Chapter 394: Chapter 314: He Is Not Qualified_2

“They want to copy, but even after copying, they have to roll it out across all national stores.”

“What a joke, this is no small feat.”

“Everyone’s raw materials are of a different nature, just quality control for fruit teas is extremely troublesome, they’ll have to deal with the supply chain too.”

“There’s also a lot of money involved in this!”

“For such a behemoth, a tiny little change can trigger a massive chain reaction.”

“Even these brands, if they don’t have the guts, wouldn’t dare to copy, wouldn’t dare to learn!”

“If they popularize it across all national stores, that could really kill me.”

“But if these brands just pick a few large stores as pilots, trying to offer some copycat special editions, that wouldn’t pose any threat to me. I could even use this to hype things up again.”

“I need time to grow, they need time to copy.”

“And this is actually a natural barrier for us new brands!”

“This is also one of the stories I’ll be telling to the capitalists in the future.”

President Guo, you don’t have the privilege of listening to stories.

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Elsewhere, Lin Lu, whose birthday was approaching, was inviting her friends to her birthday dinner.

Her circle of friends wasn’t large, but it was impossible to have only Shen Qingning and others.

Lin Lu was now wearing a loose set of pajamas, but her chest was still bulging. She sat on the chair with no decorum, one foot on the ground, the other on the chair, pressing her thigh up against the bulging area.

“Ruoan, you’ve finally returned to the country. Come to dinner on the 24th,” she sent a WeChat message to her best high school friend.

The other person, Xu Ruoan, had been studying in England and had just returned home for the holidays a few days ago.

“Isn’t your birthday on Christmas? Why are we having dinner on the 24th?” Xu Ruoan asked.

“Because I want you all to celebrate my birthday at midnight!” Lin Lu used the same excuse.

“You always have the most ideas!” Xu Ruoan sent back an emoji with a little girl pointing her finger.

As the two girls chatted, Xu Ruoan suddenly steered the conversation to Youu Tea.

“Lu Lu, that Youu Tea, isn’t it decorated by your family?” she said.

Xu Ruoan had Meng Yue, Lin Lu’s mother, on WeChat, so she had seen the post in the circle of friends.

“Yeah, you want to try it? I’ll treat you!” Lin Lu was actively expanding Cheng Zhu’s customer base and didn’t forget to praise it: “Super delicious!”

“Someone treated me already, I bought it from a scalper yesterday.”

“Oh-ho! That wouldn’t happen to be a boy chasing you, right?”

“Haha, no, it was a classmate from England who treated me remotely. She wanted me to try it out and give her feedback.”

“Huh? What do you mean?”

“She’s from Taiwan, her family owns a tea business, that Mo Tea you’ve surely had, it’s theirs,” Xu Ruoan said.

In fact, many of the hot brands in the milk tea 2.0 era came from Taiwan. It’s not just as simple as dominating half of the milk tea world.

These years could be considered the most glorious for Taiwanese milk tea brands.

To be precise, from the 1.0 to the 2.0 era of milk tea, Taiwan indeed played a pivotal role, even considered one of the sources of innovation.

“Ah? She’s starting to pay attention to Youu Tea already?” Lin Lu was a bit surprised.

“More than that. She said her dad even specifically held a meeting because of Youu Tea, thinking this store had research value.” Xu Ruoan was a blabbermouth.

We are now in an age of vast information, and Youu Tea’s popularity has been consistently high across the entire network.

“What was the meeting about?” Lin Lu immediately asked.

“How would I know? I didn’t ask.”

Xu Ruoan didn’t care about that.

“Why don’t you ask?”

“Huh? How am I supposed to broach that?” Xu Ruoan was flabbergasted: “Wait, are you that concerned?”

She sensed something was off.

“Because that store belongs to my friend,” Lin Lu explained: “He’ll also be at my birthday.”

“Huh? He?” Xu Ruoan immediately zeroed in on the detail.

A man, it was a man!

“What’s his name? Do you have a photo? Send me a look,” Xu Ruoan was instantly excited.

“His name is Cheng Zhu; you’ll meet him in person soon enough, why do you need a photo?” Lin Lu had no intention of sending her one.

In fact, she wasn’t even focused on the chat anymore, but had transformed into a little reporter, passing on the news to Cheng Zhu.

She directly sent an emoji of a kitten poking its head through a door to peek inside.

“What’s up?” Cheng Zhu asked.

Hearing Lin Lu’s description, he wasn’t surprised.

“Mo Tea?” He recalled that this brand had over a hundred stores across the country.

Regarding Mo Tea specifically holding a meeting to research Youu Tea, Cheng Zhu didn’t take it too seriously, as in his opinion, it was just a matter of time.

But he still offered Lin Lu a little praise: “Not bad, you’ve got quite the network.”

“Of course!” Little Lu immediately switched into a boastful mode.

She was especially susceptible to flattery.

Lin Lu was chatting earnestly with Cheng Zhu, while responding perfunctorily to Xu Ruoan’s gossip attack.

But the more perfunctory she was, the more Xu Ruoan felt there was something fishy!

“Cheng Zhu? I’ll remember you!” Xu Ruoan thought to herself: “On the 24th, I’ll have to see what kind of person you are.”

He was the owner of Youu Tea, and a vaguely mentioned good friend in Lin Lu’s words. Her curiosity was piqued instantly.

This could be interesting! Lin Lu’s birthday party seemed to be more amusing this year than in previous years!

At this moment, Lin Lu was expressing her concern to Cheng Zhu.

“Won’t they copy us after researching my favorite roasted Black Sugar Boba Milk Tea, which is actually pretty easy to replicate?”

“Why has it become ‘copy us’? It’s ‘copy me,'” Cheng Zhu teased her on purpose.

“I’m showing my stance here, proving we’re on the same side! Don’t you get it?” Lin Lu typed back irritably.

She even sent a beating you up emoji after typing.

“Got it, you’re my person, you’re one of us,” he typed.

Sly men are always so precise with their words, sending a vaguely flirtatious message followed by another that dilutes any ambiguity. They play the game of being equivocal.

After typing, he sent over an emoji shaking its head.

Lin Lu was finally satisfied and typed: “Too bad my friend doesn’t know what Mo Tea is researching.”

“No worries, didn’t you say your birth chart brings friends good fortune? I haven’t made much money lately either, the big fortune is still to come.”

“That’s true, the fortune-teller said my birth chart is unbeatable!” She was now somewhat superstitious.

Cheng Zhu smiled faintly as he looked at his phone.

The fortune-teller says you bring good fortune to your husband, and do you speak of it so innocuously?

Whether he was meeting with Lin Lu or chatting with her, she always managed to make him feel better.

This was what he liked most about Lin Lu, and also what he feared most about her.

Because, as a seasoned player, he knew all too well what it meant when the opposite sex could so easily lift your spirits.

Lin Lu indeed suppressed him more than anyone else could.

Yet she had that ability.

As for Mo Tea paying close attention to Youu Tea, would it bring any impact?

Cheng Zhu wasn’t clear on that for now.

Precisely, since brands like Mo Tea were already noticing Youu Tea, were other milk tea brands paying attention as well? Surely it wasn’t just them, right?

However, Cheng Zhu wasn’t worried at all.

As time passed, those who should be worried are destined to be them.

Actually, what kind of person is Cheng Zhu?

Let’s not forget how he was reborn.

This tyrant was reborn after flaunting his bank account balance.

When he told Gangzi, “My enemy is the entire traditional milk tea industry,” he was already being modest.

In his heart, the actual thought was:

“I am the enemy of the entire traditional milk tea industry.”

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(ps: Second update, a 4000-word chapter, request for monthly tickets!

Also, some brands in the book will be semi-fictitious. There may be real-life prototypes, but I will change the names. Safety first, please don’t delve too deeply.)