Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Strongest Public Relations Team (1/2)

The forum created a customized voting section for the grand battle between SI and YL, which would close on the fifteenth, at eleven in the evening. The supporting votes between both parties were 63.5: 36.5, with SI taking the lead.

Xiao Yu was not surprised by this result. In his previous life, when the situation was reversed with SI declaring war on YL, they could achieve almost half the supporting votes. This time, with YL as a somewhat questionable challenger and as an enterprise that just began to show off its achievements, the industry’s insiders would probably feel that they were advancing prematurely. Considering their overall strengths, the majority would lean towards supporting SI.

Among the people who supported YL were people trying to cause trouble, and a minority were YL’s diehard fans. The rest of the supporters were probably people who were convinced by YL’s outstanding performance over the past six months. They carrying the hope that YL would topple the well-known brand, SI.

The core of all these uproars could not be done without the efforts of YL’s publicity and public relation team.

This was something Xiao Yu had wanted to ridicule about ever since his previous lifetime. Normally, if an enterprise that suddenly rose in fame got caught in the whirlpool of public opinion, it would have a hard time getting away. However, YL was different. Ever since Yan Jin took over YL, they had never been in a crisis because of public opinions. The way that YL had smoothly progressed so far and even became a renowned brand in the industry was raising people’s hackles.

As a newly established enterprise, one could say that its design capabilities were lacking, and the team’s abilities were not strong enough. But no matter what, no one could comment that their public relation team still had room for improvement.

That was because as a jewelry company, YL already had S City’s most terrifying public relation ability. Their powers were a bottomless pit. So terrifying that all the stress from public opinions to date had been easily resolved. It was to the extent that people from the same profession came to the profound realization that to defeat YL, they could only go head-on with their true capabilities. If they were to use dishonest practices, it would never be successful.

Yet towards the issue that questioned YL’s capabilities all this time, when the former SI chief designer and current mystery designer, Xiao Yu, became their ally, they had gained a huge powerup. Without a doubt, it allowed YL’s already superb public relation team to advance even further. From a simple defense, they had become an invincible team with both attacking and defensive powers.

Xiao Yu could now get close to Yan Jin and even obtained all of the passwords to his social media accounts, but to this today, he still couldn’t understand how YL’s strongest public relation team came about.

It was partly because Xiao Yu had not looked too seriously into it. Everyone had something they specialized in. He was a designer, so he would investigate deeper into the things that involved the mystery designer. He would even remember all the parts where the latter had made changes to the final draft. Even after experiencing death once, it had never affected that part of his memories.

As for the other memories… one could easily look at Xiao Yu’s fragmented memories and realize that there were many problems.

There was once a headhunting company that wanted to get someone from YL’s public relations team. After they went, they were shocked to realized that YL did not have such a department. They did not even have a liaison department. It was simply a new company that had many job vacancies.

The only place that seemed to resemble the publicity department listed a young man surnamed Shao as the department head. After knowing the headhunting company’s intention, he shocked the industry with a universally shocking speech.

“What? Headhunt me? Sure, I’ve been fed up with that Yan Jin for a long time now. When can I leave?”

The headhunting company was elated. The originally planned to get the employees. They did not expect to get a department head.

“Conditions. I’m fine with everything else. At the very least, I shouldn’t be earning less than what I’m getting now. Weekly salary of two hundred thousand shouldn’t be a problem, right?”

The headhunting company was taken aback. For a weekly salary of two hundred thousand, that would mean an annual salary of thirty million. But if this person was really that capable……

“Benefits could be cut back. Like, three months of paid vacation leave every year.”

Headhunter: It may be possible with an overseas company……

“At least seven or eight overseas company outings at five-star hotels.”

Headhunter: ……

“Oh right. Actually, none of those are important. I’m a very flexible person. How about this? You find a hit man for me to get rid of Yan Jin. I’ll go with you for free.”

Headhunter: I’m so stupid to be seriously considering it.

Very soon, there were no headhunting companies courageous enough to lay their hands on YL’s public relation employees. Even when they knew that the department head was just talking nonsense, they simply couldn’t handle the entire public relation team’s atmosphere of trying to see who could outtalk their nonsense.

“I have no opinions on the other conditions, but can I bring along my company allocated wifey with me?”

“Money is not an issue. But I’m a little reluctant to part with that three-story sea view employee’s hostel.”

“I’m a fan of space flight. Our company’s annual space trip is my unswerving conviction.”

For a period of time, several people from the headhunting companies that had tried to test the waters had been diagnosed with a varying levels of psychological sickness.

After the incident, Yan Jin purposely called for Shao Yue and asked when YL gave him a weekly salary of two hundred thousand, three months paid vacation leave, seven to eight overseas company outings at five-star hotels, wives, sea view hostels, and space trips.

Shao Yue replied in deadly earnest: “A man must have a dream. Otherwise how are we different from salted fish?”

“Then what about space trips? You read too many sci-fi novels?”

“That’s a long-time dream for all citizens who grew up in this country. It’s every citizen’s dream. The country’s dream is my dream. Everyone has the duty and rights to sacrifice our meager power for our country’s dream! I’m looking down upon you. Just because you don’t have a dream, now you’re scoffing at the dreams of others? You’re so wrong…”

“Get lost.”

This time around, the concealed talents in YL’s public relation team had no doubt showcased all of their powers. Along with the publicity department, they boosted YL’s support rate and puzzled many veteran figures.

One should know that if this incident had happened half a year ago, YL’s support rate might not even reach five percent. Xiao Yu’s contribution was naturally the main reason for it. However, the public relation team’s efforts could not go unnoticed for fully utilizing the capital created from the mystery designer in the past six months.