Zhao Yan opened his eyes in the morning and saw a "good morning" message from Chen Yurou after unlocking his phone.
Chen Yurou would send him "good morning" and "good night" messages without fail.
Look familiar? Does it look like you're staring in a mirror?
Sometimes Zhao Yan would reply, sometimes not, maintaining an aloof stance and firmly holding onto the initiative.
"What should I do for fun today?"
Zhao Yan muttered to himself, since the principal had excused him from attending school classes recently because of his participation in the Olympic Games, he should rest well and conserve his energy.
The company's matters were being handled by Xu Xue so he did not need to worry at all. This resulted in him having nothing to do.
Since he had nothing to do, why not engage in some hanky-panky?
Zhao Yan took out his phone and called Chen, the boss of Jinxiu Palace, "Old Chen, let's meet up with the people who handled the Sanhe Group matter last time and have lunch at the Binhai International Hotel, my treat. We can discuss some matters over the meal."
Last time when he overheard Chen Han's phone call with Chen, he was just trying to maintain his image and prestige in his usual pompous manner.
But a good idea had suddenly occurred to him last night.
As a man of action, he planned to implement it today.
After settling this matter, he planned to enter the club again to exchange points with others. After all, he only had 2 points left now. He had to earn points urgently!
He needed to save up 1000 points to upgrade to a white silver member. The road to upgrade was long and arduous!
On the other end, after receiving the call, Chen announced Zhao Yan's words excitedly in the group chat.
The previously silent WeChat group instantly became lively.
After all, if Zhao Yan wanted to discuss matters, what could he be discussing?
It must be rewards for them!
How could they not feel excited?
As noon approached, Zhao Yan went to fetch Chen Yurou and brought her along to the Binhai International Hotel.
After all, how could he showcase his background at a lunch gathering without bringing an influential woman?
Although he only had a back view and no background.
But they thought he had an impressive background!
Chen Yurou was quite happy, because in her eyes, this meant that Zhao Yan was treating her as his girlfriend.
For this reason, she had specially put on makeup.
"I won't embarrass you right?" After alighting from the car, Chen Yurou did a twirl, blinking her eyes coyly.
The white one-shoulder dress showed off her cleavage, paired with a light blue cardigan over it, sheer black stockings and high heels.
Purely seductive, very alluring.
Zhao Yan put his arm around her slender waist, "You'll only bring me glory, so beautiful it takes my breath away."
"Such a sweet-talker." Chen Yurou leaned against him.
As the two walked towards the lift, Zhao Yan casually said, "Sweet or not, want to have a taste?"
"Some other day." Chen Yurou replied bashfully.
Zhao Yan swallowed his saliva, "That's no good."
"Go away!" Chen Yurou instantly understood what this rogue was thinking about again. "Some other day means some other day, not..." She humphed.
The two entered the hotel lobby laughing and joking. Under the hotel staff's guidance, they took the lift up to the private room.
When Zhao Yan brought Chen Yurou in, the extra-large round table inside was already fully seated. Even the Binhai International Hotel's boss had shamelessly squeezed into a seat after receiving the news.
At this moment, everyone stood up to greet Zhao Yan.
"Mr Zhao, pleasure to meet you." "I've heard so much about you!"
"At such a young age, Mr Zhao is already so outstanding..."
"Please take a seat everyone." Zhao Yan brought Chen Yurou along, walking calmly to the head seat with a smile and sitting down unhurriedly.
After so much pretending, he had become increasingly shameless. He was pretending until even he himself almost believed that he was truly influential.
Lost in the endless cries of "Mr Zhao".
After everyone was seated, the hotel servers started serving the dishes.
Zhao Yan smiled at everyone, "Since I don't know many of you, please introduce yourselves."
"Let me go first. Greetings Mr Zhao, I am Yuan Heng Real Estate's Chairman Ye Mingyuan. It's my greatest blessing to be able to meet you in my lifetime. This first toast is to you."
"Mr Zhao, I am from Sun Electric..."
In around 10 minutes, the 20 over people present had introduced themselves. All of them could influence Handong Province's economy, even the entire country's economy.
Without exaggeration, because Binhai itself was one of the country's economically powerful cities.
So the wealthy people here were truly wealthy!
Seeing so many influential figures being so respectful to Zhao Yan, Chen Yurou scoffed at what her elder brother had said about Zhao Yan being a scammer. Were there such capable scammers? Were all these wealthy people fools?
"Everyone present are all influential figures in Binhai. Although the trivial matter in Changning was small, everyone helped me resolve it even before I made a move. I will remember this favour." Zhao Yan spoke calmly.
"Mr Zhao, you're too courteous. These are all things we should do. How could that Fu Zhixin dare to offend you? We cannot tolerate this!"
"That's right Mr Zhao. You're too polite. Something so minor, what does it amount to? As long as you don't blame us for overstepping..."
Everyone eagerly suppressed their delight and indicated that handling the Sanhe Group was just a trivial matter.
Zhao Yan smiled, "It's a small matter, but I, Zhao Yan, will definitely repay acts of goodwill. Calling everyone here today is because I have an immature idea that I wish to share with everyone for your opinions."
"Please go ahead Mr Zhao." Everyone listened intently.
They knew the main point of today's gathering had arrived.
Zhao Yan raised his wine glass to take a sip, then slowly said, "Thanks to everyone's recognition, I wish to take the lead to establish a business federation. Let's consolidate our resources, expand externally together, compete healthily internally. If we join hands, we won't just be doing domestic business, we can globalize, even become a world-class conglomerate!"
This was the idea he had come up with last night - to utilize his non-existent background to spearhead the founding of a business federation where he would be appointed Chairman. Then he could use the federation to profit for himself.
After successfully getting all these people to establish the business federation with him, he could then leverage on the federation's reputation to negotiate collaborations with others.
Like a snowball, growing bigger and bigger.
Over time, the background that he never had could be built by him bit by bit into reality.
"The prospects are grand, I'm in. Mr Zhao can command me however he likes!" Jinxiu Palace's boss Chen took the lead to agree.
"I'm in too. Mr Zhao, I won't hide this from you but we've had such thoughts before too. It's just that we didn't have someone prestigious enough to lead us. Now that we all look up to you..."
"Mr Zhao obviously intends for us to strike it rich together. One would have to be a fool to disagree. I'm joining too..."
Without any hesitation, everyone agreed to join this yet-to-be-established business federation and elected Zhao Yan to be the Chairman.
Because to them, Zhao Yan seemed extremely capable. How could the business federation he wanted to operate be bad? Joining now would make them founding members!
Hadn't they seen Chen Han marrying his own sister off?
This shameless bastard. Calling Mr Zhao a scammer on one hand, while sending his own sister to him on the other hand.
He must really think them to be fools!
Anyone who believed Zhao Yan to be a scammer would be the fool!
Zhao Yan was all smiles, "Alright, since everyone is agreeable, I will work out the finer details and we can discuss again another day. For now, let's eat. The food is getting cold."
"Yes, yes, yes, let's eat. Cheers to Mr Zhao!"
"Let me toast Mr Zhao as well..."
Next, everyone merrily drank and chatted.
Only at 2pm did the group reluctantly disperse.
Zhao Yan was drunk. Chen Yurou could only helplessly book a room in the hotel for him to rest and sober up.
So,
Of course Zhao Yan was pretending to be drunk (⌯︎¤̴̶̷̀ω¤̴̶̷́)✧︎.
It was time for some up close and personal contact with Chen Yurou.
-20cm.