Fake Husband of the Glamorous CEO-Chapter 353: Someone has designs on Meiyue? The influence of the Pill Association.
Meiyue Group.
Marketing Department.
Several bottles of Whitening Potion appeared on the desk of Director Ye Shuting.
It was not a product of any of the five cosmetics companies under Meiyue, but a counterfeit, yet its efficacy was close to 70 percent of the group’s supplied technology.
This technology was sufficient to mix the fake with the genuine, imitating Meiyue’s products for sale.
These were defective goods submitted by the group’s holding company.
They had found a large number of instances in the market recently where many were intentionally imitating Meiyue Group’s ’whitening’ technology-based potions.
They hoped that the head office would take this issue seriously.
As the Director of Product Marketing, Ye Shuting was responsible for organizing these issues and would not bother Lin Yue if she could resolve them herself.
After reviewing the defective product and listening to reports from her subordinates, Ye Shuting understood what was happening.
"So you’re saying that a competitor has recently spent a lot of money to gather Alchemist apprentices specifically to refine our products?"
The secretary nodded, "Yes, according to our findings, the source of these goods is not domestic, possibly from Europe."
"Interesting," Ye Shuting hadn’t expected that right after the Pill Association had recently opened its stores selling medicinal materials to registered alchemy members worldwide, someone would be so unprogressive as to target Meiyue Group’s business?
In fact, among cultivators’ alchemy projects, whitening and anti-aging elixir technologies were truly the most ordinary and unremarkable.
At least in the Cultivation world, a real Alchemist would only use the crafting of these elixirs as basic practice and not for commercial purposes.
But in the current market, such items were still popular and profitable.
However, Ye Shuting hadn’t expected an organization to actually compete with Meiyue for business?
Meiyue was the company that Brother Gu Feng had given to his sister-in-law.
And Gu Feng was the pioneer promoting global Cultivation culture, yet there were apprentices who dared to use the skills he had written about to target Lin Yue’s company?
You could even learn to refine elixirs that boost strength and target Pangu’s business without consequence, because if you could snatch profits from the jaws of high-end territories, it proved your capability, and many forces would woo you. But for someone to have a distinguished Pharmacist engage in crafting low-level techniques to harm Meiyue Group’s interests was truly a death wish.
Ye Shuting asked, "Do we know which company it is, exactly?"
The secretary replied, "The Helena brand, it belongs to the O’laya Group."
"Alright, I got it," Ye Shuting nodded, signaling the secretary to leave, then took out her cellphone and called Pei Li.
The person on the other end answered the phone in a noticeably good mood, "Hello? Shuting."
"Pei Li, there’s something I need you to handle," Ye Shuting shared the problem the group was facing with Pei Li, "Sister-in-law doesn’t know about this yet. Considering her current carefree mindset, she might not care about such matters, but I think we can resolve this issue on our own."
Pei Li paused for a moment, then her tone turned cold, "Leave it to me."
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Meanwhile.
Gaul Country.
Helena, a top-tier luxury brand under the O’laya Group.
As a former cosmetics giant, their market and stock had been continuously squeezed and were sluggish ever since the emergence of Dragon Nation’s five cosmetic companies.
From a peak market value of over 200 billion US dollars, it had now dwindled to less than 20 billion US dollars.
This was after the board members went to Dragon Nation and obtained technical authorization from related companies to stabilize their share, otherwise, the group might not have survived the past two years.
People are ambitious, and while they previously lacked the research channels and technology, the spread of "Cultivation" provided the group with a great opportunity.
They learned that among the pharmaceutical apprentices at various research institutions in Europe, there were those who could imitate the properties of products from Dragon Nation companies and develop similar elixirs.
The O’laya board was thrilled, and they promptly hired these apprentice alchemists at high prices, purchasing any medicinal materials they required from the Dragon Nation Alchemy Pharmacist Guild Store in order to conduct their own research and development.
The reason for this was that the supply technology they imported from Dragon Nation was expensive.
If their own research and development were successful, their profits could increase by at least 20% in the future!
However, just as Miss Sovas, the heir to the O’laya Group, was about to celebrate, she found out that the three highly-paid apprentice alchemists she had hired suddenly proposed terminating their cooperation, stating they would no longer produce ’whitening’ elixirs for any corporate entity.
Sovas was puzzled, "What’s wrong? Is the salary too low? No problem, we can negotiate."
One of the apprentices shook his head, "It’s not about the money. We may be in need, but we don’t want to ruin our futures."
Another apprentice chimed in, "The Gaul division of the Alchemy Pharmacist Guild has already accused and warned us three. If we engage in the commercial production of whitening elixirs again, they will revoke our apprenticeship certificates and ban us for life from the Pill Association!"
"Miss Sovas, we are sorry. We love this profession and we don’t want to be expelled before we even truly become official alchemists."
With that said, the three of them left without looking back.
Grinding her teeth, Sovas ordered her assistant secretary behind her, "Contact the head of our country’s Pill Association branch for me, I want to have a talk with him."
The assistant frowned and shook her head, "Ma’am, it’s best not to do this. The Pill Association has gained over three million members worldwide in less than a month since its establishment. Being an alchemist is a hot future profession, and if the Pill Association really threatens these three apprentices with their qualification certificates, no amount of money you offer will be of any use. The Four Great Professions are not under the control of any country; this was publicly declared by the Great Expert. If you think of using your government contacts, it’s impractical!"
"Don’t forget that many cultivators in our country will rely on alchemists for their medicines in the future. Even the government’s higher-ups will think twice, as those domestic cultivators likely won’t agree to it either."
All Sovas could do was sigh.
Meanwhile, in Gaul Country, the head of the Pill Association branch, Jackson, held his phone in conversation with Roger from afar in Dragon Nation, "Teacher, everything has been taken care of. The three apprentices were ignorant, but they have reflected on their mistakes and won’t make them again in the future."
As the President of the World Alchemist Association, Roger said, "Good, you’ve done well."
Jackson respectfully replied, "It’s my duty, not at all difficult."
After hanging up the phone, Jackson felt a small sense of happiness for having done something for his teacher.
In the first batch of registrations for the World Alchemist Association, he was chosen by President Roger to be his disciple and to act as the head of the Gaul division.
Just like him, there were divisions and related management teams worldwide.
They were in charge of global alchemists.
Anyone interested in elixirs would first have to study theoretical knowledge on the Pill Association’s official website and pass online assessments. Then, they had to go to a location in person to practice making elixirs. The whole process had to comply with the association’s audit standards before they could receive official alchemist certification.
Only with this certification could one purchase alchemy materials based on their ID from the Pill Association’s official website and engage in alchemy.
If you had a successful product, you could also list it in the Pill Association mall. If a buyer made a purchase, you only needed to pay a fee.
In short, an alchemist’s everything depended on the ecological environment created by the Pill Association.
If the three apprentices were expelled and stripped of their certifications by the Pill Association, they would not be recognized in any country around the world.
Because all countries also depended on the Pill Association for a constant supply of resources.
It might not seem like much now, but as the field of alchemy continued to grow, a top-grade high-level elixir would be incredibly scarce!
So for the three apprentices, the future was limitless. They would not jeopardize their careers for the sake of a short-term salary.
"Miss Pei, the matter is settled," Roger informed Pei Li with a follow-up call.
Pei Li laughed, "Thank you, President Luo. It’s only been a month, and I couldn’t imagine your Pill Association would grow to such a level and influence."
Roger humbly smiled, "That’s only because we have our teacher’s support."
