After a Flash Marriage With the Disabled Tyrant - Chap 26
Zhao company’s new product pre-sale?
And the product packaging was similar to the new products that Lou company was about to release in the next quarter?
As the chief designer of the product appearance, Shi Yunnan had to personally come forward to get a clear understanding of the situation. After Luo Lingsheng heard the news, he simply followed the former to Lou’s headquarters.
When the two arrived at Lou’s conference room, all the key employees involved in this investment cooperation were already in place.
When everyone present saw Luo Lingsheng, the big shot, they all became nervous.
Luo Lingsheng and Shi Yunnan took their seats calmly and went straight to the point, “What’s the situation now?”
He was the chairman of the Luo Group, and naturally had the right to intervene in the investment project under his hands.
“Let me speak.”
Lou Yuan linked her tablet to the big screen and said straight to the point, “At four o’clock in the afternoon, the largest cosmetics brand under the Zhao Group, ‘Yu Fu Ji1‘, published the pre-sale news on their official blog, stating that the company has released a new line of ‘Mei Ji’ air cushion foundation.”
The pre-sale concept description of the products was roughly divided into two parts——
One was the formula of the product line, and the other was the display of product appearance design.
Lou Yuan swiped her fingertip on the tablet, and the large screen projected the appearance of the product they released, “Mr. Shi, why don’t you take a look?”
The moment the product appearance appeared, a subtle coldness flooded the bottom of Shi Yunnan’s eyes——
This was his design, but it couldn’t be said to be exactly the same.
Shi Yunnan had asked earlier, Lou company main products in the past two years were two-color skin nourishing air cushion and a series of lipsticks with six colors.
They used ancient formulas to extract and purify the nectar, then used modern technology to upgrade it. The products were all tested by the relevant authorities and were harmless to the human body.
Therefore, Shi Yunnan designed a series of appearance in the same color around the element of ‘flower’.
Let’s look at the appearance design of the lipstick as an example——the cylindrical outer design. At the split part, an exceptional flower-shaped relief was embossed on the surface, and the rest of the outer surface was designed with gold printing.
Not only that, each embossed stamen was inlaid with a polished topaz.
This unique little design was due to Shi Yunnan’s accumulated experience in jewelry design.
The color and luster of artificial topaz were not reduced, but the overall cost was far cheaper than natural jewelry.
If a large quantity(of topaz) needed secondary processing, although the cost was higher than that of ordinary shape design, Lou company could afford it after obtaining the investment.
Most importantly, artificial topaz looked as good as natural jewelry and did not appear cheap.
The new air cushion foundation launched by Zhao Group only switched the design of the lipstick to the design of the air cushion. In addition, only the relief pattern had been changed, but the rest of the design elements were almost identical.
To this extent, plagiarism was not an exaggeration!
“Mr. Shi, what do you think of this?” Lou Yuan waited patiently for a while before asking Shi Yunnan.
“First of all, let me state one thing, the designs created under my pen are original no matter good or bad, there is no possibility of plagiarizing someone else’s design draft.”
Shi Yunnan showed unprecedented seriousness in his eyes, and the implication was clear.
His sharp gaze swept across everyone present, and finally landed on Luo Lingsheng’s face, “Obviously, we have insiders who leaked the design draft.”
Everyone present looked at each other in dismay and was flustered for a while.
Only Luo Lingsheng, the behind-the-scenes ‘gold master2‘, maintained a calm expression, “Go on.”
Shi Yunnan shrugged without the slightest anger after his design was plagiarized, “Since it was robbed by others, Lou company can no longer use this design.”
When the people from Lou company’s purchasing department heard this, they immediately became anxious, “Mr. Shi, how can this be possible? Our new appearance design has already been prototyped, and we have also negotiated the batch price with the manufacturer. We only need to wait for Luo company’s approval and fund allocation for mass production!”
The online marketing team led by Lou Yuan was also anxious, “Mr. Shi, commercial content can’t be trifled with. Our online marketing team has already prepared promotional materials, and we have also found various platforms for promotion, waiting to sign a cooperation contract.”
The new products couldn’t be released for the time being, so what should they use for promotion?
The Lou couple, who also came to attend the meeting, looked at each other and asked tentatively, “Mr. Shi, have you applied for an appearance copyright patent of this product? Can we sue them?”
“Of course I’ve already applied for it.” Shi Yunnan smiled and turned down their suggestion, “But it’s useless now, and I don’t plan to sue them for the time being.”
Someone asked, “Why?”
Luo Lingsheng took off his glasses and replied in a leisurely manner, “The lawsuit of a design patent is not as simple as one might think. It is necessary to carry out various detailed comparisons between the products by both parties, and the judgment period will generally be very long.”
“Now that the other side has released it before us, by the time we successfully sue them, we should have already missed the original release time.” An impulsive employee shouted.
“Then let’s go head-to-head. If they release new products, then we will also release new products! Anyway, the rights are in our hands, and we will pull the customers to boycott their plagiarized products!”
“Playing a lawsuit tug of war during the product sales period?They have the timing advantage because they release it first. As long as their marketing team shifts the blame to us, the final sales of Lou company may not be as good as we expected.”
Luo Lingsheng continued to dismiss the idea by stating the facts coldly, “From the advantage of the customer base alone, can you compete with Zhao company?
The online marketing team and the purchasing department were discouraged at the same time.
“This doesn’t work, that doesn’t work either? Are our efforts for many days just going down the drain?”
“What I mean is that the most appropriate time to sue is after they have made a lot of money, and only then are the benefits of winning the lawsuit will be maximized.”
Luo Lingsheng didn’t take these demoralizing words to heart at all. He aimed his gaze at Shi Yunnan, who had been unhurried and patient, seemingly guessing that the other party had left a backup plan.
“As for whether the product can be released according to the original time period, we have to ask the designer himself.”
Lou Yuan didn’t understand, and others didn’t either.
When Shi Yunnan met Luo Lingsheng’s gaze, he couldn’t hold back his laughter. He pedaled his sliding chair closer to the man, not mincing his words of praise–
“Luo Lingsheng, the way you talked just now was very charming.”
Shi Yunnan felt more and more depressed when he thought of the kiss that was about to succeed at home just now, “What should I do? I really want to…”
kiss you.
The sultry ending was muffled in his mouth.
Even if the truth or false was indistinguishable, it still made people want to chase after the kiss.
Luo Lingsheng was only stunned for a moment, and then he immediately grabbed the handle of Shi Yunnan’s sliding chair, not knowing whether he wanted to push him away or keep him.
“You’re still in the mood to crack a joke? It seems that second young master Shi really has a backup design plan.”
“Of course there is. If this crisis is successfully resolved, can Chairman Luo give me a personal reward?”
Luo Lingsheng’s gaze touched his slightly opened and closed seductive lips, and hooking him with a forced smile, “Tell me about the solution first.”
The voices of the two were very low, but from the inexplicably sticky atmosphere, it could be seen that the two were ‘flirting’ at the moment.
The whole audience secretly knew about their ‘husband and husband’ relationship.
At this moment, seeing such a scene in person, they couldn’t help but sink into lifelessness, their heart wanted cry but there was no tears—
We beg the two bosses, please have pity on these corporate slaves ba!
The current situation was already very big, how could you sprinkle dog food in front of our face! Although it does taste good.
Just then, a cautious figure appeared at the door of the conference room.
A young man in his early twenties knocked on the door, and after a little search, his gaze settled on Shi Yunnan.
“Mr. Shi, I have brought what you want.”
This person was the intern in the Luo company investment team, named Chang Le.
“It’s been hard for you to work overtime on the weekend, bring it in.” Shi Yunnan moved back a little distance and called him in.
Chang Le walked into the conference room, and when he passed by Luo Lingsheng, he was frightened by the powerful aura emanating from the other party. He hurriedly went around to the other side and handed over the things in his hand to Shi Yunnan.
Luo Lingsheng asked calmly before everyone else, “What’s in the bag?”
“My new design after the revision.”
Shi Yunnan got up from his seat and passed down the samples of a brand new series in the bag one by one.
“Mr. Shi, when did you change the design without telling us?” Lou Yuan asked, but her words didn’t carry any blame.
“Sorry, I was worried about the leak of the design draft before, so I deliberately concealed this version.”
Shi Yunan paused and explained in a way that everyone could understand better, “You can just treat this as design plan B.”
Both versions were designed for Lou company.
Since the first edition had been ‘plagiarized’, in order to ensure the follow-up sales of Lou company, the second edition could only be put on the agenda at this time.
Everyone present recovered from the initial shock and quickly looked at the new sample.
“I changed the original relief embossing to hollowed out techniques, and I also adjusted the color according to the flower pattern of each lipstick…”
It was no longer just a simple platinum color matching, but he adopted the classical hues of China——
Spring cyan, summer green, autumn yellow, winter white, crimson red, and inky black, with these six colors as the base tones, the printing on them have also been changed to the original ink wash pattern of ‘Lou family’s Hua Zhong Ge’.
Low saturation was matched with appropriate appearance, giving people a quiet and elegant comfort.
Most of the online marketing department and the purchasing department were female. When they saw these outer shells, they couldn’t bear to put them down, “I think this is more aesthetic than platinum?”
“Yeah, and there are very few cosmetic casings with hollowed out designs on the market, right?”
“It’s so delicate, I feel like I’m looking at a piece of artwork, and it’s nice to take home as a decoration.”
Mrs. Lou also leaned in to take a look, and said in surprise, “This hollowed out stamen is inlaid with jade?”
Shi Yunnan smiled, “Yes.”
He integrated the design of the product appearance with the jewelry design, in fact, the two had the same merits.
Among the traditional Chinese elements, ‘jade’ was the existence that best reflected extravagance, and it was the most suitable when paired with classical ink wash colors.
Lou Desheng was more worried about another problem, “Mr. Shi, what about the cost? Will it be very expensive?”
“Chang Le, you tell them.”
Shi Yunnan sat back and handed over this kind of laborious task to the little intern assistant, “I’ve given you secret errands these days. You’ve dealt with various manufacturers, so you should know better than me.”
“Ah? Oh!” Chang Le responded, took a deep breath and began to explain—
“I have carefully made inquiries. As long as we set up the product pattern and use a machine to flatten the surface and hollow it, the cost is similar to that of the relief pattern at the beginning, and there is even room to lower the price.”
“Although the size of the jade embellished on the stamens is small, in order to ensure the transparency, Mr. Shi intends to use the ice jade texture.”
“This kind of jade is expensive and rare in the market, how can we afford it?” Someone expressed his thoughts.
Chang Le nodded and shook his head again, “Of course you can’t buy raw jade, but Mr. Shi is very smart, he thought of another trick that can greatly reduce the cost.”
“What is it?”
Luo Lingsheng guessed a possibility, “Use leftover material of jade products?”
Shi Yunnan immediately looked at the man beside him, smiled and snapped his fingers, “That’s right.”
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Jade skin beauty
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Basically a sugar daddy.
Many jade cut sections will have leftovers of different sizes after making precious and genuine items such as bracelets, jade pendants, and concentric circles.
Chang Le continued, “Although the usable area of leftover materials is not much, they are not all impure and inferior goods. The price is also much cheaper than that of raw jade in pieces!”
“Moreover, our products only need so much on the stamens. In fact, it is easy to pick out the available ones from the scraps, we just need a little secondary processing and polishing.”
This jade stamen looked inconspicuous, but the gloss and smoothness of real jade were unmatched by other A-grade imitations.
If they want to sell a product well, no detail should be sloppy, and it should be treated with care.
Shi Yunnan nodded, “I have already asked Chang Le to contact several reliable jade processing factories.”
Large jade factories were not short of scraps, and they also had grinding machines and technical masters. Lou company could discuss and cooperate(with the factories) for them to provide regular supply so they could save time and effort.
“As long as it is properly controlled, the cost of the two designs will not differ too much.”
“Let’s leave it to the purchasing department. I think this design is more in line with our Hua Zhong Ge concept.”
Lou Desheng first agreed, and then asked Luo Lingsheng for his opinion, “Mr. Luo, what do you think?”
Luo Lingsheng glanced at Shi Yunnan, and unconsciously showed his partiality, “I have no problem with his design.”
When Shi Yunnan heard this, he hummed proudly and arrogantly.
Because he really liked the design industry, he always accepted all the compliments he could get.
Lou Yuan took one of the lipstick shell samples and opened it, only to find that it was larger than Lou company’s original lipstick.
“Mr. Shi, this size doesn’t seem right? Did the proofing go wrong?”
“No, this series is a lipstick cover and an air cushion cover.” Shi Yunnan explained directly.
“Let the customer buy the product and then freely choose the case to install, instead of the current market model of ‘one shade must be matched with a fixed case’.”
Shi Yunnan wanted to innovate on this point, but he didn’t force it, “This is just my personal opinion. Let everyone decide. If it’s not convenient, simply change the size.”
“This is a great idea! Mr. Shi understands girls’ minds too well!” A female employee immediately jumped out and agreed.
“I was going to say, what if I like this lipstick shade, but I like the shell of another shade? Now it’s good, I can match it myself.”
The marketing department immediately grasped the idea, “This can be used as a promotional point! Even if there’s no new product in the future, can the lipstick shell be sold separately?”
After all, girls never have too many good-looking items, even if they are just packaging.
Lou Yuan nodded, “I think it’s ok. The inner core of the lipstick and air cushion can be improved and sold separately.”
The crowd discussed up to this point and were finally completely relieved.
Originally, they thought all the roads were blocked. Unexpectedly Shi Yunnan actually created a new route for them, which suddenly increased their enthusiasm——
“From tomorrow, can we still start the pre-sale promotion as originally scheduled?”
“Well, almost.”
“I will send someone to investigate how the first version of the design was leaked. If a similar situation occurs again today with the second version…”
Luo Lingsheng looked around, and said in the tone of an absolute leader, “I will not only make the mole unable to stay in this industry, but also let him spend a good few years in prison.”
When everyone heard this, they couldn’t help but nod in agreement.
Although they were afraid of Luo Lingsheng’s aura, in the end, they didn’t do anything wrong, and they were naturally not afraid of being punished by their conscience.
…
When Shi Yunnan and Luo Lingsheng left the Lou company conference room, the sky was completely dark.
When the two got into the car, Qin Jian, who was sitting in the front row, handed over a freshly released investigation material, “Patriarch, Mr. Shi, take a look.”
Their address for Shi Yunnan had been changed from ‘Second Young Master’ to ‘Mr.’ .
Although not much had changed, the latter represents Shi Yunnan more personally, rather than the second young master who was attached to the Shi family.
Shi Yunnan took the investigation materials and read them.
“I’ve sent people to keep an eye on them. Strictly speaking, Zhao company’s new batch of products does not belong to their independent research and development team, but obtained the goods through other companies.”
In other words, the original factory of this batch of products should be ‘Yalan’, the company which sold the air cushion foundation using the micro-business model at the beginning.
It was just that after cooperating with Zhao company, they put on a brand new packaging and logo, and the ‘old wine in a new bottle’ was used to deceive ignorant consumers to make a quick buck.
Shi Yunnan snorted and had to admire him from the bottom of his heart.
After all the trouble at Zhao’s banquet, Xie Keyue actually managed to find a way to cooperate with the Zhao family?
“Actually, even if Zhao company and Yalan cooperate, as long as Lou company is not involved, it doesn’t matter because each company has their own product line. After all, it’s normal for companies in the same industry to have sales competition, but I didn’t expect them to plagiarize the design and release it first.”
Qin Jian showed his disgust and added, “Luckily, Mr. Shi has been careful.”
In the Jiaolong investment group that day, Shi Yunnan was keenly aware of a hint of strangeness, so he kept more vigilance towards Yuan Hong and the investment group——
But he felt that Chang Le, who was an intern, was a person with earnest words and deeds, so he told Qin Jian to secretly send someone to watch the investment team and assigned Chang Le to work privately for him alone.
As Luo Lingsheng’s assistant, Qin Jian naturally reported this fact truthfully.
Luo Lingsheng guessed that the situation might have changed, so he deliberately let people block Lou company investment funds and only allocate a small portion. Fortunately, his decision was accurate.
Otherwise, If Lou company had already produced the appearance of the first version on a large scale at this time, it would only cause unnecessary investment losses to temporarily revise the production.
“Have the mole been found?”
Shi Yunnan glanced at Luo Lingsheng and shook his head, “The salary of Jiaolong’s investment department is good, who got so upset and secretly rebelled against the company?”
He was afraid that there would be an unforeseen accident in the design, so he deliberately dug a pit1, but he didn’t expect that someone would actually jump into it.
“I will send people to investigate as soon as possible, and probably pinpoint the target, but the leak of the design was done too covertly, and it will take some time to collect evidence.”
Qin Jian said with a little self-blame, “It’s my fault for not handling it well. I should have gone to the investment department in person to select honest and reliable employees.”
“We can’t defend against a human’s heart, this has nothing to do with you.”
“Since the matter has already happened, don’t stir the grass and frighten the snake away2at this time, lest there will be people who want to steal the second edition.”
Luo Lingsheng was not interested in this kind of ‘small fry’ who would only do nasty things secretly, let alone think that this mole was the key to threatening the situation.
When Lou company was stabilized, this person could be pulled out and dealt with at any time.
He took off his glasses and asked the key point, “The cooperation between Zhao company and Yalan was achieved by Xie Keyue?”
“No, Patriarch, look at the last page…” Qin Jian hesitated.
“I sent someone to inquire. The party B who signed the cooperation with Zhao company is Yajie Company, a small temporarily registered company.”
Luo Lingsheng took the investigation materials in Shi Yunnan’s hands and turned to the last page.
“Company legal representative, Ling Yong?”
As soon as he finished speaking, Qin Jian pulled out another line, “But I found out that he has been in contact with Luo Dexing recently.”
The air pressure around Luo Lingsheng’s body cooled down.
Luo Dexing was the current head of the Luo family’s second house, and Luo Yanchuan’s father.
“This time, the cooperation with the Zhao family should be a private transaction with the second house wearing the skin of the ‘Luo family’, but without going through the Luo family’s public accounts.”
In recent years, the second house was mainly responsible for the overseas trade industry of the Luo family, and was more or less able to make some money.
Qin Jian was puzzled, “The second house couple seems to be content with their lot, why are they still playing this kind of trick in private?”
Shi Yunnan thought of another possibility and raised his eyebrows, “It’s not necessarily Luo Dexing’s idea.”
“Luo Yanchuan?”
Luo Lingsheng immediately thought of this nephew in name who was only a few years younger than him, and a dark current surged at the bottom of his eyes.
Qin Jian reacted, but shook his head in bewilderment—
Luo Yanchuan was notorious for not doing any proper job besides spending his time and money on debauchery and alcohol, so how could he secretly engage in this kind of activity? If he wanted to make money, it would be better to directly take over the foreign trade industry under Luo’s second house.
“The assets of Luo’s second house are always monitored by the group headquarters. Since Luo Yanchuan has the intention to hide it, he will definitely not be stupid enough to cooperate in the open.”
Shi Yunnan analyzed the situation.
After taking such a twist and turn, wasn’t it just to hide from the tiger Luo Lingsheng.
“Xie Keyue and Mrs. Zhao has already torn each other’s faces. On the surface, the cooperation with the Zhao family is already gone, but he can’t let this investment lose money, so he sought out young master Luo Yanchuan.”
“The latter is afraid that the patriarch will find out, so he finds someone to secretly cooperate with Zhao company on his behalf? They use Zhao company’s marketing power in the cosmetic market and share the profit with them?”
Qin Jian quickly sorted out the relationship between them.
Xie Keyue and Luo Yanchuan cooperated to make a profit, Zhao company also followed suit to make a fortune. It was originally a win-win situation.
Unfortunately, making their own money was not enough, they also arranged people to scheme against their peers and plagiarize their designs!
The former Lou family was a small and humble family, weak and easy to bully, but very few would have thought that——
At present, a small investment project had unexpectedly attracted Luo Lingsheng’s attention. After digging deeper, nothing could be hidden.
Shi Yunnan remembered Luo Lingsheng’s ending in the dream, and his brows froze once again, “Luo Lingsheng.”
“What?”
Shi Yunnan reminded, “You’d better be on guard against Luo Yanchuan from now on. He is pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger3. His mind is definitely not simple.”
Luo Lingsheng caught the worry flashing in his eyes, and the chill on his body warmed up a little, “I know.”
“Patriarch, what should we do now?”
“No hurry, it will take time for Lou company products to be modified.” Luo Lingsheng put on his glasses and returned back to his calm and steady appearance.
“Well, let them jump around a little longer.”
Shi Yunnan was not the least bit anxious. He suddenly thought of something interesting, “Qin Jian, help me keep an eye on the Lou family and Yalan…”
He whispered a few instructions, his eyes were playful and unruly, “After a while, let them have a taste of ‘making a wedding gown for others4’”
In any case, the account of the design being plagiarized, he must get it back!
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Laid a trap
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Rash actions will put the enemy on guard.
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Pretending to be weak to hide one’s real strength, and then attacks the opponent with an element of surprise
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You didn’t benefit from the thing you work hard for, but instead contribute to the good of others.
