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Qi Qi's voice suddenly turned cold.

There was silence on the other end of the phone.

"I'm willing to help you out as a friend. We'd better not talk about money."

Gao Jinze immediately said, "Yes, yes, I was so anxious, I'm so stupid. Tell me, what should we pay attention to during the negotiations?"

Qiqi sorted out her thoughts and asked, "Should the other party come to your office to talk, or should you go to their office to talk?"

"They extended a warm invitation to me to visit their Shanghai headquarters."

"No, if you go, their feng shui master will have already set up a trap, and I can't do anything about it. You must insist that they come to your office. Can you do that? If you can't, there's no point in talking further."

"Yes, yes, yes, I'll have Linzi go and change the invitation to them," Gao Jinze quickly replied.

Qi Qi chuckled inwardly. She continued, “In negotiations, home-field advantage is especially important. Arrange for a pretty young woman to serve you tea and water, mainly to keep refilling your negotiating partner's water. Be extremely attentive and try to get them to go to the restroom a few times! Remember, no drinking water within three hours before the negotiations. Go to the restroom before the negotiations begin. During the negotiations, you can only drink water symbolically; absolutely no going to the restroom in between, absolutely not!”

Gao Jinze couldn't contain his curiosity and asked, "Why...?"

“Water represents wealth. In negotiations, flowing water represents flowing wealth, and the energy dissipates when it moves. Even if you have a significant advantage in negotiations, if you go to the restroom a few times, the energy around you will dissipate, and your advantage will vanish.”

"Haha, that's a good trick, I'll remember it."

"You should adjust the tables and chairs in the negotiation room beforehand, and make sure the other party sits on your right! Forget it, I'll just tell you the principle: left is the Azure Dragon, right is the White Tiger, left is the auspicious direction, and right is the inauspicious direction."

Gao Jinze said he remembered it.

"In addition, prepare five sets of suits, underwear, and shoes immediately, in black, green, white, yellow, and red respectively. Have someone keep watch near the starting point of the other side's negotiators to see what color their chief negotiator is wearing. Call you immediately, and you should change into a complete suit of the corresponding color!"

Gao Jinze quickly said, "Don't say anything yet, let me write it down on paper first, otherwise it will be troublesome if I make a mistake... Go ahead and say it."

Qi Qi said, "It's very simple. If the other person is wearing black, you wear green; if the other person is wearing green, you wear red; if the other person is wearing white, you wear black; if the other person is wearing yellow, you wear white; if the other person is wearing red, you wear yellow."

"I've memorized it... It's quite complicated, with a whole set of steps. What's the underlying principle?"

"You science and engineering students, you always talk about principles. Before anyone discovered the Earth was rotating, it still kept rotating, didn't it? Many formulas and theorems weren't derived by you, but you still use them in your calculations, right? The principle is very simple: it's about using the colors of the Five Elements to make the other person generate you—for example, if the other person wears black, black belongs to water, and water generates wood, so you should wear green, because green is the color of wood. And so on. Do you understand, my MIT high-achieving student?"

Gao Jinze was clearly a little embarrassed: "Alright, Miss Qiqi, stop teasing me about being clueless about feng shui. After your guidance, I feel much more confident. I'll go and prepare accordingly! I'll treat you to dinner at 'South Beauty' after the negotiations."

Qiqi asked with some curiosity, "Which feng shui master was it? Why are you so nervous?"

"Ayan," Gao Jinze said without hiding anything.

"Ah!" Qi Qi exclaimed in surprise.

Ah Yan was the feng shui consultant for the real estate developer who originally built Fenghe Shuiyuan. It turns out he switched sides to a new employer.

Qi Qi hesitated for a moment, then tentatively asked, "Perhaps I shouldn't have asked who you're negotiating with—"

“Shanghai Wanjia.” Gao Jinze said readily, “Perhaps I shouldn’t tell you, because this is the biggest bombshell news in the real estate industry recently, haha. But I trust you, and I know you won’t tell anyone else.”

Qiqi laughed: "You, you either say it or you don't, but after you're done, you try to shut me up first, making me suffer the torment of keeping the secret. Don't blame me if you leak it later!"

Despite saying it, she felt a warmth in her heart at Gao Jinze's honesty and trust.

Gao Jinze chuckled again, neither admitting nor denying.

Qiqi said, "Go and prepare for the negotiations. We'll talk again after we've finished."

After hanging up the phone, Qiqi was still thinking about Ayan, how he got to Wanjia Company, and what project Wanjia was negotiating with Gao Jinze this time.

Out of boredom, I opened QQ.

There are four system verification messages, all with the same content: "This humble student, Mu Feng, requests an audience."

Qiqi clicked "accept" and added the other person as a friend. When choosing a group, she hesitated for a moment and added him to the "best friends" group.

As soon as I added her, the QQ icon in the lower right corner of my Apple laptop started flashing. It was a small icon made with Mu Feng's profile picture.

The icon for Qiqi is displayed. Mu Feng's QQ name is "Wei Jin Style," which seems quite fitting for him.

Wei-Jin Style: Miss, you're only just logging on? I've been waiting for you for three days since Saturday night!

Qiqi: If you really want to find me, just call me or send a text message. I don't have time to be on QQ every day.

The spirit of the Wei and Jin dynasties: I do want to, but it's too abrupt. We just met on Saturday, is it really appropriate to call so soon?

Qiqi: Then you deserve to have waited there for three days!

Qi Qi couldn't figure out her attitude towards Mu Feng, or why she was being so arrogant.

Wei Jin Style: Actually, I'm here to talk to you about something important: I wanted to persuade you to buy a house near Lotus Road. I already placed an order for three units on Sunday at an insider price of less than 13,000 yuan per square meter. But when I asked again today, the price had already risen to 13,500 yuan per square meter! Isn't that outrageous?

Qiqi: Why do you think house prices have been rising by an average of 100 yuan per day lately?

Wei-Jin Spirit: It's simple. The government is lending like crazy to stimulate the economy, leading to a surge in hot money in society. Exports are sluggish, and traditional manufacturing is struggling, with profit margins not even enough. That hot money can only be used to speculate in stocks and real estate. Only stocks and real estate can hedge against inflation, preserve and increase value, and are the easiest to liquidate. Haven't you seen that our stock market has been performing exceptionally well globally this year, doubling in value? The real estate market is starting to pick up now, you need to act quickly, the longer you wait, the higher it will rise!

Qiqi: Sigh! I don't understand any of this stuff. As a journalism graduate, I'm too out of touch. I don't care about the news at all now. All I know is work and sleep.

The spirit of the Wei and Jin dynasties: Whether actively or passively, people always need to manage their finances. I think with your abilities, Qiqi, you shouldn't be living such a hard life; you should easily rise to prominence!

Qiqi: I am well aware of my own shortcomings. My emotional intelligence is low, and there is no cure for it.

Wei-Jin Spirit: I truly believe you haven't fully realized your potential. And the value you can create is far from sufficient! Most of the feng shui masters and various so-called "masters" in society today are not as skilled as you, yet they are all bloated with knowledge and arrogance. I feel very sorry for you!

Qiqi: Forget it, talking about this kind of thing is too stressful. I'm fine as a junior employee now, no worries, just a monthly salary. I'm quite content.

Wei-Jin Style: Here's what I'll do: I'll introduce you to the Chinese Zhouyi Society, and then I'll try to get you some master certifications. You see, that will raise your value in feng shui.

Qiqi: Great! China's youngest female Feng Shui master.

Wei-Jin style: More than that, she is the most beautiful, has the best figure, the strongest skills, and the highest moral character—the ultimate, invincible, universally appealing Feng Shui master who attracts both men and women!

Qiqi: Haha, what a long and ridiculous title! Wait a minute, how do you know if I have a good or bad figure?

Wei-Jin style: just guessing.

Wei-Jin style: I'll just confess, I deserve to die... I secretly looked at your swimsuit photos...

Qiqi: Ah!!! How is that possible? Where did you see that?

Wei-Jin style: Well... I'll keep recruiting. I saw it on Youyou's website...

The seventh day of the seventh lunar month is a day of great shame.

She only took such "revealing" photos once in her entire life.

Back in her sophomore year, she and Youyou were doing part-time work for the fashion magazine "LOW". At the time, they were shooting on location for the Sanya National Model Competition, and they were the background for the contestants.

It was only after Youyou's strong encouragement that Qiqi mustered up the courage to choose the most conservative one-piece swimsuit.

As soon as she entered the sea, she almost stole the limelight from several professional models. Two professional photographers from Hainan TV surrounded her and kept taking pictures. They even asked Youyou which region Qiqi was from and whether she had signed with a management company.

Qiqi was so embarrassed that she quickly ran back to the changing room.

After that, she pestered Youyou to persuade the two photographers to delete all the photos of her.

Youyou later said she had deleted them all.

Unexpectedly, she had kept a copy without telling me!

Qi Qi was quite angry, especially since Mu Feng had seen the photos!

What will Mu Feng think if I take this kind of photo?

She didn't care if others saw it, but she just didn't want Mu Feng to see it!

Wei Jin Style: What? Are you angry? It's my fault, I shouldn't have looked without permission... But you're just too beautiful, you have the best figure I've ever seen! Especially your waist, it's absolutely so slender, you could wrap your hands around it.

Qiqi's face was still burning hot, her fingers were on the keyboard, but she didn't know how to reply.

Wei-Jin style: I apologize, I apologize. I will immediately delete the memory of your swimsuit from my mind and format it. How about that?

Qiqi laughed and typed on the keyboard: Be careful not to accidentally delete other parts of your memory, or you'll become an idiot.

Wei-Jin Spirit: I saw you laugh, haha. Being an idiot is great, idiots are supported by the state, no pressure to survive, no worries.

Qi Qi was startled. She glanced at the webcam on her laptop, and after confirming that it was not turned on, she breathed a sigh of relief.

77: Didn't Jacky Cheung, the God of Songs, sing, "Happiness comes with troubles, unless you don't want either"?

The spirit of the Wei and Jin dynasties: I cannot forget you.

Qiqi: Okay, not many young people know this song anymore.

Wei-Jin Style: What?! You're a few years younger than me, yet you act all old-fashioned. Let's go to KTV sometime, I'll show off my singing skills and let you know what it means to be channeling Jacky Cheung!

Qiqi: Okay! But just focus on your voice, no need for your face, you're much better looking than him.

Wei-Jin style: Long live the beauty! I can tell you're subtly praising me!

Qiqi: It's time to get off work. If I leave late, I'll get stuck in traffic.

Wei-Jin style: If you leave on time, you'll get traffic jams. How about we grab dinner together tonight? How about South Beauty?

Qi Qi immediately thought of Gao Jinze, who had just said that he would treat her to dinner at South Beauty after the negotiations...

Qiqi really wanted to see Mufeng, but they had only met for the first time on Saturday. If she agreed to meet him so easily this time, wouldn't it seem like she wasn't mature enough?

Qiqi hesitated for a moment, then decided to take it slow.

Qiqi: No, let's not add to Shanghai's traffic congestion during rush hour. We'll talk about it this weekend.

Wei-Jin Style: Alright, see you this weekend! If possible, I still strongly advise you to buy a house near Lotus Road. I really can't say much more, but you have to trust me!

Qiqi: Thanks, I will carefully consider your suggestion. Bye.

Chapter Fifteen: The Heavenly Book Because they had been chatting a little late, when Qi Qi got up, she realized that Zhou Haisheng, Song Yu, and Weiwei were no longer there.

It seems that everyone from other departments has left as well.

Qiqi left the Suzaku Department office and squatted down to lock the glass door.

"Ms. Yang, is it convenient for us to talk?"

Qi Qi was startled and stood up.

At the end of the dark corridor, a figure stood vaguely like a ghost.

Upon closer inspection, one could vaguely discern that the person was Mark.

Judging from how far Mark was standing, he definitely wasn't speaking just now; it was through his so-called "spiritual communication."

Qiqi walked over, a little annoyed, and said, "You like to play your game, but others may not! Please respect everyone's right to choose. If you want to talk to me, just say so!"

Mark blushed slightly and said in a Chongqing accent, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to... Sometimes I don't even know if I'm communicating with my mind or with my mouth. I only know that the message has been conveyed to my target—it's really frustrating. I'll definitely pay attention next time!"

Qiqi couldn't help but laugh as she listened to a foreign boy earnestly apologizing to her in his native dialect.