Boss Lu: A reborn life is destined to be without regrets!-Chapter 63 - 58. Being Neighbors with Guan Yongyi

Early morning, Jiangnan Garden.

Lu Jincheng skipped his early morning class to visit a nearby sales office and started looking at houses.

It’s commonly said that necessity dictates buying amenities, improvement dictates buying space, investment dictates buying potential, and sentiment dictates buying happiness.

At different stages, the needs for a house are completely different.

In his previous life, Mr. Lu had many mansions, having gone through all four stages from necessity to sentiment, witnessing real estate prices sweeping forward with the times, seeing the high-rise gatherings, and also seeing the near collapse of those establishments.

Therefore, his enchantment with houses had long since faded; they were nothing more than a pile of steel and concrete.

Mr. Lu didn’t need to shop around carefully when looking at houses, nor did he, like a first-time buyer, choose brands, consider prospects, check amenities, or pick property management. He had just two requirements.

Fully furnished and move-in ready.

Such apartments were not hard to find in Jiangnan Garden; the complex was big enough.

Soon, the property consultant Xiao Li had prepared several fully furnished second-hand apartments that met his requirements for him to choose from.

"Please take a look, Building 6, Building 14, and Building 17, these are all small and beautifully furnished apartments."

Lu Jincheng nodded and took the floor plans and real photos that Xiao Li handed to him.

"Here, have a seat and drink some water, take your time."

Xiao Li, in her professional attire with her hair pinned up, smiled warmly and patiently at Lu Jincheng.

That old saying still holds true.

Anyone who opens their door to do good business won’t mock customers without reason—at least not to their face.

Scenes like the clichéd real estate purchase showdown where the protagonist is scorned with "Can you afford it? Poor thing!" and then shocks everyone from salesperson to manager to CEO by pulling out a black card are only alive in old-school wish-fulfillment stories.

In the real world of sales, it goes like this:

"Handsome guy, you’re really young, still studying, right?"

"Mm."

"There’s a lot of young people coming to look at houses nowadays. Just the day before yesterday we sold a three-bedroom apartment in Building 6 to a student about your age, so pretty!"

"Oh?"

"Short hair?"

Lu Jincheng looked up, combining the conversation from last night, and vaguely guessed the client’s identity.

"Yes, do you know that lady?"

"Then, when we go to view the apartments later, we can start with Building 6~"

Property consultant Xiao Li took the opportunity to suggest helpfully.

"No, it’s not necessary, let’s look at the other two buildings."

Lu Jincheng quickly declined.

While there are benefits to being close to the water pavilion, it certainly can’t be too close.

The old saying goes, being too close breeds contempt, while being too far leads to resentment.

Jiangnan Garden was so large that residents of two buildings far apart rarely encountered each other.

But if they were in the same building, that’s a different story!

Mr. Lu wouldn’t give anyone the chance to pry into his daily life.

Put another way, if he brought a girl home and the neighbor Guan Guan saw it, what then?

Better to live as far away as possible.

Property consultant Xiao Li immediately set off with Lu Jincheng, conducting on-site inspections of two small apartments in Buildings 14 and 17.

Both were around a hundred square meters, with spacious living rooms, main bedrooms with good natural light, and a smaller share of common area than the common high-rise elevators of later times. frёewebnoѵēl.com

In the end, Mr. Lu took a liking to Building 14 with its more modern looking interior decor, located on the sixth floor.

Next came the price negotiation: the property certificate stated 99.6 square meters, and the asking price from the consultant was 916,000 yuan, equating to 9200 yuan per square meter.

The fully furnished second-hand apartment was indeed much more expensive than an off-plan property.

But Mr. Lu had no patience to wait.

He wasn’t a newlywed couple in urgent need, buying off-plan and bitterly waiting for the handover and decoration to remove formaldehyde. By the time all that was done, there’d probably be another name on the Forbes list.

"Make it cheaper, give me a bottom price, I can decide today."

Lu Jincheng heard the price of over 900,000 yuan and remained unfazed as he spoke lightly.

Being in real estate sales for a long time, Xiao Li naturally had a keen sense; she immediately saw that Mr. Lu truly had the financial strength.

Judging by their words and observing their demeanor, some customers could chat all morning, expressing satisfaction with everything, but as soon as they heard the asking price, they would immediately frown and look displeased.

But those with genuine means, whatever you said, they’d just have that same indifferent expression.

This is good, that’s good, they would nod along, oh, that’s still okay.

You quote them a seven-figure price, and they think it’s fine too, expressionless, they’d haggle symbolically, then they would pay with a card.

Although the amount of money in Mr. Lu’s bank card was still far from what he had in his past life, his demeanor that could look down upon others wouldn’t change.

"Alright, I’ll go ask the leadership right now! Please wait a moment!"

Xiao Li, with documents in hand and wearing high heels, hurried into the back office with click-clacking steps.

Being able to seal the deal today versus going back to consider it entailed quite a significant difference in discounts.

Before long, the property consultant gave out the final bottom price, stating that this was already the lowest limit that both the landlord and the agency could offer.

— 870,000 yuan.

It couldn’t get any lower.

"Okay, let’s do it, sign the contract."

Lu Jincheng decisively took out his bank card, made a deposit with it, received the keys to the room, and agreed to pay the final amount after completing the procedures with the landlord.

Jiangnan Garden, Building 14 Unit 1 Room 602, Lu Jincheng opened the door and scrutinized his very first nest.

Nearly a month after being reborn, he quickly earned his first million, and now he owned his own house.

Not bad at all!

He leaned back on the sofa, looking around, quite satisfied with his current situation.

Although Mr. Lu’s entrepreneurial journey had just begun, his gains had actually not been small.

He first established the Golden Stone studio, and while deeply engaging with his senior schoolmates, he also firmly tied a sure-to-rise folk music duo to his big ship.

The original song "Next Stop, Chashan Liu" smoothly passed through Cloud Music’s "Cloud Ladder Plan."

The plan was not complex.

The landlord’s cat, after independent musician verification, could receive multiple earnings by releasing original music on the platform, which included pay-per-play splits, membership income, advertising revenue, appreciation earnings, and more.

The income per ten thousand plays was roughly a few hundred yuan.

And this song, not long after its release, had already surpassed a hundred thousand plays across the net, steadily progressing toward the next milestone.

It was foreseeable that, as they produced more songs and gained wider recognition, the income Lu Jincheng would receive from them would rise accordingly.

This was the significance of a professional MCN studio.

Mr. Lu not only catalyzed the maturation of the two senior schoolmates in advance but also, with his vision and understanding that spanned across eras, carefully paved their future.

Without meeting him, the landlord’s cat would have to wait several more years to monetize their fame.

Making big money through the studio was just a matter of time.

Especially since He Ying, the president of the Student Union, had joined, the studio added many more elite troops.

Filming, copywriting, editing, operations, not a single talent was missing.

Once they made a name for themselves, as the boss, he only needed to steer in the right direction, while handing over routine tasks to the people below in a timely manner.

If they were to sign another promising newcomer, surely Mr. Lu couldn’t be expected to do everything himself, right?

Because the boss only needed to focus his attention on the company’s leading figures.

The moment Mou Keyan made a splash with her live stream on Douyu, that would be the harvest time for the Golden Stone studio.

On the other side was the Golden Stone café Mr. Lu whimsically decided to take over.

The reason for buying the café was not because Lu Jincheng was particularly passionate about the business itself, it was purely to ensure a 100% chance of signing the landlord’s cat to his studio.

To put it plainly, he bought the whole dumpling just for a dish of vinegar.

But having lived two lives, he just happened to possess the capability to turn these dumplings into a delicacy.

Zhou Sinin was the first to taste the goodness.

She was extremely intelligent, almost never hesitated in making key decisions, and had an inherent propensity for taking risks.

As the turnover of the Golden Stone café steadily increased, the financial whiz, now a partner, was smoothly on board Mr. Lu’s business venture.

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