Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 895: Chapter 462: Has Memory Declined as You’ve Gotten Older?_2

It’s just not possible now.

He Mingcheng no longer does any work related to mathematics. He just writes, drinks tea, and at most practices some Tai Chi every day, yet he feels extremely exhausted.

It was the first time He Mingcheng formally met Lin Xiaoqing. Before, he had only glimpsed her from afar at one of Zhao Yi’s presentations, hearing from others that she was Zhao Yi’s girlfriend. Meeting her face-to-face, of course, had a different significance. He had prepared a red envelope for Lin Xiaoqing and even asked about their marriage plans.

With a shy smile, Lin Xiaoqing accepted it. No matter how she looked at him, He Mingcheng seemed amiable and approachable.

Zhao Yi just gave a melancholic chuckle. The topic of marriage was truly saddening. Lately, amidst family and close friends, marriage seemed to be the recurring question. With their university graduation looming, Zhao Yi and Lin Xiaoqing were supposed to tie the knot soon.

But...

Lin Xiaoqing still had to pursue her master’s degree!

"I need to prepare for the postgraduate entrance exam too!" Zhao Yi wanted to add this, but it sounded unconvincing.

Once back in the apartment at the teachers’ building, Zhao Yi could only channel his despondency into motivation, working hard to earn Study Coins from Lin Xiaoqing. Obtaining Study Coins from her had become quite challenging before; now the difficulty was imaginable.

It took the strength of "nine bulls and two tigers," plus a considerable amount of energy, for Zhao Yi to finally collect six Daily Coins.

"It really wasn’t easy!"

"But there’s no other way... If only I hadn’t spent all the Study Coins in one go."

Staring at the pitiful ’11 Study Coins’ on the panel and feeling his drained body, Zhao Yi truly regretted it. Having new abilities was good, but using them all up left him frustrated. Even with abilities, they were utterly unusable.

He had almost forgotten the sensation of ’grinding for Daily Coins.’

Now everything had to start all over again.

Life is so hard!

Actually, the Spring Festival was still rather cheerful. On the day before New Year’s Eve, Liu Jing and Zhao Zhenxi arrived to celebrate the festival with the family.

On the second day of the New Year, Sun Liang and Zhao Linlin came over.

They had been bustling about for nearly a year, busy with the issues surrounding the online healthcare business—an investment by Zhao Yi. Xu Chao and Sun Liang were the ones putting in the effort to design the technology, and later they recruited a few more tech personnel to join them.

Zhao Linlin was in charge of running the hospital’s network. After one or two years of experience, she seemed much more capable. Still a college student who hadn’t completed her undergraduate degree, she appeared significantly more mature, as if she had been working for several years.

Both Sun Liang and Zhao Linlin had changed a lot.

The online healthcare company had been established, but whether it was a success was hard to say. Sun Liang, with a grim face, began to explain, "Right now, we only have a little over seventy thousand registered users, and the doctors working part-time on the website to provide online consultations and answer user queries are just over two hundred, with most being irregular in their availability."

"We couldn’t secure a license to issue prescriptions, so we can only sell some common medications, and we’re forced to register every single transaction."

The last sentence was about the profit issues.

Registering every transaction meant declaring business income, which involved tax issues. Most online transactions don’t require tax declaration; otherwise, most online stores would go bankrupt.

After discussing a slew of business data, Sun Liang concluded, "Anyway, after a year of operation, there hasn’t been much user growth. We’ve suffered a net loss of over a million, and we’ll continue to lose a substantial amount every month, possibly increasing..."

Sun Liang was noticeably distressed now, feeling the ’imminent bankruptcy’ pressure, even causing his hair to gray with worry.

Zhao Yi remained very calm after hearing this, "Have you considered getting funding?"

Sun Liang nodded, "I’ve talked about it with Brother Chao. He thinks that seeking funding to expand operations would only increase the losses. Just relying on us won’t hold up..." ƒгeewёbnovel.com

"Stay calm!"

Zhao Yi was very relaxed, "No pressure, it’s my money you’re spending. You took a student entrepreneur loan from the bank, just five hundred thousand, right?"

"Yeah, we couldn’t secure more than that."

Sun Liang nodded gloomily.

The loan was taken out under the guise of student entrepreneurship, with a maximum limit of five hundred thousand. However, student entrepreneurs also have to repay their loans. If the company went bankrupt, Zhao Yi would suffer the most, and the five hundred thousand wouldn’t be able to be clawed back from him. But for them, five hundred thousand was also an astronomical figure.

Zhao Yi was still very composed. He continued, "This entrepreneurial idea was mine. If it loses money, so be it. Besides, it might not necessarily be a loss."

"It won’t be a loss?" Sun Liang looked up and asked.

Zhao Yi asserted earnestly, "Brother Chao’s judgment is correct. Considering the current situation, choosing to finance and scale up would mean that even if we manage to attract investment, we would continue to suffer losses. By then, it wouldn’t be a loss of a few million but potentially tens of millions... Of course, it depends on the scale. But without financing, we can’t get it off the ground."

"I never expected it to really take off or to make money from the outset." freewёbnoνel.com

Zhao Yi spoke seriously.

In fact, he knew from the start that making a profit would be difficult, and setting up the enterprise would be quite challenging. He merely wanted to provide a platform where Sun Liang, Zhao Linlin, and Lin Xiaoqing could apply themselves, not just focus solely on schooling.

The current situation was still under control.

He continued, "The online healthcare industry has development prospects, but we must start early and big, very big, seize all the market, and also push forward with technology."