Volume 8 Final Chapter Chapter 1160 Natalie
This side of Seoul.
One morning, Li Fuzhen was sulking in her office because she felt she was looked down upon.
The last time Nan Youqiong visited the Li family, he talked about the long-term rental apartment project. Li Jianxi said lightly, "Talk to Fuzhen," which basically set the tone for cooperation. Afterwards, Nan Youqiong met with Li Fuzhen once, and the two sides roughly discussed the cooperation framework and share allocation issues. Then, Nan Youqiong did not show up again, but let his subordinates make the connection.
"The people below are connecting with each other." This is the reason why Li Fuzhen felt that she was looked down upon. As she thought, although the Li family is not as good as the Nan family, the dialogue should also adhere to the principle of equality. Even if you, Nan Youqiong, do not come forward in person, you should let your sister come forward. What's the point of letting the servants talk to me?
Although they were angry, they still had to do the work. The negotiations between the two sides progressed quickly. After only two meetings, they agreed to jointly establish a new company called "Tree House Project", with Shilla Hotel holding 55% of the shares and the newly registered Lavender Co., Ltd. holding 45%.
Nan Youqiong did not tell Nan Ruoqi about the operations in Seoul, nor did he inform her about the registration of Lavender Co., Ltd. He planned to wait until the Tree House Project broke even before giving the company to his youngest sister. He would use his own money to cover the initial investment.
He did this, firstly out of his love for Nan Ruoqi, and secondly as a form of compensation for the deprivation of the Nan family's inheritance rights. Nan Ruoqi had it, Nan Ruojin would have it too, but Nan Wuwei did not. In the whole family, he was the richest, both in terms of assets and cash.
After several days of communication with the designer, Li Fuzhen finally got a satisfactory design rendering. Although she was angry, she also realized that Nan Youqiong should not be underestimated. The execution ideas and design concepts of the tree house project were all given by Nan Youqiong, not in paper or electronic form, but just a conversation between the two when they met.
He spoke casually, his language was full of logic but not very coherent. He paused several times in the middle to think, which showed that most of the ideas he expounded came from himself. His words revealed his in-depth understanding of the Republic of Korea. He could easily mention Ulsan, Daegu, and the different living habits of various provinces and metropolitan cities, most of which she didn't know.
Li Fuzhen thought of Nan Jiajun from Nan Youqiong, and then of Nan Yi, whom he had only met twice. No, it should be three times. He had met him once in Macau many years ago. Compared with the sharp edge that the first two would show from time to time, this one was more like the uncle next door, amiable...
Li Fuzhen shook her head to get rid of the thoughts in her mind. What mattered to her now was not to analyze the people of Nan's company, but to execute the tree house plan well. Perhaps she could get some help from Nan's company.
After leaving his office, Li Fuzhen came to the hotel included in the tree house project and met with the people from Xing Architecture. One side held the design renderings and the other side held the original structural drawings of the hotel. The two sides discussed on the spot how to carry out the renovation project.
Because they hired their own company, the project budget and construction schedule were formulated according to Li Fuzhen's requirements. According to her idea, the renovation would take about a quarter of time. The initial demolition work would take about a month, and the later infrastructure construction would also take a month. The rest would be the overall decoration and equipment installation.
Although the construction period is not long, considering that this is just a renovation project, the only changes that are made are some shops downstairs in the hotel and the furnishings in the guest rooms upstairs, the amount of work is not high.
Li Fu was a little anxious. She was eager to open the Tree House long-term rental apartment to welcome guests. She wanted to show her achievements to her family, to Nan Youqiong, and then to Nan Yi.
Neither Lee Gun-hee nor Lee Jae-yong told Lee Fu-jin the fact that the Nam family had changed dynasties. In terms of information, she was far behind Lee Jae-yong.
Due to her impatience, Li Fuzhen did not renovate one hotel after another, but planned to start construction of the hotels included in the tree house plan at the same time, and she did not intend to wait for the renovation to be completed before carrying out follow-up work. Shilla Hotel has its own publicity and promotion department, and almost everything is ready. She plans to use existing channels to launch commercial marketing as soon as possible.
As a result, a plan to advertise in the industrial parks of the Xing Group across the country was quickly put forward.
In South Korea, for ordinary people, the administrative regions are only Seoul and other areas. Everything outside Seoul can be called the countryside.
Seoul is an economic, cultural and educational center. Especially in recent years, South Korea has vigorously promoted the elite high school education model. The number of elite high schools and foreign language high schools in Seoul alone is several times more than when Nan Yi learned about it. The places in good universities are almost monopolized by elite high schools, and other civilian high schools can only compete for the places that slip through their fingers.
For this reason, parents in South Korea who value their children's education and have good economic conditions will try their best to send their children to elite high schools in Seoul for education.
As a giant in South Korea, the treatment of its employees by the chaebol group is relatively considerable compared with the overall level in South Korea. The treatment of employees with the same job is generally 30%-50% higher than that of non-chaebol companies.
In the early years, in order to win over the employees of Mixing, Li Jianxi donated top-ranked schools and hospitals in Seoul, and announced that as long as one is an employee of Mixing, they can enjoy priority access to these resources.
However, if you want to enjoy these resources, you must first live in Seoul. For this reason, even Seoul employees who work in Suwon City (more than 40 kilometers away) will also think about purchasing real estate in Seoul.
If one just works step by step and saves money to buy a house, it seems to be a very difficult thing for a not very senior employee according to the current increase in housing prices in Seoul. Therefore, Li Fuzhen aimed the first shot of the tree house project at the grass at home. Her way of advertising was to send emails to the corporate email addresses of the employees of the Star.
As soon as this email was circulated, it immediately went viral. All the employees looked at the exquisite tree house apartment renderings, which showed a yoga studio, a cafe, a small bar, a convenience store, a laundromat, and a cram school. The only thing was that the kitchen was a little lacking. From the renderings, it did not look independent, but a large public kitchen, and each apartment had its own small area.
There is no other way. If you want to renovate a kitchen in a hotel room, the workload will be huge. Not to mention other things, just the water and sewage will require a huge budget.
The most important thing is that the leasing method is quite flexible, ranging from a few days to a year, and there is no deposit required.
The middle-aged employees were tempted. After looking at the rent and calculating their own income, they felt that they were now fully capable of sending their children to study in Seoul. Some of them had already considered borrowing some high-interest loans to raise enough money for renting a house. They immediately sent emails to inquire about the apartment's outlets.
Precisely because Li Fuzhen had taken advantage of the situation, the tree house project had already attracted the first batch of potential tenants while it was still in the renovation stage.
Li Fuzhen was naturally very happy with this result. From the feedback from the staff of Xingxing, it can be seen that the tree house project has a good market prospect just as Nan Youqiong expected.
In addition, the tree house project has plans for the second and third phases, including tourist-oriented homestays and 100% Beauty Homestays (for the recovery period after plastic surgery). The New Miracle Group will bring in plastic surgery clients, and the Lavender Corporation will also bring in tourists, so the financial prospects are equally impressive.
Nan Youqiong, who was remembered and talked about by Li Fuzhen, was currently working on his creation in his attic.
He was seen standing in front of a sculpting table, holding mud in his hands and adding, subtracting and shaping the prototype of a female sculpture. In front of the window directly in front of him, under the sunlight, a naked woman was posing in a natural and elegant posture.
Suddenly, the woman said, "Oppa, I'm tired."
"Hold on a little longer, it will be quick."
As Nan Youqiong spoke, his fingers wandered over the prototype, outlining the curves of the body. As his fingers wandered, the abstract prototype was given a soul, and it was similar to the woman, not in appearance but in spirit.
Taking his hand away and standing two steps back, Nan Youqiong looked up and down at his work, feeling very satisfied.
"Okay, come and take a look."
Hearing this, the woman picked up a large-sized men's shirt on a high stool nearby and put it on. She swayed her waist and came to Nan Youqiong's side. Her eyes were immediately attracted when she saw the sculpture. Then, she raised her hand to cover her mouth, "Wow, Oppa, is this me?"
Nan Youqiong took a puff of his cigar and blew the smoke onto the sculpture. "Of course, it's you."
After a while, the woman finally woke up from her shock and asked in a dream-like voice, "Oppa, what is the name of this work?"
Nan Youqiong smiled faintly and said, "Name it after you."
"Park Hyun-jin?" Park Hyun-jin shook his head. "No, my name doesn't match this work."
Nan Youqiong was stunned for a moment, thought for a while, and uttered a name, "Natalie, just call her Natalie."
"Natalie?" Park Hyun-jin chewed the food for a while, then stood on tiptoe and kissed Nan Youqiong on the cheek, "Oppa, I like this name and this work, can you give it to me?"
"I like it myself, what should I do?"
Park Hyun-jin bit her lower lip with her upper jaw, hesitated for a moment and said, "Oppa, can you give me a key?"
Nan Youqiong raised his hand and stroked Park Hyunjin's face, then patted her gently, "Whether you are sincere or not, don't let your imagination run wild. A deal is a deal. We are just passers-by to each other. We just need to leave a beautiful memory for the future. Go dress up, I'll take you to Midobo to buy clothes."
Yesterday, she was arranged to participate in an "activity" by the company for the first time, and she was very glad that the person she was accompanying was the handsome Nan Youqiong. Last night and just now, her affection for him accumulated little by little, and she had the throbbing desire to establish a long-term relationship with Nan Youqiong, girlfriend, lover, playmate, any identity is fine, the relationship can be deepened step by step, the first thing is to break away from the control of the company, she knows that Nan Youqiong has the ability to do so.
But……
Park Hyun-jin was deeply disappointed, and it was written all over her face.
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