Chapter 63
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Li Yan still felt he preferred running errands. It's not that he's masochistic; rather, staying in the company is boring and the atmosphere is serious. Going outside is much more comfortable.
Looking at a pile of documents, he had some doubts about Wen Qianyi's intentions. He couldn't see her particularly respecting them. If it was just to reply to those producers, a phone call would suffice, and they would probably be delighted to come over, or a direct email reply would do. No need to specifically have someone send them back. This could only mean two things: either she was giving him a warning not to slack off, or she was training him to practice communicating and dealing with clients independently.
When he got into the car in the parking lot, Li Yan moved those proposals aside and checked the contact details. At first glance, he was speechless. This girl is really messing with me! There's actually one from Yundu! Should I fly to Yundu to deliver documents and get reimbursed?
Even if the flight is reimbursed, he wasn't interested in flying to Yundu for fun. He immediately decided to only deliver to those in this city, and let others come and fetch it themselves.
After carefully checking, most of the addresses left were studios, branch offices, or contacts in this city. Only one was far away in Yundu, and another in nearby G City.
He immediately called those two producers, explained the situation, and asked them or someone else to pick them up.
Using the company phone call wasted several cents... To make up for the loss, Li Yan thought, he should get them to treat him to a meal!
Among the documents placed at the top by Wen Qianyi and said to have the most investment value, Li Yan saw that it was in the city, so he had to deliver it first. The contact address was a cultural communication company. He drove there, and after several calls, he finally found the place.
Upon arrival, two men were already waiting for him. Seeing him drive up in a QQ car, they were initially surprised, but then exchanged a glance, thinking Li Yan might be testing their sincerity and attitude.
With friendly confidence as if they were old acquaintances, they went up to open the door for Li Yan and introduced themselves immediately. "Mr. Li, hello, we dare not let you come in person. My name is Qiao Pan, do you remember? We met last time."
Li Yan was infected by their enthusiasm and had to be polite: "Hello, Producer Qiao, of course, I remember. You're a famous producer; as newcomers, of course, we have to respect you."
Producer Qiao smiled with satisfaction and quickly drew closer: "Brother Li, you're too polite. Just call me Old Qiao. Heh, actually, I'd rather have people call me Little Qiao, but then I'd be a beauty. Haha..."
Seeing the person beside him also grinning, he warmly introduced, "This is Mr. Chu Yi, the boss of Chuyi Culture Company, a very important partner of mine. We will all be partners in the future."
"Hello, Mr. Chu." Li Yan politely said: "It's an honor to have you come out to meet me."
"Brother Li is too modest!" Qiao Pan was obviously more smooth-talking than Chu Yi, "If you could easily decide on a million-dollar investment, we would really be beggars."
"Please, let's not talk outside anymore."
The two of them warmly escorted Li Yan upstairs, chatting about traffic and how difficult it was to find the place, and thanking him for coming in person.
"Our company is relatively small, nothing compared to Paradise Group. Please don't mind." After going upstairs, Chu Yi humbly led Li Yan on a tour.
Actually, there's nothing much to see here; the focus was on visiting a dance room. In the spacious room, a middle-aged dance teacher was training six or seven young girls aged eighteen or nineteen.
One wall of the dance room was a large mirror, used to correct the girls' dance postures. To the visitors, it felt as though the number of girls doubled, and they could see the good figure and flexibility of the girls from different angles.
"These are the new signings of our company, still students, undergoing part-time training to discover their special features, and given opportunities to develop according to different needs," Chu Yi explained.
Li Yan felt they had good figures. He couldn't appreciate certain artistic values in their stretching, guessing that the two old perverts beside were also just eyeing the girls. Watching these dancing girls... ahem, visiting the dance studio for a while, they casually looked around and then invited him to the general manager's office.
After asking what he wanted to drink, Chu Yi had the female secretary bring them tea after she swayed her hips out and closed the door. Li Yan took out their preliminary proposal to discuss business.
"Producer Qiao, after analyzing your proposal last time, we think it has investment value. This is our initial research feedback. If you are interested, we can discuss further cooperation."
Qiao Pan quickly skimmed through the suggestions and requirements annotated by Wen Qianyi with Chu Yi and immediately expressed, "It's our honor to receive your and Miss Wen's attention! Rest assured, we will seriously consider according to your requirements and we will definitely become partners!"
Though not as seasoned and cunning as Qiao Pan, Chu Yi also understood the essentials of public relations. Real project details can always be discussed later; the most important thing now was to build a good relationship so that the other party is interested in investing and interested in investing more. Just as they approached more than one company, they knew Li Yan surely had several project feedbacks in hand.
"People are like iron, and food is like steel. Business needs to be discussed, and we must eat as well! Brother Li coming all this way makes us feel so guilty. It's almost lunchtime, today I'm hosting, please give us the honor!" Chu Yi said heartily, patting Li Yan on the shoulder warmly.
Qiao Pan also said warmly, "We can discuss further over lunch."
About to have lunch? It's only 11 o'clock? Seeing their appearance, Li Yan thought to himself, it's like they see me as an inexperienced lamb to be tricked!
Though he wasn't afraid of suffering losses, business-wise, he might be a pure little lamb, but behind him, a shrewd fire fox was watching carefully.
"I knew you were coming, so I already had the secretary book the best restaurant in this area, don't be polite, it's just a normal work meal within our hospitality scope." Chu Yi said, getting up to call the secretary to inform her, bringing along a few girls for lunch.
With their enthusiasm, Li Yan could only agree. He thought to himself, being treated to a meal with pretty girls for company, why hadn't he noticed how awesome this was before?
Clearly, earlier he would accompany other experienced salesmen, and the partners were big companies, so they naturally didn't need to curry favor with a new connection like him. But now, in front of them, he and Wen Qianyi were both seen as decision-making people.