Now everything was coming crashing down online. There were so many behind-the-scene complaints and refund requests that customer service couldn’t handle them even working overtime. They had to hire a few more to help out.

The only thing that Zhang Bi could think of right now was that there was something wrong with the formula. Perhaps Li WangJin and joined hands with his ex-wife just to set them up. Even though Li WangJin seemed to stand to lose a lot in this incident.

Normally speaking, when a company has a problematic product, if the company would stand up and explain nicely to the public and discuss their [next action plans, the public would at least be pacified a little bit.

Li WangJin, on the other hand, decided to first suppress the news, wipe it off of the most trending list, cancel accounts that bashed his products, all in one go. Well, it might have been fun for him to do that, but not so much for the netizens and they started bashing him right away.

Pinching his nose, Li WangJin was livid. “Can’t you just not eat all kinds of random stuff for a change?”

Wang SiXian bit her lip. This was not what she had wanted either. Li WangJin didn’t come home very often and the one time that he was home, this happened. She worried that her image in his mind was already all ruined and that he’d already think of her poorly even after she face has recovered.

And it was not even her fault at all.

She asked Li WangJin tentatively.

Li WangJin replied confidently, “This was a new product developed by the Zhang’s. It’s even better than the Beautify Pills.”

Wang SiXian did not doubt him.

Li WangJin was gone in the next few days that followed busy with soliciting for investments. He was busy like a bee in front of others and had, once again, restored his once-lost high-spirited self.

More importantly, from her observation in the last few months, Sun Mei had noticed that whenever Li WangJin was involved, Fang JunRong had never lost a battle. And, what was even more impressive was that her reputation was still up and up in their circle. Everybody still thought of her as a virtuous and ideal wife. Li WangJin was the idiot who didn’t know what he had. Had he been half as capable as she, he would not have such a reputation today. Fang JunRong was just someone mean with words but gentle inside.

Thing had since changed. The crazy number of pre-orders for the Cherry Blossom Pills was there for all to see. Everybody knew that Li WangJin would have no shortage of money going forward. Once words got out, many immediately reached out to Li WangJin. In fact, they were so passionate that one would never have thought they were the same people who had made fun of Li WangJin just a little while ago. As much as they frowned upon the fact that he had stolen proprietary information, they were also very envious of his chicken that could lay golden eggs.

“Many of the netizens actually support Li WangJin, saying that it is a good thing that he allows them to buy the product for cheaper. It doesn’t matter to them whether Cherry Blossom Pills was legitimate or not. Some of them even said that only someone who had never used pirated software in their entire life has grounds to criticize Li WangJin. Some even said that Li WangJin is a nice man with their best interest in mind.”

Li WangJin had opened up the link for pre-order of the Cherry Blossom Pills as he watched from the backend the numbers continued to climb. It was like looking at countless money dancing in front of his eyes.

He had hired many water armies in the last few days to lead the trend that the Cherry Blossom Pills and the Beautify Pills shared the same formula and differed only in their names. Judging from the number of pre-orders, many believed in it.

She could tell that the mood was down when she walked into the office the next day. The incident of Li WangJin launching the Cherry Blossom Pills had affected her employees to a certain extent.

Unlike their Beautify Pills, where 10% off was the most they were even given, the Cherry Blossom Pills would be launched with steep discounts. If the two truly shared the same formula, the customers would doubtless go for the cheaper option.

Many of the businesses that Li WangJin had contacted earlier had also reposted his Weibo message in an effort to increase his traffic and exposure. The hotness of the topic continued to rise.

Li WangJin happily opened up a treasured bottle of red wine as he saw the trend. Two glasses of wine later, he was a little elated. He dug out Fang JunRong’s phone number and tried to call her – he was still blocked.

Fang JunRong felt that if she lifted the limit right now, it’d be very unfair for those who had been raffling this entire time. As a fair person, she’d naturally only provide the extra benefits on her daughter’s birthday.

While she was ignoring all of the comments, Li WangJin was readying himself for making himself known. After half a month of around-the-clock production, his company had already churned out 600,000 boxes of Cherry Blossom Pills.

Fang JunRong met up with Zhang ZhiSu when the Zhang’s and Li WangJin were pouring every ounce of their effort into producing the Beautify Pills, err, the Cherry Blossom Pills.

This time they were meeting at a villa in City S.

Compared to the previous time that they’ve met, Zhang ZhiSu looked much better and was no longer pale like jade like he used to be. He smiled slightly at Fang JunRong. “Miss Fang.”

Li WangJin gritted his teeth but sold 5% of his stock anyway. He thought he’d at least be able to get 2B yuan from that, but he was only able to fetch 1.5B yuan.

Li WangJin was infuriated. In fact, he had a canker sore from being so angry. The physical and mental pain had prevented him from having a good night’s rest for days.

And the other party felt very justified.

After some discussion with Kong LiLi, Fang JunRong sent a message to Jiang WenYu and set up a meeting time with him.

Even though she was the one who provided the formula, as a layman, she knew nothing about this and needed to spend some time consulting with Jiang WenYu. Speaking of, he had already been working behind closed doors for a while now. She wondered how his thesis was coming along.

Zhou Yi smiled and said, “Thank you, Mom. I will.” She was only a sophomore in college; she has plenty of time to think this through. She couldn't help but think about Jiang YaGe whose situation was a total opposite of her. Someone had pushed along the incident online, and it had gained a lot of publicity. Jiang YaGe’s reputation was now completely ruined.

Fang JunRong always cared about her daughter. It didn’t take her long to hear about what had happened to her daughter in the afternoon. Her eyes darkened when she found out that Zhang Bi was involved.

She called her daughter over and asked her for more details.

As for Meng Qiang, he expressed to the cops that he had a bit too much to drink and wasn’t thinking straight and that he was willing to apologize to the victims and pay for his mistake. He didn’t have any of the arrogance on him earlier when he was in the office. He stooped very low for his mistake.

“You tramp!” He shrieked and cussed at the same time, but he wasn’t able to open his eyes from the pain. He inadvertently bumped into the shelf next to him and his leg hurt so much that he dropped onto his knees.

Li XinYun and a few fellow classmates were about to visit a company.

When she first started school, she had applied and successfully joined the student union. Lately the school was hosting some activities and, usually, they required the members of the student union to solicit funding from outside sponsors.

WangJin, the end of the year is in three months’ time and the company should start preparing for the annual celebration.”

“President, how are we doing the bonus this year? Do you have any ideas?”