The three of them walked out of the shopping mall and crossed the road together.
The Ming Tea shop across the street was also bustling, with a line forming outside that, while not as exaggerated as Youu Tea’s, was still quite long.
After all, it was the first day Ming Tea introduced their fruit tea series.
Many people ca to catch the wave for novelty’s sake.
For residents of cities without access to brands like Youu Tea, Ming Tea was their only option for trying fruit teas.
"This line’s going to take a while," Ji Shiwen said.
Cheng Zhu began looking around, then smiled and said, "I see so scalpers over there, I’ll go buy, you all want the cheese grape ones, right?"
"Yeah, that’s right."
Cheng Zhu thought he recognized a few of the scalpers from outside the Ming Tea shop.
They were probably active at Youu Tea’s Star City branch before!
"Wang Yunan probably never thought his Ming Tea would one day have scalpers selling its drinks in Hang City," Cheng Zhu thought to himself.
After paying, Cheng Zhu returned with two cups of the cheese grape flavor.
"Why did you only buy two?" Lin Lu asked.
"You think you can finish one on your own? I’ll share with you," Cheng Zhu replied.
"Okay, let taste it then!" Lin Lu seed excited.
She first took a big gulp of Youu Tea’s grape with flesh, then nodded her head deeply, "It’s good, mmm... I’ve morized this flavor."
Cheng Zhu watched his playful girlfriend and jokingly said, "Judge, should I go buy you a bottle of mineral water to drink first to prevent the flavors from mixing?"
"Hey! You make a good point!" Lin Lu’s eyes lit up.
"Drink up, drink up," Cheng Zhu urged.
"Oh," Little Lu pouted and complied.
She took a big sip of Ming Tea’s cheese grape and then gave a thumbs-up, "Tasty! This is tasty too!"
Ji Shiwen also chid in at that mont, nodding, "Indeed, it’s quite tasty."
After reflecting for a mont, Lin Lu shared her personal thought, "But it feels a bit heavier than Youu Tea’s, not as refreshing."
Hearing this, Cheng Zhu responded, "Right, the first few sips seem okay, but as you drink more, this feeling becos more pronounced."
Due to the different original materials, this issue was unavoidable.
Under equal sweetness, Ming Tea’s would naturally feel heavier.
And in fact, there were supposed to be differences between Youu Tea and Ming Tea.
"Then I still prefer the grape with flesh a bit more," gourt reviewer Lin Lu gave her final verdict.
"But Ming Tea’s business won’t be bad, with quality control like this, it’s more than enough," Cheng Zhu said.
With this price point and taste, it would absolutely make a killing in the bubble tea market!
In fact, many founders of the bubble tea industry were buying Ming Tea’s new products today.
People like Chen Yue and Yu Feng were not only buying every new flavor, but also buying several cups each.
They needed not only to try themselves but also to let their R&D teams have a taste.
As a result, a group of them drank, and not a single person muttered a word!
"Damn, how co this is so tasty!" Yu Feng of Tea Language was speechless.
"And there’s a distinct taste difference from Youu Tea’s products!"
Their hanging hearts finally settled down.
This sumr, the bubble tea industry would enter real hell mode.
Previously, due to Mad Woman Chen Yue’s persona not being done well, she said publicly that Cheng Zhu cursed at her, saying "This industry needs disciplining, and you do too," and nobody believed her.
That comnt was too presumptuous, presumptuous enough to seem unbelievable.
But sohow, Yu Feng and others were starting to believe it...
Cheng Zhu was wiping out the competition!
His peers completely broke down, feeling lost, unsure of where to go.
Though Le Tea had financed a hundred million, they had already spent over seventy million.
The second round of financing should have started, but Wu Han felt like it might be impossible to find investors...
If the funds ran dry, that would be the end of the road!
"Damn it, after I made the bubble tea industry big, every single one of you thought the industry had low barriers and believed it’s easy to sell trendy products, right?" Cheng Zhu couldn’t comprehend how these incompetents dared to enter the market.
"As long as the montum of Youu Tea is maintained, the more peers die, the more the capital market will favor this ’unicorn’ of the bubble tea world, and the third round of financing will be even bigger!"
After getting in the car, Cheng Zhu first dropped Ji Shiwen off at her school, then took Lin Lu out for dinner.
After dinner, they both returned to their rental apartnts in Xinhang Apartnt.
During the night, Cheng Zhu received a WeChat ssage from Jiang Wanzhou.
"What did you and Wenwen do today?" he asked.
"She and Lin Lu went to buy clothes, then went to get Ming Tea together, why?
"She’s been telling to start a business ever since she got back to her dorm," Jiang Wanzhou typed.
Cheng Zhu thought to himself: That’s crazy.
But people like that really exist in this world.
He typed and asked, "I told you before about the blind box business, did you ntion this to her?"
"Hmm, just briefly ntioned it, didn’t say much," replied Little President Jiang.
"What do you think?"
"To be honest, her suddenly bringing this up today, I didn’t like it much, it felt weird."
Cheng Zhu didn’t comnt.
He knew very well that Jiang Wanzhou was also a very opinionated person.
People’s strengths and weaknesses are often linked; the sa quality could be a strength or a weakness depending on the situation.
Opinionated people tend to be stubborn.
This is sotis the sad reality of human relationships, especially between n and won.
For instance, initially, you’re attracted by his decisiveness, but later on, every argunt makes you feel that this person is simply unpersuasive, and you wonder, "Why is he like this!"
Cheng Zhu didn’t comnt on Ji Shiwen, he just followed up on the topic, asking, "So, about the blind box business I ntioned, have you given it more thought?"
"I’m quite interested, I’ve been researching it lately, and I plan to go abroad during the sumr vacation to take a look," Little President Jiang typed. "My intuition tells , you’re right, this thing has a very good market prospect! To be precise, I’m very optimistic about the dostic trend of trendy toys."
In a previous life, Jiang Wanzhou later entered the business of trendy toys and did very well.
That’s why Cheng Zhu gave him this suggestion, to try and dabble in blind boxes.
"Then go for it," Cheng Zhu typed.
"Ai, you’re doing so damn well with your startups now, I’m afraid I might end up lukewarm without your success, and feel let down," he sincerely said.
Cheng Zhu clearly understood, given their relationship from childhood, Jiang Wanzhou certainly wasn’t trying to compete with him.
But because they had played together from childhood, based on human nature, if his blind box business didn’t take off, feeling let down was inevitable.
This made Cheng Zhu ponder for a mont, and instead of encouraging him, he bluntly said, "Are you joking! You fucking trying to be as aweso as ? That’s definitely impossible!"
"Go to hell!" Little President Jiang typed fiercely.
Cheng Zhu could almost imagine his expression.
He didn’t think Jiang Wanzhou wouldn’t do well because he would help him.
After the chat ended, he did recall so mories from his previous life.
In his previous life, the one who felt let down wasn’t Jiang Wanzhou, but him, Cheng Zhu.
The reason was simple; Little President Jiang’s starting point was much higher than his.
He was involved in big business right from the start, while Cheng Zhu had to slowly accumulate from scratch.
Initially, when he was doing e-comrce, Cheng Zhu nearly did all the work by himself.
Later, as things started to improve, he rented a place in Wu City’s e-comrce park and hired a few employees, finally looking a bit more like a proper company.
During that period, Jiang Wanzhou’s trendy toy business was already very big, and Cheng Zhu’s work in two years couldn’t match up to what Jiang made in a month.
In that half-year period, actually, the number of tis they t was quite few, but it didn’t affect their relationship at all.
One interesting scene happened during that ti.
When Cheng Zhu was about to officially move into a very small rented space in Wu City’s e-comrce park, the entrance was lined with two full rows of flower baskets, all ordered by Jiang Wanzhou from Hang City.
The spectacle was so grand, Cheng Zhu was a bit speechless.
But among the flower baskets, he found a greeting card.
On the card was just one sentence:
[Strive on your paths, thousand miles under the sa wind].
...
(ps: Lobbying for monthly tickets~)
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