You said you would make games by yourself, but how did you become the richest man by doing nothing?

In 2012, Jianghai City, Jianghai University.

"Lu-ge, hurry up and grab a seat, otherwise there won't be any spots in the library's study room for a whole week."

The distant yet familiar voice entered Lu Yu's ears. Wasn't that his college roommate, Fatty Chu's voice?

Rubbing his sleepy eyes, Lu Yu indeed saw his best buddy of four years, Chu Xiong, stuffing instant noodles into his mouth while tossing various review materials into his backpack.

Looking around, it was indeed the dormitory from his university days.

I've traveled back more than ten years?

Looking at his roommate Chu Xiong's round face, adorned with small, beady eyes, Lu Yu was filled with emotions.

He hadn't contacted this buddy for a long time.

After graduating in 2012, Lu Yu had jumped between several companies in the game industry, encountering extremely terrible leaders and all sorts of bizarre PUAs.

He had often worked overtime until dawn to grind for performance KPIs and year-end bonuses. He had also engaged in fierce office battles with colleagues who stepped on him to climb up.

At the age of 34, he finally out-competed the other contenders and was promoted to producer of a mobile game project with a monthly revenue of over 100 million.

He remembered that not long ago, on a Thursday at dawn, he was supervising the final stages of a new version's packaging and review when he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest, couldn't breathe, and everything went black before he collapsed onto his workstation.

Before finally losing consciousness, he heard other colleagues frantically searching for an AED defibrillator, but it was too late.

Years of relentless competition and internal strife had finally taken their toll...

Looking at his roommates' youthful faces, Lu Yu was overjoyed.

Ten years after graduation, the endless days and nights of work had made him forget the passage of time and had gradually estranged him from many old classmates.

To be able to travel back to his youth and start over was something he couldn't have wished for more.

This time, he would definitely live a leisurely and carefree life, no more internal strife!

As if in response to this thought, a semi-transparent light screen flashed before Lu Yu.

[Leisurely Lay-Win System Binding Successful]

[Host: Lu Yu]

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

The standard equipment for a time-traveler, the golden finger has arrived!

Leisurely Lay-Win System, just the name sounds extraordinary.

His roommates were still around, Lu Yu concealed his inner ecstasy, feigned composure, and mentally clicked into the newbie tutorial.

[This system will support the host in choosing an area of interest to start a company.]

[However, developing a beloved career should be part of enjoying life. This system does not encourage the host to engage in endless internal strife and attrition.]

[During the company's project operation period, the host needs to be as happy as possible, avoiding fatigue and anything else that will deplete mental energy. For every leisurely and enjoyable thing the host does, the host will receive Leisure Points.]

[At the end of each project cycle, a settlement will be made. The system will convert the Leisure Points earned during this period into personal assets that the host can dispose of, according to a certain ratio.]

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

What? I'm not seeing things, right? Laying flat leisurely and enjoying life, and I can still get money?

Lu Yu was dumbfounded. Asking me to rack my brains and painstakingly scheme is indeed very difficult, but asking me to lay down, isn't that easy?

Just laze around and that's it!

The system light screen popped up again with a reminder:

[Laying flat is not the same as giving up on oneself and being a slacker. The host needs to operate the company normally and cannot engage in obvious, unreasonable acts of passive resistance. The system hopes that the host will not only lay down, but also win!]

[During the initial start-up of the company, the system will provide an initial start-up fund. The funds in the company's account can only be used for company operations, and the host cannot obtain any funds from the company account.]

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

Lu Yu suddenly understood. It seems that he can't completely slack off like a good-for-nothing. He still has to seriously maintain the company, otherwise, wouldn't it be a huge loss if the golden finger unbinds?

A prompt box for entering the company name popped up, and Lu Yu began to think.

First of all, in terms of career direction, he first considers the easiest and most skilled direction, not the most profitable one. After all, he can't get a penny from the money the company earns, but doing things that he can quickly get started with will save him from too much mental effort.

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

[Company Name: Peach Blossom Spring Technology Co., Ltd.]

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

The meaning is that no matter how the external game industry is turbulent and sparks fly, my Peach Blossom Spring small studio will stand still and be detached from the world.

After successful registration, the system continued to pop up a newbie prompt:

[It is necessary to remind the host to pay attention, this system has two major diminishing marginal effect rules]

[First, the more the enjoyment experience is unrelated to work and related to life, the more Leisure Points the host earns.

Conversely, the more the experience is related to work, the fewer points the host earns. If it is a purely work experience, then the points the host gets will approach 0 infinitely.]

[Second, the more times the same enjoyable thing is repeated in a short period of time, the more the Leisure Points earned will also have a diminishing marginal effect]

After reading the instructions, Lu Yu was stunned.

This system is something! It wants him to maintain the company's operation while giving up internal strife at work and enjoying life in different ways.

Since this is the case, he has initially set the company's development direction.

First of all, the company's business cannot develop too quickly.

Because according to the system rules, he can't get a penny from the company's account funds. No matter how much money the company makes, it has nothing to do with him. There is no point in him engaging in internal strife at work.

Conversely, if the company develops too fast, he will have more and more things to worry about, which naturally contradicts earning Leisure Points.

Secondly, the company's personnel size cannot expand too quickly.

Recruiting personnel and managing personnel are headaches. Even if he hires a personnel assistant and acts as a hands-off shopkeeper, he still has to keep an eye on things to prevent the company from going wrong.

He is not an alarmist.

As a veteran of ten years in the industry, he has personally seen that the founders of those game companies, in their early thirties, already have shiny bald heads, and are constantly fighting wits and courage with their employees, stabbing each other in the back.

Therefore, Lu Yu simply decided that Peach Blossom Spring Company would only have him as an employee, and then he would eat snacks and drink coke in the office every day to earn points, and occasionally come up with an independent game to earn some money to maintain the company's operation. Wouldn't that be great?

He felt that he had figured out the correct way to play the system, and was happily calculating when the light screen popped up again with a reminder:

[The company has been created. Next, a three-day system trial period will begin.]

[Trial Period Task: Recruit the first official employee for Peach Blossom Spring Company.]

[Task Rewards:]

[First, the system will officially bind the host.]

[Second, the system will settle the Leisure Points earned by the host during the trial period.]

[Third, the system will open a new function: If the company's employees feel happy, they will also earn Leisure Points for the host. The initial rebate ratio is 10%.]

[Consequences of Failure: The system will unbind from the host.]

Damn! It seems that the abacus beads accidentally hit the system's face, and the system will immediately sanction!

I was just thinking of laying flat happily by myself, but the trial period task is to recruit people!

Fortunately, after recruiting employees, the employees can also earn points for themselves, which is a consolation.

A rebate ratio of 10% means that for the same thing that makes people feel happy, 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. 0.1 points is also ten yuan.

[It is necessary to remind the host to pay attention, the host must not reveal the existence of the system to anyone, and must provide a salary no lower than the fair price of the human resources market when hiring employees.]

This reminder from the system is equivalent to blocking Lu Yu's way of cheating. In order to maintain the company's operation, the host cannot pull employees to cheat with low salaries.

...

Closing the system light screen, Lu Yu was no longer sleepy, and jumped out of bed.

Fatty Chu was now making do with a combination breakfast of Master Kong braised bowl noodles and Shuanghui ham sausage.

For the poor college students of this era, this kind of breakfast was enough to fill their stomachs and was delicious. To be more extravagant, they might add a small bag of Xiangbala braised eggs.

Lu Yu always felt that instant noodles were a magical thing. When they were first brewed, the aroma filling the room was enough to arouse cravings, but every time after eating them, he vowed in his heart that he would never eat them a second time in his life.

"Lu-ge, why did you get up so late today? This is not like you. I have to go to the library to grab a seat first, otherwise I won't be able to get a seat. Some ruthless people have already set up tents at the door the night before."

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

After all, there were too many students' needs. Those preparing for postgraduate entrance exams, civil service exams, preparing for graduation theses, and those taking IELTS and TOEFL for studying abroad all flocked to the library...

This year happened to be Lu Yu's senior year, and all kinds of people preparing resumes and written test questions also flocked to the library. Lu Yu and Chu Xiong originally wanted to go early to grab a seat to prepare to brush up on interview questions.

Getting up early was also a last resort. Many people grabbed seats too fiercely. In addition to setting up tents to stay up all night, some even rushed into the study room with a roll of toilet paper and rolled it on the table, occupying a whole row of seats at once.

In short, it was just one word, grind!

But this time Lu Yu gave up grabbing a seat. He wanted to try the effect of the system first.

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

Under the astonished gazes of his roommates, he left the dormitory directly.

Leaving the dormitory building, on the campus path, the crowd rushed towards the library in a dusty manner.

Lu Yu was like a retrograde, going against the current alone in the crowd, and came to the empty playground track.

The morning sun was just right, and the fragrance of grass permeated his nose. Lu Yu took a deep breath and ran a lap around the playground.

In college, his favorite sport was morning running.

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

Thyroid nodules, fatty liver, high blood pressure, gallstones, gout, cervical spondylosis, lumbar disc herniation...

The breeze brushed his face, he took a deep breath, and his complexion gradually became rosy.

After many years, he regained the feeling of a healthy body full of youthful energy, and he felt that his sense of control over life had returned!

After running a lap, the system popped up a prompt:

[Energetic morning run, Leisure Points +3]

Lu Yu was stunned, and then ecstatic in his heart. Just running a lap, 300 yuan is in his pocket?

Damn, this money is too easy to earn!

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

Studying away from home with limited conditions, unable to make his own tea, this kind of cheap, quick-made tea drink has also been his favorite for a long time.

His habit of drinking tea was inherited from his father.

His father was an old state-owned enterprise's hydropower engineer, who worked hard all his life, and his only hobby was tea tasting.

Even his name was taken by his father from the Tang Dynasty's tea saint Lu Yu.

In his father's words, the tea saint traveled around all his life, tasting tea and appraising water, discussing poetry and writing papers, living a free and easy life and being enlightened.

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

While reminiscing, he let the sweet drink moisten his throat.

[Having a bottle of your favorite green tea after exercise, Leisure Points +2]

He looked at the half-drunk drink in a daze. Another 200 yuan is in his pocket?

Then if I keep running around here and drinking drinks, can I keep swiping money?

However, when he ran another lap, he only got 1 point.

After running the third lap, he didn't earn any points. When he ran the fourth lap, he felt a little sore in his legs, and the system actually popped up a prompt:

[Excessive exercise, leading to fatigue, Leisure Points -1]

Damn, it can actually deduct points!

The system popped up a newbie prompt again:

[It is necessary to remind the host to pay attention, any experience that makes the host and employees feel physically and mentally tired will deduct the host's Leisure Points]

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

[The more fatigue is related to life, the less the system deducts points, the more fatigue is related to work, the more the system deducts points, with no upper limit]

Lu Yu immediately stopped running.

Thinking carefully, the human brain has a threshold for the degree of pleasure it feels from secreting dopamine for 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 has to experience more fresh things that make him feel physically and mentally happy.

"No problem, this system is always a good thing."

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

The question is, who to recruit?

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

Fatty Chu?

No, this guy is a complete grinder. Every time there is an exam, he often says that reviewing is useless and he will leave it to fate, and then secretly brushes up on questions in the quilt in the middle of the night.

According to the characteristics of the system, if the employee is too tired and grinds too much, it will deduct Lu Yu's points. If he recruits this fatty, no matter how many points he earns, it won't be enough to deduct.

It's best to recruit someone who knows game development and is not so much of a grinder...

Lu Yu sat on the lawn of the stadium, calculating idly, when suddenly a beautiful figure appeared in his field of vision.

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

Long hair cascaded down, partially obscuring her handsome profile, while the JK uniform accentuated her graceful figure.

Beneath the hem of her skirt, slightly translucent black silk stockings reflected a dark, glossy sheen in the sunlight.

A gentle breeze sweeping across the lawn carried the faint scent of grapefruit from her.

Lu Yu was slightly moved, a ripple forming in his heart.

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