Chapter Sixty-Nine: Winner III (2/2)

“The third exhibition booth has already been confirmed to be transferred. It now belongs to City S’s famous jewelry corporation – “

YL!

The moment the emcee finished speaking, his voice echoed within the venue.

At that moment, almost ninety percent of the people inside the venue turned to look at Yan Jin.

Among those people, half of them were genuinely interested in getting to know Yan Jin, the other half was just joining in the bandwagon.

The scale of this year’s Autumn Release Conference was grander than ever before. And that was why several guests weren’t really from City S. While it was true that Yan Jin was quite a famous character in City S, because of the fact that he rarely made an appearance in public events, his name was not well-known.

The blabbering conversations erupted instantly. However, the main person of the topic, Yan Jin, was not pleased at all.

He even found an inconspicuous spot to sit in. There weren’t even many people around him. Yet it had become a bad choice as that made it easier for the crowd to watch him.

“YL refers to that company in City S, right?”

“They were ranked nineteenth at first. After the demotion, they rose to the eighteenth and now they suddenly leapt to third place. What kind of luck is that?”

“YL has made a big turnaround this time.”

“To be able to take down the exhibition spot is also a kind of ability. Stop saying things out of envy.”

“Goddammit. That Mr. Mystery’s phone didn’t go through, we can’t add him through QQ, and there was no reply to the email. To be able to contact such a person… Impressive.”

The emcee on the stage began to inform every company about their allocated venues and methods of promotion, but very few were listening. After all, even if they did not listen, they would also receive a copy of the information after the announcement ended. How could it be more interesting than finding out more gossip?

Especially to the majority of the female audience in the venue; Yan Jin’s appearance was an event that made them feel overjoyed.

“Ohmygod. It’s Yan Jin, that Yan Jin!”

“Is that the person who never attends public gatherings and parties?”

“The Yan family even has business in the jewelry industry? I haven’t heard of that. And why City S?”

Soon, even people from other cities joined in on the discussion.

“Wow, YL’s chairman is so handsome, I thought it would be some old uncle.”

“Such a good man is actually single? It’s way too illogical. If their company is still hiring, I’ll resign.”

“This is what we call the final big winner!”

……

Several companies from City S went to gather around Yan Jin to congratulate him, as well as those from the other cities. The people gradually fished out their name cards to show their intentions to get to know this young chairperson.

Of course, what they wanted to know more about, was in fact that Mr. Mystery who was still uncontactable to this point.

Yan Jin had no choice but to get up and handle them. Luckily, he had already guessed that things might turn out this way and had already prepared a reply.

“As one of the companies that represented City S to participate in this Autumn Release Conference, we…”

Very obviously, it was a polite formal speech. There was no hint of revealing anything related to Mr. Mystery. While the crowd was displeased, there was nothing they could do about it, because Yan Jin’s speech was too perfect and appropriate.

Many of the people from the other cities did not know that because Yan Jin was such an attention-gathering person, YL’s public relations crisis department was the best in their field.

Similarly, while Yan Jin was receiving the attention, Zhou Jinrong also attracted quite a few gazes as a representative of City S’s corporations.

Although most of those gazes were full of mockery.

This was a big reversal that no one in the venue had expected. It was a known fact that City S’s YL and SI were both considered the number one jewelry corporations. However, YL’s milestone was way shorter than SI’s. To most people from the other cities, when someone mentioned City S’s jewelry corporation, they would still remember SI as their first option. This was the first time that SI had been overtaken by another corporation in the Autumn Release Conference. At the same time, it was also the first time that SI had been kicked out of the top ten rankings.

There would always be meddlesome people around. They gathered around and started to gesticulate about Zhou Jinrong. Whispering about how a new generation would excel the previous, and how some older brand corporation was just strong in appearance but weak in reality.

Among them included several corporations that had rather good relationship with SI. However, the industry had no lack of people who were opportunists.

Zhou Jinrong was very used to the feeling of being surrounded by everyone’s gaze. For at least ten years, he had been exposing himself under bright spotlights and had no qualms over showing off his own dazzling feathers.

This was the first time in his life that he felt that the gaze on his body was that disgusting and hateful.

The discussion around him sounded like poisonous bees buzzing, noisy, but at the same time, made his body feel cold all over.

Zhou Jinrong was very used to the feeling of being surrounded by everyone’s gaze. For at least ten years, he had been exposing himself under bright spotlights and had no qualms over showing off his own dazzling feathers.

This was the first time in his life that he felt that the gazes on his body were so disgusting and hateful.

The discussion around him sounded like the buzzing of poisonous bees: noisy, but at the same time, they made his body feel cold all over.

Zhou Jinrong was in a trance. It was as if the previous second, he saw how SI had perfectly won over YL as it ranked tenth. However, in the next second, everything had changed.

YL snatched the third-place exhibition booth. As for SI, SI was ranked… eleventh.

He did not even turn around to look at Yan Jin.

At this point, he finally understood that the reason Yan Jin did not react to his provocation was because he had sat on the throne a long time ago.

Who was the winner?

Yan Jin did not need to answer his question.

The one who panicked was him. The one who felt as if he was sitting on pins and needles was him. Right from the start, the person who was worried that he would lose, was him.

The winner was absolutely quiet, only failures would act aggressive.

Zhou Jinrong suddenly stood up from his seat and took a step forward as he stumbled.

“Chairman Zhou, are you alright?” The staff member beside Zhou Jinrong quickly got up as he attempted to hold the ashen man. Never did he expect that the moment his hand touched Zhou Jinrong’s suit, it would be shaken off harshly.

The staff member balanced himself in the frantic situation and when he turned around again, he saw Zhou Jinrong sway twice like a drunkard and directly fall onto the seats in front of him.

“Chairman Zhou, Chairman Zhou!”

“Ambulance! Call the ambulance quickly! Someone just fainted!”