Forcing Me to Be Reborn?!-Chapter 223 - 192 Keeping a Mistress
Chapter 223: Chapter 192: Keeping a Mistress
Chapter 223: Chapter 192: Keeping a Mistress
Chen Jieyu did a search and, surprisingly, found some information related to financial patronage.
But most of it was about teachers providing for students, hardly any about students providing for teachers.
What’s more ridiculous is that she was originally searching for news, yet somehow she stumbled across several posts about Little Imperial Uncle…
However, on second thought, it made sense that patronage usually involved an older person providing for someone younger.
It was rare to see the younger ones providing for the older ones.
Especially at the student phase.
If they had the means, they definitely wouldn’t lack girlfriends.
“So this guy is morally loose, and his mouth has no filter, yet he could come up with such words to threaten people.”
Chen Jieyu muttered to herself with a slightly serious expression, as if she was doing reading comprehension with her language teacher, taking it seriously as if she was dissecting the issue.
What she didn’t expect was that, just then, Cheng Zhu sent her a WeChat message.
“Is this thing about Professor Li true or not?” He was actually gossiping.
Once these things start to spread, schools can’t keep them under wraps, and it had already started to circulate on a small scale.
Cheng Zhu was really pissed off!
Damn, his limelight and popularity were being overshadowed by this old guy!
Motherfucker, everybody was busy discussing his refusal to sell his store for 4 million yuan, generating buzz for Youu Come to Play.
And now, this old guy snatched away most of the attention!
Incomparable, indeed incomparable.
The only two talking points about our book were being young and successful, a freshman and a campus celebrity, and the astonishing number of 4 million yuan.
But look at this incident – a professor providing for a student, that’s explosive stuff, right?
The figure of 5000 yuan just blew up the discussion index.
The forums are nearly fighting over it!
Some people say 5000 yuan couldn’t possibly be enough to provide for a female college student.
Others insist why not 5000 yuan, there’s even less!
And even more absurd, this girl was secretly taken care of, yet she sneaked around with a boyfriend, leading a secret love affair and not exposing their relationship status.
It was like a whole new way of cheating with two boats at once.
The love triangle exploded in topic discussion.
This irked Cheng Zhu, feeling like his efforts to show off weren’t going smoothly!
Chen Jieyu looked at his WeChat message and simply replied, “Not very clear.”
Previously, when she and Cheng Zhu had dined at the barbecue restaurant, she had felt he was somewhat underhanded.
Now, seeing his strong interest and curiosity about this incident, she felt even more that he was a bad egg.
Then Cheng Zhu replied to her message, “Fine, if you’re unclear then never mind. Seriously, this incident has completely overshadowed my hype!”
“4 million yuan loses to 5000!” Cheng Zhu couldn’t help but complain.
But Chen Jieyu replied, “This incident also made me realize how intimidating that threat you made when you lent me money was.”
Cheng Zhu sent back an emoji of a husky pointing with its finger, with a caption, “Good that you understand.”
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Two days flashed by.
During these two days, Cheng Zhu met another person interested in buying Youu Come to Play.
The person offered 4.2 million yuan, but Cheng Zhu estimated their bottom line was around 4.5 million yuan, definitely no more than 5 million yuan, not even close to Xu Shao.
Over these few days, Xu Shao also contacted Cheng Zhu via WeChat once, asking how he was considering the offer.
Cheng Zhu replied directly, “Someone offered more than you, and I haven’t agreed.”
Xu Shao believed him.
He had his own social circle in Hang City, where Youu Come to Play was too popular, with some of his friends also paying attention to the store, and a few were even quite tempted.
Recently, he had dinner with contacts in his investment circle.
An uncle-like figure told him that he saw potential in the store and believed many in the investment circle saw its potential as well.
But, if you take over, everyone will certainly have an observation period.
This observation period won’t be too short nor too long, roughly around a month.
After this period, you’d have no trouble raising funds.
If Cheng Zhu heard these words, he would have understood the implications clearly.
For investors, what they’re investing in isn’t just the project… it’s the person!
This is why some talented individuals could still find investors after several failures, to help them stand back up.
Some could pull in staggering amounts of investment just based on their name.
— Because projects need people to carry them out.
Cheng Zhu’s store was successful due to its own advantages and uniqueness.
But it couldn’t have been done without his approach to online marketing and his initial direction for celebrity check-ins.
Simply put, if Cheng Zhu himself were to go to the investment circle to raise funds, he might easily succeed.
Because he had proven the project and himself.
But Xu Shao was different; he was just a fall guy.
Our money doesn’t grow on trees, right?
We’ll observe you, see if you’re reliable; that’s not too much, is it?
But when Xu Shao heard this, he interpreted it differently!
The message he received was: It seems not difficult to get financing for this store!
In Xu Shao’s situation, many would likely have the same thoughts.
So, Xu Shao concluded,
“If I take over this store, I’ll almost be out of cash.”
“Then, there are two paths.”
“One is to ask for money from home, then open a franchise.”
“But whether my family will support it, can’t really say. If you’re really going to franchise, it’s best not to do it one by one, which has no benefits, but to open several in multiple cities all at once!”
“My line of thought is definitely the right one. But this would require a large amount of money.”
“The other path is financing.”
“Looking at it now, both paths are viable; if my family won’t support me, then I’ll just finance it myself and work hard!”
He was now starting to persuade himself.
Buying the first store does require several million.
But when I invest in opening the second franchise, it only requires tens of thousands in cost, ah ah!
But these tens of thousands could potentially bring in millions of revenue!
Xu Shao was actually quite anxious.
Overall, buying Youu Come to Play, the sooner the better.
But he reminded himself that especially at times like this, one must stay calm and continue to grind with Cheng Zhu!
How to say it, deep down he definitely didn’t like Cheng Zhu and hated this man competing with him for Qiqi!
He really didn’t want to give him so much money. If he could pay less, then even better.
“Besides, isn’t his game project very short on cash? He’s got to be in a hurry.”
“When people are short on cash, it’s like this, as expenses continue, the more you delay, the more you’re short of cash, the bigger the hole!”
“Now it’s all about psychological tactics!”
“Stay steady, I’ve got to hold steady!”
Little did he know that Cheng Zhu wasn’t hurried at all.
I can make several tens of thousands a day with Persistent Visit and Youu Come to Play, why the hell would I rush?
Xu Shao thought he was playing mind games with him.
Little did he know that there wasn’t even a person sitting opposite him on his chess board!
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Over at Star City, Wu Yuzhou’s perfume store had closed its doors a few days ago.
He left that place where he had failed in his business venture, filled with melancholy.
Of course, he felt he gained something out of it.
His biggest takeaway from this period was understanding the business warfare in the perfume industry from Cheng Zhu!
This opened up some new perspectives for him.
He believed he would rise again one day!
The entire store was now surrounded by barriers, and the construction team was already on-site, starting the demolition.
The designer Xia Liang had been rushing the construction drawings over the past few days.
Once the drawings were completed, he would then be responsible for designing paper bags, straws, cups, tissues, and more for the milk tea store.
Speaking of which, everyone was busy aiming for efficiency!
Even Persistent Visit had been extremely busy lately.
The studio has been bustling, with the Taobao store’s business growing day by day, now firmly seated as the No. 1 in its category, unchallenged!
The overseas sales were just starting, but there were many small tasks to handle.
Even Ye Zi was keeping continuously busy.
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Don’t forget, she and the Sino-French mixed Liu Jiani had made a deal.
Liu Jiani brought out her foreign girlfriend as a model, and didn’t charge a penny for it.
The catch was that she found the sellers’ photoshoots fascinating and wanted Ye Zi to take pictures of her, almost like shooting a photo album.
This kept Ye Zi’s shooting schedule quite packed, hardly ever taking a break, staying at different hotels in Hang City every day.
Of course, during the photoshoot, Liu Jiani definitely had some ulterior motives.
This lady who self-introduced herself as having a 75E bust certainly hasn’t given up hope on Ye Zi.
What’s even more outrageous is that this mature lady also often chats with Cheng Zhu, extensively discussing her philosophy in fashion design.
During the conversations, she’d also mix in all sorts of flirtatious comments.
Cheng Zhu found it somewhat interesting; after being metaphorically run over by her car a few times, he occasionally returned the favor.
In this back-and-forth, they actually got to know each other quite well.
He started to seriously suspect: “This bisexual mixed-race woman, she’s not planning to woo Ye Zi with her left hand and woo me with her right hand, is she?”
Suddenly, even the experienced him was a bit unsure: Am I actually earning or losing from this?
Or was this actually what they call a win-win?
After all, she was a mixed-race 75E, which always gave the impression this wasn’t a loss.
With Ye Zi’s efficient photography and Hu Yan’s fast drawing, as of now, they had launched 9 products on the cross-border e-commerce platform.
Over the next bunch of products, they would gradually introduce new items.
Cheng Zhu planned to start throwing in money next week to commence operations.
At the same time, to show his foreign counterparts what the hell it meant to bring down global QQ lingerie prices!
After being busy in the Persistent Visit workshop for a couple of hours, Cheng Zhu was ready to leave.
Just as he was about to get up, his WeChat buzzed.
He opened it and was slightly stunned.
He received a WeChat message from his high school classmate and fellow alumni of Technology University, Luo Xi.
Yes, that petite girl who had a crush on him in high school.
She contacted Cheng Zhu not for herself, but to act as a matchmaker for someone else.
“Yue Lingjing is interested in Youu Come to Play and wants to talk to me about buying the store?”
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(ps: Second release, asking for monthly votes.)
