161: Just this much

Sun Youan was dumbfounded when he received Qian Ziyong's call requesting another floor.

One floor is 2,000 square meters, so three floors would be 6,000 square meters.

Qian Ziyong said his company only had 200 people.

That's an average of 30 square meters per person.

He knew that his office building didn't have any 'common area' deductions; the stated area was the actual, solid area.

An average of 30 square meters per person—even ordinary commercial housing in Shen City isn't that luxurious!

However, since Qian Ziyong wanted it, Sun Youan naturally agreed.

"Brother Qian, aren't you being a bit too considerate of my business?"

"Are you perhaps aware that business at my Jinlong International Building isn't good, which is why you're deliberately renting more?" Sun Youan joked.

Qian Ziyong shook his head: "No, it's genuinely not enough space!"

"Instead of saying I'm helping your business, it's more like I'm taking advantage of you."

"How about we still rent at 400 per square meter?"

"Get lost!" Sun Youan laughed and cursed, then hung up the phone.

Qian Ziyong shook his head helplessly. He took Feng Jingyi down another floor, still using the stairs.

"Oh, right," Qian Ziyong said, "Since all three of our floors are connected,"

"employees might not like waiting for elevators, so let's renovate the staircase as well."

"It doesn't need to be too luxurious; 500,000 should be enough for the renovation."

Feng Jingyi: "..."

Looking at the words "Safety Exit" on the wall, Feng Jingyi said, "This staircase is for public use; it can't be made exclusive."

"We can't prevent other people from using the stairs."

After all, it's a safety escape route; anyone who dares to occupy it privately would be clearly breaking the law.

Qian Ziyong nodded: "I know the staircase isn't exclusive to the company, but our company will definitely use these two floors of stairs the most."

"If we renovate it well, our employees will also be in a good mood."

If the stairs are so nice, employees will surely enjoy running up and down.

As long as it's not doing actual work, anything is fine.

Upon arriving at the third floor, Qian Ziyong found that it had already been quite well renovated.

Qian Ziyong nodded: "This can be used temporarily by employees. Once the two floors above are renovated, we'll renovate this one."

"I'll give you the design plan first. Remember it well. I might not have time to come over later, so just renovate according to what I tell you."

Feng Jingyi opened her notebook and began to record.

"The card room, audio-visual room, gym, meeting rooms, and lounge that I just mentioned must all be present, and they must be large!" Qian Ziyong said.

Feng Jingyi nodded: "No problem. If 2,000 square meters are not used for office space, but only for these, then..."

"Each room can reach 200 square meters!"

200 square meters?

The same size as his large flat?

Not bad!

Qian Ziyong was very satisfied.

However, this seemed to only occupy 1,000 square meters. How should the remaining 1,000 square meters be utilized?

Qian Ziyong thought for a moment and said, "Let's add a pet room so employees can bring their cats and dogs to play."

"O-okay." Feng Jingyi was somewhat speechless.

This was too outrageous.

Bringing pets to work?

What if they barked or meowed loudly?

"Oh, right, the pet room needs to be soundproofed and have partitions. Different pets should have different cages."

"There should also be pet toys, and I will specifically hire someone to take care of these pets."

Qian Ziyong said.

Feng Jingyi was completely at a loss for words.

Are you opening a company or a pet shop?

With this setup, you could just get a pet-related business license and open immediately!

"Okay, are there any other requirements?" Feng Jingyi asked.

Even with the addition of a pet room, there was still a lot of empty space on this floor.

Qian Ziyong lowered his head and thought for a while, genuinely unable to think of anything else that was missing.

So he asked, "You're the designer, what do you think my company is still missing?"

Feng Jingyi joked, "Everything is complete!"

"If you hadn't built workstations upstairs, I'd suspect employees weren't coming to work, but to vacation."

"If you plant some flowers and plants, this place will truly become a vacation resort, and I wouldn't be able to resist coming to check in."

Hearing "flowers and plants," Qian Ziyong's eyes lit up.

"Right! It's still missing some green plants and fresh flowers."

Qian Ziyong walked to the window and pointed to a large open space, saying, "Aside from what I just mentioned, plant flowers throughout the remaining area on this floor."

"I want to create a huge garden here."

"Hmm... not only that, but also build an oversized fish pond here and put plenty of fish in it."

"So employees can fish here in their free time."

As the saying goes, 'mō yú' (slacking off, literally 'touching fish'), how can you 'touch fish' without fish?

"Ah?" Feng Jingyi's mouth fell open.

Why didn't you say build a swimming pool?

He's actually building a fishing area inside the company!

Which company is this outrageous?

Fishing takes a long time, and most importantly, requires patience.

How long would it take an employee to catch one fish here?

Are they going to work or not?

"Okay!" Qian Ziyong was the golden patron, so Feng Jingyi naturally had no reason to object.

However, in her heart, Feng Jingyi had already concluded that this so-called gaming company probably wouldn't last three months.

At most, it would die out in two months.

If she could, Feng Jingyi even wanted to come work here.

Not for anything else, but just to have a paid vacation at this bizarre company.

Qian Ziyong wandered around again, thought for a bit, and felt that there was indeed nothing else needed.

So he said, "Calculate roughly how much it will cost."

Only when the designer takes measurements and draws all the design plans can the exact cost be accurately calculated.

But an experienced designer can also estimate a rough price.

Feng Jingyi began calculating on her computer, estimating for a full half hour before she roughly came up with a figure.

"Boss Qian, for the 18th floor office area, solely for office use, each workstation is approximately 2,000."

"200 workstations would be about 400,000."

Before Feng Jingyi could finish, Qian Ziyong frowned: "That cheap?"

"That's too little. Replace all the office lights for me. Besides the corridor lighting, every workstation must have a light fixture costing no less than 10,000!"

"Okay." Feng Jingyi nodded, "Then the entire 18th floor renovation will be 2.4 million."

"Each restroom on the 17th floor is 100,000, plus the corridor, that will require approximately 21 million!"

Qian Ziyong frowned again, thinking it was too little, but he didn't say anything.

Feng Jingyi continued, "The 16th floor, being various functional rooms, doesn't have high renovation costs; the main expense is for the equipment."

Qian Ziyong said, "You don't need to be so detailed. All equipment must be top-tier brands. How much will that be?"

Feng Jingyi immediately lowered her head, calculated, and said, "It will cost around 8 million."

Wouldn't that mean the total is just a little over 30 million?

"That's too little!" Qian Ziyong paced anxiously around the room, thinking about where else he could spend more money.

Oh, right, computers and office desks weren't included!

However, Qian Ziyong didn't plan to let Feng Jingyi help him purchase those, mainly because she was too reluctant to spend money!

It was better to first consider how to spend more on the renovation, as that was Feng Jingyi's specialty.