Rebirth: She is Ready for a Counterattack!-Chapter 316 - 315: Laying Down the Gauntlet

He spoke neither humbly nor arrogantly.

"I’m sorry, I thought Miss Guan’s politeness just now told me that this is your etiquette habit, and that there’s no need to extend a hand to shake hands with others, so I omitted it. It turns out I was uninformed. Hello, Miss Guan."

Gu Xiaoqing extended her hand.

Miss Guan was evidently angered by Gu Xiaoqing’s words, her face covered with a thin layer of anger, her eyes full of disdain.

"Miss Gu is quite eloquent, I really underestimated you. It seems Miss Gu is very sincere about cooperating with us for the agency rights, right?"

Guan Meiqi had not completely lost her reason and secretly suppressed her anger.

Originally, she didn’t take such a small cooperation seriously and didn’t need to handle the negotiations herself.

But as soon as she returned to the company, she heard Manager Bai praising these two not-yet-graduated college girls in front of her father regarding this agency rights negotiation, almost to the extent of heaven having none and earth having no equal in capability and excellence.

For Guan Meiqi, a Harvard graduate, this was an unvarnished challenge. She couldn’t help but want to see how capable these girls from mainland China could be.

Frankly speaking, she came with the intention to assert her dominance.

In her mind, if the other party had no distinguishing features and yielded, acknowledging her initiative, she would have let go.

Unfortunately, the other party clearly did not think the same way as Guan Meiqi, not like those bumpkins easily intimidated into submission.

Not only do they not bow down, but they want to oppress her instead.

This naturally gave Guan Meiqi a manic urge to suppress them. She even thought of not giving Gu Xiaoqing the business negotiation she wanted and considered using her father’s network to spread the word in the business world.

She believed no company would dare to cut Gu Xiaoqing any slack, and she couldn’t wait to see if Gu Xiaoqing would come begging to her, and whether she would lower her proud head.

Gu Xiaoqing smiled, confident in the meaning behind the girl’s slightly aggressive and hostile micro-expressions, believing that she would present her with a challenge, or even outright refuse to sign the contract.

"Miss Guan, we certainly came with full sincerity."

"So, you know that our agents have standards, right? For example, the annual sales volume for a general city-level agent must reach at least five million, while for a city like Shanghai, the agent sales must be at least ten million.

Additionally, you need to pay a thirty percent deposit upfront, and the remaining funds for the goods must be fully paid in the later stages of procurement. Any unmet tasks will have the costs deducted from the deposit during year-end clearing."

Guan Meiqi watched Gu Xiaoqing slowly turn pale as she enunciated each word, feeling a sense of achievement from finally having the upper hand.

Here’s strength for you, no need for any language, just listing these conditions is enough to make you lose face.

Didn’t you want to negotiate?

I’ll let you see the outcome of the negotiation.

Zhao Xiangguo was dumbfounded.

The implication of these words was fundamentally different from the previous agency contracts.

A sales volume of ten million.

What a joke.

Who can guarantee a sales volume of ten million?

And then there’s the matter of the deposit, including this disguised penalty for breach of contract, which is just making things difficult.

Manager Bai, standing on the side, was also alarmed. What’s wrong with the young lady?

Even here in Hong Kong, there’s no such agency contract.

These terms don’t signify intention to negotiate.

They seem more like a provocation meant to crush the opposition.

"Miss Guan, everything you’re saying now seems to be entirely in favor of your trading company, without mentioning any beneficial support to us as an agency, like the price of raw materials for milk tea, recycling of remaining materials, and wastage, etc.

Moreover, Miss Guan seems unfamiliar with the data on milk tea raw materials. Do you know that milk tea raw materials are measured by kilograms? Based on Miss Guan’s sales figure of ten million, it’s equivalent to requiring us to complete ten million kilograms of milk tea raw materials, synthesizing into an estimated one hundred million cups of milk tea for sale." 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

After Gu Xiaoqing finished speaking, she smiled. Although the smile contained no ridicule, Guan Meiqi still sensed the mockery within.

Indeed, she spoke without thinking, forgetting the conversion of numbers. It was unreasonable to require one city to sell one hundred million cups of milk tea, especially when the entire market in Hong Kong annually is barely over two hundred million.

Her face flushed slightly red due to the embarrassment of her trickery being exposed.

She spoke too quickly just now, not thinking it through, which allowed Gu Xiaoqing to catch her out.

"Miss Guan, the agency contract you mentioned, I believe, not only can’t we achieve it, but probably no other company could either. I truly believe that Miss Guan’s company does big business, and small outfits like mine are unworthy to discuss such matters with big businesspeople like you.

I’m sorry for wasting our time on this cooperation. I think we both need to reconsider the collaboration."

Gu Xiaoqing remained composed, implying that it wasn’t she slapping Miss Guan’s face, but rather Miss Guan giving her the opportunity for face slapping.

Guan Meiqi was furious, her face flushed, while Manager Bai and Mr. Wuda beside her were so embarrassed they almost wanted to find a hole to hide in.

Their superior blindly made things difficult without common sense and was exposed; there’s face for no one in such a situation.

"Fine, do you think I care about cooperating with you? I’ll put it out there today: apart from the milk tea agency rights from Guan’s Enterprise, you’ll not find any other milk tea agency cooperation companies. Don’t believe me? Go check it out for yourself.

Next time when you want to talk to me about cooperation, the terms won’t be like this."

Guan Meiqi clearly pushed her authority to the extreme, refusing to lose dignity despite the situation.

She stood up, stomping away on her ten-inch high heels, with Wuda following behind, swaying her waist as she left angrily.

Manager Bai quietly apologized to Zhao Xiangguo: "I’m sorry for how things turned out today, it’s my failure to coordinate properly. I’ll call you later and introduce you to a few other companies."

Zhao Xiangguo understood that it wasn’t Manager Bai’s fault and kindly comforted him before he left.

The three people left in the private room looked at each other.

It seemed like things had gone back to square one.