My Virtual Girlfriend

As the manager of the store, she certainly knew the specific revenue situation of her store.

Although it slightly differed from what Chen Yan had mentioned, it was mostly the same.

Even the price needed to book the entire venue was about the same as what Chen Yan had quoted.

This made her feel that the young man in front of her... was extraordinary.

While she was spacing out,

Chen Yan, who had waited awhile without a response, asked, "What's wrong? Is it not enough?"

As he spoke, he took out another ten thousand from his backpack and said, "If it is not enough, I will add another ten thousand!"

The manager quickly regained her composure and hurriedly said, "It's enough, enough, Mr. Chen."

She smiled at Chen Yan and said, "I just didn't expect you to know so much about our store's data, so I was a bit surprised."

A question mark, the same type that Yu Qiao Qiao had, popped up above Chen Yan's head. "Is it that hard?"

"Just carefully observe, record data, check relevant website prices, find the mathematical model of similar stores, and do a unified calculation."

Manager: ...

So... is it really that simple?

She awkwardly laughed twice, didn't explain, but stood up to fetch a contract and a money-counting machine from the drawer.

Returning to the sofa, she handed the contract to Chen Yan, "Please take a look at the contract, this is our standard contract for venue booking, and if there's no issue, we can sign it."

Chen Yan quickly read through the contract and said, "No problem."

After speaking, he even laughed and said, "I thought you didn't have a contract, so I prepared one in advance. It seems I worried too much."

Shortly after, the money was counted, the contract filled out, stamped, and everything was settled. The manager had even extended the time for Chen Yan, changing it from 6 PM to 9 PM to 5 PM to 10 PM.

Indeed, as Chen Yan had said, this type of casual, internet-famous restaurant mostly drew young ladies for afternoon tea, and fewer came for full meals.

So the evening traffic couldn't compare to noon or the afternoon, dedicating the evening to Chen Yan also turned out to be very profitable for them.

Everything settled and the money collected, the manager's face was all smiles, now resembling a wrinkled bun.

She asked, "By the way, Mr. Chen, you're booking the venue the day after tomorrow, do you need any special arrangements?"

Usually, venue bookings were for birthdays or parties, so extra decorations were needed.

However, Chen Yan shook his head and said, "No need, keep it as it is."

After saying that, he thought for a moment and added, "Actually, don't put up any sign about the venue being booked, I don't want my friends to know about all this."

The female manager thought for a moment and said, "Then I'll arrange for a few staff members to wait outside the door. If they see customers, they'll explain, and if they see you, they'll invite them in."

Chen Yan nodded, "That's best."

Then, the two discussed details and shook hands before saying goodbye.

The manager walked Chen Yan to the storefront, watching his retreating figure with a smile on her face.

She couldn't help but smile. After all, this was like having the God of Wealth visit; his clothes might look ordinary, but he indeed was wealthy, easily pulling out tens of thousands for the booking fee.

Although the internet-famous store made good revenue, the net-profit margin was only about 20% of the turnover.

But a booking was different.

Considering the cost for seven people, at most one thousand yuan would be spent on raw materials, plus some labor costs, the rest was pure profit, which was much more than what a normal night of business could bring in.

While she was daydreaming about Chen Yan's figure, the cute girl at the front desk poked her head over, curiously asking, "Sister Zhang, did Mr. Chen really book the whole venue?"

The manager came back to her senses, smiled, and nodded, then said to the front desk girl, "Yes. So let's prepare for the next two days, we'll welcome an important guest on Saturday."

"After serving them, I'll let you all leave work early and give each of you a red envelope."

The front desk girl was all energized, "Okay! Thank you, Sister Zhang! Thank you, Sister Zhang!"

As the manager returned to her office, the front desk girl slowly pictured Chen Yan's cheap outfit and couldn't help thinking to herself, "Appearances can be deceiving! Really, wealthy people are so understated."

...

If Chen Yan knew the front desk girl was praising him like this, he would have spit on her face: who's calling me understated, your whole family is understated!

I clearly look like Pan An, even in simple clothes my extraordinary handsomeness can't be hidden, isn't it!

My nickname is Chen Panan after all!

Unfortunately... he didn't know.

...

After returning home, Chen Yan checked off the "restaurant" item on his notebook and marked a "forty thousand" figure next to it.

Forty thousand for a venue booking was expensive.

But as long as Yu Qiao Qiao attended, even if the system only considered the spending reasonable for him and Yu Qiao Qiao, he could make a quick 110,000.

And once the system recognized that the money was all for "nurturing," he could even directly make 400,000!

It was a truly profitable deal.

He glanced_tra at his backpack, still left with 60,000...

Chen Yan reviewed his upcoming plans, feeling spending another 60,000 at this meetup wouldn't be difficult.

Spending this 100,000, at minimum, could bring Chen Yan a return of two to three hundred thousand; at most, he could even make up to a million!

Directly achieving his short-term goal.

But before that, he still had to inform Yu Qiao about the dining location...

Thinking this, Chen Yan took out his phone and sent a WeChat message to both Yu Qiao and Zhao Ying,

"Qiao Qiao, Saturday night at 6 PM, Anmeier Western Restaurant. Don't be absent."

"Saturday night at 6 PM, Anmeier Western Restaurant."

After sending this, Chen Yan also sent the restaurant's location to both of them, then put down his phone and started to refine the rest of his plan for using the remaining 60,000....

...

Meanwhile, at Wanxiang City, Honey Harvest Buffet Restaurant, Yu Qiao Qiao and her dorm group of six were happily enjoying a buffet meal.

Initially, Yu Qiao Qiao hadn't wanted to come, preferring to continue working.

But she couldn't withstand the persistence of her five dorm mates, so with the excuse of "dorm gathering, no one should be absent," she was carried along.

When she arrived, Yu Qiao Qiao still felt a bit regretful, thinking she could have made an extra 50 yuan working today.

But once she started eating...

She thought...

What delicious food from heaven!

How could there be so many tasty things in the world!

She completely lost herself in the sea of delicious food, wanting to try a bit of everything, wanting to drink a bit of everything.

By the end of the meal, she was the one who had stood up the most times to get food.

In contrast, her close friends, coming from normal families that had experienced many buffets, behaved much more normally.

Moving far across the restaurant, grabbing a Häagen-Dazs ice cream scoop, Yu Qiao Qiao happily licked it while returning to the sofa where her group sat.

But before she sat down, she heard her roommates chatting about a new topic,

"Wow! This internet-famous restaurant looks so good!"

"Is this the restaurant Chen Yan is inviting us to?"

"I didn't expect Chen Yan to be so attuned to what girls like."

Hearing Chen Yan's name, Yu Qiao Qiao curiously butted in, asking, "What are you all talking about? What about Chen Yan?"

As soon as she spoke, her roommates joyfully pulled her into their arms, their voices chattering in her ears,

"Qiao Qiao! Look! Chen Yan plans to take us to eat at this internet-famous restaurant!"

"Yes, this restaurant is super popular on TikTok, I heard it's usually impossible to book. I've always wanted to go, but never had the chance!"

"Right, right! Oh my gosh, it's like a dream!"