The woman lazily lifted her eyelids and looked down at Su Ye. She crossed her arms and leaned back, saying impatiently, “Where did this kid come from? Did you wander into the wrong place?”
“You’re even in a wheelchair. The amusement park… where is the park in this dump of a city again?”
The woman’s speech was slow and drawling. Her voice was naturally deep, mixed with a blend of An City dialect and a Southern accent that made Su Ye’s head ache.
Su Ye surreptitiously rubbed her temples and cautiously interrupted her. “I’m really here for the conference. Do you know where I should submit this proposal?”
Only then did the woman look at her properly. She dropped her arms and stood up straight, gazing down for a moment before switching to standard Mandarin. “Let me see the plan.”
Su Ye immediately pulled the proposal document into her chest, clutching it tightly.
The woman let out a short laugh and tapped her chin. “I’m a staff member, you know. I’ll show you my badge.”
She pulled a blue lanyard from her pocket and held it in front of Su Ye. The invitations and staff badges for the Qining Group were all handwritten in a uniform Regular script. On the badge, the elegant calligraphy displayed the name of the person standing before her—
Lan Qiming.
“Oh, hello, Sister Lan. My name is Su Ye.” Su Ye handed back the badge and politely extended her right hand, though her left hand still gripped her proposal as if she were terrified it would be snatched away.
Lan Qiming snorted with laughter and gave her hand a quick, playful pat. “Alright, I’ll push you over to find the executives. You’ll have to show it to them eventually.”
“There’s no need. I can push myself. Just tell me where to go.”
Lan Qiming acted as if she hadn’t heard a word. She gripped the handles of the wheelchair and began to push gently. After walking a short distance, she spoke up. “You look very young. Where do you get the courage to pitch a plan to such a large company?”
“Sister, do you usually watch the news in Shan Province?” Su Ye countered with a question.
Lan Qiming hummed an affirmation.
Su Ye continued, “Then you should have some impression of the provincial government’s comments and awards for new developments in township enterprises about half a month ago, right?”
“Oh, right. There was a township electrical appliance enterprise called Red Sun that started in Shanping Village and then slowly declined due to a poor decision to move into the provincial capital. It was saved by a young girl named Su Ye.” The woman paused, a look of realization dawning on her. “Oh, it’s you. Su Ye.”
Su Ye gave a sweet smile and nodded, but her heart was racing with shock. She had only mentioned the provincial news, yet this person could precisely identify the corresponding story based on her traits and confirm it back to her.
Is this what people from big corporations are like? Incredible.
Su Ye didn’t dare look up at her, silently picking at her fingernails. Lan Qiming remained quiet for a while before saying, “Then you’re quite sharp. To be able to build such a large business at such a young age.”
Su Ye didn’t quite catch the nuance, but judging by the tone, it seemed like a compliment. she giggled, deciding to play up her youth to the end. Her smile grew even sweeter. “Just a little bit of cleverness that happened to be useful, that’s all.”
Lan Qiming brought her to a spot not far from someone organizing documents. “That’s the place ahead. Give the proposal to her, and then wait for notice.”
“Isn’t there an on-site interview? How many days will the notification take?”
Lan Qiming played dumb as well. “I wouldn’t know, little sister. After all, I’m just a lowly greeter.”
“…”
That said, once she was out of that person’s sight, Su Ye found a corner to hunker down in and secretly observed the entire venue.
There was a constant stream of businessmen. The owners of several large factories in An City had all arrived, but very few people who could actually act as underwriters had shown up. This made the event feel less like a search for distributors and more like a search for partner factories.
Would someone with a factory partnership have more of an advantage?
The young girl sat for a while before a plan formed in her mind. She crept into a corner, pulled out her phone, and after a few rings—
“Sister Chunhua, I have a very important opportunity here. Do you want to collaborate with me?”
“Manager Lin!” The person responsible for reviewing today’s proposals saw the figure leaning against the doorway and hurriedly stood up to bow, vacating a seat.
Lin Qining walked in with her arms crossed and lazily slumped into the chair. She rested her legs crossed on the wooden table and asked slowly, “How many proposals did we get today? Are there any you think are okay?”
The staff member pulled out several large binders. “We received over forty proposals. we’ve done a rough screening, and these few are decent. However, this time they seem to have misunderstood our intent. Those who came are either purely manufacturing factories or simple distributors. So we feel…”
“Either we talk to them again and have them produce new plans, or we’ll have to shelf the project.”
Lin Qining stretched her long arms, gathered the binders into her lap, and tilted her head while biting her fingertip, casually flipping through one.
This was a pure factory proposal. The factory was in Chunming City, in the southeast of Shan Province, closer to them, but…
She read two pages and commented, “The southeast corner is too far from the market we want to expand into. Although she’s close to us, we already have partners for the market she’s facing. One more of her makes no difference, one less makes no difference. A pity, a pity.”
She couldn’t understand why Lin Shenghui had chosen An City, but she knew that since Lin Shenghui had abandoned the provincial capital and chosen this place directly, she must hope for the final result to come from here. Although the plan from the Chunming City factory was good, it fell short of the mark.
The person sitting next to her nodded and handed over another. “This was submitted by a former joint-venture factory in the provincial capital. I think…”
“Wait,” Lin Qining interrupted her, reaching for a binder that had been set aside. “What about this one? Why was it put to the side?”
“Oh, that’s nothing. It’s just that she’s the most prominent among the distributors and even proposed a solution for the warehousing issue. We were planning to look at it again in a bit.”
Lin Qining saw the style of the cover and the merchant name written on it. She couldn’t help but let out a light chuckle.
Everguest. She had wondered how that ordinary little girl could achieve so much at such a young age. And you said you didn’t have anyone you favored, Lin Wanjia. You really are as annoying as ever.
She tossed it aside casually. “Bring the others over. Let me see.”
The two staff members were left looking at each other—was this a ‘yes,’ a ‘no,’ or was she passing on this person entirely?
They couldn’t just pass on it, could they? That proposal was the best they had seen so far—practically the only one of its caliber.
But Lin Qining was the one in charge this time. If she threw it aside… forget it.
“Qining said that you have someone you’re personally vetting, yet you insisted you didn’t. You even participated in the entire process of that person getting their proposal ready and helped her earn the capital?”
A string of accusations made Lin Wanjia’s head spin. To make matters worse, her other arm was currently being held down by someone taking her blood pressure. She could only exhale to calm her nerves and retort, “My dear mother, what has Lin Qining complained to you about now? I think I’m entitled to hear the details, at least?”
Lin Shenghui gave a snorted laugh. “Don’t forget our agreement. As long as you don’t start your own business, the family can give you thousands or tens of thousands a month. Supporting you and the child you insisted on having is more than enough. Have you really vetted this person? If you have, we can consider choosing her. Qining gave me a brief overview of her proposal, and I think it’s feasible.”
Lin Wanjia: “…You’ve scolded me out of the blue and then talked all this nonsense to yourself. My dear mother, I don’t even know what you’re talking about.”
Her arm was patted gently. She looked over to see Zhang Mingfang watching her with worry. Zhang Mingfang tapped the space between her own eyebrows and rubbed her temples—
Using those gestures to tell her: Don’t get angry, don’t frown, watch your health.
Lin Wanjia reassured her with a look, shaking her head slightly.
Lin Shenghui continued, “Su Ye from Everguest. Isn’t that the potential candidate you found? I checked; she’s the child you spent tens of thousands to bring home a few years ago. I agree, her proposal is indeed innovative. She’s still so young; if she’s trained well, she’ll have great potential…”
“Mother, you’ve misunderstood.” Lin Wanjia smiled. “Everything she has is her own; it has nothing to do with me. I don’t acknowledge any of the people who came. None of them are as good as I was. You can judge for yourself.”
“Does that satisfy you?”
“…”
“You don’t need to guard against me like I’m a thief. I have no heart for fighting. I just want to live a quiet life with this group of friends. You can rest easy.”
“…”
Lin Wanjia looked up and saw the little thing hopping in slowly while leaning against the wall. Her eyes crinkled. Her voice inevitably softened as she said slowly, “Everguest was an accident. She is willing to repay me, and I have no reason to stop her. You don’t need to be so angry. The name doesn’t mean anything, does it? Just as you told me, Qining is just a name too, isn’t it?”
She whispered a goodbye, stuffing all the remaining words into the electronic hum of the line until only the dial tone remained.
As soon as the newcomer saw her hang up, she immediately spread her arms and started waving, rushing over excitedly. “Wan! Jia! Sis!”
Don’t be fooled by how thin and tall the little thing was; she hopped on one leg faster than anyone, like a coiled spring that had been ignited, boing-boing-ing her way over.
She was like a sun—a sun that hopped closer and closer, brighter and brighter, crashing into everyone’s eyes.
Always… may this sun never go out.
Lin Wanjia caught her. “Whoa, whoa, why are you so happy? Good news?”
“Not yet, but I only understood what they were really trying to do once I got to the venue today.”
“How so?”
“Wait for Ah Huan. Ah Huan went back to get water; I’m so thirsty. Wow, are you guys measuring blood pressure? Sister Mingfang, how is it?”
The person who had finally been noticed gave a snorted laugh. She packed up her equipment and said sluggishly, “Good, perfectly good. Nothing wrong at all.”
“…Speak properly!”
Zhang Mingfang glared at her. “You haven’t offered me a drop of water this whole time. Am I not thirsty too?!”
“Coming, coming, coming.”
Yue Chengqi held a teapot in her left hand and cradled several teacups in her right arm. She also couldn’t suppress a smile—the thought of Su Ye’s path becoming smoother and smoother made it impossible to hide her joy. Even pouring the water was a happy task. Finally, she sat to the side, obediently holding her own cup.
Lin Wanjia tapped both of their foreheads. “It seems the results were good? Tell me, how was the battle today?”
Yue Chengqi also looked at her. After all, they had been back for a while, but this person had been acting mysterious, insisting on waiting until everyone was together to speak.
Su Ye took a breath. “Actually, the group hasn’t released any news yet. But today I realized that pure distributors and pure factories have no advantage. If I can come in as a high-quality distributor who can also bring a mature and excellent factory, then my competitiveness will rise infinitely. Right? You two, say ‘right’!”
Lin Wanjia nodded with a smile.
Su Ye continued, “So, so! Wouldn’t it be hard for the distributors and factories there today to reach a cooperation agreement in just a few days? But it’s not hard for me! I have a deep cooperation with a factory, and the factory I’m working with is excellent. They have no problems with technology, they have the glorious golden brand of being a private township enterprise, and they have the policy support of our region. They are an excellent partner.”
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