201: end of the year

In the days leading up to the New Year, Chen Qiu finished handling a few matters.

The Cultural Industry Group officially began its holiday break.

Chen Qiu paid a visit to the company to reward several of his secretaries.

Especially Liu Qi.

This head secretary, who possessed the elegant air of a mature woman but had never even had a boyfriend, had been exhausted during this period.

Chen Qiu acted as a hands-off boss, giving her all sorts of remote commands.

This head secretary had to keep an eye on almost every single aspect.

However, Chen Qiu did not treat her poorly.

As he had promised Liu Qi beforehand, for every capable person she recruited before the end of the year, Chen Qiu would increase her year-end bonus by ten percent.

Liu Qi completed her tasks excellently, and Chen Qiu generously gave her triple the year-end bonus!

When she saw the string of numbers that had arrived in her bank account, Liu Qi's pretty face, which had been slightly weary from continuous fatigue, bloomed with an unprecedented rosy glow.

“Thank you, President Chen!”

She bowed slightly toward Chen Qiu in excitement.

Her slim-fitting professional attire was pulled tight by her graceful body, outlining the lush curves of her waist and hips.

“You have to keep working hard next year!”

“Your tasks will be very heavy!”

Hearing Chen Qiu's smiling words, Liu Qi's heart tightened and her legs felt a bit weak.

This boss was great in every way, except he was too lazy—a pure hands-off manager.

He directed her to do everything.

Construction on the industrial park was starting after the New Year; she could imagine that work then would definitely be even busier than it was now!

Thinking of the scene where she would be running around in circles after the New Year, Liu Qi's legs were already starting to feel soft.

But at the thought of Chen Qiu's bold and generous hand!

No matter how hard or tiring it was, it was all worth it!

“Alright, President Chen, I can handle it!”

She said, her beautiful eyes narrowing slightly with determination.

“Don't worry, I'll recruit more people after the New Year to share the pressure of your workload!”

Chen Qiu laughed.

Liu Qi had high emotional intelligence, great execution, and extremely strong organizational skills!

In fact, he felt that keeping Liu Qi in the Group all the time was a bit of a waste!

As he owned more and more companies, and with the trend surely increasing in the future, forming a private assistant team was becoming urgent.

Transferring Liu Qi out of the Group to lead his private assistant team might better utilize her abilities.

“I'll see if there's a candidate who can replace Liu Qi's role in the Group next year...”

Chen Qiu thought to himself.

After seeing Liu Qi off, Chen Qiu called An Wan in.

“President Chen... I get a year-end bonus too?”

After seeing the payment notification, An Wan asked in great surprise.

She had only been here for a month and hadn't achieved any results yet, yet she was actually getting a year-end bonus?

Moreover, she had just heard Song Xiangtong say outside that she also had a year-end bonus.

It seemed the year-end bonuses for those veteran employees had all been increased to some degree!

Not to mention someone like Liu Qi; according to Song Xiangtong's guess, she would get at least double!

Seeing Chen Qiu's habit of spending money like water, An Wan, who received the bonus, was excited that she had finally followed a good boss.

But when she thought of the several companies she had joined before that had all gone bankrupt, she suddenly became worried again.

“With President Chen squandering money like this, our company won't go bankrupt ahead of schedule, will it?”

She muttered subconsciously.

Chen Qiu, whose bodily functions had been enhanced, had much stronger hearing; in the quiet office, he clearly heard An Wan's words.

Chen Qiu's mouth twitched slightly.

This silly-cute young lady really worried about a lot of things every day.

Chen Qiu shook his head and took a document out of a drawer.

It was a proposal.

A simple proposal for a light medical aesthetics institution!

He wanted to push the light medical aesthetics institution to the market quickly, and this would inevitably require support from official sources.

Regardless of the project, with official support and endorsement, the malicious competition faced would be much less!

Although Chen Qiu believed that the technology and raw materials provided by the system, which were ahead of the times, would be enough to quickly gain a foothold in the market.

However, if there was a more stable and safer development path, why should Chen Qiu go it alone!

“This is a project I'm preparing to incubate recently, but I have some confusion regarding policy support. Help me hand this to Minister An and see if Minister An has time to give some suggestions.”

Chen Qiu handed the proposal to An Wan nonchalantly.

He could have also directly sought out An Yi for a discussion.

But after thinking about it, it was better to use An Wan as a buffer and let An Yi take the initiative to find him.

He believed that as long as Minister An finished reading this proposal, he would surely see the possibility of turning Gannan into the nation's future medical aesthetics center!

Could this future top leader of Gannan sit still then?

This was a blue ocean market on the scale of hundreds of billions!

As long as Chen Qiu's light medical aesthetics brand could establish a market-leading position, the resulting industrial chain and surrounding facilities would allow the local area to take a massive, delicious bite!

“Alright, President Chen.”

An Wan obediently took the proposal, having no questions.

After letting An Wan leave, the next one to enter was Xu Yi.

Compared to Liu Qi and An Wan, Xu Yi was much closer and more natural.

Of course, she still addressed him by his title during work.

“President Chen, isn't this year-end bonus a bit too much?”

Xu Yi said in a low voice.

She hadn't graduated yet, so her status was still that of an intern.

And with her intern status, she was actually issued a year-end bonus equal to six months' salary!

You should know, from the start of her internship until now, it hadn't even been a full six months... “Too much?”

“If you think it's too much, transfer it to your sister; she won't think it's too much.”

Chen Qiu joked.

Upon hearing this, Xu Yi immediately curled her lip.

“Her salary is much higher than mine, I'm definitely not giving it to her!”

“Your sister is the General Manager, after all; her salary certainly can't be low.”

“Hmph, this General Manager only has one person under her!”

Xu Yi laughed.

She was currently living with her sister, Xu Jia, and knew a bit about the latter's situation.

Before the New Year, almost everyone was on holiday at home waiting for the festivities; aside from recruiting a small assistant a few days ago, the recruitment messages Xu Jia sent out had seen no activity.

This had led Xu Yi to keep laughing at her lately—a General Manager with only one employee was not even as good as her, a little secretary!

Chen Qiu also smiled.

Given the growth rate of his real estate holdings, Xu Jia would have to start expanding and getting busy after the New Year.

“Just keep this year-end bonus. Once work starts next year, your job should have some changes, so be prepared in advance.”

“Mhm, mhm.”

Xu Yi nodded, and then a hint of hesitation appeared on her pretty face.

She took a step forward and said softly.

“Brother Chen Qiu, lately my sister has been thinking about inviting you to our house for a meal after the New Year, but she's been hesitating and didn't know how to tell you... I saw her agonizing over it, so I decided to tell you in advance.”

After Xu Yi finished speaking, she quickly added.

“Brother Chen Qiu, you must never tell my sister that I'm the one who said it!”

Chen Qiu looked at her with amusement.

“Do I even need to say it? Aside from you, is there anyone else who knows about this?”

Hearing this, Xu Yi immediately realized.

She blinked, her pretty face gradually turning blank.

“Then what should I do?”

“You'd better hurry and urge your sister to set a date. I'm a very busy man, and I might not necessarily have the time.”

Upon hearing this, Xu Yi nodded heavily.

That was the only way... Before the end of the workday.

The secretaries' office.

Song Xiangtong received a message from Chen Qiu and prepared to head to the President's Office.

An Wan packed her things and looked at Song Xiangtong.

“Sister Tong, do you want me to wait for you?”

Song Xiangtong smiled and said.

“No need, you go back first. I don't know how long this will take.”

An Wan complained softly.

“President Chen is really something, not letting you go over earlier but waiting until it's time to get off work.”

Song Xiangtong's red lips curved slightly, and a flash of charm unique to a mature woman crossed her eyes.

“Maybe President Chen wants to give me a bonus...”

“Hasn't the year-end bonus already been given? There's another bonus?”

“Maybe!”

Song Xiangtong winked her beautiful eyes at the silly-cute young lady.

There was definitely a bonus, but it wasn't the kind of 'gold' she was thinking of... Watching Song Xiangtong's curvaceous figure walk into the President's Office, An Wan scratched her head and looked down at the folder Chen Qiu had given her.

“I'd better just obediently run errands for President Chen.”