn’t pay attention to it these past two days, I was focusing on giving credit rewards for authors.”

This time, it was CEO Hong’s turn to make his report. After all, the website’s results were getting better and better. Thus, his face was red with pride as he bowed towards Hong Dali and said in an official manner, “Firstly, I would like to thank Young Master for your support. I also thank all the staff for their hard work and effort. Also, I have to thank Director Zhang Wenyang for his sharp insight and Chief Editor Tang for his ability to seek out talents…”

Hong Dali kicked him aside and pointed at Zhang Wenyang. “You do the report instead. I want a simple one!”

Indeed, being someone who graduated from a third-class university, he wouldn’t act in such an official manner. Zhang Wenyang decisively said, “Currently speaking, the IP volume of Zhong Dian website has exceeded 300,000. Furthermore, the number of authors also rose these few days.”

Hong Dali nodded his head in satisfaction. He winked and said, “OK, not bad. But I’m not very concerned about that. You know what I mean.”

“Spending money is my forte!” Zhang Wenyang waved his hand. “Young Master, you can use the novels to adapt them into movies, dramas, or web-games! My personal suggestion is to adapt those novels that Young Master liked to watch because their contract has already been bought over by us—their copyright is easy to handle.”

Hong Dali stretched his neck. “Will this burn money?”

Zhang Wenyang fiercely nodded and said, “Burn!”

“I approve!” Hong Dali slapped his thigh. “Then, that’s what we shall do!”

Everyone around them sighed.

Adapting online novels into movies or dramas wasn’t something new, but those were all adapted from famous literary works. No one knew what effects there would be in adapting online novels that were updated on a daily basis into movies or dramas.

Tang Muxin violently shook Hong Dali’s elbow. “Dali, can we not do this? We’re talking about movies and dramas—even if Sister Nianwei helps out, the resources and people needed are too great. If this fails, you will lose tens of millions. If you want to adapt it into web-games, no one is familiar in this. If the game isn’t fun, you will lose even more money.”

“It’s fine to take some losses.” Hong Dali looked at Tang Muxin weirdly. “You don’t want to film a movie?”

“I don’t…” The little lass immediately wanted to reject, but she didn’t manage to tolerate it in the end and fiercely nodded her head. “I want to!” Then, she started shaking his elbow again. “But even if we want to film a movie, we can’t spend money in such a manner. One movie requires at least 5 million yuan of capital, right? Adding that to the cost of inviting celebrities and whatnot, it’s a challenging project. Also, where would I have the time to do that?”

Now, everyone was waiting for Hong Dali to make the final decision. Hong Dali touched his chin and said, “Yup, speaking of which, this is quite interesting. Just that we indeed don’t have so much time. After all, we can’t skip school. In this case, let’s start with a small project. After school, Xinxin can go and be a guest actress to satisfy your craving. Let’s base it on the scale of a 5 million yuan movie project. We shall just have a feel of what it’s like first.” His mission of spending 15 million yuan in a month hadn’t been completed yet, he couldn’t afford to be careless. He had already spent almost 7 million yuan and was lacking 8 million or so. He only had half a month left; therefore, he had to make the most of his time.

Tang Muxin still wanted to reject, but she knew that what Hong Dali had already decided couldn’t be changed even if eight horses pulled him back. Thus, she could only give up on trying.

Hong Dali looked at Zhang Wenyang again. “Is there anything else regarding the website? How much more money do you need to expand it?”

Zhang Wenyang thought for quite some time before drawing out a calculator from his pocket and started counting. Finally, he was done and said, “Currently, there’s still one million left over from the three million that you previously gave. We still need about 2 million for advertisements, and that’s about it.”

“Is two million enough?” Hong Dali asked.

“It’s enough in the short term.” Zhang Wenyang answered. “Currently, there are quite a number of advertisers wanting to put their advertisements on our website. Their price offers are not bad too. Basically, it will be able to sustain the website for another two months.”

“Reject all the advertisements!” Hong Dali got angry when he mentioned the advertisements. “No wonder it was so slow when I was opening the webpage in school. It was all because of the advertisements. Take down all of the advertisements, not a single one is to be left!”

Director Yang, who was standing by the side, broke out in cold sweat. He anxiously said, “Young Master, the advertisements are the main source of income for our website at the moment. After all, 70% of the profits from readers are given to the authors. We only keep 30%, and we still have to pay the authors when they update chapters constantly. The profit and loss for that part are only just leveled out. If we take down the advertisements, we would be making a loss…”

Hearing him say so, all of the employees nodded—after all, a human must still eat, they must still have their pay.

“Remove all of them!” Hong Dali decided. “I will give you another three million yuan. I want all of the advertisements to be taken down within three days!”

“Three million yuan!” Tang Muxin slapped her forehead. “Dali, you are really a prodigal! In the past, you never made any losses because of your luck. Instead, you even earned a little. But cutting off the main source of income of your website, you will not have any income! How can that be?”

You don’t say. If they can provide for themselves, how am I supposed to complete the mission the system gave me? Hong Dali said in a matter-of-fact tone, “No worries, I don’t lack this little money. Just do as I said!”

“I will be sure complete the mission!” Zhang Wenyang saluted Hong Dali. “Young Master is still better at spending money than me!”

Hearing this, everyone shivered. The two of you are not only good at spending money, but you two are also really prodigals! It’s not that we don’t understand, it’s just that the world is changing too fast!

Tang Muxin pouted and said, “I want to see if your luck this time is still as good! Everything will bow before your luck, I don’t believe this saying! Humph, I’m going to ignore you!”

Li Nianwei silently hugged Tang Muxin and softly said, “Muxin, as long as Young Master likes it, let him do it. All we have to do is just to support him, there’s no need to think so much.”

“Fine.” Tang Muxin learned from Hong Dali and sniffled her cute little nose. “Sister Nianwei, you’re spoiling him too much!”

“Aren’t you the same.” Li Nianwei softly laughed and said, “On the surface, you’re going against him in everything. But in reality, your heart cares about him, right?”

“Heehee, you even noticed that. Sister Nianwei, you’re really amazing!”