Chapter 142 - Chat Room Meeting (1/2)

Time zones were really a pain. Good thing for Jasper, he was currently in America with Jake. They were on their way to meet Wilmer and the potential investors that Wilmer wanted to introduce. The Wilde group had shares in Kiwi Cat Studio before the market openings so it wasn't odd for Jasper to find a reason to visit Wilmer when he wanted.

Now that the meeting was over, he checked the time and excused himself to rest in the hotel room while Jake went out to find souvenirs for his wife. The teen quickly logged into the chat room on his laptop. Scarlet and Elfie must have been waiting for a long time now since they were currently on the other side of the world. Elfie was currently in Korea while Scarlet was back in Beijing in the middle of her filming.

Jasper: Sorry I'm late!

Scarlet: Don't worry, I just logged in not too long ago myself.

Elfie: … Seriously guys? I'm the one with issues connecting over. I'm in NORTH Korea at the moment and I've been waiting for over an hour.

Jasper: Sorry

Scarlet: Sorry… filming over run due to the weather condition… we were waiting for the rain to stop but it didn't so we had to postpone everything.

Elfie: Scarlet is forgiven. What about you @Jasper? What's your excuse?

Jasper: No excuse. I just returned to the hotel room and shook Jake off my tail. I met Wilmer today, he looks healthy at the very least.

Scarlet: Did dad say anything about the Sweet Sixteen gala that mom planned a few months back?

Jasper: No he didn't, he was too busy. We had to meet several investors today and I had to pitch my idea for that app.

Elfie: How did you convince Jake? Was he very surprised that your gaming company wanted to develop a one-stop app for all logistic solutions?

Jasper: He was surprised but I appealed to his inner entrepreneur and Wilmer wanted to integrate that idea using the Wilde Empire's name but I refused. The meeting of Wilmer's larger shareholders to find a suitable investor was the compromise we came to.

Scarlet: So we're really going with the separate business entity idea? It's not going to be Kiwi Cat Studio?

Elfie: Will it be a problem if we used a second business identity?

Jasper: …

Jasper: Let's put it this way. Why have we decided to make Kiwi Cat Studio such a big deal? We needed the world's attention and also to put pressure on Anastasia. Wilde Inc. is one of the major stakeholders in Kiwi Cat Studio but not the majority shareholder. EZ Express will see it as a challenge and try to buy it from under Wilmer's nose because officially, Wilmer and I have no relationship outside of business partners. If we used a new business entity now, we would need to start from scratch.

Scarlet: In that case is it possible to make Kiwi Cat Studio a group? You can create a subsidiary fully owned by Kiwi Cat Studio Group and launch the new logistic app under the name. That way, it can help you create leverage against the new playing field.

Elfie: You're both speaking about things I don't understand now. Are we still talking about the app plan?

Scarlet: Sorry, Elfie! I'll try to keep it simpler for you… yes, we are still doing the app plan but we need to ensure that Anastasia takes the bait to buy Jasper's company so that we can get closer to the man's contacts.

Elfie: But we have a list of companies that EZ Express works with. Aren't they contacts? Wasn't the original plan to make Kiwi Cat Studio very big and eat those smaller Anastasia companies up so we can track the main branch after cutting his tails?

Scarlet: Yes, but we cannot simply force a buy over. Anastasia must have reasons to allow Kiwi Cat Studio to buy them over.

Jasper: In short, think of it as a honeypot trap. We sweeten the deal for Anastasia then infiltrate his organization and eat it from the inside by absorbing the connections he has and converting them to our side.