Chapter One Hundred and Ninety-One: From Triumph to Sorrow III (1/2)
Chapter One Hundred and Ninety-One: From Triumph to Sorrow (III)
Wasn’t his relationship with the Nan Family severed? Didn’t he have to give up his aspirations for the domestic market?
Why did it seem like he was secretly celebrating as if he had found a wallet on the ground?
Hiding their confusion, the reporters sat down one by one.
Something didn’t seem right.
It didn’t seem like a serious press conference.
……
As it turned out, the reporters’ intuitions were very accurate.
As they stepped out after the end of the press conference, the reporters’ legs were trembling. They rubbed their eyes that had been blinded by the displays of affection. They could only raise white flags after such a scene…
Wait, something wasn’t right.
Normally, reporters took notes with them to review press conferences, but all they had on their notes were comments like “Dogs putting on such public displays of affection should die”, “Showing intimacy of that level is shameless”, “Can you give any actual substance? No one wants to hear the story of your romance”, “This seems more like a TV drama”, “Even TV dramas aren’t as melodramatic as you two”, and “Have you heard ‘the more publicly you display intimacy, the faster the relationship deteriorates’?”.
It was hopeless.
……
At least, at the end of it all, Xiao Yu understood one thing: when Yan Jin had brought up Xiao Yu’s upcoming birthday, Yan Jin’s “so troublesome” comment wasn’t referring to his birthday being on the 27th, but rather how it fell on a Thursday.
Why was it troublesome to have it fall on a Thursday? Because the entrance to the office was so packed with reporters that it was hard to enter on Friday morning.
If it had fallen on a Friday, then at least the reporters’ enthusiasm would die down somewhat over the weekend. Employees would at least be able to enter the office.
“The press conference ran for so long, yet there’s still so many reporters here. There’s no end to this,” Yan Jin grumbled in the car.
Xiao Yu was left speechless. He had been at the press conference too.
“Maybe it’s because you took the public display of affection too far and didn’t explain the more important matters clearly enough?”
“Not possible,” Yan Jin confidently declared. “I followed Shao Yue’s draft of the speech to the letter.”
“…Are you sure?”
“Pretty much nothing was changed. At the very least, the overall points didn’t change,” Yan Jin pledged to the heavens.
“If that’s true, Shao Yue must have written it in the middle of his sleep.”
“That’s not possible either. I asked him to draft the speech after business hours already started.”
Xiao Yu suddenly realized something. “Oh! That’s why you were nowhere to be seen yesterday morning.”
“Mhmm.”
“Then… I guess it was deliberate.” Xiao Yu grudgingly came to this conclusion. “After all, when the reporters asked, ‘How will YL compete against the new SI?’ and you responded, ‘My love and I will lead the company forward’, they looked completely destroyed.”
“I think that they only couldn’t bear to sit there any longer when they spent so long asking for examples. That’s why I cut that part short,” Yan Jin disagreed.
Xiao Yu tried to remember what example Yan Jin had given.
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“Question: How does YL plan to compete against SI’s pressure?”
“My love and I will lead the company forward.”
“Do you have any concrete plans for how that will happen?”
“Currently, no, but we have plenty of ways to answer SI’s pressure. A year ago, SI soared through the skies, but then the mystery designer appeared and single-handedly stopped SI. For example, the battle at the Autumn Conference, that was when I found the love of my life. Those feelings still resound through my heart to this day like a…”
Each of the reporters’ faces was more ugly than the next.
They really didn’t want to hear Yan Jin talk about his romance anymore. They were at the point of vomiting.
For the first half hour of the conference, they had listened with great interest, but after, they wanted to drop the romance and move on to more serious topics about the company. However, they couldn’t rescue Yan Jin’s crumbling EQ and IQ.
It was accepted that love made people dumber, but this guy… this guy’s entire personality was crumbling!
Where was the ice-cold chairman who rarely smiled? Who was this idiot grinning ear to ear? They didn’t recognize him!
The reporters clutched their chests in pain.
“…Now, I will give all my power to support my love in any form. Believe in our joint power! There’s nothing to fear from SI,” Yan Jin declared solemnly (or so he believed).
Flashback end.
……
Xiao Yu looked at the man next to him with a complicated gaze.
Yan Jin had even said he had cut that part short! More than that, the problem wasn’t even with how long the example had taken, but rather that the example itself wasn’t good!
Yan Jin had the magical ability to see into people’s hearts. But at that moment, Yan Jin’s EQ was definitely much lower than the average person’s.
“So, do you really have a plan to respond to SI?” Xiao Yu didn’t feel like making fun of the current Yan Jin anymore, so he asked about business matters. “Have you heard of Louis? She’s a very strong female designer who was poached by SI. Their new summer products last month are definitely her style. They’re selling quite well.”
Yan Jin turned to look at Xiao Yu and then turned away.
“…What?”
“I’m looking at how cute you are.”
“…Do you mean anything else by that?”
“Yep.”
Xiao Yu exploded. He unbuckled his seatbelt and charged wildly at Yan Jin. However, he was immediately caught by Yan Jin’s prepared embrace.
“Stop making a fuss.” Yan Jin wrapped his arm around Xiao Yu’s waist and teased, “I really was looking at how cute you are. Sooo cute and innocent!”
“All designers need to preserve some innocence,” Xiao Yu reluctantly admitted. “Only you evil capitalists scheme from day to night.”