KC | Chapter 99

Zao Wang City payment collection, key clients, the fourth battle was like having divine help!

That was, after the Gulin framework agreement was signed, Zao Wang City’s payment collection and Aolaie’s winning bid came one after another, and Chen Xi kept bringing in good news.

The central air conditioner, which had always been silent and unnoticed, suddenly turned on level 10 warm air, quickly warming up Yucheng’s KA overall performance, while also giving the KA end-of-month sprint a powerful shot in the arm.

Early in the morning, Chen Xi woke up in Lin Yiran’s arms, the broad shoulders shielding him from wind and rain, the blurry and floating future growing clearer and clearer.

Several new suits had been added to the wardrobe, all in Chen Xi’s size. His shirts, suits, dress pants, leather shoes, belts, chain belts… all were bought by Lin Yiran.

Chen Xi was like a well-behaved bjd doll, and Lin Yiran was enthusiastic about collecting and buying beautiful clothes, dressing up his doll beautifully.

Wearing the full business elite outfit he had only ever seen in TV dramas, while handling key clients who were even harder to deal with than the ones in TV dramas, TV dramas had a golden finger, and Chen Xi had Lin Yiran.

Chen Xi was full of confidence, but Lin Yiran, rarely, had developed a bit of a crisis sense.

Lin Yiran was used to control. Only by precisely keeping control of each key client’s movements could he guarantee that he finished the planned work.

Chen Xi was the most important one among his countless key clients, but he had never been able to control him. As Chen Xi grew, there was less and less Lin Yiran could teach him or give him. Lin Yiran could not be sure whether, when Chen Xi saw a wider world and came into contact with more people better than him, he would still like him the way he did now.

The Cadillac drove into the morning light, and the dawn was too dazzling. Chen Xi should not have been staying in that shabby car.

Chen Xi parked the car, smiling brightly. “Brother Lin, it’s the last day of the quarter, so give it your all!” After saying that, he stretched out his paw and wanted a high-five with him.

Lin Yiran lightly tapped Chen Xi’s hand, and Chen Xi grabbed it, their fingers interlacing.

Cute creatures always liked to do some ambiguous little moves. It felt like willow catkins had flown past the tip of Lin Yiran’s heart, scratching it until it itched. People in their twenties were not necessarily settled yet, and he did not know how long Chen Xi’s liking would last, but now he was already deeply trapped and had no way back. It was like investing all assets into a risky project with a risk coefficient of over 50 percent, all in and unable to withdraw, because the investment term was lifelong.

At the end of the quarter, everyone scrambled for performance, and some were happy while others were worried.

Some went to the client side first thing in the morning to wait for payment collection; some came to the company to revise the closing report; and some, having run out of ammunition and no longer having key clients, did not dare sit at their desks, and wandered around on the 19th floor while smoking.

For KA, every quarter was a marathon, and the end of the quarter was the sprint at the finish line of that marathon. Everyone’s face was filled with exhaustion, supported only by willpower, doing their best to run to the finish line with all their remaining strength.

At present, Yucheng KA had completed 90 percent, ranking second among the three provinces, with first place being Beishi at 102 percent completion.

This morning there were two good news items and one bad news item. The good news was: Zhang Yuanji and Li Hua each brought back 100,000 yuan in gross profit, both reaching their assessment targets. The bad news was: the key client Lin Yiran had arranged to collect payment from today had just gotten into a car accident, and this quarter they had painfully lost 210,000 yuan in gross profit.

Lin Yiran rejected the month-end summary meeting, and called every old client who might help him push performance. Wearing Bluetooth earphones, he walked and talked in the office, and the KA people outside only saw his serious expression, not hearing a single word of what he was saying.

Others could not see it, but Chen Xi could see Lin Yiran’s tension. To cheer up his boyfriend, Chen Xi went to the café and bought a pack of Yakult-like drinks, then pushed open the door and came in.

“Isn’t this the last day? If Brother Li has money on the books, then just transfer next month’s advertising fee first?”

Chen Xi closed the door, pulled down the partition, and sat down in front of the desk waiting for him.

Maybe because the pressure at the end of the quarter was too great, that partition became the last straw that broke the marathon runner. Zhang Yuanji covered his eyes, Ma Longfei propped his head with his arm and looked away, and Li Hua, who had just broken up with his girlfriend, really could not take it anymore, so he slammed the contract hard and shouted, “My eyes, my eyes!”

A bunch of KA people outside were blinded by the dog man and dog man and their titanium alloy dog eyes, and, with the momentum of forcing the client for payment, they called furiously, flushed with urgency. The junior salespeople who passed by the KA desks saw the marketing big shots full of drive and had their fighting spirit ignited. To save time spent going to the bathroom, they made more calls to clients, even walking by running.

Chen Xi glanced at the chrysanthemum tea soaking in the cup on the desk and muttered softly, “People reach middle age and have no choice.”

Lin Yiran threw two walnuts to him, meaning: eat some walnuts and replenish your brain.

Chen Xi crushed the paper-shell walnuts, and after eating them, felt a little thirsty, so he drank up the chrysanthemum tea in a few gulps.

Hm? This taste was not wolfberry. Oh, the wolfberries were red, and this white thing was cassia seeds. It seemed Brother Lin was not kidney-deficient, he really was just getting hot from sprinting for performance at the end of the month.

Last year, Lin Yiran had dealt with a rather courteous client. He gave them Moutai, and the other side returned a pair of glasses as a gift.

The client was a leading eye care enterprise in Yucheng, and returning glasses was understandable. The director laughed so hard his face was full of wrinkles. “Xiao Lin, you really are handsome. The first time I saw you, I felt your eyes were made to wear glasses! Look, these temples are titanium alloy, the lenses are resin, they’re light when worn.”

The refined scum pretended to be happy and praised the director a lot. When he went back to the company and checked, he found that the damn glasses were made almost entirely from the cheapest materials, and fucking even the lenses were not blue-light blocking!

Fit my ass, I’m not nearsighted!

Lin Yiran casually tossed the glasses case into a drawer, and only took it out today, a year later.

Because he did not want Chen Xi’s attention to fall on anything other than himself.

He always showed people a gentle face, but behind that gentleness and elegance was a terrifying coldness. His long fingers pulled out a tissue and slowly wiped the lenses, while the slender temples reflected light under the sunlight. His inner self was full of filthy desires, and the glasses were a cover, hiding the edge.

The black signing pen, the long fingers, the exquisite and deep features, the refined scum and the gold-rimmed glasses complemented each other perfectly.

Chen Xi, that face-obsessed person, froze.

He suddenly realized that the lenses of these glasses did not seem to have much thickness, and did not really look like myopia glasses…

Chen Xi hesitated before speaking, “Brother Lin, are you farsighted?”

The refined scum with the blackened face hung up the call, took off the gold-rimmed glasses, and casually threw them on the desk.

“Your brother is 35 this year, not 65.”

“Uh, then Brother Lin, are you nearsighted? I think these lenses don’t seem like…”

“Say what you have to say, and if you have nothing to say, get lost.”

Chen Xi ran over with pattering sounds, sat on his lap, and pouted. “Nothing, but I still won’t get lost.”

Lin Yiran fiercely slapped his butt and said, “Not working properly at the company, you little pervert who seduces a superior.”

“Where did that slutty energy from last night go? Say a few more sexy things and let me hear them.”

Chen Xi: ε＝ε＝ε＝(#>д

Although Chen Xi was occasionally forceful, Lin Yiran still liked seeing the way he blushed more. He looked like a sticky, soft tangyuan, very soft and very cute.

Lin Yiran lifted the hem of his shirt, and Chen Xi’s skin was red like a boiled shrimp.

Two palms could almost completely encircle that thin waist, and silver chains were embedded in the thin abdominal muscles, rustling as they were touched.

He really liked his waist.

Chen Xi, as if being mischievous, rubbed against his leg while panting. After panting twice, he suddenly seemed afraid of being discovered, and covered his mouth. After the sounds disappeared, he felt unhappy again, so he hugged Lin Yiran’s neck and, as if venting his anger, bit and nibbled at him, leaving two bright red tooth marks.

The tense and烦闷 mood was swept away completely, and Lin Yiran kissed the sapphire at his waist, saying, “Baby is so obedient.”

Chen Xi smiled and said, “I’ve been wearing it all the time, afraid the leader would inspect it.”

The phone rang, and Chen Xi answered it. After the other side said a few things, Chen Xi immediately stood up from Lin Yiran’s lap, and his alluring eyes instantly turned sharp.

“Aolaie’s Double Festival promotion is doing an event, so many people are shopping, and you’re telling me you’re closing the books?” Mr. Chen was not as easy to talk to as when he negotiated with Yang Qi last time. He argued forcefully and did not give an inch. “The bid document said, ‘payment to be settled within 3 working days after the advertisement placement is completed.’ I submitted the closing report on Monday already, and Aolaie not paying is a breach of contract!”

The other side wrangled for a few words, but Chen Xi failed to get what he wanted. After hanging up, he cursed angrily, “What kind of bullshit reason is it to say Aolaie is closing the books because of an event? This dragging out payment excuse is way too lame!”

Lin Yiran’s eyes flickered slightly. “How much gross profit does the 490,000 yuan bid have?”

“About 290,000.”

“You didn’t give Li Ying a kickback?”

Chen Xi shook his head.

Commercial real estate advertising bidding usually worked like this, place first, collect payment later. That meant after winning the bid, the B side had to advance the advertising platform fee, and only after the advertisement placement was finished would they submit the closing report to the A side and request payment.

Normally, key clients with relationships would give kickbacks to the key person before the A side collected payment, such as Gu Lin Xu Dongxu. But Aolaie not only had no relationship, it was also an advance-payment placement. The risk of giving a kickback before payment collection was too great, so Chen Xi had never contacted Li Ying.

Lin Yiran frowned slightly, typing a table on the MacBook. After a while, he cursed, “Bad luck never comes singly.”

Chen Xi: “What’s wrong, Brother Lin?”

Lin Yiran: “My order has 210,000 in gross profit, your order has 290,000 in gross profit. We’re going to drag down Yucheng KA’s overall performance directly.”

“…”

Although that was indeed the case, the three words “drag down the overall performance” sounded harsh. Even if we did not collect payment, the performance we completed was already more than what the other KA people added together had done.

KA relied on two people to do the work of twenty people, and in the end these two people capsized the boat. Then what were the remaining eighteen people doing?

“Brother Lin, what you said is too much like heroism. I think the effort we put in is enough to deserve this profession.”

Key clients were not small or medium clients, and forcing payment could not force out performance. Now it was the very last day of the month, and they could only do their best and leave the rest to fate.

Lin Yiran looked at him without blinking and said, “Since you think that’s enough, then why would you get angry when Aolaie doesn’t pay?”

KA was assessed by quarter. If Aolaie paid next month, it would just happen to be counted into next quarter’s performance. But the moment Chen Xi knew Aolaie could not pay, what he thought of was not hiding the order and keeping it for the next quarter to ride along and complete the assessment. It was collecting the payment.

Because he wanted to sign the deal.

He, just like Lin Yiran, enjoyed the thrill of conquering key clients, and from the bottom of his bones he longed for the joy brought by signing a contract.

The thrill of conquering a key client was like reaching the highest point. Once experienced, one would want it. Not signing a deal felt as unbearable as having no nightlife.

They were the same kind of people.

Chen Xi looked up to Lin Yiran, chased after him, and became him.

Author’s note:

This article was about to enter the most important part stated in the outline.

To avoid getting stuck while writing, from today onward there would be a daily update at 20:00, and it would finish on Mother’s Day, 5.12!!!

Thank you to the readers who have accompanied me all the way. Your continued reading and comments are my greatest motivation for writing this story, Orz