Married to a mechanic, she shocked the world

Chapter 27: 024: Outsider Big Shot_1 Chapter 27: 024: Outsider Big Shot_1 Zhao Cuinong was now somewhat worried.

A five-year lease totaled 580,000 yuan!

If their subsequent business failed and they wanted to lease another storefront, then the 580,000 yuan would be akin to throwing money into the water.

For their working-class family, 580,000 yuan was an astronomical sum.

Upon hearing this, Lin Wu slightly turned her gaze toward Zhao Cuinong, her lips curling into a faint smile, “Auntie, rest assured, I know what I’m doing.”

Those ten light words held a resounding force, tinted with a magic that could stabilize the heart.

The store owner, fearing that Lin Wu would have a sudden realization under Zhao Cuinong’s influence and decide not to rent, spoke up, “Big sister, your niece is not a simple person at all! She’s looking far into the future! Although the five-year long-term lease seems to cost a lot, I can’t raise the rent for five years no matter how South Street develops! What if next year the rent here goes up to 20,000 yuan a month? By then, even if you don’t do business and sublease the store, you won’t lose money!”

In fact, the store owner knew very well that a place like South Street was unlikely to suddenly have its rent skyrocket.

There was no subway here.

No commerce either!

Although there was an ancient town nearby, it had not been developed to this day.

He himself had been fooled into buying this storefront by the estate agent’s smooth talk, and now he regretted he couldn’t lease it out. Finally encountering such a simpleton, he naturally wanted to grasp the opportunity tightly.

Lin Wu nodded slightly, “I think the landlord makes a very good point, Auntie, we shouldn’t just look at the immediate future, but also farther ahead. What if the rent really goes up to 20,000 yuan a month next year?”

Inside, the store owner mockingly thought Lin Wu was stupid.

Young girls are easy to deceive!

Fighting back his inner excitement, the store owner continued to sweet-talk, “Not to mention 20,000, I think it could even go up to 30,000!”

Zhao Cuinong didn’t speak but just looked at Lin Wu with deep contemplation in her eyes.

Although Lin Wu was only eighteen years old, she was much more mature than her peers, and even seemed further-sighted than this elder of hers.

Since Lin Wu was so confident, then Zhao was willing to wager on it.

The decision to resign and start a business with Lin Wu was, in itself, a huge gamble from the start!

So might as well gamble all the way to the end.

With this thought in mind, Zhao Cuinong smiled and nodded, “Okay! Then let’s rent for five years.”

Hearing this, the store owner breathed a sigh of relief.

Lucky, lucky!

Fortunately, Zhao Cuinong wasn’t too bright either; otherwise, he might not have been able to lease out the shop today.

Lin Wu neatly signed the contract.

Seeing Lin Wu finalizing the contract smoothly, the store owner quickly signed his name on the line for Party A
Zhou Zhongquan.

He put down the pen, looked at Lin Wu with a smile, “Young lady, I wish you a thriving business and a wealth of income.”

“Thank you, landlord,” Lin Wu replied.

Zhou Zhongquan took out a key from his pocket and handed it to Lin Wu, “Here is the front door key.”

Even after obtaining the contract and key, Zhao Cuinong still felt a sense of unreality, “Xiao Wu, have we really leased the storefront so quickly?”

“Yes.” Lin Wu nodded her head, taking Zhao Cuinong by the hand, “Auntie, now we just need to find some workers to do a simple renovation, and then we can open for business.”

The previous tenants had been in the clothing business, and the interior decoration was still quite decent. They just needed to repaint the walls and buy some shelves and cabinets for skincare products.

Zhao Cuinong said with a smile, “My younger brother does decoration work in Qing City, so leave this to me! We can finish a simple renovation in a week!”

“Alright, then I’ll leave it to you.”

Zhao Cuinong continued, “Then I’ll go to my brother’s place right now. Xiao Wu, can you get back on your own?”

“Yes,” Lin Wu nodded slightly, “I have my bike.”

“Good, call me if you need anything.”

After Zhao Cuinong left, Lin Wu cycled to the bookstore and bought some tracing books and pens.

By the time she got home, two hours had passed.

Lin Guixiang was sitting in the living room chatting with Lin Guimei.

“Mom, Auntie.” Lin Wu greeted them politely.

Lin Guimei glanced at her, “Xiao Wu, have you and your auntie secured the lease for the shop?”

“We have,” Lin Wu nodded slightly.

“In South Street?” Lin Guimei inquired.

“Yes.”

South Street was seen by the locals as a place where not even birds would defecate.

This business wouldn’t last many days before closing down.

Lin Guixiang followed up, “You leased a store so quickly? How much is it? When can you open? Oh, and where is your auntie? Why didn’t she come back with you?”

“Ten thousand a month, leased for five years,” Lin Wu continued, “Auntie went to see about the renovation, we should be able to open in about a week.”

Lin Wu’s tone was nonchalant, but Lin Guimei caught the critical information from it.

The rent was ten thousand, leased for five years.

That’s a few hundred thousand!

Crazy, crazy!

Just wait.

Zhao Cuinong is bound to jump off a building sooner or later.

Lin Guixiang was full of confidence in her skincare product business. When she heard that the shop could open in a week, she was thrilled and immediately said, “Then I’ll continue making skincare products later, hoping to sell more on the opening day.”

She could now make about 500 grams of Lotus Dew and Immortal Phoenix each day.

Besides, she could also make 500-600 milliliters of toner.

“Mmm.” Lin Wu nodded slightly and handed the practice book and pen to Lin Guixiang, “Mom, this is a practice book. It’s very helpful for beginners learning to read and write. You can combine it with videos and practice writing whenever you have time.”

“Okay.”

Learning to read and write?

Lin Guimei thought she had heard wrong. “Big sister, you want to learn to read and write?”

Lin Guixiang nodded, “Xiao Wu said that learning to read and write isn’t difficult, so I want to give it a try.”

Hearing this, Lin Guimei’s expression changed.

How could a foolish village woman like Lin Guixiang possibly learn to read and write?

No wonder Lin Wu lacked self-awareness.

She was just like Lin Guixiang!

Lin Guimei continued, “Well, big sister, all the best. I’m going back now. Come visit at home when you have time.”

“Okay.”

Lin Guixiang saw Lin Guimei out the door.

Lin Wu went back to her room to attend to her own business.

She turned on her cell phone.

The progress bar of the software she developed on a whim last night had reached 100%, and it was now time to name it.

Lin Wu slowly typed in two characters: Ghost Path.

Without a doubt.

This was a horror survival game.

After settling on a name, Lin Wu clicked to upload it to the LY official website.

Ten minutes later.

Ding!

Upload successful!

Seeing the successful upload, Lin Wu turned off her phone and picked up the green-covered book on the nightstand to flip through under the light.

LY official website.

After Ghost Path was successfully uploaded, it immediately attracted a lot of male gamers to download it.

In less than an hour.

The download count had gone from 0 to 200.

Hailun, the head of the development department, quickly noticed this anomaly and immediately called Jiang Shaoyun to report it.

“President Lin, a creator named W uploaded a game, and within less than an hour, it has been downloaded by two hundred people,” she said.

You should know, the top-ranked game had only over a thousand downloads on the tenth day.

What did two hundred downloads in half an hour imply?

Intuition told Hailun.

This W must be a dark horse in the industry!

With this in mind, Hailun continued, “President Jiang, such talent will be targeted by multiple online gaming companies once they emerge. Should we contact him ahead of others?”

Upon hearing this, Jiang Shaoyun immediately opened his laptop, logged onto the internal website, and checked the download rankings of the past hour.

The first-ranked game was called Ghost Path.

But Jiang Shaoyun quickly realized that the game’s introduction was mediocre, the content was very average, just a common horror escape game with nothing outstanding. It was clear to the discerning eye that all those download numbers were fake, pumped up by the developer themselves, and not as exaggerated as Hailun had said.

Jiang Shaoyun didn’t even deign to register for a game account to try it out, directly rejecting Hailun’s suggestion, “It’s just faking it, no need to contact.”

LY had already taken measures against false data.

Once the system detected something amiss, it would immediately take down the work.

Hailun frowned slightly, “President Jiang, but I feel that W’s Ghost Path doesn’t seem like false data.”

On the contrary.

The way W constructed the game was very much like a certain industry outsider tycoon.

“Hailun, you’re still too young,” Jiang Shaoyun said with a smile: “Just give it three days, and the system will detect the malicious pumping of numbers resulting in false data for this game!”