Chapter 1597: Corporate Compet.i.tion—the Survival of the Fittest
After the charity banquet jointly held by the Zhishan Club and Lanxin Company, T-K Corporation had thoroughly been deeply embroiled in the turmoils of the Chinese’s resistance towards foreign acquisitions. The company’s capability was reduced greatly and their finances took a huge hit. Although Jose had been reprimanded numerous times by the headquarters in America, he still stuck by his stand, determined to conquer China’s health supplements market. Most of the representatives in the T-K Corporation responsible for China’s health supplements market had resigned or been replaced by the company.
T-K Corporation was facing four major crises at this point.
Firstly, the urgency of the Chinese’s resistance to foreign acquisitions!
Secondly, the crisis of the reputation of their business and the image of their brands!
Thirdly, the sense of uncertainty in their staff due to many staff movements!
Fourthly, the crisis of the fall of their capability and finances!
The four crises dealt the T-K Corporation a huge blow, making this beastly, arrogant, and ambitious international giant which wanted to invade China’s health supplements market thoroughly quieten down.
Chu Jingnan had been studying Lanxin Company’s four-step strategy in their battle of the hearts of the people against T-K Corporation in their quest to enter China’s health supplements market. The more deeply he probed, the more he felt that it was brilliant, mysterious, and speechlessly ingenious.
Each step of this plot was profound, sought victory, and an effective weapon against the T-K Corporation. When combined, they interlaced and complemented each other, becoming the root of attacking the T-K Corporation’s weakness.
And previously, he actually hadn’t realized that such a deep meaning was actually hidden in this plot.
“Miss Wen, what a coincidence!” Chu Jingnan walked over with hurried steps and stood right before Wen Xinya, the flags.h.i.+p store of the Nanshan Company under the T-K Corporation behind him.
It had already been a few months since Wen Xinya’s engagement. He had been busy coordinating the T-K Corporation’s acquisition of NBJ during this period of time and hadn’t seen Wen Xinya in a long time.
“Not coincidental—I’ve come especially to watch the show. However, given that Mr. Chu attends to a myriad of affairs daily, it’s unexpected that you actually have the time to take a leisure stroll here today.” Wen Xinya looked at Chu Jingnan in an Armani gray suit, radiating an elegant and gentlemanly aura all over, and felt rather sick to her stomach.
There was a hidden meaning behind her words.
Chu Jingnan looked up and saw that in the flags.h.i.+p store of the Nanshan Company behind him, the T-K Corporation’s health supplements products were placed on the shelves. From the gla.s.s outside, the dust acc.u.mulated on the products could be seen, visitors were few and far between, and the entire store looked extremely neat.
She was merely mocking him that after T-K Corporation suffered a huge hit, Genesis Investment Company’s acquisition plan had come to a standstill, so he was free and had nothing to do.
At any time, this woman had the ability to induce hatred, yet because she was unattainable, it made one yearn for her. “Temporary winnings and losses don’t represent the outcome. It’s still unknown who’ll win this acquisition battle!”
That was what he thought indeed.
T-K Corporation still had the chance to turn the tables around. As long as it put up a good fight for the product battle and let the Chinese know that foreign products were just superior to China’s local products, this battle of the hearts of the people would fall apart.
And he was confident in the T-K Corporation’s products.
Wen Xinya sneered. “Well said. It’s still unknown who’ll win!”
At her home ground, it was impossible for Lanxin Company to lose.
Very quickly, Chu Jingnan would know just how ignorant and presumptuous his thoughts were.
Chu Jingnan looked at Wen Xinya with a tinge of suspicion in his gaze. “It seems like Miss Wen is very interested in the acquisition battle between T-K Corporation the Lanxin Company? Are you related in any way to the Lanxin Company?”
The setup of the peripheral attack was rather similar to the way Wen Xinya exposed his ident.i.ty as the illegitimate child of the Xiao Family previously. This made a false feeling that Wen Xinya was involved in this battle. Of course, as this thought was so ridiculous, he didn’t think much of it.
However, somehow, seeing Wen Xinya here today, this feeling suddenly arose in his heart again, making him not help but check things out.
Although Wen Xinya was shocked at Chu Jingnan’s sensitivity, she didn’t expose any emotions on her face. “Any Chinese will be interested in the acquisition battle between the T-K Corporation and Lanxin Company.” Saying which, her gaze landed on Chu Jingnan’s face with a hint of mockery. “Oh, my mistake. I mean any Chinese with the least bit of patriotism. How will a person with Chinese looks but helps foreigners invade your home country like you understand anything about patriotism?”
She wasn’t worried about exposing her ident.i.ty. As long as she didn’t admit it, it was impossible for Chu Jingnan to find any proof of her ident.i.ty.
Moreover, she knew Chu Jingnan well—he was too arrogant.
“It’s the survival of the fittest in corporate compet.i.tions. I don’t think that there’s anything wrong with my actions. As for the so-called patriotism, it’s merely an excuse for weaklings who can’t retaliate.”
Indeed, Chu Jingnan didn’t study this matter deeply. After all, subconsciously, he didn’t believe that Wen Xinya was the mastermind behind Lanxin Company. He felt that Wen Xinya had gone against him using this matter merely because she had intentionally wanted to mock him.
Wen Xinya sneered and said, “What ignorant and presumptuous words!”
There were some things that some people would never get or understand, because they could always only see benefits in their eyes.
For example, Chu Jingnan!
Wen Xinya looked at Chu Jingnan in prim and proper clothes, looking all elegant and gla.s.sy, and continued saying, “Chu Jingnan, you’re wearing the finest suit in the world with an expensive tie and wearing lavish shoes, but you’re indeed extremely sad and pathetic.”
A person like Chu Jingnan would never be the strong one and would never be fit to utter the words “the survival of the fittest.”
Chu Jingnan’s face darkened. “Oh, why do you say that?”
Chu Jingnan never felt that he was sad and pathetic. He was young, capable, an up and coming elite in the financial sector of the Wall Street, gentlemanly, and the eligible bachelor of all girls’ dreams.
He was always the subject of envy and jealousy.
Wen Xinya stared at the clothes on him. “If I’m not wrong, you’re wearing a handmade customized Armani suit, one of the finest luxury brands in the world for men. However—I guess you don’t read the news—Armani was blacklisted by the International a.s.sociation for Quality Control for the past two years. Only superficial, materialistic and empty polished scoundrels like you who are foul on the inside will think that by donning an Armani suit, they’ll really become the cream of the crop of the upper-cla.s.s society.”
She admitted that Chu Jingnan’s clothes were of good taste.
However, using the same brand from top to toe—suit, tie, blouse, leather shoes, watch, and cologne—would give people the feeling of being deliberately polished.
As he had a strong aura, he could suppress it and others might not be able to tell.
However, Wen Xinya knew Chu Jingnan even better than she knew herself. How could she not notice that the deliberately packaged elegance and cla.s.siness on Chu Jingnan was the same as the high-cla.s.s scoundrels?
A really elegant person didn’t need packaging.
Take Si Yiyan for example—even when wearing her handmade customized clothes without any high-cla.s.s logos, he still looked leisurely, unoppressive, and easily elegant—n.o.body dared to look down on him the least bit.
As Chu Jingnan still felt a tinge of inferiority towards his background deep inside him, even if he became the cream of the crop of the upper-cla.s.s society, he would still be an extremely pathetic person.
Chu Jingnan’s expression became thoroughly hazy. Wen Xinya’s words seemingly stroke the most haggard part deep down in his part and made him feel embarra.s.sed.