The brand equity accumulated over the years provided quite a few opportunities to broaden my aesthetic horizons (I found them myself—the company did not provide them).

After the founder left, two bottomless pits were left behind in Taipei: unclear assets and team culture. The restaurant is controlled by a small number of people with more power than the manager, and its competitiveness has continued to decline rather than improve. Because it burns money, the beautiful bookstore has become a burden within the company; even inventory cannot be properly taken, and it cannot retain dedicated staff, so it simply stopped hiring. As for the so-called cultural and creative aesthetics brand, how many employees are now actually specialists in this area? Does headquarters have a culture of being agreeable to people face-to-face while disparaging them behind their backs, resulting in the recurring practice of constantly hiring newcomers and then driving them away? That is left for future people of ambition to explore.