Although the message had been sent out, Zhuang Haoran hadn’t yet replied.
Zhong Qiaohui choked on her saliva, glancing between Luca and Gu Nuan.
Could it be over just like that?
"How about this, you can wait for Mr. Zhuang’s message to come back before you decide," Gu Nuan said, "Our company really dislikes people going back on their word, so, as I said before, once an opportunity is lost, it won’t come again."
Luca’s face suddenly changed.
Going back on one’s word is lacking integrity.
"Miss Gu, this is not—"
"If we had made a mistake first, causing you losses, naturally you would have a reason to choose betrayal. But to accuse someone of wrongdoing before anything has started, for someone like me, born and educated in a democratic and legally-minded country, this is indeed quite unexpected."
Gu Nuan’s tone remained light and breezy.
After Luca’s face tensed up, he took a deep breath and said, "I can’t afford to do business at a loss."
"It’s written in the contract, during the trial period, Zhao’s will bear all the risks, so how could you be doing business at a loss?"
After glaring at her delicate face, Luca stood up, paced inside the room, then walked out to the veranda to look at his pets.
Gu Nuan’s words had hit a nerve.
Zhong Qiaohui’s previously solemn face suddenly brightened, pulling Gu Nuan aside, she said, "You know, you’re better off not speaking, but when you do, you cut deep."
"I’m doing this for his own good. If he follows those people, in a few days he might be completely played. As for my capabilities, his friends have known me for many years, could they be unclear about it?"
Their conversation sounded private.
Yet, outside the room, word was already spreading. Luca frowned.
The Yang Family mother and daughter, can they do business, could they bring new business opportunities? It seemed that the original idea had been Gu Nuan’s. High-profile plagiarism, was it of any use?
After thinking it over in his mind, Luca walked back into the room and said to Gu Nuan, "I’ve decided to continue working with you, Miss Gu."
Zhong Qiaohui clapped her hands in approval.
As Luca shook hands with them again, he suddenly asked them in a mysterious tone, "Could it be that these two people harbor a grudge against you?"
What? Zhong Qiaohui felt puzzled, wondering where he had gotten that information.
Gu Nuan gave a mysterious smile in return, "Mr. Luca is indeed a very clever man."
The trap was already set. The Yang Family mother and daughter, thinking they would get the last laugh, never imagined that they themselves would be the ones to suffer regret in the end.
Speaking of copying, perhaps it wasn’t a big issue domestically. But in reality, if a company wanted to grow internationally, copying is absolutely not allowed anywhere in the world. Even in China, where intellectual property rights are increasingly stringent, how could copying be tolerated?
Mrs. Yang, back in China, had coordinated with a paper cup manufacturer, using the designs Gu Nuan sketched that night, and instructed the manufacturer to start designing.
The first rule of copying is to launch a product before the original one hits the market, stealing the limelight. That way, consumers would have a preconceived preference and wouldn’t label it as a copy.
She didn’t believe that Gu Nuan already had the products in her hands.
Hadn’t they just secured the manor owner as a supplier? Thɪs chapter is updated by 𝕟𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕝~𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕖~𝕟𝕖𝕥
As far as timing went, Mrs. Yang believed there was plenty of it.