384: Officially launched

In any case, the Secondhand Shop only made about a thousand yuan a day in profit, which was negligible to Ye Su.

Considering it might not be safe for the two girls to move at night, Ye Su waved his hand and gave Yu Jinle time off:

"I see there are no customers in the shop, so I'll give you a half-day off this afternoon. You two can go ahead and move if you need to."

"No need!" Yu Jinle quickly waved her hands in refusal. "We can just move at night; there's no need to close the shop specifically for this."

"Yeah!" Jiang Lingling chimed in anxiously. "I don't have that much stuff. Two suitcases and a storage box will be enough to pack everything. Once Jin Le gets off work, she can just come over and help me move."

"It's fine." Ye Su told them not to be embarrassed:

"The shop's rest hours basically don't align with the holidays of regular office workers."

"Since Jin Le started working here, I doubt she's had any time to hang out with friends. Just take the afternoon off; I don't want her bad-mouthing me behind my back for being a heartless boss."

Ye Su looked at Yu Jinle again. "So, what do you think? Do you want the afternoon off, or do you want to keep watching the shop?"

"Boss!" Yu Jinle stood up straight, just like a freshman during military training:

"Even if my body is on break, my heart will remain in the shop!"

"Spare me that act…" Ye Su ignored Yu Jinle's sycophantic and affected manner:

"I was originally going to treat you to afternoon tea, but now I can save that money."

Yu Jinle shamelessly reached out her hands. "It's fine, you can just give me the cash instead, Boss."

Ye Su slapped Yu Jinle's hand away. "You're really trying to take both the treat and the cash!"

Despite his complaining, Ye Su still took out his phone and sent Yu Jinle a red envelope of two hundred yuan:

"Since this is Lingling's first time at the shop, consider it a treat for you both to grab a meal. Just remember to come back and open the shop tomorrow morning."

Opening the red envelope and seeing the golden [200], Yu Jinle immediately expressed her loyalty to Ye Su with immense gratitude. "Don't worry, Boss, I'll die in this shop if I have to!"

"Uh…" Ye Su had black lines running down his forehead. "If you're going to die, please don't do it in my shop…"

Watching this scene, Jiang Lingling couldn't help but feel envious.

He gave time off whenever he wanted, handed out red envelopes at the drop of a hat, and the salary and benefits must be high too. Where could you find a boss like this!

Jiang Lingling secretly glanced at Ye Su again. Plus, he's so handsome. It would be great if I could find a boyfriend like him in the future.

"Alright, I'm heading off. Remember to lock the door later."

Yu Jinle vigorously patted her slightly underdeveloped chest. "Leave the shop to me, you can rest easy!"

"Looking at you, it's really hard for me to rest easy…"

After making a snide remark to Yu Jinle, Ye Su exchanged a few polite words with Jiang Lingling.

Seeing that she wasn't really a talkative person, Ye Su stopped and found an excuse to leave the Secondhand Shop.

Vroom—Just as he sat back in his car, before he could even start the engine, Ye Su's phone received a text message.

"When the phone rings, gold worth ten thousand taels appears."

Muttering to himself, Ye Su opened the text message and found that it was indeed a bank transfer notification.

[Industrial and Commercial Bank of China: Your card ending in 9539 received 1,000,000 yuan on June 19th at 14:29. The current balance is 18,674,121 yuan.]

"Another million. This must be the bonus from last time, right?"

The only thing that matched this amount was the bonus the relevant departments said they would give him for reporting the two [walking five hundred thousand] a few days ago.

Ding ding ding—Sure enough, not long after receiving the text, Ye Su received a call from the same number that had followed up with him a few days ago.

"Hello?"

"Yes."

"I have received the bonus."

"Okay, thank you."

After a brief conversation to confirm that the million-yuan bonus had arrived, Ye Su hung up the phone.

"The bonus has arrived, so I don't need to sell gold bars today."

Since he didn't need to go back to the rental apartment to get gold bars, Ye Su drove home, turned on his computer game, and killed time as a lonely young man.

Over the next two days, apart from running between Yan Ran and Chen Xinyi at night, Ye Su actually did some proper work during the day, constantly communicating with Yu Haoyang and the others about the launch and promotion of Firing at Spectres.

The only thing that made Ye Su feel depressed was that he hadn't guessed correctly on the Lucky Dice for the past two days.

In addition to the 1 million yuan bonus from reporting the [walking five hundred thousand], he also sold another 1,500 grams of gold at a price of 780 yuan per gram.

Now, there were only 3,000 grams of gold left in the safe, enough for Ye Su to play two more big games of Lucky Dice over the weekend.

"If there are no problems, let's launch on schedule."

"Great!"

At two o'clock on Saturday afternoon, the four of them, Ye Su included, were ready to go. After spending 60,000 yuan on promotion fees, they finally officially launched Firing at Spectres.

"Why is there no activity?!"

For the first few minutes, watching the number of online users in the backend remain at [0], the three impatient college students, Yu Haoyang and the others, were as anxious as ants on a hot pan.

They thought that all their efforts during this period, along with the money Ye Su had invested in them, had just gone down the drain.

In contrast, Ye Su, out of trust in the intel and the fact that it didn't matter even if the little money he invested was lost, remained calm and composed from beginning to end:

"No need to rush. We have to have confidence in our product. It's only been a few minutes; maybe people will come in a little while."

"Okay."

"We understand."

Ye Su's calm and composed demeanor also influenced Yu Haoyang and the others, making them less anxious than they were just a moment ago.

Just then, on the backend management system interface simultaneously opened on all four of their computer screens, the online user count, which had been at [0], quickly jumped several times and shot straight to [41].

Immediately after, the number of online users and the cumulative number of online users began to soar like a rocket.

"People are coming!"

"Look, people are really coming!"

Seeing the number of online players quickly break into triple digits, Yu Haoyang and the others shouted excitedly, causing several other students in the startup base to look over at them.

"Calm down." Seeing this, Ye Su quickly signaled the three of them to sit back down in their chairs.

"Okay!"

The three of them also realized their lack of composure and immediately returned to their seats.

Gong Xiujie, who was mainly responsible for backend work, also switched his computer to the server management interface, keeping an eye on server load to prevent any chain-dropping at such a critical moment.

Fortunately, Ye Su was willing to invest money in the early stages, and Yu Haoyang and the others had optimized it well.

Seeing that the number of online users had already broken into four digits, the server was still under no pressure.

After the number of online users broke into four digits, the advertising revenue from the open platform finally started to tick up.

Although it was only a few yuan, it almost made Duan Qianwei cry with excitement.

"Alright, it seems that hiring influencers for promotion is starting to have an effect. Let's buy traffic now."

"Okay!"

During this time, Yu Haoyang and the others had learned some relevant experience in operations. Now, acting as operations staff, they took the 100,000 yuan in traffic investment funds provided by Ye Su and began to buy traffic for the game based on the data fed back from the backend.