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  Chapter 194: The Temptations of the Adult World

  TL: Etude

  After finishing his grilled sausage, Jiang Qi his snake game character crash into a wall. Looking up, he noticed that most of the managers who had gone shopping were back.

  He waved his hand, leading everyone back to the Wanzhong Mall.

  “Having seehing, I believe you all have many ideas now. Try writing another proposal,” he suggested.

  “Of course, sultant Jiang!”

  Inspired, the managers quickly drafted a new reform outline, a stark trast to their previous struggle of produg only a few words in seven days.

  It was evident they had ideas brimming in their minds, untrolbly eager to burst out.

  “Very good.”

  “Quite impressive.”

  Jiang Qin skimmed through their outlines, nodding subtly.

  The supermarket and fresh produ the basement level, etid jewelry on the first floor, clothing, home goods, and various retail shops on the sed floor, food street and hot pot restaurants ohird floor, and the ema, KTV, and gamier on the fourth.

  Taking inspiration from the ercial street, the managers’ new funal zoning for the mall was prehensive.

  The step was to implement these ges floor by flradually repg low-profit ventures with new ones. Once done, everything would be in pce.

  With this, Jiang Qin’s sulting work was effectively plete, and he could gracefully exit, having successfully aplished his task.

  A stroll around the blod a grilled sausage had earned him a substantial sultant fee in just over an hour, without any guilt.

  “Damn, doing business is easy. If only there’s more of this.”

  Of course, Jiang Qin’s involvement in Wanzhong Mall’s reform wasn’t solely for the sultancy fee. He had his own ulterior motives.

  Ohe reform was plete, Wanzhong would bee Lin’s rgest preheertai mall, opening the door for his group-buying service.

  Wanzhong’s hot pot restaurants, emas, clothing, and etic stores… all these varied shops would eventually ie into his group-buying service. Online coupons, in-store dists – the prospects were delightful.

  He Yijun could rapidly gather popurity through online els, foall profits but high turnover, initially earation, and stabilize the mall’s target audience.

  Meanwhile, Jiang Qin could ride this momentum, expanding towards the city ter’s business distrid using the tacts from the Lin business bao tie up with other merts.

  By then, not just a uy town, but perhaps even the whole Lin market could be within reach.

  That’s how business works. No money or es? Use others’ resources to your advahe best part is they end up thanking you for it.

  A win-win situation indeed!

  “Brother Jiang, it’s 3 PM. If we don’t head baow, it’ll be dark by the time I get home. My mom’s waiting for me to have dinner,” Guo Zihang suddenly muttered beside him.

  Jiang Qin g him, his mind still s from the big deal he had just closed. Guo’s mention of dinner with his mom seemed out of pce.

  Then he remembered, he was just an ordinary college student on vacation, preparing to head home.

  “What time is it exactly?”

  “Three fifteen,” replied Guo Zihang.

  Nodding, Jiang Qin stood up. “Manager Yue, we o leave now. It’ll be dark by the time we get home.”

  Manager Yue hastily stood up. “Mr. He just texted me. He’s finished his meeting and is on his lease wait a little longer, Mr. Jiang.”

  “Well, the’s wait a bit more,” Jiang Qin decided, sitting back down.

  He didn’t want He Yijun to feel the sultancy fee was wasted. This was about the importance of after-sales service. You ’t just impress; you have to ehe t feels secure in their iment.

  Ho and reliable businessmen like him were rare these days.

  Three mier, He Yijun hurried into the meeting room, looking rushed and somewhat weary from his meeting with suppliers. The thought of the unfinished reform pn added to his fatigue.

  Faced with his own problems, could Jiang Qin really offer a solution?

  Although Jiang was unusually talented, he had never actually managed a physical business. Could his theoretical knowledge truly pave a golden path for He Yijun?

  With a solemn expression, He Yijun pushed open the door of the meeting room.

  In his mind, he had pictured Zhao Zug smoking one cigarette after another, Bao Wenping scratg his head wearily, everyone deep in thought.

  To his surprise, as soon as he stepped in, the managers, brimming with enthusiasm, surrounded him.

  “Mr. He, I have an idea!”

  “Mr. He, I have ooo! Damn, I’m brimming with inspiration.”

  “I’ve listed ten major business adjustmeails for your review.”

  “I’ve drawn a rough sketch of the funal area reforms. Could you check if anything is amiss?”

  Receiving the rough drafts, He Yijun was overwhelmed: “Mr. Jiang, you must have really hit it off with them, right?”

  Jiang Qin shook his head lightly, speaking calmly: “I just provided a bit of guidahat’s all.”

  “Unbelievable, damn unbelievable.”

  He Yijun, holding the outlines and sketches, grew increasingly excited as he examihem.

  His years of business experieold him these ideas were feasible.

  The problems he couldn’t hah his own daughter, Jiang could.

  The reforms he couldn’t achieve, Jiang could.

  “Damn, a prodigious talent!”

  He Yijun wouldn’t let Jiang leave now. He instructed Zhao Zug te a vish dinner, singing, dang, massages, and even allocated a budget, insisting they shouldn’t return until it was all spent.

  Zhao Zug, an expert in such matters, immediately po take Jiang Qin and Guo Zihang to Juxianlou for a feast.

  “Old Guo, are you ing?”

  “Let’s go after dinner. It’s fine if it gets dark. I’m afraid of getting hungry on the way.”

  After leaving Juxianlou, Zhao called a salesperson and secured a booth iertai city’s bar.

  “Old Guo, are you ing?”

  “Let’s leave after having fun. Even if it’s dawn, it’s okay, we sleep in.”

  After more than an hour in the bar, Zhao Zug suggested they go sing.

  “Old Guo, are you ing?”

  “It’s too te today, driving at night isn’t safe. Let’s leave tomorrow.”

  After singing, Zhao expertly took them to a fshy and special foot massage parlor.

  This time, Jiang Qin deed, and Guo Zihang blushed, refusing as well.

  They had seen enough of the world for one day. Guo’s head inning, and he couldn’t stop thinking about the gsam-cd dies and their swaying legs. He felt he was about to break.

  “Old Zhao, thanks for today, but we’ve had enough fun. You should also head home to rest.”

  Jiang Qin spoke as they left the bar, standing at the roadside, feeling the cool night breeze.

  “Mr. Jiang, we ’t do that. The budget Mr. He allocated isn’t spe.”

  Zhao Zug looked troubled.

  “We have a journey ahead tomorrow, and we’re really too tired to tinue. Maybe some other time.”

  “Well, okay then…”

  At night, in the Longkai Iional Hotel.

  Weary, Jiang Qiered his room, turned on the light, and opehe window, letting the cool night air refresh him.

  Although the night outside was dark, the neon signs of the eai street were still fshing non-stop, lighting up the sky.

  Oreet, a few drunken people staggered along, supp each other. Their noisy chatter was audible even two streets away.

  In his room, Guo Zihang was curiously iing everything, spending a long time studying the massage bathtub ihroom. He took several photos with his phone, his face filled with wonder.

  “Old Guo, how do you feel after hanging out with Manager Zhao today?”

  Guo’s face turned red: “I ’t stop thinking about the karaoke hostess’s white legs…”

  Jiang Qin, lying on the bed propped up by a pillow and covered with a b, said, “See? The adult world is full of temptations. You must learn to resist these urges and not be easily corrupted.”

  “I get it, Brother Jiang. Being an adult isn’t easy. I almost gave in several times a myself be maniputed.”

  “It’s not that hard. Look at me, I didn’t even gnce sideways the whole time,” Jiang boasted arrogantly.

  Guo snorted, “You’re always with Feng Nanshu; of course, your standards are high. But for me, those were deadly temptations.”

  “It’s not about being with a rich girl. My unwavering stance is due to my upright heart and higher tastes!”

  “Yeah right, I don’t believe you. You’re an old hand at this, pletely unfazed when you entered. I was pletely lost, didn’t even know what to do.”

  After speaking, Guo suddenly remembered something: “Right, Brother Jiang, did you call home?”

  Jiang nodded: “I did, and got scolded. My mom told me not to e bad said she’d give my room to the dog.”

  “Same here. My mom prepared a whole table of dishes, and she set when she heard I wasn’t ing back.”

  “Whose fault is that? I said we should go back, but you got all excited about going out, brighter than a heater mp.”

  Jiang spat at him, ptuous of his inability to resist temptation.

  “That’s not my fault. I’ve never experie before; of course, I was curious.”

  Guo grumbled and turned oV with the remote.

  The nighttime els were full of shopping ads, nur shows, except for cartoons. They settled on watg “Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf,” a stark trast to the earlier ses of women in gsams.

  One moment it was alluring women, and the , i cartoons under blue skies and white clouds. Jiahe surreal trast between fantasy ay.

  Was this a kind of charming trast?

  He smacked his lips, went to take a shower, and then y fortably on the bed.

  “Brother Jiang, what time are we leaving tomorrow?”

  “After breakfast, around seven o’clock.”

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