The King of Global Scrap Collection
Chapter 79 - 79 83 Undercurrents

79: Chapter 83: Undercurrents 79: Chapter 83: Undercurrents One morning,

Li Zhongnan woke up, grabbed his phone and saw that it was almost ten o’clock.

He couldn’t help but chuckle bitterly, realizing that he was growing a tendency to sleep dead to the world every day.

He got out of bed, washed up, and started eating breakfast.

Chen Xiaoting had already gone to work, but she had prepared his breakfast carefully before leaving, serving a bowl of rice porridge, several boiled eggs, and some fried dough sticks.

After finishing his breakfast, he felt a sense of satisfaction.

Life with a woman was indeed different, with something to eat as soon as he got up.

The online sales part of his business had started to get on the right track, and he didn’t need to get involved in anything other than sourcing products.

He could just sit back and collect the money!

Enjoying his rare leisure time, he poured himself a glass of wine and brought it out to the little garden on the balcony.

He sat back, crossed his legs, basked in the sun, tasted the fine wine, and enjoyed a good smoke.

It felt both leisurely and fulfilling.

After finishing his glass of wine,

His phone rang.

It was a call from Han Xue.

Since they returned from Shenzhen and parted ways, he hadn’t seen the beautiful young woman squad leader for more than ten days, and he had hardly made any calls with her.

Whenever they did talk on the phone, they usually discussed serious matters.

He suddenly realized that he had made a mistake in what he said to her at Dongchong Resort Village.

He had said in front of her that he thought Nolan was her, and then he ruined Nolan.

Now, thinking back, wasn’t it a clear indication that he subconsciously wanted to ruin her?

The beautiful woman squad leader might have even taken that as a hint!

No wonder she had been acting strangely since then, sometimes speaking in a coy and reserved manner unlike her usual open and bold self, and seemingly not daring to joke around with him anymore, evading him subtly?

Snapping back to reality, Li Zhongnan teased, “Madam Squad Leader, missed me, did you?”

Han Xue immediately retorted, “Li Zhongnan, you’re a big boss now, can’t you be a bit more serious?”

“Who are we kidding, do we need to be so formal?”

Li Zhongnan laughed heartily and said, “Han Xue, just tell me, what’s the matter?”

Han Xue hesitated for a moment before saying, “Mr.

Li, over the past few days, the advertisements for the mobile phone city have been released, and the three million yuan you gave us has basically been used up.

According to the original plan, we were supposed to start business tomorrow, and this has already been announced.

However, we still haven’t received our business license.”

“It’s not convenient to discuss this over the phone, I’ll come over now.”

Li Zhongnan said and hung up the phone.

Han Xue had mentioned the official opening time before.

She seemed confident at that time, but now there seems to be a problem, which might indicate a serious issue.

So he had to be personally involved.

After quickly changing his clothes, he went downstairs and hailed a taxi to the mobile phone city.

As soon as he got off the taxi, Han Xue came up to him apologetically, “Brother Nan, I’m sorry.

I overestimated myself and made an operational error, causing you a loss.”

If they couldn’t open for business as scheduled, the millions they had invested on advertising would be wasted.

Moreover, it would have a certain adverse impact on the reputation of the mobile phone city.

Reputation is the most crucial thing for a new store.

In this view, the losses are really heavy.

For this reason, even though she was close to Li Zhongnan, she couldn’t help but feel guilty.

What upset her more was the fact that she had made a mess of the first task he had given her.

Li Zhongnan shrugged it off with a smile, “Han Xue, you’ve worked hard.”

The beautiful woman squad leader looked noticeably slimmer after not seeing her for a while.

This showed just how much effort she had put into this mobile phone city.

Although she did lose some weight, she had lost her usual air of laziness and appeared more beautiful and fresh.

She seemed more attractive than before!

“I’m alright,” Han Xue said, her face flushing slightly as she felt his gaze, and quickly glanced away, “I’ve already asked around.

It’s the head of the Development Zone’s business administration bureau who is holding up our business license.

Brother Nan, what do we do now?

Should we continue with the original plan to open business?”

After a pause, she asked, “Have you offended him?”

“No!” Li Zhongnan answered without hesitation.

He had only been in Nangang for a few days and hadn’t interacted with many people.

Moreover, he didn’t even know which way the door of the business administration bureau opened, so how could he have offended the head of the bureau?

Could it be that the person in question was scheming for money?

It was highly likely.

Chances were that Han Xue’s side had tried to expedite the process of obtaining the business license by giving gifts and the like.

Maybe the head of the bureau hadn’t gotten the benefits she had hoped for?

Thinking of this, Li Zhongnan suggested, “Find someone to hand over ten thousand yuan to him.”

Han Xue wondered, “Do we really need to spend that much for a mere business license?”

Li Zhongnan chuckled lightly, saying, “It doesn’t matter, we have neither power nor influence, consider it feeding a dog.”

If money could solve the problem, then it wasn’t really a problem.

Han Xue nodded in agreement, “Okay, no problem.”

With that, they walked into the store.

Once in the rest area,

Han Xue took out her phone and made a call.

Afterwards, the two sat for a while, drinking tea and having a chat.

They discussed work-related matters and other interesting topics, and they had a lively conversation.

The beautiful woman squad leader even reverted to her usual self, occasionally teasing him with ambiguous jokes.

Li Zhongnan wanted to tell Han Xue several times that he was now with Chen Xiaoting, but he wasn’t able to do so.

It wasn’t that he had intentions for her and deliberately hid it.

It was just that it was hard to bring it up.

After all, he had previously said that he was not interested in Chen Xiaoting!

Moreover, if he was not mistaken, the beautiful woman squad leader had somewhat of a crush on him.

But now, he was with her sister.

How could he explain this to her?

At noon, he took the staff out for lunch.

The pretty girls were all curious about Li Zhongnan, the boss who rarely showed up.

Crowding around him, they showered him with compliments and fawned over him.

The braver ones even attempted to flirt with him.

He was both amused and tormented.

It was kind of scary.

A group of girls chattering non-stop around you, wouldn’t you be scared?

After lunch, Han Xue received a call, then turned to Li Zhongnan and said, “I’ve already done as you instructed, and sent ten thousand yuan to the head of the Development Zone’s business administration bureau.”

Li Zhongnan asked, “Did he accept the money?”

Han Xue replied, “Yes, but he only said that he would follow the procedures.”

“That’s good enough!”

Li Zhongnan nodded in agreement.

As long as the money had been accepted, unless something unexpected happened, there probably wouldn’t be much of an issue.

It was just a business license after all, and they weren’t conducting any special operations—ten thousand yuan was certainly more than enough.

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