Chapter 105: Differences in Three Views
Hearing that Ye Qinru happened to have an appointment with the shareholders of Omnis Natura Technology today, Fu Yansheng decided to go with him.
Xu Jing agreed to meet Qi Yu at a western-style restaurant near Feng Mao Building. Qi Yu headed there alone.
The two hadn’t seen each other since they met in the hospital at the end of August. And since Qi Yu had Fu Yansheng by his side, he now rarely called Xu Jing to ask this or that. Thinking of Xu Jing’s attitude towards Fu Yansheng during their past few meeting, Qi Yu was afraid that this period of separation would have caused some distance to grow between himself and Xu Jing. On the way to the restaurant, he was still feeling a little uneasy.
But unexpectedly, Xu Jing gave him a hug as soon as he saw him and the smile on his face was still as amiable as when he was with him in New York many years ago.
The stone weighing down Qi Yu’s heart fell off. He smiled and called out “Jing Ge”.
After the two sat down, they chatted for a while. Xu Jing said, “I haven’t seen you for half a year and you’ve matured a lot.”
Qi Yu asked with a smile, “Where do you see that?”
“The way you speak and carry yourself, your whole temperament… You’re really like an adult now.” Xu Jing handed him the menu and smiled, “Let’s have some wine?”
He didn’t know if it was because he was now “mature” that Xu Jing’s attitude towards him had also changed.
For example, in the past, Xu Jing never took the initiative to hand him the wine list. Even when the two went to a bar to drink, the other party would remind him before ordering, “You’re still young, don’t order any hard drinks.”; or he would take the initiative to ask the waiter to add some sparkling water or ginger ale to his whiskey to dilute the alcohol. But now, Qi Yu felt that Xu Jing has begun to treat him as an equal “man”.
In his heart, he felt very happy. Glancing over the wine list, his eyes landed upon the name of a familiar wine. “How about a bottle of the Oran Winery’s vintage 2013 red wine?”
“Okay.” Xu Jing asked with a smile, “You’ve had it before?”
“Are you familiar with Chief Ye Qinru?” Qi Yu asked.
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Xu Jing looked at him for a while before asking, “I heard that Fu Yansheng helped you win this person over?”
Qi Yu closed the menu and said, “En.”
“I’ve underestimated your eye for people.” Xu Jing smiled. This sentence was an indirect recognition of the appreciation and importance that Qi Yu placed on Fu Yansheng. He asked, “Has the work of the Technology Development Department been going well?”
“I sought you today mainly for a related matter.” Qi Yu joined his hands, interlocking his fingers, his expression and tone becoming serious.
He truthfully told Xu Jing about the recent situation of the Technology Development Department and the difficulties they faced during the acquisition of HZ Technology. He then said, “I met Su Jing yesterday and I have a very good impression of him. If you’re not busy these next couple of days, I hope you can get in touch with HZ Technology on behalf of Shanyu Investment and express my sincerity.”
Xu Jing was a little puzzled. “But isn’t your Technology Development Department planning to acquire HZ Technology? If Su Jing gets funds from Shanyu and develops independently, wouldn’t it be even more impossible for him to agree to cede over control to the Si Yuan Group?”
Qi Yu said, “Of course I hope that the Si Yuan Group could acquire HZ Technology but Su Jing already refused this before. If he really insists on this then having Shanyu invest in HZ Technology, would be me doing him a favor. If and when he decides to sell the company, he would think of us first.”
Xu Jing lowered his eyes and thought for a while, and said, “If you really want to buy HZ, it’s not that there isn’t a way to do so. Remember when I told you about how Lin Huan helped Little Magpie buy Little Pigeon? You can use a similar method – as long as you arrange a few outsider, have them contact Su Jing separately, get each team to acquire part of the equity and get his trust, when the time comes you can combine several of these teams to capture his resources. At the same time let the group form a team and develop a service similar to HZ Technology’s. Spend some money on marketing campaigns and when outsiders see that the Si Yuan Group is doing this, no one will pay attention to HZ Technology anymore. When his capital chain is broken and he can no longer endure, he will naturally choose to compromise.”
Hearing Xu Jing talk so calmly about such a cruel plot to plunder, Qi Yu couldn’t help but be secretly shocked. Of course he knew that there were these other ways and he believed that Si Ze could do the same thing, but—
“I don’t only want HZ Technology but Su Jing as well.” Qi Yu stated his purpose.
Xu Jing frowned. “Why?”
Qi Yu: “The Technology Development Department has evaluated the core value of HZ Technology before and we’ve found that the biggest advantage of the HZ app is the system behind the platform. It makes the app operate smoother than other apps of the same types. Its push notification is also faster which gives its users an excellent user experience. And the person who made this system was Su Jing, so I think the core asset of HZ Technology is Su Jing himself.”
Xu Jing couldn’t help laughing. “Qi Yu, I admit that Su Jing is a technical genius, but while it’s fine to want HZ Technology, I still advise you to give up on Su Jing… Don’t you know who he is and what his past was?”
Qi Yu: “Do you mean about what happened with Lei Hong? I’ve heard of it. So what?”
Xu Jing: “Then do you know how badly Su’s betrayal of Lei Hong hit Zhongda? Su Jing betrayed them and stole the technology that originally belonged to Zhongda then made the same type of products as they did. Su Jing’s technology was even a step higher than Zhongda’s. if it wasn’t for Zhongda’s full-scale encirclement and suppression, forcing their funding to crack and suspend their research and development, Su Jing and Lei Hong’s status would be completely be switched today – You actually dare to recruit such a person into the Si Yuan Group?”
Qi Yu: “But what if the technology that Su Jing stole was technology that he originally developed?”
Xu Jing said decisively: “There is no such assumption. If Lei Hong hadn’t cultivated him, would he have had such resources and platforms to realize his ideas and ambitions? — During college, he was discovered by the president of a large consortium. How many people could have had such good luck? How much did Lei Hong value him back then? When he was only twenty-five years old, he was given the position of second-in-command of Zhongda’s R&D department. But what did he do to repay Lei Hong? He brought him these so-called ‘technology that he developed’ and betrayed the group – Think about it, does it really belong to him? Didn’t he use the resources and manpower of the group when he did its R&D? This person is a typical ungrateful person who puts his own personal value and achievements above everything else. So even if he is a genius, uptil now, no one dares to trust or cooperate with him.”
Qi Yu felt agitated and he retorted, “Everyone judges Su Jing’s betrayal based only on the rumors of the incident. But how could outsiders know under what circumstances he was recruited into Zhongda? How could outsiders know what Lei Hong actually promised him? What if what you see as betrayal was simply his resistance to being deceived?”
Xu Jing looked at him and persuaded patiently: “Qi Yu, you’ve only met him once and you already know what he’s like? He relies on technology to make a living. Don’t you think he may have just spouted some bullshit to coax you? Why do you insist on trusting this person that the whole industry wouldn’t dare touch?”
Qi Yu: “I may not have the complete picture, but I’m just looking at the problem objectively. I admit that I don’t fully understand him, but he doesn’t really strike me as the scheming sort. That’s why, I’m presently still willing to give him a little trust.”
Xu Jing shook his head and said, “You are still young and you haven’t experienced the sinister nature of society. Not everyone is as sympathetic and righteous as you think, nor are they as kind and pure. In the business field, your kindness towards others is cruelty to yourself. If you keep doing this, sooner or later someone’s going to eat you to the bone!”
Xu Jing’s criticism rendered Qi Yu speechless. He held the wine glass tightly and looked at Xu Jing. They were at a stalemate…
But in the end, Xu Jing gave in first.
He smiled bitterly and said: “Alright, no matter what, Shanyu Investment is yours. I’ll do it according to how you want. If it is only a few million, I’m not worried about Su Jing raising up any kind of storm — but I’ll still stick to my opinion. Su Jing can’t be trusted.”
Hearing this sentence, Qi Yu suddenly felt like a punctured ball; dejected and powerless.
As his companion of many years since he was young, it made Qi Yu instinctively think that Xu Jing would understand him. He never thought that one day they would have such a deep divergence of their three views…
It was clear that the other party had frankly expressed his inner thoughts and that he was totally devoted to him. He neither deceived nor hid his thoughts, but at this moment Qi Yu felt that the other party was so far away from him.
Rather than compromising in this way, Qi Yu hoped that Xu Jing could support his decision wholeheartedly. Just like when he said he would help Zhang Chengxuan and Chief Qin, Fu Yansheng would definitely have had a different approach, but Fu Yansheng Still encourage him to do what he wanted so long as he faced the reality of the situation…
At this moment, Qi Yu suddenly realized in a flash how precious Fu Yansheng’s approval and encouragement were.
Fortunately, Qi Yu no longer showed all his emotions on his face like he used. Even if he felt a little disappointed, he understood that Xu Jing had his own position and persistence. Since his goal has been achieved, the two didn’t continue on with this topic.
Afterwards, they turned back to what had been happening to them recently. Qi Yu told Xu Jing about how his parents seemed to have a rekindled their old love.
Xu Jing said, surprised, “Is that so? A lot has been going on with Mei Wei during the past half month and Host Jiang has shares in Mei Wei. Are you sure they aren’t meeting for proper business?”
If it was only for business, would dad have specially come back to Haicheng for Christmas?” Qi Yu thought about how his parents had met him without telling him and he felt amused, “He has probably seen my mother more in the last six months than he has ever in the previous eleven years combined.”
Xu Jing also smiled: “To be honest, Chairman Qi has long been in love. When I came back to China to take over Shanyu a few years ago, at that time, I also had a few business affairs with Host Jiang on behalf of your father. Every time after I visit her, he would always ask about how she was doing.”
Qi Yu smiled: “Actually, every time after I call my mother, he would also ask.”
Xu Jing shook his head: “Since they’ve always had feeling for each other, why even leave? After the divorce, both of them stayed single for 11 years. Your parents sure know how to compete with each other.”
Qi Yu sighed, “To be honest, for so many years, I’ve always felt that as long as my mother gave dad another chance, dad would have come back without a single word.”
Xu Jing poured some wine for Qi Yu and said with a smile, “If they remarry, I must go to the wedding.”
Qi Yu: “It’s still early. Both of them are in their fifties and they don’t care about that kind of form of relationship. They might just go on sneaking around like this.”
Xu Jing laughed. “Sneaking around? How can anyone talk like that about their parents?”
Their lunch dragged on for more than two hours during which they talked about everything. After the meal, Qi Yu took the initiative to pay their bill. He took out the bank card from his wallet and handed it to the waiter standing by their table with the POS machine. Xu Jing had sharp eyes and his eyes caught the red mark that was exposed when he raised his neck.
When the two got up and left the restaurant, Xu Jing asked casually, “Qi Yu, are you also seeing someone?”
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【Little Theater】
Fu Yansheng: Even if I make an appearance, I must have my wife think of me all the time.
Qi Yu: You succeeded…
Fu Yansheng: Even if I didn’t show up, I have to make my rivals in love retreat.
Xu Jing: Laozi and Qi Yu are brothers, thank you very much! But your sense of presence really is too strong, I’m so angry!
HAHAHAHAHA, Xu jing is a good brother, but not a good businessman i guess
thanks for the chapter!
Idk why, but I find Hu Jing very sus. Is it just me?
seriously there is just something I can’t pinpoint on him, been in a big dilemma whether to put trust in him or not… 😭
xu jing is just annoying to me