I am chasing a rough man in the 80s
Chapter 497: This is Reality

Chapter 497: Chapter 497: This is Reality

Looking at the severely shocked Shen Liangyin, Suizi felt sympathy for her for only a few seconds.

In business as in battlefields, the onset of this skirmish is no longer just a matter between two women. Behind each of them stand the staff of their respective factories. To have sympathy for a rival would only starve one’s own people.

"Director Shen, why not come over to our factory and try my husband’s new product? The ingredients you chose are very similar to ours, and perhaps our factory’s successful experience could inspire you differently," Suizi suggested.

"You’re ruthless," Shen Liangyin spat angrily, whirls around. Her pride would not permit her to submit to Suizi.

As she brushed past Suizi, Suizi whispered, audible only to the two of them:

"I’ve forgotten to tell you, in my husband’s drawer, there’s a recipe for a fail product. It tastes terrible and the cost of raw materials was enormous, resulting in wastage...in tons..."

As Suizi speak each word, Shen Liangyin’s face turns one shade paler.

Each word cuts deep into her heart.

Especially when Suizi mentioned the enormous waste of raw materials, Shen Liangyin choked with shock, gasping for breath.

"We locked up the recipe to prevent it from causing harm and wasting other’s time and effort. But someone just can’t see that, and broke the lock to steal the recipe..."

Suizi shook her head with sigh, a classic case of someone seeking trouble for themselves.

"I’ll remember this. We’ll see," Shen Liangyin snarled as she stormed away without a backward glance.

She was so sophisticated when she first came to the factory, but now she is utterly unbecoming.

She just leaves an impression on the inspection team of being young, reckless, and ignorant.

"A beautiful disaster..." Suizi said, as he looked at Yu Jingting, who looked really furious now.

"What has it got to do with me? Was it my hand forcing her to steal the recipe?"

The couple’s conversation didn’t reach the third party’s ears.

However, everyone present isn’t stupid; after a quick tour of the beer factory, they have a pretty good idea of the truth.

The unpalatable stuff they’d tasted in the ice cream factory had left a substantial mental scar, so when the workers brought out their newly made product at the beer factory, no one was in a hurry to taste it.

Forced to take a bite, they discovered that it was surprisingly delicious.

The second product was a purple ice cream, which Suizi personally loved. With its hard shell made of melon seeds and a core of vanilla cream, this flavor had never appeared in the north before.

While it looked similar to the foul-egg ice cream from the ice cream factory, they were worlds apart in terms of flavor.

The sharp minds among the inspection team quickly put two and two together. The comparison between the two products made it clear who the copycat was.

Now, not only does Shen Liangyin face a crisis of wasting raw materials but she also carries the stigma of commercial espionage — and her stolen secret was a formula that wasn’t even successful.

Murmuring broke out among the inspection team, which made the accompanying Chang Ling extremely anxious.

Not caring about being impolite, Shen Liangyin stormed away without a backward glance, but Chang Ling followed after her.

Seeing Yu Jingting about to make a comeback, Chang Ling could no longer sit still.

She took advantage of everyone’s attention to tasting the new product, scurried to the office of the beer factory, and dialed Shen’s father directly.

Upon hearing that everything was messed up, Shen’s father angrily started scolding on the phone.

"Girls are useless! They always fall apart when met with trouble!"

"We can discuss this when we get back, but what about now?" Chang Ling asked.

"Fortunately, I have my people in the inspection team. When you find Old Mo alone, tell him to come to my house this weekend. I’ll be sure to compensate him generously. He’ll understand."

Even at this critical moment, Shen’s father wasn’t thinking about giving up.

Fortunately, the connections he formed over the years still exist, especially one within the inspection team.

He planned to bribe that man and make trouble for Yu Jingting.

It doesn’t matter how good the new product of the beer factory tastes or how bad the new product of the ice cream factory is.

As long as he has connections, he can call a deer a horse; whether the beer factory will survive or not depends on him.

Shen’s father sneered after hanging up the phone, eager to teach Yu Jingting a lesson; a poor boy from the country with no connections.

No matter how much talent you have, without connections, you won’t get far in business.

After receiving instructions, Chang Ling immediately set off to find the Old Mo mentioned by Shen’s father. While Old Mo was in the restroom, she pushed open the door and entered.

Old Mo was taken aback when he saw her walking in.

"This is the men’s restroom. What are you doing in here?!"

Chang Ling smiled faintly and locked the restroom door.

"I’m from the Shen family. Old Shen asked me to bring you a few words."

"Your family? Oh! You must be that one Old Shen talked about!" A glint of recognition appeared in Old Mo’s eyes, which thickens with sleaziness.

Even though Shen’s father is married, these men have their own little "games" outside.

The two exchanged secret codes and began whispering in the restroom.

Outside, Yu Jingting’s face was hard as stone, his eyes gloomy.

He and Suizi worked hard for so long, and just when they thought they would succeed, they were held back by a complex web of human relationships.

Yu Jingting kicked the wooden restroom door, creating a massive hole, and the conversation inside abruptly stopped.

"Who’s out there?!" Old Mo asked.

"Your daddy —" Yu Jingting’s following curse was stifled by a pair of soft hands.

Suizi pulled him into the women’s restroom.

When Old Mo and Chang Ling came out to look, there was no one in the corridor.

Just as Old Mo never expected Chang Ling to walk into the men’s restroom, Chang Ling too never expected a man’s voice to come from the women’s restroom.

"Probably a madman. There are a lot of madmen at the beer factory, even the factory director is one/the most of them. The rest are like him as well," Chang Ling said loudly on purpose.

Actually, she could recognize that it was Yu Jingting’s voice.

Yu Jingting already knew about her and Shen Chun’s plan, but so what?

With the powerful and influential Shen family behind her, she was destined to be the big winner in the end.

No matter whether Yu Jingting accepted it or not, this was the harsh reality.

Suizi kept her hand over Yu Jingting’s mouth until the sound of footsteps in the corridor faded before letting go.

"Why are you holding me back? These shameless actions should be cursed."

Yu Jingting inquired Suizi.

Suizi shook her head, although she was also furious currently, but it just wasn’t the right time to curse them.

"You will find out sooner or later, this is the reality."

In this society that’s dominated by relationships, mere capability isn’t enough.

Even though it is unfair, it’s just the way it is.

"The Shen family has a significant presence in the city, we always knew it would come to this, didn’t we?"

In fact, even Suizi and Yu Jingting had guessed that the Shen family would make a move eventually. But this day came earlier than they thought, and the Shen family’s tactics were far more shameless than they imagined.

"We’ve completely offended the Shen family now, let’s not upset the inspection team too, at least not for now."

Suizi implied that there would be plenty of opportunities to criticize in the future.

The most urgent task was to address the current issue.