Shi Wangyue placed the heated utensils in front of Ning Youguang and raised an eyebrow slightly.
"Since when did people become less deserving of love as they grew up? Kids, however, are always more popular."
Even a robot with a baby voice appears more endearing than a real adult in the eyes of many people.
Shi Wangyue curved his lips, "When we were kids, we always wanted to grow up, how silly."
Ning Youguang shook her head and chuckled.
...
A black Bentley smoothly pulled up on Beijing’s famous Financial Street.
After parking the car, Assistant Jin quickly unbuckled his seatbelt and was about to get out to open the door for the esteemed guest when he saw the boss in the backseat gracefully open the door himself.
He tactfully slowed down his movements.
"Your company is upstairs at Rui’an Square?" Ning Youguang looked at the architecturally distinct building in front of her, and asked Shi Wangyue in surprise.
"Yes," Shi Wangyue asked, "Have you been here before?"
"No," Ning Youguang pursed her lips and smiled, "But my brother and aunt work next door at Meiluo City."
Shi Wangyue was momentarily stunned, then quickly turned around to ask Assistant Jin, who was pulling a silver suitcase from the car’s trunk, "Fenghua Cosmetics Co., Ltd. is in Meiluo City?"
"Yes," Assistant Jin quickly recalled the company nameplate he saw downstairs during a client visit at the neighboring Meiluo City building.
"What a coincidence," Shi Wangyue laughed, "I wonder when I’ll have the chance to meet Uncle Ning, Aunt Ming, and your big brother and little brother."
"Isn’t that simple?" Ning Youguang raised an eyebrow, "Next time when it’s convenient, I’ll take you home for dinner and introduce you to them."
"That would be wonderful," Shi Wangyue’s face lit up with joy, "You must remember what you said today; I’ll be waiting."
The last four words carried a lingering sentiment that Assistant Jin, standing behind them, couldn’t help but notice.
"Mmm, definitely." Ning Youguang thought that with the kind of relationship they had, bringing a friend over for a family meal was no big deal.
However, little did she know, Assistant Jin glanced at his boss with a complex expression from behind them.
[Is he already thinking about meeting the parents before even winning them over?!]
He was both shocked and impressed.
...
"Starlight Investment Fund?"
Following Shi Wangyue and Assistant Jin, Ning Youguang rode the elevator all the way to the 31st floor of Rui’an Square.
Stepping out of the elevator, she immediately saw the imposing large characters on the corridor’s wall ahead.
"I acquired this company five years ago," Shi Wangyue explained.
"How come I’ve never heard of this?" Ning Youguang asked curiously.
Perhaps because she knew her little one would enter the investment field eventually, even though she wasn’t interested in news from the financial circle and investment field, she still kept an eye on domestic and international financial news while browsing.
Therefore, she knew a bit about some famous companies in the investment realm.
The "Starlight Investment Fund" was a company she had heard of.
Founded in 2013, it focuses on early-stage ventures in the fields of the internet, consumer goods, education, healthcare, and clean technology.
This company maintains investment amounts for startups it’s interested in between 500,000 and 10 million.
Since 2013, "Starlight Investment Fund" successfully invested in numerous cases, including big data, ecommerce services, and O2O projects.
80% of these projects secured new rounds of capital within a year after their investment.
It’s a company with a very rapid investment decision-making mechanism and strong post-investment support capabilities.
In China’s capital circle, it is quite famous.
"Because it wasn’t acquired under the MM name, so it’s not widely known," Shi Wangyue said in a warm tone.
"Oh." Ning Youguang continued to follow him forward.
Upon entering "Starlight Investment Fund," she carefully observed the surroundings.
Aside from thinking the office design was architecturally stylish, she also noticed the employees working there were all quite good-looking.
Hence, her first remark after entering Shi Wangyue’s office was: "Your company’s employees are all really good-looking."
"In the investment world, appearance is emphasized. Our project evaluation begins with judging people, gauging feelings," Shi Wangyue candidly shared, "When we assess a project, we also consider the entrepreneur’s look, the elite vibe is an investment cue, the scholarly engineer type is worth considering, but for those who look quirky, we have to think twice..."
Ning Youguang never expected such remarks from someone of his expertise, "No wonder so many TV dramas have male and female leads working in venture capital nowadays."
To play the main roles in a drama, high appearance is naturally a given.
Shi Wangyue raised an eyebrow, "Art imitates life and elevates it."
Just then, Assistant Jin came in personally with two cups of milk tea.
"Miss Ning, please have some tea." He handed one of the cups to Ning Youguang.
Taking the cup, Ning Youguang asked in surprise, "Your company actually offers Le Tea to guests?"
Assistant Jin shrugged nonchalantly, "We invested in Le Tea..."
"..." How many times had she heard this phrase from the boss or those around him?
After Assistant Jin left.
Inserting the straw into her milk tea, Ning Youguang asked Shi Wangyue with both surprise and curiosity, "Why does it feel like ever since you returned to the country, I see your company’s investments everywhere?"
Shi Wangyue, too, inserted a straw into his milk tea, "MM’s investment spans across sectors like biopharmaceuticals, medical devices, hard tech, smart manufacturing, enterprise services, semiconductors, new materials, new energy, and AI. Starlight, on the other hand, focuses on internet, art towns, famous tourist spots, and domestic trendy brands."
Ning Youguang nodded as she listened.
Simultaneously, she attentively surveyed Shi Wangyue’s office, noticing many strange little trinkets arranged on the bookshelves, "What’s the story behind these?"
"No special story, they are just products we invested in," Shi Wangyue replied casually.
"..." Ning Youguang.
Then, patiently, Shi Wangyue began to introduce each trinket and the investment stories behind them.
"Once, when I approached the headquarters of Tibet and found a high-level executive, expressing my interest in investing 30 million in their company, do you know what kind of look he gave me?" Shi Wangyue laughed.
"What kind of look?" Ning Youguang asked with keen interest.
"The look you’d give a crazy person," Shi Wangyue said helplessly, "So that day, with just a few words, he dismissed me. It wasn’t until our company genuinely collaborated with them that I learned after I left, he had even called the security captain saying ’That person seems like a scammer, follow him for a few blocks, see where he’s headed.’"