Student Question
Hello, Master. I work in real estate, and our department’s sales have been declining for over three months now. My superiors have been putting increasing pressure on us to turn things around.
For more than a month, I’d been desperately hoping to find an experienced sales veteran — someone who could inject new energy and turn things around. Finally, I came across a very promising candidate.
The moment I met him, I had an unusually strong gut feeling: this is the person I’ve been looking for. The deeper our conversations went, the more I felt this was a heaven-sent opportunity. Not only did he have solid marketing experience and a deep understanding of how the industry works — he had also held a key position at one of our direct competitors.
Student Question:
Hello, Master. I’d like your guidance on a negotiation situation. Our company is looking to purchase a batch of Japanese-imported soybean harvesters from another company. Their opening price was 5.99 million — far above the actual market value.
We made our position clear: this figure cannot serve as the basis for negotiation.
Their representative didn’t answer directly. Instead, he changed the subject and went to great lengths to highlight the product’s quality and superiority. So we asked: “How many companies manufacture this type of product in total? And on what grounds does your company claim your product is superior to American soybean harvesters?”
Student Question
Hello Master, I wanted to follow up on what you shared in the community about building a personal IP side business. Recently, by answering questions, I’ve already made 1,300 yuan. It’s not a lot, but it’s helped me discover more of my own value.
I’d like your guidance on some tactical questions:
I have an ordinary bachelor’s degree, and my English credentials are only CET-4 and CET-6 — no prestigious titles to speak of. Does this affect my ability to build a personal brand?
Student Question
Master, hello. Aonan Strait City is listed at 40,000 yuan per square meter. Is a 200-square-meter unit worth buying?
Master Chi’s Response
People say Strait City doesn’t appreciate — but at 40,000 per sqm in Aonan, Strait City is basically the only option at that price. When Strait City first launched, it was a very tough sell. It was pioneer territory in the Hexi South district, average quality at best. Back then, their sales team was cold-calling everywhere trying to move units at 10,000 to 20,000 yuan per sqm. It eventually rode the broader market upward.
Student Question:
Master Chi, hello. I have a career direction question I’d like to ask your guidance on.
I’m currently working as a project lead for outside-hospital product sales at a distributor company. The products are gynecological HPV treatments — sanitization-category items and gynecological gel. We operate through the outside-hospital pharmacy channel. I’ve been running this model for half a year, but the boss keeps switching the products we represent — there’s been instability along the way, and our actual time in the market is short.
Tonight’s message is straightforward — I simply want to talk to you about how to fully unlock your wealth fortune (财运) in the coming year.
This isn’t a long piece, but the middle and latter sections are critically important — they’re all concrete, actionable advice.
When you’ve finished reading, next year’s version of you will be grateful to two people: one is Master Chi — and the other is the you who is sitting quietly and reading this right now.
I truly never expected these three years of turbulent journey to end with such decisive, unequivocal clarity.
Barring any surprises, what follows will be a gradual reopening — each region moving at its own pace, feeling its way forward step by step, before arriving at full openness around next Spring Festival.
While all of this is, by any measure, good news — after all, the arteries of economic life and wealth will slowly begin to pulse again — we must also understand that this pandemic has fundamentally upended many of the old rules.
By now, most of you are probably tired of hearing about that couple’s public meltdown.
I won’t bother picking sides — frankly, I still can’t figure out what one party was even trying to accomplish. Days of frantic thrashing around, yet nothing coherent to show for it. Not worth the energy.
But there was one woman in this whole spectacle who earned my deepest respect: Zhang Lan.
Consider this — Zhang Lan is 64 years old. Yet watching her, where do you see even a trace of the frailty we associate with age? Whether it’s the videos she puts out or the sheer intensity of her workload, you can feel it clearly: she is the pillar holding up her son and the entire business. She is the lone warrior standing in the storm.
If the person you trust most in this world — your partner — completely betrays you, what do you do?
Do you curse them out with everything you have? Or lose yourself entirely and come at them in a rage?
Both of those reactions might feel satisfying in the moment, but neither solves the problem at the root. Because when you’re dealing with a mess like this, the approach you take needs to be one that settles things once and for all.
What do women fear most in this world?
Being poor? Ugly? Dim-witted?
None of the above — all of those can be gradually overcome through your own effort.
The real answer is being muddled. Yes, the thing women fear most of all is that state of confusion and aimlessness.
Because for a woman, being muddled means your life lacks direction and lacks logic — and from there, every decision you make contradicts the last, amounting to nothing.