Chapter 799: Chapter 528: The Reward from Lin Lu_2
The sisters were both dressed in loungewear: pure white T-shirts on top and solid-colored cotton pants below.
Zhang Qiqi was slightly taller than Yiyi, so her legs were longer too.
But Yiyi’s proportions were also very good, and she was truly the epito of “pale, young, and thin”, with skin that seed as flawless as a baby’s, as if it had no imperfections at all.
At the mont, they were both sitting cross-legged on the sofa, each holding half of a small waterlon.
Ever since Yiyi ca to Hang City to stay temporarily, there had never been a shortage of fruit in the house.
In addition, there had always been fresh flowers in the vase.
None of these were things that Zhang Qiqi would do on a regular day.
Now, she was using a spoon to dig out the waterlon, occasionally getting lost in thought.
As a net-famous campus beauty who had officially graduated from Technology University, her troubles mostly ca from Cheng Zhu.
“Why won’t my junior brother take the initiative to look for ?” she couldn’t quite understand why.
Since the night they were trapped in the car by the rain, every ti she tried to chat with Cheng Zhu, he would usually reply and even talk with her for a while, but he just wouldn’t initiate contact with her, much less ask her out.
“Logically speaking, after what happened in the car that day… we went that far!” Qiqi thought to herself.
“Isn’t it normal for n to be in a hurry and… really want it in this regard?” She didn’t understand.
“Under normal circumstances, shouldn’t he strike while the iron’s hot?”
Sotis, she would involuntarily recall that rainy night, the Land Rover enveloped by the rain, and everything about Cheng Zhu that night.
Then, Zhang Qiqi would feel her body subtly heat up, as if she had a slight fever.
“His work must really be too busy,” Zhang Qiqi could only think of this explanation.
Yiyi, who was attentively watching a variety show, noticed that her cousin was distracted, her spoon constantly digging into the waterlon, and guessed that she must be thinking about Brother Zhu again, feeling down!
Of course, the state of this Innocent Little White Flower had also been sowhat wilted lately.
“Brother Zhu said he would take out for a al.”
“It feels like so many days have passed in the blink of an eye.”
She had been staying with Zhang Qiqi for nearly half a month now.
Her mother, ng Qingyu, had even made a special phone call yesterday, asking her why she was staying in Hang City for so long this ti and if she still had enough money with her.
In the end, Yiyi also voiced the sa thought as Qiqi.
“It must be because his work is really too busy.”
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With the arrival of the sumr vacation, Cheng Zhu had indeed beco busier.
He was sowhat relieved that there was Ningning to help out with many of the company’s tasks.
Now, it was Shen Qingning who ended up spending the most ti with him.
They would see each other at the company nearly every day and often leave work together.
Both were gradually getting accustod to this routine.
One could only say that Cheng Zhu’s plan to “kidnap the Shen family” was, for the ti being, going smoothly.
In the afternoon, “Shen Minglang, Fly Anywhere in the Country” returned from a business trip and even paid a visit to the company.
Young Master Shen always made a show of his presence whenever he visited the company.
Today, he brought a lot of layered cakes for the staff to enjoy as a sweet afternoon treat.
“Why don’t you just get a pastry chef to set up a dessert station in the company for you?” Cheng Zhu joked with a smile.
To this, the sunny and cheerful big boy replied, “Can I?”
He thought how cool it would be to make such an impressive entrance every ti he returned from a business trip!
Cheng Zhu: “…”
Shen Qingning, watching Cheng Zhu’s speechless expression from the side, found it quite amusing.
The three of them sat down in Cheng Zhu’s office, and Shen Minglang began to report on the results of his business trip.
He was really getting tanner and tanner.
After the work report was over, Cheng Zhu couldn’t help but turn to Shen Qingning. “Why not buy your brother so sunscreen?”
“It’s okay, I think I look even more handso with a tan,” Shen Minglang said.
His thinking was simple; whenever he t old friends or old acquaintances, they would be greatly surprised: “How co you’ve gotten so much darker?”
Then he could boast about how hard his work was and how important he was to Youu Tea!
What a great point to show off!
He had learned this from Cheng Zhu: find the right angle and just flaunt it!
“Cousin, you ntioned on the phone last ti that you plan to take part in Ele’s F-round funding?” Shen Minglang brought up the topic on his own initiative.
“Yep,” Cheng Zhu nodded, then said, “It’s just a pity that I can’t bring you guys in this ti; they didn’t agree.”
“No worries, you’re the founder of Youu Tea, and it’s enough that you’re a stakeholder in the platform,” said Shen Minglang, waving his hand to show he understood.
The three major food delivery platforms are now thriving, and it was already quite an accomplishnt for Cheng Zhu to get involved, not to ntion bringing his “family” along.
“With Youu Tea on [Dianping] and Ele, we’re sure to win this ti’s ‘Food Delivery War’!” Shen Minglang started to speak auspiciously.
“That would be great, but I bet Zhang Xuhao and Zhang Tao are quite troubled right now,” Cheng Zhu said with a smile.
Shen Minglang looked up at his “ntor” and instantly felt, “Uh-oh, my cousin has caught a chance to flaunt!”
He readied himself to listen attentively, so he could show off to others later. “Why?”
“Because they might be losing track of [ituan] Wang Xin’s cards,” Cheng Zhu replied.
As he predicted, things were indeed heading that way.
Zhang Tao and Zhang Xuhao have been sowhat puzzled these past few days.
“It’s too much! [ituan] has been too aggressive lately!”
The forr [ituan], among a host of group-buying forces, was known for being frugal.
The strategy was to lie low and grow, not caring about others spending money.
Under such a model, it could hold its own against [Dianping], engaging in tit-for-tat matches. Now that it had started spending wildly, wasn’t it creating chaos?
Wang Xin was walking the path he had set out, in a do-or-die attempt.
His current stance was to burn through whatever money he had on the accounts!
He knew Zhang Tao very well – the man was quite suspicious, and he knew that his move could throw Tao off balance.
The situation evolved just as Cheng Zhu had anticipated.
It seed like ituan was ready for a major showdown.
“This rate of burning money, are they insane?” Zhang Tao exclaid in disbelief.
[Dianping] calculated that, at ituan’s current rate, they were burning through at least a hundred million US dollars a month!
Yes, that’s just the minimum!
Now, so ti had passed since the last round of financing.
“Judging by Wang Xin’s rate of spending, how long can he last, until the end of October at most?” Zhang Tao was puzzled.
“If we follow their burning, it’s really going to be tough,” he thought.
Dianping had managed to last until now among the group-buying forces purely because it started early and had accumulated a large early rchant information advantage, a natural major edge.
His company took a different path than ituan.
ituan had too many people under its command, countless experienced, veteran ground-pushers at their disposal.
They had a firm grip on the market share in smaller cities, unbreakable!
Once they started burning money on a large scale, it would create a wildfire effect!
The only advantage for [Dianping] was having a supportive “father” with Tencent providing endless traffic and cash support.
Zhang Tao had been so arrogant in the past, disregarding Wang Xin’s requests for a rger between their two companies because the latter didn’t have a powerful “father”—Alibaba was underwhelming as a stepfather.
——Heh, just bullying you because you have no dad to pamper you!
But now, he was beginning to feel confused.
“Wang Xin is very steady.”
“There must be sothing fishy here!”
“Could it be that Alibaba doesn’t hold any grudge and will continue to give him endless cash support!?”
At this mont, Zhang Tao began to panic.
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(ps: Today’s update is a bit short, my wife suddenly fell ill, and I’m accompanying her to the ergency room. I’d like to ask for your support with the monthly tickets at the start of the month.)
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