After hearing a few of Ningguang’s sentences, Su Yu felt he hadn’t misjudged her.
She could instantly see the potential of this board game card set, and had even thought of how to sell the physical cards, as well as the follow-up game modes.
As expected of Ningguang, it seemed he wouldn’t have to worry about money from now on.
And when Ningguang heard Su Yu’s somewhat reckless remarks, she grew a little anxious too.
Her earlier talk of a million in profit within three months had already been rather bold, but Su Yu was clearly even bolder.
She didn’t want her boss to be the kind of person who rushed for quick success.
Ningguang was also completely unaware that she herself had just been more anxious than Su Yu.
“Boss, although we have one hundred thousand Mora in starting capital, wanting to fully capitalize on this board game card set is still a bit too rushed.
You should be able to realize that with something physical like this, if we want to profit, we’re destined to start as a small workshop at first.
The upfront investment costs will be huge, and there’s no return to be seen.
Second, to sell board game cards we’ll definitely have to work with a printing house, and not too many at once, because we have no sales channels.
Starting from supermarkets near primary and middle schools, we’d need constant trial runs to find the right—”
“Stop, stop.
I know what you mean.
Don’t be anxious.
Since I’m saying this, I naturally have my own plans.”
Watching Ningguang quickly get into character and start calculating the pros and cons for him, Su Yu was initially a little gratified, but soon Ningguang seemed to think he was being careless, and explained from various angles why they couldn’t rush.
His head aching, Su Yu interrupted her.
“Why don’t we go to the wondrous Yae Miko for the printing matter?
Her Yae Publishing House is quite renowned.
A web-novel company must have ties with printing houses.”
“Boss, but I’m not familiar with her.
I’ve heard Yae Miko is very hard to get along with.
There were quite a few people who once had this idea, but they all returned defeated, and even handed over quite a bit of trouble fee.
Don’t be foolish and go straight to her, only to toss the initial one hundred thousand Mora away there.”
Even after hearing Su Yu’s explanation, the worry in Ningguang’s heart grew even more severe.
This boss was even starting to fantasize about cooperating with a woman of Yae Miko’s caliber.
He was seriously ill.
Just at the start he wanted to save a collapsing edifice.
Oh no, right now they hadn’t even laid the foundation of the building yet…
At this thought, Ningguang, who had just been full of confidence and ready to make great strides, felt her gaze grow distant again.
Only after quite a long and lengthy explanation did Ningguang finally believe that Su Yu was serious, that he really did have a way, and that Yae Miko would not refuse to cooperate, and she was told to boldly contact her after school.
Seeing Ningguang’s gaze firm up once again as she walked toward the classroom, Su Yu also felt relieved.
“Oh right, just call me Su Yu normally.
Don’t call me boss, it feels weird.”
“Okay, boss.”
With a smile on her face, Ningguang said this and jogged all the way back to the classroom.
She was already itching to prepare eighteen different rhetorical approaches for the negotiation with Yae Miko.
This time it was do-or-die.
She refused to believe that with favorable timing, favorable terrain, and unity among people this time, they could still fail!
Watching Ningguang disappear from his view, Su Yu shook his head.
This girl would even joke around with him like that.
Quite a contrast, really.
[Mission Content: Achieve a net profit of over one million Mora within one month, excluding principal]
[Mission Reward: 10% of Douya Group’s shares]
Seeing this new mission, Su Yu didn’t even know what to say.
Douya Group was the largest platform in this world, a diversified conglomerate combining video, livestreaming, and shopping in one.
From what he knew, the famous Fool’s Entertainment was deeply rooted in this platform.
The Harbingers inside were all talents, all influencers with at least a million followers.
Some of them were hostile and argued with each other, some helped each other, often gaining followers from one another.
Every livestream’s revenue exploded.
What he usually liked watching most was the PK between Tartaglia and Rosalyne.
If he got hold of Douya’s shares, then every time those two quarreled he could hit Tartaglia with a wave of risk warnings.
He wondered whether this Dada Duck would break down.
But these amusements would at least have to wait until this bet mission was successfully completed.
Su Yu just felt the future was bright.
…
After school, Su Yu picked up Furina and set out on the road home, but he didn’t forget to give Ningguang another round of chicken soup before leaving.
As Su Yu led Furina by the hand and disappeared from the school gate, Ningguang and Beidou also got ready to head to the Cooking Club.
“Ningguang, you’re serious?
You really want to acknowledge Su Yu as your boss?
You can’t listen to poisonous chicken soup!”
This was already the third time Beidou had tried to talk her out of it since learning the situation.
She felt her friend had lost her head.
Nine times out of ten she’d been dizzied by her repeated failures before and was making a misjudgment.
Ningguang stopped in her tracks, looked at Beidou, and with absolute confidence in her eyes, said:
“Of course I know it’s chicken soup, I’m not stupid.
But he’s the only person willing to give me an opportunity when I was lost.
And you know what a figure one hundred thousand is for people like us who have no backing and are still students right now?
Never mind that he’s also a student, and is even currently boarding at Furina’s house.
He didn’t earn that money easily, but he’s still willing to trust me.
I definitely won’t let this opportunity slip.”
Beidou, who was also from a poor family, knew very well the value of one hundred thousand Mora.
She knocked her own head and made a decision that defied her ancestors:
“Then count me in too.
This is eight thousand Mora I’ve saved up.
Take it as well.”
“Beidou…
didn’t you say just yesterday that you were out of money?”
Feeling Ningguang’s gaze suddenly sharpen, Beidou coughed twice and said somewhat weakly:
“Wasn’t it because I was afraid you’d lose all my spare rations?
Now with Boss Su’s full support, I can be a lot more at ease.
Cough, right, where’s Boss Su’s treasure?
Bring it out and let me see, let me have a look at the source of you two’s confidence in a million Mora a month!”
As for Beidou’s far too crude topic-changing technique, Ningguang didn’t poke holes in it.
She just looked mysteriously at the box in her hand:
I’ll use Lü Meng, you use Guan Yu.”
“Huh?
Really?
Let me use Guan Yu, the Martial Saint who awes all of China.
Ningguang, you don’t have to go easy on me that much.”
Beidou was quite puzzled.
Ningguang said nothing.
She just kept the corners of her mouth curled up.
Su Yu, having returned home, still didn’t know that Beidou, whom he originally hadn’t planned to recruit so soon, had by chance been drawn into the fold by Ningguang.
Although Beidou wasn’t well-versed in business, her martial prowess was extremely high.
As a fine hand at security, six staff strikes per second were no problem for her.
“We’re common folk, today we’re really happy…”
While Su Yu cleaned the house and prepared today’s dinner, humming a little tune, seeing Furina looking at him somewhat surprised, he asked with a smile:
“What are you looking at?
Is there a flower on my face?”
“No, I was just wondering why you’re so happy?”
“I was thinking about what flavor of little cake Furina wants tonight: grape flavor, or peach flavor.”
“Wow!
Su Yu, I knew what you said earlier today was just angry talk, I knew you doted on me the most!”
Upon hearing there was cake to eat, Furina completely lost her curiosity about why Su Yu was happy.
She pounced straight over, hugged Su Yu’s leg, and started rubbing against it like a kitten.
“Tonight is a special exception.”
“Ah?
No way!”
“What?
You’re saying you don’t want to eat cake tonight?”
“No, no, no, that’s not what I meant.
Cough, I was joking with you.”
Upholding the principle of eat one meal when you can, and eat one more meal when you can, the powerless Furina wiggled her little hands, afraid that Su Yu would even cancel tonight’s cake.
“Clearly I’m the owner of this house…”
Hearing Furina’s mournful muttering, Su Yu leaned close to the girl’s ear and whispered:
“If you have a problem with me, then I’ll leave?”
“No no no!
That’s not what I meant!
Please, Su Yu, you must not leave me.
Make me delicious food every day, and I’ll definitely be obedient!”
Having gotten used to Su Yu’s cooking, making her eat someone else’s food would be worse than killing her, never mind Furina, who was especially fond of desserts.
To show her sincerity, Furina blinked her big, watery eyes to act cute.
Her pitiful look really made Su Yu unable to bear teasing her any longer.
This adorably cute appearance made Su Yu unable to resist petting her little head twice.
Feeling the silky texture of Furina’s head, Su Yu resolved to buy her a top hat later on.
He always felt that a Furina without a top hat was a Furina without a soul.