Afternoon.

After a busy morning, Qi Yan finally managed to arrange all the things she had planned.

She had formally hired these outstanding stall owners as food consultants for Lengmian Girl. Zhang Yahui agreed immediately, while other stall owners were still hesitant, saying they would consider it for a few days before giving a reply.

Obviously, many stall owners had families to support, so they had to fully communicate with their families before making this decision.

However, Qi Yan was very certain that this would be a win-win decision for both Lengmian Girl and the stall owners.

These food consultants would go through formal recruitment procedures. Qi Yan also planned to learn from Moyu Takeaway and think about setting up a small food laboratory first, including professional chefs, excellent snack stall owners, and nutritionists responsible for chemical testing and nutritional balance, to jointly develop new snacks.

Moyu Takeaway was President Pei's industry, and Moyu Takeaway's approach must have been affirmed by President Pei.

Learning from Moyu Takeaway to set up a food laboratory, President Pei should appreciate it very much, right?

Although she had never met President Pei in person, Qi Yan still roughly speculated on President Pei's intentions based on her understanding of him.

A food laboratory is also very important for street food.

Meng Chang compared street food to domestic fast food. This statement is not wrong, but at the same time, it must be clearly recognized that there is still a long way to go for street food to become a real fast food brand.

Those foreign fast food brands look very simple, nothing more than fried chicken, fries, burgers, etc., but in fact, the entire supply chain, technology, and new product research capabilities behind them are not to be underestimated. They have more than ten or even decades of accumulation, which cannot be caught up overnight.

Perhaps Meng Chang also knew this very well, and felt that he could not do it at all, so he finally chose the path of hyping concepts and making quick money.

As the saying goes, there are only two ways in this world: the right way and the easy way.

Meng Chang chose the easy way, while President Pei chose the right way.

Qi Yan felt that since President Pei had already found a way to break the situation, giving Lengmian Girl the possibility of rebirth, and had already pointed out a clear path for this terminally ill brand, then she must do her duty and implement President Pei's will.

Although she didn't know what Lengmian Girl would develop into in the future, at this moment, Qi Yan suddenly had full confidence in it!

After finishing her work, she got up to get a cup of coffee and took a look at the working status of her colleagues in the office area.

Overall, the state was more complicated.

In addition to the stores, Lengmian Girl also had an office area, which was a rented workstation in an office building near the stores. Meng Chang was very willing to spend money on the facade project, and had everything available: coffee, drinks, afternoon tea, snacks, fruits, etc., and the working environment was also very good.

Everything remained the same after Tengda took over, and there was no sign of cutting benefits at all, which made everyone very satisfied.

But looking at everyone's current working status, it was different.

Some people were obviously slacking off, with a confused expression, a bit lost of direction; while some people were full of ambition, eager to find something to do, but didn't know where to start.

After Lengmian Girl changed owners, the original marketing activities were basically cancelled, and those responsible for the marketing activities went all out to organize the Street Food Competition. But now that the Street Food Competition was over, they naturally had nothing to do.

There were also some people who were full of worries about the future of Lengmian Girl.

They may not have seen that article, and didn't know President Pei's plan for the future of Lengmian Girl. They just felt that based on the current state of inaction, the company would collapse sooner or later, and they were just muddling through. So their attitude was more negative.

Qi Yan felt that she had to find a way to boost everyone's morale.

She had been inspired by President Pei, and now had some ideas. But these ideas required the execution and cooperation of others. If everyone's attitude continued to be so negative, even if Qi Yan assigned work tasks, they would not be able to complete them well.

But to boost morale, there must be an opportunity, and everyone must be convinced from the bottom of their hearts.

Just giving speeches and pep talks would definitely not work well, and might even have the opposite effect.

Qi Yan thought about it, that article was pretty good.

Now that her colleagues lacked fighting spirit and felt confused, the main reason was that they were not clear enough about Lengmian Girl's past, present, and future development. As long as they read this article and knew President Pei's arrangements for Lengmian Girl, everyone's working status would definitely improve!

She immediately found the author online, and was surprised to find that just now, this author had published another article!

Moreover, the title of this article was even more explosive than the previous one: *Lengmian Girl: Meng Chang's Somersault Cloud, President Pei's Wuzhi Mountain!*

Qi Yan couldn't help being stunned. Lengmian Girl again?

Publishing two articles in such a short period of time, was this author going against Lengmian Girl?

In addition to being surprised, Qi Yan also felt a little puzzled.

Because she knew very well that this author only wrote informative articles. There was no need to write two or three articles on the same thing, or repeatedly ride a hot topic.

In this respect, this author was much better than those marketing accounts.

Still talking about Lengmian Girl, but opening another article, it must be because the author had found new content and perspectives.

But the article *The "Destruction" and "Establishment" of Lengmian Girl* had already written in detail about the difference between Meng Chang and President Pei's management philosophies. It seemed that it had already written very thoroughly on the topic of Lengmian Girl.

This new article, with "Somersault Cloud" and "Wuzhi Mountain," what was it trying to do?

Was it filming *Journey to the West* here?

With doubts, Qi Yan clicked on the article to view it.

…

The beginning of the article briefly mentioned the previous two articles, namely *Lengmian Girl's So-called Internet Thinking is Nothing More Than Pretending* and *Looking at the Destruction and Establishment of Lengmian Girl from the Street Food Competition*. These two articles respectively predicted the bankruptcy of Lengmian Girl under Meng Chang's leadership, and the series of changes that President Pei would make after taking over Lengmian Girl.

The author also specially added links to the two articles, as a reminder of the previous situation, and also as a hint to readers: I am not riding the bandwagon or kicking someone when they're down. I had already raised doubts when Lengmian Girl was at its peak. My article is full of information, completely different from those marketing accounts that find information online and piece it together!

Then it entered the main text.

But before that, the author specifically used a small paragraph to remind readers that this article was different from the previous two.

"Due to the content, after repeated consideration, the author decided to change the writing style and review the entire rise and fall of Lengmian Girl from Meng Chang's perspective. It may contain some of the author's personal subjective views and implicit criticisms, but it can be guaranteed that the key plots of the entire story are consistent with objective reality. If there are any omissions or errors, welcome everyone to criticize and correct them."

Seeing this, Qi Yan was even more surprised.

The previous two articles were written from the perspective of an observer, mainly based on objective statements and analysis. Although the article itself was humorous and had some "divine metaphors" that were talked about, it was still a more traditional writing style overall.

But this time, the author was actually going to write from Meng Chang's first-person perspective?

Qi Yan felt that this article was not simple, and continued to read.

…

"November 8, 2011, was a Tuesday. On this day, a young man named Meng Chang came to the downstairs of Jingzhou Yuangmeng Ventures, ready to use this place as the starting point of his career."

"He had a very grand plan and a very loud slogan, but almost no one could guess what he was really thinking."

"Meng Chang should be a person with a performing personality, and his acting skills are very good."

"But what he didn't know was that in more than two months, when he looked back on this Tuesday morning, his heart must have been full of remorse."

"Lengmian Girl, from its establishment, to its popularity on the Internet, and then to its being questioned and its silent demise, is exactly what the ancient saying says: its rise is sudden, and its demise is sudden."

"Before Lengmian Girl, no one thought that such a heavily funded online celebrity catering brand would fail so quickly and so completely."

"And Lengmian Girl's fate of failure seemed to have been doomed from this Tuesday morning."

"Meng Chang chose Yuangmeng Ventures as his first target for a simple reason: because he felt that it was easy to get money here."

"Although Meng Chang would be called a 'perfect entrepreneur' in the near future, he was not yet qualified to stand at the table. His resume was good, but he had nothing else. Just a resume and eloquence were not enough to support him in achieving his dreams and goals. Other investors would give him money, but this money would inevitably be accompanied by unlimited joint and several liability agreements or repurchase agreements, which Meng Chang could not accept."

"In fact, Meng Chang only took a 'hot potato' once from beginning to end, and only had a debt of several million, which is completely incomparable to those entrepreneurs who are often in debt for hundreds of millions."

"But, other entrepreneurs may sign similar agreements not necessarily because of recklessness, but also because they still believe in their hearts that their entrepreneurship can succeed; Meng Chang does not sign similar agreements not necessarily because of caution, but also because he knew from the beginning that his entrepreneurship was just a performance: after the scenery, a mess."

"With the expansion of Tengda Group, President Pei, the 'God of Investment' who always reaps rewards for every investment, has decided to shift his energy to other places. Yuangmeng Ventures will give money to those start-ups in accordance with the rules he has set, and this has given Meng Chang an opportunity."

"Meng Chang got the money as he wished, and hyped it up under the title of 'President Pei's Investment', and even held a special press conference to explain the bright prospects of Lengmian Girl to investors. From this, it can be seen that Meng Chang's enthusiasm for marketing is deeply ingrained in his bones. He pursued popularity at all costs, without considering the possible backlash in the future."