?Chapter 94: Episode 94: A New Investment Has Been Received Chapter 94: Episode 94: A New Investment Has Been Received Zhou Xueyin spoke lightly about how she had just been attacked by three investors, and those three were the same ones who had initially looked down on her with disdain.

    “Sister Chunming really shouldn’t have invited such scum of the industry,” Li Jiniang said angrily.

    “I didn’t invite them, they followed a client here…” Jiang Chunming’s voice appeared behind Li Jiniang, “Yinyin, they didn’t do anything to you, did they?”

    “It’s okay, just twisted my ankle a bit. Xiaojing applied some medicine, and it’s much better now,” Zhou Xueyin said with a relieved smile to Jiang Chunming.

    “That’s good to hear… Those three were already expelled from their previous company. I guess they came here looking for re-employment opportunities and didn’t expect to see you,” Jiang Chunming explained the situation of the three individuals.

    This trio had rejected many promising projects and instead invested in worthless endeavors for their own profit, resulting in their dismissal from the company.

    The reason they targeted Zhou Xueyin was simply bad luck for her…

    In the beginning, actually quite a few people were impressed with Zhou Xueyin’s proposal, but none knew how long she could hold out and were afraid to invest.

    Later, as the forum gained some fame, those who hadn’t invested began to regret it.

    But these three held a grudge against Zhou Xueyin for cursing them out in the office, which was why they wanted to cause her trouble today, though they didn’t really plan to do much – just to scare her a little bit.

    “These three got what they deserved, a life of misdeeds will doom oneself!” Zhou Xueyin said disdainfully, “They dared to make trouble at your banquet, aren’t they afraid of the industry blacklist?”

    “They’ve been regulars on the blacklist for a while now, probably resigned to their fate. Let’s not talk about this anymore…” Jiang Chunming frowned, looking at Zhou Xueyin’s foot, “Originally, I had arranged for you to give a speech on stage, but seeing this…”

    “Next time, next time… You’re only telling me now; I wasn’t prepared at all. Give me a heads-up next time so I can get ready!” Zhou Xueyin said with an embarrassed smile, “To be honest, with my foot like this, getting home is going to be a problem…”

    “I’ll take you home! Do you even have to ask?” Wei Jingzhu said worriedly, “With that foot, it’s going to be at least a week before you can walk! With those bunk beds of yours…”

    “If worst comes to worst, I’ll sleep on the floor… with the kitties!” Zhou Xueyin said nonchalantly.

    “Then I’ll leave these two girls in your care to get home safely!” Jiang Chunming sincerely looked at Wei Jingzhu and Li Ranxu. S~ea??h the N?vel(F)ire.ηet website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

    “Don’t worry! Go back to what you were doing…” Li Ranxu had the expression of someone who would definitely complete the mission.

    “Alright, I’ll leave them to you two! I’ll get back to the banquet…” Jiang Chunming said with confidence, looking at the two “knights” before returning to the party.

    Wei Jingzhu and Li Ranxu took a taxi to safely send Zhou Xueyin and Li Jiniang back to Zhongguancun and then took their leave to go back to their dormitory.

    A few days later, Da Boyi arrived with the investment contract in person to sign the investment agreement with Zhou Xueyin.

    “Boss Zhou, no way? Is your company really in this place?” Da Boyi asked in surprise as he looked at the company’s front door opposite the women’s bathroom, where Zhou Xueyin stood at the front desk.

    “We’re out of money… If you’d sent over this 200k sooner, we wouldn’t have had to rent this place,” Zhou Xueyin said helplessly.

    “So it’s my fault now?” Da Boyi joked.

    “How could that be, come inside and we’ll talk…” Zhou Xueyin, hobbling with Sun Miao’s assistance, showed Da Boyi around their current working environment.

    “This is the situation right now; resources are limited, so we’ve been hesitant to hire more people for fear there wouldn’t be enough seating.” In a 25-square-meter room, 10 desks were arranged, and a space was specifically reserved for receiving visitors. The area was indeed quite cramped.

    “How about… I ask my boss and we invest an additional 100K in you? That should help you move to a better office,” suggested Da Boyi. Although he’d seen many small companies with poor environments, his instinct told him that investing more in Zhou Xueyin’s company would yield greater returns.

    “It would be great to have more funding, but even if we move, we’d have to wait until the lease renewal later this year… We weren’t sure how long we could last at the time, so we didn’t dare to sign a one-year lease,” Zhou Xueyin said with an embarrassed smile.

    Actually, since moving out of the residential building and expanding their team, the company had been running quite steadily, with income every month. Except for half a month’s delay caused by the Langri Razor project, they generally made money daily.

    After deducting rent, the investment, and personnel costs, there was already a significant revenue. If Da Boyi’s company were to invest more in the website, they really could move to a better office space in the second half of the year.

    Following the communication between Da Boyi and his superior, it was finally confirmed: on top of an initial 200K investment in 51buy, they decided to add another 100K.

    With this money, along with some advertisement residuals they collected, Wang Anqi informed Zhou Xueyin that they could now afford to rent an office area around the 10th floor of the Dinghao A building with the money on their books!

    In the end, she chose a 50-square-meter office area with two meeting rooms and immediately started renovating it.

    By the time the renovation was completed and they could move in, it was already mid-October, which coincided nicely with the upcoming expiration of their current office lease.

    “Although we’ve only been here for half a year, we’ve made quite a few memories. How about we take a photo to commemorate this place?” Zhou Xueyin was feeling nostalgic.

    When they first arrived here, it seemed even worse than the residential building, but they got used to it soon enough.

    Now that they were about to move to the new office, she really felt…

    Not the slightest bit sentimental. She couldn’t wait to leave!

    The environment was poor, with only one window, making the summers unbearably hot, and the air conditioning made little difference. Located right opposite the restroom, there were no particularly unbearable smells, but it was still quite discomforting.

    Looking at the new office, it was bright, clean, and well-lit. Although there were plenty of windows, poor ventilation was a common problem in office buildings… but she wasn’t going to fuss about that.

    Unlike the tiled floor of the previous office, Zhou Xueyin chose to line the new office area with velour carpet. Although a bit on the expensive side, it was very comfortable to walk on and quieted the clattering sounds, creating a peaceful and relaxing atmosphere!

    The larger of the two meeting rooms contained several sofas that could be used as beds, where employees could take a quick nap if they were extremely tired.

    Zhou Xueyin turned the other meeting room into a photography studio where they could shoot new clothing lines sent by clients, adding fresh content to the forum once more.

    To avoid being isolated, Zhou Xueyin decided to sit among everyone, but she chose a special place by the window, at an angle…

    All the workstations had been laid out, and employees’ names were attached to the new partitioned desks.

    The old long desks were left as “heirlooms” for the next company to inherit.

    “Yinyin! This place is amazing! I love it so much!” exclaimed Yao Shanshan, excitedly grabbing Zhou Xueyin’s hand. “I want to book the photo studio for my daughter’s photo shoot!”