early morning.

Zhao Cheng turned over and was startled awake by the hard, bone-crunching sensation, only then realizing that he had been sleeping on a long table.

He suddenly realized what had happened last night, immediately sat up, and saw Chen Feier sitting upright drawing.

Zhao Cheng finished dressing and walked over, glanced at the drawing paper, and asked doubtfully, "Did you redraw it?"

"No, none of them are right, none of the previous ones are right."

Chen Feier muttered to herself, "I saw your expression, and I also saw my own expression in the mirror. All the drawings I did before were wrong!"

Zhao Cheng patted Chen Feier on the shoulder and said, "The expression doesn't matter, don't blame yourself so much."

"I cannot tolerate any flaws in what I write."

Chen Feier stood up, turned around and looked around.

Following her gaze, Zhao Cheng saw that all the paintings had been crumpled into a ball, and some had been torn to shreds.

"Are you crazy!" Zhao Cheng exclaimed in surprise.

"Boss, it won't take long."

Chen Feier said with a determined look, "I will draw something really good for you!"

Having just woken up, and perhaps due to morning grumpiness, Zhao Cheng wanted to fly into a rage, but ultimately held back.

Chen Feier's dedication to art softened his heart.

He thought that perhaps this was the fundamental contradiction between businessmen and artists.

But Zhao Cheng still couldn't give Chen Feier a good look and walked out without saying a word.

As soon as I came out, I saw Yang Cai'e drawing water by the well.

The two looked at each other and were both stunned for a moment.

Yang Cai'e glanced at the house behind Zhao Cheng and said, "I saw that Fei'er didn't turn off the lights all night. She works really hard."

Zhao Cheng laughed awkwardly, "Just like you were back then, I have to work twice as hard to adapt to the new job!"

"I wasn't as lucky as her, having a boss to keep me company all night," Yang Cai'e said wistfully. "What did the boss say back then? 'No loneliness, no prosperity.'"

"Haha, because you're smarter!"

"Are you still awake?"

"I didn't sleep at all, I stayed up all night!"

Yang Cai'e rolled her eyes at Zhao Cheng, pulled the bucket up, and then heard someone come out of the room. She looked over and said, "You're up."

"Thank you, Miss Cai'e."

Zhao Cheng was taken aback. It was actually Madam Chen who came out of Yang Cai'e's room!

Madam Chen still didn't greet Zhao Cheng, but as she passed by him, she said, "That Fei'er girl is really something. You young people can stay up all night, but I can't. At least leave the door open for me! I knocked for half the night and couldn't wake her up. She's sleeping so soundly!"

Zhao Cheng was so embarrassed he wished he could disappear into a crack in the ground. He waved to Yang Cai'e and immediately fled.

...

Elegant Manor.

The third floor of the clubhouse.

Zhao Cheng, Xu An, and Li Guanyu sat in their private booth, a spot offering a clear view of the third floor.

The booths were already half full, and the young men and women were having a great time.

The three of them couldn't laugh.

Zhao Cheng took a sip of his drink and said, "Not a single new member in these three days?"

"Damn it! They promised to take care of it yesterday, I'll go see them again tomorrow!"

Xu An clenched his fist, still full of passion: "We'll bring them here even if we have to tie them up!"

As he spoke, Xu An looked at Li Guanyu and asked, "Young Master, what about the new members you introduced?"

“I…” Li Guanyu said seriously, “When I first brought this up, there were indeed thirty or fifty people who wanted to apply for the card, but… they really couldn’t come up with that much money…”

"Thirty or fifty people..." Zhao Cheng curled his lip, looking disgusted, and said, "Our club doesn't even have fifty members yet!"

The thought of all the huge sums of money spent on renovations and the enormous personnel costs made Zhao Cheng's heart bleed.

In the past few days, he has come to realize that he has had too many good years and his business has been doing better and better, so he has taken the club business for granted.

As the secondary capital, Yanchuan was a high-class retirement home, and many young men from wealthy families lived there.

However, family background is one thing, and money is another.

Asking them to casually take out a hundred or two taels of silver for a night of eating, drinking, and having fun is no problem, but asking them to take out tens of thousands of taels at once is indeed asking too much.

It should be noted that Zhao Cheng only receives three hundred taels of silver per month from Chunqin, which is already at the top of the pyramid in the circle of young masters.

Zhao Cheng is rich because he knows how to make money.

But not all rich kids are like him.

"How about... we lower the membership fee?" Li Guanyu suggested. "Five thousand! Five thousand taels of silver, and I can bring in ten people tomorrow!"

"Young master, don't force me to swear." Zhao Cheng was in a bad mood and glared at Li Guanyu, saying, "What are our long-term members supposed to do if we lower the price now?"

Li Guanyu said, "Just give them the money back."

"idiot!"

Xu Anxian couldn't take it anymore and yelled at Li Guanyu, "You've only been open a short time and you're already lowering your prices? What will people think of our club? How are we supposed to do business?"

"Ten thousand taels is the bottom line." Zhao Cheng set the tone, saying, "This price is not something we just shouted out. The club will be gradually improved and upgraded. While our VIPs enjoy better services, our investment is also continuing, and costs are gradually increasing."

"I've done a preliminary calculation. We need to reach one hundred members before the club can begin the first step of its upgrade. If we can't reach that number, are we going to have to pay for it ourselves?"

Do you have money?

"Is there?"

“All my money is invested, I really can’t come up with any more.” Li Guanyu sighed, then suddenly thought of something and said, “How about this… since one person can’t come up with 10,000 taels, how about two or three people pool their money to get a membership? Only one person can come in at a time!”

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