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"Let's make money together." Liao Chunhua clenched her fist, cheering herself on. "Go!"

"Go!" The colleagues from Sales Team One clenched their fists with both hands and shouted excitedly, "Win the annual team sales championship! Win the Porsche!"

After the brief morale boost, Liao Chunhua gestured for everyone to get back to work.

Gu Chen followed behind his pumped-up colleagues. He had barely taken two steps when he heard Liao Chunhua call out, "Gu Chen, wait a moment."

Gu Chen turned back. "?"

Liao Chunhua called Gu Chen into her office. "You're not an outsider, so I'll be frank. You know all about the Group headquarters' performance evaluation rules and regulations, including incentive clauses like year-end bonuses and top salesperson awards. First and foremost, those apply only to the Group's full-time employees."

"For example, the annual team sales championship reward I just mentioned. Those ten Porsches are actually intended for the ten full-time employees in each sales team, including the team leader."

"Your file is still listed as an internship. So, if—if, I mean—our team really wins the annual team sales championship, then those ten Porsches will definitely go to the full-time employees in my team."

Before Gu Chen could speak, Liao Chunhua continued, "But we're a team! Since we're talking about team spirit, I can't let you lose out either. I'm planning to discuss it with the other team members. There are eleven people in our team now, and the annual team sales championship reward is ten cars worth twenty million. So we'll divide twenty million by eleven, and everyone else will make up the difference for you. What do you think?"

"Of course, I know you'd still be losing out even if we calculate it that way. A classic Porsche is definitely worth more than two million on the market. But we definitely don't know the Group's internal procurement price—"

"That works."

"Huh?" Liao Chunhua took a moment to process it. "What did you say?"

"I said that works," Gu Chen repeated.

Liao Chunhua looked at Gu Chen with particular gratification. "I knew it. You're such a sensible, considerate kid, with a real sense of team spirit. Just as expected of an outstanding student from A University. Your character really is exceptional."

Liao Chunhua praised Gu Chen several times in one breath.

Gu Chen was somewhat helpless. "Sister Chunhua, is there anything else? If not, I'm going back to work."

"No." Liao Chunhua shook her head. "Go on, get to work! Keep it up, and close a few more deals."

When Gu Chen left Liao Chunhua's office, he had not even reached the sales office lobby before Liu Mei approached him with her client file in her arms. Her smile was especially warm. "Gu Chen, can I ask you for another favor?"

Gu Chen said, "Go ahead, Sister Liu."

"Take a look at this person!" Liu Mei opened her client file and pointed at one of the clients. "I've been following up with him for nearly half a month. He does want to buy a home, but he's been hesitating. Can you help me close him?"

Gu Chen: "..."

"Please help me." Liu Mei looked at Gu Chen pitifully. "You don't know how hard things are at home. I've got elderly parents above me and children below me. My son's tutoring alone costs six or seven thousand a month. Then there's the mortgage and car loan every month. The whole family depends on me to support them, and the pressure is enormous. Otherwise, I wouldn't be so petty all the time. It's not like I have a choice—it's all because life has forced me into it. If I had the means, who wouldn't want to be dignified and generous every day? I just can't help it. Please help me one more time. Help me get this contract, and I'll treat you to a meal. I'll give you a red envelope too. I won't make you work for nothing."

Gu Chen thought about it, then said, "...If you can get the client to come in, I'll give it a try."

Upon hearing that, Liu Mei hurried off to call the client. A few minutes later, she returned beaming. "The client said he has time to come by tomorrow."

After a pause, Liu Mei added, "Actually, this client has already come several times. He comes every weekend, and he only looks at that one unit. I think he must really like it. It's just that the mortgage pressure is a little high. I heard he's a construction engineer with an annual salary of five hundred thousand, not including his year-end bonus. The home he likes is the smallest layout in our complex, only 115 square meters. After the down payment, his monthly mortgage would be a little over thirty thousand. That still leaves more than ten thousand for living expenses! That should be manageable, right?"

Using two-thirds of one's monthly income to pay the mortgage! The pressure really was rather high.

At the very least, Gu Chen would never do something like that himself. Just thinking about it felt exhausting.

But this was Liu Mei's client, so it was not his place to say much.

"Then I'm counting on you tomorrow." Liu Mei rubbed her hands together and said to Gu Chen, "If we close the deal, I'll treat you to a meal."

Gu Chen answered conservatively, "Let's see how it goes tomorrow."

"Alright!" Liu Mei nodded and left happily.

Earlier, when Liao Chunhua had advised her to give the entire commission to Gu Chen, Liu Mei had been quite reluctant. But Liao Chunhua was right. Gu Chen was so good at closing deals that everyone would surely need to ask him for help someday. If she acted stingy now, she would be too embarrassed to trouble Gu Chen in the future.

Besides, Gu Chen knew so many major clients, and even a major client like President Sun was willing to introduce clients to him. He would have plenty of opportunities to close big deals in the future. If any of them had bad luck one month and failed to close a deal, or needed to combine sales to meet their performance targets, they might have to ask Gu Chen to let them have a deal.

If she did not maintain the relationship now, she could hardly start making friends only when she needed him.

Especially those ten year-end bonus cars. Maybe others did not know it, but Liu Mei herself wanted them so badly her eyes had turned red.

"You can work out the numbers yourself. Which matters more, these twenty thousand yuan, or your performance and the car?" Those had been Liao Chunhua's exact words. "Gu Chen's sales this month already exceed thirty million. As an intern, he can't compete for the top salesperson reward anyway, so more sales are useless to him. But you haven't even reached twenty million in sales this month, have you? Once you exceed thirty million, you can get a three-thousandths commission. Think carefully about which is more and which is less."

Those words stirred Liu Mei's heart. That was why she had willingly given all the commission to Gu Chen. Before her salary had even been paid, she was already hugging her client file and asking Gu Chen to help negotiate a contract. Her calculations were exceptionally shrewd.

"What were you whispering about with Liu Mei just now?" When Gu Chen returned to the sales office lobby, a female colleague from Sales Team One came over to ask. "She didn't go back on her word, did she?"