Chapter 141 - 127: Love’s Shadow Play (Part 3)
Chapter 141: Chapter 127: Love’s Shadow Play (Part 3)
Arriving at the office, Gao Yuan immediately announced a meeting in ten minutes.
The company didn’t have many employees yet, so the meeting was a simple affair. It was just the three platform managers, plus Sister Sun and Si Xue.
The three managers reported on the previous day’s store operations. The results were fantastic. As of midnight, the three stores had sold a total of 28,798 orders, amounting to 32,380 boxes of face masks.
The company now had only 150,000 boxes of face masks left in stock.
With ten days left until the end of the month, this supply was very likely to be enough.
Given the situation, Gao Yuan wasn’t in a hurry to restock. It wouldn’t be too late to place another order once the Lin Group had finished producing the full product line.
"President Gao, there’s a problem we need to address."
"We’re already getting feedback from people who have used the product, and they’re demanding to buy it again."
After listening to Ma Yiming, Gao Yuan turned to Wang Hao and Li Mingyu. "Are your two stores seeing the same thing?"
Wang Hao and Li Mingyu nodded. "Yes. Right now, our customer service team’s main job is just calming these people down."
Gao Yuan mulled it over for a moment before shaking his head.
"Keep placating them for now."
"Find a way to move these repeat customers into a corporate WeChat group. Tell them our inventory is tight right now, but also mention that we’ll be launching other new products in January, and we’ll give them a twenty-percent discount then."
For now, this was the only way Gao Yuan could handle it.
He had to use a scarcity marketing tactic. He needed to whet his customers’ appetites, or else the January launch might not be as explosive as he wanted.
Of course, if the 150,000 boxes of face masks didn’t last until the end of December, he would have no choice but to place another order.
After they had dealt with the store-related issues and the meeting ended, Gao Yuan asked Sister Sun to stay behind.
"What’s the status on using a headhunter for recruitment, like we talked about last time?"
"I just spoke with them. There hasn’t been much progress."
Gao Yuan’s original plan had been to expand the team and spin off the Guofeng-style face masks into a separate brand. However, this recent unexpected surge forced him to integrate them into the main GY flagship store instead.
Based on the team’s current marketing performance, building a separate team was completely unnecessary.
"Let’s put that on hold for now. We’ll handle the recruiting ourselves."
Gao Yuan told Sister Sun which positions needed to be filled and then returned to his office.
It was already Thursday. Tomorrow, he had to go to Shanghai to discuss being a guest singer at the concert with Jay Chou’s team, and he would have to stay in Shanghai through Saturday as well.
Hang City was very close to Shanghai, so Gao Yuan decided not to take the high-speed train. He would drive there directly, which would be more convenient if he needed to get around in Shanghai.
With a moment to spare, Gao Yuan suddenly thought of Xiao Xiao, whom he’d run into in the parking garage yesterday. She had even asked him if he was going to Jay Chou’s concert.
He opened WeChat and sent Xiao Xiao a message: "Do you need tickets to the Jay Chou concert?"
He waited for a while.
Xiao Xiao didn’t reply. Gao Yuan decided not to overthink it. ’A relationship needs time to develop through shared experiences,’ he thought. ’Coming on too strong might just scare her off.’
If Gao Yuan had known that Xiao Xiao had tossed and turned all night, he probably wouldn’t have had the patience to stay at the office. He would have rushed up to the 26th floor and knocked on her door in a heartbeat.
With nothing else to do, Gao Yuan pulled out his phone and started scrolling through short videos, checking to see if there was anything fun to do in Shanghai these days.
To his surprise, he came across a video of that Young Master Wang.
He had to admit, Young Master Wang really lived a carefree life. Every time he went out, he was surrounded by luxury cars and beautiful women. What’s more, he’d get a new batch of beauties every two or three months, more often than Gao Yuan used to switch bathhouses back in the day.
But Gao Yuan knew Young Master Wang had earned that right, in a way. His life path had been set from birth, guaranteeing him a lifetime of leisure.
People might say his old man was having a tough time now, but could you really call that "tough"?
The man’s business dealings were casually in the hundreds of millions, even billions. How was that "tough"?
In the past, Gao Yuan had been envious, but not jealous. Their parents’ generation had worked their whole lives for it, so it was only right for them to enjoy it. Otherwise, what was the point of earning money?
As for the current Gao Yuan, not only was he not jealous, he wasn’t the least bit envious either.
He’d only had the system for a month. He’d have to be out of his mind to think one month’s time could match the efforts of several generations.
Besides, Gao Yuan had things that Eldest Young Master Wang couldn’t compare to.
In terms of physical fitness, this Eldest Young Master Wang was definitely no match for him. Especially in a certain... *area*, where he was quite confident.
’But there’s no need to compare that sort of thing,’ he thought. ’As long as my woman knows, that’s enough. No need to go broadcasting it to the world.’
Gao Yuan waited until just after four in the afternoon, then drove over and parked in front of the Wuyou office building.
He was there to pick up Li Mengqing from work. Since there was nothing to do at the office, he figured he might as well pick up his girlfriend. It had been a long time since he’d enjoyed this simple pleasure of being in a couple.
Although Li Mengqing had already submitted her resignation, her boss had asked her to stay on for a few more days since it was so close to the end of the year, and she had agreed.
At that moment, she was in the middle of styling a major influencer. The influencer had just been asking Li Mengqing for some face masks, saying that she’d also bought some from the GY flagship store, but felt they weren’t as effective as the ones Li Mengqing had given her.
Li Mengqing knew why. The masks Gao Yuan had given her to hand out were special; he had specifically told her that the essence inside was a higher grade.
As she worked on her client’s hair, Li Mengqing suggested she wait a bit and directly purchase the upgraded Guofeng-style masks when they came out.
Even though they cost 1,999 yuan for just six masks, that really wasn’t expensive for a major influencer with millions of followers.
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While Li Mengqing was busy inside, Gao Yuan was busy in his car as well.
He had parked on the side of the road and reclined his seat, planning to listen to an audiobook. The story in the novel, *Financial Freedom Starts with a 3,000 Yuan Monthly Salary*, was practically written about him. It made him really want to meet the author.
He didn’t have the time recently, though, so he just casually tipped the author enough to become an "Alliance Leader" on the platform.
Gao Yuan had just closed his eyes to listen to the audiobook when someone knocked on his car window.
He opened his eyes and turned his head. Standing outside the window was none other than Tongtong.
He unlocked the doors. Tongtong immediately pulled the passenger door open, slid inside, and started rubbing her hands together vigorously.
"I’m freezing to death!"
Gao Yuan looked at Tongtong, who was wearing a thick down jacket, and was a bit confused.
’You’re still cold wearing something that thick?’
The next moment, Tongtong unzipped the jacket.
Now Gao Yuan understood why she was cold. Dressed so provocatively in this weather, who else would be cold if not her?
However, Gao Yuan couldn’t care less if she was cold. He simply said, "Out."
"Get in the back."