Boss Lu: A reborn life is destined to be without regrets!
Chapter 413 - 305. Do you think it’s just playing house?

Chapter 413: 305. Do you think it’s just playing house?

Compared to Mr. Lu, who was full of relaxation from nightly revelries, Zhou Sinin found herself extremely busy upon her return to Jiang City.

Indeed, she was so busy that it verged on disheveled.

Hiding in her Shanghai home, playing ostrich for several days was not a viable long-term strategy.

She realized she simply couldn’t hide.

WeChat messages from classmates about exams, work messages in DingTalk from her subordinates requesting instructions, a barrage of @mentions from friends on social media platforms...

Yes, that’s right.

It was DingTalk.

Since passing the first round of angel investment, the staff of Golden Stone Coffee had gradually expanded from a dozen to hundreds of employees.

In addition to essential roles like store managers, baristas, and waitstaff, the headquarters of Golden Stone Coffee in Nanhu Industrial Park had set up its organizational structure early on.

Unlike the relatively flat hierarchy of internet companies, the organizational structure at Golden Stone Coffee more closely resembled that of traditional businesses.

There was not only an operations line but also growth, product, finance, external partnerships, technology, and human resources lines.

This of course was the joint work of Zhou Yuanxin and Lu Jincheng.

Moreover, Mr. Lu, who deeply understood "what is right," had carried out a series of scientific reforms at Golden Stone Coffee with great determination.

One of these was his insistence on not using WeChat, but instead a little-known, blue app named "DingTalk."

After nearly all employees had grown accustomed to communicating through DingTalk, they surprisingly discovered from their different perspectives that it indeed reduced the cost of communication on other software.

It was well-known among future workers.

The first significant wave of scaled DAU (Daily Active Users) for DingTalk originated from its features like Ding for notifications, free calls, attendance checking, and even the red dot notifications for OCD – all strong reminders.

This became a powerful tool for boosting DingTalk’s DAU, almost a hallmark of efficient work through DingTalk, and a key reason why workers resented the app.

Such was the situation with Zhou Sinin as well.

Since she had impulsively blocked Lu Jincheng, Mr. Lu had not followed the trite script of an ordinary boy rushing towards a ’chase for his wife’s funeral pyre.’

But neither was he without reaction.

Mr. Lu’s response appeared soft but was akin to using a small fulcrum to move a large lever, with the sound of thunder coming from the silence.

He handed over the role of DingTalk group administrator to Zhou Sinin.

Before Mr. Zhou returned from Shanghai, he went to hold an all-staff meeting at Golden Stone Coffee.

He delegated most of the tasks in one go and announced on the spot at the meeting that all significant decisions should be run by Zhou Sinin for the next phase.

So, on her way back to Jiang City, Zhou Sinin’s lips were tightly pursed the entire journey, her eyes fixed on her phone, her expression sullen and gloomy.

Why is there no space for a quiet breath!

Work notifications, approvals, applications, financial reimbursements—they all required her decision.

And simply reading them was not enough.

The strong reminder would notify others that Mr. Zhou had "read" them.

She had to make a decision.

But she was totally clueless about some areas that her subordinates were inquiring about.

After all, running a successful coffee shop is completely different from steering a chain brand.

For instance, the online app that Lu Jincheng had been planning.

The investment in the market, building up online channels, precise consumer profiling—there were so many detailed matters.

She vaguely knew that Lu Jincheng’s actions were aimed at effective marketing and promotion.

But where exactly should costs be contained?

What to do after the app testing is completed?

How should the "actions" he casually mentioned before be implemented?

She hesitated immensely and struggled to make a decision.

Indeed, Zhou Sinin was stumped.

Her quandary, of course, wasn’t limited to the company’s strategic decisions.

It was only when Zhou Sinin arrived in Jiang City and headed straight to Golden Stone Coffee that she truly realized a fact.

The absence of Lu Jincheng seemed to have erased him from her world.

Yet, their ties to each other remained deep and intricate.

The company was still there.

The livelihood of thousands of people was in their hands.

When Zhou Sinin first discovered that Lu Jincheng was playing the field, she felt utterly hopeless and even called Zhou Yuanxin.

There were no tears or whims; she simply discussed a question with her father calmly.

Could she divest and walk away?

Zhou Yuanxin was equally calm, patiently enlightening his daughter with common sense and explaining human feelings and reasonings.

In short, one sentence.

"Absolutely not."

"Think you’re playing house?"

The more refined the investment institution, the less it operates as an autocracy; it has to consider the ROI.

Being a senior executive at IDG Capital and having resolved to invest in his daughter’s company, Zhou Yuanxin was inevitably criticized behind his back.

Only if the project was robust, the scale was successfully expanded, and it went through several rounds of investment before going public and doubled its P/E ratio could he avoid the skeptical views that he was seeking personal gain.

If his daughter wanted to walk away at this stage, wouldn’t it be playing into the hands of some people?

To abandon a good company?

Wouldn’t that be slapping oneself in the face?

Zhou Yuanxin could accept investment failure if the project itself failed to catch the market pulse—then it could be chalked up to a misjudgment.

At least when he decided to invest, it had been based on the success of the single Golden Stone Coffee store and Lu Jincheng’s textbook-like PPT presentation that convinced him to put in the money.

As a professional investor, he judged that the chance of success for Golden Stone Coffee was quite substantial.

The outlook was genuinely promising!

Therefore, from any perspective, he could not allow Zhou Sinin to be so capricious.

It would be a laughing stock if word got out.

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Jiang City, Nanhu Industrial Park.

Golden Stone Coffee headquarters meeting room.

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