Chapter 253 - 165: Hurry Up, Time is Tight and the Mission is Heavy
Chapter 253: Chapter 165: Hurry Up, Time is Tight and the Mission is Heavy
"Mhm."
Li Mengqing nodded and agreed in a low voice.
"Go see your sister out," Li Tianqi said to the seated Li Lin, gesturing toward Li Mengqing.
Li Lin smiled and stood up. "Xiaoqing, wait for me a moment."
With that, Li Lin headed upstairs. He quickly returned carrying several bags.
"Let’s go, Xiaoqing. I’ll walk you out."
Li Mengqing nodded and walked outside with Li Lin.
Li Mengqing didn’t feel as much resistance toward her older brother, Li Lin, possibly because the age gap between them wasn’t very large.
As a result, they had communicated quite a bit when they were younger. However, after Li Lin went abroad following his high school graduation, they spoke less and less.
In recent years, Li Lin had returned to begin managing some of the Li Family’s businesses. Since Li Mengqing was living on her own, they didn’t have many opportunities to meet.
But whenever they did meet, Li Lin always had a gentle and refined demeanor. Coupled with his glasses, he looked quite scholarly.
"Xiaoqing, sometimes you need to try and understand Father."
"For our family to have gotten this far, some things had to be done that can’t see the light of day."
"If we keep going down this path, we’ll hit a dead end."
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Li Lin spoke in a soft, gentle voice the entire way. Li Mengqing simply listened without saying a word. It wasn’t until they were almost at the main gate that Li Lin stopped and said to her seriously, "I want to talk to Gao Yuan tomorrow about the Technology City."
As if afraid Li Mengqing would read too much into it, or perhaps intending to pass a message to Gao Yuan through her, he added, "The Li Family has no ill intentions. We are simply trying to survive."
After saying this, Li Lin smiled a very gentle smile.
Li Lin walked Li Mengqing all the way to Gao Yuan’s car. Although Gao Yuan didn’t get out, Li Lin paid it no mind, smiling and waving at Gao Yuan inside the vehicle.
Gao Yuan smiled and waved back in response.
Gao Yuan drove away in the Brabus G900, but Li Lin remained, staring blankly in the direction the car had gone.
The Li Family, the Li Group.
To outsiders, they were a behemoth, a family of immense wealth.
But only Li Tianqi and Li Lin knew that their time was running out.
’In another two years, that personage is set to retire. When that happens, can the Li Family truly remain as stable as it is now?’
’Every new sovereign brings his own courtiers!’
Therefore, while studying abroad, Li Lin had already begun planning for the Li Family’s future.
The family’s mining and construction businesses had to be cut. Or rather, those sectors would be left to the other shareholders, allowing the Li Family to completely divest from the Li Group.
From then on, the Li Family would enter a state of semi-retirement, only participating in business investments—such as their current hope of investing in Gao Yuan’s Yuanfang Company.
He had actually started this process after returning to the country, but none of the companies they invested in had developed as rapidly as Yuanfang Company.
Based on Li Lin’s years of experience abroad, Yuanfang Company already had the potential to become the number one domestic brand.
Although it was still small, its potential for growth and the speed at which it was growing were astonishing.
Gao Yuan’s creation, the Treasure Box, was especially creative.
Once a woman brought a Treasure Box home, it was a frighteningly effective thing.
Most of the space inside the Treasure Box was designed to fit individual GY products. It was difficult to fit similar products from other brands, and doing so would ruin the aesthetic.
This was unacceptable for most women. So, whenever they ran out of a particular item, they would instinctively go to the GY brand to replenish it.
Furthermore, the design of the products within the set was very much in the national style; even the individual packaging boxes held great aesthetic value.
For example, the star- and moon-shaped bottles immediately captured women’s hearts.
Today, while looking at GY’s products, Li Lin discovered that GY had launched a new promotion.
[I’ve Used Up a Full Set of GY Skincare.]
Any user who had purchased a Treasure Box set from the GY flagship store could, upon using up all the products, gain eligibility to purchase a GY bag.
The GY flagship store had also released design mockups for this bag.
Judging from the rendered images alone, the design was very strong. Moreover, the designer invited to create it was a master designer from the Imperial Palace Research Institute, who had personally handled the design.
As soon as this bag was announced, it immediately attracted a great deal of attention, especially among GY’s customer base.
Some users who had purchased the GY set were already asking around for information about the bag.
For instance, when would it go on sale? What was the price?
This promotion had actually been planned in advance by three members of GY’s operations department. They had introduced the bag specifically to target women’s irresistible desire for handbags.
The bag was priced at 19,999 yuan, the same price as the GY National Style set.
However, the bag was a limited release. It was limited to 9,999 units worldwide. Pre-orders were already open, with shipping to begin on March 8th.
While that number might sound large, it wasn’t actually that many on a global scale.
Although GY was currently only somewhat known domestically and hadn’t expanded abroad, after analyzing the sales data for the National Style set, Ma Yiming and the other two unanimously agreed that they would have no trouble selling that many units.
When news of this GY National Style Bag began to spread online, two different opinions emerged.
Some said Gao Yuan was crazy for money, not only selling his skincare set for such a high price but also daring to sell a matching bag for just as much.
On what grounds could an obscure little brand, one that didn’t even specialize in making bags, sell a handbag for the same price as the major international luxury brands?