Chapter 67: Straightforward, Not allowed to fail
(Part 1)
With one hand supporting her chin, and the other on the mouse as she scrolled through the webpage, Lu Anran pursed her lips, her expression a little grave, the opened notebook had full two pages of excepts recorded, but Lu Anran did not know how many of these could be used in the end. Turning over to the next page, Lu Anran buried her head and took notes again.
Lu Anran felt that more could be retained in her brain when she wrote it out by hand instead of typing. When the final plans are actually being made, Lu Anran would still obediently use Word Documents to type up a realistic plan.
Right now, the decoration style of the store is roughly settled, and which construction company to collaborate with can be left in the hands of Lu Corporation. At present, it was much more difficult to decide specific dishes. This afternoon, when she took Lu Anhu to visit a dozen stores, all of the vegetarian dishes were tasted by her personally. Although all were worthy of praise, but none had creativity. As for meat dishes, she did not taste a single bite, all were eaten by Lu Anhu. As he described them, Lu Anran relied on the memory of her previous lifetime, and guessed about 80 to 90%.
But as she simply did not taste it herself, Lu Anran did not dare to be 100% sure. Thinking about this, Lu Anran somewhat helplessly scraped gently on the tip of her tongue with her teeth. God gave her a chance to re-live her life, and also gave her a sensitive tongue, yet deprived her of the qualifications to assess meat dishes. Although Lu Anran was grateful from the bottom of her heart, but at the same time, she was rather puzzled. She does not know what she could do with such ability, and also does not know what heavens had in plan for her. The present her only wished to become strong enough to protect her mother, protect the entire Lu Corporation, and let everyone be wary of Lu Corporation such that they do not dare to act rashly.
Thinking of this, Lu Anran calmed her mind again, and continued surfing the web. Whenever she saw some useful information, she would jot it down in her little notebook.
For this 100th branch store of Lu Corporation, Lu Anran was planning to decorate it in an ancient style that will be popular two years later. Windows, black wooden tables and stools will all be included. The name of this 100thbranch store must also be different from the previous 99 stores, it needs to give people a feeling of freshness. Without changing the reputation of Lu Corporation, the dishes must stand out from the masses.
Her temples had a slight jolting pain, and Lu Anran also felt more and more tired. She can only succeed in this battle and failure is unacceptable. In order to take a first step in truly consolidating one’s position in Lu family, she will need to operate this new store very impressively!
Going downstairs for a cup of coffee, Lu Anran sat at the table in the dining room on the first floor and drank her coffee while continuing to think. At this time, a person entered from the main door.
“Bro Anwei? You are back!” Lu Anran greeted Lu Anwei.
“En.” Lu Anwei’s voice was somewhat dispirited. He sat opposite Lu Anran, “Haven’t sleep yet?”
“Thinking about matters regarding the new store.” Lu Anran observed Lu Anwei’s expression, and took a sip of her coffee, “Teacher Qin rejected you again?”
“En……” Lu Anwei nodded without hiding it, “I proposed to her. She did not agree.”
“Propose?!” Lu Anran almost sprayed out the coffee in her mouth. So direct? So unexpected ah!
“I may have troubled her.” Lu Anwei guessed and said, “I will not bother her again in future.”
“You……” Lu Anran initially wanted to persuade him, but on a second thought, the corners of Lu Anran’s mouth raised, “You have made a very correct decision!”
Hearing Lu Anran saying the same thing, Lu Anwei was even more firm in his thoughts. He will never bother Qin Shuhan again, and will only protect her silently. As long as she is happy, it will not matter to him.
“Since you have also accepted it, then you should quickly rest!” Lu Anran urged, “You still have to accompany me out tomorrow morning!”
“Okay.” Lu Anwei hid away his hurt expression, and stood up, “You should also rest early.” Saying that, he went straight up to the second floor.
Lu Anran gazed at the sight of Lu Anwei’s back and shook her head helplessly. Lu Anwei had already done enough, to continue on would only antagonise the situation. In that case, then it was better for Lu Anwei to bide his time and just observe Qin Shuhan’s response. With this in mind, Lu Anran opened her cell phone’s gallery, found a few photos of Lu Anwei that she had taken when he was most frustrated and moved these photos to the top of the album.
Chapter 67: Straightforward, Not allowed to fail
(Part 2)
Even though he said that he will no longer bother her, but Lu Anran was going to start high school the day after tomorrow and Qin Shuhan will still continue to come and tutor her. So, she just does not believe that she would not be able to bring both of them together! As Lu Anran thought about this, she smugly smiled to herself, drank finished the remaining coffee in one gulp, and then returned back to her room to continue working.
In the latter part of September, the Long Corporation’s shopping centre will be built and at that time the interior decorations of the shop will also immediately begin. So, it is vital that she more or less finish deciding on the menu by mid-September, and which consumer group she is going to target before she determines the exact arrangements for the interior decorations. Also, before mid-September it is essential that she plan out every detail of the interior decoration as so not to delay the starting of the decorations of the shop at the end of September.
So, right now for Lu Anran, time was her life, she has no time to waste on unimportant things. Sitting at her table, Lu Anran continued to skim through the web, a small window which suddenly popped out, attracted her attention. It is a game advertisement, probably targeting gamers who wish to earn money through playing games. The advertisement states that when players accumulate sufficient points to achieve the goal set by the game organizers within the time limit, the players can split the prize money between themselves.
Lu Anran stared attentively at this flashing gold advertisement and an idea slowly formed in her head, but she would still need some time to work out the actual details.
“If this plan really works, then it’s not a bad idea!” Lu Anran’s eyes sparkled brightly and proceeded to write down the idea into her little book.
After recording it down, Lu Anran open up the JPEG file on the computer desktop, which depicts a 2D sketch of the Long Corporation shopping centre. Lu Anran reached out a finger to poke the red dot in the picture, this is the position of Lu Corporation’s 100th new branch, perhaps she could release some articles about the geographical location of this shop….
At the same time, there was also another person looking at the sketch of Long Corporation’s shopping centre, it was the legitimate heir to Long Corporation – Long Yuxing.
Sitting in front of the desk, Long Yuxing carefully surveyed the sketch which he had drawn himself. From the site selection to the development of the area to designing the shopping centre, everything was done by himself. When he first wanted to come to S city, the entire family opposed against his decision, but in order for him to pursue his bride from a childhood promise, he resolutely rebelled against the whole family and insisted on opening the branch shop in S City.
This time was his only chance to prove to the family that he, Long Yuxing, as the legitimate heir of Long Corporation does not need to rely on the DNA in his body to prove his pure blood linage, but it was because he, Long Yuxing has the ability to personally take complete charge!
Also, those old fools who were hiding in the shadows ready to give him a lethal blow at any time! Just wait until he takes over the helm of Long Corporation, he will definitely ruthlessly drive them out one by one! He will definitely investigate clearly the truth about his parents’ death, he does not believe that his parents were only victims of criminals who robbed the hotel they stayed in during their business trip! That was absolutely impossible! Thinking about this, Long Yuxing’s heart wrenched painfully.
“Dang dang dang” three polite knocks sounded at the door, before Ah Sen opened it and walked in. “Young Master, the student union will be holding a meeting tomorrow, it’s time for you to rest.” It was almost the wee hours of the morning, Young Master should go to bed.
“I know.” Long Yuxing casually replied, but his eyes did not hold a single shed of sleepiness, rather only held monstrous hatred.
“Young Master, in another two days you would be seeing Miss Anran.” Ah Sen laughed. The student union has the power to come into contact with the new students and welcome them first. For their Young Master to unprecedentedly join this kind of boring organization, it was because Long Yuxing do not wish for anybody else to come into contact with his little promised bride before him! Although in the business world Young Master carries out his action plans swiftly, leaving him in awe, but in terms of relationship, Young Master was like a little child. These two different sides of him have a kind of cute contrast!
Hearing Ah Sen mention Lu Anran, the hatred in Long Yuxing’s eyes gradually faded and a smile involuntarily appeared. They will meet the day after tomorrow making him wonder about Lu Anran’s appearance when she appears in front of him… At this moment, Long Yuxing seemed to be reminded of something, as his smile disappeared, he asked Ah Sen, “how’s the matter with Dawn Alliance going?”
“It’s almost settled.” At the mention of the mission, Ah Sen became very serious. “80% of Dawn Alliance high-ranking members have already been bought over by us, and on November 10th Dawn Alliance will officially choose and appoint its next leader. At that time, our people will be pushed up to the leadership seat.
“En.” Long Yuxing nodded, “got it.”
When Ah Sen observed that Long Yuxing no longer intend to say anything more, he opened the door, took the tray from the maid standing outside, and then walked to the front of Long Yuxing desk to set down a glass of hot milk. “Young Master, I’ll excuse myself first, please call me if you are in need of anything.”
“En.” Long Yuxing replied and did not say anything else. He continued to look at the 2D sketch of the Long Corporation shopping centre and at the same time opened an English statistical type of application and entered some numbers.
The old fools in Long Corporation had tightly withheld much of the capital that he can use this time, if he had not come up with the idea with letting other companies bid for the five outlets location just in time, he would have ran out of money just by constructing the shopping centre! Since they could interfere from this point, then they would most certainly be able to find other ways to pick fault with him. Right now, Long Yuxing was considering where they will start to meddle from and put in preventive measures.
From both directions of S City, one man and one woman facing the 2D sketch of Long Corporation shopping centre said a sentence in unison, “Failure is not an option for this tough battle…I will definitely succeed!