Chapter 92: Sense of Crisis

  Chen Chen, who had originally planned to leave, returned to Wu Tian's side after hearing his words. Especially after hearing the four words "competitor", a sense of unknown crisis surged in her heart. No one knew more about Wu Tian's family background than she did. If Wu Tian joined any pharmaceutical company, that company would benefit from it, and for her Shengtian, it would mean having another powerful competitor.

  "Speak clearly!" Chen Chen looked at Wu Tian with a serious face, she had calmed down completely from her previous anger, and many things about Wu Tian flooded into her mind, making her think of many things that she had not considered before.

  "Don't you think that when many things are said too clearly, they lose their fun?" Wu Tian said while eating the watermelon that had been chilled with ice cubes. "Besides, I've already said as much, can't you guess? The Chen Chen I know isn't a silly girl who doesn't understand anything!"

  "Have you found your next home?" Chen Chen asked with a frown, "Which pharmaceutical company is it? Donghua?"

  Donghua is also a pharmaceutical company that integrates research, production and marketing, with a slightly larger scale than Shengtian. Many of the drugs produced and sold by Donghua have similar functions to those produced by Shengtian. Due to their location in Beijing, the competition between the two companies is extremely fierce, with both vying for market share in Beijing and surrounding provinces. The CEO of Donghua has already stepped down and handed over the reins to his protégé, who has achieved significant success in the past two years, increasing Donghua's market share by three percentage points and doubling sales revenue. It was during this period that Donghua surpassed Shengtian. Chen Daxian, the chairman of Shengtian Pharmaceutical, felt old and handed over power to Chen Chen, who considers Donghua and its CEO as her arch-rivals.

  "No." Wu Tian shook his head.

  "Which family is it?" Chen Chen asked hastily, she was most annoyed when others kept her in suspense.

  Tianzheng Pharmaceutical!

  Tianyuan Pharmaceutical?

  Chen Chen was stunned after hearing the news, and then carefully searched her mind. She didn't recall any pharmaceutical group in Beijing like that, nor had she heard of such a company in the surrounding provinces. If it were a southern pharmaceutical group, she might not have known about it, but as the capital city, even out-of-town companies usually set up offices or something in Beijing. Yet, she hadn't even heard of an office like that.

  "Which company is this?" Chen Chen asked curiously. The top 100 pharmaceutical companies in the country were all in her mind, but none of them were called Tianzheng.

  "In Beijing..."

  "It's impossible." Wu Tian hadn't even finished speaking when Chen Chen interrupted him, "I've never heard of a company like that in Beijing before."

  "There wasn't before, but there is now." Wu Tian lay back in his rocking chair, fanning himself with a palm-leaf fan as he spoke. "You must have heard of its predecessor, Wanqing Pharmaceuticals!"

  " Wan Qing?" Chen Chen was slightly stunned. Wan Qing Pharmaceutical was an old Beijing-based pharmaceutical company that was once a state-owned enterprise in the 1990s, but due to poor management, it was privatized and turned losses into profits within two years. In the early 20th century, it was very famous and occupied a place in the national pharmaceutical industry. Later, it was discovered that the boss had evaded taxes and was sentenced to eight years in prison. The group was taken over by the boss's son, but Wan Qing never recovered from then on. Although the boss was released from prison and attempted to make a comeback, everything had changed, and his family had been ruined by his son's drug addiction. Later, during an argument between the father and son, the son overdosed on drugs in the office and died on the spot. Wan Qing was also known as a "jinx," where whoever bought it would be unlucky. Businesspeople feared being associated with the word "unlucky," especially those that had experienced accidents or deaths, even if they knew it was a good deal, they wouldn't dare to take it, fearing future troubles. Inauspicious things, no one wanted to touch.

  "After visiting several houses, only Wanqing's equipment was good, especially their laboratory, which is as new. Plus the price is surprisingly cheap, so I bought it and now it has been officially renamed Tianzheng Pharmaceutical." Wu Tian said with a nod, apparently very satisfied with this matter.

  "Is this what you've been busy with these past few days?" Chen Chen asked.

  "Yes!"

  "But I remember that Wangqing was finally divided into four or five parts, most of the equipment was sold off, and the land was also taken back by the bank, leaving only one main building."

  "Yes, the laboratory is right inside this main building." Wu Tian said with a smile, "Those are all imported equipment from Germany, I've seen them, they're still like new. That dead good-for-nothing didn't know their value, at first he thought only the production line could be sold for money, later when he wanted to sell these equipment, his dad got out of prison. It was also because of a dispute over this matter that the good-for-nothing went back to the office and overdosed on drugs, dying. I'd say it's a case of 'family broken, people gone', in the end, he lost heart and decided to sell off the remaining part of Wanqing. But it's strange, for a whole year now, nobody has come to buy. Do you think this is my good fortune?"

  "It's not that you're lucky, it's just that the main building of Wanqing has always been called an unlucky thing, a haunted house. After that main building was built, the boss was found to have evaded taxes and was put in prison. His son later died there too. Haven't you heard the saying? A second-hand house can be bought, but one where someone has died cannot be taken."

  "Isn't this phrase used to describe women?" Wu Tian said.

  "What does it mean to describe a woman?" Chen Chen asked.

  "There's nothing." Wu Tian looked at Chen Chen's innocent face, shook his head and said, "Anyway, it's just some inauspicious thing, a ghost or something. Only people with impure hearts would be afraid. So, I'll change Wan Qing to Tian Zheng, and let me, Wu Tian, rectify the evil energy there!"

  Chen Chen didn't know what to say, but she suddenly thought of something and asked, "What if I had agreed to transfer you back to the R&D department when you came to my office today?"

  "I knew you wouldn't agree!" Wu Tian said with a smile.

  "I'm just saying if!"

  "Then I might have really stayed in the R&D department, because at that time, Wanqing hadn't been acquired yet. It was after leaving your office that I notified the transaction. You know, communication is very convenient now, with just one phone call, many people will do things for you. Now, I'm not alone either."

  "Where did you get so much money?" Chen Chen frowned and asked, "Aren't you poor as a church mouse?"

  "It depends on how you look at it." Wu Tian pointed with the fan in his hand and said, "Just this quadrangle courtyard, don't look at its small size, now without a few million, you can't buy it. Even if you have money, you may not be able to buy it. You say, am I poor or rich? I have many friends, as long as I call on them, they will provide money and people, you say do I have money?"

  "Why did you always pretend to be poor in front of me before? Always asking me for my salary card?"

  "Nonsense, I'm also a person who wants to save face. Borrowing a few billion for a good cause is worth it. But borrowing a thousand or eight million from someone just to get by? I'd rather not lose my dignity!" Wu Tian curled his lip in disdain, he never did anything humiliating.

  Chen Chen looked at Wu Tian, and she finally knew where the sense of crisis in her heart came from. With Wu Tian's family background and connections, it wouldn't take long for this Tian Zheng Pharmaceutical to become a dazzling new star in the industry.

  Just as Chen Chen felt regretful, Wu Tian's mobile phone rang. He took out his mobile phone and looked at the incoming call display, which was an unfamiliar phone number.

  "Hey!"

  "Excuse me, is this Mr. Wu Tian?" A strange woman's voice came from the phone.

  "It's me, who are you?"

  "Hello, Mr. Wu, I am Zhuo Wenjun from Donghua Pharmaceuticals." The woman's voice was very pleasant and full of confidence, and without seeing her, one couldn't help but imagine what she looked like.

  Wu Tian didn't react much, but Chen Chen's face changed immediately upon hearing this, because Zhuo Wenjun was the general manager of Donghua Pharmaceuticals, and she would be facing her strongest opponent!

  How did she end up calling? Chen Chen was puzzled in her heart and suspiciously looked at Wu Tian, could it be an illicit affair?

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