Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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As the Mid-Autumn Festival got closer, Lu Chengyu’s work in Huading was getting smoother and smoother.
Because Yan Mu was a good boss, he worked very hard, and even gave Yan Mu some investment advice based on his own vision and some things he knew in his previous life. When he learned that Huading was going to participate in the land bidding meeting in M City, he suddenly remembered that there were several ghost towns in M City that were famous throughout the country.
Because after the development case was proposed in this place, many businessmen came to invest in construction, but later many houses were not sold. However, due to cost reasons, investors could not lower the price. In the end, many newly developed communities in M City became ghost towns with no one living in them, trapping many investors.
“The land in M City?” Lu Chengyu was in the president’s office. After listening to the conversation between Yan Mu and Cao Jingshen, he hesitated and asked, “Is it the one near the North District?”
Cao Jingshen nodded in confusion, not understanding why Lu Chengyu asked such a strange question. He looked at Yan Mu and found that the other party was ready to listen carefully, so he said, “What’s wrong with the North District?”
“I heard that the population of M City is not large, and other companies are investing in real estate in this place. Will it affect the housing market?” Lu Chengyu walked to Yan Mu’s desk, leaned over in front of the computer, and called up some information and news about M City. “The people in this place don’t have a strong desire to buy houses, and some people’s financial strength is not enough to buy this kind of community.”
“But in the past two years, the authorities will vigorously develop this place. Now the land price in M City is low. If we can get the land in this place, it will be a rare opportunity,” Cao Jingshen frowned and said, “Our market should not only consider people from M City, but also foreign investment or workers.”
“But the development project may not be successful. If it fails, the money invested cannot be recovered in a short period of time.” Lu Chengyu remembered that M City had indeed been developed in the past, but because the actual operation was too difficult, the development project was shelved a year later. At that time, it was unknown how many developers were trapped, and some developers even jumped off the building because of this, which caused quite a stir and triggered some social thinking about the housing market.
After all these years, housing prices tended to be stable, and even some places had seen price cuts, so even if the real estate market in M City could have recovered after his death in his previous life, there would not be much profit. On the contrary, if these trapped funds were used to invest in other industries, it was unknown how much could be earned back in these years.
He didn’t know whether Huading had invested in this place in his previous life, but he still dutifully said what he should advise Yan Mu.
After hearing this, Cao Jingshen fell into deep thought. He just thought that the land price was cheap, and he really didn’t think about the development of this area. Lu Chengyu’s words were equivalent to ringing a wake-up call for him.
“You don’t think the market in M City is promising?” Yan Mu looked at Lu Chengyu, as if trying to see something from his expression.
“I’m just making a suggestion,” Lu Chengyu shook his head, “but personally, I don’t think much of this place.”
Yan Mu nodded, closed the bid in his hand, and handed it to Lu Chengyu: “I understand.” He thought for a moment, “I’m going to attend the bidding meeting in M City tomorrow, and you should go with me.”
Lu Chengyu looked at the bid in his hand and nodded.
“Make a new bid. Although we don’t want to win the bid, we still have to go through the motions,” Yan Mu agreed, “M City is indeed not an easy place to develop. You’re right.”
Cao Jingshen sighed beside him. When talking about this matter before, the boss doubted the success of the M City development case, but he didn’t expect Lu Chengyu to doubt this as well.
Over the past few days, he felt that Lu Chengyu was really a rare assistant. No wonder the boss valued him more and more.
“I’ll go book a flight to M City tonight,” Cao Jingshen left the office and called to book a flight and hotel.
Lu Chengyu returned to the office, revised the bid, and checked the recent temperature in City M. He found that the weather was just a little hot and the sun was a little strong, and there was nothing special to pay attention to. So he rushed home early in the afternoon, packed a set of clothes, and rushed directly to the airport to meet Cao Jingshen and Yan Mu.
After boarding the plane, Lu Chengyu found that Cao Jingshen had bought him a business class ticket, which was much more comfortable and spacious than the economy class. Just after lying down comfortably, he heard Cao Jingshen explaining the ticket to Yan Mu: “This flight only has two cabin options. Although it is not as good as international flights, it is still good.”
He couldn’t even afford an economy class ticket in his previous life, how could he feel when he ran to squeeze into the train?
“Yeah,” Yan Mu nodded, and looked at Lu Chengyu who was sitting next to him without saying a word, and said, “If you feel bored later, take a nap.”
Lu Chengyu smiled at Yan Mu, “Okay.” A man like Yan Mu who was rich, good-looking, and could cook had not found a wife even after nine years. For female compatriots, it was really a heinous waste of resources.
“I didn’t expect to meet Mr. Lu here. It’s fate.” A familiar and somewhat annoying voice sounded behind him. He looked up and saw that it was indeed someone he didn’t like, Liang Deyou, the prince of the Liang family.
Behind Liang Deyou was Chen Jin, who was dressed in elite clothes, and two bodyguards. Chen Jin obviously saw him, but just lowered his head and pretended not to see him.
“As the saying goes, a destined person will meet even if they are thousands of miles apart. Mr. Liang can be on the same flight with me thousands of miles above the sky. It is indeed a fate that has been cultivated for a hundred years,” Lu Chengyu smiled at Liang Deyou, “It is really a pleasant surprise.”
Liang Deyou was disgusted by Lu Chengyu’s smile of meeting someone happily after a thousand miles. He turned around and sat down on the other side of the aisle with Chen Jin. He then said to Lu Chengyu across the aisle, “I heard that Mr. Lu is from this city. He should not have travelled far away often. I wonder if he is used to flying?”
“Very good,” Lu Chengyu heard that the other party wanted to ridicule him for not having flown before, so he laughed instead of getting angry, “It’s just that I can’t open the window, so it’s a bit stuffy.”
With a sneer, Liang Deyou felt that the man in front of him was vulgar. How could Chen Jin have liked such a person before. However, who is the man sitting with Chengyu? His eyes don’t seem to be very friendly.
Liang Deyou didn’t remember Yan Mu, but Chen Jin still had an impression. He recognized that this was the man who walked with Lu Chengyu on the day of the graduation ceremony. For some reason, he subconsciously didn’t like this person who seemed a little difficult to get along with. Maybe it was the other person’s aura?
Glancing at Yan Mu, he pursed his lips, thinking of Liang Deyou’s words just now mocking Lu Chengyu, he felt very embarrassed on his face, because it was his first time taking a plane as well. Liang Deyou’s words just now sounded like he was also mocking him.
“Why don’t you say, wait until the plane enters the clouds, open the window and touch the white clouds.”
He found that the person who spoke in this joking tone was a man wearing glasses in the front seat of Lu Chengyu, and it seemed that this person was very familiar with Lu Chengyu.
“I’m a freshly graduated college student with little social experience. Don’t lie to me. Can you see clouds at night?” Lu Chengyu rolled up the sleeves of his white shirt, looked at Cao Jingshen who turned around with an innocent expression, and deliberately said in a funny way, “And when the wind blows by the plane, can you open the window?”
Cao Jingshen pushed his glasses and said seriously, “Fall asleep quickly, and you can do it after you fall asleep.”
Lu Chengyu raised the corner of his mouth and showed Cao Jingshen eight neat white teeth: “Hehe.”
Silently watching this scene in front of him, Chen Jin felt a little complicated. Lu Chengyu seemed to be able to get along with people so easily wherever he went, and even be liked by people. No wonder he looked down on people like him.
Liang Deyou tilted his head to see the expression on Chen Jin’s face, and his face sank.
Yan Mu turned his head to look at Liang Deyou, and then silently retracted his gaze. The prince of the Liang family was still far inferior to his father. The old man of the Liang family wanted to abdicate and hand over the company to the prince of the Liang family. This decision would probably be the biggest proof of his loss of integrity in his later years.
Just as the plane took off and stabilized, it was dinner time. The flight attendants began to distribute drinks, fruits and dinner to passengers. Lu Chengyu didn’t like Western flavors, so he chose traditional Chinese food. Just halfway through the meal, the plane encountered air currents and shook violently. He hurriedly reached out to hold the drink cup steady. Seeing that the drink had not leaked a drop, he slowly breathed a sigh of relief.
Yan Mu noticed his action, so after he finished drinking, he rang the bell to call the flight attendant to fill another cup for Lu Chengyu.
Lu Chengyu looked at the full cup of orange juice in front of him: “…” He just didn’t want to waste it.
After getting off the plane, the person in charge of receiving them in M City sent them to the hotel that had been booked before. Then when Lu Chengyu got the room card at the service desk, he saw Liang Deyou and Chen Jin also walk in. The moment he and Liang Deyou looked into each other’s eyes, Liang Deyou’s face sank, but he blinked, and showed the other party a bright smile.
Liang Deyou turned his head away and said to Chen Jin beside him: “Chen Jin, is your annoying college classmate sick?”
Chen Jin glanced at him indifferently: “You are the first person to say that he is sick, so…what do you think?” Although he blamed Lu Chengyu for not liking him, but apart from that, Lu Chengyu was a very good person, and he didn’t want to play like a child with Liang Deyou.
“I knew you still couldn’t bear to leave him,” Liang Deyou said with an ugly face, “but, he doesn’t like you at all, do you know?”
Chen Jin glared at him and walked forward silently, as if he was too lazy to even talk.
So when Lu Chengyu was about to go upstairs, he found that Liang Deyou was glaring at him inexplicably, as if he wanted to pounce on him and fight.
He touched his chin and whispered to Cao Jingshen: “Is this Liang family prince okay?”
Cao Jingshen pushed his glasses: “Maybe he is a severe patient in the second stage of Chunnibyou syndrome.”
This was the best hotel in M City, but the hardware facilities and service quality were still a little behind those of the first-class hotels in Beijing. Lu Chengyu looked at the time. It was past nine o’clock in the evening, but there were not many pedestrians on the street outside the hotel.
Yan Mu noticed this as well as he did. He reached out and patted Lu Chengyu on the shoulder: “Let’s go.” Fortunately, he decided to give up the bid this time, otherwise he would have lost a lot of money.
The three rooms were next to each other. Lu Chengyu chose the one in the middle. If there was any noise in the rooms on both sides, he could find it in time.
After putting away his change of clothes, he carried his notebook and walked out of the room. He heard someone coming out from the opposite door. He looked up and saw Chen Jin coming out, followed by Liang Deyou.
Chen Jin didn’t expect it to be such a coincidence. He remembered that he lived in the same room with Liang Deyou and was seen by Lu Chengyu, and he suddenly became uncomfortable.
Lu Chengyu finally just nodded to Chen Jin, not knowing what else to say to this person.
“Yo, what a coincidence,” Liang Deyou walked in front of Chen Jin with a fake smile, blocking Chen Jin’s sight of Lu Chengyu, “Mr. Lu is here for bidding this time? There are several real estate companies in Beijing that are ready to attack M City. I don’t know where Lu Chengyu got the ability to represent the company not long after he started working.”
“There is an old saying in the business world that knowing yourself and the enemy will win every battle. If Mr. Liang is not clear on this, go back and ask your father. I believe he will be able to teach you well,” Yan Mu suddenly walked out of the room, glanced at Liang Deyou expressionlessly, turned to Lu Chengyu and said, “Go in, Jingshen has arrived first.” Then he took Lu Chengyu into his room without even looking at Liang Deyou.
Liang Deyou looked at Yan Mu’s back and uttered two words after a long time: “F**k!” Where did this person come from? He spoke in a very arrogant way. “Didn’t his family teach him what politeness is?!”
Chen Jin looked at the closed door and suddenly remembered that the company where Lu Chengyu worked was called Huading International. Could it be that the person who just came out was a senior executive or president of Huading?
What kind of height had Lu Chengyu reached now?
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