You said you were going to make games, how did you become the richest man without doing anything?

Chapter 1: Rebirth Begins with Leisure and Enjoyment

2012, Jianghai City, Jianghai University.

"Brother Lu, hurry up and grab a seat, otherwise the library study room will be full for the whole week."

A distant yet familiar voice came into Lu Yu's ears. Isn't this the voice of his college roommate Fatty Chu?
Rubbing his sleepy eyes, Lu Yu saw Chu Xiong, his best friend of four years in college, shoveling instant noodles into his mouth while throwing various review materials into his schoolbag.

Looking around again, I saw that it was indeed the dormitory from my college days.

I traveled back more than ten years ago?
Looking at his roommate Chu Xiong's round face dotted with small grape eyes, Lu Yu was filled with emotion.

He hasn't been in touch with this best friend for a long time.

After graduating from university in 2012, Lu Yu moved from one company to another in the gaming industry. He encountered extremely deceptive leaders and all kinds of magical PUAs.

He used to work overtime in the early hours of the morning to meet his performance KPIs and year-end bonuses, and he also had fierce office fights with colleagues who were stepping on him to get ahead.

At the age of 34, he finally defeated other competitors and was promoted to the producer of a mobile game project with a monthly turnover of over million yuan.

He remembered that one Thursday morning not long ago, he was supervising the review of the new version package at the company when he suddenly felt severe pain in his chest, couldn't breathe, and his eyes went black, and he fell down at his workstation.

Before he finally lost consciousness, he heard other colleagues frantically looking for an AED, but it was too late.

Years of endless fierce competition and internal competition finally took their toll on him...

Looking at the young faces of his roommates, Lu Yu was overjoyed.
Ten years after graduation, he was busy day and night, forgetting the passage of time and gradually becoming estranged from many of his old classmates.

He would love to be able to travel back to his youth and start over.

In this life, he must live a leisurely and comfortable life, and no longer be inward-looking!
As if in response to this thought, a translucent light curtain flashed in front of Lu Yu.

[The Leisurely Win system is successfully bound]

[Host: Lu Yu]

[For first-time use, please click on the system panel to enter the tutorial.]

The standard equipment for time travelers, the golden finger has arrived!

The system of easy and easy wins is extraordinary just by looking at the name.

With his roommates still around, Lu Yu concealed his inner ecstasy, pretended to be calm, and clicked into the beginner's tutorial with his mind.

[This system will support the host to choose a career direction of interest and establish a company.]

[However, developing a career you love should be part of enjoying life. This system does not encourage the host to engage in endless involution and internal consumption.]

During the company's project operations, the host must maintain a healthy mind and body, avoiding fatigue and any other mental drains. Every time the host engages in a leisurely and enjoyable activity, they will earn leisure points.

[After each round of the project cycle, a settlement will be made. The system will convert the leisure points earned by the host during this period into personal property at the host's disposal according to a certain ratio.]

[Current exchange rate: 1 Leisure Point equals 100 yuan.]

What? Did I read that right? I can just sit back and relax, enjoy life, and get paid?

Lu Yu was dumbfounded. It is indeed difficult for me to rack my brains and work hard to get ahead, but if you let me lie down, isn't that easy?
Just put it up and it’s done!

The system light curtain pops up a prompt again:

[Lying down does not mean giving up or playing badly. The host needs to operate the company normally and cannot engage in obvious and unreasonable passive sabotage. The system hopes that the host will not only lie down, but also win!]

During the company's initial establishment, the system will provide an initial start-up capital. The funds on the company's account can only be used for company operations, and the host cannot obtain any funds from the company's account.

[Once the company account is exhausted and the operation fails, the system will automatically unbind it. ]

Lu Yu suddenly realized that he couldn't just give up like a loser. He still had to maintain the company properly, otherwise it would be a huge loss if the golden finger was untied.

A prompt box popped up in front of him to enter the company name, and Lu Yu began to think.

First of all, in terms of career direction, what he first considered was not the most profitable direction, but the direction that he was best at and easiest. After all, he would not get a penny of the money earned by the company, but if he did things that he could get started quickly, he would not have to work too hard.

He chose game development without hesitation. After all, he was a producer in his previous life, so starting with games would definitely be a lot easier.

【Company Name: Taoyuanxiang Technology Co., Ltd.】

Lu Yu took this name from "Peach Blossom Spring".

The implication is that no matter how turbulent the gaming industry is, no matter how sparks are flying, my small studio in Taoyuan Township will remain unmoved and unconcerned.

After successful registration, the system will continue to pop up new user tips:

[Hosts should be reminded that this system has two major rules of diminishing marginal effects]

[First, the more the enjoyment experience is not related to work and is related to life, the more leisure points the host will earn.

On the contrary, the more work-related the experience is, the fewer points the host earns. If it is purely work experience, the points the host earns will be infinitely close to 0.

[Second, the more times you repeat the same enjoyable activity in a short period of time, the more leisure points you earn will have a diminishing marginal effect.]

After reading the instructions, Lu Yu was stunned.

There's something special about this system. It allows him to keep the company running while giving up his internal competition at work and enjoying life in different ways.

In this case, he initially determined the company's development direction.

First, the company's business cannot grow too fast.

Because according to the system rules, he couldn't get a penny of the company's account funds, so no matter how much money the company made, he had nothing to do with it. He was so involuntarily at work that he didn't get any points.

On the other hand, if the company grows too fast, you will have more and more things to worry about, which is naturally contrary to earning leisure points.

Secondly, the company’s staff size cannot expand too quickly.

It is a headache for both recruiters and managers. Even if you hire a human resources assistant and become a hands-off manager, you still have to keep an eye on them at all times to prevent any unexpected problems from happening in the company.

He is not worrying for no reason.

As a veteran who has been in the industry for ten years, he has witnessed with his own eyes that the founders of those game companies, who are in their early thirties, already have bald heads, and they engage in all kinds of battles of wits and courage with their employees and stab each other in the back every day.

Therefore, Lu Yu simply decided that he would be the only employee in Taoyuanxiang Company, and he would eat snacks and drink Coke in the office every day to earn points, and occasionally tinker with an independent game to earn some money to keep the company running. Wouldn't that be great?
He felt like he had figured out the correct way to play the system, and was just thinking about it happily when the screen popped up another prompt:

[The company has been created and will now enter a three-day system trial period.]

[Probationary period task: Recruit the first full-time employee for Taoyuan Township Company.]

【mission rewards:】

【First, the system is officially bound to the host.】

【Second, the system will calculate the leisure points earned by the host during the trial period.】

[Third, the system will enable a new feature: if company employees feel physically and mentally happy, they will also earn leisure points for the host, with an initial rebate rate of 10%.]

[Consequence of failure: The system will be unbound from the host.]

Blah! It seems the abacus beads accidentally hit the system's face, the system will sanction it immediately!

Just when I was thinking of lying down comfortably, it turns out that my task during the probation period is to recruit people!

Fortunately, after recruiting employees, they can also earn points for themselves, which is a consolation. The 10% rebate ratio means that for the same pleasant thing, if Lu Yu can earn 1 leisure point, then the employee can only earn 0.1.

However, no matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat, and 0.1 points is still ten yuan.

[The host must be reminded that the host must not disclose the existence of the system to anyone, and when hiring employees, they must provide a salary that is no less than the fair price in the labor market.]

This prompt from the system is equivalent to blocking Lu Yu's way to cheat. In order to keep the company running, the host cannot force employees to cheat with low wages.

……

After closing the system screen, Lu Yu lost all sleepiness and jumped out of bed.

At this time, Fatty Chu was just finishing his breakfast of Master Kong braised noodles and Shuanghui ham sausage.

For the struggling college students of that era, this breakfast was both filling and delicious. A more indulgent option might include a small bag of rustic braised eggs.

Lu Yu always felt that instant noodles were magical. When they were just brewed, the aroma that filled the room was enough to whet his appetite, but every time after eating them, he swore in his heart that he would never eat them again in his life.

"Brother Lu, why did you get up so late today? This is not like you. I have to go to the library first to reserve a seat, otherwise I won't be able to get a seat. Someone has already set up camp at the door the night before."

In Lu Yu's memory, there were always not enough seats in the study room of Jianghai University Library.

After all, students have too many needs. Those preparing for postgraduate entrance exams, civil service exams, preparing graduation theses, and taking IELTS and TOEFL exams for studying abroad all flock to the library...

This year is the graduation season for Lu Yu and his classmates, and people who are preparing resumes and written exams are flocking to the library. Lu Yu and Chu Xiong originally wanted to go there early to reserve seats and prepare for interview questions.

We have to get up early because many people are so eager to take up seats. In addition to setting up tents to keep watch, some even rush into the study room with a roll of toilet paper, roll it on the table, and take up an entire row of seats at once.

In short, it’s just one word: volume!

But this time Lu Yu gave up on reserving a seat. He wanted to try out the system's effectiveness first.

"You guys go first, I'm going to the playground for a run."

Amidst the astonished gazes of his roommates, he left the dormitory.

Leaving the dormitory building, the crowd rushed towards the library in the campus corridor.

Lu Yu was like a person going against the flow, going upstream in the crowd alone and coming to the empty playground track.

The sun was shining brightly in the early morning, and the fragrance of grass filled his nostrils. Lu Yu took a deep breath and ran a lap around the playground.

When he was in college, his favorite sport was morning jogging.

But after graduation, his increasingly busy work made him neglect exercise. Long-term overwork and irregular lifestyle caused him to suffer from many occupational diseases in his thirties:

Thyroid nodules, fatty liver, hypertension, gallstones, gout, cervical spondylosis, lumbar disc herniation...

A gentle breeze blew across his face, he took a deep breath, and his complexion gradually turned rosy.

After many years, he felt his healthy body full of youthful energy again, and he felt that his sense of control over his life was back!

After running a lap, the system pops up a prompt:
[A refreshing morning run, leisure points +3]

Lu Yu was stunned, and then he was ecstatic. Just by running a lap, he got 300 yuan?

Damn, this money is so easy to make!

After sweating a little and feeling a little thirsty, Lu Yu bought a bottle of green tea from the convenience store next to the playground.

While studying abroad, his conditions were limited and he couldn't make his own tea. This cheap instant tea drink has been his favorite for a long time.

He inherited the habit of drinking tea from his father.

My father is a hydropower engineer in an old state-owned enterprise. He has worked hard all his life, and his only hobby is tea tasting.

Even his own name was taken by his father from Lu Yu, the tea saint of the Tang Dynasty.

In my father's words, the Tea Saint traveled around the world throughout his life, tasting tea and appreciating water, discussing poetry and essays. He lived a free and easy life with clear thoughts.

After the college entrance examination, he once said to Lu Yu: "We have no choice but to work hard all our lives. You have caught up with a good era. Live the life you want."

As I reminisced, I let the sweet drink moisten my throat.

[After exercise, have a bottle of your favorite green tea, leisure points +2]

He stared at the half-drunk drink in a daze. Did he get another 200 yuan?
If I keep running around here and drinking drinks, can't I keep making money?
However, when he finished another lap, he only got 1 point.

After running the third lap, he didn't earn any points. When he finished the fourth lap and felt his legs aching, the system popped up a prompt:
[Excessive exercise leads to fatigue, leisure points -1]

I blanch it, and I can actually deduct points!

The system pops up the novice prompt again:

[The host needs to be reminded that any experience that makes the host and employees feel physically and mentally exhausted will deduct the host's leisure points.]

[The system's point deduction rules also follow the principle of diminishing marginal returns.]

[The more fatigue related to life, the fewer points the system will deduct; the more fatigue related to work, the more points the system will deduct, with no upper limit.]

Lu Yu stopped running immediately.

If you think about it carefully, the human brain has a threshold for the degree to which it secretes dopamine to feel pleasure in response to the same thing.

As the saying goes, too much is as bad as too little!
If Lu Yu wants to earn more leisure points, he needs to experience more new things that make him feel happy physically and mentally.

"It's not a big problem. This system is a good thing after all."

Lu Yu sighed. He was reluctant to unbind the system and had to find a way to recruit the first employee within three days.

The question is, who to recruit?

For his first employee, he wanted to recruit someone he trusted and was familiar with.

Fatty Chu?
No, this guy is a complete test-taker. Every time he takes an exam, he often says that reviewing is useless and he just leaves it to fate, and then he secretly practices questions in his bed in the middle of the night.

According to the system's characteristics, if an employee is too overworked or too complacent, Lu Yu's points will be deducted. If he recruits this fat guy, no matter how many points he earns, it will not be enough to cover the deduction.

It would be best to hire someone who understands game production but isn't too competitive...

Lu Yu was sitting on the lawn of the stadium, thinking idly, when suddenly a beautiful figure appeared in his sight.

The girl sat cross-legged on the lawn, holding the drawing board in front of her with both hands, painting seriously.

Her long hair falls down, covering her handsome profile, and the JK uniform highlights her graceful figure.

Under the skirt, the slightly translucent black stockings reflected a shiny black luster in the sunlight.

The warm breeze blowing across the lawn brought the faint scent of grapefruit on her body.

Lu Yu was slightly moved, and ripples appeared in his heart.

If there was any regret in his youth before his rebirth, this girl was his biggest regret.

(End of this chapter)