Seeing Sun Wei's confused expression, Gu Chenan let out a mocking laugh.
"Because I am..."
"We at Zhenhua sincerely welcome your arrival!"
Just as Gu Chenan was about to speak, Huang Yuan walked into the office.
"President Huang."
Sun Wei stood up to greet him, but Huang Yuan waved his hand lightly and sat down in the chair next to Sun Wei.
"This is Zhenhua's general manager, President Huang," Sun Wei hurriedly introduced.
General manager?
Gu Chenan raised an eyebrow.
So this is Song Xiaoli's boyfriend?
Interesting, all the key players are gathered now.
After introducing Gu Chenan, Sun Wei turned to introduce to Huang Yuan, "President Huang, this is Mr. Gu, and this is Miss Liu."
"Hello," Huang Yuan nodded in greeting.
He didn't connect "Mr. Gu" with Gu Chenan at all, since Song Xiaoli had told him that Gu Chenan was Caiying's real boss.
If he was Caiying's boss, how could he also be Miss Liu's manager?
"Since you two have come, you must have accepted our proposal. So I'll be straightforward - we at Zhenhua want to invite Miss Liu to be our spokesperson. Mr. Gu, please name your price."
Huang Yuan spoke with utmost confidence, putting on an extremely generous demeanor.
"Heh," Gu Chenan chuckled softly, crossing his hands on the table. "President Huang, Mr. Sun, I actually came here for something else."
"Please, Mr. Gu, go ahead," Huang Yuan gestured.
"Your Zhenhua is willing to take a loss just to target Caiying. A soon-to-be-bankrupt Caiying isn't worth such efforts, is it? Moreover, even if Caiying goes bankrupt due to your plans, Zhenhua won't benefit at all. So, why?" Gu Chenan asked.
At these words, Huang Yuan and Sun Wei exchanged a glance, both looking somewhat embarrassed.
Huang Yuan's reason for wanting Caiying to go bankrupt was simple - to vent his girlfriend's anger.
Sun Wei's reason was to vent his own emotions.
Initiating a business war against another company just to release personal emotions - this wouldn't sound good if it got out.
"Haha," Huang Yuan laughed loudly. "Mr. Gu, having never stepped into the business world, you naturally wouldn't understand the reasons. Regardless of why we targeted Caiying before, given Caiying's current fame, we must do something."
"I see," Gu Chenan nodded and continued, "But has President Huang considered that Caiying's current fame is also due to Zhenhua's pressure?"
Huang Yuan raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean?"
"Look," Gu Chenan leaned closer to Huang Yuan. "Caiying originally just wanted to launch a face mask as a safety net to prevent the company from going bankrupt. But your Zhenhua had to go for the kill by also launching a face mask and even shooting commercials. Caiying, of course, couldn't just sit back and do nothing, so they followed suit and shot commercials like you."
"So, if Zhenhua hadn't been relentlessly pressuring, Caiying wouldn't have become what it is now. The root cause is that Zhenhua's decision-makers are too stupid."
Saying this, Gu Chenan put on a curious expression. "President Huang, which genius came up with the order to go to war with Caiying?"
"Well..." Huang Yuan awkwardly pursed his lips. "Mr. Gu, this seems unrelated to what we're discussing today, doesn't it?"
"Yes, yes, yes," Gu Chenan nodded. "Then let's continue talking about the endorsement. Where were we just now?"
"We were saying that we didn't charge a penny for Caiying's commercial," Liu Mingrui, who had been silent for a while, added from the side.
"Didn't charge a penny?" Hearing this, Huang Yuan looked confused. "Mr. Gu, you let Miss Liu shoot the commercial for Caiying for free?"
"Yes," Gu Chenan nodded.
"This move..." Huang Yuan thought for a moment but couldn't figure it out. After hesitating, he asked, "...what's the intention?"
"Heh," Gu Chenan laughed lightly, leaning back in his chair. "Of course we don't charge for shooting a commercial for our own company."
"Your own company?"
Huang Yuan and Sun Wei exchanged a glance, and in the next second, they both realized something, standing up in shock and disbelief.
"You... you're Gu Chenan?!" Huang Yuan pointed at Gu Chenan incredulously.
"That's right," Gu Chenan sat casually in his chair, looking up at Huang Yuan.
The expression in Huang Yuan's eyes was extremely complex, filled with confusion, shock, and a hint of anger at being fooled.
"Yes," Gu Chenan nodded and smiled. "So, you really are an obedient dog. Song Xiaoli tells you to go against me, and you're willing to use the entire company's resources to do so?"
"If she told you to eat shit, would you immediately rush to the toilet?"
"You, you!" Huang Yuan pointed at Gu Chenan, his fingertip involuntarily trembling. "You bullied Xiaoli. As her boyfriend, of course I have to stand up for her."
"Bullied?" Gu Chenan raised an eyebrow. "When you say I bullied her, are you referring to her twisting facts and framing me at the class reunion, being sarcastic and disgusting towards me? If so, then sure, let's say I bullied her."
"Don't make things up! How could Xiaoli do such things?!"
Huang Yuan completely disbelieved Gu Chenan's words. In his view, his girlfriend Song Xiaoli was practically a pure white lotus in this world. How could she possibly twist facts and be sarcastic?
Watching Huang Yuan and Gu Chenan's confrontation, Sun Wei was completely out of the loop.
He didn't know what grudge Gu Chenan and Huang Yuan had, but from their conversation, it seemed to be because of some woman.
Suddenly, he was stunned.
Does this mean that his coming to Zhenhua to deal with Caiying was entirely due to Huang Yuan's personal grudge?
Damn, he had been used as a pawn!
And, if this Gu Chenan was actually Caiying's boss, then Caiying's President Su was just an employee like himself?
Thinking of this, Sun Wei became even more angry.
We're both just employees, but you acted as if Caiying was yours! What nonsense!
"Sigh," Gu Chenan shook his head and stood up. "President Huang, you'd better think about how to explain this to Zhenhua's board of directors. Even I, someone who knows nothing about business, can predict Caiying's future trajectory. You certainly can too."
"You know better than me what will happen to Zhenhua's promotional face masks in the face of Caiying's enormous popularity."
At these words, Huang Yuan's heart suddenly sank.
Gu Chenan was right. The strategic adjustments Huang Yuan had made using Zhenhua's resources were clearly unwise. Zhenhua could have remained a dominant force in Shanghai's beauty industry, but because of Huang Yuan's unwise decision, Zhenhua was now facing a loss-making situation.
Although a loss of this scale wouldn't bankrupt Zhenhua, it was enough for the board of directors to replace this general manager.
"You!"
Huang Yuan gritted his teeth and looked at Liu Mingrui.
"Miss, I don't know what benefits Gu Chenan has promised you, but as long as you sign a contract with our Zhenhua, we won't mistreat you!"
"How much money do you want? We at Zhenhua will give you double!"
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
] This is a dark fantasy-themed dating simulation game. The main gameplay involves containing various monster girls and investigating the truth of a world shrouded in mist alongside your companions. However, due to his love for the dark and bizarre atmosphere, Luo Wei ended up turning a dating game into a detective mystery game. Women? Women only slow down his quickdraw! To Luo Wei, the female leads in the game are more like tools to perfectly clear levels and squeeze out rewards. For Luo Wei, flirting with every girl he meets and then discarding them is standard procedure. Worried about characters losing affection points? No need. With his maxed-out charm stat, Luo Wei is practically a "human incubus." A little psychological manipulation and those points come right back. It's a bit scummy, but the paper cutout heroines in the game won't actually come at him with real cleavers. However... Luo Wei has transmigrated. He's accidentally entered the second playthrough of this game. His past actions have caused all the girls to transform into terrifying yanderes. Due to the game's setting, most of the heroines he once contained are "troubled girls." Obsessive, twisted, mentally unstable, all aggressive yanderes... The type who will kill you if they can't have you... Luo Wei wants to cry but has no tears left. "I really just want to survive..." In short, this is a story of battling wits and engaging in a love-hate relationship with yanderes.
