Chapter 149: Really want to spank her butt!

  In response to Chen Chen's sarcasm, Wu Tian gave a ruthless counterattack. This woman is someone who can't go three days without causing trouble and stirring up conflict. If you don't scold her or reprimand her a couple of times, she'll feel uncomfortable. Once the wound heals, the pain is forgotten; eat a hundred beans and you won't know the taste of bean paste!

  Wu Tian came to Sheng Tian today, originally to listen to Jing Yun's words, to help Chen Chen solve troubles and care about her. Unexpectedly, in less than three sentences, she started teasing him. Wu Tian felt that he was being overly sentimental. If he had known earlier, it would have been better to find a secluded place without cameras and play car shock with Fang Hua, while exploring the origin of humanity, which would be more meaningful and profound. Damn!

  When Chen Chen heard Wu Tian's sarcasm, saying that he was a person without ideals, his eyes immediately widened and he said to Wu Tian, "What do you mean? Look down on me? I'm also a person with ideals!"

  "People like you can have ideals? Humph, what ideals?" Wu Tian turned his head away, not even bothering to look at Chen Chen.

  "What's wrong with 'people like me'? What's wrong with people like me? Hmm?" Chen Chen glared at Wu Tian angrily for a long time before saying seriously, "My dream is to make Shengtian the largest and strongest pharmaceutical company."

  "Cut it out!" Upon hearing Chen Chen's words, Wu Tian let out a disdainful sound from his mouth, then bluntly said to Jing Yun, "I think you're dreaming!"

  "How did I end up dreaming? I'm on my ideal path. And my ideals are always more down-to-earth than yours."

  "It's not about what you think, it's about the facts. Someone like you who doesn't respect R&D doesn't even have the qualifications to dream. You want to rely on a few ordinary medicines to develop and grow? Shouting out the biggest and strongest slogans? Aren't you afraid of getting tongue-tied? Hmph!"

  "I know you're still resentful about me cutting off project A and transferring you out of the R&D department, but do you have to make the importance of R&D sound so mysterious?" Chen Chen said to Wu Tian, "Besides, I'm just reducing investment in the R&D department, not abolishing it. The R&D department is still operating, it's just that we've slightly adjusted the direction of research to focus on smaller drugs with shorter development times and lower investments, but faster returns. The market demand for small drugs is enormous, if we can occupy this market and make patients think of our drugs first when they're sick, that would be a success for Shengtian too."

  "Like those small medicines for treating colds and fever, the market is basically saturated. Even if you keep bombarding people with advertisements and brainwashing them, can you compete with pharmaceutical giants like Harbin Pharmaceutical Group or Yangtze River Pharmaceutical Group in terms of advertising expenses? They spend hundreds of millions or even billions of yuan on advertising every year. It's uncertain whether you can sell enough to cover that cost.

  Moreover, people have a nostalgic and conservative mindset deep down. The effects of cold and fever medicines are actually all the same. Compared to new medicines that suddenly appear in advertisements, people prefer to buy medicines they've used before. Only a small number of people will try purchasing new medicines. Do you want to occupy the market? Unless you kill off everyone with conservative thinking, maybe you'll have a chance."

  Chen Chen was moved by Wu Tian's words and hesitated, Wu Tian's words were not unreasonable, but she just wanted to change this traditional way of thinking, so she stubbornly said: "The medicine you're researching, isn't it also a new drug? I believe that only the market can decide everything."

  "As a manager, what you said is not wrong. But I'm telling you, you misunderstood. The market decides everything, it's not about waiting for you to occupy the market, but rather what the market needs. You should produce what the market needs. Does the market need cold and fever medicine now? No, because there are hundreds of thousands of such medicines, and they have many choices, besides taking medicine, you can also get injections, hang IVs, or even not take any medicine and just tough it out. But my A project is different, it aims to research new effective compounds that inhibit cancer cells, and currently, there is no effective anti-cancer drug on the market. Once developed, it will definitely be a hot commodity, after all, this is something you can't tough out, and 'cancer' is terrifying, nobody is not afraid of it. People are willing to spend a lot of money to buy anti-cancer drugs, but absolutely no one will spend a lot of money to buy cold and fever medicine. Do you understand now?"

  Wu Tian didn't understand before, he only knew that R&D is the core competitiveness of an enterprise, which is related to his work. As for market demand and other things, he saw them in a report from the Intelligence Department, and the owner of this report was Zhuo Wenjun. After seeing it, Wu Tian felt that what Zhuo Wenjun wrote made sense, and they should go see what the market needs instead of waiting until the product is produced and then looking for the market, which is a huge difference.

  "I won't tell you," Chen Chen said, but still muttered under his breath, "I'm studying economics and management, do you think you understand better than me?"

  When he heard this, Wu Tian glared at Chen Chen fiercely. Those words, he had said to Chen Chen more than once before, but this woman just wouldn't listen, she was stubborn. She would eventually pay the price for what she did.

  "I'm leaving." Wu Tian said, standing up. He didn't need to say another word, nor did he need to stay here any longer. Besides, now that he saw Chen Chen, he wanted to spank her hard.

  When Wu Tian was about to leave, Chen Chen was slightly stunned, and her heart was suddenly filled with regret. Now that the two of them didn't live together, they had less time to meet, and without Wu Tian, Chen Chen always felt like something was missing at home. Every day, she would return home alone, facing the cold room, and feel a sense of loss and loneliness in her heart. Lately, Wu Tian's shadow would appear in her mind from time to time, and when thinking about things, she would scribble down Wu Tian's name on paper. A few days ago, she wanted to go see Wu Tian, but ended up seeing nothing, and felt very disappointed when she returned. And today, Wu Tian came, but was being driven away again - how could Chen Chen not be anxious?

  Just as Wu Tian had reached for the door handle, Chen Chen suddenly slapped the table and stood up.

  "Slap!"

  "Wait a minute!!"

  Wu Tian stopped and turned around to look at Chen Chen's anxious face, saying "What, want to fight?"

  "No, I don't want to fight with you." Chen Chen said hastily.

  "What's with the table banging? Trying to scare away a mouse?"

  "No, it's just...just..." Chen Chen, who was still talking loudly with Wu Tian just now, stuttered and stood behind the office desk, her hands constantly fiddling with the hem of her clothes, her head lowered, her eyes wandering around like a child who had done something wrong.

  "What's going on? You're the one who should be talking!" Wu Tian frowned and said, when did this woman become so wishy-washy? This isn't her style. Where's that bold and decisive woman who would see things through to the end even if she was wrong? Wu Tian had seen many sides of Chen Chen, but never such a hesitant look, today was another eye-opener.

  "Actually... there's something else." Chen Chen finally lifted his head, pointing to the spot where Wu Tian had just been sitting, and said, "Sit down, I'll tell you again."

  Wu Tian looked at Chen Chen and didn't know what had happened to make him become like this now, it was simply...simply a mess!

  Seeing Wu Tian hadn't moved, Chen Chen walked out from behind the office desk, poured a cup of tea for Wu Tian and placed it on the table, then stood quietly beside him.

  It's impossible for Wu Tian to go there now.

  Men need face, women also need face. Chenchen has done his part, if Wu Tian doesn't go over there again, then it's his problem.

  Looking at Chen Chen's resentful face, Wu Tian's heart softened, and he loosened his grip on the door handle, returning to his seat and picking up his tea cup. He took a small sip, and the fragrance was fresh and high, with a refreshing sweetness that was absolutely top-notch West Lake Longjing tea. This was not Wu Tian's first time in Chen Chen's office, but it was the first time he had tasted something so good; previously, even getting a glass of water was difficult. A sense of rising status arose, and Wu Tian felt much more at ease, his expression also relaxing.

  Chen Chen had been paying attention to Wu Tian's expression, and seeing that Wu Tian was no longer angry, Chen Chen also let out a sigh of relief in his heart. Green tea is indeed effective at clearing fire and heat. Chen Chen returned to his own seat and sat down, looking at Wu Tian and saying, "Can we not fight every time we meet?"

  "Wasn't it you who squeezed me first?" Wu Tian said while drinking tea, Longjing can clear the fire and remove heat, but it doesn't have the effect of driving out poison... the poison on the poisonous tongue!

  "That's still not you...!" Chen Chen was about to retort, but seeing Wu Tian's furrowed brow, he immediately swallowed the remaining half of his words and changed his tone, "Alright, I was wrong earlier. I shouldn't have teased you first. Is that okay?"

  "Well, that's more like it." The man's dignity was restored, and a smile also appeared on Wu Tian's face. "Speak, what is it?"

  When Wu Tian saw Chen Chen smile, he also smiled and said, "It's like this, I received an invitation a few days ago. It was for a charity auction dinner hosted by the Pharmaceutical Association, which is scheduled to take place in two days' time. To be honest, I didn't want to go, but not going would be impolite, so... will you accompany me?" After finishing speaking, Chen Chen looked at Wu Tian with an expectant face and blinked her big eyes repeatedly.

  "Pharmaceutical Association?"

  Every industry is an association, for example, those who sell milk powder have a dairy association, those who sell houses have a real estate association, and those who sell medicine naturally have a pharmaceutical association. In fact, it's not even considered an official organization, the name sounds big, but in reality, it's just a group that collects membership fees and serves the interests of interest groups. For example, if there is a problem with milk powder, the dairy association will issue a statement saying that their quality is not a problem, if there is a problem, it is the responsibility of the dairy farmers and cows, throwing off their own responsibilities, while also being responsible for communicating with various reporters and officials.

  To put it bluntly, it's like watching a show. If nothing happens, that's for the best; if something does happen, you have to come out and smooth things over, otherwise what's the point of paying protection fees?

  Charity dinner? Short of money again?

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