Chapter 23: Emperor's New Clothes

 

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Those who were arguing just now all froze, surprisingly unable to find a reason to refute for a while.

Jiang Changming continued to calm the situation, “I know that all of you are choosing that side for the sake of the Jiang group, so we all start from the same point of view, there is no need for our own people to fight with our own people, and strive to make each other extremely right?”

“What we really need to think about is how to maximize the benefits of the Jiang group, not about what comes first or what fails!”

The meeting room was quiet, and no matter what was on their minds, everyone nodded in silent agreement and continued to listen.

Jiang Changming pondered for two seconds and instructed: “Since they want to cooperate, they will definitely take the lead in showing their sincerity, so don’t give up on either side, see whoever offers the best conditions to choose, remember, seize the opportunity don’t get into a stalemate, understand?”

Everyone took notes as they said, “Got it!”

Jiang Changming hooked his lips in satisfaction, “I’m sure you all won’t let me down.”

“Don’t worry, President Jiang, we will definitely follow what you said strictly and try to complete the task.”

“Yeah, President Jiang is really great, so admirable.”

“Ashamed of myself.”1自愧不如: ashamed of being inferior (idiom) / to feel inferior to others.

The meeting then ended with either genuine or fake compliments. When Jiang Changming returned to his office, he called and told Master Jiang about the matter and his choice.

Master Jiang pondered for a long time and calmly said, “Your choice is right, and no matter what you as the owner of the Jiang group have to make your own decisions, no need to report to me.”

Jiang Changming said, “I’m just worried that the Xu family has been working with us for years and will make things difficult for Grandpa.”

Elder Jiang laughed, seemingly happy for his grandson’s filial piety. But he still nudged him, “Everyone understands the truth that shopping malls are like battlefields, the most important thing is your own strength, as long as you have the strength to do anything, no one dares to say anything, understand?”

Jiang Changming: “Got it.”

Elder Jiang encouraged, “Go ahead and do it with confidence.”

“Okay.”

After receiving his grandfather’s encouragement, Jiang Changming was clearly more confident. He hung up the phone to start studying the current situation and called in the assistants, who contacted Ruan Chenxuan and Xu Chenghao for a meeting.

Jiang Changming said: “From the current point of view, the Xu family proposed to cooperate for a longer time. Because of too much preparation, they are definitely not willing to give up this opportunity, and maybe they will retreat in the end. When you contact the Xu family, pay attention to your wording and stay for two days. Let’s see what their reaction is when we leak Ruan Chenxuan’s concession to them.”

“As for Ruan Chenxuan …… He possesses a certain degree of aggression and sense of urgency. Compared to Xu Chenghao, he is too ambitious, and more than just wanting to cut off the Xu Group, it is possible that he wants something more, so he must attach great importance to this cooperation and want very much to fight for this opportunity. ”

“What I mean is that we still have to choose Ruan Chenxuan as our main partner, because we can profit more with him. But you guys should not leak that out now. First stabilize the situation, especially stabilize the Xu Group and strive to buy time to kill the bargain price, understood?”

The two assistants nodded, “Understood!”

Jiang Changming nodded in satisfaction, “Go ahead, take care not to leak secrets, and take every opportunity to act according to the circumstances2见机行事: see the opportunity and act (idiom); to act according to circumstances / to play it by ear / to use one’s discretion..”

The assistants swore, “Okay, President Jiang can rest assured.”

After formulating the strategy, the Jiang group finally started to get busy -busy battling with Ruan Chenxuan’s IQ to beat down each other’s prices and also busy with the Xu Group putting on a deliberate play to drag on the process while keeping them on tenterhooks.

Li Nian kept the Mona Lisa smile when he received the call from the Jiang group’s assistant, “This is Li Nian, is anything the matter?”

The Jiang group’s assistant politely said, “Hello Mr. Li, I’m the assistant on the Jiang group’s side, and I’m contacting you this time to ask about cooperation.”

Li Nian pretended to be surprised and said, “Why are you in such a hurry? We haven’t even made this project’s proposal yet, I’m really sorry, I’ve been too busy lately.”

The assistant laughed, “It’s fine, it’s fine, I’m actually just here to follow up on the progress, our President Jiang attaches great importance to this cooperation.”

Li Nian: “Hehehe, that’s great, our President Xu has actually been preparing for the project, it seems that we all attach quite a lot of importance to this project, I hope we have happy cooperation.”

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Assistant: “Definitely.”

After the two assistants performed an acting scene on the phone as if their lives depended on it, they both hung up the phone with sunken faces. Li Nian even rolled his eyes, speechless to the extreme.

Xu Chenghao leaned against the doorway holding a mug, watched the entire acting competition from the sidelines, and commented, “Wonderful.”

Li Nian got up and made the classic Mona Lisa portrait pose for comparison and said coldly and arrogantly, “I’m just as good as Mona Lisa when it comes to acting skills! I can also act in person!”

Xu Chenghao almost burst into laughter: “I believe, I believe.”

After a few moments of joking around, Li Nian instantly returned to normal and switched to his identity as a special assistant: “It seems that our previous guess was right, they are really more inclined to Ruan’s group, and now they are only delaying us in order to put pressure on Ruan Chenxuan.”

Xu Chenghao drank his plain boiled water slowly: “En.”

Li Nian gave him a look, “Currently, the Jiang group has broken their promise beforehand and is continuing to take advantage of us afterwards, and you are not even angry? No thoughts?

 

Xu Chenghao said calmly: “But at present, it is also beneficial to drag out the time for our project, and we will just push the boat along with the current.3顺水推舟; push the boat with the current / fig. to take advantage of the situation for one’s own benefit. As for the rest… This is just a game of business wars; winning is the most important. There is no need to let emotions affect your decisions.”

Li Nian thought about it and said, “You’re right, the result is the most important thing, as long as we are the winner, it’s useless for us to count all their schemes. Just thinking about how their faces will change in the end makes me happy.”

Xu Chenghao smiled: “Do you know what they call that?”

 

Li Nian: “The fox’s tail is not well hidden?”4狐狸尾巴: lit. fox’s tail (idiom); visible sign of evil intentions / to reveal one’s evil nature / evidence that reveals the villain

Xu Chenghao: “It’s the emperor’s new clothes.”5皇帝的新衣: the Emperor’s new clothes (i.e. naked); Used in reference to a situation in which people believe or pretend to believe in the worth or importance of something that is worthless, or fear to point out an obvious truth that is counter to prevailing opinion.

The two smiled at each other, and Xu Chenghao then pushed the door and left to return to his office. The temperature in the room was a little warmer than outside, and the sun was shining brightly outside the open floor-to-ceiling window, and the little yellow duck pot placed on the floor to bask in the sun grew more and more yellow as if it were a small luminous mass.

Xu Chenghao leaned over to check once, to ensure that none of the small flowers that had just bloomed last night was missing before sitting back behind his desk and continuing to work confidently.

Tonight was the time of the non-com’s counterattack, and the big flower pots at home, according to their own plan, perfectly consumed 90% of the failure rate because it was really fruitless, and there were no deformities.

On the contrary, the little yellow duck has been reporting good news recently, producing one
after another. If it weren’t for that psycho of a villain, he would have completed the little pepper mission long ago.

…… He didn’t want to think about the previous things anyway. Today he didn’t meet anyone, especially Jing Yicheng; he didn’t go home after work. A world with Jing Yicheng was dangerous for him! Jing Yicheng is his number one vigilant dangerous element!!

If the other party steals his pepper again, he won’t be able to control his hands and would want the little yellow duck to keep kissing his 1.5 billion head!

Because he was too nervous, Xu Chenghao couldn’t even read the documents near the end of the day, and his eyes unconsciously glanced at the little yellow duck, counting the small white flowers on the pepper seedlings repeatedly.

What to do, suddenly so nervous.

 

 

 

 

The author has something to say:

Xu Chenghao: Please tell me out loud if you can counterattack!! [Shouts from non-coms]

 

T/N: So sorry about Friday, I got so busy with a project. Next update would be up in a few hours .

1自愧不如: ashamed of being inferior (idiom) / to feel inferior to others.2见机行事: see the opportunity and act (idiom); to act according to circumstances / to play it by ear / to use one’s discretion.3顺水推舟; push the boat with the current / fig. to take advantage of the situation for one’s own benefit.4狐狸尾巴: lit. fox’s tail (idiom); visible sign of evil intentions / to reveal one’s evil nature / evidence that reveals the villain5皇帝的新衣: the Emperor’s new clothes (i.e. naked); Used in reference to a situation in which people believe or pretend to believe in the worth or importance of something that is worthless, or fear to point out an obvious truth that is counter to prevailing opinion.

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