Chapter 95: Chapter 94 Is this our company's game?

By the time everyone returned to Haidong, it was already past three in the afternoon.

They decided not to go back to the dormitory and instead found a milk tea shop, bought some snacks, and sat down to chat.

"Since none of us have experience with business operations, we'd like you to join Ideal Paradise too," one of them said.

Gu Yu told Lin Xinyue that his company was missing a business operations staff member.

Lin Xinyue sipped her milk tea and seemed to be pondering as she gazed at the table.

After waiting for a minute, she finally looked up.

"I can do that, but I have one condition. I don't want a salary," she said, looking seriously at Gu Yu.

Gu Yu paused with his straw poised to pierce the milk tea, looking at her puzzled.

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"How can you work without a salary? That would make Ideal Paradise a heartless company," he said.

Lin Xinyue shook her head, "It's not that I don't want a salary, but as your girlfriend, if I hold an important position and still draw a salary, it might lead to gossip about taking advantage of my position."

Her lips tugged into a slight smile, her eyes narrowing into crescents.

In reality, since she was helping manage Gu Yu's company, it didn't matter to her whether she got paid or not.

As long as she could help her boyfriend, she was very happy.

Moreover, if it weren't for the fact that she didn't have much money right now, she felt that she should also invest some money in Gu Yu to support his entrepreneurship!

She was not the type of girl who loved wealth and despised the poor; she deeply understood that only by sharing weal and woe could they go a long way together!

Gu Yu understood the implications of his girlfriend's words and fell silent.

Indeed, as Xinyue had said, the company was still a workplace, and while it was just their own people now, no one would gossip, but if Ideal Paradise were to grow and strengthen in the future, it was inevitable that it would expand.

By then, once the staff grows, naturally, such remarks will arise.

This would have a bad impact on Ideal Paradise, on him, and on Lin Xinyue.

Lin Xinyue was indeed thinking ahead.

But system regulations are rigid. As long as someone is an employee of the company, their salary must be issued according to the rules.

If she's not an employee of the company, the system would not allow Lin Xinyue to interfere with the management of the company.

He thought about it and finally found a middle ground.

"It wouldn't be right not to take the money. After all, we are a legitimate company and everything needs to be done according to the rules. So, how about this! I'll give you the minimum wage every month! This way, no one can say anything," he suggested.

Not wanting to make Lin Xinyue uncomfortable, yet needing to follow system rules, Gu Yu felt this was the only viable solution for now.

Lin Xinyue hesitated a bit but finally nodded her approval. This indeed seemed like a good solution.

"So, what's the company's minimum wage right now?" she asked, taking another sip of her milk tea.

"Three thousand!"

Gu Yu held up three fingers.

"Pfft— that much?"

Lin Xinyue almost spat her milk tea onto the table, her face filled with disbelief as she looked at Gu Yu.

It's not that she thought three thousand as a base salary was a lot. For a normal internet company, this wage level was quite low.

But for Gu Yu's company, which had been founded less than a month ago, it indeed seemed excessive.

After all, many student startups involved acquainted technical stakeholders without any salaries at the early stages!

Calling for a flat rate of three thousand per person like Gu Yu did seemed extravagant.

Now including him, the company had four people in total. Just paying out a base salary would amount to twelve thousand a month!

Is this really a startup? Everyone else saves wherever possible, but it feels like her boyfriend was ready to spend as much as possible?

However, seeing Gu Yu's nonchalant expression, she swallowed the words she wanted to criticize him with.

She believed there must be a reason why Gu Yu was doing this…

Having lots of money, not lacking money, that's a reason, isn't it?

Ever since she saw Gu Yu spend five hundred thousand to buy Mrs. Bai's noodle shop, she couldn't fathom just how much money Gu Yu actually had.

It seemed like it would never run out...

Feeling somewhat resigned, she quietly drank her milk tea.

Gu Yu had ordered a lemon yogurt drink, took a sip, and quickly passed it to Lin Xinyue.

"Try a sip! It actually tastes good!"

Lin Xinyue gave him a skeptical look before taking a sip of his lemon yogurt drink.

But before she could swallow, the sourness made her squint.

"Hahahahaha..."

Gu Yu, successful in his prank, laughed heartily.

Lin Xinyue playfully glared at him, deciding not to bother arguing with him.

She took out her phone, intending to scroll through Dou Ying.

After skipping a few makeup videos, she stumbled upon Jingchuan Xiaoyu.

She knew of Jingchuan Xiaoyu, a student from Haidong, who had gained millions of followers on Dou Ying with outdoor dance videos and was dubbed the "pure desire ceiling" of Dou Ying, making her quite famous at school.

But the video she stumbled upon wasn't a dance video; it was a mukbang video.

In the video, Jingchuan Xiaoyu and her roommates were playing a game called "Life Restart Simulator," occasionally screaming in frustration.

"Oh my god, I maxed out my family background at the start and ended up dying from syphilis?"

"That plot's pretty normal, right? My little match girl can summon nuclear bombs with magic!"

"Stop it, I was kidnapped at birth, scammed for school fees in elementary school, junior high, and high school, and even my college enrollment was scammed, somehow managed to live till sixty by scavenging! Oh, and even the money I earned from scavenging was swindled..."

"You guys have it easy. Would you believe my plot involved a dragon defeating the evil princess, rescuing the warrior, and then forcing the warrior to become his cave-dwelling wife?"

"..."

Everyone had their own story, and though there wasn't a direct introduction or promotion of the game, it piqued Lin Xinyue's curiosity.

What exactly is this Life Restart Simulator that it can drive people crazy?

At the end of the video, Jingchuan Xiaoyu put down her phone:

"Come and download the game from the top link in my comments section! Let's restart life together~"

Lin Xinyue opened the comment section and noticed it already had dozens of comments.

Xiaoyu's piggy: "Marking this! Looks so fun, if anyone tries it and finds it fun, give me a kick!"

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EatPeach: "I was pretty down, and after two rounds, I felt even more depressed... but it really is fun! Very relaxing (cultivating)."

The comment section was unanimously positive, even the complaints mentioned the game was fun.

Unable to contain her curiosity and with nothing better to do, Lin Xinyue decided to download it!

She clicked on the comment section link, which redirected her to the download page, only to find she had to first download the Shengda Game Platform.

"Bundled download?"

After a second's hesitation, she downloaded it anyway since the installer was only 80MB, not too big.

Waiting patiently…

The download finally completed, and then she searched for and installed the game by name.

After a quick registration and login, she entered the game interface…

Ten lines of random talents generated.

"Hmm, got the talents... Now, how should I distribute the initial attribute points?"

As Gu Yu returned with the tiramisu, he placed the dessert in front of Lin Xinyue.

Seeing her eyes focused unblinkingly on her phone, rapidly tapping away, he curiously asked:

"What are you playing? Some match-three game?"

Gu Yu picked up a small piece of tiramisu with a small fork and brought it to her lips, leaning over to see.

To his surprise, he recognized the game interface.

"Uh... isn't this our company's game?"

Gu Yu was stunned, and just as Lin Xinyue opened her mouth to accept the dessert, she too was stunned.

"This is our company's game?!!"