Chapter 1574 - The End of the Engagement Ceremony
Chapter 1574: The End of the Engagement Ceremony
This lavish engagement ceremony finally concluded with the blessings of everyone.
In the dark of the night, Wen Xinya washed away her fatigue, but she was still feeling excited due to the upbeat atmosphere of the engagement ceremony just now. She gradually stretched out her right hand, where the silver and black ring rested quietly on her slender finger, radiating an elegant and mysterious glow under the light.
This was her engagement ring.
In the future, this ring would become her and Si Yiyan’s wedding ring.
From this moment, this ring would always be on her finger, never to be removed.
Until the day when she and Si Yiyan walked into the wedding hall and Si Yiyan would personally take it off her middle finger and place it on her ring finger of her left hand.
Wen Xinya broke into an innocent smile as her moistened eyes gleamed with joy, excitement, and bliss.
“What are you thinking about?” Si Yiyan sat down beside her, pulled her into his embrace, and held her right hand with her ring tightly in his left hand with his ring.
Wen Xinya leaned onto his chest. Under the warm light, the two of them embracing made the atmosphere blissful and peaceful. “I’m thinking, after we’re done with everything, let’s get married. What do you think?”
Wen Xinya looked up at him with her moistened eyes which, under the warm light, looked just like a glittering water surface.
Si Yiyan chuckled. “Okay!”
He also hoped that he could one day change the term “fiancée” and make her his real wife, include her name in his account book, become a true family with her, make her live with his surname, change her surname to Si, and make others call her Madam Si instead of Miss Wen.
Wen Xinya’s fingers gently struggled in his tightly clasped hand, inserted her fingers one by one between his, and interlaced her fingers with his.
Si Yiyan looked down at the two rings lying side by side and couldn’t help but smile.
Wen Xinya couldn’t help but sigh. “In the blink of an eye, a year passed just like this.”
In the past year, she had been rather busy, juggling the studies of jewelry design and the development of Lanxin Company, and almost didn’t rest at all.
Chu Jingnan’s acquisition plan met with the hurdle of the Mei Shan Company. However, after a tough struggle of three months, Mei Shan Company was still acquired by him, just that at that time, it was already badly damaged. Chu Jingnan didn’t care about this—he only cared about the outcome.
And the T-K Corporation didn’t mind either, because, from the start, they weren’t interested in the Mei Shan Company but its shell. All along, their intention was to completely abandon it and use its shell to launch their own products.
After the Mei Shan Company, it was Ming Yuan. Ming Yuan had joined forces with NBJ against the T-K Corporation. The Lanxin Company was also involved. Ming Yuan went head-on with the T-K Corporation openly first, NBJ attacked from the sides, and the Lanxin Company hid in the dark, waiting for the chance to strike and hit the T-K Corporation hard.
The CEO of NBJ, due to his appointment as the president of the federation of the health supplements industry, held the local sales channels for health supplements, as well as the suppliers, distributors, logistics providers, and other channels. He had made use of his prestige in the health supplements field to activate these channels against the Nanshan Company and XX Company, which were about to invade China’s health supplements market.
T-K Corporation had yet to stabilize its foundation in China before getting struck by NBJ. The three parties engaged in a tough battle in terms of finances, labor, and resources. After five months, due to the exhaustion of the finances of the Ming Yuan Company, Ming Yuan’s CEO was declared bankrupt—he’d rather go bankrupt than to be acquired.
This move stunned China’s business world and even many ordinary folks.
Lanxin Company made use of this chance to make this matter known to everyone such that even some ordinary folks vaguely knew about the external acquisition, causing negative influence in China’s market, and had already indirectly suppressed external investments.
Such an outcome was slightly out of Genesis’ expectation. Although they didn’t achieve their acquisition goal, their original intention was to devour China’s health supplements market, and they had already somehow achieved their goal.
As the T-K Group had suffered losses in this battle and the Genesis Investment Company knew that NBJ and Lanxin Company were tough nuts to crack, a quick acquisition battle wasn’t feasible. In China’s health supplements market, a short battle was very advantageous to them, because they could give it their all, which gave them a chance at a bad win. Even if they lost, they would cause huge losses to them.
Attrition warfare was the most beneficial to them.
Financial attrition was always the biggest weakness of China’s health supplements brands and they wouldn’t be able to keep up with it for a long time.
Additionally, in the battle against Ming Yuan and NBJ, T-K Corporation had also understood clearly that their first step should be to build a strong foundation in the Chinese market. This would be more beneficial for them when going against NBJ and Lanxin Company.
In the following four months, NBJ and Lanxin Company went head-on with the T-K Corporation numerous times and both parties had their wins and losses. This battle went from being a swift acquisition to a long attrition war.
Si Yiyan knew what she was thinking about, smiled, and said, “NBJ has done quite well in the battle against T-K Corporation and has yet to give in the least bit. When do you intend to form a formal alliance with NBJ to fight the T-K Corporation together?”
In the past year, although Lanxin Company had been cooperating with NBJ’s battle against T-K Corporation, NBJ had been wary of Lanxin Company’s mysterious background and strong capability, and as Xinya was looking for a truly trustworthy partner, she had been apprehensive.
However, the local businesses’ performance against the acquisitions by the international firms had been commendable and noticed by the global business world.
Wen Xinya said, “We’re still waiting. For the past few months, T-K Corporation has been focusing on managing Nanshan Company, the XX Company, and the Mei Shan Company. I’m guessing that they’ll soon launch a combined attack on China’s health supplements market. It’ll be natural to form an alliance then.”
When the battle against the T-K Corporation became imminent, everyone would have to be involved and have more trust in each other.
Si Yiyan wasn’t surprised. A true businessman knew when to strike. Xinya was getting more experienced in this area. In the battle against an international business like the T-K Corporation for the past year, Xinya was improving in her business warfare tactics.
Wen Xinya asked, “How’s the progress for Plan S against the Korean-Chinese Alliance?”
In the past year, Si Yiyan had been laying low, as if no work had been done.
Si Yiyan said mildly, “The cooperation with the Zhou Family has been firmed up. The Zhou Family will do their best to cooperate with all of our actions against the Korean-Chinese Alliance and provide us with intelligence. When the time is ripe, we can launch our attack.”
This plan had been progressing well due to Xinya’s cooperation and was only left with some details to iron out.
Wen Xinya was overjoyed as she hugged Si Yiyan’s arm and smiled. “We’ll definitely succeed.”