Gasp! She's a Time Traveler Using Modern Tech to Improve Ancient Life

Chapter 751 - 746: Another Year, Another Birthday

Liang Mingzhe and Niu Kongqing’s arrival completely freed up Lin Wanwan’s time spent at Yongtang Company.

Currently, Yongtang Company operates at a break-even point in cross-border e-commerce while the physical stores are profitable.

The overseas sales of Hanfu and embroidery aren’t doing well. Lin Wanwan has been mostly in the Ancient City for the past half-year, losing the vastly low-cost supply from the Great Tang. She relies solely on the Suzhou Embroidery Workshop and the clothing processing plants, which has significantly increased costs.

The first thing Liang Mingzhe did after coming on board was to cut off a half-dead Amazon store and reallocate some expenses to invest in physical branches.

Indeed, his second step is to open a second physical store, with locations already chosen in the old city area Drum Tower Pedestrian Street and near the train station’s old street scenic spots.

After assessing her time, energy, and business capabilities, Lin Wanwan decided to hire a CEO to manage the company for her and prepared to delegate authority.

Although Liang Mingzhe isn’t her partner, since he’s now the company’s CEO, she will support his decisions even if she has doubts.

Achieving this might be difficult for other investors, but for the broad-minded Lin Wanwan, it’s truly no big deal.

Her original intention for starting Yongtang was to spread this intangible cultural heritage of embroidery so that people worldwide could appreciate the charm of Great Tang silk and embroidery.

Earning money or laundering money, those are just incidental.

For Lin Wanwan, who has become the Village Lady in the Great Tang, supporting around two to three hundred people, Yongtang is just a normal part of her industry, nothing special.

Even if Liang Mingzhe’s drastic measures lead to lossmaking, she can afford to lose.

With the famous art pieces and various treasures she collected in Chang’an, picking just one of those would be enough.

She herself isn’t good at liquidation, but doesn’t she have Lu Shouyue!

If cash is really needed, entrusting it to Lu Shouyue’s auction house for a comprehensive solution is absolutely no problem.

Lin Wanwan herself isn’t cut out to be a commercial elite, and the people she hired, like Pan Junqi and her cousin, are just average.

Thus, she lets CEO Liang Mingzhe make the decisions for Yongtang’s business affairs.

If after a year Liang Mingzhe causes significant losses, at worst, she won’t renew the contract, she can afford a year’s expenses.

But if he succeeds, then she just needs to relax and distribute profits, and by that time, she might consider giving shares to Liang Mingzhe.

Liang Mingzhe solved Lin Wanwan’s business matters, while Niu Kongqing freed Lin Wanwan from trivial tasks.

Niu Kongqing is considered Lin Wanwan’s personal assistant and doesn’t actually handle Yongtang’s company affairs, merely being listed under Yongtang.

She only glances at the daily reports herself, mainly letting Niu Kongqing keep an eye on them.

Lin Wanwan’s modern business portfolio currently consists of one Yongtang, including e-commerce and physical stores, along with a chicken farm that only manages dividends, and recently opened Lin’s Chinese Medicine Hall.

As for the warehouse rented in the remote countryside, it’s mainly used for transferring goods between the modern and Great Tang eras.

Only when needed does Lin Wanwan remember it, like when she was handling grain transportation recently, otherwise it remains unattended.

Niu Kongqing, being a former star manager, grasps both big and small tasks, and even after switching roles to a special assistant, she retains her good habit of working swiftly and decisively.

However, Lin Wanwan’s favorite aspect isn’t this, but rather when she assigns her strange and curious tasks, Niu Kongqing can complete them without discount and never cross boundaries by asking extra questions.

Only if Lin Wanwan consults her does she speak up, displaying excellent assistant professional qualities.

With these two generals assisting Lin Wanwan in her career, she’s now able to relax.

The busiest thing for her each day is still learning.

Online courses on weaving must continue, and learning about traditional medicine and herbal medicine cannot stop for even a day. As for updating online novels, that basically falls into a pattern of sporadic activity.

There’s another thing that Lin Wanwan is very pleased with—she gave modern books to Xiao Chong, allowing many burdens to be shifted onto him.

After all, leading the Great Tang people in poverty alleviation and prosperity is something within Xiao Chong the County Magistrate’s duties.

Things like using corn cobs to make alcohol, creating fertilizer, and freshwater cultivation techniques like raising fish in paddy fields, are all left for Xiao Chong to handle.

If he wants to promote something, it’s usually promoted across all of Mao County, ensuring the Lin Family Manor people aren’t left out. Lin Wanwan isn’t worried, the feeling of just sitting back and enjoying the results is truly nice.

This year, since Lin Wanwan returned to Mao County from Chang’an, she’s been very busy, not even having time to host a birthday banquet, missing an opportunity to openly collect famous art pieces.

Fortunately, Xiao Chong and Dugu Di did not forget, each sending her a piece of artwork as a birthday gift, which brought her a bit of joy.

Busy in the Great Tang, Lin Wanwan is also busy when back in modern times.

Because her birthday fell right around the opening of her Lin’s Chinese Medicine Hall, and at that time, she hadn’t yet hired suitable staff.

Of course, in modern times, Lin Wanwan has always not celebrated her birthday, and this year was no exception, so others weren’t surprised.

Only one person views this matter as very important, and that’s Lin Wanwan’s boyfriend, Lu Shouyue.

This fellow once again sought advice online, going to great lengths to pull her to the amusement park night scene the night before her birthday.

They played until almost midnight, when the two boarded the Ferris wheel.

Then, at the highest point of the Ferris wheel, countless drones flew into the air, performing a dazzling drone show.

With her traversing two worlds and the time difference between modern times and the Great Tang, Lin Wanwan lived in such a blur, not knowing what day it was.

Until the lights on the drones formed the characters "Baby, happy birthday!" did Lin Wanwan realize today was her modern birthday.

Before she had time to feel moved, the drones began rearranging again, turning into new words and emoji: Let’s get engaged (๑╹ڡ╹)╭～♡~~

At the same time, Lu Shouyue took out a custom-made diamond ring from his pocket, swiftly grabbed her hand, slid it onto her middle finger, and whispered in a low magnetic voice at her ear, "Wanwan, let’s get engaged?"

Directly proposing marriage might scare her away. First engagement, step by step.

They’ve been in a relationship for nearly half a year now, even though Lu Shouyue wishes he could marry her tomorrow.

But smart as he is, he knows very well that Lin Wanwan doesn’t have the thought of marriage yet.

"Is it necessary to get engaged?"

Lin Wanwan not only doesn’t want to marry, she’s a bit resistant to the idea of engagement.

After establishing the relationship, she even pretended to be sick and skipped Lu Shouyue’s mother’s birthday banquet this year, afraid of facing his relatives and friends.

"It is necessary." Lu Shouyue placed her hand on his rapidly beating heart, "I want to announce to my friends and family that this man won’t be alone anymore. Wanwan, thank you for making my dream come true."

Lu Shouyue’s eyes reflected the late-night lights of the city, clearly cold white light dots, yet they appeared so fervent.

Lin Wanwan slightly parted her lips, looking into his deeply affectionate eyes, couldn’t find words to refuse.

This love is truly hard to repay.