“The meeting is over.” Shen Yunqing rubbed the center of his brows, and walked out of the meeting room feeling exhausted.
When the Immortal’s Banquet opened, because of his mistake, Yu Antong retaliated and damaged the reputation of Juying Tower. Immortal’s Banquet took the opportunity to attract their customers and grew bigger, which made other shareholders of the company criticize him.
It was hard for him to stabilize his position in the company. The 30% off discount at this new branch, which opened opposite the Immortal’s Banquet, made these shareholders dissatisfied again.
Shen Yunqing felt disgusted when he thought of the faces of those old guys just now. A bunch of shallow-sighted old men, earning less money would be like killing them.
He didn’t even think about them at first. If he could take advantage of the New Year’s Eve with a large number of customers to bring back customers and drag down the Immortal’s Banquet, he knew the future profits would eclipse the loss they faced now.
Although the business of Immortal’s Banquet has been booming in the past six months, due to the new opening, various promotional activities were inevitable. Yu Antong should still be anxious to open up new branches. His initial investment must be big, and still haven’t made a return in these six months.
In this price war, it was absolutely impossible for Yu Antong to have the capital to fight him, unless he asked the Xing family for money.
For a man like Xing Lixuan, who was a business-savvy person, how would he feel when he saw his partner’s poor management and begged him for money?
Shen Yunqing couldn’t help but smile when he thought of this. Xing Lixuan would be very disappointed in having such an incompetent marriage partner.
After Xing Lixuan had grown dissatisfied with Yu Antong, he had fuel that fire with that bouquet of roses he sent that day. It’s inevitable that Xing Lixuan would think Yu Antong was cheating on him.
Shen Yunqing fiddled with his office’s potted plants in a good mood. ‘The day they divorced should not be far away. I know they can’t be together for much longer now.’
“Knock knock” The sound of knocking roke Shen Yunqing’s illusion about the smooth implementation of his plan.
“Come in.”
His subordinate looked anxious. He reported, trying his best not to stumble upon his words. “President Shen, the Immortal’s Banquet…”
Shen Yunqing raised the corner of his mouth slightly, and said impatiently, “They also started to lower the price?”
“No,” The subordinate shook his head, “The Immortal’s Banquet is closed… for the annual holiday…”
Shen Yunqing slammed his fist on the table in anger. “How is that possible!”
In his plan, if Yu Antong maintained the original price of, he would lose money every day due to the large loss of customers. This accumulated loss could snowball and completely drag down the Immortal’s Banquet.
If Yu Antong borrowed money from Xing Lixuan to fight a price war with him, Xing Lixuan would grow dissatisfied with him. Once they divorce, it would be much easier to destroy Yu Antong who had no support.
No matter which way Yu Antong went, it was a dead end.
But he never imagined that Yu Antong would give up the benefits during the New Year’s Day and close the restaurant for holidays!
Then what is his painstaking planning these days! He tried his best to convince the company’s shareholders, but all his efforts were in vain, and Yu Antong was completely unscathed!
“Heh!” Shen Yunqing raised his head and cackled in satisfaction.
“President Shen, there is one more thing…” The subordinate hesitated whether to report another matter.
As if grabbing the last straw, Shen Yunqing suddenly said, “Yes, the rose. I asked you to send them. Has the person you sent noticed Xing Lixuan’s reaction?”
This was exactly what the subordinates wanted to report: “He said that President Xing also sent roses to Yu Antong that day, and his expression changed after seeing the anonymous bouquet. After that, they went out. He doesn’t know what happened next, but seeing how well the two walked at that time, they shouldn’t be fighting.”
After that report, the subordinate warily looked at Shen Yunqing’s face. He took out his mobile phone, and cautiously said, “President Shen, take a look at this.”
There was no smile on Shen Yunqing’s face anymore. “What?”
The subordinate opened a screenshot of Moments. As he showed it to Shen Yunqing, he explained, “A college classmate of mine works as an assistant in the Xing Corp. She said that the always cold-faced President Xing reposted an affectionate event with his spouse sent by his college classmates. My friend said, I quote, ‘Boss is that handsome and rich man, and yet, he’s very spoiling towards his wife. Why couldn’t I meet such a high-quality man.’”
“And uh… this sentiment is shared with many female colleagues of my friend…”
Shen Yunqing waved his hand to let his subordinates go out. He opened his Moments on his mobile phone with a pale face.
Although he didn’t have Xing Lixuan’s WeChat account, he had an overlap among their circle of friends. He flipped through two pages and saw several reposts of Qi Jingyao’s Moments.
Shen Yunqing watched the video of Xing Lixuan and Yu Antong kissing in the shopping mall. His fingers that held the phone turned white due to excessive force, while his eyes were bloodshot.
‘Why! What is so good about Yu Antong? Even Xing Lixuan can be so fascinated by him that he is willing to do these things!’
Yu Antong slept until after nine o’clock. The space next to him had long since lost its heat, and Xing Lixuan was not there.
Yu Antong grunted and stretched. When he heard movement in the bathroom, he called out, “Xing Lixuan?”
“Yes,” Xing Lixuan replied as he came out of the bathroom wiping his hair, “Are you awake?”
Yu Antong sat up slowly, and asked him, “Why take a bath at this time?”
Xing Lixuan strode forward, helped Yu Antong sit up, “I ran a few laps just now.”
Now Xing Lixuan accompanied Yu Antong every day. The pregnant man went to bed early and canceled their evening exercise session, causing the strong man Xing Lixuan to have an excessive restlessness that he channeled through exercise. So, the extremely self-disciplined President Xing started his morning jog, in stark contrast to his late riser of a wife.
Yu Antong muttered, “I don’t need your help. I just woke up, too lazy to move, it’s not that I can’t get up.”
His belly hadn’t shown at all, so it’s not that difficult to do things now.
Yu Antong sat up, poked Xing Lixuan’s abdominal muscles, and was very greedy with what he poked, “What’s the use of you saying that you practice so well? I can’t eat you now, so don’t show your muscles in front of me in the future.”
Xing Lixuan smiled as he teased Yu Antong in a low voice, “I saved it for you.”
Yu Antong turned his head so he wouldn’t see his husband. He complained as he put his clothes on, “You wait for me in a month!”
After the first trimester, he would be able to do his harmonious exercises!
Xing Lixuan didn’t dare to provoke him anymore, so he also changed his clothes and had breakfast with Yu Antong. His parents got up early and had already finished their breakfast, so they were the only two at the dinner table.
Yu Antong ate three soup dumplings, two small palm-sized omelettes, drank a whole cup of hot soy milk, and burped in satisfaction.
Then he walked to the study room and used the computer to read the annual financial summary report that Fu Xin had sent him.
Xing Lixuan also went to the study to organize some things.
In the past six months, the knowledge imparted by his major was not in vain. He actually understood the piles of data and charts.
Yu Antong watched all the income rolling in, with a smile akin to an uncle farmer showing off his bumper harvest – simple and sincere. After all, who didn’t feel happy from the bottom of his heart when he saw the fruits of his labor be bountiful?
‘Hahaha, I’m such a business genius, I made so much money in my first business!’ Yu Antong inwardly boasted as he continued to turn the page triumphantly.
–Free chili sauce for in-store purchases: negative profit of 850,000.
–20% discount promotions for new users of the Online Immortal’s Banquet APP: negative profit of 1.35 million.
–Rent, decoration, and seat purchase of the two newly opened branches: negative profit of 8 million yuan.
–The total expenditure of ingredients purchases…
–Employee salaries, benefits, training expenses…
The smile on Yu Antong’s face faded the more he looked down.
Seeing the final net profit sum, the smile on Yu Antong’s face completely disappeared.
“Ah!”
Yu Antong let out a shrill scream, startling Xing Lixuan who was sitting next to him.
“What’s the matter, Baby?” Xing Lixuan stood up in a panic. He checked Yu Antong’s body, scared if he’s hurt, “Is there something uncomfortable?”
“No, no, I’m fine,” Yu Antong shook his head in despair, pointing to his heart, “It’s just a little pain here.”
Xing Lixuan was very worried about why his heart hurts, “I’ll drive you to the hospital right away.”
“No need to go to the hospital,” Yu Antong pointed at the computer, “You will understand after reading it.”
Xing Lixuan took out the concentration he had in negotiating with the most difficult business opponents, quickly read through the accounts at a glance, and understood what was going on.
“You scare me to death,” Xing Lixuan breathed a sigh of relief, “I thought something was wrong.”
Xing Lixuan’s heart almost stopped just now. He wanted Yu Antong to understand his stance on this, but he was reluctant to say everything in a blunt manner. Instead, he coaxed him in an indulgent tone: “It’s nothing weird, it’s just that you still can’t break even. It’s your first time to start a business, and your income is already 5 million in half a year. This is already very impressive.”
Xing Lixuan was very sincere, even though he knew that his company’s daily profit was 1 million per day. He praised Yu Antong sincerely, and seeing that Yu Antong was still half-dead, he continued:
“A friend of mine, named Qi Jingyao – you may not know him – but you see, he used the 100 million start-up capital his father gave him to start a business. Guess how much his profit has been in the past year?”
Yu Antong said in a deadpan voice, “How much?”
Xing Lixuan: “He breaks even with 1 yuan1as in, he repaid the initial capital, with a net profit of 1 yuan..”
Yu Antong was stunned, “Huh?”
This really wasn’t made up by Xing Lixuan. Qi Jingyao was almost beaten to death by his father because of this incident.
“How did I give birth to such an unworthy bastard,” Qi Jingyao’s father complained that day.
100 million, not to mention other wealth management projects with high interest rates, even if he deposited it in a bank, his yearly interest would be 2 million. If he couldn’t make money with that much of a capital, then he was an absolutely stupid businessman.
However, Qi Jingyao was actually a very cunning person. At the beginning, this matter was because he was angry with his father because of his coming out. So, he deliberately messed around with the money.
Anyway, he was the only child of his parents, and the family property would be handed over to him in the end. He promised that if his father doesn’t let him have a boyfriend, he would ruin the family fortune.
It was also a good skill to have a profit of exactly 1 yuan when he was deliberately fucking around.
Mr. Qi finally realized that he couldn’t control his son’s love life, so he simply let him go.
Naturally, Xing Lixuan didn’t tell this detail to Yu Antong. Instead, he said, “Do you see now? You’re brilliant, especially when compared to them.”
“No,” Yu Antong shook his head, “Your friend still has break even, even if it’s only 1 yuan.”
Yu Antong continued his lament, “You don’t know, the report Fu Xin gave me didn’t include the 70 million I invested initially. So in the end, I didn’t earn a penny. Instead, I lost more than 60 million yuan!2so basically, Yu Antong’s income couldn’t cover the expenditure, with a total of 10 million. Seeing his income is 5 million, that means his expenditure (not counting the initial capital) is 15 million.”
If he had known this, he might as well be selling pancakes at the school gate!
He once heard that the hottest pancake store in the snack street near his school was widely successful. The husband and wife store owners could earn millions a year, and even bought two houses for their son.
Xing Lixuan: “This…”
Yu Antong hugged Xing Lixuan’s waist, and sighed, “Oh! It’s so hard to earn money. I lost all my son’s baby formula money. Wuwu– It’s uncomfortable.”
Xing Lixuan wanted to laugh, but was afraid that Yu Antong would get angry with him if he laughed, so he could only bear it. Fortunately, he was standing while Yu Antong was sitting, so the younger man couldn’t see his face.
Xing Lixuan patted Yu Antong’s head, thinking, ‘How could he be so cute? My wife is so silly.’
“It’s common to lose money in the first year,” Xing Lixuan coaxed, “This is to open up the market and make a strategic profit in the long-run. At first, your expenditure is big because you have to buy new assets, but in the next period, you don’t need to buy those again. You can break even with the income you gain in the next year, I promise. In fact, I project that you will break even in the next year.”
Yu Antong also knew this. But when he thought about how hard it was in the past half a year, and yet he still lost 60 million…
It’s still heartwrenching!!
“I’ll take you to visit my relatives during the Chinese New Year,” Xing Lixuan showed Yu Antong the list of New Year’s gifts that he had just sorted out, and said, “Let them wrap you a big red envelope when the time comes.”
Yu Antong was successfully distracted. He didn’t understand what Xing Lixuan meant, so he asked, “Aren’t red envelopes only given to children? I also get them at my age?”
Xing Lixuan explained, “The newly married daughter-in-laws would also get them during New Year’s greetings.”
Yu Antong didn’t feel weird about being called “daughter-in-law”. Instead, he cheered up, and flipped through the gift list with great interest. “How many relatives do we want to pay New Year’s greetings to?”
The author have something to say:
President Xing: I have a friend…
Qi Jingyao: Cutting off friendship, goodbye!
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