Chapter 33: Chapter 33: Jiang Sifan Wants to Start a Business! A Huge Profit?

「On the other side.」

Jiang Sifan finally heard back from his senior, Pan Lindong.

Pan Lindong: [Junior, I asked for you. My senior thinks very highly of you. He’s sure you’d do a great job with this startup project!]

Pan Lindong: [Are you free right now? I’ll send you an address. Come meet my senior, and he can briefly tell you about the campus team.]

Jiang Sifan was still in class when he received the message.

His eyes lit up with excitement the moment he saw it.

He turned to his roommate, Gao Lao, and said, "Gao Lao, I have to step out for a bit. Keep an eye out for me. If the professor suddenly calls on me, just say I went to the restroom."

Gao Lao gave him a mischievous grin. "What’s the rush? Can’t wait to see your girlfriend? You bring protection?"

"Get lost. What are you even talking about?" Jiang Sifan retorted with a laugh. "I’m going to work on a money-making project. If it works out, I’ll bring you, Brother Ming, and Qiu Zai in. The four of us will make a fortune."

"All right!" Gao Lao waved him off. "Then hurry up and go, before the professor looks up."

And just like that, Jiang Sifan slipped out the back door of the classroom.

He walked out of the academic building and went to the school gate.

Wanting to get to his destination as quickly as possible, he hailed a taxi.

"Sir, please take me to Zhuoyue Limited Company at 132 Xiangyang Road."

"You got it!"

On the way to the company, Jiang Sifan was so excited that he sent a message to Huang Hui.

Jiang Sifan: [Huihui, I’m on my way to my senior’s company. I might get to start a campus business with his help!]

But Huang Hui didn’t reply.

He didn’t let it bother him, though; after all, first-year students have a lot of classes.

’She’s probably in class.’

He had originally wanted to post the news in his family group chat, but then he remembered that nothing was set in stone yet.

If he announced it in the group and then his senior decided not to partner with him, he would be relentlessly mocked by Jiang Silu.

’Forget it. I’ll wait until after I meet the head senior.’

「Soon, the taxi arrived at its destination.」

Jiang Sifan eagerly got out of the car, found the building, and pressed the elevator button.

Stepping out of the elevator, he glanced around. When he saw "Zhuoyue Limited Company" written on a glass door, Jiang Sifan walked in.

Just as he was about to speak, Pan Lindong, who was waiting at the reception, saw him. "Junior Sifan!"

"Senior Lin Dong." Jiang Sifan immediately adopted a respectful tone. "Sorry, I was in class when you messaged me."

"Oh? You were in class? You should have said so. If you were in class, we could have just scheduled for this afternoon," Pan Lindong explained.

Jiang Sifan shook his head. "It was just a big lecture, one of those useless, ’easy A’ classes. I figured your senior must be incredibly busy, so it wouldn’t be easy for him to find time to see me. I didn’t want to waste his break."

"You kid, you’re really thoughtful. Let me put it this way: even if our senior says he needs to think it over, I’ll still strongly recommend you!" Pan Lindong said with a smile, patting him on the shoulder.

Hearing this, Jiang Sifan lit up. "In that case, thank you so much, Senior Lin Dong!"

"Don’t mention it. Come on, I’ll take you to meet our senior."

And with that, the two of them walked through the office area.

Jiang Sifan glanced at the employees in the office. There weren’t many people, and the operation didn’t seem very large.

But Zhu Yuanzhang started with just a bowl and still became emperor.

’As long as the idea is sound, we’ll strike it rich sooner or later!’

Pan Lindong led Jiang Sifan to an office and knocked on the door. "Chairman Liang, our junior is here."

"Come in."

Led by Pan Lindong, Jiang Sifan entered the office.

He saw a middle-aged man dressed sharply in a suit, sitting in an office chair and talking on the phone.

’That aura... he’s clearly a successful young entrepreneur.’

Jiang Sifan couldn’t help but feel a surge of envy.

He too wanted to one day, through his own hard work, open his own startup in Jinling—no, in Shanghai!

Although Shanghai was very close to Jinling, he hadn’t visited once in the two-plus months he’d been in the city.

He would look at pictures of its skyscrapers online, thinking, ’That’s the kind of place where capable people go.’

After a moment, the middle-aged man put down his phone, stood up with a smile, and said, "You must be Junior Sifan, right? Hello, I’m Liang Jinhua of Zhuoyue Limited Company."

"Chairman Liang, hello." Jiang Sifan stepped forward respectfully and shook his hand.

"No need to call me Chairman Liang. We’re all from the same school. If you don’t mind, just call me Senior Jinhua," Liang Jinhua said with a smile.

"Hello, Senior Jinhua," Jiang Sifan immediately replied.

Liang Jinhua nodded. "Here, have a seat."

Before he was even fully seated, a slick, oily smile spread across his face, crinkling the corners of his eyes so deeply they could have trapped a mosquito. He looked at Jiang Sifan and said, "I heard from Lin Dong that you’re a very ambitious freshman. I’ve been wanting to consolidate our campus resources for a while now, but I’ve struggled to find the right person for the job."

As he spoke, he leaned forward, resting his elbows on the coffee table and gesturing with his hands in the air. "Junior Sifan, the truth is, Jinling Institute of Technology has plenty of talented people, but... how should I put it... I just don’t see my younger self in any of them."

"But just now, I saw it in you."

Jiang Sifan was overwhelmed and flattered by Liang Jinhua’s words.

He asked, excited and nervous, "R-Really? Thank you for the compliment, Senior."

"Me? I’m not one for empty words; I’m all about getting things done. So I’ll be straight with you. For this campus startup project, once it’s stable, you, as the project lead, will have a guaranteed minimum income of this much."

As Liang Jinhua spoke, he held up two fingers.

Jiang Sifan asked tentatively, "Two thousand?"

"A guaranteed minimum of twenty thousand a month," Liang Jinhua clarified.

At those words, Jiang Sifan’s pupils dilated.

’Holy shit!! Twenty thousand!!’

He had never even dreamed of such a number before coming here!!

He couldn’t contain his excitement. "R-Really? Senior Jinhua, can I really do it?"

"Hey, hey, what’s this about ’can I do it’?" Liang Jinhua said confidently. "As long as you work with me, it’s a sure thing!"

"That’s fantastic!" Jiang Sifan shot to his feet and bowed again. "Thank you, Senior Jinhua, for giving me this opportunity! I’ll work twice as hard—no, ten times, a hundred times harder!!"

"Easy now, don’t get ahead of yourself... You’re too excited, kid." Liang Jinhua chuckled. "Of course, I know you must be eager to build a career and make your parents proud, right?"

"Y-Yeah," Jiang Sifan said awkwardly.

In truth, he didn’t like it when people mentioned the word "dad."

His burning desire to succeed in business had only one goal: to make his mother’s life easier in the future.

As for his dad?

He hadn’t had one growing up, and he never would.

Jiang Sifan even thought that if his business succeeded, he’d be richer than Lu Fan. Then, he’d make Jiang Silu return all of Lu Fan’s gifts!

’Anything Jiang Silu needs, I, her big brother, will buy for her!!’

With that thought, Jiang Sifan once again spoke respectfully, "Senior Jinhua, please tell me what I need to do."