Chapter 94: I have never seen such an extravagant charity foundation
The news of Gu Luolan's divorce swept across the country and became headline news in the entertainment industry for several days.
The level of sensation was even greater than when Lin Chen and Gu Luolan got married.
Even Catherine, an authentic foreigner, knew this and used her own heart to warm Lin Chen at night, comforting Lin Chen's injured heart (she thought).
Lin Chen felt a little confused at first, but then he understood.
In front of the public, his and Gu Luolan's status seemed to be very different. Their divorce was not just a simple marriage event, but also caused a big discussion in society about whether marriage should be a well-matched marriage.
Many people believe that it was precisely because of the disparity in status that Gu Luolan's marriage broke down.
This is the main reason why Gu Luolan's divorce incident became popular all over the country.
Fortunately, the excitement outside did not affect Lin Chen.
As an outsider, very few people knew his true identity. When the two got married, Gu Luolan kept concealing Lin Chen's identity from the outside world in order to avoid trouble.
The photo is of Lin Chen’s back.
The few frontal photos were all mosaic-ed. Except for people who knew Lin Chen, it was difficult for strangers to connect Lin Chen with the people in the photos.
Therefore, Lin Chen's life has not been affected by external events for the time being.
On this day, Lin Chen took Zhou Ruoyun and a lady from Hong Kong Island to an old building on Binjiang Avenue.
"Ruoyun, Ms. Zheng, this is the headquarters I have prepared for our foundation."
Ms. Zheng, whose full name is Zheng Yuezhi, is the person Gu Zai hired to help Lin Chen prepare the charity foundation. She has worked as a volunteer and supervisor in many charity foundations and has rich experience.
But at this moment, Zheng Yuezhi looked surprised, because this was the first time she had seen someone actually want to use such a large place as the headquarters of a charity foundation.
Lin Chen found the headquarters address of the charity foundation, which is an old building at No. 18 Binjiang Avenue. It used to be the headquarters of a foreign bank. It was built nearly a hundred years ago and is now a famous top comprehensive consumer building on Binjiang Avenue.
There are not only fashion flagship stores, but also restaurants, bars and art galleries.
Lin Chen, on the other hand, directly rented the entire fourth floor of this building and planned to use it as the headquarters of the charity foundation.
"Lin Sheng, you said this entire floor is the future charity foundation?" Zheng Yuezhi exclaimed.
"Yes." Lin Chen nodded.
On the side, Zhou Ruoyun asked: "Lin Chen, this floor is 2,000 square meters, right? How much is the rent this year?"
"It was originally 65 million, but the agent was an acquaintance and gave me a discount of 60 million a year."
The agent Lin Chen found was the one who introduced him to the Donghai Center Building. Counting the last time, the manager had already made a lot of money from Lin Chen, so this time Lin Chen didn't even mention it, but the other party offered to replace Lin Chen.
Intermediary fees are exempted.
"60 million?" Zhou Ruoyun refrained from swearing, "Lin Chen, are you setting up a charity foundation? Where can any charity foundation be so lavish on rent?"
"Yes, Lin Sheng. If you have this money, you might as well save it and do charity!" Zheng Yuezhi nodded from the side: "How much office space does the charity foundation need? This money is not worth it."
"No, no, no! You are all wrong."
Lin Chen corrected with a smile: "My charity foundation is different from others. I don't raise funds from outside. All charity funds will be donated by me personally. Unlike other foundations, because they need to accept donations from outside.
I don’t dare to make the office space better because I am afraid that others will say behind my back that they misused the donations.”
Zheng Yuezhi nodded, feeling that what Lin Chen said made sense.
"And..." Lin Chen continued: "We can make the headquarters more grand. Another advantage is that we can let others know that we are not short of money!"
"Ruoyun, when you helped others before, did people suspect you of bad motives? In today's society, there are too many liars, and good deeds and good deeds can easily be suspected. But if those recipients see our headquarters,
, do you think they will still suspect that we have ulterior motives in helping them?"
It obviously sounded like nonsense, but Zhou Ruoyun felt that what Lin Chen said made sense, and she couldn't find any point to refute.
Zheng Yuezhi was stunned for a while, and it was the same.
"Lin Sheng, they all say that mainlanders are rich now, so I've seen it."
"Haha." Lin Chen laughed.
Then, the three people walked around the entire floor, and Zhou Ruoyun kept mumbling: "Lin Chen, I am really convinced by you. Even if you want people to know that we are rich, how on earth are you going to decorate such a big place?
You can’t just install an office with a few hundred square meters, right?”
"Yes, Lin Sheng. The foundation doesn't need many staff. At most, two to three hundred square meters of working space is enough. The rest is a waste."
"Don't waste it. The remaining space can be used as a lounge, gym, and entertainment room. When doing charity, we often see the dark side of society. After working for a long time, people will inevitably be more stressed and need to relax and recuperate." Lin
Chen said.
Zheng Yuezhi stopped and nodded solemnly: "Lin Sheng, you are indeed right. In the old foundation, there would often be people crying alone at their workstations after work."
"Right? Ruoyun, I'll leave the decoration to you. How much do you think it will cost to decorate as I just said?"
"Well, a normal decoration of two thousand square meters of space should cost several million. But I see what you just said, including the rest area and the gym. I'm afraid the whole set will cost more than ten million, right?"
"Okay, I'll give you 20 million, and you can use it for decoration. If it's not enough, come back to me."
"In addition, Ms. Zheng, please help prepare for the establishment of the foundation. You can recruit as many staff as you need. It doesn't have to be volunteers, formal employees will do. I just ask that the charity fund be operational as soon as possible.
"
Lin Chen said it lightly. Anyway, he has no investment direction yet, and the hundreds of millions he has are just idle. It is better to give them all to the charity foundation for use first.
But Zheng Yuezhi next to her opened her eyes wide, thinking that this mainland boss is really rich. How to use a popular saying in the mainland? It turns out that if you have money, you can be willful.
After explaining everything, Lin Chen became a hands-off shopkeeper, leaving the two ladies behind and went back to the company.
As soon as he returned to the company and before his chair was warm, Tang Xin suddenly opened the door and came in.
"Lin Chen, someone in the high school group organized a class reunion tonight, will you go?"