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The top floor of Qingyan Skincare Company.

Ye Shuzheng sat on the sofa, waiting listlessly.

Since the bicycle only had two seats, Sima had to take a taxi at his own expense, which would take some time.

"President, who is this gentleman?"

A girl dressed in a business suit and wearing large-framed glasses, who looked somewhat easy to bully, walked in. When she saw Ye Shu on the sofa, she asked him timidly.

"This is Ye Shu, the boss of this company."

Liu Ruyan gave her a brief introduction.

Then she looked at Ye Shu and introduced him, "This is Xiao Yun, my personal assistant."

Ye Shu and Xiao Yun exchanged a glance, which was considered a greeting.

Xiaoyun looked at Ye Shu with some curiosity.

President Liu usually doesn't give other men any attention. Luo Chen from the Luo family has been trying to win her over for three years but she hasn't been moved. Now, she suddenly has a male boss out of nowhere.

Don't dare to think. Don't dare to think.

On the way here, Liu Ruyan carefully considered what Ye Shu had said, and the more she thought about it, the more sense it made.

"Xiaoyun, I've thought about it and I think we should give you young people more opportunities. From now on, I'll entrust you with all the business of this company. Just let me take a look if there's anything."

"what?"

Xiaoyun gasped in surprise.

"This, this won't do. President Liu, I'm just an assistant, I don't know anything, I definitely can't do it."

"How do you know it won't work if you don't try? Besides, Mr. Ye will arrange for someone to come and assist you later. You're not alone; you'll be with Mr. Ye's people."

Liu Ruyan patted her on the shoulder. "I trust you."

Xiaoyun finally understood that her boss, Mr. Liu, was determined to be a hands-off manager.

"Then, what does President Liu do?"

She asked cautiously.

"I?"

Liu Ruyan glanced at Ye Shu sitting on the sofa and thought to herself, "She's probably a vampire who sits at home waiting for her husband to make money. No, she's a vampire who keeps him tied down to prevent him from running away."

"I have my own plans."

She replied, feigning composure.

Then, she walked over to Ye Shu and asked the question that had been nagging at her: "That Sima has gynophobia, so how did he manage to work with Xiao Yun?"

"Don't worry, I've already made arrangements."

Ye Shu smiled confidently, looking as if he had everything under control.

Looking at his smile, Liu Ruyan felt something was off. Could this guy really do anything reliable?

Said that Cao Cao Cao Cao arrived.

There was a knock on the office door.

"Enter."

The door was pushed open.

Then... everyone except Ye Shu was stunned, their eyes wide open.

Liu Ruyan looked at Sima, who walked in with a trash can on his head, and felt like she was about to faint from anger.

"Ye Shu!!! Is this your plan?!"

"Is there a problem?"

Ye Shu stood up and looked at her with an innocent expression.

"Since he hides in the trash can when he sees a woman, why doesn't he just stay in the trash can from the beginning?"

A brilliant idea.

Sima gave him a thumbs up.

"As expected of the captain, he solved the problem that had been bothering me for so long with ease."

"puff--"

Xiaoyun couldn't help but laugh out loud.

She hadn't expected the new CEO Ye to be so interesting, and this strange guy with the trash can on his arm was making her really curious to see what the person inside looked like.

The thought of working with a trash can spirit made her want to laugh.

"Ye Shu!!!"

Liu Ruyan was so angry she almost fainted.

"How can he cooperate with anyone while carrying that trash can on his head? How can he communicate with anyone? Get that damn trash can off him right now!"

"Alright."

Seeing how angry she was, Ye Shu nodded with a disappointed look.

Walking down the street with a trash can on your head is super cool, okay? Damn women have absolutely no idea about men's romance.

Now that things have come to this, he has no other choice.

Hypnosis!

He pulled a cell phone out of his crotch.

But it wasn't a Nokia, nor was it Liu Ruyan's Pear Phone; it was a smartphone with a silver-white body.

The overall interface consists of concentric pink circles.

The screen title reads "Hypnosis App".

Below that are detailed settings options such as sensitivity, duration, and suggestive content.

Liu Ruyan's lips twitched.

This is some kind of weird prop that I just pulled out of some notebook!

Pervert! Absolutely perverted!

Ye Shu pointed at the screen, then held up his phone and pointed it at Sima: "Come on, look at the screen."

The moment Sima looked at the screen.

A strange fluctuation came from it.

His mind seemed to jolt violently, then entered a state of emptiness.

"The two people standing in front of you now will no longer be seen as women, but as men, especially the one named Xiaoyun, who will be an important partner in your future success in the business world."

After giving the hint, Ye Shu put away his phone.

Sima blinked, seemingly regaining his senses.

He slowly removed the trash can from his head, revealing his handsome face, then looked at Xiaoyun with a puzzled expression and asked, "Brother, why are you wearing women's clothes?"

Xiaoyun looked down at her business suit.

"....."

The problem has been solved.

But it doesn't seem to be completely resolved.

"In short, the problem is now solved. If there's nothing else, Mr. Liu and I will be leaving now. You two brothers can discuss the rest at your leisure."

Without saying a word, Ye Shu pulled Liu Ruyan and walked out.

"No, where are you going?"

"What else can we do?"

Ye Shuchong and the others blinked. "You two subordinates manage the company, so of course we two bosses are going on a date~"

He had barely finished speaking when he pulled Liu Ruyan out the door.

Only the two of them remained, staring at each other in bewilderment.

Downstairs at the company, Liu Ruyan blushed slightly as Ye Shu held her hand.

"The date you just mentioned... is it for real?"

"Of course it's true."

Ye Shu smiled slightly, took her hand, and pointed to a food stall by the roadside. "Beautiful lady, would you like to have lunch with me?"

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Company rooftop.

"Um, my name is Lu Qiyun, you can just call me Xiaoyun. May I ask your name?" Xiaoyun asked somewhat awkwardly. That despicable CEO Liu, he was so blinded by lust that he ran away without even introducing himself!

However... this trash can expert...

He's quite handsome.

"My name is Zhou Xuan, and I'm... Mr. Ye's senior advisor." Sima pushed up his glasses, his eyes clear and sharp, showing no trace of the comical and chaotic state he had just displayed.

"Brother, let's sort out the company situation first."

He gestured for people to sit down.

Xiaoyun wondered if it was just her imagination, but she suddenly felt that Zhou Xuan in front of her was a completely different person, whether it was his aura or something else.

In short, it looks very impressive.

Ms. Liu has found a very capable husband.

With that thought in mind, Xiaoyun sat down on the sofa.

After sitting down, Zhou Xuan continued:

"Our company mainly deals in skincare products, and we only operate in this one area. However, the skincare industry in China has already been largely divided up, and skincare products are practically nonexistent... um..."

At this point, Zhou Xuan frowned, looking somewhat troubled:

"I may be being a bit harsh, but that's the truth. The so-called skincare products in China don't actually have any real skincare benefits."

"Essentially, they all fall under the category of placebo effect."

"Of course, I'm not saying they're completely useless; for example, facial cleanser can indeed make your face cleaner."

"In essence, all companies are no different from each other when it comes to the products themselves. So they rely more on marketing, Google, celebrity endorsements, and other means to make people believe that their products are different and thus gain a place in the market."

Zhou Xuan paused.

After confirming that Xiaoyun had fully digested it, he continued:

"Our Qingyan brand was established too late. We didn't make a brand impact when the skincare market in China was just emerging. Also, due to our size, we couldn't open up the market like later entrants through massive Google and influencer marketing."

"it is a pity."

He speaks his mind.

"We lack a first-mover advantage and don't have enough capital to invest in traffic, so in the skincare industry, death is a foregone conclusion and an irreversible fact."

"That's why I was able to survive before."

"It's entirely because President Liu is siphoning money off the Liu Group, barely maintaining cash flow and production line operations by distributing skincare products as employee benefits."

"And now, General Manager Liu has been removed from his position..."

He shrugged and said helplessly:

"We've run out of even our last source of funding."

Xiaoyun was stunned.

She had to admit that Zhou Xuan was absolutely right, even to the point.

"Then does that mean we're... doomed?"

Her voice trembled slightly.

After listening to Zhou Xuan's analysis, she saw almost no hope at all.

"That's correct in theory."

Zhou Xuan gave her a confident smile.

"Remember when I said that there are two main reasons for the domestic skincare product monopoly:"

1. All skincare products are essentially the same.

2. Brand effect.

"These two points didn't exist originally, but now that President Ye is here, the landscape of Chinese skincare products should change."

He stood up, picked up a pen and paper from his desk, quickly wrote down a recipe, handed it to Xiaoyun, then put his hands behind his back and looked out the huge floor-to-ceiling window at the bustling traffic.

"Sometimes business warfare is just that simple and straightforward."

"No data analysis or complicated market strategies are needed."

"Just offer them something they don't have."

Xiaoyun took the paper and looked down at it.

The ingredient list is not complicated; in fact, it's quite simple to call it a skincare product ingredient list.

Too simple!

Angelica dahurica, Atractylodes macrocephala, Poria cocos, Mimosa pudica, Glycyrrhiza uralensis...

"This...this..."

Xiaoyun's eyes widened, and she stammered, "Brother Zhou, you're not kidding me, are you? These things can be made into skincare products?"

"Normally, of course not."

Zhou Xuan said calmly.

"But this is a folk remedy that Mr. Ye wrote down for us to use as a face mask to refresh ourselves, so it will definitely work."

In the past, when they were carrying out missions...

The environment was dirty and terrible, and sometimes the sun was high. My skin was in such bad shape that I don't even know what it looked like. Later, the team leader wrote down this formula for them. After applying it, their skin was mostly healed by the next day, and it looked like it had just grown back.

Xiaoyun looked at the recipe with a mixture of belief and skepticism.

After hesitating for a moment, she took the formula and ran downstairs to the laboratory. These herbs were cheap and commonly used, so she could prepare the medicine quickly.

Not long after.

The door on the roof was pushed open again.

"Amazing! Brother Zhou, amazing!"

Xiaoyun practically ran in, carrying a small jar of freshly prepared ointment.

"I...I just tried it on the inside of my arm!"

She spoke rapidly, almost gesturing wildly, "I just applied a coin-sized amount, and in just ten minutes! Ten minutes! The skin there felt so different! So smooth! Just like when my mom first gave birth to me!"

Zhou Xuan took a closer look and wasn't surprised.

It would be strange if it didn't have this effect.

"Brother Zhou, how much should we sell this product for? With such an inexpensive formula and such good results, I can't even imagine how popular it would be in the low-end market."

Xiaoyun's eyes sparkled.

Based on this formula alone, she could already foresee Qingyan becoming a nationwide sensation, with everyone owning a serving.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Xuan turned around and gave a wicked smile.

"The low-end market?"

"It's too small; its scope is too narrow."

He extended his five fingers, clenched his fist, and slowly said:

"Whether it's low-end, high-end, mid-range, or even overseas markets, I want it all."

"Huh?"

Xiaoyun was taken aback, weakly raised the bottle, and whispered, "But...but we only have this one product..."

"one?"

Zhou Xuan shook his head, saying inscrutablely:

"Why do I see so many recipes?"