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  Chapter 189: Project Proposals Show Affe Too?

  TL: Etude

  Jiang Qin articurly generous tonight, a vish spread of dishes to eain Lai qing, Ding Qiaona, and a few key employees from team 208.

  Garlic scallops, crystal pork knuckles, golden soup with fatty beef, cy pot fish head, dried bamboo shoots with cured meat…

  The array was dazzling, the aroma overwhelming, making everyone’s mouth water.

  Feng Nanshu quickly filled up and, while Jiang Qin and Lai qing were chatting, she sneakily took a sip of his drink. Her cheeks instantly turned red, aongue, burned by the spice, stuck out.

  Hearing a gasp, Jiang Qin turned around, puzzled.

  “Why is your face so red?”

  “I just had some chili.”

  The little rich dy spoke with her to, tears already f in her eyes.

  In fact, everyo the table except Jiang Qin had seeeal the drink, but nobody dared to intervene in the boss dy’s affairs.

  “Madam, have some water,” Su Nai quietly brought a gss over.

  “Su Nai, you’re a good person.”

  Feng Nanshu gulped dower, her mouth still reeking of alcohol. She kept her mouth shut, afraid Jiang Qin would notice.

  Jiang Qin forbade her from drinking alcohol. She could taste a bit of beer, but spirits were strictly off-limits, yet her curiosity always got the better of her.

  Saying she was like a silly cat was not far from the truth; curiosity could indeed be fatal.

  However, not everyone could enjoy drinks and a feast that night. In the feren of Wanzhong Mall, a group of miserable managers were eating boxed meals, w overtime.

  In front of them y the group-buying project proposal personally drafted by Jiang Qin.

  The proposal wasn’t lengthy, fitting ohan fes of A4 paper, but it had the five seasoned marketing managers puzzled for a long time, uo fully grasp its essence.

  Some things are just like that.

  Subtle yet terrifying upon closer iion, seemingly simple but capable of exhausting the stro.

  You might think it’s unrealistic, yet you ’t deny its feasibility. It seems fantastical at first gnce, but upon deeper refle, it appears achievable.

  This mix of reality and fantasy had the five managers nearly at their wit’s end.

  “Is this project aiming to pletely overturn the existing order and habits of ption?”

  “Acc to this pn, ers could pare three stores without leaving their homes, identifying which has better or worse service based on reviews.”

  “I feel this proposal overhypes online sales.”

  “It’s not about hype; it’s that the key details are too sparse. I see the dire it’s headed, but the specifics are missing.”

  “How is instant payment and receipt of funds going to work? It takes me two hours to get a text firmation when I use a U-shield to recharge my phone.”

  “Fet about phone charges. Even bank transfers aren’t verified until the day. Could the future really hold transa tools that bypass banks?”

  “The big four banks seem to be upgrading their online services. I wonder if it’s reted to this.”

  “This proposal is essentially castrated, with maails omitted. It’s infuriatingly opaque!”

  “Who is Feng Nanshu? Why is her name repeated over twenty times at the end of the proposal? Could she be a key figure? This warrants deep thought.”

  Yue Zhu was also in the feren, silently sipping her coffee, her copy of the proposal nearly tattered.

  She resent the day the boss decided to reform the mall and knew maails unknown to other managers.

  For example, the reform arked by a uy student’s entrepreneurial project.

  Additionally, the boss believed that retail in the mid-market and pure sales would soon face twilight.

  Holy, Yue Zhu thought the boss was w over nothing. His decision to reform the mall seemed frivolous.

  No matter how ve and quiline sales were, how could they bee widespread nationwide in a short time?

  Take Amazon, for instance, a giant in e-erce, yet after five years in the ese market, it’s barely made a spsh.

  ging the nation’s ption habits isn’t something that be achieved just by talking about it.

  In Yue Zhu’s estimation, such a transformation couldn’t happen ihan fifty years.

  But sihe boss had spoken, the employees had to prepare.

  So, that night, instead of going to bed early as usual, Yue Zhu collected various e-erce materials on her puter while p over the day’s discussions.

  As her uanding deepened, she began to realize the fear the boss had spoken of.

  Direct factory sales, home delivery, online banking, nationwide logistics – these weren’t mere fantasies; people were already w on them. Ohese elements were ected, online shopping would bee incredibly smooth.

  With the barriers of time and space removed, the manufacturing cycle and ste costs would decrease, and mobile information teology was on the verge of an upgrade.

  ges in the era really don’t e with warnings ns.

  In such a sario, pure sales malls like Wanzhong would be devastated in a few years if they didn’t adapt.

  However, despite the boss’s instru to find inspiration for reform in the group-buying project, Yue Zhu found herself lost, her mind muddled.

  Thinking of this, she couldn’t help but recall Jiang Qin.

  Seeing him hahe group-buying project so effortlessly, Yue Zhu always felt it didn’t involve much teicality. But when it came to her, she found it utterly baffling.

  “Manager Yue, do you know who Feng Nanshu is?” asked Zhao, one of the managers.

  “Ah?”

  Yue Zhu snapped back to reality: “Manager Zhao, what did you just say?”

  “This proposal mentions ‘Feng Nanshu’ three times in a row at the end. Does it mean something?”

  “Oh, Feng Nanshu is Jiang Qin’s girlfriend. Jiang Qin is the one who wrote this proposal. The name might have been added pyfully when he was bored and then fotten to be deleted.”

  Upon hearing this, Manager Zhao cursed loudly: “Damn, even showing off their love in a project proposal. I wasted so much time searg online, ugh!”

  While they were talking, He Yijun suddeered the feren.

  The previously bustling managers immediately quieted down and straightened up.

  “How’s the project proposal going, everyone?” asked He Yijun.

  “General Manager He, this proposal is itent, it’s just a framework without details. We really ’t grasp it,” one manager replied.

  He Yijun sat in his chair and took a sip of tea: “This is someone else’s proposal. Of course, they won’t reveal all details to us. Having a general framework is enough because I don’t want you to ponder over this proposal, but to find the dire for the mall’s reform through it.”

  Marketiment Manager Zhao Zug couldn’t help but ask: “Who exactly is Jiang Qin, the author of this proposal?”

  “A person with keen and unique vision, capable, and also humble and cautious.”

  Yue Zhu, holding her coffee, almost choked on He Yijun’s words.

  Humble and cautious? These words could fit anyone, but pg them on Jiang Qin seemed like a waste!

  He Yijun, however, remained serious, mainly because he didn’t want to reveal that Jiang Qin was just a college student. Otherwise, the managers might uimate the proposal and not take it seriously.

  “Boss, I really don’t uand why we o reform if our mall is doing well?” asked Bao Wenping, the manager of the administrative department.

  “Let me show you some data I’ve collected retly.”

  He Yijun signaled his secretary, and a pre-prepared PowerPoint presentation rojected in the meeting room.

  The first page showed several rising e-erce websites.

  The sed page dispyed the growth in online shopping users since 2006.

  The third page showed the increased activation rate after the big four banks upgraded their online banking services.

  The fourth and fifth pages detailed information about a website called Taobao.

  After viewing the entire PowerPoint presentation, the managers present were somewhat silent, whispering to each other.

  “Shog, isn’t it? I was like you before, thinking this was far off and not a threat to us. But after trying Taobao st night, I realized how formidable it is. One day, it will subtly infiltrate our lives.”

  “Once huma used to vehings, it’s hard to go back.”

  “Then… what’s the e between online shopping and this group-buying project?” Zhao Zug asked.

  He Yijun took a deep breath: “The person who wrote this project proposal is a master. This is a new project he’s retly experimenting with. I hope after reading it, you find inspiration for our dire.”

  “Boss, could we have more time? We o digest all this information.”

  “Of course.”

  After He Yijun finished speaking and annouhe meeting’s end, he felt somewhat disappointed.

  The managers under him had been revolving around the mall for too long, their thinking had bee rigid, iive to the ges of the times.

  But he couldn’t bme them; even as the boss, he was also in the dark about how to approach the reform.

  It seemed he o sult someone who truly uood the trends of the era, someone whose few words could provide clear insight.

  Meanwhile, someone capable of uanding these trends was sitting oeps outside a restaurant, s up, feeling the biting cold of the winter night.

  On the road, he observed groups of lightly-dressed female students braving the cold, their beauty standing out starkly against the chill, seemingly immuo it.

  Such youth, not g for their knees, would eventually suffer from cold joints.

  “Jiang Qin, don’t fet to e to my house for diomorrow.”

  Lost in thought, Jiang Qin suddenly received this text from He Yijun.

  So eager to invite me to dinner?

  Seems like there’s no such thing as a free meal. Old He must be up to something. I o be cautious.

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