Chapter 235 - Jiang YaGe Froze on the Spot. Her Biggest Fear Had Finally Happened (1)

The advertised on the news had given White Jade Cream and Detoxification Pills instant fame. All of a sudden, almost everyone was talking about them online. It was as though one would feel left behind if one didn't say something about them. Many of the netizens believed that the news would not advertise untruthfully and some others were more skeptical.

The debate lasted all the way until the Gaoyuan Corporation's press conference. They invited many veterans to share their personal experience. They had all made recordings at different stages of applying the medicine and Gaoyuan Corporation had turned them into a video and played them at the press conference. That was doubtless the best evidence of it all.

As the person who provided the formulas, Fang JunRong also attended the press conference. But, as far as the public was concerned, she attended as a shareholder.

She fielded the questions from the reporters in a very organized fashion and she was poised. She looked beautiful and elegant and really made herself stood out among all of the speakers.

"In order to make this medicine available to the general public, we are doing as best we can to sell this medicine at cost. We'd rather lose money than see anyone still needing to live with their handicap because they can't afford the medicine.

"Gaoyuan Corporation will set up a foundation. For each bottle White Jade Cream sold, we will add 10 yuan to the funding in the foundation. This amount will be used as veteran's supplement and ensure that their golden years be assured.

"No. I do not think what I am doing is particularly wonderful; I am merely taking on the responsibilities of an entrepreneur."

The views on the video continued to go after it had been uploaded. It had been viewed over 10 million times in less than a day and there were over 10,000 comments under it.

[You go, Boss Fang! Boss Fang was truly kind and pretty! She is the living testimony of a conscientious entrepreneur!]

[I was very skeptical when I first heard about how miraculous the White Jade Cream is. But now that I have seen Fang JunRong talking and also recalling the miraculous effect of the Beautify Pills and Hair Growing Cream, I think maybe I can be convinced. Fang JunRong has, after all, never lied to us, the consumers. I trust her.]

[I had thought that at 888 yuan a bottle it is way too expensive. But now that I have seen all the veterans coming out to talk about it, I suddenly feel that they are way too inexpensive! Keep in mind that their injuries might not even be cured after tens of thousands of yuan of surgeries. Well, I am going to buy myself a bottle just in case anyway.]

[Am I the only one whose focus was off? Fang JunRong is so pretty. Is she really already 42 years old? Crying. I am just 25 and feel like her older sister if standing next to her. Going to buy myself another box of Beautify Pills while I cry.]

[The White Jade Cream is pretty inexpensive at 888 yuan a bottle. Considering its efficacy, the cost of making them cannot be that low. That reminds me of the Zhang family's Yifang Corporation. They charge tens of thousands of yuan for a bottle of their Bone Connecting Cream and it doesn't even work as well as the White Jade Cream.]

[Who'd want the Bone Connecting Cream where there is White Jade Cream? It's like paying intellectual tax.]

[Oh, I so regret it now! I've purchased a few bottles of the Bone Connecting Cream when they were offering a promotional discount. Now all my money was wasted. Rubbish Yifang! Give me my hard-earned money back!]

[I am speculating that Fang JunRong was the one who decided on the prize. 888 yuan is the same as a bottle of Beautify Pills.]

Through this process, the Zhang family was dragged out and bashed repeatedly, and became the biggest loser in this. Their reputation had already been blemished some during the incident in which they were selling fake products with Li WangJin. They had recovered a little through placing all the blame on Li WangJin and offering discounts. Their Bone Connecting Cream was expensive and was jokingly referred to as Cream for the Rich and is too good for the poor. But, overall, people put up with it because it is truly effective.

Now that Gaoyuan had launched White Jade Cream and Detoxification Pills and that the effect of White Jade Cream was way superior than that of the Bone Connecting Cream at 1/60 of the cost. As the netizen had put it, anyone who was still buying the Big Brother was just paying their intelligence tax. Even the rich wanted to buy what's best.

As such, Yifang Corporation was faced with their biggest crisis since its inception. Their reputation plummeted and they were labeled by the public as the unconscientious entrepreneur.

Chapter 236 - Jiang YaGe Froze on the Spot. Her Biggest Fear Had Finally Happened (2)

The Zhang family was about to be driven mad by Gaoyuan Corporation.

Through Zhang ZhiYang, they have learned that the two medications were from Fang JunRong. In their minds, medicines like these would, undoubtedly, become treasures of a family and more than enough to prop up Fang JunRong's family for many years to come, much like the Zhang family. What they did not expect was how she had turned in her formula just like that and sold them at such an affordable price.

How would there be fools like her who'd just give away one's treasure mines like that? And, on top of that, the Zhang family was unfortunately enough to run into this fool and became their stepping stool in going up.

Netizens had all rushed under their website and left all sorts of sarcastic messages.

Those at the Zhang family could not sit tight anymore and they called for a clan meeting.

"Clan leader, perhaps we should lower our price as well? At this rate, we will be boycotted by the public." There were a lot of noises about boycotting them among the public.

The Zhang family had always looked down upon the commoners and felt that they were second-class citizens. Nevertheless, when these people all ganged up and boycott them, not even a family their size could resist that.

"If we are to lower our prices to, say, 300 yuan, we can at least make tens of yuan per bottle." It was way less than what they were making before but some was still better than none at all. They were not yet ready to part with their profit from the Bone-Connecting Cream.

Zhang Bi rejected that idea right away. "We can't do that. If we lowered the price by so much, we are telling everyone that we had been very unconscientious in the past."

Many had complained about how expensive their medications were in the past. And, back then, the Zhang family would release announcements justifying that the cost of their medications was high because they used the best ingredients and the process of making them was very complicated. That they would get what they paid for. If they were to lower their price to 1/100 what it used to be, he worried that the public would tear them into pieces.

Especially those who had purchased from them in the past. They would want to see blood. Many of them were from not-so-well-off families really tightening their belts in order to buy the Bone-Connecting Cream.

Just the thought of it was enough to make Zhang Bi shuddered. It made him felt even more resentful toward Fang JunRong who had put them in this spot. Was she a fool?

"Bi was right. We can't lower the price now." The clan leader of the Zhang family opened up his eyes and, looking helplessly, he said, "Let's take the Bone-Connecting Cream off the market and pause production from the factories. Who would buy them now even if we continue to churn them out?" There was tremendous sadness in his voice when he said that. Bone-Connecting Cream made up a large part of their profit and it was a very painful decision on his part.

Fang JunRong's move had completely blind-sided them. She had uprooted the Zhang family's foundation from the ground up. At this very moment, even the well-experienced clan leader of the Zhang was at loss about the future of their clan.

Zhang Bi said with his head lowered, "Grandpa, we had failed you. We have yet to figure out the formulas for those prescriptions." They couldn't even re-create the Beautify Pills. A family that boasted being leader in the medicinal field was being stomped all over by a common woman.

The clan leader of the Zhang family said, "Keep going with the research. Also try to get the formula through other means. Whatever you need to do to accomplish that."

His eyes lit up and his look determined. There was a killer-intent in his voice. He looked around those in the room and said, "Whoever that could get their hands on the formula for White Jade Cream will be the next successor."

His voice energized the room. Everybody exchanged looks with each other and everybody wanted to be the one who was the first to accomplish that.

Chapter 237 - Jiang YaGe Froze on the Spot. Her Biggest Fear Had Finally Happened (3)

Some had other crazy thoughts as well. Others might not know the formula, but Fang JunRong would know that for sure. If they were to marry her, it'd be a win-win. Fang JunRong was a beauty and very presentable, other than being a little bit on the older side.

Zhang Bi could see the looks on these individuals and their looks more or less reflected their thoughts. He snickered to himself: these people need to experience Fang JunRong on their own. Fang JunRong was not a gullible 16 ~ 17-year-old. Even her daughter was more difficult than others her age.

If he had that kind of time, he would be better off spending it on Li ShiZe. If Jiang YaGe could have him fooled for so long, he was obviously a brainless one. For sure he would be able to buddy up to him easily.

***

Jiang YaGe was looking up news on Fang JunRong online. The overwhelming praises for Fang JunRong made her eyes hurt. What brought about even more grief was the fact that the White Jade Cream that was gifted to her from Zhang Bi before was only asking for 888 yuan for a bottom at Gaoyuan Corporation's pharmacies.

How was that possible? She refused to believe it and went and bought a bottle herself. Sure enough. It was the same thing.

For sure Zhang Bi had told her that he spent 2 million on a bottle. She had trusted him so and had so much appreciation and respect for him. Now she found out that all those were fake? Most importantly, she worried about things between herself and Fang JueMing. Would he take this the wrong way?

Fang JueMing had been hanging up on her the last few times that she had called him. She had already broken up with Li ShiZe. What was she to do if Fang JueMing dump her?

She was frantic and had difficulties sleeping and eating. She couldn't help but felt hatred toward Gaoyuan Corporation. Why did they have to sell White Jade Cream? And why at such an inexpensive price?

She could hear the door being unlocked from inside the quiet apartment. When she recollected herself, there were both anticipation and fear in her eyes.

The door was pushed open a few seconds later and Fang JueMing appeared in front of her. He looked at her indifferently and the normal gentleness was nowhere to be seen.

Jiang YaGe felt a difficulty to speak. She opened up her mouth and there was her usual she was being mistreated tone in her voice. "JueMing, Zhang Bi lied to me. He was the one who gave me the medicine and, him being from a medicinal family, I didn't think he would lie to me about something like that."

Once his filter for her was gone, his rationality had returned. He was more judgmental than before when he looked at Jiang YaGe. He had certainly heard some about Zhang Bi in the past. He was said to be the most talented doctor of his generation.

"So, you mean to tell me that the bottle of medicine was given to you by him. And just why did he give it to you for no reason?" Given that Gaoyuan Corporation and Yifang Corporation were competitors, he couldn't image that the Zhang family had obtained the White Jade Cream through any legitimate means. Yes, Jiang YaGe seemed to be quite close to the Zhang family, to the point that they had gifted her what was considered a very precious drug at the time.

"I really thought the medicine was worth over a million yuan." Fang JueMing's attitude made Jiang YaGe nervous. "I, I am friends with Zhang Bi, which is why he gifted me a bottle."

Fang JueMing's lips curved upward coldly. "I am sure. If you were the ones who developed the drug, no doubt you would have sold it at a million yuan. And that is exactly why you didn't expect Gaoyuan Corporation would give up such profit and sell the drug at cost.

"You are so far from them on the spiritual level."

He recalled how Fang JunRong looked during the press conference. Never once did she used boast about herself with any empty embellishment. She was calm the entire time and glowed when she said she would rather take a loss than seeing those who had to live with their handicaps because they couldn't afford the medicine. Looking back at Jiang YaGe, she probably would never choose to help him out had he not have the celebrity halo. There were so many handicapped people in this world and many of them much more seriously injured than him. He didn't see Jiang YaGe trying to help them.

Perhaps it was an investment on her part from the very beginning. He was blinded by his appreciation for her at the time, looked at her as though she was a goddess, and accepted everything about her.

He couldn't be more wrong from the very beginning. Fang JunRong with her altruism was the real angel here.

Thinking of that and, looking back at the sad look on Jiang YaGe, all he could think of was how pretentious she was.

"Just leave. I don't want to see you again."

Jiang YaGe froze on the spot. What she had dreaded the most had finally happen.