Special Effects Pheromone - Chap 6
“So how about now?” Hua Yao asked, “Should we go back to the hotel and rest first?”
“No,” Yu Zhao said, “I’ve come all this way, so let’s socialize.”
After all, this was a high-profile dinner party that could help Yu Zhao expand his network. Yu Zhao usually looked cold and didn’t like to make friends, but when it came to the business world, even the most introverted person had to be active.
Therefore, Yu Zhao, who had no friends in private, would still socialize in the business world.
Many people looked down on him because he was an OMEGA, but there were also many people who admired him more because he was an OMEGA instead. Moreover, in recent years, there were more and more successful OMEGAs, and as the “underprivileged”, they should also take special care of their “kind”, after all, in the harsh environment surrounded by strong enemies, the bottom of the food chain should be embraced in order to survive the winter and keep warm.
Yu Zhao and Hua Yao had walked a few steps when they just happened to meet one ” similar kind” – Huajing Industrial’s president Feng Tingwei, an OMEGA, age more than forty, still single and unmarried, which was rare in the traditional industry. Therefore, even though Yu Zhao was always cold and indifferent ,he had to be very respectful towards Feng Tingwei.
When Feng Tingwei saw Yu Zhao, he raised his wine glass and signaled to him, “Zhao, you are here too?”
Hearing this familiar voice, Yu Zhao glanced over his head and saw Feng Tingwei standing in the bright lights, wearing a suit with a pair of recently popular Monk shoes, decent and stylish. However, his appearance was not particularly good-looking, square-mouthed and broad-faced, if it was an ALPHA it would be passable, but born OMEGA, the appearance could only be said to be relatively rough, but he himself didn’t mind, he was quite confident in every move.
Yu Zhao walked towards Feng Tingwei, clinked glasses with him and said, “Mr. Feng you’re here too?”
Feng Tingwei smiled and said, “Yes, wherever there is money, you’ll find me.”
“Then Mr. Feng, you shouldn’t be the boss at Huajing in China, you should go to the bank to guard the vault.” Yu Zhao said jokingly.
Feng Tingwei also laughed and said, “The joke you made is not funny, but with this face, it makes people laugh.”
Yu Zhao always spoke in a steady tone of voice, just like a news broadcast, there was no expression on his face, looking cold, telling jokes, but there was a subtle sense of difference, which made people find it interesting.
Feng Tingwei asked: “I heard that you had a blind date recently? How was it?”
Yu Zhao was a bit surprised: “It happened just two days ago, how come even you know about it?”
“It happened two days ago? I just found out now?” Feng Tingwei tsked twice and said, “You’re not interesting enough, are you?”
“There’s no progress,” Yu Zhao said, “It’s futile to talk about it.”
Hua Yao also noticed that Yu Zhao and Feng Tingwei got along very easily and naturally as if they were really old friends. But in fact, Yu Zhao and Feng Tingwei were only familiar with each other for the past two years. In the previous two years, Yu Zhao had just been working as a manager in his family’s company, and he was attacked by You Yong and his OMEGA father, and Feng Tingwei gave him a hand, and he was grateful to him, so he respected and trusted Feng Tingwei.
Feng Tingwei himself as an OMEGA, also had special feelings for OMEGAs who fought for their career. Especially Yu Zhao, who reminded him of himself when he was in his twenties. Therefore, Feng Tingwei was also more caring towards him.
Feng Tingwei smiled at Yu Zhao and said, “Things like matchmaking are not always reliable, it would be better to negotiate two more big deals and show your face in front of your old man!”
Yu Zhao nodded, but his attitude was perfunctory: in fact, Yu Zhao used to think the same way. He thought that if he did well in his career, he would be able to get his father’s support, but that was not the case. No matter how hard he tried, he still couldn’t match the influence his ALPHA brother had in his father’s eyes. It took him doing a hundred things right to outweigh his brother doing one thing right. Not to mention how much of his middle business was secretly messed up by Yu Yong, how could his father not know? It was just a matter of turning a blind eye.
After experiencing a lot of injustice, Yu Zhao finally realized that he could not earn a position in this family.
Feng Tingwei squeezed his eyebrows at Yu Zhao and said, “Okay, I’ll introduce you to a big client. If you make a deal in the future with him, treat me to dinner.”
Upon hearing the words “big client”, Yu Zhao’s eyes brightened up, and he forgot to be sentimental, and said energetically, “Thank you very much.”
The big customer that Feng Tingwei wanted to introduce to him with so much fuss, must be a very big big customer!
Encountering a big customer, Yu Zhao was just like a cat that had touched a fish, almost licking his lips and meowing.
As soon as he turned around, Feng Tingwei led Yu Zhao to an ALPHA. This ALPHA – to be honest, when entering the door, Yu Zhao had already noticed him at a glance. There was no other reason, just that it was rare to see an ALPHA dressed so flirtatiously.
This ALPHA wore a white shirt and black pants like most of the attendees, but the problem was that the collar, cuffs, and buttons of his white shirt were encrusted with crystals, which shone brightly under the lights of the gala, making it difficult for people not to pay attention to him at first glance.
Feng Tingwei introduced them, “This is Gao Bohua, the boss of ‘Fenglong’ company, young and promising.”
Yu Zhao and Gao Bohua shook hands, Gao Bohua smiled, “This OMEGA’s scent is very light ah.”
Feng Tingwei smiled and said, “His personality is also quite light, like a BETA, nothing can affect him.”
Gao Bohua nodded and chatted with Yu Zhao. Yu Zhao intentionally led the conversation to business. Gao Bohua seemed to feel it too, so he also talked about his own business, “You know, we do chain restaurants, we still care about the price of raw materials, recently the price of chicken fluctuates a little bit …….”
Yu Zhao sniffed and seemed to think of something, then said, “Have you ever considered doing hedging? The cost of chicken is generally linked to the cost of feed, we can use a combination of grain futures and soybean meal futures to lock in the cost ……”
Gao Bohua smiled, nodded and said, “It seems that you are also a connoisseur, we did consider this matter, but we haven’t thought about which hedge fund to work with. That’s why we came to New York to take a look.”
“You are doing business in China, why don’t you consider a domestic fund?”
Gao Bohua nodded and asked, “Do you have any recommendations?”
Yu Zhao said, “Jingmen Group, have you heard of it?”
Yu Zhao thought to himself, “If he can help Jingmen Group pull in Gao Bohua as a big customer, he would definitely impress Qu Jing.
Yu Zhao and Gao Bohua chatted for a while, but didn’t hover around the topic of hedge funds much. After all, this was just informal small talk, and Yu Zhao wouldn’t let himself look too urgent. A salesman who looked urgent was the most failed salesman. Customers would always be discouraged when they saw the urgency of a salesman.
So Yu Zhao chatted with Gao Bohua for a while, exchanged business cards, and then left.
He was still worried about how to prepare for the rest of the time with Qu Jing! You can’t have a chance encounter every time, that would be too silly. Now, with Gao Bohua as the “bridge”, everything was smooth and logical. Moreover, if the deal with Gao Bohua was finalized, then it would not be Yu Zhao chasing Qu Jing to find a way to meet, it would be Qu Jing chasing Yu Zhao to ask for dinner and send gifts!
Yu Zhao felt that today’s efforts were enough and was ready to leave the dinner party, but coincidentally, his cell phone rang.
“Hello?” he picked up the phone.
“Mr. Zhao.”
–The voice came through the airwaves, adding a bit of husky sexiness to it.
Yu Zhao was suddenly drawn by this voice and froze for half a moment, “Oh …… is …… this Mr. Qu?”
“It’s me.” Qu Jing said, “Blame you for giving me half a glass of wine, I can’t drive now.”
Yu Zhao asked suspiciously, “I gave you a drink? …… Didn’t you have a drink before I handed you the wine?”
“No, that’s the pear tea that my secretary changed.”
Yu Zhao sort of understood, helplessly smiled and said, “So that’s how it is.” He thought it was too strange for a person to actually drop alcohol at a dinner party and take tea instead of champagne. But come to think of it, this ALPHA also carried around strong inhibitors, so that was not strange.
“Then I understand the situation, I’m really sorry.” Yu Zhao replied, “I’ve caused you trouble.”
“Yeah, why don’t you drive me.”
Yu Zhao said, “I’ve been drinking too.”
“Then how will you get back?”
You Zhao said, “My friend will drive.”
“Then you could also give me a ride along the way.” Qu Jing’s tone was very natural, like Yu Zhao was his assistant.
Yu Zhao thought that Qu Jing was bringing his secretary with him, so how could there be no one to drive him? Even if Qu Jing didn’t have a secretary, it would be very convenient to take a taxi, so why did he have to insist on riding with him?
Thinking about it, Yu Zhao could only come to a rough conclusion: he wants to screw me.
