MPLB-40.2

Darren drove his second-hand seven-seat car, set off for the Yang Group with the rest of the gang.

They imagined the Yang Group before they came. But they realized the big difference between fantasy and reality.

The office area was so luxurious that you couldn’t see the other end from where they stood.

In downtown where the land cost a fortune, the value alone was not possible to imagine.

Also, with so many buildings, the area was even more horrifying than the luxury estate.

There had to be a reason why it was called the second biggest group in Beijing. You could totally tell it was more competitive than most companies.

If the Yang Group was so formidable, how intimidating could Wang Group be?

“If we got here in a luxury car, would they still need to register us?” Xuan Lu said with a smile.

“You can give it a try.” Zhan was busy with the agreement file sent by the Yang Group.

He basically went through it once, now it was the second time.

Roughly speaking, the Yang Group invested 500 million on the animation APP, and their team was running management.

Their studio has 10% of the shares…

“10%!” Jili could see the countless money symbols after hearing it.

Counting it by fingers make you scream out of excitement.

“10% means our studio already possesses 50 million worth of assets once we start the cooperation!”

Holy cow, 50 million! This was completely beyond everyone’s expectations.

Did the Yang Group run a charitable company? That was too generous, wasn’t it?

“There are conditions.” Zhan kept scrolling the agreement on his phone.

“According to the agreement, the loss must be controlled within 30% and all funds must be used within a year.” Zhan said after a while.

They knew little about investing. Even when Zhan invested in the studio, it was nothing compared to 500 million!

500 million was a horrifying number to even think about!

“What… what if we failed?” Jili asked in a low voice.

Everyone’s eyes instantly landed on Zhan’s face, except for Darren who was driving.

Zhan’s eyes were fixed on the phone without making any eye contact.

“Not only will the shares be taken back, but we’ll be working for them for free in the next three years.” Zhan said after a while.

There was a silence for a moment inside the car.

Zhan continued, saying, “The second condition is that we must achieve breakeven within two years, otherwise, we will do free work for them in the next two years.”

“The third condition is that we must make more than 30 percent of the profit within three years, or else we must work for free for one year.”

In fact, the conditions were absolutely favorable for them.

After all, they did not need to pay them back even though they made them losing money.

Was this the fund that Second Young Master Yang allocated? It seemed like someone who was rich but stupid would do such a thing.

…

The car stopped at the main building and Xuan Lu was the first person who got off the car.

Yubin and Zhan came down after her.

Darren told them, “We are waiting here. Give me a call after you come down.”

“Alright.” Zhan gave him an OK gesture and then looked at Xuan Lu, “Is there a rule to go inside?”

“I suppose not?” Xuan Lu also did not know because it was her first time to go to such a serious and large group.

Zhan carried his computer bag and the three of them walked into the lobby after they sorted their clothes out.

As soon as they entered through the door, there was a female receptionist greeted them with an amiable smile, “May I ask who are you looking for? Have you made an appointment?”

“We have an appointment with Second Young Master Yang.”

As soon as Xuan Lu’s words were uttered, the female receptionist’s face sank slightly, “Excuse me, have you made the appointment?”

“Yes, it’s the people from your company called us and let us come to the meeting at 10 o’clock.”

“Alright, please wait for a while.” The female receptionist walked to the outside reception department that was not far away, “Did Second Young Master call those children to come for the meeting?”

“Yes, don’t you know that they are from the Bk University?”

The other female receptionist smiled and immediately walked towards the three people at the door.

However, it seemed something was wrong. Why didn’t the person involved come?

After scanning between the three of them, those eyes that could not wait to watch the show became slightly impatient.

“Sorry, Second Young Master appoints to meet Xiao Zhan. If Xiao Zhan doesn’t come…”

“I’m Xiao Zhan.”

This sentence was enough to make the employees that were passing by stopped all of the sudden, and more than 90 percent of them turned their heads and looked at the boy who was talking.

What a pretty boy! This was their first thought that flashed in their mind when they saw Zhan.

However, how could he be Xiao Zhan? Wasn’t the rumor of Xiao Zhan an ugly monster?

“You are… Xiao Zhan?” The female receptionist also looked incredulous.

Zhan directly took out his ID card and showed it to her.

It really was Xiao Zhan!

As soon as the female receptionist looked up, she saw countless curious eyes.

Xiao Zhan was famous in their group today.

It was just that no one thought the ugly monster was as beautiful as a swan!

“That…” The female receptionist took a sigh of relief and said dully, “Well, I’ll take you up.”

Three of them followed her back and went directly to the special elevator that only those high-level executives could use.

After they left, the first female receptionist was grabbing her colleague that was passing by with a look of puzzlement.

“What’s the matter? Why it seems like everyone knows who Xiao Zhan is?”

“Don’t you know?” The colleague leaned close to her as she was afraid of being caught in discussing the private affairs of the Second Young Master during work hours.

She lowered her voice to a whisper and said, “The campus comic contest that the Yang sponsors. You can search it on the Internet yourself.”

“I know this…”

“No. I bet you don’t know the breaking news this morning yet by looking at you like this.”

The colleague took out her mobile phone and smiled slyly, “I have to send a message to my high-level executive friends and tell them that the legendary Xiao Zhan is here.”

On the way out from the 88th floor, Zhan could feel the strange gaze from everyone that looked at him all along the way he passed each of the lobbies.

Of course, it was not because he was really pretty enough to cause any commotion.

Although they were also stunned by his prettiness, they were more surprised, explored, curious, and even waited for watching a show.

Why did everyone seem to know him?

Even the female receptionist, who took them up, also occasionally looked back at him when she walked ahead.

Her gaze was complicated whenever she looked back at him, Eventually, there was even a little hostility through her gaze?

What had he done?

Zhan’s mobile phone short message ringtone was rung. It was from Jili, and Jili even sent the messages several times in a row.

However, Zhan could not see the mobile phone when he walked in such a solemn, sacred, and high-level lobby of a large group.

So, he directly set the phone into the silent mode.

After they walked to an office door, the female receptionist stopped and knocked gently on the door.

A man’s deep voice from the office could be heard, “Come in.”

Although they were separated by a door, the voice was indescribably magnetic, sweet, and sexy!

The female receptionist took a deep breath, adjusted her clothes, and squeezed a perfect smile on her face before opening the office door.

This was definitely the most professional and the best smile! The female receptionist smiled and said, “Second Young Master, Mr Zhan and his friends are here.”

“Let them in.” YangYang did not even lift his head.

The female receptionist did not leave immediately. She stood at the door for a few seconds instead.

The Second Young Master was unwilling to look up! Even if it was just a glance!

How many times in a year could they, who work in the lobby on the first floor, come here to approach the Second Young Master?

She had shown her most perfect side, and yet the Second Young Master did not even look at her.

After three seconds, Xuan Lu couldn’t help but spoke, “Well, is he calling us to go inside?”

The female receptionist glared at her. She was trying to say something, but she soon realized that the Second Young Master, who she kept thinking about, finally raised his head.

He looked at this way!

The female receptionist hurriedly stood up straight, raised her head, and held her chest high. Then, she inhaled deeply into her stomach.

“Second Young…”

“Xiao Zhan, come in.”

There was a look of displeasure flashed across YangYang’s eyes. He hated the female and ger employees that being coquettish and flirtatious in front of him, “Close the door!”

Zhan was puzzled. This voice sounded irritating, as if… he had a bone to pick with him?

He looked back at Xuan Lu. Second Young Master Yang called his name only. Did this mean that he should go in by himself?

“Mr Zhan, please come in!” The female receptionist’s face darkened, and she glared at Zhan.

Zhan had to go in, and the door was immediately closed behind him.

“Then we…” Xuan Lu was stunned. How could he leave them out?

“Second Young Master only intends to meet Mr Zhan, so both of you please wait in the lobby.”

The female receptionist finally received such a good task to take the person up personally and had the opportunity to get close to the Second Young Master.

However, she did not expect that there was no benefit for her at all.

The eyes of the Second Young Master that looked at her were full of disdain.

No, the Second Young Master did not seem to even look at her directly.

The female receptionist was aggrieved, and so she threw Xuan Lu and Yubin aside on the lounge chair in the lobby and turned away.

Zhan had no idea what was going on outside.

After calming down for half a second, he walked to YangYang’s desk.

“Second Young Master Yang…”

“Is Boss doesn’t want you anymore?” YangYang dropped the mouse, leaned back in the chair, and stared at him.

(Yibo’s friends call him Boss. I had explained in some chapter when all friends get-together.)

It was just a glance, but it immediately became complicated, indescribably complicated!

He knew that the things on boy face were a disguise. Although he did not know why boy did so, he saw that there was something wrong with the freckles on his face when Boss said he was very beautiful.

However, he did not expect that Zhan, who had washed off the freckles, was… somewhat stunning.

It turned out that Boss who said that he was beautiful was true…

YangYang moved his eyes away and his tone became even colder, “Did he break off the engagement?”

This question was so cruel. It would be so painful for someone who had just been dumped.

However, all the sadness of Zhan had been vented out last night.

The dawn had come. Zhan should go his own way. There was nothing to be sad about.

“Yes. I have heard that he broke off engagement with me in the newspaper.”

He put down the computer bag, sat in front of the desk without YangYang telling him to do so, and met his exploring gaze, “Second Young Master Yang, about our cooperation this time…”

“Xiao Zhan, are you a dead person?” YangYang made him unable to keep up with the flow when he spoke.

Zhan was slightly helpless and rubbed his forehead. He said, “Second Young Master Yang, I don’t understand what you mean. Can you make it clear?”

He thought that he came here for the business matter, but why all YangYang said were about the private issue?

“Did you really feel nothing when Boss dumped you? Did you cry?”

It looked like boy eyes were a little swollen, but they were not so swollen. They were just slightly swollen as if he drank too much water before going to bed.

YangYang could not tell whether boy cried or not.

“I had cried.” Zhan answered calmly. “Yes.” He was finally like a normal person.

YangYang nodded, “Can’t bear to part with it?”

“No.”

“No?”

“I was too arrogant when I quarreled last night. I didn’t even ask for a penny. Well, it’s not like I leave without any property. After all, we haven’t married.”

Zhan coughed lightly. After adjusting his breath, he said, “But when Young Master Wang offered me compensation, I didn’t accept it.”

“…” YangYang did not expect to hear such a realistic statement from Zhan’s mouth.

Could it be that now is not time to be sad about a breakup?

YangYang realized that he could not accept Zhan’s thought. His voice was a little dull, “… and then?”

“Then, of course, I regret it. Am I foolish? Young Master Wang is so rich. He can give me if I just ask for tens of millions.”

Zhan looked really regretful, and he regretted it so much that he was about to stomp his feet and beat his chest!

“Maybe if I want 500 million, he will give it to me too. In this way, I won’t have to wait for the Yang group to cooperate with us, don’t you think so?”

“You…” This boy! He was beating around the bush and getting back on the business matter!

He was really good at talking!

But why he didn’t feel sad at all?

Boss was such an outstanding man. Was this boy really not feeling sad about losing his fiancé?

“Actually, Second Young Master Yang is also happy to see it happen, and would love to see me being dumped, aren’t you?”

Zhan’s smile made YangYang’s throat suddenly tightened and he was a little speechless.

Finally, he cleared his throat and said lightly, “Why do I want to see you being dumped? Do I know you well?”

“I also don’t know why, but I know that you don’t want Young Master Wang and me to be together.”

YangYang originally wanted to deny it, but Zhan’s seriousness made him could not say anything against his conscience.

He really hoped that Zhan would leave Boss and stop being a burden to him again and again.

However, this boy was really dumped by Boss, and he was… inexplicably a little uncomfortable.

Well, that was not right. He was from the Yang group at the moment, and this boy was the representative from the small studio.

Why this boy aura completely overshadowed his aura when both of them talked?

“Second Young Master Yang, your time is too precious. I do not dare to delay it too long. Can we talk about the cooperation agreement?”

Zhan’s words made YangYang hold back what he wanted to say.

He did not believe that Zhan was so cold. It should be said that he did not believe that someone would really be so indifferent after leaving Young Master Wang.

“Then, do you really have nothing to do with Young Master Wang now?” he asked.

Zhan thought for a while, and he knitted his brows lightly, “Second Young Master Yang, is it because I am Young Master Wang’s fiancé, so you are willing to cooperate with us?”

YangYang was stupefied. He did not expect that Zhan would have this thought.

He squinted his eyes, “Do you think I need such a relationship?”

“Originally, I certainly don’t think so. Although the Yang group was not as large as the Wang for the time being, I saw that the company was developed so well with my eyes when I came in.”

“So?” This boy words sounded pretty nice.

However, Zhan’s next words almost made him, the famous and elegant gentleman frowned on the spot.

“So, I didn’t expect that the Second Young Master of the Yang group would be such an unprofessional person under rigorous circumstances.”

YangYang’s face darkened, and he said unhappily, “When am I unprofessional?”

“The Yang group asked us to come here today. Are we talking about cooperation?”

If it was just private discussion, then there was no need to continue.

“So you treat your sponsor like this? Are you not afraid that I would be upset and unwilling to continue the cooperation?”

“Sorry, Second Young Master Yang. I think I have to correct some of your problems.”

Zhan was very serious even when he met his gaze.

“First of all, you are not the sponsor of our September studio. We are business partners, not the relationship that we depend entirely on you.”

“Second, although I don’t want to see the cooperation between the two companies be cancelled, this doesn’t mean that I have to beg you to invest in our September studio.

Zhan sat up straight, and his eyes were bright when he saw him.

“For studios like ours, everyone hopes to get financing, but it is still too fast for us to get the Yang’s investment.”

“If the Yang group is not really sincere to cooperate with us, then I don’t think we need to go that fast.”

“Walk fast, fall hard. If the Yang doesn’t want to do business in animation, we will fall harder. Therefore, the cooperation should be both sides. We also have our considerations.”

YangYang didn’t expect that one day he would be scolded like this by an 18-year-old little boy.

What made him angrier was that he couldn’t retort what Zhan said.

Not treating him as investors, not crying and begging for collaboration? In fact, his collaboration would depend on his sincerity?

This little boy who had never experienced the cruelty of the society, thought he could do anything he wanted?

YangYang opened the drawer and casually threw out a pile of paper.

“Here, these are all of the application agreements from the companies that want to cooperate with us to develop the animation project.” YangYang said.

He looked arrogant and powerful, wanting to see him compromise or even being humble in front of him.

“Do you see it? If we want to do animation, you are not the only option we have to be our cooperative partner.” YangYang said.

“I know you have a lot of choices, but I also believe that if we are not qualified, you wouldn’t invite us here to discuss about this collaboration.” Zhan said.

Therefore, after boy saw the pile of application documents, he remained expressionless, and his confidence had never been hit by the slightest.

Zhan pressed his lower lip and said with a sincere tone, “Second Young Master Yang, we are just a small studio. In fact, for us, although this collaboration is an opportunity, it is also a burden.”

“Everyone hopes that their company can become bigger and stronger, but we may not have such capabilities. Your investment is indeed a risk.” Zhan said.

“I hope that you can think about it seriously whether you are really confident to cooperate with us. If the reason you invest is for wasting your extra money, I’ll also advise you to think twice.” Zhan said.

“Guess what will your team think if they hear what you say?” YangYang said.

YangYang’s facial expression was not looking good.

“They wouldn’t think much, they may be disappointed for a while. But after a big meal, they will be vigorous to find other partners to work with.” Zhan said.

“Perhaps, according to our original plan, they will do the comics first, and then consider animation when the comics are successful.” Zhan said.

YangYang didn’t speak, staring at his face, studying every expression on boy face.

This boy wasn’t angry or impulsive. He was actually seriously and calmly persuading him to reconsider their cooperation.

Could anyone ask for financial investment like this? This boy really didn’t care about losing such a big investor like him?

No, this boy had said: he was not their investor, but just a partner.

After a while, YangYang suddenly asked, “Are you really that calm? Aren’t you afraid that I will cancel this collaboration? Seriously?”

….