Why is This Troublemaker So Damn Rich?

How pathetic. A leader, a department manager no less, reduced to deceiving his own store staff, coaxing them to stay on just a little longer. How could a business run like this possibly succeed?

She went into the fitting room. It was a complete mess. The slippers were too filthy to even put a foot in, and the storeroom was just as disorganized. Comparing the image of this store to one from Yanghe Commerce was like comparing a fifty-yuan-a-night motel to a suite in a five-star hotel.

In her mind, she had essentially written off Futong Commerce. They could never do the NLB brand justice; the company’s very DNA was flawed. Besides, she also knew that Li Yang’s vaunted channel expansion efforts were a complete disaster. There was basically no hope for this company. ’Better to just let it self-destruct.’

"Who’s your supervisor? How is it that the operations manager is directly managing the store?"

"Xia Jie. Manager Zhang said she wasn’t capable, so the company replaced her. But we thought Supervisor Xia was great. She was someone who actually got things done. It’s a shame she was replaced after just one day."

’Judging someone as incapable after just one day?’ She’d never heard of anything so bizarre. ’It seems luck had played a larger role than anything else in Li Yang building his business to its current scale.’

’With the way Li Yang was running things now, if he had the exclusive rights for the NLB brand in all of Qingjiang Province, he’d probably still make money just by coasting on its existing momentum. The brand’s potential was still that strong. Unfortunately for him, Li Yang’s luck had run out. He had run into Yang Hui.’

’Did this mean Li Yang’s luck was starting to turn? Once a person’s luck goes bad, especially when they’re as arrogant and obstinate as he was, the business empire they spent years building can fall apart in no time.’

She left the store. She had come prepared to conduct a detailed investigation this time, which would culminate in a final report.

Since it was to be a detailed report, she wouldn’t jump to conclusions. She planned to visit the Yanghe Commerce stores several more times, as well as other Futong Commerce locations. Perhaps there were still aspects she had overlooked.

She would be staying in Qingzhou for a while. As it happened, she was rather interested in the idea Yang Hui had proposed about creating their own brand. As the only daughter of the Hu Family, which had been in business for generations, she had grown up immersed in the world of commerce. That, combined with her genuine interest, had led her father to constantly praise her for having an exceptional talent for business.

She had chosen to stay in Shanghai precisely because she didn’t want to rely on her family’s influence. She wanted to prove herself by building something from the ground up, on her own merits. She didn’t want to be seen as the "little princess of the Hu Family" wherever she went. That kind of success belonged to her father’s generation, not to her.

She was very interested in Yang Hui’s proposal to create a new brand. What moved her most was that his business philosophy aligned perfectly with her own. Yanghe Commerce’s management of its NLB stores had also impressed her, so she found herself genuinely tempted by Yang Hui’s offer.

’Maybe I really could... join him... Pfft, no! I mean, partner with him!’

***

「Futong Commerce」

Xia Jie was just about to leave the company with her personal belongings when her phone rang.

It was a call from a store manager from her old "Shi Meng" team. "Boss, we know today is your last day at the company. We want to take you out for dinner tonight."

A smile appeared on Xia Jie’s face. "Didn’t we already have our farewell dinner? Another one?"

She had just had a get-together with them when she left the "Shi Meng" team to take over the NLB brand.

"That was different. Now that we won’t be at the same company, it’ll be hard for us to see each other. It’ll just be a few of us store managers who are close, just a small get-together."

Xia Jie used to manage more than a dozen stores. From the store manager’s tone, it sounded like not everyone would be at this gathering. ’Well, that’s how it is,’ she thought. ’Out of sight, out of mind. How many people really hold on to old ties?’

"Alright. I’ll treat you all tonight. You pick the place."

"Leaving, Xia Jie? Come back and visit when you have time!"

"Yeah, Xia Jie! If we run into you while we’re out visiting stores, let’s grab a meal together!"

She nodded to each of them in turn. These colleagues were just offering empty pleasantries. As she walked out of the company, holding her things, she was suddenly struck by a feeling of boundless freedom. She was finally liberated. Starting tomorrow, a better life would begin.

"Hey, what are you talking about, ’visiting stores’? She quit. What stores is she going to visit?"

"Heh, I said it on purpose to get under her skin. She always did so well with her KPIs, making the rest of us look like crap. And what did it get her? Fired by the company, that’s what."

"You’re so mean. The retail market is terrible right now; it’s not going to be easy for her to find a new job. And finding a big company like ours will be even harder."

Xia Jie didn’t hear any of this, but even if she had, she wouldn’t have cared. After so long at Futong Commerce, she had grown used to this kind of thing.

The Mercedes-Benz E-Class sedan navigated to the parking lot of [Yinlu · Xiang] with ease. It was the second time for both of them. Yang Hui had already booked a small private room. He got out of the car with Huang Lingyu, and just as they entered the restaurant’s main door, he heard someone off to the side call out, "Huang Lingyu."

Yang Hui turned around and saw a woman in her twenties, dressed rather flamboyantly, walking toward them. Her face was maybe a 6.5 out of 10, but she had a great figure—large breasts and a curvy rear.

"Huang Lingyu, didn’t you say you weren’t coming to the dinner party tonight? President Wang was furious! I can’t believe you not only came, but you came early. Are you planning to give him a surprise?"

’Dinner party?’ Yang Hui stood to the side, quickly putting the pieces together. ’It must be Huang Lingyu’s department dinner, but she turned it down to be with me.’

’This silly girl,’ he thought. ’She should have just told me. It’s not like I absolutely needed her to come with me. Skipping her very first department dinner after joining the company... her colleagues are going to think she’s not a team player. While it’s not a huge deal, for a newcomer to the workplace, it could put her on the back foot later on.’

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