Chapter 1776 - 729: Summary_2

Chapter 1776: Chapter 729: Summary_2

He didn’t believe it either. As his closest confidante, Ranran couldn’t possibly black him out again, right?

Sure enough, the call was quickly connected, and Su Yajing’s sweet voice came from the other end:

"Hello, dear husband, are you looking for me?"

Zhou Wang instantly felt comfortable.

Listen, just listen, what is emotional value, what the hell is emotional value!

"Ranran, there’s nothing really going on, just missed you and wanted to chat..."

Zhou Wang lightly coughed, not rushing straight to the point.

"Ah, but husband, is it really okay for us to be like this?"

"What do you mean?"

Zhou Wang was baffled again.

"I do miss you too, but I’m a little scared... Sister Qingkui seems quite fierce. If I talk to you a lot and take up too much of your time, will she get angry again?"

Su Yajing said tearfully, "It’s okay, husband, you don’t have to worry too much about my feelings. After all, I’ve always been just invisible, I won’t fight with the sisters, nor will I demand that you must say ’love me’. Being by your side silently makes me happy..."

Zhou Wang: "..."

Bang!

Zhou Wang directly hung up the phone, feeling a raging impulse to smash his phone.

But thinking of his current balance, he ultimately couldn’t bring himself to throw the phone in his hand, and instead awkwardly lowered his raised hand in response to Qu Peining’s bewildered gaze.

"I still don’t believe it!"

After thorough contemplation, Zhou Wang eventually called Xu Wenqian.

...Fortunately, Xu Wenqian still had some bottom lines, although he could tell she had a bit of an attitude, Zhou Wang at least learned the course of events from her.

These women actually formed a group behind my back as the protagonist?

Zhou Wang’s mouth twitched, never expecting such a thing would happen.

Life, after all, is like this, always full of unexpected surprises, even someone as wise as him can’t control everything.

Just from Jiang Qingkui’s incident this time, Zhou Wang felt that he had more to worry about in the future.

Because he had no way to predict when he might be "backstabbed" by some woman again... Once they have a communication channel beyond his reach, Zhou Wang’s chances of slipping up in the future would greatly increase.

Zhou Wang also couldn’t order Xu Wenqian to forcibly dissolve the group. Sometimes, it’s better to have unobstructed communication than to block it.

Zhou Wang pondered for a moment and thought that, according to dialectical philosophy, this might not be a bad thing. There might be something in there that he could use.

He needed to carefully devise how to proceed.

Thinking of this, while walking, Zhou Wang found himself alongside Qu Peining and unexpectedly, Gao Xing, arriving at the arrival gate.

Yang Hao, wearing sunglasses, was leaning in front of a sleek black Toyota Alphard, posing quite pretentiously. As Zhou Wang and his companions walked out, he waved his hand towards them.

"Brother Dog, here, over here!"

"Whoa, where did this car come from?"

Zhou Wang walked over and exclaimed in surprise.

"Rented it. You previously asked me to find a daily-use vehicle to act as a luxury funeral service limousine, right? After considering it, I felt an Alphard would be more classy, signed the contract just this morning..."

"How much did it cost?"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Wang’s face turned serious, interrupting the ecstatic Yang Hao.

"Fifteen hundred a day, originally eighteen hundred, but I haggled hard to bring the price down..."

"You prodigal, fifteen hundred, do you know how much can be done with that, you’re too..."

"Brother Dog, don’t worry, the old man approved dedicated funds, won’t use a single penny from the shop."

"...You really took care of it, all I can say is that’s excellent work!"

Zhou Wang promptly, and smilingly, patted Yang Hao’s shoulder.

Of course, humor aside, once the pet funeral business gets on track, this money will still be accounted into costs to pay Yang Hao back.

But at this stage, with Yang Hao investing in the business selflessly, Zhou Wang’s pressure was indeed relieved a lot.

"Let’s go, time to get back to work!"

Zhou Wang rolled up his sleeves and beckoned for Yang Hao to get into the car together.

"Brother Dog, while you were unavailable for the past two days, I acquired a few new clients, hey, let me tell you, there’s this pretty girl among them, seemingly a popular influencer, I feel if she can be won over, we might get some free advertising for our shop..."

"Don’t talk to me about that, I’m not interested in women right now."

"Huh?"

"Huh what, remember, women only slow down your money-making speed... Ha, beauty is just skin deep, I’m past caring."

The MPV drove along the coastal highway towards the city, the windows rolled down allowing for the salty sea breeze to tousle Zhou Wang’s messy hair. Yang Hao turned to look at him, although puzzled, he was deeply impressed.

Knowing each other well, Yang Hao could see that Zhou Wang wasn’t joking, he seemed genuinely serious.

Though Zhou Wang’s face appeared grim, his hand subconsciously covered his lower back, and Yang Hao couldn’t help feeling something was off about the pose.

...

"Total order value, 112,538 yuan."

"Hmm... Got it written down."

"Total cost for custom memorabilia is 4,890 yuan, fuel and parking for transport added up to 2,635 yuan, advance costs for urns and standard photo frames amount to 4,100 yuan, expenses for part-time work totaling 12,000 yuan for 80 incidences, plus there’s tea, coffee, and pastries..."

"Alright, let me do the math."

As the sun set at dusk, in the little shop with doors already closed, Zhou Wang and Yang Hao sat face to face, Zhou Wang spoke as Yang Hao recorded. The two welcomed the first accounting settlement since their business launched.

Soon, Yang Hao excitedly looked up with the result.

"It balances, matches the balance on the public account... Wow, Brother Dog, we really nailed this!"

"How much profit?"

Zhou Wang didn’t show much joy, only asked seriously.

"After excluding all costs including sea burials and cremations, the preliminary estimated gross profit is 87,268.8 yuan, holy smokes, I can’t believe it... Pet funerals make this much?"

Yang Hao couldn’t hide his excitement.

It’s not that the eighty-seven thousand is such a staggering amount to him. As a capable young heir, just several thousand, honestly... his New Year’s money might surpass this.

But the significance is entirely different.

Because this eighty-seven thousand yuan, eighty-eight cents was earned bit by bit through his hard work over half a month.

Moreover, what does an eleven thousand turnover and nine thousand gross profit signify?

Yang Hao’s family owns a restaurant, which already counts as a high-margin industry, but generally, it’s hard to exceed 60%, only certain dishes separated would have such high margins.

While nearly 80% margin... even coffee, light meals, these wallet reapers can’t reach. ℴ

It’s like a legal heist!

Unlike the overly excited Yang Hao, Zhou Wang murmured the figure to himself, yet his brows furrowed again.

By now it’s mid-January... meaning it’s been about twenty days since the launch.

Ten thousand capital, nine thousand gross profit, minus some uncalculated rents, social costs, the actual net might be around seventy to eighty thousand.

For the average person, this entrepreneur endeavor can’t be called a failure, rather, it’s already a miraculous success.

But for Zhou Wang... this pace is still too slow.

The fourth action phase was limited to 180 days, earlier Zhou Wang always assumed time was counted from when the phase started due to countdown notifications on the system interface.

It wasn’t until after registering the business license, he realized the "180 days" was actually calculated from the business registration node.

The previous countdown indicated when the phase would expire and wasn’t considered part of the action timeline.

This also meant, all accounted, Zhou Wang has less than five months left.

At the current pace, earning ten thousand a month, even after half a year he wouldn’t hit the target of a million, let alone "ten million".

"Whew, definitely need to re-plan the schedule..."