Chapter 213: Discussing the Traditional Chinese Medicine Skincare Partnership

However, Du Ruo couldn’t wait any longer. Pulling Wen Xinya by her hand, she went to look for Grandpa Du in his study room. Grandpa Du was reading a medical book, holding a calligraphy brush in his hand, scribbling and drawing away. Wen Xinya smiled and greeted, “Grandpa Du.”

“Sit!” Du Shinan put the calligraphy brush down and gently closed the medical book.

Du Ruo pulled Wen Xinya and sat down on the sofa in the study room. Wen Xinya saw a set of porcelain tea set on the tea table, couldn’t control her impulse, and started brewing tea.

Du Shinan watched her smooth and lovely movements as she brewed tea. It was obvious that she was brewing attentively, just that her techniques for brewing tea still seemed slightly choppy. However, it was still astonishing that she obtained such results in such a short time.

Very soon, Wen Xinya was done brewing tea and poured a cup for Grandpa Du. “Grandpa Du, please have some tea.”

Having seen the way she brewed tea just now, Du Shinan already knew the taste of the cup of tea. However, he still tasted it. “Tastes slightly astringent as the fire wasn’t managed well enough. Water is slightly dry as the temperature could be handled better. The tea doesn’t look vibrant enough because the tea leaves weren’t put in at the right time. The tea leaves aren’t in homogeneous conditions as the timing wasn’t grasped well. However, all in all, it’s still not bad.”

Wen Xinya listened intently. “Thanks, Grandpa Du. I’ll take note in the future.”

Du Ruo finished the tea in the porcelain bowl in one gulp. “Aren’t tea and water for the purpose of quenching thirst—to insist on drinking it so fancifully, aren’t you guys tired?”

Du Shinan shot a look at this unwise granddaughter. “These are superior Biluo tea leaves gifted to me by Old Mr. Mo. I only have such a small tin of it, and you just wasted it like this.”

Du Ruo stuck her tongue out at Grandpa and made a funny face.

Upon seeing Du Ruo’s expression, Wen Xinya couldn’t help but recall that in her previous lifetime, Grampy had also brewed tea for her before. Then, she had had similar thoughts with Du Ruo. Grampy had chided her for not being able to tell chalk from cheese, wasting fine tea. Actually, only people who knew tea would appreciate it on a personal level.

Du Shinan couldn’t be bothered with her. As he looked at her, and then at Wen Xinya, his heart was simply filled with envy, jealousy, and hatred for Old Mr. Mo. “Have you finished memorizing the medical books that I’d asked you to memorize previously?”

Wen Xinya replied hurriedly, “Finished memorizing.”

Regarding this, Du Shinan had full faith in her, because he had long grasped this child’s photographic memory. As long as this child wanted to learn something, he believed that nothing would be too difficult for her.

Du Shinan asked, “After you started going to school, you’ve shortened your time spent on learning chess, calligraphy, and music. How’s your progress lately?”

Wen Xinya answered, “Grampy said it’s passable!”

Du Shinan nearly vomited blood. Passable… he purposely asked casually, and she actually answered that it was passable. Her cocky Grampy had been calling every day to brag about how talented his own granddaughter was, reporting her daily progress to Du Shinan over the phone, showing off the fact that he had a successor to his mantle.

He couldn’t help but look towards his granddaughter, Du Ruo, who stood beside Wen Xinya. She neglected proper matters for her passion for Traditional Chinese Medicine health maintenance, beauty enhancement and the likes, which were the heterodox schools of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Yet, this granddaughter still asserted argumentatively. “Health maintenance is the root of Traditional Chinese Medicine—if a body is maintained well, it rids the roots of all illnesses!”

Uncomfortable with Grandpa’s stare, Du Ruo hurriedly dashed to and sat beside Du Shinan. Holding onto Du Shinan’s arm, she said, “Grandpa, me and Xinya have something to tell you.”

Du Shinan said with an unpleasant tone, “What is it?”

“Xinya intents to do business with me—I’ll come up with the formulas, and Xinya will be responsible to turn my formulas into the most premium luxury brand. I don’t have to bother with the store management, gathering of herbs and production, and we’ll split the profits equally. Xinya said we’re still underage, so we still require our guardians’ agreement on some legal procedures.”

This short statement allowed Du Shinan to detect the key point. He looked at Wen Xinya with shock as he did not expect her to actually have such a keen business mind. Although there were many people researching on Traditional Chinese Medicine makeup, Ruo Ruo was absolutely the only one whose research was mature. If it was possible to turn these formulas into a luxury brand, the potential profits were quite optimistic.

He couldn’t help but look up at and sized her up—she was but fifteen-years-old this year! Why his interactions with her often felt like facing a middle-aged person, yet totally without feelings of strangeness, as if her maturity was expected.

Wen Xinya could tell that Grandpa Du was very interested in her suggestion. “Grandpa Du, regarding the precise matters, I’ll go back and prepare a proposal. I’ll also engage a lawyer to deal with the legal aspects. I’ll convince you with my own actions.”

Du Shinan watched the young girl’s eyes glowing with splendor. He had actually misjudged—this granddaughter of Old Mr. Mo was not only talented, but also charming, discerning, smart, and brilliant. “I want to hear your real thoughts.”

Actually, he did not object to his granddaughter stepping into the business world. However, Wen Xinya was only fifteen years old which was still a tad too young. Their age gave him an intuitive impression that although they had ideas, they were immature with unknown feasibilities.

Wen Xinya took in a deep breath and said, “Grandpa Du, the Traditional Chinese Medicine skincare luxury brand is only my first step. With the profits of the Traditional Chinese Medicine skincare, I wish to bind Ruo Ruo to me, forming an interest chain between us. And my real vision is actually on Ruo Ruo’s research on health maintenance formulas.”

Du Shinan gasped at her having such ambition at such a young age. Also, as she expressed her interest intentions, Du Shinan was slightly unhappy—his granddaughter had simple and innocent thoughts, and couldn’t manage overly complicated matters.

Du Ruo was very sharp. She hurriedly tugged at Grandpa’s arm and said, “Grandpa, I believe that Xinya will never disregard my interests and ideas.”

Looking at Du Ruo’s trusting gaze, Wen Xinya nodded towards her. “Grandpa Du, I believe you’re also aware that with the world’s economy soaring, people’s standard of living rising, everyone pursues a higher quality of life and material comfort. This will cause some luxury brands and health maintenance products to emerge as the times require. Thus, creating luxury health maintenance products is a huge business opportunity.”

As a renowned personality in the Traditional Chinese Medicine realm, Du Shinan understood people’s pursuit of health maintenance. Everyone was willing to spend some time to maintain their own health, and nobody was willing to fall sick and visit the doctors—such thinking had also directly become a huge advantage to the few types of health maintenance products in the world currently.

Wen Xinya continued, “The luxury products part is already quite developed, only lacking in more creativity. And Traditional Chinese Medicine skincare is already an unfathomable beautiful culture left behind by Country Z’s heritage. Many years ago, veterans of the Traditional Chinese Medicine arena had already admitted the part on Traditional Chinese Medicine skincare, of which Country Z’s heritage had a perfect understanding of, and had astonishing results. Many people are researching on related makeup products, but they’re rather immature. Ruo Ruo’s research is already rather mature, and is ready to be placed directly into the market.”

Du Shinan nodded. Every time his granddaughter researched a new formula, he would inspect its contents, which were indeed rather mature. It wouldn’t be an issue to place them on the market.