Cooking Classroom.
“Alright, I’ve taught you the orange-flavored chiffon cake.
Next comes your hands-on session.
You can start now.
If there’s anything you don’t understand, feel free to discuss it amongst yourselves, and of course, you can also come ask me.”
Holding the freshly-baked chiffon cake in his hands, Su Yu looked at the somewhat familiar yet somewhat unfamiliar faces below and spoke slowly.
He was also a little surprised.
Ningguang and Beidou were actually in the same class as Furina.
Looking at Furina below, whose eyes were sparkling, and who would surely be wagging her tail back and forth if she had one, Su Yu set the baking tray on her desk and continued:
“Anyone who wants to taste how it turned out can come try a piece at Furina’s desk.”
Su Yu unobtrusively exchanged a glance with Furina, then cast his gaze toward the white-haired big sister in the back row.
“Ningguang, how about it?
What do you think of this Su Yu…
cough, teacher’s teaching?
Should the two of us team up and give it a try?”
Beidou looked at the front, where quite a few students had already gathered around Furina joining the fun.
Since dividing the cake required tearing it apart, the aroma of orange and cake instantly filled the classroom.
Ningguang was still sitting there dazed, so she nudged her with an elbow:
“Are you going to cook or ask?
If you’re really not paying attention, I’m going over to Furina’s to grab a piece before it’s all divided up.”
“Oh, sorry Beidou, I was just thinking, if I took out a loan to buy a dessert shop, would that be a decent way forward?”
Children of poor families grow up early.
Ningguang and Beidou were both in that category.
Even Beidou, who before class had been somewhat dismissive of Su Yu, this substitute teacher of the same age, had changed her attitude from before.
Although Beidou had always cooked with a rough and bold style, favoring heavy spice and salt, and didn’t know much about desserts, cooking was ultimately cooking, one skill mastered, a hundred skills understood.
She could more or less glimpse the whole picture through a single part.
And Ningguang, who preferred light and mild food, understood desserts even better.
Every step Su Yu took had some subtle difference from what she remembered.
She could tell that this substitute teacher hadn’t held anything back in his orange chiffon cake lesson.
Without even tasting it, she could already tell from color and aroma alone that this cake’s flavor couldn’t possibly be bad.
Ningguang, extremely sensitive to business, had even started calculating whether she could negotiate with this substitute teacher to license the cake-making method to her, for use in her business outside school.
Going even further, Ningguang had begun preparing how to take him as a master and drain Su Yu dry of all his dessert knowledge.
“Don’t, Ningguang.
You just los—cough cough, you just ended an unpleasant business venture.
This time you should consider things carefully and absolutely not act on impulse.”
Beidou herself found it surreal.
She was actually the one counseling Ningguang to stay calm on this matter, when clearly she was the reckless one who needed to be reminded by her friend!
How had the roles reversed?!
“Wow!
“Really!
It’s so bouncy and springy, just like a sponge!
Not only is it perfect in color, aroma, and taste, even the texture is top-notch!”
“Little Chiyo, if you want some just say so, your horn is poking me!”
“Hey!
You broke off too much, Fischl!”
“Hmph, unreasonable rabble.
It’s merely that this princess’s minister of cuisine instructed a servant to watch over the delicacies.
What’s wrong with this Princess of the Dark Inferno eating a bit of cake?”
While Ningguang and Beidou were discussing, on the other side, a petite golden-haired girl holding a not-so-small piece of cake had gotten into a small dispute with Furina.
“Ahhh, the little cake I secretly saved got discovered and snatched away!”
Furina hadn’t noticed at all that out of the entire class, she had eaten the most just now, and was still letting out a wail of grief.
The commotion over by Furina was a bit loud, but Su Yu didn’t even turn his head.
He could tell just from listening what was happening over there.
After all, no one understood Furina better than he did.
Su Yu looked at Ningguang, whose gaze had grown increasingly resolute thanks to the ruckus over by Furina, and, having prepared his words, walked over.
He was ready to start his great bluffing technique!
He didn’t believe Ningguang could be uninterested in a money-making venture, and he also believed she could see the commercial potential of the Sanguosha board game.
“Can we talk privately for a moment?” ×2
The same words came out of both their mouths at once.
Su Yu and Ningguang both looked a bit surprised, but after a moment Ningguang rose and walked toward the door.
“Let’s go, Teacher Su Yu.
Didn’t you have something to discuss with me?”
Although Ningguang had tremendous business talent, she was still a green rookie right now.
Su Yu had also caught the faint excitement in her eyes that was hard to notice, so he directly followed behind Ningguang and walked out, leaving behind a girl still in her original spot, scratching her head with eyes full of bewilderment.
“Does Ningguang somehow know that new substitute teacher?
How come I didn’t know about this!”
…
Five minutes later.
“What?
You want to discuss business with me?
And you want to invest in me?”
With just a few simple sentences, Su Yu conveyed his intentions to Ningguang.
Ningguang, somewhat puzzled, continued:
“Since you’ve chosen to cooperate with me, that at least means you’ve already looked into me, right?
But I shouldn’t have shown any business talent that’s out of the ordinary.”
“Those few small attempts I made all failed anyway. This chapter was taken from novelping.com without permission.
No wait, it can’t be just because…”
As Ningguang spoke, recalling the way Su Yu had looked at her before with that intrigued gaze, she couldn’t help but tighten her legs and take half a step back.
If it were a normal partnership, Ningguang would still believe it, but opening with an offer of a hundred thousand Mora was very hard to fathom, and she couldn’t help but let her imagination run wild.
He said investment, but maybe it was just to…
Thinking this far, Ningguang actually started seeing Su Yu in a new light.
This thick-browed, big-eyed one, who’d have thought…
“Hey, have a little confidence in yourself, will you?
I admit I looked into your past business ventures.
Although you haven’t truly succeeded yet, I believe you’re just lacking sufficient funds, lacking an opportunity.”
If this were the Ningguang from next door, Su Yu’s level of CPU would definitely not have worked.
But a young girl who had never experienced the joy of success, being spoken to like this by Su Yu, her heart couldn’t help but stir.
No one dislikes being valued by others, being told they have potential.
Seeing Ningguang’s expression gradually brighten, Su Yu judged the timing was right, and with a roll of his eyes fished a box out of his pants pocket and handed it over.
“Take a look at this.
Tell me what you think after you’ve seen it.”
“Okay.”
The bank card had already been stuffed into her hand.
Clearly Su Yu wasn’t joking with her.
Doing this without signing any contract seemed reckless, but it still made the girl cry out inwardly that she’d met a true patron.
Ningguang, whose drive had been fully stoked by Su Yu’s wave of chicken soup, carefully examined this seemingly unremarkable box.
Since it was something Su Yu had brought out, it definitely wasn’t simple.
She too would prove with her actions that Su Yu hadn’t misjudged her.
As Ningguang flipped through the general cards and skill descriptions, her gaze shifted from curiosity and confusion to solemn and serious.
After a long while, Ningguang closed the box, her voice unable to hide its excitement: “This board game makes even me want to play a round.
It has extremely high commercial value.
If you let me operate it, offline physical sales, it might turn a profit of a million within three months.
If we combine online and offline, two months is also possible.
And once the timing is right, once everyone accepts it and it’s already captured a certain market share, turning it into a mobile game might push it even further.”
“S-so, Boss, is this yours or…?”
Ningguang clenched the box in her hands, her eyes full of longing, yet carrying a trace of trepidation, afraid Su Yu would say this thing belonged to someone else.
For the first time, she had such confidence in something.
She—wanted to win so badly.
“Beyond doubt, this is the only one of its kind in the world.
This is the capital behind my confidence in us.
But the time I want isn’t three months.
Our goal is a profit of over a million in one month!”
“!”