Branch Shop Opening

In the midst of early dawn, Si Chen had already woken up and was performing his daily run outside. Feeling the cold morning air rushing towards his face filled him with a sense of exhilaration.

With his current Strength value, running a few kilometres was considered nothing to him.

The branch shop for the Hui Yuan Drink Store was now set up and ready to open its doors to the public, and he was going to visit the place for its opening ceremony.

Yang Deng had informed him that a few businesses had offered to invest within the store, and although Yang Deng had politely rejected their offers, some of them were still persistently pestering him.

There was one especially aggressive one, called Southwest Drinks. Southwest Drinks was a company that had quite the fame, with more than 20 branches situated around the city.

They had around a few million in total assets, and was not something that Hui Yuan Drink Store can compare to.

Southwest Drinks have long noticed the swiftly rising Hui Yuan Drink Store, and has dispatched a few of their personnel to taste the drinks.

After finding out that the drinks were all better than the ones they had sold, they immediately sent somebody to negotiate with Yang Deng to acquire the recipe of the drink as well as the rights to sell them.

A million dollar company. Si Chen's assets were unable to compare to theirs.

But the one thing he had, were the drink recipes that the Southwest Drinks were far from able to compare to.

Si Chen had a rather nice sounding idea. Since the Southwest Drinks would like those recipes, why shouldn't he give them the recipes?

After all, within his head were stored many other recipes. If not for the fact that he could not attract too much attention because he was not strong enough, he would have simply pushed them all out into production.

His F&B Expertise has went over a qualitative enhancement, and so were the quality of the recipes within his mind.

It was time for him to replace the old with the new.

Sweet Strawberry Specialty. To cater to the sweet tooth consumers.

Avocado Delight. To cater to those who value health.

Spring Plum Blossom. To cater to those who love the beauty of drinks both outside and inside.

Sky Mango Mist. To cater to those who love the freshness of mangoes.

These were the four new drinks he was now planning to introduce.

Of course, he was not forgetting the Great Milk Tea, specially made with the added substance baboonaloyxlic that will simply send your taste buds tingling with delight, as well as an addiction that stemmed straight from the mind.

So that makes up 5 in total.

He was confident that these 5 new drinks will make another uproar within the community, and this time with bigger currents than before.

As for the rest of the drinks that they had been selling, he would could just throw them away to the Southwest Drinks for some cash, since they would swiftly become obsolete and be left behind in the dust.

He returned back to the apartment, and when it was time for the opening ceremony, he put on a casual attire that was not too plain of fancy, and left towards the Riverside Avenue.

The Riverside Avenue was within the D District.

When he had reached, he saw quite a few people already gathered at the entrance. There was even some small time reporter and journalist who were waiting there.

This was the evidence of how high the popularity of the Hui Yuan Drink Store had right now to even have the allure to these reporters and journalist.

Since this was the opening of Hui Yuan's Drink Store's first branch shop, there at least needed to have something special going on to commemorate this occasion.

Si Chen had instructed Yang Deng to make a hundred drinks of the Great Milk Tea for those who came to try it out.

The Great Milk Tea was of a higher quality than the drinks they were selling, but had not been rolled out yet.

Si Chen was planning to freely gift out the 100 Great Milk Teas on this opening ceremony to not only add as an advertisement for their shop, but also create some hype over this new drink.

At exactly 9 am in the morning, Yang Deng stepped out in front of the crowd, and began to give a speech.

Si Chen had not told him that he was here today, so Yang Deng did not really notice him amongst the sea of people.

Yang Deng's change has become increasingly prominent. In the past, although he had the bearing of a boss, it was still slightly weak and feeble, able to collapse at any given moment.

Now, however, he was stable and calm, his words eloquent and smooth. He still had some weaknesses within his demeanour, but he had really improved a lot since the day Si Chen had met him.

Yang Deng's speech was rather engaging, and when he was done, he stepped back and let the doors of the store open in a dramatic fashion.

The customers slowly walked into the store.

"To celebrate the opening of our first branch store, we will be handing out 100 free Great Milk Tea drinks to the first 100 customers of this store! The Great Milk Tea drink is a new speciality of our store that is much higher in quality than the other drinks we had sold, and if you miss a chance to drink it, it would really be a pity!" Yang Deng loudly shouted in a clear voice.

The customers that were taking their own time to head inside the store had their interest piqued by Yang Deng's words, as they hastened their pace towards the counter.

To be honest, what they cared about was not whether if the drink was better tasting, but more of the fact that the drink is free. After all, who doesn't like free things?

A while later, a few customers had their hands holding onto a Great Milk Tea drink. They simply poked their straws into the plastic cup, and then started to drink without much expectations within their eyes.

However, the moment the first drip of the Great Milk Tea contacted their tongues, their eyes immediately widened in astonishment.

The sweetness of this drink was amazing. It was just the right amount of sweetness, and coupled with the milk taste of the drinks, it was just the perfect mixture.

Their taste buds were practically exploding in bliss, while they frantically sucked onto their straws like blood-sucking mosquitoes, and the wave of euphoria filled their entire body.

It felt like they were floating within the clouds, as incomparable satisfaction enveloped their bodies.

As the rest of the customers who were queuing up for the drinks looked towards the group of people who already gotten the drink and were currently drinking it with expressions of pleasure and joy such exaggerated to the point of being indescribable, they had an urge to charge up the queue and instantly find out if the drink was really as good as it seems.

Expectations and anticipation filled their minds, and when they finally got a hold of their drinks, they similarly began to drink.

The same expressions of delight were adorned on their faces, and they could not help but think how such a drink could have possibly existed.

"This Great Milk Tea is one of the best drinks that I have drank in my life!"

"Exactly. When I had drank it just now, I felt as if I was floating in Cloud 9!"

"When will the Hui Yuan Drink Store sell this drink? I really want to taste it again!"

The customers who had finished drinking all loudly chatted amongst themselves as their faces were filled with a sense of loss, as if they had lost something that was dear to them.

The drink was simply far too good that they could not help but feel a huge wave of disappointment after realizing that there was no more left.

When the 100 drinks were all handed out, the customers who had not received in all groaned in dismay, but they were unable to do anything, and could only buy the rest of the drinks that the store was selling.