So when Xu Fei brought it up, Lin Qingxue couldn’t help but feel a spark of interest.
“Well, honey, when you say a bigger market, where exactly do you mean? You’re not thinking of unifying and integrating the areas around Jiangbei City, are you?”
As Lin Qingxue finished, Xu Fei let out a soft chuckle.
“That’s not a bad idea, we could consider it later, but the bigger market I’m talking about is the capital!”
“The capital? Honey, why’d you suddenly think of that?”
Lin Qingxue was a bit taken aback, the capital’s market was huge, no doubt, but it was also a den of dragons and tigers, fiercely competitive, planting roots there wouldn’t be easy.
More importantly, she felt Xu Fei hadn’t cared much about this stuff before, so why was he suddenly so invested in the company’s future today?
Xu Fei, perfectly in sync with Lin Qingxue, had already guessed what was running through her mind as she fell silent, so he quickly added, “We’ll talk details when I get to the company, it’s not something I can explain in a sentence or two over the phone.”
“Alright, honey, I’ll wait for you at the office.”
After hanging up, Lin Qingxue found herself restless, pacing by the floor-to-ceiling window in her office, staring blankly outside.
Before long, Xu Fei drove up to the company and met with Lin Qingxue.
“Honey, what did you mean on the phone just now?”
The moment they met, Lin Qingxue couldn’t hide her eagerness to ask.
“No rush, here, take a look at this first.”
Xu Fei then pulled out the files and documents Bai Zhan and Hell’s Ear had given him earlier, handing them over for Lin Qingxue to browse.
After flipping through them for a while, a faint look of surprise crept onto Lin Qingxue’s face.
“What’s this? The peers in the capital think this highly of us?”
Clearly, even as the company’s boss, Lin Qingxue hadn’t imagined that their counterparts in the capital would rate them so highly, and it dawned on her why.
The reason they’d earned such praise was entirely because they’d taken down Cao Xiangli and his brother, two notorious figures even in the capital.
Seeing her reaction, Xu Fei jumped in, “Right? You didn’t expect that, did you? It’s all thanks to Cao Xiangli and Ma Bohan being such scumbags in the capital, pissing off tons of peers.”
“We were just protecting ourselves back then, but in a way, we also vented their frustrations for them, sure, the money’s gone, but our rep with the peers has shot up.”
Then Xu Fei laid out the plan he’d discussed with Bai Zhan and Hell’s Ear.
Lin Qingxue listened, nodding slightly as she sank into thought.
She knew deep down that, from any angle, Xu Fei’s next move to expand into the capital was a solid choice.
From a business standpoint, for someone like Lin Qingxue, who’d already dominated the cosmetics scene in an outside region, trying to establish a foothold elsewhere was no cakewalk.
As the saying goes, heaven grants you one bowl of rice, just keep it steady.
If Lin Qingxue tried reaching into other territories, she’d usually face fierce pushback from local peers.
And that went double for a place like the capital, teeming with hidden tigers and crouching dragons.
This time, though, thanks to the Cao Xiangli and Ma Bohan fiasco, the public vibe was in their favor, it’d be a real shame not to seize the moment and push into the capital.
