Shortly after starting work on Monday, Meng Chang came to Mr. Pei’s office with his promotional plan in hand.

He had originally intended to go straight to the Advertising and Marketing Department to hand the plan to Yu Yao and have him push it forward as quickly as possible.

But after weighing and considering it repeatedly, he decided to visit Mr. Pei first, because there was an extremely important matter that needed to be addressed, which was crucial to the success or failure of the entire promotional plan.

If Mr. Pei didn’t agree…

Then Meng Chang would rather not do any promotion at all, not spend a penny of the promotional budget.

Because Meng Chang needed a promise from Mr. Pei. Without this promise, Meng Chang felt that his chances of failure still existed, and were quite high.

But if Mr. Pei gave him this promise, then his chances of success would significantly increase!

Only then would there be any point in proceeding with the subsequent work.

Although all the follow-up work on this promotional plan could simply be handed over to Yu Yao to handle, which wouldn’t cause Meng Chang himself any trouble, if this promotional plan was destined to fail and would bring huge benefits to Mr. Pei despite the money spent, then Meng Chang would rather let this promotional plan be scrapped. He absolutely would not work for Mr. Pei for nothing!

There was no way around it—Meng Chang had always generously admitted that he was a petty person.

Mr. Pei had tricked him so many times; should he repay evil with kindness?

No way!

Anyway, he absolutely would not do anything beneficial to Tenda!

After confirming with the receptionist that Mr. Pei was in his office, Meng Chang stepped forward and gently knocked on the door.

“Come in.”

Meng Chang pushed open the door and saw Mr. Pei slightly frowning at his computer screen, probably worrying about some department’s business.

Meng Chang couldn’t help but feel a bit emotional.

Setting aside character, Mr. Pei’s spirit of hard work was truly admirable.

Meng Chang had been an entrepreneur too, but his highest goal was simply to hype up a company and then cash out, achieving financial freedom for himself.

If that goal was considered a 1, then the goals Mr. Pei had already achieved were 100, or even 1000.

After all, Mr. Pei had personally created many business legends, achieving success across multiple fields and industries, which was absolutely not comparable to telling one big lie.

Tenda’s businesses weren’t just talk; each business had its own unique business model, and they were all extremely profitable!

Meng Chang asked himself honestly, if he could reach Mr. Pei’s current level—no, even if he could reach just one-tenth of it, starting from scratch to create any one of Tenda’s businesses—perhaps he would have long since sold the company to some large corporation, achieved financial freedom, and spent his days traveling and enjoying life.

Why still work hard and exhaust himself for the company’s development?

But Mr. Pei was completely different.

Having just achieved huge successes with the Smart Fitness Clothes Rack and “Mission and Choice,” Mr. Pei still hadn’t relaxed for a moment, coming to the company early on Monday morning to continue worrying about other businesses.

This spirit of hard work truly made Meng Chang feel ashamed.

Of course, feeling ashamed was one thing, but it didn’t affect Meng Chang’s anger and hatred toward Mr. Pei, nor did it prevent Meng Chang from racking his brains to devise promotional plans to get back at Mr. Pei.

Seeing that it was Meng Chang who had come, Pei Qian was slightly surprised: “Do you need something?”

He had originally thought that Meng Chang would need at least two or three more days to research the various businesses before deciding which one to create a promotional plan for.

Meng Chang said, “Mr. Pei, my research is mostly complete, and I already have a fairly clear idea for the promotional plan.”

“However…”

“Before making this promotional plan, I need you to guarantee me one thing. It would be even better if you could give me a written guarantee…”

Meng Chang’s voice grew increasingly soft, especially toward the end, showing less and less confidence.

After all, the status gap between him and Mr. Pei was quite large, and making such a request seemed somewhat inappropriate, as if he was taking himself too seriously.

But for the sake of ensuring he got his commission, Meng Chang had to ask.

Pei Qian was slightly surprised.

Huh, this Meng Chang, coming up with a new trick?

He wants me to give a written guarantee?

Pei Qian couldn’t help but become curious: “I can consider it, as long as it doesn’t violate the terms of the agreement we’ve already signed.”

Meng Chang nodded and took out a color-printed promotional plan from his pocket, handing it over: “Mr. Pei, this is my promotional plan for Endpoint Chinese Network’s Inspiration Class.”

“I hope you can provide a written guarantee that within the next two months, Tenda Group will absolutely not announce to the public through any official channel about the rights development of the three works from the Inspiration Class.”

As the saying goes, once bitten, twice shy.

Meng Chang wasn’t stupid; he wouldn’t make the same mistake twice.

Previously, when he did promotion for “Mission and Choice,” he was just about to get his commission when Mr. Pei suddenly changed the release date, causing his plan to completely fail and his almost-secured commission to vanish.

This time, after visiting the Inspiration Class, Meng Chang naturally learned about the rights development of these three works.

But he also keenly noticed that the rights development of these three works would begin at the earliest in two months.

Under normal circumstances, it shouldn’t affect his commission, as the commission was based on the promotional effect this month.

What did events two months later have to do with him?

That’s why Meng Chang finally chose the Inspiration Class among the options as his promotional direction.

But it’s better to be safe than sorry.

What if Mr. Pei deliberately tried to sabotage him, suddenly publicizing this matter this month, wouldn’t that introduce some unpredictable variables?

So, Meng Chang made a special trip to ask Mr. Pei for a written guarantee.

If Mr. Pei agreed, then he could proceed with confidence.

If Mr. Pei was unwilling, then it would mean that Mr. Pei definitely intended to trick him in this area.

In that case, Meng Chang would abandon this plan and just take it easy this month.

He would rather continue receiving the base salary than work for Mr. Pei for nothing!

Pei Qian reached out to take Meng Chang’s promotional plan.

Although it was color-printed, there wasn’t much color—only some text in different colors.

Looking at this poster, Pei Qian immediately thought of a certain coconut juice packaging. That was already messy enough, but the promotional poster Meng Chang had made was even messier!

After all, it was much larger in size and contained many more words.

Then looking at the content…

Pei Qian couldn’t help but smile with satisfaction.

Hmm, a very nice attempt!

Pei Qian understood these web novel statistics and knew that the numbers Meng Chang had put on the poster were not something to boast about, but rather a form of humiliation.

If this promotional plan was released, combined with the already not-so-good reputation of the Inspiration Class on Endpoint Chinese Network, it would definitely be laughed at by everyone and have no promotional effect for the Inspiration Class whatsoever!

It seemed that after modifying the agreement and increasing the guaranteed minimum wage, Meng Chang had indeed been motivated to come up with such a promotional plan in a short time, which was truly gratifying.

And in Pei Qian’s view, Meng Chang’s request for a written guarantee didn’t make him unhappy at all; on the contrary, he felt quite pleased.

Because it represented that Meng Chang was indeed wholeheartedly racking his brains to think of ways to maximize the effect of this reverse-promotional plan.

On this point, Pei Qian and Meng Chang’s positions were completely aligned.

That being the case, what was wrong with providing a written guarantee?

Not only would he provide a written guarantee, but he would also expand on the content!

Pei Qian immediately grabbed paper and pen from the side: “No problem, I’ll give you a written guarantee right now!”

“However…”

His hand holding the pen paused slightly: “The specific content still needs to be refined a bit. This is a significant matter and cannot be careless.”

Meng Chang thought to himself, “I knew Mr. Pei was so cunning; he would definitely bargain.”

But Meng Chang felt that it wasn’t a big problem; if Mr. Pei was too unreasonable, he could still just walk away and abandon this promotional plan.

Pei Qian spoke while writing the guarantee: “Tenda will not announce to the public through any official channel about the rights development of the three works from the Inspiration Class within two months… but is this really enough?”

“Don’t you know that Tenda rarely releases information to the public through official channels? It’s usually mysteriously leaked and dug up by netizens.”

“In my opinion, let’s do this.”

“I’ll send a notice to the relevant departments, telling them that the rights development of the three works from the Inspiration Class is temporarily a company secret and strictly prohibited from being disclosed. Furthermore, I can guarantee you that if an internal company leak causes your promotional plan to have a very good promotional effect, then regardless of the outcome, I’ll give you a commission of 30,000 yuan.”

“Uh… unless you leak it yourself.”

Pei Qian was also concerned that if Meng Chang saw that his task couldn’t be completed, he might deliberately leak the information himself to get the 30,000 yuan commission, which would be terrible.

So, this loophole needed to be plugged.

Hearing the number “30,000,” Meng Chang’s eyes widened.

Wow, this commission was equivalent to his previous ten months of base salary!

The condition Mr. Pei offered was extremely generous, much more rigorous than the condition Meng Chang had initially proposed.

Meng Chang had only requested “no announcement through official channels,” while Mr. Pei had added regulations about “leaks” on top of that.

Meng Chang was even a bit confused.

Which side was Mr. Pei on?

He felt that sometimes Mr. Pei seemed like a terrifying mastermind, an ultimate boss, subtly evil, secretly controlling everything and sabotaging his plans; but sometimes he seemed like a wise person genuinely wanting to help him, helping him identify and fix the loopholes in his plans, and even proactively providing logistical support.

The contrast between these two images was so stark that it often left Meng Chang feeling mentally confused and lost.

But now was not the time to be confused.

Mr. Pei had already written the guarantee, signed it, and handed it over.

Meng Chang quickly reached out to take it, carefully checking it.

There were no problems.

It was very clearly written, and Meng Chang had received a promise far exceeding his expectations.

Pei Qian smiled slightly and leaned back gently in his chair.

Actually, the condition he had given was somewhat disadvantageous to himself.

If company internal leaks caused Meng Chang’s promotional plan to become popular, it would likely mean another big profit, and Pei Qian himself would suffer a significant loss.

In such a situation, still having to give Meng Chang a commission would make Pei Qian feel quite imbalanced.

But after some consideration, Pei Qian felt that Meng Chang had indeed suffered too many setbacks recently.

Working hard every month but only receiving a 3,000 yuan base salary each month, this was even lower than the treatment of Tenda’s cleaning ladies.

It wasn’t so much that he felt particularly sympathetic toward Meng Chang; Pei Qian was mainly afraid that if he was hit too hard, he might give up, which wouldn’t be good.

Moreover, Meng Chang might not understand the difficulty of his job, but Pei Qian did.

Pei Qian felt that having Meng Chang do this job was indeed a bit too cruel. If conditions allowed, giving him slightly more lenient requirements so that he wouldn’t completely lose confidence was still necessary.

Meng Chang received the written guarantee, carefully folded it, and put it in his pocket, treating it even more reverently than an imperial edict.

After all, this month’s commission depended entirely on this small piece of paper!

“Hold on.”

Just as Meng Chang was about to leave, he was called back by Pei Qian.

“Mr. Pei, is there anything else?” Meng Chang was a bit anxious, thinking that Mr. Pei might be changing his mind.

Pei Qian’s expression was serious: “I suddenly thought of something. Researching three departments, plus coming up with a plan—that’s no small workload. How did you complete it in such a short time?”

“Did you work overtime on the weekend?”

Meng Chang didn’t know what Mr. Pei meant, but he had heard that Mr. Pei didn’t like employees working overtime. To avoid unnecessary trouble, he shook his head: “No.”

“Mr. Pei, I completed the research in one day on Friday.”

“For the Experience Store, just seeing the location made it clear it would definitely be popular, so I just took a look and left, not wasting much time; for the Food Street, I also deduced that it would be popular from various clues.”

“So the research was completed quickly, and I also quickly made a design, so I didn’t work overtime.”

Strictly speaking, Meng Chang had worked a bit of overtime on the weekend, after all, although this plan was trash, coming up with such a trashy plan also required some time, not to mention that making the poster look so ugly wasn’t easy either.

But the agreement Meng Chang had signed with Mr. Pei didn’t stipulate any company benefits or overtime pay; there was only the guaranteed minimum wage and commission.

When signing, Meng Chang hadn’t thought so much; he felt that a monthly commission of over a hundred thousand yuan was enough—why would he need those company benefits and overtime pay?

Of course, had he known the specific content of Tenda’s company benefits, Meng Chang would definitely have preferred to reduce the commission a bit to have Mr. Pei add the benefits…

But regardless, the content of the agreement couldn’t be changed now. Even if Meng Chang worked overtime, there would be no overtime pay.

Pei Qian remained silent, with a hint of sadness in his eyes.

Ah, even Meng Chang could tell at a glance that the Food Street and Experience Store would definitely be popular…

Yet he himself was still hoping they would flop.

What a sad story…

But this also meant that Meng Chang could become his barometer—any project that Meng Chang dismissed likely had a high probability of success, and he needed to be extra careful with those.

Pei Qian looked at Meng Chang, increasingly feeling that having someone in the company whose thinking aligned with his own was truly invaluable.

Unfortunately, Meng Chang hadn’t worked overtime; otherwise, Pei Qian wouldn’t have minded modifying the agreement again to give him some overtime pay as encouragement.

However, since Meng Chang had never worked overtime since joining Tenda, it was enough to indicate that he didn’t particularly like working overtime. Bringing up overtime pay at this point might be counterproductive, so Pei Qian decided not to mention it.

He hoped Meng Chang would successfully get his commission this time!