As a breeze swept by, the shadows rippled.
Qi Sheng said with some lingering fear, “I thought the Boss was going to start a fight just now. Scared me to death!”
Su Ye was dissatisfied. “I’m not the one who knows how to fight, right, Ah Huan?”
The person who was suddenly caught in the crossfire had an expression of pure bewilderment.
Lin Wanjia laughed. “She wouldn’t. She’s more of a coward than anyone.”
Su Ye was even more offended, her voice turning soft and whiny. “Hey—Wanjia-jie! You’re mean!”
“Oh? Really?” Lin Wanjia’s tone became teasingly dangerous.
“…I was wrong!” Su Ye immediately folded.
Except for Little Su, everyone burst into hearty laughter. Their shadows trembled with the laughter, gradually merging into one big, round silhouette that covered them all.
Only a few dissatisfied but ignored “Heys” poked out from the shadows before they, too, turned into laughter.
“Tomorrow, tomorrow, it’s tomorrow!” Su Ye held a thick notebook, hopping on one leg into Lin Wanjia’s courtyard. “Wanjia-jie, it’s tomorrow! The people from Qining Group are coming tomorrow!”
Lin Wanjia was snacking on melon seeds and flipping through a book. She said nonchalantly, “They aren’t resting even for National Day?”
“Jie! That’s a narrow way of thinking! Aren’t holidays the best time to do business? I checked the almanac, and tomorrow is an auspicious day! Hehe, whoever picked this date really has good taste.”
Lin Wanjia laughed even harder. “You little unlucky charm. Instead of preparing properly, why are you flipping through an almanac? Is the proposal ready? Let me see.”
“I can show you, but you have to answer one question first.”
The woman propped her head on her hand, looking at her with a gentle smile. “Go ahead.”
“Jie! Just how high is the position of that friend of yours in Qining Group?”
Lin Wanjia raised an eyebrow. “Looking to go through the back door?”
If Su Ye had developed the idea of taking shortcuts now that everything was ready, Lin Wanjia would consider withdrawing her decision and looking for someone else in An City. However, she believed in Su Ye, because she believed in her own eyes and judgment.
The girl shook her head slightly. “I just wanted to quietly find out… if the person talking to them is in a wheelchair, will they turn around and leave like that joint-venture factory did? Ah Huan won’t let me use crutches; she says it’s the last week, and once I get through it, everything will be fine.”
Lin Wanjia smiled helplessly and shook her head. “Only you would think about something like this the night before a bid.”
She knew she hadn’t misjudged her.
Su Ye leaned against her thick notebook, resting her chin on her arms, staring at Lin Wanjia.
“What now?”
“I’m thinking if I can settle this before the baby is born.”
Lin Wanjia’s hand flipping the pages paused. “Why? Don’t want to miss seeing her for the first time?”
“I want to give her a gift, a very big gift,” the girl said seriously, her expression solemn. “This gift… only I can give it to her.”
However, that gift wasn’t actually given in 1998. It wasn’t because anything went wrong, but because they were all too busy. One thing followed another, and by the time they thought about giving the gift, they had each moved to different cities.
It wasn’t until Lin Youle knocked on Everguest’s door in Ye City that the matter of the gift got back on track.
But that was a story for later. For now, Lin Wanjia acted as if she hadn’t heard and flipped another page before saying, “You’ve given enough.”
“Don’t put too much pressure on yourself. Meet those people tomorrow and talk slowly. Remember to state your advantages and strengths clearly. Try to avoid your weaknesses, and especially introduce your innovations in warehousing. That’s what an enterprise coming from afar needs most.”
“But Jie, shouldn’t they care more about logistics? No matter how important warehousing innovation is, if the goods take a long time to arrive or can’t be delivered on time, it’ll be a loss for them, right?”
Lin Wanjia closed her book and gently pressed the girl’s head. “Then here’s the question: is logistics something you can solve?”
“No.”
“Exactly. So, you only need to show a solution for the problems you can solve. Ensure your plan is brilliant enough to address the company’s urgent needs. Only then will they prioritize a newcomer like you.”
Su Ye gave a soft “oh” and lay there for a while longer. She then asked, seemingly unintentionally, “Why is their problem a warehousing problem?”
“Take a guess~”
Failing to fish for information, the girl wrinkled her nose. “Mean! I’m going back then, Jie. Wait for my good news.”
The girl hopped twice, then suddenly remembered something. She turned around, hands on her hips while holding the notebook, and gave a cheeky grin. “Jie, look at me!”
Lin Wanjia looked over curiously.
The girl puffed out her chest proudly, the corners of her mouth lifting as she said firmly and loudly, “I will definitely succeed!”
Lin Wanjia couldn’t help but smile.
But the girl didn’t get annoyed at her smile this time. Instead, she patted her own chest. “Jie, no matter how good your relationship is with that friend in Qining Group, I will be even more amazing, even stronger. I will surpass that friend of yours. I want to become your pride.” After saying that, she gave a heavy “Mhm” to cheer herself up.
Without waiting for the woman’s response, she hopped away.
Watching that vivid and nimble figure leave, Lin Wanjia couldn’t help but stroke her increasingly round belly. After a long while, she let out a sigh with a smile.
This child, really!
She definitely can do it.
But…
About half an hour later, a call came through to Lin Wanjia’s phone.
She knitted her brows and answered. “Is there something else that needs discussing?”
“Um, Miss Qining asked us to confirm with you again. Do you really not have a recommended candidate? If you do, we won’t have to work so hard tomorrow and can just negotiate directly with the person you recommend.”
Lin Wanjia rubbed her brow. “Just how much does Lin Qining want to slack off? Is she thinking about taking shortcuts even for meeting future partners now?”
“As you know, Miss Qining’s health…”
“Her health is poor, so is mine good? Tomorrow is your own work. Don’t try to save effort. Bring me the shortlist after it’s out and then check with me.”
She hung up, her frown deepening. Lin Shenghui wouldn’t let her participate on the front lines, fearing she would take what rightfully belonged to Lin Qining. But if they kept cultivating her this way, Lin Qining would ruin her own legacy without anyone else lifting a finger.
That wouldn’t do. Part of that legacy belonged to her Youle. She didn’t have to take it herself, but Youle’s share couldn’t be missing.
The woman bit her fingertip, lost in thought.
“Ah Huan, Ah Huan, Ah Huan!”
Yue Chengqi had a red pen tucked behind her ear and a blue pen in her hand. Hearing those life-claiming, soft shouts, she knew the rabbit who was too excited to sit still tonight had finally hopped back after her round of wandering.
Just in time; she had just finished her outlines.
Yue Chengqi put down her book and walked out. She opened her arms in the middle of the courtyard and steadily caught the girl who lunged forward. She looked down and met a pair of bright, nimble eyes.
Those eyes were too beautiful—so beautiful that Yue Chengqi lost herself a little every time she looked into them. It was only when a more brilliant smile bloomed on the girl’s face that those eyes lost a bit of their hypnotic quality.
She mimicked Su Ye’s tone. “What is it?”
Su Ye gave her a reproachful look and pushed her away. “You’re copying me again! Do I really sound that whiny? I don’t believe it. Your voice and mine are completely different. You’re clearly changing your voice to be all dainty and delicate just to tease me!”
Yue Chengqi suppressed a laugh and cleared her throat. “So, what is it? Why are you so excited again?”
That’s more like it.
Su Ye thought to herself: Yue Huan’s voice is just like this—clear and cool, but with a gentle undertone beneath the chill. All these things together created my Yue Huan.
She curved her eyes. “Nothing, really. I just wanted to call you. Is your work done? I see the pen behind your ear.”
“Finished. The fashion trends for the next few years. Try to memorize them later—don’t rote-learn, just get familiar.”
“I got it! Don’t worry (￣▽￣)～*”
“So, you really aren’t going to let me and Qi Sheng go with you tomorrow?”
“Nope.” Su Ye lowered her head to flip through some papers. “Can you write more? Write down the trends for the next few decades for me. But if you write them all so formally, I definitely won’t be able to read them, sigh…”
Yue Chengqi propped her chin on her hand, watching her. “We’ll talk about that later. So, you really don’t want me to go?”
“I told you, no! It’s still the National Day holiday. National Day—do you know what that means?”
Yue Chengqi: “It means there’s a lot of money to be made.”
The girl snapped her fingers. “Bingo. So, you’re responsible for looking after the shop and making money, while I’m responsible for pulling in investment. It’s settled.”
Yue Chengqi could never win against her. She could only follow her lead, obediently backing down and helping this ambitious girl finalize their plan one last time.
“The pilot program we ran with Red Sun is very good. They’re trying to expand to other cities without much resistance. This proves our order-based unified distribution logistics has no issues. To an extent, it can reduce warehousing pressure. Instead of both the factory and the shop needing large warehouses, only the factory needs one. This reduces the pressure on franchises and storage.” Su Ye repeated it once. “I’ll introduce it like that tomorrow, right?”
Yue Chengqi nodded.
She had confidence in Su Ye and in this logistics system that was highly similar to future online shopping. After all, they currently only had to face the An City market, and this was enough.
As for everything else…
Yue Chengqi knew well that the logistics issue wasn’t something they could solve. They didn’t need to meddle in things beyond their capability; they only needed to demonstrate their own abilities.
Despite the girls being fully prepared, they ultimately underestimated the impact of a rising brand like Qining Group coming to Shan Province for inspection, as well as the draw of their first destination.
Su Ye arrived with her project plan. As soon as she entered the venue, she was swallowed by the noisy sea of people. From what she could hear, accents from all over Shan Province—from west to east—were gathered there. Some were refined, some were brash, but looking around, no one was younger than her.
Even the local big entrepreneurs in An City didn’t give her much attention. In their eyes, she was just a lucky merchant who started by selling low-cost appliances. Her audacity to show up here today earned her only disdain and mockery.
The girl wasn’t afraid of them. After all, everyone here was talking about being distributors; it wasn’t about building factories or industries. What was there to fear? When it came to sales, these people might not even be better than her!
She let out a shaky breath, squeezed the notebook in her hand, and gave herself a silent “fighting” gesture. Wheelchair and all, she maneuvered through the crowd to find the staff member responsible for collecting the proposals.
She saw a woman leaning against a wall in the corner, staring blankly. She moved over and asked carefully, “Hello, sister. Do you know who I should give the proposal booklet to?”
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