The Heiress's Game

When Gu Yunjin received the latest resume from the headhunter, she was leaning back on the sofa in the Suiyuan Study, flipping through the rough cut of the third episode of "Walking with Brilliance".

She pressed the pause button, opened the resume, and saw the three words "Nan Zhenquan". She scanned a few lines down - General Manager of Daheng Group's Xuecheng Branch. He has been with the company for fifteen years, rising from a construction site technician to the head of a city. The projects he has handled range from residential development to commercial complexes, and he has managed the largest urban renewal project in Xuecheng.

The reason given for leaving the company was "adjustment of personal career plan".

The headhunter, probably worried she wasn't taking it seriously enough, added a long recommendation paragraph to the email, the enthusiasm of which is quite rare in this industry.

"Miss Gu, Nan Zhenquan is a truly rare person."

There are quite a few people in the real estate industry who can rise to the level of regional general manager, but most of them rely on connections, aligning with the right faction, and accumulating seniority.

He truly worked his way up from the front lines, having worked on construction sites, negotiated demolitions, and visited government offices. He even oversaw the model of the sales center when it opened.

None of the projects he managed ended in failure, and the turnover rate of the teams he led was the lowest in the entire group.

Moreover, this person is not the kind who only executes orders without having any ideas.

Gu Yunjin read the recommendation twice, then closed the email, reopened the resume, and stared at the few lines on the resume, lost in thought.

A city-level executive in the real estate industry—this level of person's ability is certainly not to be underestimated.

To rise from the bottom to become the regional head in a company like Daheng Group, known for its wolf-like culture, and remain in that position for over a decade, this person must possess top-notch resilience, execution, and management skills.

And the headhunter was right—the team he led had the lowest turnover rate in the entire group, which shows that he is good at managing people and retaining them.

This is the most scarce quality in management.

The problem is, she works in the media and entertainment industry. Real estate and media and entertainment are too far removed from each other.

The logic of real estate is that it involves heavy assets and long cycles. It can take three to five years from the time a piece of land is acquired to the time a house is sold. Every link is tightly bound by policies, funds and construction periods.

Media and entertainment are different. "Walking with Brilliance" only took a few months from project initiation to online release. The pace was so fast that she sometimes felt breathless.

Moreover, the management targets of real estate projects include engineers, project managers, and construction companies.

The management targets in the media and entertainment industry are producers, directors, artist managers, and publicity teams—two completely different groups of people. Using the same management methods may not be effective.

Her time is precious, and she doesn't want to waste it on trial and error.

She put the tablet aside, stood up, and walked to the window.

The shadow of the osmanthus tree outside the window was stretched long by the sunlight and sprinkled on the lawn of Suiyuan Garden.

She was silent for about two minutes, then picked up her phone and sent a message to the headhunter: "Schedule an interview, I'd like to meet him in person."

It wasn't the headhunter's recommendation that convinced her, but rather something that suddenly occurred to her—Cloud Whale Capital had moved back to China, the brand incubation segment of its cultural industry fund was being launched, and the supply chain and e-commerce operations needed someone who could coordinate the overall situation amidst heavy assets and complex processes.

Her team has no shortage of content talent—but no one under her command truly understands the "heavy" aspects beyond content itself—such as building the supply chain, establishing a quality control system, managing warehouses and logistics, and negotiating contracts with contract manufacturers.

She herself? She can learn, but she doesn't have time to learn everything.

People with a real estate background are in charge of these kinds of things.

If Nan Zhenquan is really as capable as the headhunter said, then his cross-industry learning ability should be sufficient.

Even if he can't take over Xingyao Media, handing over the brand incubation line to him would be more than enough.

She sat back down at her desk and wrote down a few questions in her notebook to ask during the interview.

These questions were completely different from those she had asked when interviewing variety show producers before—not a single one was about content creation, but all about supply chain, quality control, and cross-industry adaptation.

She planned to test the man's character with these questions first, and if he could handle them, they could discuss things more deeply.

If you can't handle it, then there's nothing more to say.