My son is a reincarnated soul; I overheard his inner thoughts and became the richest man.

The membership recharge event was even more successful than Chen Feng had anticipated.

In just one day, the number of new members at the Laojiekou store and the pedestrian street flagship store combined exceeded one hundred.

At first, most people only tentatively recharged a hundred or two. But as word spread that the three "guests"—Brother Qiang and his group—were spending lavishly, the tide turned.

The line Chen Feng added to the signboard at the last minute, "Recharge 1,000 and get 300 free," became the real trump card.

The calculation is simple: recharge 500 and get 100 free; recharge 500 twice and get 200 free. But if you recharge 1000 directly, you get an extra 100 free!

For those with money in their pockets and a strong addiction, this calculation is crystal clear. Since they're already willing to spend 500, they might as well grit their teeth and spend 1000; the benefits are obvious.

As a result, a magical scene unfolded at the cashier: there were more people queuing up with thick stacks of bills than people topping up with small amounts of cash.

Chen Feng sat in his office, looking at the bill for that evening, forgetting to even smoke the cigarette he was holding.

The amount recharged in just one day reached more than 40,000 yuan!

This isn't just an internet cafe, it's practically a mini-bank!

In the days that followed, the enthusiasm for topping up did not subside.

On the contrary, the convenience of the membership system—no need to queue for checkout, easy balance check, and cross-store applicability—has attracted more repeat customers.

The speed at which funds are recovered is astonishing.

In just ten days.

Chen Feng looked at the mountain of cash piled up in the safe and the string of heart-pounding numbers on the passbook, and took a deep breath.

Five hundred thousand!

After deducting the normal operating revenue of the two stores, the remaining half is all the money prepaid by members.

With food in hand, Chen Feng's courage swelled again.

He called Sun Qian directly.

"Bring the contract to the pedestrian street store; I want to add to my order."

When Sun Qian rushed over and heard the number Chen Feng reported, she almost collapsed to the ground.

"One...one hundred and ten units?!"

With the addition of the seventy machines for which the final payment has not yet been settled, the number of machines in the pedestrian street will soar to one hundred and eighty!

"Brother Chen, you've taken too big a step..."

Although Sun Qian coveted the huge commission, she also felt a little uneasy.

If the cash flow runs out, she, the store manager, might have to jump off a building.

"Same as always, half deposit, balance due in one month."

Chen Feng slammed a black plastic bag containing over 200,000 yuan in cash onto the table. "Here's the money. Dare to take it?"

Looking at the bag of real gold and silver, Sun Qian gritted her teeth.

To be able to produce so much cash in just ten days, Chen Feng's strength is unfathomable.

"I'll take it! As long as you say the word, Brother Chen, I'll take it!"

......

With the arrival of these 110 new machines, the flagship store on the pedestrian street has become a money-devouring behemoth.

The hall, which is over 300 square meters, is filled with the glow of computer screens.

Although the seats have become much more crowded, who cares about spaciousness these days? As long as there's a machine to play games, that's paradise.

Moreover, this is a pedestrian street, a notorious den of iniquity in Linjiang City.

The people who come here have a much higher spending power than those in the old street area.

Drinks that cost three to five yuan a bottle were sold by the case.

A bowl of instant noodles costs five yuan, and they can sell hundreds of bowls a day.

Except for a slightly lower availability from 8 to 10 in the morning and 3 or 4 in the morning, the availability of the 180 machines remains consistently above 80% at other times.

Even if you book an entire night, it can still be half full.

There's nothing we can do about it; the base number is too large, and it's impossible to be packed every day like before.

Even so, with this scale effect, Chen Feng's daily net income is still a staggering figure.

Two stores, with a total of more than 340 computers.

Not counting the money recharged, the daily cash flow and deductions alone can reach 25,000 to 26,000!

By the weekend, the number had surpassed 30,000!

Thirty thousand a day!

Chen Xiaotian sat in the chair, watching his father count money until his hands cramped every day, and felt a pang of emotion.

[The snowball effect has finally taken off! 30,000 a day, that's 900,000 a month—that's the power of capital!]

Another week has passed.

Seeing that there was still some space available at the pedestrian street store, Chen Feng's obsessive-compulsive disorder kicked in, and he asked Sun Qian to order another sixty units.

At this point, the flagship store on the pedestrian street was completely filled, with a total of 240 machines.

Chen Feng's daily income has stabilized at around 30,000 yuan, and can even reach 40,000 yuan on weekends!

Of course, the cost is also enormous.

Chen Feng's outstanding payment to Sun Qian's computer company has accumulated to a staggering 1.2 million yuan.

This is a number that could scare an ordinary person to death, and could also keep Sun Qian awake at night.

But Chen Feng wasn't flustered at all.

When the one-month deadline arrived, he took his money bag and went to settle the remaining payment for the first batch of seventy computers.

The moment she received the money, Sun Qian breathed a sigh of relief, looking at Chen Feng as if he were a god of wealth descending to earth.

With this record of keeping her promise, Sun Qian stopped pressing for the remaining 900,000 yuan.

For the next two weeks, Chen Feng was like a precise repayment machine.

Every few days, a large sum of money would be deposited into the computer company's account.

When all the remaining payments were settled, Chen Feng looked at his empty account, but at the two internet cafes that were entirely his own, with a total of more than 400 computers, and felt an unprecedented sense of security.

Debt free.

From today onwards, this daily turnover of 30,000 to 40,000 is pure profit!

"Making a fortune every day" is no longer just an adjective; it's a true reflection of Chen Feng's life.

He even took some time to go to the bank and redeemed the old house he had mortgaged in less than two days with the money he had earned.

Looking at the property certificate he had just recovered, Chen Feng casually tossed it into the corner of the drawer.

The house he once treasured is now nothing more than a drop in the ocean to him.

With money, people's ambitions will naturally continue to grow.

Chen Feng began to consider whether to open a third store.

He drove his newly bought secondhand Santana around the streets and alleys of Linjiang City for several days.

But he discovered a problem.

People who followed suit arrived.

In just a few months, a number of new internet cafes have sprung up in Linjiang City.

Although most of them are small-scale "computer rooms" with a dozen or twenty machines, the environment is dirty and messy.

But the sheer number of them is overwhelming.

Moreover, in order to grab business, some small business owners have already started to engage in price wars.

The original price of five yuan per hour, which was always fixed, has been secretly reduced to four yuan and fifty cents, or even four yuan, in some remote shops.

Chen Feng sat in the car, looking at a newly opened "Extreme Speed ​​Internet Cafe" on the roadside, his brows furrowing slightly.

This is not a good sign.

The market is only so big, and it's not saturated yet, so everyone can still make a profit.

But if this pace of development continues, vicious competition is inevitable sooner or later.

If you blindly open another large store, you may not be able to make as much profit as the previous two.

In the passenger seat, Chen Xiaotian was slurping a bottle of yogurt, looking out the window at his competitors.

[Dad's intuition was pretty accurate; the internet cafe business has low barriers to entry, so anyone can get in and get a piece of the pie.]

While the current period of high returns hasn't ended, relying solely on "building up machines" to make money will become increasingly inefficient.

Moreover, once a price war starts, it's a bottomless pit.

It seems it's time to change our thinking. Simply opening internet cafes is just initial capital accumulation; the real future lies in the internet, in game distribution, in...

However, while these small internet cafes are annoying right now, they also present an opportunity. Now that they're up and running, they must need a management system, right?

[Zhao Kai's software is now our exclusive secret. If we give this system to them for free... hehe, wouldn't all the internet cafes in the city become our downstream providers?]

As Chen Feng listened to his son's plans, his tightly furrowed brows slowly relaxed.

Price war?

That's a trick only low-level players use.

Since you want to get in, I'll give you a "ladder".

However, where this ladder ultimately leads is up to me to decide.