From Wage Slave to Tycoon novel Chapter 210

Chapter 210: Chapter 145: Going Home Early

The call connected after three rings.

"Hellooo," Xiao Chen’s voice was tinged with laziness, as if he’d just been woken up.

’Su Chen checked the time. It wasn’t even nine o’clock yet. I didn’t get the time wrong, did I? How is he asleep so early?’

"Brother Cheen, are you sleeping?" Su Chen asked tentatively.

"Mhm," Xiao Chen mumbled. A rustling sound followed, as if he were sitting up in bed.

"I’ve had to pull a few all-nighters recently. Are you calling because you’ve decided on a location?"

Su Chen paused, taken aback. He quickly realized Xiao Chen was referring to choosing a site for the factory.

"Uh, Brother Cheen, I haven’t thought about that yet. I’m calling about something else."

Su Chen briefly explained that François Pinault had contacted him.

"The Pino family? You mean the business dynasty behind the Kaiyun Group?" Xiao Chen’s voice rose considerably, all traces of his earlier sleepiness gone.

"Yeah. The head of the Pino family called me. You know about the intense rivalry between their family and the Arno family. I guess they saw the Arno family return all those artifacts and didn’t want to be outdone."

’Of course, that was just my guess. There were surely deeper motives at play, but that wasn’t my problem. All I had to do was pass the message along; the rest was up to the relevant departments.’

’Whether the subsequent ceremony was grand or not had nothing to do with me. I couldn’t control it, after all. So even if François Pinault came looking for me later, there’d be nothing I could do or say about it.’

"Hahaha! That’s fantastic news. I’ve got it!" With that, Xiao Chen was about to hang up. But then, as if remembering something, his tone shifted completely. "Su Chen, I hope you’ll give what I told you before some serious thought. Remember, I mean *very* serious!!"

Staring at the disconnected call, Su Chen’s brow furrowed. He wasn’t a fool; he could read between the lines. ’There’s definitely a hidden meaning here.’

He tossed his phone onto the table, lay back on his bed, and began to think.

’Logically, the obvious choice would be a developed city like Peng City. It’s the top pick in terms of talent, infrastructure, and other resources. But everything Xiao Chen just said was screaming at me not to choose Peng City.’

’If he wanted me to choose Peng City, he would have just said so from the start. Why even bring up the lagging Northeast as an option?’

’Thinking back to how he told me to be *very* serious... isn’t it obvious he wants me to choose the Northeast?’

VERIFYCAPTCHA_LABELVerify