Chapter 28: The Future Paths of the Three Girls

After everyone was seated, Liu Yue was the first to apologize to the three young girls, Lizi and the others.

Right after her were Grandma Liu and the others.

After all, it was they who had let themselves go wild and embarrassed the young girls.

The three of them—Lizi included—were instantly dumbfounded, at a loss for what to do.

Right now they really wanted to ask one thing: folks, when your boss apologizes to you, how are you supposed to respond?

"If you want to leave, I can settle three months' wages for you and… an internship certificate." Liu Yue truly felt she owed these three young girls an apology.

Carelessly getting them drunk and sending them trending—there's no way to spin that as right, especially when they're clearly still young girls.

The three exchanged a glance, and Xiao Bai, mustering her courage, stepped forward: "D-did we do something wrong? Why are you firing us?"

In that instant, both sides were dumbfounded. What was going on?

It was still Shen Mo who stepped forward to explain things, and only then did the three young girls—Xiao Bai included—understand. They nervously said: "We're not leaving. Yangyang-jie said our company is a conscientious company even by national standards. We're planning to stay."

After thinking it over, Xiao Bai added: "If you can provide the five social insurances and one housing fund, we'll work here until retirement."

Liu Yue and the others were stunned—this was the first time they'd ever heard such a request.

What kind of streamer demands the five social insurances and one housing fund?

However, Liu Yue made the call on the spot: "Done. You'll not only get the five social insurances and one housing fund, but also triple wages on statutory holidays."

The three young girls—Xiao Bai included—were overjoyed on the spot. This world was just too wonderful.

Once that was settled, the meeting officially began.

The first to speak was Auntie Chen, who first demonstrated her professional competence.

"I went through all the trending topics. Right now our top priority is to determine the main content category for the three young girls—Xiao Bai included—and use this trending moment to build them a base of fans."

"Next, I've discovered a new streamer model: tourism-driven traffic."

As she spoke, Auntie Chen connected her laptop to the conference room screen and began a detailed explanation.

Based on last night's trending keywords, Auntie Chen—a talent manager of thirty years—had spotted the biggest business opportunity: tourism-driven traffic.

Take the Northeast restaurant trending online, for example. It fully showcases the north-south differences, and maybe we can use this to drive local economic development in Erbin.

As a proper Erbin local, Auntie Chen knew Erbin had an Ice and Snow World project in the works.

If their company, Yuemo, could land the promotional contract for Ice and Snow World, they'd blow up in the future, with far more projects to collaborate on—especially with Erbin.

Erbin has a lot of black soil, for instance, and every year there's a big rice harvest. When the time comes, doing a live-stream sales push, they'd rake it in easy.

After finishing this section, Auntie Chen looked at the three young girls—Xiao Bai included—and asked if there was anything they wanted to stream.

The three girls shook their heads—nothing at all.

Auntie Chen's eyes lit up, and she offered two options: one was filming ads—comedy ads—and the other was filming domineering-CEO short dramas.

Recently obsessed with domineering-CEO novels, Auntie Chen launched into a passionate recounting of the trope-subverting plots in domineering-CEO fiction.

She concluded: "Watching you three drink last night, I found you really interesting, so I recommend you film trope-subverting domineering-CEO short dramas."

"Of course, it doesn't have to be a short drama—just regular videos, comedy type."

"If you blow up doing it and show potential in this area, you can later branch out into the entertainment circle. Conveniently, our company has connections in that field."

Despite Auntie Chen's enthusiastic pitch, of the three young girls—Xiao Bai included—only Xiao Bai chose this path.

Lizi and Lan Lan raised their hands, trembling, wanting to try something else.

Auntie Chen was a bit disappointed, but offered several more streaming directions.

One was pastoral livestreaming—the concept was simple: just ordinary, authentic farming and vegetable-growing, documenting daily life.

Lizi picked this one. This was what she wanted—just hearing it sounded relaxing.

Auntie Chen couldn't be bothered to introduce more, and asked Lan Lan if she had any special skills or things she liked. Lan Lan thought for a moment and said softly: "I like cooking."

Xiao Bai and Lizi nodded frantically, raving that Lan Lan's cooking was insanely good, absolutely badass.

Auntie Chen was skeptical—because she had a daughter too. Her big fat girl at home could eat anything and everything but was useless at everything else: a 1.7-meter frame, a 120-jin build, clearly good-looking with a great figure, yet useless at everything. Lan Lan—could she really do it?

In response to the skepticism, Liu Yue made the call: do it on the spot. Hao Ya Media downstairs had a cafeteria—go film a segment right now.

Grandpa Zhao and Grandpa Sun hoisted up the cameras, and the whole group charged toward the cafeteria.

And then…

They were chased back. Refined Auntie said freeloading was fine, but don't you dare wreck my staff meals.

This segment was recorded by Grandpa Zhao, who found it pretty amusing.

Liu Yue was feeling depressed and unloved, and turned the group around to march grandly to her own home.

The house was empty right now—everyone was out.

Lan Lan opened the fridge and began to show off her skills for everyone.

Nine people—Lan Lan planned to make six dishes and one soup.

Fortunately, Grandma had always kept a sufficiently rich stock of ingredients on hand.

Shen Mo automatically stepped forward to assist.

Shen Mo handled the cutting and prep, Lan Lan did the stir-frying and soup-making, Grandpa Zhao and Grandpa Sun filmed from the side, and the others watched.

It had to be said, once Lan Lan got going, she really looked the part.

The only downside was that Shen Mo and her coordination somehow produced a real CP vibe, making Auntie Chen unable to resist teasing Liu Yue: "Your husband's going to make everyone else jealous."

"By the way, with so many beauties in the company, aren't you afraid Shen Mo will cheat?"

With a proud smile, Liu Yue tossed her hair and said confidently: "This old lady is this beautiful, this hot-bodied, this rich—how could my husband possibly cheat?"

Confidence—needs no further elaboration.

Lizi beside her nodded, dead serious: "Exactly. Even if we wanted to seduce someone, it'd be the boss. Why would we ever go after President Shen?"

"Sure, President Shen's got a great build, is handsome, can cook, and has a good personality—but Boss, you're gorgeous. A divine face."

Auntie Chen covered her face—she felt she couldn't keep up with the times anymore.

And Uncle Zhao laughed as he recorded this scene.

He felt this was all material—really good material—and that posting it would definitely blow up.

Liu Yue and the others didn't mind either.

Soon, six dishes and a soup were ready.

The six dishes were braised pork, sweet and sour ribs, cabbage stir-fried with vermicelli, fish-fragrant shredded pork, kung pao chicken, and stir-fried lotus root slices; the soup was corn and pumpkin soup.

The rice was eaten together, and the dishes were cleaned up together.

At first they approached it with a try-it-out attitude, but then they got excited.

Liu Yue praised Lan Lan enthusiastically—Lan Lan's cooking was in no way inferior to those master chefs.

She got Lan Lan so flustered she turned shy.

Chen Yi made the decision on the spot: Lan Lan would go down this path, cooking; however, the specifics of how still needed further discussion.

Fearing others wouldn't believe it, Liu Yue demanded that later they post the scene of them eating together—after all, it had all been recorded.

(End of chapter)