Chapter 45
Chapter 45: Business Plan
Downstairs at Building 5, Min’an Residential Complex.
After loading Gu Wanting’s luggage into the car, with Lin Shen absent, Cheng Yue finally had a chance to complain.
“Tingting, why do you think Lin Shen changed so much?”
“I don’t know.”
Gu Wanting was somewhat irritated, which made Cheng Yue, noticing her bad mood, ask with concern, “What’s wrong?”
“Let me ask you something.”
Gu Wanting crossed her arms and stared at Cheng Yue intently.
“When I had you come get my things the first time, did you say something you shouldn’t have?”
“No.”
Cheng Yue shook his head in denial, but Gu Wanting clearly didn’t believe him and continued questioning.
“What exactly did you say then?”
“I just did what you asked, Tingting – said I was your friend coming to get things.”
Cheng Yue spread his hands innocently.
“Then he had no expression, seemed to assume I was your boyfriend, but showed no signs of jealousy.”
“…”
Gu Wanting fell silent. Seeing this, Cheng Yue stepped forward and put his arm around her shoulder, analyzing, “If he still loved you, he would have angrily thrown me out.”
“But he said nothing then, even looked calm, which shows he stopped liking you long ago. Plus when I was packing the master bedroom, I found traces of a woman’s presence.”
“So he cheated first.”
Was that really the case?
Gu Wanting wasn’t quite sure.
When she originally had Cheng Yue come get her things, her initial purpose was to make Lin Shen jealous and create a sense of crisis.
But now it seemed that maybe breaking up was the better choice…
Or was it?
Gu Wanting glanced at Cheng Yue beside her and couldn’t help comparing him to Lin Shen.
If it were the old overweight Lin Shen, he definitely couldn’t compare to Cheng Yue.
Although Cheng Yue wasn’t handsome, he dressed cleanly and neatly, and with the added buff of having money at home, he seemed excellent enough.
But what about now?
After Lin Shen’s transformation, he had not only lost weight but excelled in physique, appearance, and mental state.
He could be said to be among the very best of men.
He was like he had suddenly taken some time-reversing medicine, returning to three years ago when they first met.
That was when she loved Lin Shen the most!
Gu Wanting’s mood suddenly soured. She shrugged off Cheng Yue’s arm around her shoulder and got into the passenger seat of the Mercedes E300.
She was starting to regret it.
She had thought Lin Shen would become dejected and degenerate, but instead he had become better!
What the hell!
It was like he had deliberately not lost weight before just to spite her!
“Tingting.”
Seeing Gu Wanting’s resentful expression, thinking she was still angry about Lin Shen’s cheating, Cheng Yue got into the driver’s seat and reached out to touch her snow-white, delicate thigh to comfort her.
“Don’t be angry anymore. How about we go for seafood buffet? I heard there’s a new place at Hang Lung Plaza that’s supposed to be good.”
“I’m not hungry.”
Gu Wanting slapped away Cheng Yue’s hand, making him both embarrassed and internally annoyed.
You’ve already let Lin Shen have his way with you, and I can’t even touch your leg?
Honestly, most people couldn’t handle Gu Wanting’s little temper tantrums.
But there was no choice – who told her to be beautiful with a great figure?
Cheng Yue’s parents owned a company and had some money, so he’d never lacked female attention growing up.
But he had fallen for Gu Wanting at first sight and began pursuing her endlessly, even to the point of being servile.
Friends in the same rich-kid circle all mocked him, saying he was being a simp and embarrassing their circle.
But if you didn’t truly like someone, who would want to be a simp?
Cheng Yue sighed softly.
“Tingting, didn’t you say you’d be my girlfriend after we got back from Paris? So what exactly is our relationship now?”
“More than friends.”
Gu Wanting was good at reading people. Noticing Cheng Yue’s resentful expression, she immediately took the initiative to hold his hand on the steering wheel and said pitifully, “My last relationship drained too much of my energy. Lin Shen broke my heart and made me a bit afraid of dating.”
“Can you give me some time to recover?”
“Okay.”
Cheng Yue held Gu Wanting’s hand in return, making her secretly breathe a sigh of relief.
Stabilized!
Although Lin Shen was more handsome now than ever, he definitely couldn’t match Cheng Yue economically.
Just this point alone made Gu Wanting still lean toward Cheng Yue.
Moreover, the company she worked for after graduation was owned by Cheng Yue’s family, so her future prospects would be brighter too.
Having lived in Shanghai for three years, Gu Wanting understood clearly.
To establish yourself in this kind of international metropolis, unless your academic performance was extraordinary, all other efforts were in vain.
Class mobility was harder than climbing to heaven!
Unless your life was rigged, you had to honestly recognize the three transmission routes of money and power:
Blood, reproduction, and sex.
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2 PM.
After waking up, Lin Shen went to the bathroom to wash his face, rinsing away the morning’s irritation and fatigue.
He made a cup of hot coffee and sat at his desk, typing a few words on a blank Word page.
[Pet Health Lifestyle Store]
This was the business plan Lin Shen had been sketching in his mind recently.
With the rise of lifestyle consumption patterns, the pet industry was definitely one of the current blue oceans.
Having worked at Pet Care Home for three years, Lin Shen deeply understood this – otherwise he couldn’t understand how a company with so many terrible people could develop to this extent.
He felt like half the credit belonged to Qin Yuenan’s operations.
Lin Shen knocked his head. Although he had identified his target, he didn’t know where to start.
After all, he had never started a business before.
So Lin Shen first tried listing his current assets.
400,000 in savings, plus [Low Virtue’s] 670,000 in industry funds.
And there were still some red dots on the app that he hadn’t passed through, with new batches refreshing every day at midnight.
Lin Shen calculated that he now earned 40,000 in industry funds each time he passed a red dot, with a daily maximum of nearly 500,000.
But it still wasn’t enough.
To start a business in Shanghai, he’d need at least two million in industry funds to barely qualify.
“Let me make a plan first.”
Lin Shen murmured, then took out his phone and opened the [Focus Pills] in the [Sports Health] app.
When the white pill bottle landed on the desk, he checked the instructions.
【When you need to focus on something, please take two pills and silently recite the task in your mind. Effects last two hours.】
【Maximum six pills per day. Please use with caution.】
So magical?
Lin Shen curiously tried taking two pills, then close