Free Web NovelChapter 540: Chapter 234: This Foreigner Is a Real Show-Off, At Least Charge Him Triple the Rent (Part 4)
Yang Chen: "No need, we’re not doing anything shady, anyway."
Xu Xiaoli nodded and turned around again.
"Yiren, can you do me a favor and be our model? This is our company’s first end-to-end project of planning and shooting, and it has to be done well, or our industry reputation will suffer. Can you do it?" Yang Chen asked gently.
Lin Yiren nodded, then shook her head, and said, "I definitely want to help you, but I don’t know how to do advertisements."
Yang Chen: "No worries, I’ll oversee the whole process, you just need to follow the instructions."
Lin Yiren: "Alright then."
Xu Xiaoli: "President Yang, your wife has the perfect qualities for a model. But just one model isn’t enough; we’ll need a few extras to complement her."
Yang Chen: "How many do we need?"
Xu Xiaoli: "Three."
No problem, having Zhou Zhenyi, Li Qinqin, and cousin Li Xiaofei come over should do it.
Yang Chen called each of them and convinced them to agree to shoot the advertisement.
Now the models were sorted, but they still needed a photographer and a director.
They could skip on the director, but the photographer had to be a professional.
Yang Chen thought for a bit and recalled the well-known photographer Mills Mirta who once shot for the cover of Fashion Gentleman.
Yang Chen quickly found his business card and called him.
Mills Mirta: "Hi, Mr. Yang, I’ve been waiting for your call. Do you have time now?" freewebnovel.cσ๓
Yang Chen: "I do. I’m looking to invite Mr. Mirta to help shoot an advertisement for me, are you available?"
Mills Mirta: "I am! I’m currently shooting here in Japan, but I can take leave and immediately buy a ticket to Hai City. I can shoot the ad for you for free, but on the condition that you take a set of ten photos for me. How about it?"
Yang Chen: "Sure! It’s a deal then."
Mills Mirta: "Haha... It’s a deal! I’ll head to the airport right away, and you can start preparing the studio over there. We can start shooting as soon as I arrive."
Yang Chen: "Alright! See you in the afternoon!"
After hanging up, Yang Chen smiled at Xu Xiaoli and said, "Call the photographer and models and tell them not to bother coming, we don’t need them anymore."
Xu Xiaoli: "Got it! I’m furious, they demanded extra pay at the last minute."
Having said that, Xu Xiaoli called and scolded the photographers and models.
After the call, Xu Xiaoli quickly led people to prepare the studio.
Yang Chen took Lin Yiren outside and happened to meet Hultas James and his party coming out of another elevator in the lobby.
James had his face wrapped in bandages, looking particularly amusing.
Seeing Yang Chen, James excitedly said, "What are you doing here?"
Yang Chen: "Whatever you’re doing here, we’re doing the same."
James: "We’re here to rent an office space, and you’re just a ride-hailing driver also looking to rent an office?"
Yang Chen: "Why not? Is there a law against wanting to start a ride-hailing service company? You trash couldn’t possibly secure an office here, don’t waste your time."
James: "Ridiculous! Who are you looking down on? I have money, why couldn’t I rent a place? Manager Tang, I accept the price you mentioned, 120 it is. But I have a condition, you can’t rent the place to him and you must kick them out right now! I can’t stand the sight of his face!"
Damn, this jerk actually accepted triple the price.
The rent is 120 per square meter per day, and a whole floor is about 2500 square meters, totaling an annual rent of 1.095 billion.
Earning two-thirds more, no reason to turn it down.
Yang Chen: "Stop bragging! Do you even have that much money?"
James: "Are you kidding? We’re Huasheng Investment! Any random project we do earns more than that."
Yang Chen nodded and left with Lin Yiren.
James looked smug and said, "Hurry up and scram, this isn’t a place for you. This is the Financial Mansion, understand? You with your ride-hailing company lower the standards here!"
Tang Hao’s mouth twitched, thinking this piece of foreign trash truly is annoying.
However, given that the bastard paid triple the rent, he would tolerate it for now.
Once they started working here, wouldn’t the management and property treat them as they pleased?
They probably have no idea how tough the property management in Dragon Country can be. They’ll get to see for themselves.
Tang Hao immediately led James to sign the agreement, renting the entire 18th floor to Huasheng Investment.
After signing, James ordered the finance team to immediately transfer the first quarter’s rent to the public account of Haisang Financial Mansion, making the 18th floor theirs now.
Subsequently, James went to Shengjin Investment Bank to find Liang Xiuyun.
Liang Xiuyun invited him to sit down, smiling as she asked, "Mr. James, did you settle the office?"
James: "Got it sorted, signed the contract, and transferred the money. Now, can you set up a dinner with the owner here for me? I paid quite a bit extra rent and really need his help to network some investment projects, or I’ll have trouble explaining to headquarters. I followed your advice to rent an office here, given the owner’s wide network and numerous investment opportunities, otherwise, I wouldn’t have insisted on renting here."
Liang Xiuyun laughed and replied, "Rest assured, Mr. James, as long as you’re easy to deal with and duly give Mr. Yang his due, he’d certainly be willing to earn money with you. I’ve followed him in investing in several projects, which have already started to turn profits. Especially the Qiao Jiangnan and Hai Li Lao projects; both companies have filed for IPO. If they successfully go public, I could get at least a tenfold return."
James was thrilled to hear this and said, "The way you say it, this Mr. Yang seems really impressive. Hurry, set up a dinner with him. Find a nice restaurant, dinner’s on me."
Liang Xiuyun smiled and nodded, "No problem!"
With that, she called Yang Chen.
Yang Chen, unaware that Liang Xiuyun was arranging a dinner on James’s behalf, accepted her invitation for dinner at Tang Pavilion that evening.
