Chapter 119: The System Has a Bug

Chen Mo turned his head and glanced at Zhang Lan, speaking calmly.

“It was two bottles of red wine.”

Upon hearing this, Zhang Lan couldn’t help but feel a wave of exasperation.

After arriving at the dormitory building and greeting the dorm supervisor, she helped Chen Mo carry Shen Rou inside.

Once Shen Rou was settled on the bed, Chen Mo stood up and looked at Zhang Lan.

“I’ll leave her to you. When she wakes up tomorrow, let her know—if she’s not feeling well, she doesn’t need to come to work. Just give her the day off.”

“Got it. Thank you,” Zhang Lan said, expressing her gratitude.

Although Shen Rou had gotten drunk during a company dinner, the fact that the company boss had personally carried her back to her dorm was already incredibly rare.

…

The next morning.

Chen Mo stared at the real-time backend data of Tianlong sent to him by Cangxue Games, and his entire expression darkened.

Last night, after hearing Fang Chang say that Tianlong had earned 300,000, he switched the beer to red wine and spent most of it, thinking that today he could finish off the remaining funds by giving bonuses to the employees who had contributed to Tianlong’s reform.

So this morning, he instructed Cangxue Games to send him real-time data from Tianlong. He planned to calculate the bonus amounts based on the revenue from yesterday to today.

But to his shock, Tianlong’s account balance had already reached over 900,000.

And if he included the 300,000 spent yesterday, that meant Tianlong had earned over 1.2 million in just over a day.

But that wasn’t even the worst part.

What really stumped him was that Tianlong’s revenue was still increasing.

At this rate, even if he burned through the current 900,000, the continuously growing revenue would still make it impossible for him to succeed in the system’s settlement.

In other words, no matter how he spent the money, he wouldn’t be able to complete the settlement and receive the full 8 million system reward.

At that moment, Chen Mo focused his mind on the system interface.

“System, your system has a bug. Based on your current settlement rules and my company’s current revenue, it’s completely impossible for me to succeed and receive the full system reward.”

“I need an explanation!”

【System is analyzing host’s current revenue, please wait!】

【Analysis complete. Based on the current conversion rules, the host’s enterprise revenue indeed prevents full conversion of system funds. To uphold fairness and justice, the system is updating.】

【System update complete. Please check the current settlement rules.】

Settlement Rule 1: If remaining system funds are less than 1% of the total, full conversion is allowed.

Settlement Rule 2: If remaining system funds are below 50%, 1% of the consumed funds can be converted.

Settlement Rule 3: If remaining system funds are over 50%, 0.1% of the consumed funds can be converted.

(Example: 8 million system funds)

Rule 1: If less than 80,000 remain, full conversion is allowed.

Rule 2: If under 4 million remain, e.g., 2 million left → (8M – 2M = 6M) × 1% = 60,000.

Rule 3: If more than 4 million remain, e.g., 6 million left → (8M – 6M = 2M) × 0.1% = 2,000.
Chen Mo looked at the updated rules and realized that now, to fully convert the system funds, he just needed to spend it down to under 80,000.

Definitely a bit easier than the previous 8,000.

Seeing this new rule instantly reignited Chen Mo’s motivation.

With that thought, he quickly called Fang Chang to ask how many people had participated in the Tianlong reform, and what positions they held.

“President Chen, why are you asking about the reform personnel?” Fang Chang asked, a bit puzzled.

“The Tianlong reform was a big success, and everyone’s effort was crucial. I’m planning to issue project bonuses,” Chen Mo responded swiftly. He needed to tally the numbers and distribute the bonuses as soon as possible.

But just as he was thinking about the bonuses, the system issued a reminder:

Bonuses could be issued, but must not exceed 30% of the project’s profit. Bonus amounts must also be reasonably allocated based on employee rank.

As for the 30% cap—Tianlong had earned roughly 3 million so far, so Chen Mo could allocate up to 900,000 in bonuses.

He looked at the current system funds—just over 940,000. If he used 900,000 for bonuses, only a little over 40,000 would be left.

That would be enough to meet the full conversion condition.

But there were still 3 hours left until the noon settlement deadline, and Tianlong’s revenue was still climbing.

If revenue increased by more than 40,000 in those three hours, his settlement would fail.

But there wasn’t much else he could do. After all, he still had to calculate bonus distributions and notify finance to transfer the payments in time.

Before long, Fang Chang sent him the list of personnel involved in the Tianlong reform.

A total of 43 people, including Wei Yan, Fang Chang, and Zhao Bowen as department managers or above, plus 4 team leaders and 36 team members.

Chen Mo did a quick distribution: 100,000 each to the 3 higher-ups, and 50,000 each to the 4 team leaders.

That accounted for 500,000, leaving 400,000 for the remaining 36 team members to split equally.

He pulled out a calculator—400,000 ÷ 36 wasn’t clean. It came out to 1111.11…

He wasn’t about to stress over a better distribution method, so he just left it at that.

1,111.11 yuan each—it would do.

With that, Chen Mo immediately called the finance department. To save time, he didn’t even let Shen Rou handle it.

Time was of the essence—if the transfers weren’t completed before the system settled, all his effort would go to waste.

Once the call connected, he quickly relayed all his instructions to finance and made it clear that the project bonuses had to be deposited into employee accounts before noon.

After taking care of everything, Chen Mo finally let out a sigh of relief and collapsed into his chair.

All this in such a short span of time had drained him. For the first time, he realized—spending money could be exhausting.

Before long,

Chen Mo sensed something was off in the office. When he turned his head, he saw Shen Rou staring at him with a look of grievance.

“President Chen, I’m really fine. The red wine just hit a bit hard yesterday, but I was totally okay by this morning. So handling notifications and stuff like this—I could’ve done it,” she said softly.

Chen Mo had been so worried about her that he wore himself out this morning and didn’t give her any work.

“Oh. I’ll give you something to do in a bit,” Chen Mo replied a little awkwardly, then refocused his attention on the system panel—he needed to keep a close eye on the system fund balance.