When Wang Ye and Zhang Xiaoxi arrived at Penguin's headquarters, their car had barely stopped when Pony Ma and Richard Liu came up together to greet them.
"Mr. Mikhail, welcome to Shenzhen!" Pony Ma said with a broad smile.
This was his turf, so there was nothing wrong with him saying that.
Richard Liu, being half a guest himself, could only echo, "Welcome, welcome."
Wang Ye smiled and shook hands with the two men. After a few brief pleasantries, he followed Pony Ma into the Penguin building.
Penguin was developing at a rapid pace now, and the office building they had originally rented had long since become insufficient.
So they had bought a new office building to serve as their headquarters.
Property prices in Shenzhen were still low at the time, and office buildings were even cheaper, so it had not cost much.
But at Penguin's current rate of growth, their office space would probably become insufficient again in another two or three years.
Thus, Pony Ma was also applying to the city for a plot of land, intending to build a headquarters building of their own.
Led by Pony Ma, the group entered an office and took their seats. Pony Ma had originally wanted to gather all the company's executives to meet Wang Ye, but Wang Ye declined.
He had not come for anything important this time. He simply wanted to see Pony Ma and Richard Liu and have a casual chat.
There was no need to make such a huge fuss. That would only make things awkward...
Speaking of which, before returning to the country, Wang Ye had intended to keep a low profile—lower than low, preferably without anyone knowing about it.
Yet after all this back and forth, everyone who needed to know probably knew by now...