I watched Yang Sisi go through security, but deep down I didn't want her to help me find out the truth. In my opinion, there was a certain degree of danger involved, otherwise Ye Zhi wouldn't have been so cautious in handling the situation.

After a moment of silence, I spoke to Zhou San, who was beside me, and asked, "You've been working so hard, have you gotten the results you wanted?"

"I just can't stand that fish head... You've always treated him like a friend, but he's been scheming behind your back... How could my fourth brother follow someone like that!"

"Really? Then why didn't you go back with your fourth brother?...Isn't her dad still waiting for you to do the one-click game?"

“I never intended to betray you… I just wanted to put some pressure on you… Now that my fourth brother has forgiven you, why should I go back to Shanghai… I was originally planning to work with you to build a career. I never found the offer my fourth brother’s father made to me particularly tempting, really!”

"Wednesday, let me tell you something from the bottom of my heart. I've met countless people, but I've never seen anyone more of a troublemaker than you... You've ruined my one-click game, you know that?"

"Didn't you have such great confidence before?!"

“I’m not kidding you. Sisi’s dad has reached a cooperation agreement with a big shot in the hotel industry… Their next step is to develop a travel app similar to OneClick Travel… I have no money and no manpower right now. Tell me, how am I supposed to compete with them?”

"Why don't you stop speculating on real estate and have Sisi's dad invest in you directly? Wouldn't that solve the problem perfectly?"

Before I could even speak, Brother Ping revealed a ferocious face to Zhou San and said, "Zhou San, this is no way to do things! I've already invested all my savings for my funeral. If Michael goes back to Shanghai now, I'll hang myself on your doorstep. You're not giving me a way out!"

I chimed in, "Don't be too much like Zhou San, Brother Ping, let's go..."

"Brother, don't go... If you don't want to go back to Shanghai to work on software, then I'll stay in Thailand and help you speculate on real estate."

"If you can't even cook a proper meal, don't even think about speculating on real estate."

...

In the blink of an eye, it's been a month since my surgery. The surgical wound has completely healed. Accompanied by Brother Ping, I went to the International Hospital in Puji Town to have my stitches removed. I tried walking for the first time. Although I can't walk freely yet, I can clearly feel that the numbness on the inside of my leg is much better than before. Brother Ping said this is a good sign, but he can't say for sure when I will recover or even if I will recover at all, because it involves neurological pathology, and human understanding is still very limited... Brother Ping said that as long as I actively do physical therapy and exercise, the hope of recovery will increase infinitely.

That evening, Ping and I were chatting about recent business in our rented office. Ping, clearly very worried, said to me, "Michael, are your clients reliable? It's been a month already, and you still haven't found a buyer for that villa we bought first... I know a month isn't a long time, but according to what you said before, you have all high-quality clients. Our sales efficiency shouldn't be judged by normal industry standards... By now, we should have closed at least one deal, right?... And what about your concept of customized decoration? Is it really feasible?"

"My ideas are definitely not wrong, the difficulty lies in the beginning... We don't have any successful cases, so clients will have doubts... In addition, it's not very convenient to come to Thailand, so many clients with investment needs still prefer to invest in China. After all, the domestic real estate market hasn't obviously declined yet, and everyone has a very intuitive feeling about whether they can make money... But Thailand is different. Unless they are clients who plan to relocate to Thailand and buying a house is a necessity, it's still a lot of psychological barriers to get them to buy a villa in Thailand."

"Then what about this?"

"The simplest way is to let them intuitively feel that buying property in Thailand can make money, and the profit potential is greater than in China... In fact, those of us who live in Phuket know that Phuket's tourism resources are better than Sanya in China... First-line beachfront properties in Sanya are already selling for over 100,000 yuan per square meter, while the average price in Phuket is only a little over 10,000 yuan, less than 20,000 yuan. The potential for appreciation is obvious... Maybe one day a powerful real estate speculator will come and drive up the prices like cutting melons and vegetables... But for people like us who don't have enough funds, we are actually quite passive... We can't buy properties on a large scale, so we don't have control over the market, and without control, customers won't trust us..."

After a moment of silence, Ping Ge replied, "Could it be that there's a problem with our strategy? After all, the property rights for villas aren't very clear. If we were to build apartments, it might be much better!"

"When you spent over ten million to buy this villa, did you have any concerns about the property rights?"

"I haven't... I have many friends here, and I know how to 'operate' it. So far, there hasn't been a single property dispute with any villa registered under the company's name."

"That solves it... Do you think people who can afford to buy villas wouldn't have legal counsel around? Even if they don't have legal counsel who understands Thai law, they can consult them here... So our biggest problem now is not that our strategy is wrong, but that we need to have case studies to show others... Otherwise, we will enter a vicious cycle and miss the best opportunity to speculate on real estate."

Ping Ge remained silent, but his disappointment was written all over his face.

I comforted them again, saying, "Let's be patient and wait a little longer. If we can make millions a month by selling villas, isn't that money too easy to earn? ... To make the worst-case scenario plan, we can sell this villa to a local Thai person. At worst, we won't make any money... We definitely won't lose money."

"Sigh!... It really proves the saying: 'Ideals are lofty, but reality is harsh!'"

"It's alright. We'll work hard and make a breakthrough later. When I was running a shop in Jiulongju, things were much more difficult than this... We'll always find a way."

Although I said this to Brother Ping, I was actually more anxious than him. I've been reflecting on where the problem lies... It's not that I haven't contacted previous clients. Although some expressed interest in our villa, when it came to actually asking them to come to Thailand to see it, they made various excuses to back out..."

Cross-border investment is indeed more difficult than we imagined… Even though there are signs of increased investment awareness, the limited number of clients, scattered among service providers like us, still seems rather small… Currently, we can only do our best to guide consumers; expecting investors to proactively seek us out is unrealistic. To chat with more like-minded people about "My Tenant Sister," follow "Hot Articles" or "rd444" on WeChat to discuss your favorite books with other book lovers.