She was the only one in the huge conference room. Min Xi began to project the screen and make preparations. Everything was ready, but the others had not arrived yet. She looked at her watch. It was five minutes to half past three.
No matter how slow she reacted, she now understood that only she and Fu Yanzhou would be attending today's discussion, and Bei Qingyu's management would not participate.
There was drinking water in the conference room. Min Xi took out a cup from his bag and filled it with water. He then opened half of the window for ventilation and stood by the window to drink water to relieve stress.
If the discussion meeting had been postponed for one day, she would not have felt such a heavy psychological burden.
It was not without experience that she had discussed the plan with the client's boss in private. She had even booked a meeting room in the golf business club just to demonstrate the project plan to Sheng Jianqi on site.
Min Xi kept giving herself psychological hints, trying to treat Fu Yanzhou only as Party A's boss.
After drinking one-third of a glass of water, the door of the conference room opened.
Fu Yanzhou came in with a notebook and a cup of coffee in his right hand.
Min Xi closed the window and pretended nothing had happened. She glanced at his face so quickly that she couldn't see his facial features clearly.
"Mr. Fu, are no one else joining us today?" His voice was still calm.
"Yeah. Let's discuss it between the two of us." Fu Yanzhou walked past her seat, put the coffee next to her documents, and sat down opposite her.
Just now when he put the coffee in the pot, she noticed that the hair on his forehead was not completely dry. He must have just woken up from a nap.
Min Xi stood in front of the computer, his heart beating like a drum, and he couldn't control it even if he wanted to.
Her heartbeat was affecting her hearing, so she put down the cup and pressed her ears with her fingertips.
Fu Yanzhou turned on the computer and his Adam's apple moved slightly a few times. He thought he could control all his emotions and remain calm like before.
In just a few seconds of sitting down, he had already drunk water twice.
"You want to speak first?"
Min Xi nodded, but changed his mind the next second: "Mr. Fu, please go first. I want to hear what the shortcomings of my plan are."
Fu Yanzhou looked at her and said, "The entry point of the marketing can be adjusted. Your phrase 'With Bei, there is no trouble' is good. You can add another sentence in front of it, 'In the name of love.'"
"What did Xiao Chang tell you?"
"Um."
Their eyes met.
A very short moment.
Min Xi lowered her head to look at her computer, while Fu Yanzhou looked up at the big screen, still looking at her from the corner of his eye: "Let's tell a story based on the original intention of developing shampoo. Xiao Chang's original intention was for his mother, and mine was for you."
Min Xi gripped the side of the mouse tightly, trying to keep his mind moving. "To tell a moving story, it's best to have a financial reporter interview the person in charge of the company. Since you're the investor behind the scenes, then you should interview Xiao Chang."
Fu Yanzhou nodded: "Okay, you arrange it."
Neither of them was in good shape, and both were trying hard to get themselves into shape.
In terms of product selling points, Fu Yanzhou suggested adding anti-inflammatory and antibacterial effects.
Half an hour passed unknowingly and Min Xi picked up the coffee and drank it.
He was as demanding of coffee as she was of wine, and this coffee had been a little too old, which affected the taste, but it tasted good.
Fu Yanzhou originally planned to discuss his additions and opinions on the project plan in person, but with the current work efficiency, the discussion would not be finished even after dark.
He sent her the rest of the supplements that had not been discussed yet to her email: "Go back and take a look. If you have any questions, please email me back."
"Okay." Min Xi received the email immediately. Before, she suspected that he was just a figurehead and didn't care about the project plan, so she blamed him wrongly.
Today's discussion between the two lasted only forty minutes. Fu Yanzhou ended the meeting early: "Before the next meeting, you and Bei Qingyu's marketing manager will finalize the project plan."
"When is the next meeting?"
"Next Monday at the latest."
Next Monday is the 19th, and she has to leave for the northwest that day, so she won't have time to come for the meeting.
"I may have to participate remotely. Shengshi Auto is shooting a commercial on the 20th, and I need to be there."
“Where are we going to shoot?”
"Northwest." She didn't say which place specifically.
Fu Yanzhou: "No problem, you can participate remotely."
Walking out of the meeting room, Min Xi breathed a sigh of relief.
The second private meeting finally ended and she checked in her mind.
Fu Yanzhou and she walked to the elevator one after another, and she pressed the down button for the ordinary elevator.
Fu Yanzhou pressed the elevator button and called her over.
"No need." She went downstairs and he went upstairs, going in different directions.
Fu Yanzhou pressed the door button: "I'm going to the underground parking lot."
Min Xi didn't insist any longer and entered his private elevator.
She was so focused on watching the numbers jumping that she didn't notice Fu Yanzhou took a step towards her. The distance between them was only ten centimeters at most.
It took only a few tens of seconds to reach the underground first floor, not even enough time to be distracted.
The elevator door slowly opened. Min Xi turned around, but before she could ask the question she wanted to ask, she realized that she was so close to him that her elbow rubbed the hem of his suit.
My mind went blank for a moment and I forgot what I wanted to ask, so I had to step out of the elevator first.
Fu Yanzhou followed her down and called her, "Xixi." He held out his hand, "Give me the car keys, I'll help you reverse the car."
"I'm quite good at reversing now, don't you know that?"
"I also know that sleeping with a pillow is just the same, and placing your legs on some other elevated surface is more effective in preventing varicose veins."
“…”
This sentence brought her back to her memories. At that time, she didn't want to rest her head on the pillow and just liked to put her legs on his legs.
Fu Yanzhou didn't take his hand back: "Give me the keys. I haven't reversed the car for you for a year. Let me do it for you once."
This year, I missed so many things.
He backed the car out and Min Xi got in.
The car window was lowered and he stood outside the car with the door between them.
Min Xi fastened his seat belt, held the steering wheel, and turned it unconsciously, "I'm going back."
Fu Yanzhou reached out from the car window and straightened her steering wheel.
He grabbed the steering wheel to stop her from moving: "Don't turn, it's not safe."
Min Xi then realized what he was doing and stopped turning the steering wheel.
Even though she stopped turning, Fu Yanzhou still didn't take his hand back. The place where he held her hand was only one millimeter away from hers, or maybe less than one millimeter. It felt like their fingers were touching each other, but it seemed like they weren't.
He looked at her profile and saw a light blue under her eyes: "How many days are you going on a business trip to the northwest?"
The commercial was filmed in different locations, and Min Xi is not sure yet whether to follow other scenic spots, "at least four or five days."
"Call me when you're tired."
Min Xi turned his head to look at him, "It's not tiring to follow him."
Fu Yanzhou: "Are you sure you're not tired? Then when I call you, you can't use the excuse that you're tired and want to go to bed early as an excuse to hang up on me."
Min Xi: “…”
Got entangled.
"You don't have to call me, I'll call you." Fu Yanzhou let go of the steering wheel and made sure that she was steering straight before taking his hand back from the car, "Drive slower."
Min Xi drove out of the underground parking lot, and his heartbeat gradually returned to normal only when he merged into the main road.
During the rush hour after get off work, the car only moves for a short while.
She called Lu Zhen and asked him to help her contact a high-quality and highly watched talk show. This talk show would be Beiqingyu's marketing entry point.
"When are you free? Let's meet and talk."
Lu Zhen is working overtime at the company and can't make time tonight. "How about tomorrow night?"
"Okay." Min Xi asked her what she wanted to eat.
"I've been working overtime and eating boxed lunches every day for a week, and you're going to eat French food with me?"
"no problem."
Min Xi arrived downstairs of the company and met Yu Chengtan's car.
When they met, both cars stopped and she greeted Yu Chengtan.
Yu Chengtan left early today to visit his high school class teacher. When he left home in the morning, he met his class teacher at the gate of the community and found out that the class teacher's son lived in the same community as him.
After not seeing him for almost twenty years, the head teacher actually recognized him and could even call out his name accurately.
The head teacher had retired and was idle at home, so he went over to sit with him.
"Min Xi, wait a moment." He turned around and took out a few data sheets from the passenger seat and handed them over through the car window. "The sales rankings of all shampoos in the third quarter, and the real sales data of dehydration."
Although Beiqingyu is not well-known, it also appears on the sales rankings. This result is not satisfactory for Beiqingyu, but in the eyes of its peers, it is enough to pose a potential threat.
If he can get this data, other public relations companies can naturally find ways to get it as well.
Min Xi took the data sheet and saw that Fengya was the sales champion, far ahead of other brands. The last note column states that its public relations agency is Zhuoran Public Relations.
Fengya is an international brand and a leading company in the daily chemical industry.
Yu Chengtan said: "Fengya Group spends about 2 billion yuan a year on advertising and marketing promotion. Fengya shampoo accounts for one-fifth of this, which is about 400 million yuan. Beiqingyu's promotion budget is only 3 million yuan. If you want to leverage the market with 3 million yuan, you must find the right entry point."
Min Xi folded up the data sheet and put it on the central control. "I now have a new marketing entry point idea. I will report to you when it is mature."
Yu Chengtan nodded, and the two cars passed each other.
At this time, Zhuoran Public Relations.
Zhu Youzhuo was looking at Bei Qingyu's background information, with a shampoo sales ranking data table at hand.
He got the real data analysis table two days ago. When he looked at it for the first time, he neglected Bei Qingyu, who was ranked at the back, because the sales volume was too insignificant. He had some free time this afternoon, so he checked the sales information of each company from beginning to end, and only then did he notice the brand Beiqingyu.
Bei Qingyu's name is very unfamiliar, but the public relations agency behind it is extremely familiar.
So he asked his secretary to give him a copy of Bei Qingyu's detailed information as soon as possible.
There were two knocks on the door, and Zhu Youran pushed it open.
Her brother just called her and asked her to come over immediately, his tone serious.
"Brother, what's the matter?"
Zhu Youran closed the office door.
Zhu Youzhuo handed the sales analysis form to his sister and said, "Look at the end and read it carefully."
When Zhu Youran heard his brother emphasize to look at the end, he read directly from the brand with the lowest sales volume to the front, and scanned to Bei Qingyu, which was ranked 39th. His eyes fixed on Min Xi of Jiachen Public Relations in the remarks column.
The Beiqingyu project is led by Min Xi.
Zhu Youran looked up with a puzzled look in his eyes: "Min Xi is responsible for so many projects, why are you acting like you are facing a great enemy?"
"It's not as serious as you said, but the situation is not optimistic either." He handed Bei Qingyu's detailed information to his sister, "Take a look at who is the investor behind the scenes."
When Zhu Youran saw the three words "Fu Yanzhou", he paused in turning the pages. Even today, it is difficult to remain truly calm and not make any waves when seeing things related to him.
Some reactions seem to be instinctive and cannot be controlled by reason at all.
The last time I contacted him was last year when I asked Zhuoran Credit Public Relations to help me win the Lemeng Food case. Since she started her own life, she seldom thinks about the past.
"Isn't it normal for him to let Min Xi take charge of the project he invested in?"
"They divorced a long time ago. The most outrageous thing is that Fu Yanzhou took over such a small case personally. He must be chasing someone."
After Zhu Youzhuo finished speaking, he saw the shock in his sister’s eyes.
I don’t know whether I was shocked that they were getting divorced, or that Fu Yanzhou took the initiative to pursue someone.
He had heard about Fu Yanzhou's divorce a long time ago. He had heard clients mention it during social events. The specific reason for the divorce was unknown to outsiders. His younger sister was already married and had her own family, and he knew about it but didn't tell her.
"If it's just a normal investment, Fu Yanzhou is a businessman and he won't do a business at a loss. I don't have to worry about him adding marketing expenses at any time. But if he's chasing someone, there are more variables. The budget is 3 million, and it's possible that he will spend 300 million in the end."
Zhu Youzhuo asked his sister to come over to give her a heads-up: "We are Fengya's PR agency, and it is our duty to protect the interests of our clients. Fu Yanzhou helped Zhuoran, and I have always been grateful, but one thing is one thing, do you understand what I mean?"
Zhu Youran could understand his brother's dilemma and comforted him: "It's normal for peers to compete with each other."
Zhu Youzhuo: "Don't worry, I will never do anything without any bottom line."
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Min Xi worked overtime in the living room at night, waiting for Min Ting to come back from a social event. In order to solve her blind date troubles, her brother is hosting a dinner for Sheng Jianqi and several of his friends tonight.
At eleven o'clock a car came into the yard.
Min Xi put down the tablet, put on his slippers and hurried to the kitchen to pour a glass of warm water for his brother.
Min Jiangyuan stepped into the villa and his daughter came out of the kitchen carrying water.
"Dad, how come you have time to come back!" Min Xi was excited.
"No plans for tomorrow." Min Jiangyuan looked at the cup in his daughter's hand, "What did your brother do for you again?"
Min Xi flatly denied: "I didn't do anything."
"Just now you thought it was your brother who came back and poured water for him, right?" Min Jiangyuan knew his daughter too well and said with a smile, "Your brother doesn't usually get this kind of treatment. He must have done something for you, so you gave him a small favor."
Min Xi laughed out loud after being ruthlessly exposed by his father.
She came up to her father and handed him the cup of water: "I won't give him any small favors, I'll give it to you."
Min Jiangyuan took off his coat and sat on the sofa with his daughter, waiting for his son to come back.
He looked at his daughter and could see with his own eyes that she was happier than before; eyes couldn't lie.
"Why didn't you accept Fu Yanzhou?" Afraid that his daughter would misunderstand his meaning, Min Jiangyuan hurriedly explained: "I'm not asking you to agree now, Dad just wants to know what you thought at that time?"
Min Xi didn't want to say it. There were some things he couldn't tell his parents.
"It can only be understood but not expressed in words." She changed the subject to her father: "Dad, please pay more attention to Mom."
Min Jiangyuan hesitated to speak. He never forced his daughter to talk if she didn't want to.
My daughter’s personality is very similar to my wife’s. If I know what my daughter is thinking, I may know what my wife is thinking.
Min Xi asked his father whether the two brooches given to his mother had been given away.
Min Jiangyuan remained silent and said nothing.
Sent twice and both times it was returned.
In the past, his wife took his face into consideration and accepted all the gifts he gave her, even if she didn't wear them. Now, she directly returns them to his secretary.
However, the secretary didn't know what was inside and thought it was a gift from his wife.
Min Xi sighed, it seemed that it had not been sent out yet.
There was something that she had been holding in her heart for almost a year. She had always wanted to ask but had never dared to. After struggling, she said, "Dad, why didn't you respond to Mom for so many years? We have been married for 30 years, is it true that you have no feelings at all?"
Min Jiangyuan was silent again for a moment, and then said to his daughter, "How could there be no feelings at all? I didn't deliberately ignore your mother these years, but I did neglect her and cared too little about her."
After his two children grew up as teenagers, he devoted himself to work. He had his own ideals and ambitions, and had too many things to worry about, so he had no time to take care of other things.
He had a clear conscience at the time as he did not betray his marriage and family.
As he continued to rise, when he turned around to share his joy with his wife, he found that they had already drifted apart.
"I don't know how I'm going to make it up to your mom, but I'll try. You don't have to worry about us."
Min Xi sighed inwardly. Several months had passed and the two brooches had not been given out yet, and she was still told not to worry.
She didn't expect her father to come back suddenly, and she also made an appointment with Lu Zhen for dinner tomorrow.
"Dad, I'll be back to eat with you tomorrow at noon. I have work to do in the evening."
Min Jiangyuan: "You don't have to come back at noon, I have something to do."
He went to see his wife.
--
Before leaving get off work the next day, Min Xi received a call from Lu Zhen.
Lu Zhen told her that the table had been booked and asked her to come over after get off work.
Min Xi also booked a table at another restaurant on the same street. She was the one who asked Lu Zhen for help, and she couldn't let him spend money: "Didn't I send you the table? Why did you still book it?"
Lu Zhen: "Today I'm treating you. Cheng Zhuo is in Beijing on a business trip and he wants to have dinner with me. He's not an outsider anyway, so let's eat together."
Cheng Zhuo is Min Xi’s schoolmate, a top-tier worker in the financial sector, and Xiao Chang’s cousin. It was Cheng Zhuo who strongly supported Xiao Chang in starting his own business.
She had only heard of this alumnus and never had the chance to meet him.
Min Xi said: "Cheng Zhuo has helped me before, so it is only natural for me to ask for his help."
"Please invite him next time. He often comes to meetings." Lu Zhen didn't expect that Cheng Zhuo would ask her out today. Since it's never too many friends, she introduced them to each other.
Min Xi got off work on time and met Ju Youyou in the elevator who was also getting off work on time.
Ju Youyou's eyes lit up. Min Xi, who usually wore work clothes, was wearing a new autumn and winter long skirt today, with a classic-colored windbreaker on the outside.
The skirt is beautiful and the person is even more beautiful.
"Sister Min, do you have a date tonight?"
Min Xi exposed her: "Look at your gossipy look."
Ju Youyou laughed, "I just care about you."
Min Xi said, "I have an appointment with Lu Zhen for dinner. Mr. Yu is not here today?"
As long as Yu Chengtan is not in the company, Ju Youyou can get off work on time.
"I was at the company this afternoon and left half an hour early." Although there were only two of them in the elevator, Ju Youyou lowered her voice as usual when she talked about her boss's gossip: "He should be going on a blind date. I heard a few words from Mr. Yu on the phone. It seemed that this was a blind date introduced by his class teacher. He felt embarrassed to turn it down, so he went to have a meal to deal with it."
Min Xi nodded.
Still hope it works.
The two people's cars were parked in different areas, and they got off the elevator and went to find their cars.
Min Xi had just sat in the car and hadn't fastened her seat belt when she received a call on her cell phone. It was Fu Yanzhou calling her.
She picked up the phone and looked at it for a few seconds before answering it. She thought it was someone who was looking for her at work: "Boss Fu, what's your order?"
Fu Yanzhou: "Look to the right."
He called to remind her because he was worried that she would be scared.
Min Xi turned around suddenly, holding a black suit, and got out of the Maybach.
Uncle Chen started the car and drove away. He couldn't help but glance in the rearview mirror, worried that Fu Yanzhou couldn't even say nice words. What if Min Xi didn't let him get in the car?
Uncle Chen knew Fu Yanzhou too well. If he was rejected, he would definitely feel embarrassed to call him back to pick him up.
Fu Yanzhou walked towards the SUV. He didn't take a nap today. He finished his work in advance and came to wait for her to get off work.
His father-in-law called him yesterday, probably to ask him in a tactful way how to save the relationship. He has no experience and is also feeling his way forward, thinking about how to pursue the girl. If he has the chance in the future, he would like to talk to his father-in-law and ask him how he lived like that so that he could learn from it.
Min Xi hung up the phone and asked him, "Why are you here?"
Fu Yanzhou walked to the car door and answered irrelevantly: "You sit in the passenger seat and I'll drive."
Min Xi didn't move: "I'm not going home. I have a dinner date tonight."
Fu Yanzhou: "I'll take you to the restaurant."
"Don't bother, you're so busy, I'll drive it myself."
"Not busy." Fu Yanzhou put his hand on the window frame. "I was interrupted by Min Ting when I confessed my love to him that day, so I only said half of it."
The second time I confessed, my heartbeat was still out of my control.
The face is calm, but the breathing is slightly rapid.
He looked into her eyes: "Xixi, give me a chance to indulge you and love you."
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