"Take it slow. As long as there’s money to be made, first stabilize your core base, then find ways to expand to new clients. When running a business, patience is often needed to endure."
"That’s right. Many businesses are built by holding strong. This field, though highly competitive, also indicates huge profits; otherwise, there wouldn’t be so many trying to get in. I’ve been in this sector for a few years and have so experience and connections. As long as I can keep it steady, I believe I can make big money in the future. Of course, the ’big money’ I’m talking about is tens of thousands a year, nothing compared to you, Boss Chen."
"As long as you have confidence, that’s what matters. Co on, let’s have a drink."
The two clinked their tea cups and took a sip.
Zhang Kewei suddenly asked with curiosity, "Did sothing happen between you and our class belle? Did you have a fight or sothing?"
Chen Feng was slightly taken aback, sowhat surprised, and asked in return, "Why do you say that?"
Zhang Kewei said directly, "She posted a photo on WeChat Monts last night—a selfie of her sitting alone by East Lake. Looked quite pitiful. She also wrote sothing, don’t rember exactly, but it seed like sothing sad about a breakup or feeling down. So classmates left comforting comnts for her."
Chen Feng didn’t usually check Monts, so he had no idea about this. He opened WeChat Monts and quickly found the post Liu Ying made a little after nine in the evening.
Just as Zhang Kewei said, it was a selfie of Liu Ying sitting by East Lake alone, with a lancholy and helpless look in her eyes. She also wrote: "When feeling down, I like wandering alone by East Lake. How I wish to go back to the carefree days of the past. We et again in September, in the golden autumn. Sadly, there’s no going back."
The words were quite poetic, indeed filled with a sense of lancholy.
And for these old classmates, it’s easy to guess that Liu Ying’s words were a reflection on her and Chen Feng’s situation, speculating that sothing went wrong in their relationship.
Since the last class reunion, all these classmates know they got together.
Chen Feng frowned a bit. This was the hangover from the last class reunion. Everyone now believed he and Liu Ying were a couple, and if he and Liu Ying officially parted ways later, he would beco the heartbreaker.
Although he didn’t care much about his reputation among these classmates, he indeed felt a bit wrongly accused, definitely an unpleasant feeling.
But he couldn’t just tell the truth in the classmates’ group chat and say that Liu Ying, the class belle, is now his companion, with them only in a maintenance relationship; this would directly destroy both Liu Ying and his own social life.
Such a mutually destructive act, of course, he couldn’t do. Besides, he and Liu Ying had been good to each other; he couldn’t do sothing so tasteless.
"Boss Chen, did you see? What’s really going on between you and the class belle? We old classmates are all concerned about you two. The matter is all over the classmates’ group, and so say you might have turned bad with money, having a mistress. Is it really like that?"
Chen Feng looked at Zhang Kewei sowhat speechlessly, then asked in return, "What if Liu Ying is the mistress?"
"Huh?!" Zhang Kewei’s eyes widened in disbelief, "You’re kidding, right? You had a girlfriend before her? Weren’t you divorced?"
"Just joking." Chen Feng naturally found it hard to admit Liu Ying was the mistress, so he said, "At the class reunion, I did ntion that Liu Ying and I aren’t really in a true boyfriend-girlfriend relationship. How can I say this; we are in an experintal stage, a mutually comforting and supportive kind. Now, she’s looking to officially date , wanting to beco my official girlfriend, even talking about marriage. We had a bit of a disagreent over this yesterday, which might be why she’s upset."
"Oh, I see." Zhang Kewei nodded in sudden realization, then frowned and shook his head, saying, "I think Liu Ying is really nice. Even though she’s divorced, aren’t you the sa? It’s rare that you pursued her when you first entered university. She was your first love in college. Though there were so misunderstandings later, so many years have passed, and now you’re back with her; surely you shouldn’t still mind?"
Chen Feng shook his head and said, "You don’t understand. What happened between her and , only the two of us really know. Since my divorce, I’ve not thought about remarrying."
"That’s a bit of an exaggeration. Are you planning to stay single forever?"
"Who says not getting married ans staying single? I’m not married now but I wouldn’t say I’m single."
"Haven’t you thought about starting a family, having a child?"
"Really not considering it at the mont."
Chen Feng imdiately countered, "Stop always asking about . Let ask you, you’re not young either; haven’t you found soone?"
Zhang Kewei instantly pulled a bitter face, "Of course I want to, but I’m busy like a dog every day; where’s the ti? Besides, with my conditions, it’s tough to find soone I’m interested in. Either I’m not interested in them or they’re not interested in . One word: difficult."
Chen Feng laughed and offered advice, "Now you’re a boss. Finding a girlfriend shouldn’t be hard. Simply put out a hiring ad, seek a salesperson or store assistant, female preferred age 20—30. Then a lot of won will co to apply, from which you can pick one or two that you fancy to slowly develop."
"Damn!"
Zhang Kewei swore directly, looking at Chen Feng as if seeing so genius.
He had really never thought of using this thod to find a girlfriend, because, firstly, he had just started his business, being frugal with every penny, hesitant to spend money hiring employees, only had his cousin as a cashier, and he, the boss, personally running business.
Secondly, he hadn’t ntally and psychologically fully adapted to the fact that he is now a boss, not viewing matters from the perspective of an owner or capitalist yet.
Moreover, his main focus now is still on his career, on making money, so finding a girlfriend took a back seat.
And now with Chen Feng’s reminder, it was entirely possible to develop business and love simultaneously, to strive on both fronts.
"One conversation with an insightful person is worth ten years of study. Boss Chen, you’ve really pointed to a broad avenue. When I find a girlfriend using your thod, I’ll certainly invite you to Fuman Building for a feast."
"I’ll rember what you said. Just follow my way. If it doesn’t work, it just ans you’re failing as a boss."
Excitedly, Zhang Kewei said, "Alright. Tomorrow, no, today, I’ll post a recruitnt ad."
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