Sun Ting went back to work, but Wang Xiaoliang's heart felt as though it had been tossed into a pot of boiling oil, churning over and over, unable to settle.
He walked through campus, watching the students coming and going outside, but his mind was filled with everything Sun Ting had just said.
For more than a year, everything had gone smoothly for him. With tens of thousands of yuan in salary and profit shares going into his pocket every month, life had been downright comfortable.
But damn it, that venomous snake Li Laifu had been coiled in the shadows all along, flicking his tongue, ready to bite him at any moment!
Thinking about it now, Li Laifu was certainly not the only one coveting those three juicy prizes.
That line from the Book of Fate surfaced in his mind again: Those who delight the many enjoy flourishing fortune, yet danger also lurks at their side.
The fact that so many students liked the three supermarkets was a sign of good fortune, but danger was lurking nearby too.
Those words applied to the supermarkets as well!
His own fortune and the stores' fortune were one and the same! The better business got, the more envy it attracted. During those months of selling fruit bowls, he might as well have written "I'm fucking rich" across his forehead. Those booming crowds had probably long since turned every competitor's eyes red with envy.
Seen that way, being ordered to stop selling freshly cut fruit had actually turned into a good thing by a stroke of luck.
It had helped him dodge a disaster.
It turned out his luck had never been bad. Something bad that had reduced his sales had, after a twist, become something good.
It seemed quietly making a fortune was