Chapter 175 - Infection

Translator: Lordbluefire

“ChuCorporation’sGreatLie#, #ChuCorporationEntersIntoThePharmaceuticalIndustry#, ChuCorporation’sInsideNews#, all these hashtags were trending and surging in popularity.

The reporters naturally wouldn’t reveal the names Lu Cheng and Fang Panxia. They merely modified it and said that certain experts inside the corporation had revealed the scheme of the Chu Corporation.

Naturally, when the two of them were chatting back then, the surrounding staff stood quite far away and couldn’t hear anything about the divine doctor. In addition, how could the common public know that Sea City had a divine doctor in recluse?

Hence, this segment wasn’t included. It became an article doubting the upper management of the Chu Corporation, saying that they shouldn’t be using such a method to earn money. The ‘experts’ then suggested that everyone in Sea City should put pressure on the upper management of the Chu Corporation.

The netizens were all enraged.

——F*ck! The Chu Corporation has no bottom line. They can even lie about something like this. In order to sell medicine, they have even forfeited their professionalism?

——What heat dispersal pills? I won’t buy them no matter what.

——I originally believed that there was a transmissible disease. After all, this was reported on the news. But to think that the news is actually fake?

——The poster above, don’t you understand what professional lying is?

——We can only say that the Chu Corporation really has no bottom line. In order to free Chu Cimo, they thought of such a method and even wanted to take the chance to advertise their medicine? I’m truly stunned.

——I’m determined to boycott all of Chu Corporation’s products!

——Boycott +1

For a time, this commotion rocked the internet, causing the Chu Corporation’s share price to dwindle again. The original price was $320 per share and now it had fallen to the low one hundred. The original networth of the Chu Corporation had shrunk by two-thirds!

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Although the Chu Corporation had its own hospitals, it didn’t have its own pharmacies in the past. Hence, the recently manufactured medicine had to be distributed to the other major pharmacies.

Chu Yuan from the third house was responsible for this matter.

He and the boss of the largest pharmacy in Sea City, Dongye Pharmaceutical, had agreed to meet today to sign the contract. This could be considered the happiest matter that had happened to the Chu Corporation in recent times.

Ever since Dugu Xiao started suppressing the Chu Corporation, the Chu Corporation’s other businesses were slowly shrinking. Hence, Chu Yuan truly expended plenty of effort to secure cooperation with the other major pharmacies in such circumstances.

He found the best hotel for the meeting, but even after waiting for a long time, no one turned up. Chu Yuan finally made a call after an hour had passed since their agreed meeting time.

The tone of the other party could still be considered polite. “Bro, it’s not that I don’t want to help you. Just look at the news online. If I dare to meet you right now and sign the contract, my Dongye Pharmaceutical would also be implicated. Sigh!”

Chu Yuan quickly opened his Weibo and saw that the few major pharmaceutical companies that had met him for a meal recently had all been listed. The netizens were all saying that they were going to boycott these pharmacies.

There were even people saying that they would rather run five additional kilometers to head to other pharmacies to purchase medicine. For a time, the businesses of those pharmacies that had met with Chu Yuan were all adversely affected.

Chu Yuan frowned. “I’m sorry to bring so much trouble to you all.”

“You guys are truly unlucky. However, please tell me the truth. Is the news of the transmissible disease real?”

Chu Yuan pursed his lips.

Actually, he wasn’t sure about this matter either.

Seeing that he didn’t speak, the other party seemed to have understood something. “Your family has really been too audacious in this matter. Even if you all want to use a ‘transmissible disease’ as the pretext, you shouldn’t have set the target as Yan Zihao who died in Chu Cimo’s hands. If you had used another target, things would have been much better. Now, the entire internet is doubting the Chu Corporation!”

Chu Yuan sighed. “Understood.”

After hanging up, he returned to the Chu Corporation.

The moment he entered, the receptionist had an unsightly look on her face as she walked over. “The shareholders are arguing again in the meeting room.”

The Chu Corporation’s internal department was in a mess. Although a portion of the shareholders had left, some still remained. They still had emotions toward the company and trusted Chu Cichen. But right now, everyone was extremely unhappy about Chu Cichen’s overbearing style when he wanted to carry out the business transformation.

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The Chu Corporation was extremely chaotic, and the Chu Family was the same as well.

After Shen Ruojing returned, she just so coincidentally heard the second aunt’s sharp voice from the living lounge. “Cichen’s method is really too much. Does he really feel that everyone is a fool? Didn’t he study business transformation and management overseas? Are his capabilities only at this level?”

Matriarch Chu coldly spoke, “Second sister-in-law, you guys have sold your shares. The company’s strategic direction should have nothing to do with you guys, right?”

“Naturally not.” The second aunt smiled. “But no matter what, I’m still his second aunt. There shouldn’t be a problem for me to show concern, right? The stupidest is still the third house. They clearly knew that you guys are sinking, yet they still want to stick by you all due to some stupid relations. How hypocritical. Sister-in-law, I heard that our sister-in-law from the third house was so angry that she moved back to her mother’s place.”

Chu Yuan persisted in supporting Chu Cichen, but his wife was very unhappy. Back then, his wife wanted to sell the shares, but he had forcibly stopped her.

Now that the Chu Corporation was in such a state, his wife was so angry that she directly moved back to her mother’s place.

Matriarch Chu didn’t expect this, hence, she started.

The second aunt stood up. “Sister-in-law, get Cichen to stop making ridiculous decisions. Our influential family has become a joke now! Our share prices have fallen and we can only be considered a third-tier family now. Do you know how many people out there are treating us as jokes? Even if you don’t think for yourself, you have to think for the third house!”

Matriarch Chu inhaled deeply and nodded to the butler.

The butler immediately took a box of heat dispersal pills and passed it to the second aunt.

Matriarch Chu spoke, “Take this medicine first. It’s best to give everyone in your family one pill to consume.”

However, the second aunt’s lips twitched and she directly tossed the box into a dustbin nearby. “Sister-in-law, it’s fine if you want to lie to outsiders, but why are you lying to me as well? Up till now, we have not seen any outbreak of viruses. Your medicine can’t be sold, so you want me to share the burden with you, right? If you lack money, just tell me directly. I still can pass you tens of thousands of dollars. We are one family after all. I won’t mind lending you this small sum.”

Matriarch Chu’s expression remained unchanged. “Since you don’t want it, just forget it then. I won’t send you off.”

In any case, she had given them the medicine. If the second house didn’t want the medicine, it wasn’t her problem any longer.

If something really happened, she wouldn’t have a bad reputation anyway.

The second aunt’s lips twitched and she directly left.

–

Everyone in Sea City was discussing the transmissible disease due to the huge commotion that the topic caused.

At this moment, Captain Cui was busy taking care of everyone in his unit that had come in contact with the corpse.

On the second day, everyone in the unit who came to work was discussing.

“Have you eaten that medical pill?”

“Not yet. I feel that it is fake. All medicine contains 30% poison, so it’s best not to eat the medicine recklessly.”

“Right. In addition, the most interesting thing is that the person before said that Xiao Li was infected. Xiao Li didn’t eat the medicine, so the ‘outbreak’ of the virus in her should be today, right? After all, isn’t this virus very infectious and has a high mortality rate?”

“Correct. But where is Xiao Li? Did she come to work?”

Everyone glanced toward Xiao Li’s work station and discovered that she wasn’t present.

“Is she late?”

Someone took out a phone and was preparing to give Xiao Li a call to check out her situation.