Volume 4: The World of Great Conflict Chapter 0590 I'm Sorry, I'm a Scumbag
"Boss Nan, can your love be measured by money?"
Yang Kaiyan didn't like Nan Yi's question very much. For a woman, even if she doesn't believe in love, it doesn't mean that she doesn't have a beautiful yearning for love.
"Okay, maybe this question is not appropriate. Let me ask it another way. Suppose your boyfriend buys you a drink. Let's ignore the taste issue. Would you care about the price of this drink?"
“Why should I care about the price? I think I only care about the thought.” Yang Kaiyan said after thinking for a while.
"Let's change the question. Suppose one cup is an ordinary drink that can be bought at any beverage store; and the other cup is a love-themed drink, um, it comes from a love tea bar that everyone knows. If this is the case, would you care which drink you drink?"
"The love tea bar you're talking about is a place like a love sanctuary?"
"Yes."
Yang Kaiyan thought for a moment and said, "Then I would probably choose the second cup."
"Got it, what's your lucky number?"
"7, Lucky Seven."
"7 yuan, a bit expensive." Nan Yi chewed for a while and muttered, "Let's do a market survey to measure the spending power of young people of marriageable age."
"What are you thinking about?"
"I was thinking, how can I make a restaurant with an average cost of 4 yuan per person look more upscale and romantic?"
"A hotel in Asia?"
"Yes, Adam & Eve Western Restaurant, a restaurant specially for couples who are in love to meet each other."
“Is tryst a good word?”
"Neither good nor bad, no specific direction. I'll leave the preparation work for Adam & Eve Western Restaurant to you. The basic principle is to only accept couples.
I hope to create an atmosphere where inviting the opposite sex to Adam & Eve Western Restaurant can serve as a confession, do you understand what I mean?"
"I understand. There are similar restaurants abroad."
"Very good, 4 yuan per person, minimum consumption 8 yuan, I hope you can make a net profit of no less than 60%, which means a minimum profit of 4.8 yuan per business."
“Isn’t your request a bit too high?”
Yang Kaiyan wanted to spit a mouthful of white rice onto Nan Yi's face.
"High? Learn from Michelin's style, make the dishes more beautiful, use fewer dishes, and use ordinary ingredients instead of the same ones as Michelin. If you work harder on your cooking skills, the cost will be reduced. You have to understand that when our guests come to our restaurant, eating is not the main purpose."
“Who do you eat with?”
"Very good. I would be satisfied if my daughter were half as smart as you." Nan Yi praised sincerely.
"Are you complimenting me?"
"Yes, and it is a high-level compliment."
"Do you think I will believe it?"
"It doesn't matter whether you believe it or not. The key is that you have to get things done. Come have dinner with me tomorrow and I'll take you to meet the advertising director and have a good talk with them about advertising creativity."
"them?"
"Yes, more than one."
Chen Huaige and Zhang Yimou had already finished filming "Yellow Earth" and were now free, so Nan Yi invited them both to Beijing.
After get off work, Nan Yi went to the Great Wall Hotel.
Room 8716 of the hotel has been vacant since the office was moved to No. 88 Yannanyuan. This time, Gong Xue came from Shanghai and would stay for a long time, so Nan Yi asked her to stay here temporarily.
Nan Yi really suspected that he and the Great Wall Hotel were incompatible. As soon as he walked into the lobby, he saw the couple Luo Xun and Le Yun.
"It's strange, why are these two still making peace with each other? It's true that Buddha saves those who are destined to be saved, but not those who are destined to die."
Last time, Nan Yi asked the school beauty to do something naughty and report the affair between the two to Luo Yun’s wife. Unexpectedly, the two are still together. It seems that Le Yun will still go back to her original life trajectory.
After taking a quick look, Nan Yi walked towards the elevator shaft.
I went up to the seventh floor and knocked on the door of room 8716, and saw Gong Xue standing there, wearing a dress with colorful patterns and white lace on the sleeves and cuffs.
"The decoration of the clothes is too fancy and it doesn't suit you very well." Nan Yi said bluntly.
Gong Xue asked: "What style suits me?"
"Just keep it simple and elegant. Your skin is very fair. If you want to highlight your skin tone, you can wear black clothes. Otherwise, you can wear pure white." Nan Yi looked from the top to the calf. "You can try tight jeans. It will make you look taller."
"How's my figure?" Gong Xue asked with a blushing face.
"Not bad." Nan Yi nodded and said, "How is the room? Is it still available?"
"fine."
Not long after Nan Yi stayed in Fang Mansion for a short time, Xiang He went to Shanghai and renovated Fang Mansion inside and out. She also bought a lot of furniture and the decoration was even better than that of the Great Wall Hotel.
Gong Xue, who has lived in Fang Mansion for a long time, is not impressed by the decoration of the Great Wall Hotel.
Nan Yi sat down and asked, "After finishing the last scene, have you filmed other scenes?"
"No, I haven't filmed any new movies since I returned to Shanghai last time."
Gong Xue did not sit opposite Nan Yi, but chose to sit on the same sofa with Nan Yi, with a slight distance between them.
"That's perfect. I asked you to come here this time because I want you to help me shoot a few commercials. If possible, you should also help me with other things."
"What's up?"
Nan Yi asked Gong Xue for help, but she didn't feel impatient. Instead, she felt a little secretly happy.
"We have quite a few commercials to shoot this time, and there will be many actors coming over. We need someone to help with reception and coordination. After thinking it over, I think you are the most suitable."
"Can I? I've never done this kind of work before."
"Just learn by doing. Tomorrow I'm going to have dinner with two directors. You can come too. I'll introduce them to you. Chen Huaige and Zhang Yimou. You should have heard of these two names, right?"
“Yes.”
"That's good. I have to hurry home to eat, so I won't sit any longer. I'll pick you up at 5:30 tomorrow afternoon."
"You won't eat with me?" Gong Xue blurted out, then realized that there was something wrong with what she said, so she added: "I mean, I haven't eaten either, and I'm about to go eat."
"Well, let's go downstairs together." Nan Yi nodded.
The two of them were silent as they walked out the door, down the stairs, and walked to the side of the glass revolving door before Gong Xue murmured, "I 'm thirty-two this year."
"I'm married and have several other women."
"What if I don't care?" Gong Xue raised her head, looked straight at Nan Yi and said, "I mean, I can accept it."
"Don't lie to yourself." Nan Yi patted Gong Xue's arm. "You are pretty, I don't hate you, if you want to be my woman, I won't suffer any loss. However, you also have to face your own heart. You are not ambitious. If we are really together, you will focus on the relationship.
As for me, I am very career-oriented and can only spare two or three months a year to maintain my relationship. Even in these short few dozen days, you can only get a small part of it, about ten days at most. How should you spend the remaining 350 days?
I am twenty-three years old this year, and I plan to semi-retire when I am forty-five. By then, I will have more time to spend with you. There are still twenty-two years left, and by then you will be fifty-four. I won’t say you are old and ugly, but you will definitely not be as pretty as you are now.
I can't guarantee that I will still be passionate about you at that time.
Also, I am a very possessive person and will not allow my woman to fall in love with someone else. If you follow me, there will be no chance for you to turn back."
Nan Yi patted Gong Xue again and said self-deprecatingly: "Forget it, I am very good at disguising myself. Pretending to be a good person has become my survival instinct. Deep down, I am not a good person.
Don't get stuck in it, find a man who treats you like a day and is willing to give everything for you, then you will live a happy life. Go right, about 600 meters, there is a small restaurant, the owner's cooking is good, you can go and try it, let's go."
"Um."
Gong Xue nodded blankly. She needed to digest what Nan Yi said.
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When Nan Yi returned to the old villa, Liu Zhen had already prepared dinner and was waiting for him.
"You're half an hour late. Where have you been?" As soon as Liu Zhen saw Nan Yi, he lifted the covering on the vegetable bowl.
"I went to the Great Wall Restaurant. What's the food today?"
"Look for yourself, we have fresh vegetables today." Liu Zhen kept the secret.
Nan Yi walked to the dining table and saw a dish of celery and dried tofu on the table. "European celery, is it grown in China?"
"Of course I have, otherwise where can I buy it?"
"What do vegetable vendors call it?"
"Some are called celery, and some are called western celery. I bought some when I was in Cambridge. At that time, I didn't know how to make it, so I learned how to mix salad from foreigners."
Nan Yi picked up a piece of celery and put it in his mouth to chew, "Boiled in water?"
"Yeah, I think it tastes a bit bitter."
"There's something wrong with your cooking technique. It won't taste good after blanching. If you can't get rid of the bitter taste of the leaves, you should just remove the leaves next time."
"You don't even pick the leaves when you make celery, so why isn't it bitter?" Liu Zhen asked curiously.
"Of course there is a trick. I'll teach you next time."
"Okay." Liu Zhen responded and said, "The Personnel Department talked to me. I may be promoted to a higher level, but my position will remain the same."
"That's fine. After all, you are still too young. Even if you were the branch manager, you wouldn't be able to control the situation."
Liu Zhen's current rank is enough to qualify as a branch president at the municipal level, but she is too young, and no matter how capable she is, she cannot control the experienced subordinates.
Liu Zhen picked up a spoon and scooped a bowl of dumpling soup and handed it to Nan Yi, "Don't think about the branch for now, I'll just stay at the headquarters and cook it slowly."
"Drink it yourself. It's good at the headquarters, not so busy. You can take some time to study for a master's degree and then get a doctorate in the future. This way, no one will dare to use your academic qualifications as an excuse to hold you back." Nan Yi said, pushing the bowl of soup back.
"Okay, I'll listen to you. I'll go back to school one day and see which teacher has a vacant seat."
"Don't worry about whether there are vacancies or not. Choose one between Mr. Chen and Mr. Li."
"Which Chen?"
"Mr. Chen Heling, if you want to follow someone, then follow the most powerful one."
"Mr. Chen who teaches our class is not bad either."
When Nan Yi and his classmates were in college, they called young and middle-aged professors "teachers" and older professors "sirs". Those who were called "sirs" were all big names in the economic field, and they would be called "Mr." outside.
"The one who led us is no good. He wanted me to stay in school. If I go to him, you will have nothing to do. He will definitely let me study for his graduate degree."
"Bragging, why didn't I know that Mr. Chen liked you so much?"
"Nonsense, you were not here during my junior year, and Mr. Chen liked me so much that he planned to marry his daughter... no, his granddaughter to me."
"Hehe, make up a lie next time." Liu Zhen sneered.
Nan Yi smiled knowingly and did not explain.
In fact, Nan Yi was not bragging. Mr. Chen Bogu, who taught his class, really liked him and even asked him if he wanted to apply for his postgraduate degree. But at that time, Nan Yi was in a hurry to graduate and had no time to waste in school.
No matter how fast a graduate student studies, it will take at least two years, and then he will work for the country for another two years after graduation. Judging from the time, he should still be working in some unit at this time.
Time flies and it is the next night. Nan Yi takes Yang Kaiyan and Gong Xue to "our courtyard" deep in the flowers...
