"Gan Jing?"
Seeing the name on the business card, Yang Chen couldn't help but let out a light 'Eh'.
"What's wrong?"
Seeing Yang Chen's surprised expression, Yang Jiaen had a look of confusion on his face.
"Is there anything wrong with the name?"
"It's nothing, I just feel like I've heard this name somewhere..." Yang Chen shook his head slightly.
The name reminded him of a person who also happened to be an interior designer.
"How did you meet her?" he asked calmly.
"She and I met in the United States. It should have been two years ago, when I was still studying in the United States..." Yang Jiaen recalled. "Gan Jing was looking for someone at the time. She was like crazy and traveled to almost all states in the United States. She also asked local international students to help find out information. That's when she and I met."
"Later, more than half a year later, she returned to China and worked for one of the top design companies in the country. However, the contact between us was not broken. She never gave up and asked us to continue to help her find out about that person. After going back and forth, I didn’t find anyone, but we became more and more familiar... By the way, the name of the person she was looking for was Lu Yuan!"
That’s right!
Yang Chen had a look of understanding on his face.
Gan Jing, an American international student and interior designer, is looking for Lu Yuan—these pieces of information all point to one person.
Seeing his expression, Yang Jiaen couldn't help but said, "Have you heard her story?"
"No, I just feel that the name is familiar. But after hearing what you said, I am somewhat interested in her affairs. If there is a chance in the future, I can get to know her." Yang Chen smiled faintly, and then turned back to the topic, " Okay, I’ll leave the offline chain stores to you. Let me take a look at the design plan when it comes out.”
"OK."
Yang Jiaen nodded, packed up the documents, and left the office.
Yang Chen picked up the business card and read it again.
The system voice sounded.
【Ding! 】
[The host obtains Gan Jing's contact information, completes the hidden task 'getting to know', and is rewarded with a consumption rebate card]
This prompt also confirmed his guess.
In fact, Yang Chen had thought about opening an offline board game before, but it was too laborious to handle, so he put it aside for the time being.
Opening an offline store requires location selection, decoration, application for various certificates, employee training, publicity and other things.
Moreover, even if the chain store is built, the income in one year may not be as much as "Zhenglang" earns in one month.
Typically you pay more and get less.
Yang Chen was too lazy to do it.
However, since Yang Jiaen wants to do it, let her do it. Anyway, she doesn’t have to worry about it.
…
Two days later, the design drawings of the board game bar had not yet come out, so Gu Yixin called instead.
"Something happened to the milk tea shop?"
Yang Chen was sitting in the milk tea shop at the entrance of Nanchuan, holding a cup of milk tea in his hand. He looked at Gu Yixin who was sitting opposite and looked a little haggard, and said leisurely: "Don't be anxious, speak slowly, what happened?"
"After your investment came in, I started to expand the milk tea shop business. In the past half month, I opened a total of five milk tea shops, one of which was opened at South China University of Science and Technology. The accident was this one... "Gu Yixin had a calm face and told him about the troubles he had encountered recently.
South China University of Science and Technology and South China University of Finance and Economics, where Yang Chen studied, are considered sister universities and are located in Xiangshan City next door.
Half a month ago, Gu Yixin received Yang Chen's investment and went to the surrounding urban areas to conduct inspections and site selection.
The best location to open a milk tea shop is naturally near schools, commercial centers and other places with dense traffic.
Gu Yixin, who has experience in opening a store, focused on the university town.
As a famous university near the city, South China University of Science and Technology was naturally within the scope of her examination.
After some inquiring, Gu Yixin found that there happened to be a store that was being sublet in the cafeteria of South China University of Science and Technology. This was a perfect fit for her, so she rented the store without hesitation.
After renovation, the milk tea shop opened smoothly and the business is not bad.
However, it didn't take long before bad news came one after another.
First, someone posted a message on the school's forum, saying that the hygiene of Yixin Milk Tea Shop was not up to standard and that the milk tea sold was also defective. He also posted multiple pictures.
Although it was later discovered that these pictures were photoshopped by someone using a computer, it is easy to spread rumors but difficult to refute them. This incident still had a certain impact on the business of the milk tea shop.
Afterwards, someone revealed in the circle of friends that a classmate had gastrointestinal problems after drinking milk tea in the store and was admitted to the hospital.
Gu Yixin went to Xiangshan City to investigate this trouble, and found that the classmate's hospitalization was not caused by milk tea, but gastrointestinal problems caused by eating expired food.
Afterwards, she also made amends and asked someone to clarify the matter at school.
However, HKUST is not her home ground, and her words are ignored, so the clarification effect is not ideal.
In line with the principle of preferring to believe what you have rather than what you don’t have, fewer students come to Yixin Milk Tea Shop to buy milk tea.
Moreover, a conspiracy theory has been spread on campus, saying that the owner of the milk tea shop paid off the victims and advised everyone not to go to Yixin Milk Tea Shop.
Human psychology is so weird, conspiracy theories are often more popular than the truth.
Youdao follows what others say, and three people become a tiger. Under some unfounded rumors, the business of the milk tea shop becomes worse and worse.
Nowadays, even if Yixin Milk Tea Store launches a discount event, less than 100 cups of milk tea are sold every day.
According to the current sales volume, the milk tea shop's profit for a month may not even be enough to pay the employees.
"I originally planned to turn that store into a boutique. It cost more than 70,000 yuan just for decoration. Plus some customized equipment costs, labor costs, and publicity costs, I spent tens of thousands more... Even if I open it now When the store is transferred out, I need at least 100,000 yuan to accompany him." Gu Yixin had a mournful face, extremely sad.
Even if she couldn't sell a hamburger, it would make her cry for a long time, let alone one hundred thousand yuan!
If she loses this, I'm afraid it will make her sad for half a year.
"It's okay, it's just 100,000 yuan. If you lose it, you'll lose it." Yang Chen consoled him.
One hundred thousand yuan is just drizzle to him, not worth his trouble.
"No. I've done so many businesses since I was a kid, and I've never lost money. It won't work this time either. I must build this store." Gu Yixin looked unconvinced.
Yang Chen shook his head secretly. When doing business, the first thing to learn is to stop losses in time.
But from the look of her, even if I say it, I'm afraid she won't listen.
Forget it, let her learn a lesson.
"Then what are you going to do?"
"After my in-depth and rigorous investigation, I found that these things that happened recently were actually done intentionally by someone. Behind this, there is a huge mastermind." Gu Yixin looked serious.
"Oh, what's the mastermind behind this?" Yang Chen showed an interested expression.
A small milk tea shop is actually involved in a business war?
Now he was a little more interested and just listened to the story.
"In addition to Yixin Milk Tea, there is also a milk tea shop in the HKUST cafeteria called Fresh Fruit Milk Tea. The man behind the scenes is the owner of the Fresh Fruit Milk Tea Shop." Gu Yixin said solemnly.
"Then who is the owner of this milk tea shop?" Yang Chen, a good admirer, asked immediately.
"The owner of the Fresh Fruit Milk Tea Shop is named Li Yiming. He is a junior student and the director of the Propaganda Department of the Student Union. He is the one who used his connections in the school to slander Yixin Milk Tea." Gu Yixin gritted his teeth.
"Then what are you going to do?" Yang Chen asked.
"I came to you for help just because I didn't know what to do." Gu Yixin said.
"What's the benefit of asking me to help?" Yang Chen raised his brows and asked with a smile.
"Benefits? Please, you are the major shareholder of Yixin Milk Tea. Isn't it what you should do to help the store solve its problems? What more benefits are there?" Gu Yixin suddenly opened his eyes.
"Haha, since there is no benefit, let's forget it. It's just a milk tea shop. If you lose, it's a loss. I don't care." Yang Chen laughed and said lazily.
"You... okay, as long as you help me solve this trouble, I will help you hide Shu Ci's matter." Gu Yixin said.
"Ahem, Shu Ci, what does this have to do with Shu Ci?" Yang Chen's expression suddenly froze, and he almost spit out the milk tea, and he couldn't speak clearly.
"Recently, you have asked Shu Ci out alone several times. Do you need me to explain what you did?" Gu Yixin sneered.
"Ha, haha... Come, let's discuss how to solve this problem."
