Chapter 112: The Spendthrift Boss Lady!

It was a sunny Friday afternoon with a clear blue sky.

Jiang Qin arrived at the entrepreneurship base. As soon as he entered, he ran into a girl with bangs in the hallway. The girl wore an orange turtleneck sweater and black-framed glasses. Seeing Jiang Qin, she casually greeted “Hello senior” then pushed open the door and entered the general office.

Jiang Qin was fairly familiar with the people in this building, but had never seen this girl before. After thinking carefully, he realized she must be one of the replacements for the TV-watching senior.

One left and two came, both juniors. Senior Sister Cao had toughed it out.

He figured she would free up all her time to date fervently.

Jiang Qin walked past the general office. Indeed, he saw three figures inside discussing something, so he didn’t disturb them. He pushed open the door to Room 208.

Other than Pang Hai, the other fifteen people including Su Nai, Dong Wenhao, Lu Xuemei, Shi Miaomiao, Lu Feiyu, and Dong Miaomiao were all there. They had received Jiang Qin’s text earlier knowing there was a meeting today, so they were all waiting for Jiang Qin to return.

After entering 208, Jiang Qin didn’t waste words and directly got to the point.

“The traffic on Linchuan University’s side is already saturated with decent retention rates. Advertisers are continually increasing too so we can appropriately let go, no need to leave someone watching it every day.”

“Also, we’ll soon start promotions at University of Science and Technology. This was already discussed before so I believe you all should be prepared.”

“I’m still scouting locations for Xitian. Although it’s not urgent, you need to get in the right mindset to avoid being overwhelmed when the time comes.”

“University of Science and Tech isn’t far from Linchuan University so I decided to still use our own people for the initial push since you’re all very familiar with the match routines and can quickly get up to speed.”

“If anyone has issues with time or transportation, let me know in advance so I can make a note of it.”

“The whole initial push will take about a week. You may need to make a few round trips. Transportation and meal allowances will be included in your salary payments.”

“Also Su Nai, pick someone from your tech team to temporarily serve as tech team leader. Dong Wenhao will be in overall charge to coordinate with Science and Tech University’s promotion plan.”

“Hey, then what about me? What will I do?” Su Nai was startled by her sudden loss of authority.

Jiang Qin glared at her, “What’s the matter, scared? That’s what you get for watching movies in the office every day!”

Lu Xuemei immediately raised her hand wanting to defend Su Nai, “Boss, I can testify for Senior Sister Su Nai. She never watched movies in the office. I never heard any sound coming from her computer!”

“The movies she watches can’t let others hear the sound.”

“????”

Jiang Qin coughed and brought the topic back, “Su Nai, don’t be nervous. Having you leave the tech team is because there are other things to do.”

Su Nai let out a sigh of relief while also getting curious, “What things, boss?”

“You need to come research another project with me for a while.”

“Why suddenly do another project?”

“The forum’s current monetization ability is poor. The only monetization method is ad revenue, but ad slots are limited after all. They’re already booked through next year so it’ll be hard to squeeze out more profit. So we need to develop a completely new monetization method. We can’t just sit and consume what we have.”

Jiang Qin didn’t elaborate, mainly because there was no concrete plan yet.

After all, he didn’t understand the technical aspects, so the first priority now was to have Su Nai understand the difficulty, then come back and form a feasible or infeasible plan.

“Boss, what direction is the new project?”

“Group buying website.”

Su Nai blanked for a moment, “Wasn’t that 208’s previous project? Didn’t it already fail?”

“We definitely can’t follow the old group buy site’s path. I mean do something similar but different,” Jiang Qin responded.

“Oh oh.”

After hearing this, Su Nai nodded with a vague understanding. She didn’t ask for details, having gotten used to just doing whatever Jiang Qin said.

“Next, let’s discuss the specific promotional steps for Zhihu Forum’s University of Science and Technology project.”

Jiang Qin tapped the table with his pen, “Take notes if you need to. Also, don’t interrupt me midway. If you have questions, wait until I’m done talking to ask.”

Hearing this, everyone sat up straight and took out pens and notebooks to take notes.

After being tempered by the Campus Belle Contest, they all knew the boss’s military strategy.

The boss’s brain was like a machine that could perfectly construct all directions and possibilities, then provide an optimal path and details. They just needed to work according to the plan and the bullet would definitely hit the target.

“Boss, I need to go to the bathroom first!” Lu Feiyu suddenly stood up.

Jiang Qin looked disgusted, “Hurry up then. No pee breaks for the whole session later!”

“Got it.”

Lu Feiyu dashed out of 208 to the bathroom then sat back down feeling refreshed, “Okay, start talking!”

“Am I the boss or are you the boss? You really have no sense of boundaries.” Jiang Qin spat then began assigning tasks.

“Lanlan, go collect information on merchants near Science and Tech University and summarize it for me.”

“Old Dong, you mainly need to find the Literature Club at Science and Tech, just like how we found you back then. Select a batch of content creators familiar with Science and Tech.”

“Also, the content team’s recent topics were too limited to Linchuan University. Pause that for now. Find some topics that all college students like to read.”

“Tech department, find a way to further optimize the registration system. The current registration method is still too cumbersome.”

Su Nai couldn’t help interjecting, “Boss, phone number and email are a must. If we simplify further, one person could open countless alt accounts. It would be unmanageable then.”

“Your registration system doesn’t need to urgently have them fill in the phone number at first. Add a rule later that you can’t comment or post without binding a phone number. Get the registration rate up first. Whether users can be retained later is something for the content team to consider!”

“Oh.” Su Nai responded gloomily.

Dong Wenhao’s head was exploding. He thought, how did I suddenly become responsible for so many things without anyone telling me in advance?

“Don’t interrupt me again. Let me say one last thing…”

Jiang Qin had only said half his words when the door to 208 suddenly creaked open.

A fair and delicate hand gently pushed open the wooden door, causing Jiang Qin’s expression to instantly darken, his brows tightly furrowed.

He didn’t let others interrupt him because he also needed to think while speaking. Once his train of thought was cut off, it would be very troublesome to pick it back up. He had already been interrupted once and was now extremely annoyed. No one could quell it!

“Jiang Qin.” Feng Nanshu poked her exquisite little face in from the doorway.

Jiang Qin blanked for a moment, “Why are you here?”

“I bought some fruit.” Feng Nanshu stepped in carrying two bags of fruit.

Hearing this, the employees still in the meeting instantly couldn’t sit still. They crowded forward one after another calling her “Boss Lady” and took the bags from her hands.

With the boss lady here, who still needed to fear the boss?

The group hurriedly opened the bags and saw there were shine muscat grapes, mangosteen, strawberries, and pomegranate inside. Judging from the appearance and quality, they must all be top-notch goods that were definitely not cheap.

The little rich girl’s hands had red marks from the bags digging in, with a few obvious lines, but she clenched her fists not letting others see.

“Feng Nanshu, this is too was…”

Jiang Qin emergency braked on his blurted words. The word “wasteful” was instantly swallowed back into his mouth as he patted his chest with lingering fear.

Meanwhile Feng Nanshu blinked her clear eyes, looking at him with some confusion, her pretty face full of blankness and inquiry.

“Didn’t I tell you before not to learn bad habits from Gao Wenhui.” Jiang Qin changed the subject.

Feng Nanshu looked at him coolly, “I already learned to give fruit. I didn’t continue learning from her.”

“Boss Lady, this shine muscat is so sweet!” Shi Miaomiao cheered beside them.

Su Nai felt incomparably happy eating strawberries, “Boss Lady, you should be in charge from now on. Boss never knows to buy us fruit to eat.”

“Bah, I’m the one paying your salaries. If you’re eating fruit then don’t talk. Can’t your mouth do both?”

“We’ll eat and not talk then!” Su Nai forcefully split open a pomegranate.

Jiang Qin looked up at Feng Nanshu and found her a bit sweaty, “Did you carry it here yourself?”

“Mm.” Feng Nanshu nodded obediently.

“Give me your allowance. I’ll manage it for you from now on so you don’t spend rashly!”

Feng Nanshu opened her little purse, took out a pretty pink wallet and handed it over, “Here.”

“…”

Jiang Qin chuckled and quickly said he was joking, “Just buy it. It’s not my money anyway. I don’t feel distressed at all.”

Afterwards, Jiang Qin also called Fang Xiaoxuan and his two top lieutenants over to have a meeting together to study this weekend’s team building plan.

It had been a week since the Campus Belle Contest. The promises made back then should be partially fulfilled, otherwise everyone wouldn’t have the heart to go cause a stir at Science and Tech University. It’s like they say, if you want the horse to run, first let the horse eat grass.

In the end, after everyone’s unanimous decision, the location for this team building was set at a rural resort in the southern suburbs.

This wasn’t because Jiang Qin was unwilling to spend money. It was purely because everyone felt the weekend only had two days. If they went too far, all the good team building time would be wasted on the road which was too inappropriate.

“Feng Nanshu, we’re going out to play this weekend. You can wander around by yourself at school. If you get hungry, find Gao Wenhui to eat with you.”

Feng Nanshu’s little face fell, “Can’t I go?”

“This is our team building. You’re not an employee of 208 so you can’t go.” Jiang Qin put on a serious face.

“I’m the boss lady.” Feng Nanshu spoke solemnly.

“Really? Do you have credentials? Please show your credentials.”

“…”