Chapter 366: Mine
Seeing that Bae Joo-hyun had no intention of avoiding him, Jiang Shu cared even less.
Soon, the call connected.
“Father.”
“I’m currently in our Chairman’s office. The Chairman and I discussed expanding the windows in our company cafeteria. Would you and Mother like to come to our company cafeteria?”
“It’s fine. The Chairman has already agreed. It’s no trouble. It’s not like the company bears our profits and losses. If the taste isn’t good, and employees don’t like it, it will be removed.”
The cafeteria windows at DM Entertainment had statistical data. If a certain window had too few diners for three consecutive months, it would be removed.
Of course, this was different from the last-place elimination system. The last-place elimination system guaranteed an elimination, but a window, as long as its taste was good enough, would not trigger the red line for removal.
“Yes, that’s right, in Seoul. When you arrive, you can just stay at my place. It was renovated last year, and I’m the only one living there.”
“Don’t worry about me. The house I bought is a three-bedroom, which is perfectly sufficient. If it really doesn’t work out, I can still stay in the dorms; our dorms are also very large.”
“Rent? Rent…” Bae Joo-hyun looked up at Jiang Shu. She really didn’t know how much the annual window fee for the company cafeteria was.
“Twelve million korean won a year. If the annual turnover exceeds fifty million korean won, the rent changes to one percent of the turnover. Cafeteria ingredients are uniformly purchased by the company, but don’t worry, the price will definitely be lower than the market price. I’m not too clear on the more specific details.” Jiang Shu briefly described it. He didn’t pay much attention to this aspect and only knew the general idea.
Bae Joo-hyun repeated Jiang Shu’s words.
“The rent isn’t expensive, actually,” Father Pei muttered.
A company cafeteria window for only twenty-four million a year was practically free.
His family’s restaurant in Busan had a monthly rent of fifty million, and that was a preferential price he’d had for many years.
This price was by no means expensive for a commercial storefront. As for DM Entertainment’s twelve million, it was practically negligible.
However, the two couldn’t be compared this way. Company cafeterias were not open to the public, and the customer base was limited to a few hundred fixed people, which was different from restaurants open to the entire society.
But the advantage was that as long as your food tasted good, these few hundred people would be your loyal customers.
“I remember your company employees have meal subsidies, so a meal only costs two or three hundred korean won, right?”
This price, within Korea’s cost of living system, was like giving it away for free, even if it was limited to one serving.
“The company provides subsidies. They will cover the price difference according to the window’s pricing. This is a benefit for employees. The second serving is at the original price,” Bae Joo-hyun explained.
It was certainly impossible for the window to bear this cost; the price difference resulting from this pricing was paid by DM Entertainment.
No wonder DM Entertainment was the most desired company for K-pop professionals.
“Good! Mother and I will go to Seoul right away!” Father Pei immediately slammed the table. “Help me thank your Chairman. No, never mind, I’ll thank him in person when I arrive.”
“Our Chairman won’t have time to see you,” Bae Joo-hyun said quickly, glancing at Jiang Shu.
She couldn’t make decisions for Jiang Shu, so she directly refused her father.
“You’re right, I was thinking too simply,” Father Pei said regretfully. “But I still want to go now. The sooner I see it, the sooner I’ll feel at ease.”
“Okay, you two come. I’ll drive to pick you up then.”
“Okay.”
Only after Bae Joo-hyun hung up the phone did Jiang Shu speak.
“I don’t have anything to do this afternoon.”
The subtext was that it wasn’t impossible to meet her parents.
“No need, no need.” Bae Joo-hyun waved her hands repeatedly. “I’ll just go pick them up.”
“Do you have a car?” Jiang Shu asked her.
“Seulgi just bought a Mercedes, I’ll just drive hers,” Bae Joo-hyun had just finished speaking when she saw Jiang Shu reach behind his waist.
Then, a car key was placed in front of Bae Joo-hyun.
“Take it and drive.”
Looking at the car key, which was different from Jiang Shu’s previous car, Bae Joo-hyun reached out and took it.
“Did you change cars?”
“Yes, I changed to a new Maybach, also a GLS. It’s similar to the one you drove before.”
Bae Joo-hyun had driven Jiang Shu’s previous Mercedes GLS a few times. Although he had switched to a Maybach GLS600, the operation was practically the same, so it wouldn’t be an issue even if she drove it for the first time.
“Why don’t you buy a car?” Jiang Shu asked curiously.
“I just bought another house, and I’m currently paying off the mortgage,” Bae Joo-hyun said with a smile.
Her income was not like Liu Yuan and her sister’s; after buying several houses, the newly purchased ones were all bought with loans.
“The settlement date is coming soon, isn’t it?” Jiang Shu looked at her in surprise. “Don’t make it seem like the company is withholding your money.”
“No,” Bae Joo-hyun laughed in response to Jiang Shu’s teasing. “I just don’t have a need to buy a car temporarily, and besides…”
Bae Joo-hyun smiled slightly, raising the car key in her hand.
“Don’t I have your car?”
Jiang Shu couldn’t help but laugh.
“I should have known; I wouldn’t have sold my previous car. I should have just kept it for you to drive.”
Jiang Shu still only owned one car; he always traded up and had no desire to buy additional vehicles.
“No, no,” Bae Joo-hyun shook her head repeatedly. What was her relationship with Jiang Shu? How could she drive his car every day?
“Alright, you go,” Jiang Shu waved his hand.
“Yes.” Bae Joo-hyun stood up, bowed to Jiang Shu, and then exited the office.
Bae Joo-hyun stood outside the door, looking at the car key in her hand. She seemed to have forgotten to ask for the license plate number.
Never mind, there probably wasn’t a second car like this in the parking space anyway.
…
Seoul Train Station, passenger pick-up area.
Bae Joo-hyun sat in the car, sent the license plate number to her father, and then began to search for the purpose of each button on the dashboard.
Not to mention her, even Jiang Shu, the car owner, might not fully understand all these confusing buttons.
She was simply bored at the moment.
Just as Bae Joo-hyun was studying the car’s buttons, Father Pei and Mother Bae also walked out of the station. Mother Bae held Father Pei’s arm, holding her phone, comparing the license plate number Bae Joo-hyun had sent with each of the cars waiting for pick-up.
“Is the license plate 24, 2018?” Father Pei suddenly asked.
“Yes, did you see it?” Mother Bae compared it and immediately nodded.
“I saw it. That car is the biggest,” Father Pei said, pointing to the GLS600, which was two levels taller than the surrounding sedans.
Only Chinese people exclusively loved SUVs worldwide; this type of car was not as popular outside of China, and Korea was no exception, where cars were mostly sedans.
SUVs were already large, and the Maybach GLS600 was a large SUV, so it was particularly conspicuous.
“Is this car Bae Joo-hyun’s?” Mother Bae said with some surprise as they approached.
