Chapter 25: A pointed question
Pineapple Media's Shanghai branch occupied an upper floor of an office tower near Huaihai Park. From its beginnings producing direct-distribution magazines at colleges and secondary schools across Rongcheng, a group of fresh graduates in relevant fields with little experience had, under the leadership of the half-outsider Lin Guangdong, worked their way step by step into a fashion media company with several subsidiaries, several magazines, around two hundred employees, and a few top industry professionals. Its reputation was beginning to take shape both inland and along the coast.
Pineapple Media's Shanghai branch occupied the twenty-first floor of the Kaidan Building. The entrance lobby had an open-plan design, with a huge Pineapple Media logo at reception. Lin Guangdong had personally overseen the Shanghai office's interior decoration. The suspended ceiling used mineral-wool panels with excellent soundproofing, and the overall yellow-and-white color scheme looked lively without losing its businesslike atmosphere.
Pineapple Media's deputy general manager, Ren Ying, handled operations at the head office in Rongcheng, while Lin Guangdong personally oversaw the Shanghai branch during this crucial period of the magazines' expansion into the Yangtze River Delta.
Lin Guangdong now counted as a third-tier celebrity in Shanghai and was gradually approaching the second tier. His business activities here also made his information remarkably accurate.
Broad swaths of mackerel clouds filled the distant sky over the city that day, but Lin Guangdong had no interest in admiring them. After leafing through the opening pages of a magazine and some documents, he picked up the phone and called Su Can.
It took a while for the call to connect. Su Can's voice reached his ear. "I'm in class. What is it? Go ahead. Have you found something?"
"Don't you always call me Teacher Lin? If I didn't have some genuine knowledge and